“Once” is a highly-acclaimed Broadway musical. But did it start on the stage or the screen?Courtesy image It almost makes you forget that “Once” had its start in 2007 as…
One of the strongest elements of Pixar’s “Inside Out” was the way writers and directors Pete Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen captured the relationship between Joy (Amy Poehler) and Sadness…
Lawyer-turned-director Adam Nimoy, son of the late Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy, poses for a portrait in New York to promote his documentary about his father, “For the Love of…
Olivia Cooke, from left, as Rachel, Thomas Mann as Greg, and RJ Cyler as Earl star in the film “Me and Earl and The Dying Girl.”Anne Marie Fox/Fox Searchlight Pictures…
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) I’ll See You in My Dreams In this vibrant, funny, and heartfelt film, a widow and former songstress discovers that life can begin anew…
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as the Terminator in “Terminator Genisys.”Melinda Sue Gordon/Paramount Pictures The human part, at least in theory, is capable of appreciating what everybody else goes to summer…
Alternately steamy and wholesome, raunchy and childlike, “Magic Mike” reveled in the glistening, undulating, six-pack musculature of the male body, focusing chiefly on that of its star, Channing Tatum. There…
Artist Reception: Deborah Sussex’s “Back There, Here Now,” 5-8 p.m.; on display through Aug. 5, Red Room, Open Shutter Gallery, 735 Main Ave., www.openshuttergallery.com. Artist reception: James Cammack and O.…
Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., will host an opening reception for the new exhibit, “Strata: Books & Prints by Carol and Donn Rawlings,” from 5 to 7 p.m.…
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With two new shows and three photographers, Open Shutter brings distinct, surprising outlooks
Diminutive and detailed works on display as part of First Thursday Art Walk
Liver Down the River released a five-song, all-original EP on Tuesday. The band, which plays a mix of blugrass, jam, rock and funk, is comprised of six Fort Lewis College…
That is more than enough to get us on Carol’s side. But is it enough to keep us there? The drama, directed by Brett Haley, who wrote the script with…
Yes, it’s quite a thing – a talking, beer-swilling, pot-smoking, foul-mouthed teddy bear interacting with the humans of Boston, working as a cashier, even falling in love with and marrying…
It’s hard to fault a movie for being schmaltzy when it’s as unabashedly virtuosic in its efforts to pluck at your heartstrings as “Max” is. The drama about the bond…
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) The Great Outdoors (Tuesday only) When an unannounced, uninvited and unwelcome family of fun-loving misfits converge upon a lakeside resort to join their relatives…
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. Tuesday…
The Open Shutter Gallery, 735 Main Ave., will present an exhibit of regional and Midwestern photographs by Durango resident Deborah Sussex in a show titled “Back There, Here Now,” in…
Caitlin Cannon Caitlin Cannon, “Becca Carter”/songwriter On incorporating her original music into ‘Guitar Strings’ Two of the songs were songs I’d already written; they were songs on my first record,…
Local exhibit ‘REPRISE’ returns with surprises
Authors Win and Meredith Blevins launch new series
In just six months, Strater Theatre produces original play for summer run
Sarah Syverson Sarah Syverson Writer On working with producer Rod Barker I came in and met with Rod in late November, and he told me his idea for the show.…
Rod Barker,President and CEO of the Strater Hotel and producer of “Guitar Strings, a Cowboy and a Lost Peacock.”Jerry McBride/Durango Herald Rod Barker Producer/Strater president and CEO On the Durango…
Scott Levy Scott Levy Director On time limitations If I were getting involved in a project from the beginning, I would say most plays follow a three-tier structure. The first…
Author Andrew Gulliford Three writers from the Four Corners area were nominated for Colorado Book Awards, which have been presented annually since 1991 to authors, editors, illustrators and photographers from…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally June 16 in Des Moines, Iowa.Charlie Neibergall/Associated Press “We will re-evaluate Trump’s role as host of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ should…
