Music
Santa Fe Opera offers ‘best of all possible worlds’
Opera highlights ‘Candide,’ ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Dr. Atomic’
Arts & Entertainment
Visual Arts
Kayra Martinez helps refugees through art
Flight attendant lives in Greece, helps refugees create art
Film
Film Festival’s Best of the Fest helping community
Durango Film screening is a 416 Fire benefit
Film
‘Sicario’ sequel in major identity crisis
The otherwise smart and provocative screenwriter, known for his gritty, poetic and authentic screenplays for the Western-set thrillers “Sicario,” “Hell or High Water” and “Wind River” (the last of which…
Music
Joseph Jackson, pop-music patriarch who guided his children to stardom, dies at 89
Joe Jackson, patriarch of America’s most famous musical clan and father of Michael Jackson, has died, said a family source on Wednesday.Danny Moloshok/Associated Press file The Associated Press, citing a…
Performing Arts
Merely Players mounts riotous, athletic ‘Dream’
1. Director Mona Wood-Patterson has crafted a clear, colorful and fast-paced romp through Shakespeare’s beloved comedy. Employing many dramatic techniques, she separates the formal court of the Duke of Athens…
Books
Book World: How the Grateful Dead survived Jerry Garcia’s death
Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead’s Long, Strange Trip, by Joel Selvin with Pamela Turley.Courtesy But until now, the shelves had mostly been stocked with nostalgic…
Film
Movies playing in Durango June 29-July 5
After draining his life savings to enter a team in the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem, Dax (LilRel Howery) is dealt a series of unfortunate setbacks, including losing…
Music
‘Notorious RBG’ now has a CD
She has certainly become a fixture at many opera houses around the country: She is often spotted in the audience; she sometimes presides as an emcee in evenings of arias…
Arts and Entertainment
Dolores library reaches midpoint of summer concert and film series
Popular Aloha Club ukulele band will perform July 11
Arts and Entertainment
ABC orders spin-off of ‘Roseanne’ without Roseanne Barr
Sara Gilbert and John Goodman starred in the “Roseanne” reboot.Adam Rose/ABC The working title is “The Conners,” and centers on the family as they grapple with “parenthood, dating, an unexpected…
Music
Barbershop Harmony Society to integrate women after 80 years
Three members of the Sentiment-Gentlemen Quartet, standing from left, barber Ancel Cochran, florist Jack Goza and insurance salesman George Roth, sing in an Atlanta barber shop while Abner Cohen receives…
Music
Vinnie Paul, co-founder, drummer of Pantera, dies at 54
Pantera’s official Facebook page posted a statement early Saturday announcing his death. Paul’s representative confirmed the death to Billboard. No cause of death was mentioned. Paul’s real name was Vincent…
Performing Arts
Creede Rep opens 53rd season with comedy and song
Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” opened the 2018 season with a taut, funny production under the direction of Michael Perlman. Newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter have rented a tiny, fifth-floor…
Film
‘Jurassic World’ sequel makes dinosaurs boring
Chris Pratt reconnects with his old friend, the velociraptor Blue in “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.”Universal Studios But by the fifth entry into the franchise, they can’t get any bigger. The…
Books
Farmington comic book shop fills Four Corners niche
The comic book shop opened on Small Business Saturday, Nov. 25 of last year, making it one of the only stores of its kind in the Four Corners in recent…
Music
New Stonefish-Lizard stage to host New Orleans singer on Saturday in Cortez
Heidijo to play first concert in new venue
Music
Dolores hosts reggae band with a Native American message
Concert raises money for Canyons Alliance
Arts and Entertainment
Bar D Chuckwagon celebrates 50th summer season
Cowboy, Western food and music entertains locals, tourists
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Calendar
Preschool story time, 10:30 a.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380. Lacey Black, 5 p.m., Serious Texas Bar-B-Q, 650 Camino del Rio. Durango Pride Cocktail Reception, 5-7 p.m.,…
Arts and Entertainment
Durango Arts Center to hold basket workshop
Students will weave natural flat reed, learn how to overlay with oilcloth and finish baskets with black coir, waxed linen and ribbons for hanging. The workshop is open to all…
Arts and Entertainment
Void Where Prohibited to play shows in area
du1-i-syn Shows are scheduled for: 1-5 p.m. July 1 at the Rusty Shovel Saloon, 18044 County Road 501, in Vallecito; 8 p.m.-midnight July 3 at Derailed Pour House, 725 Main…
Film
Sons of Apollo Creed and Ivan Drago face off in ‘Creed II’
MGM and Warner Bros. Pictures on Wednesday released the first trailer for “Creed II,” the sequel to the 2015 “Rocky” spinoff. Michael B. Jordan returns as Adonis Creed, with Sylvester…
Local News
Mancos seeks grant to install car charging station
Solar charging station would be installed at Boyle Park
Film
Movies playing in Durango June 22-28
The Jurassic Park franchise is back with its latest installment, “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.”Universal Pictures via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Bolshoi Ballet: Coppelia (12:55 p.m. Sunday only)…
Local News
Mancos school board discusses spruce tree art and approves budget
Resident proposes making a totem pole out of iconic spruce tree
Arts and Entertainment
Warner Bros. crackdown puts Dark Mark over Potter festivals
In 2014, students from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia wear costumes to attend an annual festival based on the Harry Potter fantasy series conceived by British author J.K. Rowling, including…
Film
‘SuperFly’ is an unnecessary reimagining of the 1972 cult classic
Priest doesn’t just belong. Priest is in charge. Specifically, he’s in charge of a vast cocaine operation in this reimagining of the 1972 blaxploitation classic “Super Fly.” Some changes, both…