Arts & Entertainment

DAC presents provocative Shepard play

‘Fool for Love’ runs through Sept. 11

September 1, 2016

Movies playing in Durango Sept. 2-8

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Café Society (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)Set in the 1930s, Woody Allen’s bittersweet…

August 31, 2016

Music

Chris Brown bailed out of jail after police standoff that ended in his arrest

Singer Chris Brown’s attorney Mark Geragos leaves Brown’s property in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday. Police arrested…

August 31, 2016

Music

Britney Spears is a pop star permanently stuck in another era

Britney Spears performs at the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday in New York.Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP At…

August 31, 2016

Film

Here’s how Ryan Lochte can win ‘Dancing With the Stars’

United States’ Ryan Lochte checks his time in a men’s 4×200-meter freestyle heat during the swimming competitions at the 2016…

August 30, 2016

Film

Why Gene Wilder’s marriage to Gilda Radner was so moving

Gilda Radner, center, and Gene Wilder, right, perform in a scene from the film “Hanky Panky,” directed by Sidney Poitier…

August 30, 2016

Performing Arts

Sam Shepard’s tale of love, hate, Old West playing at Durango Arts Center

May, played by Joy Kilpatrick, and Eddie, played by Jason Lythgoe, rehearse their tumultuous relationship in the play “Fool for…

August 26, 2016

Film

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 19-25

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Café Society (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)Set in the 1930s, Woody Allen’s bittersweet…

August 25, 2016

Music

Celebrate the end of summer with DNS

Durango Nature Studies holding annual music festival

August 25, 2016

Film

‘Don’t Breathe’ a scary game of cat-and-mouse

Dylan Minnette, left, and Stephen Lang star in the new horror movie “Dont Breathe.”Sony/Screen Gems via AP The criminals are…

August 25, 2016

Books

Looking at the life of prospector Cass Hite

Courtesy Cass Hite, born in Illinois in 1845, died in Glen Canyon, Utah, in 1914, having traveled the West on…

August 25, 2016

Film

‘Teacher’s Pet’ dodges clichés

Now 58 years old, “Teacher’s Pet” is a smart, prototypical rom-com. The delightfully deadpan Clark Gable plays a self-taught newspaper…

August 25, 2016

Music

What’s a Cactopus? Find out tonight

band throwing album-release party

August 25, 2016

Performing Arts

Sam Shepard’s ‘Fool for Love’ opens at Durango Arts Center

May and Eddie are former lovers who encounter each other again when Eddie tracks May down to the old motel…

August 25, 2016

Books

He came to D.C. from Nigeria – and created his own African comic-book universe

E.X.O. is a Nigerian superhero creation of Roye Okupe.Courtesy of YouNeek Studios So when he set out to create his…

August 24, 2016

Performing Arts

‘Miss Saigon’ to appear on movie screens before Broadway

American audiences will get the rare chance to catch a sneak peek of the new “Miss Saigon” before it opens…

August 23, 2016

Music

Durango’s Cannondolls releasing new album

Photo courtesy of The Cannondolls/Illustration by Cliff Vancura, Durango Herald By Katie Chicklinski-Cahill Herald Arts & Entertainment editor One thing…

August 18, 2016

Performing Arts

Time for the big show

students get ready to battle

August 18, 2016

Visual Arts

Satire in Santa Fe: Native American artists reframe imagery

Po’pay to Chief Wahoo: Images that traffic in cultural power

August 18, 2016

Music

Santa Fe Opera celebrates a 60th anniversary

The specter of death literally hangs over “Don Giovanni.”Courtesy of Ken Howard/Santa Fe Opera The company has mounted an extraordinary…

August 11, 2016

Film

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 12-18

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Captain Fantastic (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) is raising his…

August 11, 2016

Music

‘Keep creating stuff and see what they say about you later’

R. Carlos Nakai Quartet coming to Durango Arts Center

August 11, 2016

Performing Arts

Paula Poundstone to perform at Community Concert Hall

Cliff Vancura/Durango Herald Poundstone will be coming to the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College on Aug. 19 and…

August 11, 2016

Film

‘Little Prince’ builds on a classic story

The story The Little Prince has been reimagined for 2016.Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes This new “The Little Prince” is told…

August 10, 2016