Arts & Entertainment

40 years later, Power Broker is standard reading

Author and biographer Robert Allan Caro’ 1,300-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography The Power Broker was published 40 years ago.Associated Press photo/Bebeto…

October 23, 2014

Music

The legacy (and return) of Sleater-Kinney, once America’s best rock band

This week Sub Pop releases “Start Together,” a limited-edition vinyl boxed set that contains all seven studio albums by Sleater-Kinney.…

October 22, 2014

Film

Cost of making ‘Hobbit’ movies up to $745 million

Peter Jackson is seen at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Jackson’s is directing the movie trilogy…

October 21, 2014

Music

Vega to bring folk vibe to Durango

Suzanne Vega will play a show in Durango on Thursday.Photo courtesy of Community Concert Hall Vega, who shot to fame…

October 21, 2014

Performing Arts

Gauging our moral compass

Stellar production of Arthur Miller’s classic runs at DAC

October 20, 2014

Books

Fighting for a more compassionate society

Helen Prejean to speak at event today

October 20, 2014

Visual Arts

Exhibition probes the mystery of Sherlock Holmes

Curator Timothy Long is silhouetted as he poses for photographers with a Sherlock Holmes style pipe and deerstalker hat beside…

October 20, 2014

Film

For Rogen, Hilarity charity is serious business

Actor/writer Seth Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller Rogen lead Hilarity for Charity, a movement established with the Alzheimer’s Association…

October 17, 2014

Books

TV pioneer and sitcom king Norman Lear pens a book

Associated Press photo/Penguin Press<br><br>Even THIS I Get to Experience is a new a memoir by Norman Lear. Lear’s father Herman…

October 17, 2014

Film

Review: The Book of Life

Bookended by amusing contemporary segments in which a sassy museum tour guide (Christina Applegate) hosts a group of skeptical school…

October 16, 2014

Film

Review: Fury

Ayer, a veteran of the Navy and L.A. crime films like “Training Day” and “End of Watch,” wants to make…

October 16, 2014

Film

Movies playing in Durango Oct. 17-23

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Once Chance The remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied…

October 16, 2014

Performing Arts

Funnier than Congress?

The Capitol Steps, the only comedy troupe in America that attempts to be funnier than the United States Congress, will…

October 16, 2014

Performing Arts

In Mozart’s opera, a marriage in trouble

Met stages smart, sexy ‘Figaro’

October 16, 2014

Music

Afroman releases pro-legalization remix of ‘Because I Got High’

Associated Press photo/Shawn Baldwin<br><br>Rapper Joseph Foreman, aka Afroman, has rejuvenated his weed anthem “Because I got High” to raise awareness…

October 16, 2014