Arts and Entertainment
Bringing Pokemon to Durango
10-year-old player wants to grow the card game locally
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and Entertainment
Dolores Mountain Quilters Guild’s show to be held Aug. 24-25
Show times are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 24 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 25. The show will feature more than 100 quilts, which will be judged…
Music
Sweetwater Station to performs at Mancos State Park
Park restarts music series as fire threat declines
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Calendar
Preschool story time, 10:30 a.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380. Kids Summer Reading Program: Caregiver Cafe, 11 a.m., Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive, Bayfield, 884-2222.…
Film
A revamped Oscars
The Oscars are adding a new category to honor popular films and promising a brisk 3-hour ceremony on a much earlier air date of Feb. 9, 2020.Matt Sayles/Invision/AP file John…
Music
A musical prelude from out of the 416 Fire’s ashes
Gordon Thomas brings together music and photography to commemorate firefighters
Visual Arts
Two artists, living 7 hours apart, bridge a divide
‘Parallel Intersections’ opens at Studio & Gallery
Arts and Entertainment
‘Making It’: Cutting and gluing without being cut-throat
Amy Poehler is co-host of “Making It,” a competition show on NBC that challenges a group of makers to create everything from Halloween costumes to lawn furniture.Virginia Sherwood/NBC via AP…
Books
A ‘tantalizing’ theory from Stephen King’s son: Shark thriller ‘Jaws’ holds the clue to an unsolved 1974 murder
A three-dimensional plaster reconstruction of the face of “Lady in the Dunes,” (left) and a composite sketch.Town of Provincetown Joe Hill – a pen name used by Joe Hillstrom King,…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Aug. 10-16
There’s a new threat in the water in “The Meg.”Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) NTLive: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time…
Arts and Entertainment
ABC to celebrate 90 years of Mickey Mouse
ABC on Tuesday announced “Mickey’s 90th Spectacular,” a two-hour prime-time special, will air on Nov. 4. The program will feature tributes and never-before-seen short films of The Walt Disney Co.’s…
Music
Demi Lovato breaks silence after apparent drug overdose: ‘I will keep fighting’
“I have always been transparent about my journey with addiction,” Lovato wrote in a letter posted on her Instagram. “What I’ve learned is that this illness is not something that…
Books
Hemingway story from 1956 published for first time
The Strand Magazine said that “A Room on the Garden Side,” a World War II story written by novelist Ernest Hemingway in 1956, will appear in the summer edition, which…
Film
Kate McKinnon and Mila Kunis made a spy comedy, and somehow it’s really not funny
You enter the restaurant with a few dishes in mind, only to have so many offered to you that the spiral-bound menu requires page numbers. The hodgepodge décor turns the…
Music
Sundance Head, ‘The Voice’ winner, coming to Durango
Soul country singer Sundance Head will perform at this year’s La Plata County Fair.Courtesy of Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College Soul country singer Sundance Head, who won the…
Film
‘Christopher Robin’ a sweet tale
The title character of Disney’s gently charming new live-action/CGI hybrid, played by an earnest and winsome Ewan McGregor, is a grown-up version of Pooh’s entirely fictional Christopher Robin, now a…
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Arts Calendar
Telluride Jazz Festival, all day, Telluride. For schedule and tickets, visit www.telluridejazz.org. Preschool story time, 10:30 a.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380. Kids Summer Reading Program: Caregiver…
Music
New music store owned by a familiar face
But not long after Katzin’s retail doors closed for good, new ones opened. Jimmy’s Music & Supply, owned by Jim Gillaspy, formerly of Katzin, opened July 1, and a grand…
Performing Arts
Durango PlayFest is newest addition to region’s staged-reading circuit
National and local actors will read plays, keeping alive 50-year tradition
Local News
Cortez painter brings ‘personal’ art show to Olio in Mancos
Susan Reed’s work showcases rural life
Visual Arts
Cortez painter brings ‘personal’ art show to Olio in Mancos
Susan Reed’s work showcases rural life
Film
Faced with losses, MoviePass discount ticket service increases fee
MoviePass, the discount service for movie tickets, is raising prices by 50 percent and barring viewings of most major releases during the first two weeks.Darron Cummings/Associated Press file The new…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Aug. 3-9
Ewan McGregor is a man who has lost his way in “Christopher Robin.”Laurie Sparham/Disney via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Won’t You Be My Neighbor? From Academy Award-winning…
Arts and Entertainment
‘It hasn’t stopped my life at all’: Alan Alda reveals he has Parkinson’s disease
Actor Alan Alda says he has Parkinson’s disease. Appearing Tuesday on “CBS This Morning,” the former “M.A.S.H.” star said he was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disorder 3½ ago.Richard Drew/Associated Press…
Music
Neil Diamond thanks Colorado firefighters with performance
The 77-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer took to the stage Friday night to play “Sweet Caroline” for dozens of firefighters gathered at the command post for a fire…
Film
The new season of ‘Orange Is the New Black’ proves it’s time for the show to end
Badison (Amanda Fuller) torments Piper (Taylor Schilling) in Season 6 of “Orange Is the New Black.”JoJo Whilden/Netflix Season 6 finds many of Litchfield’s inmates serving out their sentences in maximum…
Local News
Mancos multimedia art project takes shape
Grant-funded “We All Belong” project inspires others
Local News
Cortez arts committee aims to solve mystery of art
Public invited to provide information on artists
Arts and Entertainment
Espanola police officers meet their own lip-sync challenge
The Espanola Police Department’s video, released last week, features several officers lip-syncing and dancing to 1975’s “Low Rider” by the funk band War, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported .…
Film
Next ‘Star Wars’ film to use unreleased Fisher footage
The studio and writer-director J.J. Abrams announced Friday that footage of Fisher shot for 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will be used in the ninth film in the space…