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Sing me a scene

“Shakespeare’s favorite hits.” That’s Elizabeth Crawford’s way of enthusiastically summarizing the unusual program playing this weekend at the Durango Arts Center. “Shakespeare: Sing Me a Sc...

DATE: May 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

The first music of May

Once again, early May begins with it a basketful of music in Durango. The first weekend alone has three major performances. If you plan well, you can make them all. At 7 p.m. Friday, the alw...

DATE: May 1, 2025 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

An unexpected world premiere

The final faculty recital of the year at Fort Lewis College takes place at 3 p.m. Sunday in Roshong Recital Hall. In a sudden programming shift, violinist Richard Silvers has changed plans b...

DATE: Apr 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

From Tevye to Ryan

In 2007, Adam Fontana portrayed Tevye in the Durango High School production of “A Fiddler on the Roof.” Then a high school senior, he was tasked to create a weary village elder and father of...

DATE: Feb 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Lucky to live in Durango

Next week, two unusual performances at Fort Lewis College remind us of our good fortune to simply live here and have access to free college events. One is a first for the new Performing Arts...

DATE: Nov 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

October’s musical beginnings

The San Juan Symphony will launch its 39th season this weekend. Twin concerts will be performed in Durango and Farmington, with ambitious, long-range programming planned by Music Director Th...

DATE: Oct 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

A dazzling showcase

The Fort Lewis College Performing Arts Department will unveil the 2024 Faculty Showcase at 3 p.m. Sunday in Roshong Recital Hall. It’s a significant event as the recital brings forth veteran...

DATE: Sep 25, 2024 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Endings and beginnings

ENDINGS: Among the many delights of the 38th Music in the Mountains summer festival memorable solo performances top the list. Dazzling the audience on July 26, the Russian-American pianist O...

DATE: Aug 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

The trouble with tragedy

The first question in the first talkback on the first night of PlayFest was a bruiser. Wednesday night, the playwright, James Anthony Tyler, and the cast of his new play, “Hop Tha A” assembl...

DATE: Jun 27, 2024 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

The play’s the thing

The 10-minute play phenomenon has swept the country. Last week, if festivals in Durango and Albuquerque prove anything, the short-form theatrical evening is here to stay. The Durango Arts Ce...

DATE: Jun 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Razzle dazzle ’em

Merely Players spoofs Americana in ‘Chicago’

DATE: May 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Art, folk and popular songs: Drea Pressley presents music of then and now

Friday night, well-known mezzo-soprano Drea Pressley will play her new Celtic harp in her latest recital. At 7 p.m. in the final offering of the Unitarian Universalist Recital Series of 2024...

DATE: Apr 25, 2024 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Videos & Photos

Photos: IHBC Subaru Mountain Bike RaceCobe Freeburn, Sofia Waite were victorious on Sunday19201280Women's pro riders take off from the start line of the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike Race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Men's pro riders get ready at the start line of the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike Race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Men's pro riders get ready at the start line of the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike Race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Durango's Kai Lokey (129) gets ready at the start line of the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike men's pro race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Men's pro riders get ready at the start line of the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike Race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Men's pro riders take off from the start line of the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike Race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Lauren Aggeler (164), Erin Osborne (222) and Ruby Ryan (right) get ready at the start line of the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike women's pro race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Kolben Preble rides through the Steamworks Brewing Co. patio during the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike Race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Tilia Clausen passes through the Steamworks Brewing Co. patio during the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike Race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Lily Jackson makes her way down the Rim Trail during the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike Race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Zack Jensen pops a wheelie as he passes through the Steamworks Brewing Co. patio during the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike men's pro race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Maxx Chance interacts with the crowd as he passes through the Steamworks Brewing Co. patio during the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike men's pro race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Kip Sevenoff climbs a ramp into the Steamworks Brewing Co. patio during the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike Race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Tyler Remlinger climbs a ramp into the Steamworks Brewing Co. patio during the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike Race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Lily Jackson climbs a ramp into the Steamworks Brewing Co. patio during the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike Race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Hudson Seeman climbs a ramp into the Steamworks Brewing Co. patio during the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike Race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Todd Wells climbs a ramp into the Steamworks Brewing Co. patio during the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic Subaru Mountain Bike pro men's race on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Sofia Waite celebrates her first-place finish with Erin Osborne, who took second place, in the Subaru Mountain Bike pro women's race at the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19202880Sofia Waite claims first place in the Subaru Mountain Bike pro women's race at the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Cobe Freeburn crosses the finish line in first place in the Subaru Mountain Bike pro men's race at the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)19201280Austin Beard takes second place with a stylish finish in the Subaru Mountain Bike pro men's race at the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic on Sunday in Durango. (Wyatt Richards/Special to the Herald)
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Cobe Freeburn, Sofia Waite were victorious on Sunday

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