Arts & Entertainment

Film

‘Bears of Durango’ in limelight at Durango Independent Film Festival

Locally-filmed documentary follows team of scientists studying wildlife

February 23, 2018

Visual Arts

Studio & to open jewelry exhibit with a ‘WOW!”

Studio & Gallery will be opening its newest show, WOW! Jewelry Exhibit, with an opening reception Friday night at the…

February 22, 2018

Music

Contestants head into Round One of singing competition

Singers in Durango Voice will take the stage for the first round of competition on Saturday.Courtesy Saturday’s show will begin…

February 22, 2018

Performing Arts

The MET stages Puccini’s great tragic opera

Puccini’s “La Bohème” is the next MET: Live in HD production, which will be livestreamed Saturday at Fort Lewis College.Courtesy…

February 22, 2018

Performing Arts

In 1600s Salem, no one’s safe

Durango High School Troupe 1096 staging Miller’s ‘The Crucible’

February 22, 2018

Film

Movies playing in Durango Feb. 23-March 2

From left, Jason Bateman, Kyle Chandler and Lamorne Morris find trouble when things go a little too far in “Game…

February 21, 2018

Film

Review: Black Panther

Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o), left, and Shuri (Letitia Wright) star in “Black Panther,” which follows conventions of action movies but also…

February 16, 2018

Performing Arts

‘The Vagina Monologues’ hits the stage

“The Vagina Monologues” will be performed tonight and Saturday at the Durango Arts Center.Courtesy “I think it’s really important for…

February 16, 2018

Music

FLC showcases student performers at an honors recital on Feb. 25

“This is my favorite student event of the year,” Marc Reed, chairman of the FLC Music Department, said this week.…

February 15, 2018

Visual Arts

Who is artist behind Obama’s official portrait?

Larger-than-life paintings Kehinde Wiley’s trademark

February 15, 2018

Visual Arts

Artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas takes over Durango Arts Center

show features mixed-media drawings, wall installation

February 15, 2018

Music

Olympic figure skating unveils new, modern soundtrack

The folk tune is light and airy and fits neatly within the confines of traditional figure skating. Vanessa James and…

February 14, 2018

Film

Movies playing in Durango Feb. 16-22

The wait is over: “Black Panther” will open in Durango this week.Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios-Disney via AP (128 E. College Drive,…

February 13, 2018

Music

San Juan Symphony Orchestra packages musical box of chocolates

At the center of this extravaganza is Franklin Cohen, former principal clarinetist in the Cleveland Orchestra. Cohen’s professional career began…

February 10, 2018

Visual Arts

LA art museum unveils wide-ranging tribute to Jasper Johns

Allon Schoener from The Cosmopolitan Observer joins journalists during a media preview of an exhibition by artist Jasper Johns on…

February 10, 2018

Books

Native American poet, writer, musician to discuss memoir at Fort Lewis College

Joy Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave is being read by the college’s freshmen. Harjo, a writer, poet, musician and professor, is…

February 9, 2018

Performing Arts

Durango, Cortez students have stories to tell

High School teens team up with Southwest Open School students for Talon Tales

February 8, 2018

Film

The growing Quentin Tarantino controversy, explained

Director of the film “Kill Bill: Volume 1,” Quentin Tarantino, left, and actress Uma Thurman arrive at the premiere of…

February 6, 2018

Film

Movies playing in Durango Feb. 9-15

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are back in the third installment of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy.Courtesy of Rotten…

February 6, 2018

Books

Cortez library hosts Four Corners crime writers

will lead panel discussion on Monday

February 2, 2018

Visual Arts

Claude Steelman offers photos on variety of formats

Wildshots, 842 Main Ave., offers photographs by Claude Steelman and bronze sculptures by Veryl Goodnight.Courtesy of Claude Steelman Herald Arts…

February 2, 2018

Performing Arts

Snowdown Follies’ old-timers show the upstarts how it’s done

Veterans and newcomers spin silliness into another Follies

February 2, 2018

Film

Movies playing in Durango Feb. 2-8

Sally Hawkins stars in Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water,” which is playing at the Gaslight Theatre.Courtesy of Rotten…

January 31, 2018

Performing Arts

The MET Live in HD explores sexual harassment

Željko Lucic, left, as Baron Scarpia and Sonya Yoncheva as Tosca perform in the Metropolitan Opera production of “Tosca.”Courtesy of…

January 26, 2018