Arts &amp; Entertainment

The springs of youth

weekend at music festival all light and energy

Books

Walk this way

book a Durango scavenger hunt

McCalla Drops in at Studio & with a midweek musical treat

Leyla McCalla, a member of the Grammy award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, will play an intimate solo show Wednesday night at…

Music in the Mountains enters the home stretch

‘Swing, Swing, Swing’ opens festival’s final weekend

Waiting is the hardest part

The local punk trio Pelon (Tim Birchard, Chuck Hildner and Justin Repath) began a Kickstarter campaign that would finance production…

A volatile summer for Hollywood

Blockbusters fall flat at box office

Bullock, Clooney to open 70th Venice Film Festival

Venice Biennale President Paolo Baratta, left, and Venice Film Festival President Alberto Barbera arrive for the festival’s press conference in…

After gripping British viewers, ‘Broadchurch’ coming to U.S.

Jodie Whittaker as Beth Latimer and Andrew Buchan as Mark Latimer will bring the popular BBC series “Broadchurch” to U.S.…

See it, paint it

Air Painters take over Conrad Gallery

Books

Not surprising: J.K. Rowling’s Cuckoo’s Calling a good read

The secret identity of Robert Galbraith, author of The Cuckoo’s Calling, was quickly revealed to be a pseudonym for author…

Books

U.S. Best-selling books for July 23

Fiction 1. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) 2. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by…

Spike Lee begins fundraiser on Kickstarter for new film

Spike Lee has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund his next feature film.Charles Sykes/Invision/Associated Press Following in the footsteps…

Future of classical music is now

Conservatory Gala’s young stars shine

Music by the people, for the people

The Southwest Civic Winds gave a free concert to a large but dispersed crowd Sunday in Rotary Park. The all-volunteer…

Performing Arts

Islands, seas & shipwrecks

Festival champions Peter Pan, Cole Porter and Shakespeare

It’s still music, still mountains

Festival takes a break from classical with 2 special events

Online series makes history

‘House of Cards’ nominated for Emmy

A friend in deed

artist donates sculpture to durango’s collection

Pirates vs. zombies: Comic-Con’s latest showdown

The Star of India sits at a dock next to the San Diego Convention Center during the Preview Night event…

Officials seeking stolen art find paint in ashes

An empty space remains where Henri Matisse’s painting “La Liseuse en Blanc et Jaune” was hanging next to paintings by…

July 17, 2013

Romania: Museum checks if paintings burned

Pablo Picasso’s 1971 painting ‘Harlequin Head’ was one seven paintings stolen last year from the Netherlands. A Romanian museum is…

July 16, 2013