Author – The Durango Herald

Cicely Tyson, groundbreaking award-winning actor, dead at 96

NEW YORK – Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV vie...

DATE: Jan 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Tom Hanks heads TV special celebrating Biden’s inauguration

NEW YORK – Tom Hanks will host a 90-minute primetime TV special celebrating the inauguration of Joe Biden as president of the United States, with performances by Justin Timberlake, Jon Bon J...

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

Sidelined ‘Mean Girls’ musical won’t reopen on Broadway

NEW YORK – Producers of the Broadway musical “Mean Girls” have decided not to restart when authorities allow theaters to reopen in New York City, the second and likely not last established s...

DATE: Jan 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Joe and Jill Biden to appear on ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’

NEW YORK – Ryan Seacrest will have a special pair of guests alongside the music stars at this year’s New Year’s Eve celebration on ABC – the president-elect and the future first lady. ...

DATE: Dec 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Tony-winning choreographer, actress Ann Reinking dies at 71

NEW YORK – Ann Reinking, the Tony Award-winning choreographer, actress and Bob Fosse collaborator who helped spread a cool, muscular hybrid of jazz and burlesque movement to Broadway and bey...

DATE: Dec 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Charley Pride, country’s first Black superstar, dies at 86

NEW YORK – Charley Pride, the son of sharecroppers in Mississippi who became one of country music’s biggest stars and the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, has died. He w...

DATE: Dec 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

New Orleans stage and screen actor Carol Sutton dies at 76

NEW YORK – Actor Carol Sutton, a fixture on stages in her native New Orleans who built a steady career on the big and small screens, including roles in the 1989 comedy “Steel Magnolias” and ...

DATE: Dec 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Chef Marcus Samuelsson celebrates the variety of Black food

NEW YORK – If anyone asks chef Marcus Samuelsson what African food taste like, he has a ready answer: Have you ever had barbecue? Rice? Collard greens? Okra? Coffee? “All of that ...

DATE: Nov 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Don’t order out. Dive into Jamie Oliver’s new cookbook

NEW YORK – Jamie Oliver knows one of the biggest obstacles home cooks face isn’t the drudgery of shopping, the chore of chopping or the mess of washing up. It’s delivery apps. Wha...

DATE: Nov 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

‘Peanuts’ comic celebrates 70th anniversary with art

NEW YORK – The virus pandemic won’t stop Charlie Brown, Snoopy or the “Peanuts” gang from marking an important birthday and they’re hoping to raise the spirits of sick kids while they celebr...

DATE: Oct 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

‘Tiger King’ star Carole Baskin to ‘Dancing With the Stars’

Like all cool cats and kittens, Carole Baskin is going to “Dancing With the Stars.” The reality TV star who became a pop culture sensation with Netflix’s docuseries “Tiger King” i...

DATE: Sep 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Naya Rivera, who rose to fame on ‘Glee,’ dies at 33

NEW YORK – Naya Rivera, a singer and actor who played a gay cheerleader on the hit TV musical comedy “Glee,” was found dead Monday in a Southern California lake. She was 33. River...

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment