Visual Arts
Repurposed children’s toys explore the dark sides of childhood
Patti Singer’s sculptures using repurposed children’s toys explore under-examined and uncomfortable aspects of childhood
Arts & Entertainment
Film
How ‘Star Wars, Episode VII’ explains all the great cultural debates of our time
And while I may well do some modified version of this (suggestions are flying fast and furious on Twitter), I wanted to spend at least one column putting the new…
Film
Aaron Sorkin doesn’t want people calling the Steve Jobs biopic a biopic
Michael Fassbender stars as Steve Jobs in a scene from the film, “Steve Jobs.”Universal Pictures “Maybe they should have called it ‘iLied,’” Kyle Smith of the New York Post mocked.…
Film
Eddie Murphy briefly returns to stand-up at Twain Prize ceremony
Eddie Murphy presents the award for best original screenplay at the Oscars in February. Murphy received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in Washington Sunday.Associated…
Music
Adele is playing the long game, and it’s working brilliantly
Four years after her last album, the singer Adele appears to have teased British television viewers with a snippet of new music, broadcast during an ad break on prime-time TV.…
Arts and Entertainment
Looking to promote your event? Listen up!
The Durango Herald has introduced Southwest Scene (www.swscene.com), a local events website, to create the most complete and robust event listings around. To further this, The Durango Herald has introduced…
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Calendar
Black Velvet duo, 5-9 p.m., Rubio’s Fine Mexican Dining, 116 S. Main Ave., Aztec, (505) 334-0599. Opening reception: “Secretive Beauty,” photographs by Roman Loranc, 5-8 p.m., Open Shutter Gallery, 735…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs
Snowdown event coordinators must submit their Snowdown, Back to the Eighties, event forms postmarked by Oct. 31. Event forms are available at www.snowdown.org. Completed forms may be mailed to PO…
Arts and Entertainment
Next Week: Not to Miss
Courtsey of Enra<br><br>Japanese dance troupe Enra will perform next Thursday at Fort Lewis College’s Community Concert Hall. Enra combines dance, performing arts and visual arts for a unique fusion of…
Performing Arts
Putting a new face on ‘Otello’
FLC to broadcast live Met production of ‘Otello’ Oct. 24
Performing Arts
What’s it like to perform the same play 84 times, 6 nights a week for nearly 4 months?
From top left, Jason Lythgoe, Caitlin Cannon and Geoff Johnson perform in “Guitar Strings, a Cowboy and a Lost Peacock,” at the Henry Strater Theatre in June.David Holub and Steve…
Film
Review: Learning to Drive
As the film opens, Clarkson’s character, a New York book reviewer named Wendy, is being dumped by her husband of 21 years. The morning after a tearful ride home in…
Film
Review: Crimson Peak
After a prologue set in Buffalo, where the dashing English baronet Sir Thomas Sharpe (Hiddleston) has wooed and wed a wealthy young American, Edith (Wasikowska), the story quickly relocates –…
Film
Review: Bridge of Spies
To wit: “Bridge of Spies.” About 40 years into his career and still a master of his craft (a few camera moves and special effects moments in this film are…
Film
Review: Goosebumps
Based on the series of children’s horror stories by R.L. Stine, the big-screen adaptation of “Goosebumps” has been a long time coming. Since 1998, a revolving door of writers and…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Oct. 16-22
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Slapshot (Wednesday only) Paul Newman plays Reggie Dunlop, the coach of a pathetic minor-league American hockey team. His career at a standstill and his…
Film
Actress Ellen Page just doesn’t care how straight men perceive her
Actress Ellen Page came out in February 2014 in an emotional speech delivered at the Human Rights Campaign’s Time to Thrive youth conference in Las Vegas.Alvaro Barrientos/Associated Press Call it…
Books
Tom Petty was a heroin addict in the ’90s. Here’s why he’s finally talking about it
Tom Petty performs during the Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Tour 2014 at the Cruzan Amphitheater on September 20, 2014 in West Palm Beach, Florida.Jeff Daly/Invision “He didn’t want it…
Arts and Entertainment
Stephen Colbert’s ‘Pander Express’ is a brilliant takedown of how Hollywood sucks up to China
Stephen Colbert has promised to follow Hollywood’s example in sucking up to China — a practice that has become a huge moneymaker for American film studios. In an episode of…
Nation & World
Comedian Steve Martin gets serious as curator
Canadian artist’s works on display in U.S.
Arts and Entertainment
Next Week: Not to Miss
GTLO will present a set of true Zep tunes spanning the career of the band at the Community Concert Hall Oct. 14. will perform everything from ’smystical, folksy sounds to…
Performing Arts
Comedy and drama, 10 minutes at a time
10-Minute Festival culminates with five, fully-staged, bite-sized plays
Music
Guest conductor Richardson leads San Juan Symphony in style
Blake Richardson, guest conductor, right, and cellist Inbal Segev perform with the San Juan Symphony Oct. 3 at Fort Lewis College Community Concert Hall.Kathy Myrick/San Juan Symphony Smiling and waving…
Arts and Entertainment
Looking to promote your event? Listen up!
The Durango Herald has introduced Southwest Scene (www.swscene.com), a local events website, to create the most complete and robust event listings around. To further this, The Durango Herald has introduced…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs
Sorrel Sky Gallery of Durango, 828 Main Ave., announces that it will represent Bernd Wolf, internationally-acclaimed German jewelry designer. The Wolf collections marry high-quality cut gemstones and uniquely-textured precious metals…
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Calendar
Kirk James, blues, 6 p.m., Rubio’s Fine Mexican Dining, 116 S. Main Ave., Aztec, New Mexico, (505) 334-0599. Black Velvet duo, 6-9 p.m., St. Clair Winery & Bistro, 5150 E.…
Film
Review: The Walk
It also might help if you learn how to ride a unicycle, juggle, tumble, achieve pure excellence in the art of balance through biomechanics, master certain technical skills such as…