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Message on a shelf: FLC exhibit connects students with their roots

“Students, your ancestors left messages for you. They’re downstairs.” That’s Tirzah Camacho (Laguna Pueblo) admonishing Fort Lewis College art students in a wall text at Center of Southwest ...

DATE: Aug 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Everybody’s doing it

PlayFest, Durango’s contribution to developing new American plays, has just concluded. Two similar festivals are scheduled nearby in August. Words Cubed is Utah Shakespeare Festival’s annual...

DATE: Aug 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Final festival concert stirs communal outpouring

If you believe music can summon courage, you ought to have been in the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College on Sunday night. In the final concert of the 2021 Music in the Mountains F...

DATE: Aug 6, 2021 | CATEGORY: Music

A playwright’s dream, one line at a time

August PlayFest ready to launch

DATE: Jul 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

It’s your last chance free MET Opera

My Column (Filed in J’sFiles/OPERA/2021.Last.MET.Stream) For Wed. July 21, 2021 The final week of free nightly opera streams from the Metropolitan Opera is upon us. The free part disa...

DATE: Jul 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Music in the Mountains launches a diverse weekend of concerts

Crossover music, chocolate and an outdoor picnic start Friday

DATE: Jul 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Music

Music in the Mountains: When Guillermo met Sue

Dinner and Family Concert at to be held at Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College

DATE: Jul 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Music in the Mountains goes on the road

Music in the Mountains, Southwest Colorado’s inimitable summer festival, will launch its 2021 season with a spanking new, green-and-white traveling music wagon and free mini-concerts. The mo...

DATE: Jun 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Three crackin’ good yarns: Creede Rep launches 56th season with fairy tale, an epic and love letters

After going dark in 2020 because of COVID-19, Creede Repertory Theatre is launching Operation Outdoor Theatre 2021. A full schedule of plays, plus improv comedy and a new cabaret, is on deck...

DATE: Jun 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Gear up, Durango: Powerhouse opens interactive bike exhibition

A penny-farthing bicycle with its huge front and tiny back wheels is only one of the most unusual bikes on display at the Powerhouse Science Center this summer. In its new exhibition, “GEAR ...

DATE: Jun 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

When friendships splinter

“I was looking forward to a relaxing evening after a ridiculously crazed week,” says Ivan toward the end of the contemporary comedy: “Art.” Ivan’s expectation of “meeting my two best friends...

DATE: Jun 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Merely Players finds another ’found space’

Theater company to stage contemporary French comedy

DATE: May 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts