Arts and Entertainment

Arts Briefs

The Durango Choral Society closes its 2014-2015 season, “Seasons of Song,” with Cabaret! at 6:15 p.m. May 16 at the…

May 7, 2015

The Weekender

Some top picks for what to do this weekend in Durango

May 7, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

David Letterman’s sidekick thankful for ‘wonderful run’

Bandleader Paul Shaffer, 65, has been the gravel-voiced sidekick of David Letterman since 1982. Letterman is retiring on May 20.Associated…

May 7, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

Dolores River Festival full of funk, Gypsy rock

Pimps of Joytime will headline the Dolores River Festival on June 6 at Joe Rowell Park in Dolores.Courtesy photo Pimps…

May 7, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

Berkeley’s Twain project finds cache of new writing

In the letters, the man who would write The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,…

May 7, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

A&E Calendar

Orb lands in Durango<br><br>The Orb began making ambient house DJ music in England in the late 1980s. The DJ duo…

May 4, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

New McCullough book celebrates the Wright Brothers

In a 2011 file photo, historian and author David McCullough poses with art by George Catlin, one of the artists…

May 4, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

ACT puts twist on ‘Eurydice’ Greek tragedy

Theater group to perform at the Henry Strater Theatre

May 4, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

Inside Big Bird, it’s Caroll Spinney

New film documents talents of puppeteer

May 4, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

The Weekender

Some top picks for what to do this weekend in Durango

April 29, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

Rap, ethereal rhythms rank among best April releases

Dwight Yoakam also makes the list; a punk band channels Thin Lizzy

April 29, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

TLC finds some heart, abandons ‘freak shows’

Whitney Thore stars in “My Big Fat Fabulous Life,” part of the TLC channel’s programming of family, style and life…

April 29, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

Arts Briefs

In residence through May 10 at Mesa Verde National Park, visual artist and photographer Jerry Fleury will offer free photography…

April 29, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

Third-generation shoemaker gives Broadway its sole

Bifulco Gino Bifulco, who runs the Time Square-area custom shoe company T.O. Dey, makes the footwear for 80 percent of…

April 29, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

A&E Calendar

‘Skyscapes of the West’<br><br>During the month of May, Durango nature photographer Howard Rachlin will display photographs from his new show,…

April 29, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

Merely Players stages entertaining ‘Poppins’

Company mounts colorful musical

April 29, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

Arts Briefs

The First Thursdays Art Walk will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. May 7 at participating galleries and art…

April 27, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

A&E Calendar

Boxer Thaddine Swift Eagle will sign copies of her new self-published novel, A Pow Wow of Shadows, from noon to…

April 27, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

Documentary ‘Run Free’ to play at Smiley Building

‘Run Free’ screens against backdrop of cartel violence

April 27, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

Arthur Post bids musical goodbye

Emotional concert concludes symphony’s season

April 27, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

Mark Hamill ‘suspicious’ of J.J. Abrams

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” the highly anticipated film by director J.J. Abrams, will hit theaters Dec. 18.Lucasfilm via Associated…

April 23, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

Bearded Colbert reads O’Connor story

Stephen Colbert read Flannery O’Connorís story “The Enduring Chill” at Wednesday’s “Selected Shorts” program in New York.Associated Press file photo…

April 23, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

At most colleges, Shakespeare sits on the shelf

Only four of the nation’s 52 highest-ranked universities and colleges have a Shakespeare requirement. This first folio of William Shakespeare’s…

April 23, 2015

Arts and Entertainment

At season’s end, opera is twice as good

Double bill to be shown in HD

April 23, 2015