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Meet the ‘Mother of the Colorado Trail’ at Arts Center
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Music
Carlile’s music captures her life changes
Fans, new fans and old fans, have been tipping their cap to singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile for her new album, “The Firewatcher’s Daughter.” “It bursts right out of the gate, such…
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Courtesy photo<br><br>Loudon Wainwright III is lauded as being the “most candid diarist since Bob Dylan to bring confessional poetry into song.” Besides being an award-winning musician, he is often best…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs
“The Dave Ramsey Show” now can be heard on KDGO 1240 AM from 7 to 8 p.m. weekdays. Hosted by author Dave Ramsey, the live radio talk show focuses on…
Arts and Entertainment
Stiller happy nobody tripped during stunt
It was a maneuver to announce a sequel, “Zoolander 2,” which Stiller also will direct. The actors were met with cheers and whistles in person as guests hurried to catch…
Arts and Entertainment
‘Blurred Lines’ isn’t the only case of copycat songs
Whether you think the verdict in the case is bad for pop music or not – it gives a whole new meaning to “tone policing,” does it not? – the…
Arts and Entertainment
School of the West announces April classes
Students have been lining up to learn painting, weaving, fabric-dyeing and how to write their life stories. “We filled up four classes,” said School of the West organizer Brian Killigrew.…
Film
Past and present drug movies are cautionary tales
This undated photo released by Warner Bros. shows, from left, actors Johnny Lee Miller, Ewan McGregor, Kevin McKidd and Ewen Bremmer in a scene from the film “Trainspotting,” considered by…
Film
Review: Get Hard
In this scattershot, funny-dumb satire, Ferrell plays James, a Los Angeles financier whose arrest for fraud interrupts his life as a 1-percenter. He enlists the help of Darnell (Kevin Hart),…
Film
Review: Home
Based on Adam Rex’s best-selling children’s book The True Meaning of Smekday, “Home” is essentially a road-trip buddy comedy about a little girl looking for her mom and a lonely…
Film
Movies playing in Durango March 28-April 2
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry This film resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from…
Arts and Entertainment
HBO ends ‘Looking,’ its ‘boring’ show about gay men
From left, Raul Castillo, Murray Bartlett, Lauren Weedman, Frankie J. Alvarez, Jonathan Groff, and Daniel Franzese arrive at The Paley Center For Media Presents An Evening With HBO’s “Looking” on…
Books
James Patterson increases grant to school libraries to $1.5 million
Just two weeks after the bestselling writer announced that he planned to donate $1.25 million to school libraries, he has increased that total by $250,000. On March 9, Patterson announced…
Arts and Entertainment
It’s golden
‘The Sound of Music,’ celebrating 50 years, returns to theaters in April
Arts and Entertainment
How sound of Andrews’ music was stolen by medical disaster
Indeed, just a few years before, she and husband Blake Edwards had turned their landmark 1982 gender-bending film “Victor/Victoria” into a Broadway musical, and then into a TV movie. But…
Arts and Entertainment
Keeping classical cool: Arts group turns 200
America’s oldest continuously operating arts organization – which introduced the nation to composers like Chopin and Strauss, the 19th century editions of Top 40 hitmakers like Jay-Z and Lady Gaga…
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Arts Briefs
The Mangold Duo featuring Bonnie Mangold, cello, and Marilyn Mangold Garst, piano, will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, 419 San Juan Drive, as…
Music
SXSW dials it back a bit this time
The Weeknd performs during the SXSW Music Festival on in Austin, Texas.JACK PLUNETT/Invision via Associated Press AUSTIN – Some come to South by Southwest seeking glory. Others come to roll…
Books
Literary Hub wants to bring together everything literary on the Internet
Far from planning his retirement, he’s about to launch his most ambitious project ever: Literary Hub, a new website that attempts to bring together everything literary on the Internet. After…
Visual Arts
Film highlights art from Works Progress Administration
This undated photo provided by Andy Olenick shows Carl W. Peters’ 1937 painting “Life of Contemplation,” completed as part of the U.S. government’s Works Progress Administration, at the Wilson Foundation…
Books
Ellen Conford, popular children’s author, dead at 73
Conford died at home in Great Neck, New York, last Friday, on her 73rd birthday, her husband told The Associated Press. David Conford said Monday that his wife had been…
Books
Biography sheds light on first lady’s Chicago years
In the biography, Michelle Obama: A Life, veteran journalist Peter Slevin portrays the first lady as a full partner in her husband’s political career and not simply a reluctant political…
Books
Rare Tennessee Williams story published for first time
“The Eye That Saw Death,” by playwright Tennessee Williams, shown in a 1940 file photo, will appear in the spring issue of The Strand Magazine.Dan Grossi/Associated Press file photo Years…
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The Blues Hall of Fame Tour featuring Charlie Musselwhite will arrive in Durango tonight. Grammy-winning harmonica virtuoso Charlie Musselwhite will perform with has band at 7:30 p.m. at the Concert…
Film
Cinderella: A fairy tale for the ages
This image released by Disney shows Lily James as Cinderella in Disney's live-action feature inspired by the classic fairy tale, "Cinderella." (AP Photo/Disney, Jonathan Olley) Among the more successful attempts…
Film
Transgender teen has become role model
Jazz Jennings, star of new TV series, has a growing following
Arts and Entertainment
Prolific album as good now as when released
Former Live frontman celebrating 20 years of ‘Throwing Copper’
Arts and Entertainment
Us Weekly retracts Jenner story online
Kendall Jenner, left, denounced an article that appeared online for Us Weekly this week. The magazine pulled the article after the Jenners denied ever being interviewed, but the freelance reporter…