Arts & Entertainment

Review: The End of the Tour
Film

Review: The End of the Tour

September 3, 2015

The rave reviews and widespread popularity of the book turned the tall, bandana-wearing Wallace into a literary rock star, something he found equal parts fascinating and mortifying. Wallace was enamored…

Movies playing in Durango Sept. 4-10
Film

Movies playing in Durango Sept. 4-10

September 3, 2015

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Mean Girls (Wednesday only) Tina Fey wrote and appears in this comedy about the alternately funny and terrifying pecking order among teenage girls. Cady…

Miley’s bare breast: it’s not like Janet
Music

Miley’s bare breast: it’s not like Janet

August 31, 2015

Miley Cyrus performs at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Sunday in Los Angeles.Matt Sayles/Invision Cyrus’ exposure – you can’t call it a wardrobe malfunction because…

Horror master Wes Craven dies at 76
Arts and Entertainment

Horror master Wes Craven dies at 76

August 30, 2015

Wes Craven, whose “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Scream” movies made him one of the most recognizable names in the horror film genre, has died. He was 76.Matt Sayles/Associated Press…

The Weekender
Arts and Entertainment

The Weekender

August 27, 2015

Top picks of what to do this weekend in and around Durango

Ambition and emotion run high in ‘Rent’
Performing Arts

Ambition and emotion run high in ‘Rent’

August 27, 2015

Everything about this show is big. The subject matter is big and heavy – enduring love, heartbreaking loss, sexuality, addiction, poverty and AIDS in 1990s New York City. The production…

Arts Briefs
Arts and Entertainment

Arts Briefs

August 27, 2015

Durango Arts Center will present “Courageous Carnivores and Compromised Conservationists,” a lecture by Michael Soulé, environmentalist, conservation biologist and author, on Thursday.Courtesy of Durango Arts Center Children and teenagers are…

Review: No Escape
Film

Review: No Escape

August 27, 2015

“No Escape” is an outlandish, sometimes brutally violent, exploitative, fast-paced white-knuckler featuring your classic American everyman who suddenly develops action-hero skills when his family is placed in danger. When I…

A&E Calendar
Arts and Entertainment

A&E Calendar

August 27, 2015

Lacey Black, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Jeff Solon Jazz Group featuring vocalist Alison Dance, 6-9 p.m., The Cyprus Cafe, 725 East Second Ave., 385-6884. Open…

Review: We Are Your Friends
Film

Review: We Are Your Friends

August 27, 2015

Much of “We Are Your Friends” plays like an electronic dance music update of a very good John Travolta movie – “Saturday Night Fever” – with a liberal sprinkling of…

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 28-Sept. 3
Film

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 28-Sept. 3

August 27, 2015

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Amy Despite just two albums to her name, Amy Winehouse is one of the biggest music icons in British history. With a voice oft…

The Weekender
Arts and Entertainment

The Weekender

August 20, 2015

Top picks of what to do this weekend in and around Durango

Meal, webcam form odd recipe for fame
Arts and Entertainment

Meal, webcam form odd recipe for fame

August 20, 2015

Kim Sung-jin, 14, broadcasts himself eating delivery Chinese food in his room at home in Bucheon, south of Seoul, South Korea. Every evening, he gorges on food as he chats…

A pioneer of loudmouth TV
Arts and Entertainment

A pioneer of loudmouth TV

August 20, 2015

New film examines raucous, raw, belligerent and derisive Downey Jr.

Arts Briefs
Arts and Entertainment

Arts Briefs

August 20, 2015

Open Shutter Gallery, 735 Main Ave., will present “Writing the Wild: A Day of One’s Own,” a poetry workshop with poets and editors Pam Uschuk and Bill Root, from 1…

A&E Calendar
Arts and Entertainment

A&E Calendar

August 20, 2015

Four Corners Arts Forum, 9 a.m., KDUR 91.9/93.9 FM, www.kdur.org. Happy-hour yoga, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., yoga and a pint of beer for $10, www.skabrewing.com. Terry…

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 21-27
Film

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 21-27

August 20, 2015

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Blazing Saddles (Wednesday only) Vulgar, crude and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features…

Review: Hitman: Agent 47
Film

Review: Hitman: Agent 47

August 20, 2015

Rupert Friend is half-man half-machine in “Hitman: Agent 47.”Reiner Bajo/Twentieth Century Fox via Associated Press Not for a second does any of this feel like anything that could take place…

Review: American Ultra
Film

Review: American Ultra

August 20, 2015

Jesse Eisenberg, left, and Kristen Stewart star in “American Ultra.”Alan Markfield/Lionsgate via Associated Press So it’s one of the small pleasures of “American Ultra” to see him play, against type,…

A&E Calendar
Arts and Entertainment

A&E Calendar

August 19, 2015

Boys Art Camp wrap-up celebration, 2-3 p.m., Durango Arts Center Education Studio, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606, ext. 15. Jeff Solon Jazz Trio, 5-9 p.m., Animas River Cafe at the…

Are there signs of Kardashian fatigue? Ask John Brown
Arts and Entertainment

Are there signs of Kardashian fatigue? Ask John Brown

August 18, 2015

Kim Kardashian, waving, and sister Khloe Kardashian walk in Victory Park while filming in Yerevan, Armenia. The Kardashian and Jenner families have such a heavy media, Internet and social presence,…