Arts and Entertainment

Briefs

Cat Care Durango celebrates grand reopening in new facility

Cat Care Durango has announced that in its third year of operation, it is opening a newly renovated rescue and…

January 21, 2026

Briefs

Upper East Side Coffee Deli reopens under new ownership

Upper East Side Coffee Deli, at 28902 Highway 160 in Durango, has announced that it is reopening under the new…

January 21, 2026

Arts & Entertainment

Sundance Film Festival prepares to bid farewell to Park City, and Robert Redford

Robert Redford stands on a balcony along Main Street decorated with his Sundance Film Festival banners on Jan. 17, 2003,…

January 20, 2026 • Lindsey Bahr — The Associated Press

Arts & Entertainment

Bayfield Middle School teacher wins Vail Film Festival award

Bloomquist’s ‘Age of War’ screenplay takes first place

January 15, 2026 • Katie Chicklinski-Cahill — Herald Arts & Entertainment editor

Arts & Entertainment

Quartets with Friends host ‘A Viennese Soirée’ at FLC

Quartets with Friends, a new chamber music ensemble, rehearses in Roshong Recital Hall for the upcoming concert. From left: violinist…

January 15, 2026 • Judith Reynolds — Special to the Herald

Arts & Entertainment

Telluride Blues & Brews announces 2026 lineup

Musicians to take the stage Sept. 18 to 20

January 14, 2026 • Katie Chicklinski-Cahill — Herald Arts & Entertainment editor

Arts & Entertainment

A New Year, new shows and a reminder about concert ticket resellers

When buying tickets to performances at the Community Concert Hall, the email message you will receive will the link to…

January 14, 2026 • Charles Leslie — Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College

Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ is a bonkers and triumphant zombie movie

Ralph Fiennes stars in “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.” (Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures via AP) You know what zombie movies…

January 13, 2026 • Mark Kennedy — The Associated Press

Arts & Entertainment

Veteran actor T.K. Carter, known for ‘The Thing’ and ‘Punky Brewster,’ dies at 69

Actor T.K. Carter, left, starred in “The Thing” alongside Kurt Russell and Keith David. Carter died Friday at age 69.…

January 10, 2026 • The Associated Press

Arts & Entertainment

David Yarrow: ‘The journey never ends’

Photographer in Durango for photo shoot, reception held Friday at Sorrel Sky Gallery

January 8, 2026 • Katie Chicklinski-Cahill — Herald Arts & Entertainment editor

Arts & Entertainment

Free Life-Long Learning series resumes Jan. 15

Lewis College offers variety of presentations Thursdays

January 8, 2026 • Herald Staff Report

Arts & Entertainment

‘One Battle After Another’ dominates SAG’s Actor Awards with 7 nominations

competing against ‘Sinners,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Marty Supreme’ and ‘Hamnet’

January 7, 2026 • Jake Coyle — The Associated Press

Arts & Entertainment

The mysterious classical-jazz vibe: Maynes and O’Neal merge two musical worlds

Musicians pay tribute to Corea-Burton-Ozone in Durango, Farmington

January 7, 2026 • Judith Reynolds — Special to the Herald

Computing and information technology

Big Tech’s fast-expanding plans for data centers are running into stiff community opposition

Mike Petak of Spring City gestures while speaking to East Vincent Township supervisors in opposition to a data center proposal…

January 7, 2026 • By MARC LEVY — Associated Press

Headlines

Amid Telluride strike, nearby resorts salvage holiday ski vacations

Patrollers say Telluride Ski and Golf has not reached out to resume negotiations; resort still making snow

January 2, 2026 • Jason Blevins — The Colorado Sun

Arts & Entertainment

Review: The Neil Diamond-inspired ‘Song Sung Blue’ hits all the wrong notes

Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman star in “Song Sung Blue.” (Associated Press) The story of Mike and Claire Sardina –…

January 1, 2026 • Mark Kennedy — The Associated Press

Arts & Entertainment

Embracing the new year at the Durango Arts Center

Beth Lamberson Warren American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Write it on your heart that every day is the best…

December 31, 2025 • Beth Lamberson Warren — Durango Arts Center

Arts & Entertainment

From David Lynch to Rob Reiner, 2025 celebrity deaths had impact on arts

FILE – David Lynch appears at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2019. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP,…

December 31, 2025 • Bernard McGhee — The Associated Press

Housing and urban planning

Will 2026 be the year for housing reform?

Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen hopes ‘yes’

December 31, 2025 • Caitlyn Kim — Colorado Public Radio

Headlines

More thrifting and fewer returns: the early trends that defined shopping

Growing unease over the U.S. economy has altered behavior

December 28, 2025 • ANNE D'INNOCENZIO — AP Retail Writer

Arts & Entertainment

Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for The Cure, dies at 65

Robert Smith, left, Simon Gallup, center, and Perry Bamonte of British group The Cure are inducted into Hollywood’s Rockwalk in…

December 26, 2025 • Maria Sherman — The Associated Press

Arts & Entertainment

Review: An electric Timothée Chalamet is the consummate striver in propulsive ‘Marty Supreme’

This image released by A24 shows TimothÃ©e Chalamet in a scene from "Marty Supreme." (A24 via AP)(A24 via AP) “Everybody…

December 25, 2025 • Jocelyn Noveck — The Associated Press

Arts & Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment looks back at 2025

saw local creatives shine on canvas, on the stage – even on the screen

December 25, 2025 • Katie Chicklinski-Cahill — Herald Arts & Entertainment editor

Economy (general)

Resilient U.S. consumers drive strongest economic expansion in 2 years

FILE – People shop at the Christmas Village in Philadelphia, in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)(AP…

December 24, 2025 • By MATT OTT — AP Business Writer