Southwest Lifestyle

Cafe au Play opens toddler play areas

Hosted by Liza Tregillus from 9:30 a.m. to noon weekdays, and by volunteer parents Saturday mornings, parents and children are…

September 25, 2020

Colorado Proud to host virtual lunch and learn roundtable

The title of the roundtable is “Resilience in Southern Colorado Agriculture: Adapting, Recovering and Thriving.” A mix of Southern Colorado-based…

September 25, 2020

Tiny heart pump is a lifesaver

uses implant to keep blood flowing when a patient’s heart fails

September 24, 2020

Too much candy: Man dies from eating bags of black licorice

A Massachusetts construction worker’s love of black licorice wound up costing him his life. Eating a bag and a half…

Travel

Finland deploys coronavirus-sniffing dogs at main airport

Sniffer dogs named K’ssi, left and Miina react with trainer Susanna Paavilainen at the Helsinki airport in Vantaa, Finland, on…

CDC changes, then retracts, web posting on how virus spreads

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield puts his mask back Sept. 16 after speaking at a…

Every fall, I celebrate the Moon Festival with mooncakes. This year, I’m ordering them online.

Chinese people around the world eat them in celebration of the Moon Festival, or Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on Oct.…

How to build better tacos at home, from the tortillas to the toppings

Sometimes, that’s about how many I feel like I can eat in one sitting, especially because of their versatile, customizable…

September 21, 2020

Tofu sales skyrocket during the pandemic, as consumers search for affordable meat alternatives

Tofu products have been in high demand since U.S. coronavirus shutdowns began in mid-March.Laura Chase de Formigny/Washington Post But the…

September 21, 2020

And the West is History

Photo: Lucky Drive Inn – 1954

Look closely at this building that still exists in Durango today. Do you recognize it? If not, don’t feel too…

September 21, 2020

Travel

When will tourists return to Africa? Continent must guess

He’ll have to wait for the cows to have calves and for the calves to be old enough to sell…

CDC drops controversial testing advice that caused backlash

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield speaks Sept. 16 at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing…

Road Apple Rally mountain bike race goes virtual on 40th anniversary

While normally held the first Saturday in October, participants in this year’s race will need to use an app such…

Animas Valley Grange to host talk about fruit gleaning

This is a presentation by Good Food Collective and Table to Farm Compost. Good Food Collective will discuss its gleaning…

Durango Farmers Market to continue through October

The market is held every Saturday in the parking lot of TBK Bank across from the city of Durango Transit…

Cider collaboration to be released

Southwest Colorado Apple Heritage and Fort Lewis College The Old Fort will host a cider release of their collaboration, Old…

Pine River Library to host Zoom program about Native American sacred places

Gulliford is a writer, historian and recent recipient of the 2019 Colorado Book Award, with deep ties to the American…

Birds are dying in dramatic numbers in Southwest Colorado

snap, wildfire smoke seen as potential culprits

September 17, 2020

Western wildfire smoke causes East Coast haze, vivid sunsets

The wildfires racing across tinder-dry landscape in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington are extraordinary, but the long reach of their…

September 17, 2020

U.S. agency denies petition to strip protections from songbird

The agency published its finding Wednesday, saying that removing the songbird from the threatened and endangered species list isn’t an…

September 17, 2020

Colorado State Forest Service reminds residents dying, off-color pine needles are normal in autumn

Colorado evergreens shed their older, interior needles as part of an annual growth cycle. Trees stressed because of drought or…

Water shortages in West more likely than previously thought

Colorado River flowing at 55% of average for year

Study hints antibody drug may cut COVID-19 hospitalizations

Drug company Eli Lilly & Co. said Wednesday that partial results from a study testing an antibody drug in mild…

Start Rosh Hashanah on a sweet note with tishpishti, an orange-scented semolina cake

Syrup-soaked semolina cakes, such as Tishpishti, are common throughout Sephardi, Middle Eastern and North African Jewish cuisine. They are typically…

Local First Harvest Dinners reborn as new Eat Local Month

meals will benefit local food industry and nonprofits

Travel

MGM Resorts adopts smoke-free policy for Vegas Strip casino

One of the last Las Vegas Strip resorts to reopen after coronavirus closures will be the first to be smoke-free,…

Experts: Revamped OxyContin hasn’t curbed abuse, overdoses

On Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said there’s no clear evidence that a…

Anti-inflammatory drug may shorten COVID-19 recovery time

The Eli Lilly corporate headquarters is pictured April 26, 2017, in Indianapolis. A drug company says that adding an anti-inflammatory…

And the West is History

Photo: Cortez Fire Aftermath – 1908

On Sept. 29, 1908, a fire started in Lamb’s Grocery on Main Street in downtown Cortez. It quickly grew, and…