Books
Maria’s Bookshop partnering with Animas High School senior for book drive
Animas High School senior teams up with Maria’s Bookshop
Arts & Entertainment
Performing Arts
Durango High School Troupe 1096 to open ‘Beauty and the Beast’
‘I think it’s going to be amazing’
Film
Movies playing in Durango Nov. 4-10
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in Marvel’s “Doctor Strange.”Jay Maidment/Disney/Marvel via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) A Man Called Ove (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)Stepping from the pages of…
Books
Lynching Waltz conveys message of hope
Courtesydu1-i-syn It was a favorite and cherished tradition for junior high students to participate in a ballroom dancing class called Fortnighty. The incident began when the new teacher sent a…
Music
Durango-area resident Charlie Daniels inducted into Country Hall
Iconic musician ‘humbled’ by honor
Books
A homecoming for a once-wimpy kid
And when he strolled into his old elementary school gymnasium on Tuesday as a multimillionaire author, not the Dungeons-and-Dragons-playing goofball he once was, he was greeted like a celebrity. More…
Film
Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange’ is already a box-office hit, according to overseas audiences
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in “Doctor Strange.”Disney/Marvel And perhaps the best bellwether so far occurred over Halloween weekend: Disney/Marvel’s “Doctor Strange” grossed $86 million overseas, upon opening in 33 foreign markets.…
Music
Aerosmith and Obama at the same airport, so president gives band members a tour of Air Force One
Singer-Songwriter Steven Tyler walks from Air Force One after visiting with President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One in Orlando, Fla., on Friday.Reinhold Matay/Associated Press The musicians were on Tyler’s…
Performing Arts
‘Ash pit’ redefined when cremains scattered at the Met
The Metropolitan Opera had to cancel part or all of a Rossini doubleheader after a patron tossed white powder – which proved to be someone’s ashes – into the orchestra…
Film
Movies playing in Durango July 22-28
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He…
Neighbors
Neighbors: Colorado Plateau art supports Mesa Verde Foundation
Artist Dan Young, from Silt, participates in a “paint out” tour supporting the Mesa Verde Foundation along the San Juan Scenic Byway near Telluride and Ridgway in June. The art…
Arts and Entertainment
Artists needed for Winter Solstice Artisans’ Market
du1-i-syn Entry fees are $50 for current DAC members and $90 for non-members, which includes a one-year DAC membership and access to 60 percent commission rate. (DAC retains 40 percent.)…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Brief-DAC1
The Durango Arts Center is accepting grant proposals for 2017 funding of arts and culture programs. Applicants must be 501(c)3 (or fiscally sponsored) status, operating in good financial standing for…
Music
Kathy Mattea to perform at Concert Hall
kathy Mattea will be playing with longtime collaborator Bill Cooley at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College.Courtesy of the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College Mattea and…
Music
Tribe Called Quest to release final album
In a handwritten note posted on Facebook, veteran rapper and producer Q-Tip said they were inspired after the hip-hop group reunited for the first time in 18 years last year…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Oct. 28-Nov.4
Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones star in “Inferno.”Jonathan Prime/Sony Pictures via AP (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Michael Moore in Trumpland (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)(Tuesday only) See…
Neighbors
Neighbors: Durango Friends of the Arts’ fundraiser a success
That was obvious at DFA’s annual Fall Luncheon and Silent Auction held mid-October at the Strater Hotel. With the theme of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” the 25th anniversary…
Books
Delivering Dreams charming
Courtesydu1-i-syn In the book, a girl waits every day for a letter from her globe-trotting grandfather. He writes her of safaris and pyramids, the wild West and exotic food. Through…
Arts and Entertainment
What’s going on during Halloween weekend
du1-i-syn Friday The Passage Between: Celebrating Transitions and Impermanence, opening reception 5-9 p.m., Studio &, 1027 Main Ave. Studio &’s sixth annual Day of the Dead art exhibit and celebration.…
Music
The Fabulous Thunderbirds coming to the Community Concert Hall
Talking music with The Fabulous Thunderbirds’ Kim Wilson
Film
If there’s a ‘Splash’ remake, Tom Hanks wants in on it
Actor Tom Hanks said he’s interested in being in the remake of the movie “Splash.”Andrew Medichini/Associated Press Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are developing a new take on the film…
Music
Kenny Chesney to receive Pinnacle Award at 50th CMA Awards
The award, created in 2005, recognizes an artist who has achieved global prominence through performances and record sales and the highest degree of recognition. Over his career, Chesney has eight…
Film
How a fed-up group of ‘Good Girls’ beat the ‘Mad Men’-era sexists
Lynn Povich is the author of The Good Girls Revolt, a book about the landmark lawsuit filed in the 1970s by her and fellow women employees of Newsweek against the…
Books
Divergent author to tour in January/February for new book
Author Veronica Roth’s book, Carve The Mark, the first of two planned volumes, comes out in mid-January and she will visit 10 cities, starting in New York on Jan. 17.Evan…
Film
You should be watching ‘Black Mirror’ – but that doesn’t mean you should binge it
Bryce Dallas-Howard stars in the “Black Mirror” episode “Nosedive.”David Dettmann/Netflix With Netflix and Amazon dumping whole seasons all at once, we’re getting used to instant gratification. But what if a…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Oct. 21-27
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)Featuring newly-restored footage – including some never-before-seen footage that lay forgotten under a…
Music
Two grand nights of singing planned
Tickets are $20 adults, $5 children, at the door. H H H The multitalented Elizabeth Crawford has formed a chamber group of singers “to fill a niche,” she said in…
Film
‘Odd Thomas’ a quirky, satanic murder mystery
Herald staff writer What if the kid from “The Sixth Sense” grew up and became Marty McFly from “Back to the Future”? “Odd Thomas” does its best to answer that…
Music
Elle Carpenter to celebrate release of her fifth album
Singer-songwriter Elle Carpenter celebrates fifth album
Performing Arts
Fort Lewis College Hawkapellas hit the right note
And no one was complaining about being in class. “It’s awesome. It can be stressful, but it’s a lot of fun,” said Jeremiah Tjossem, a senior pursuing a double major…