Arts and Entertainment
Durango native competes for $15,000 on new game show
‘America Says’ will air Tuesday
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Arts Calendar
Dolores Quilt Show, 9 a.m., Dolores Community Center, 400 Riverside Ave., Dolores. Preschool story time, 10:30 a.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380. Lacey Black, 5 p.m., Serious…
Music
Steven Tyler sends cease-and-desist to Trump for use of song
Tyler’s attorney sent a cease-and-desist letter to the president Wednesday, a day after the song “Livin’ on the Edge” was heard at a Trump rally in West Virginia. It’s not…
Music
Grammy-winning country star Gretchen Wilson arrested
Wilson has been charged with breach of peace. State police responded to Bradley International Airport, in Windsor Locks, just after 7 p.m. Tuesday. Police say while talking to Wilson she…
Film
Netflix draws flak for show about Mexico City elites
Netflix announced Monday that “Made In Mexico,” which follows the lives of Mexico’s City’s “wealthiest elites,” is set to debut Sept. 28. Almost immediately, angry consumers flooded the company’s Twitter…
Arts and Entertainment
Argento denies sexual assault, says Bourdain made payment
Italian actress and director Asia Argento, one of the most prominent activists of the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment, recently settled a complaint filed against her by a young actor…
Film
Danny Boyle departs James Bond over ‘creative differences’
Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, along with star Daniel Craig, announced Tuesday that Danny Boyle has exited the project over “creative differences.” Boyle, the director of “Slumdog…
Film
Review: ‘Alpha’ is a boy-meets-wolf love story
Kodi Smit-McPhee, right, plays an young Ice Age man who befriends a wolf in “Alpha.”Alan Markfield/Sony Pictures Entertainment But calling it “Alpha” will also do the trick. That simple, almost…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Aug. 24-30
Melissa McCarthy stars in “The Happytime Murders.”Hopper Stone/STX Entertainment via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) NTLive: Macbeth (1 p.m. Sunday only.) Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy explores…
Music
At VMAs, Madonna gets backlash after bizarre Aretha Franklin tribute
Madonna presents a tribute to Aretha Franklin at the MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Monday in New York.Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP It started as Madonna arrived on…
Music
Aretha Franklin, secret style icon: With the drop of a fur coat, she proclaimed her self-worth
Aretha Franklin sings during a dedication ceremony at The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16, 2011.Ricky Carioti/Washington Post file When she was performing, she didn’t…
Arts and Entertainment
Bolo ties gallop back on runways, Instagram
The word “bolo” is derived from boleadora, an Argentine lariat or rope used to lasso, although the neckwear’s actual origin is a mystery. Victor Cedarstaff claims he is the creator:…
Local News
Sierra Edd’s art and activism makes space for Native women
Durango High School and Brown University graduate centers her work on messages of gender violence and decolonization
Music
Riders in the Sky moseying to Durango
‘America’s Favorite Cowboys’ to play two nights at Bar D Chuckwagon
Film
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is an escapist rom-com delight, but it’s also a lot more than that
From left, Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding and Constance Wu star in “Crazy Rich Asians.”Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros. Pictures On the surface, there are no permutations to speak of in a story…
Performing Arts
Durango Arts Center presents musical for our fractured time
At the time, the nation’s top literary award was controversial but not because of subject matter. The award generally went to serious new plays, not a Broadway musical. Eight years…
Film
‘BlacKkKlansman’ Spike Lee’s best movie in years
Adam Driver, left, and John David Washington star in Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman.”David Lee/Focus Features via AP The introductory sequence to “BlacKkKlansman” is just as audacious, breathtaking and useful as Lee’s…
Music
‘Queen of Soul’ had feature role in Durangoan’s film
Aretha Franklin played Mother Nature in ‘Snow Monsters’
Arts and Entertainment
Durango Choral Society to hold auditions
To schedule an audition and for more information, call 759-2206.
Local News
Landscape mural to span 300 feet along Narrow Gauge Avenue
Project backed by $5,000 city grant
Music
Aretha Franklin, music’s ‘Queen of Soul,’ dies at 76
Singer Aretha Franklin performs during the inauguration ceremony for U.S. President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2009.Dennis Brack/Bloomberg Her representative Gwendolyn Quinn confirmed the…
Music
Aerosmith to launch residency in Las Vegas next year
The rock band announced Wednesday that “Aerosmith: Deuces are Wild” would kick off April 6, 2019, at the Park Theater, where Lady Gaga will launch her residency in December. Aerosmith…
Film
YouTube criticized for showing terrifying horror movie ad that viewers couldn’t click away from
The jump-scare ad was over in an instant, but it’s apparently so startling to many who’ve seen it that their complaints reached YouTube, which decided to take it down. Myriad…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Aug. 17-23
Constance Wu, left, and Awkwafina star in the film “Crazy Rich Asians,” which is opening this week in Durango.Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Yerma…
Music
How Aretha Franklin’s ‘Respect’ became an anthem for civil rights and feminism
Aretha Franklin sings for the crowd at the National Portrait Gallery gala on Nov. 15, 2015, in Washington.Katherine Frey/Washington Post file The Queen of Soul, now gravely ill, took the…
Arts and Entertainment
I would have ignored ‘Insatiable,’ but your outrage made it seem interesting. (It wasn’t.)
Debby Ryan stars in Netflix’s “Insatiable.”Tina Rowden/Netflix Yet here we are, having to say something, mostly because 100,000-plus people were moved, after seeing a trailer for the series earlier this…
Film
This rom-com for dog lovers is entertaining, but it has some fleas
Although structured by screenwriters Elissa Matsueda and Erica Oyama like the now-classic rom-com anthology “Love Actually,” “Dog Days” lacks the polish and originality of that 2003 film, failing to dodge…
Visual Arts
An artist found a parasitic worm in his eye – and turned it into art
British artist Ben Taylor created “The Host” after he realized that a parasitic worm had been living in one of his eyes.Courtesy of Ben Taylor Taylor gave up on the…
Film
‘Meg’ is big but has no teeth
Both films center on superlatives: the world’s tallest skyscraper; the world’s biggest shark. (In this case, it’s a living specimen of a prehistoric Megalodon, long thought to be extinct.) Both…