Performing Arts
Durango Arts Center to stage edgy ’90s comedy
Early Alan Ball play looks at friendship and privilege
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Local News
Survey says: Metal panels will be installed at Durango intersection
About 2,000 registered votes select ‘Common Threads’ piece
Books
Book sets the record straight about Crazy Horse
Durango Public Library hosting discussion with author, members of Crazy Horse family
Film
‘Bears of Durango’ in limelight at Durango Independent Film Festival
Locally-filmed documentary follows team of scientists studying wildlife
Film
Five movies not to miss at Durango Film: An Independent Film Festival
Welcome to the Men’s Group. (Narrative feature) Take a peek inside the intimate dynamic of an all-male support group when they gather one morning for a ritual breakfast and their…
Visual Arts
Studio & to open jewelry exhibit with a ‘WOW!”
Studio & Gallery will be opening its newest show, WOW! Jewelry Exhibit, with an opening reception Friday night at the gallery.Courtesy of Studio & Gallery The show features pieces by…
Music
Contestants head into Round One of singing competition
Singers in Durango Voice will take the stage for the first round of competition on Saturday.Courtesy Saturday’s show will begin at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.) at Henry…
Performing Arts
The MET stages Puccini’s great tragic opera
Puccini’s “La Bohème” is the next MET: Live in HD production, which will be livestreamed Saturday at Fort Lewis College.Courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera And then there’s the struggling-student motif.…
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Rio Grande Southern Goose No. 5 Winter Excursion, 9:30 a.m., $115-$189, Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, 479 Main Ave. Caregiver Cafe, 10 a.m., Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center…
Performing Arts
In 1600s Salem, no one’s safe
Durango High School Troupe 1096 staging Miller’s ‘The Crucible’
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Student juried art exhibition to open Wednesday
The opening reception is free and open to all, and student work will be on display for public viewing through March 26. Patti Singer, a local mixed-media, assemblage and installation…
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Poetry slam semifinals to be held Saturday
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call or email Anthony Nocella at (315) 657-2911 or [email protected]
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Fort Lewis College choirs to perform
FLC choir director Charissa Chiaravalloti will lead a performance that will be featured during a May tour of Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Tickets are $5 for adults and…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Feb. 23-March 2
From left, Jason Bateman, Kyle Chandler and Lamorne Morris find trouble when things go a little too far in “Game Night.”Hopper Stone/Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP (128 E. College Drive,…
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Caregiver Cafe, 10 a.m., Pine River Library, 395 Bayfield Center Drive, Bayfield, 884-2222. Preschool story time, 10:30 a.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave. STEAM Lab, 3:30 p.m., Durango…
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Chamber Singers looking for altos
Rehearsals are held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Mondays at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 910 East Third Ave. Second alto range is preferred. Candidates should have choral experience and be…
Film
Review: Black Panther
Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o), left, and Shuri (Letitia Wright) star in “Black Panther,” which follows conventions of action movies but also enlarges and revitalizes them.Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios-Walt Disney Chadwick Boseman, until…
Performing Arts
‘The Vagina Monologues’ hits the stage
“The Vagina Monologues” will be performed tonight and Saturday at the Durango Arts Center.Courtesy “I think it’s really important for women (to celebrate) women,” said “Monologues” co-director Michelle Olson. “The…
Music
FLC showcases student performers at an honors recital on Feb. 25
“This is my favorite student event of the year,” Marc Reed, chairman of the FLC Music Department, said this week. “We have tremendously talented students, and it is very rare…
Visual Arts
Who is artist behind Obama’s official portrait?
Larger-than-life paintings Kehinde Wiley’s trademark
Visual Arts
Artist Rosemary Meza-DesPlas takes over Durango Arts Center
Solo show features mixed-media drawings, wall installation
Arts and Entertainment
Durango Arts Center to host Picasso, vino party
The event will offer a fun, creative experience, with painting, wine, and time with friends, co-workers and family. Cost is $25, plus a $13 materials fee for the instructor when…
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Durango Arts Center to offer free lecture
Judith Reynolds and Katherine Burgess will give a presentation about art and ideas related to the sacred and profane. The event, part of the fifth annual free winter art history…
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Durango Arts Center to hold theater auditions
The theater production, directed by Theresa A. Carson, is about a fragmented family grappling with crisis and loss. Actors, ages 16 to 25 and 30 to 60, who can sing…
Music
Olympic figure skating unveils new, modern soundtrack
The folk tune is light and airy and fits neatly within the confines of traditional figure skating. Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres went in another direction. Yes, the French pairs…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Feb. 16-22
The wait is over: “Black Panther” will open in Durango this week.Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios-Disney via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) NTLive’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (11 a.m.…
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Southwest Civic Winds to perform Bernstein
Bernstein selections will include Simple Song from Mass, Four Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Overture to Candide and others. For more information, visit www.southwestcivicwinds.org.
Music
San Juan Symphony Orchestra packages musical box of chocolates
At the center of this extravaganza is Franklin Cohen, former principal clarinetist in the Cleveland Orchestra. Cohen’s professional career began when Leopold Stokowski chose him as principal clarinet for the…
Visual Arts
LA art museum unveils wide-ranging tribute to Jasper Johns
Allon Schoener from The Cosmopolitan Observer joins journalists during a media preview of an exhibition by artist Jasper Johns on Wednesday at The Broad in Los Angeles.Richard Vogel/Associated Press Seizing…
Books
Native American poet, writer, musician to discuss memoir at Fort Lewis College
Joy Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave is being read by the college’s freshmen. Harjo, a writer, poet, musician and professor, is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. “We all felt that…