Arts & Entertainment

Bill Murray’s greatest role? Being Bill Murray
Film

Bill Murray’s greatest role? Being Bill Murray

October 19, 2016

Bill Murray became a movie star in 1979 with “Meatballs.”Courtesy of Paramount Pictures A couple years ago, a guy named Ted Melfi had a movie idea and desperately wanted Murray…

Senior Center seeks vendors for annual Bazaar
Local News

Senior Center seeks vendors for annual Bazaar

October 17, 2016

The Durango Senior Center is looking for vendors to sell crafts and homemade items at the annual Arts and Crafts Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 3.Durango Herald…

Tip a glass to O. Henry
Performing Arts

Tip a glass to O. Henry

October 15, 2016

Tip a glass to O. Henry on Tuesday night at the Durango Arts Center.Courtesy “Tipping a Glass to O. Henry” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Durango…

Movies playing in Durango Oct. 14-20
Film

Movies playing in Durango Oct. 14-20

October 13, 2016

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Indignation (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com)In 1951, Marcus Messner, a brilliant working class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to…

Durango Arts Center mounts intriguing exhibits
Visual Arts

Durango Arts Center mounts intriguing exhibits

October 13, 2016

“Good Year,” a “contraceptual,” mixed-media piece by Richard Grossman.Courtesy of Judith Reynolds Subtitled the Annual Members’ Environmental Exhibit, it was an effort to take the old, perennial landscape shows to…

Russian fashion legend Zaitsev to show latest collection
Arts and Entertainment

Russian fashion legend Zaitsev to show latest collection

October 12, 2016

Pavel Golovkin/Associated Press file<br><br>At 78, fashion designer Slava Zaitsev may look frail and complain that he left his cane at home but he still makes two new collections every year,…

Forest Whitaker joins ‘Black Panther’ cast
Film

Forest Whitaker joins ‘Black Panther’ cast

October 8, 2016

Forest Whitaker is coming to the Marvelverse. Marvel says the Oscar-winning actor is joining the cast of “Black Panther.” Whitaker will portray an elder statesman named Zuri from the fictional…

‘Quiz Show’ examines reality of television
Film

‘Quiz Show’ examines reality of television

October 6, 2016

Herald staff writer In the modern wasteland of reality television, I like to think few people would be surprised to find out that their favorite shows – purporting to present…

Fall is the season for Important Movies
Film

Fall is the season for Important Movies

October 6, 2016

Nate Parker stars as Nat Turner in “The Birth of a Nation.”Jahi Chikwendiu/Fox Searchlight via AP “Snowden,” Oliver Stone’s portrait of National Security Agency leaker-slash-whistle-blower Edward Snowden, was important. “Denial,”…