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Arts briefs
Arts and Entertainment

Arts briefs

October 30, 2014

The Downtown Business Improvement District, Durango Chamber of Commerce and more than 90 local businesses have teamed up to host Halloween trick-or-treating today. Downtown merchants will offer Halloween goodies and…

A&E Happenings Oct. 31-Nov. 6
Arts and Entertainment

A&E Happenings Oct. 31-Nov. 6

October 30, 2014

Downtown Trick-or-Treating, 4-6 p.m., stores downtown, more than 90 merchants will offer Halloween goodies and surprises, for children 10 and younger and accompanied by adults, look for pumpkins in the…

Three below-the-radar films to catch this fall
Film

Three below-the-radar films to catch this fall

October 28, 2014

From left, Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren and Vincent Wettergren in a scene from the film “Force Majeure,” a Magnolia Pictures release.Associated Press photo/Courtesy Magnolia Pictures FORCE…

Brief Chaplin bio captures essence of ‘the Tramp’
Arts and Entertainment

Brief Chaplin bio captures essence of ‘the Tramp’

October 28, 2014

Peter Ackroyd’s book, Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life, looks at self-taught comic’s complexities.Associated Press Photo/Nan A. Talese/Doubleday In 1914, Keystone Studios released two short films that gave a world marching…

Review: Flaming Lips fail with ‘Sgt. Pepper’ cover
Music

Review: Flaming Lips fail with ‘Sgt. Pepper’ cover

October 28, 2014

“With a Little Help From My Fwends,” by The Flaming Lips, covers the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”AP Photo/Warner Bros. Records Ever wonder what “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts…

Arts Briefs
Arts and Entertainment

Arts Briefs

October 27, 2014

The La Plata Open Space Conservatory will host an event Thursday that combines short films, wild places and a good cause. Shorties Film Night will take place at 6 p.m.…

Mamma Mia!
Music

Mamma Mia!

October 27, 2014

ABBA MANIA, a London West End stage group that recreates the super hits of Swedish disco-pop band Abba, will play a show at 7:30 p.m. today at the Community Concert…

New book offers Game of Thrones back story
Books

New book offers Game of Thrones back story

October 27, 2014

Author George R.R. Martin’s new book, The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones, a companion volume to Martin’s Ice and Fire…

Review: Sting’s ‘The Last Ship’ is thrilling stuff
Performing Arts

Review: Sting’s ‘The Last Ship’ is thrilling stuff

October 27, 2014

Michael Esper, left, and Fred Applegate, in a scene from the play, “The Last Ship.”Associated Press photo/Sam Rudy Media Relations, Joan Marcus Such are the foot-stomping, testosterone-filled feelings that emerge…

Johnny Marr returns to rock roots on ‘Playland’
Music

Johnny Marr returns to rock roots on ‘Playland’

October 27, 2014

British singer Johnny Marr performs at Camp Bestival in England. The former guitarist for The Smiths has just released his second solo album, “Playland.”Photo by Jim Ross/Invision/AP, file The former…

New Mexico wants home of noted artist recognized
Arts and Entertainment

New Mexico wants home of noted artist recognized

October 24, 2014

New Mexico preservation officials are pushing for the home and studios of Luis Jimenez to be added to the National Register of Historic Properties.Associated Press photo/Dick George via The Corpus…

‘Little Dancer’ musical readies for opening in DC
Arts and Entertainment

‘Little Dancer’ musical readies for opening in DC

October 24, 2014

The Little Dancer Company visits the “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” sculpture by Edgar Degas at the National Gallery of in Art in Washington.Associated Press photo/The Kennedy Center The production imagines…

The Weekender
Arts and Entertainment

The Weekender

October 23, 2014

Some top picks of things to do this weekend in Durango

Arts Briefs
Arts and Entertainment

Arts Briefs

October 23, 2014

Three Springs invites the community to its eighth annual Fall Festival from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at 175 Mercado Street. The event will include trick or treating, face painting, cupcake…

Review: John Wick
Film

Review: John Wick

October 23, 2014

With much of the marketplace distracted by awards contenders and the seasonal onslaught of horror offerings, “John Wick” may find an opening to start building some seriously sustained momentum with…

Review: St. Vincent
Film

Review: St. Vincent

October 23, 2014

If “St. Vincent” writer-director Ted Melfi hadn’t somehow landed the notoriously elusive Murray for the lead, this film easily could have slipped from sentimental to mawkish, from heartwarming to shamelessly…

Movies playing in Durango Oct. 24-30
Film

Movies playing in Durango Oct. 24-30

October 23, 2014

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) My Old lady. Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he…

A&E Happenings Oct. 24-30
Arts and Entertainment

A&E Happenings Oct. 24-30

October 23, 2014

“Evening of the Dead” opening reception, 5-9 p.m., Studio &, 1027 Main Ave., a group art show honoring the past, www.anddurango.com. “An Enduring Wilderness” opening reception, 5-7 p.m., Durango Arts…

‘One Day Like This’
Performing Arts

‘One Day Like This’

October 23, 2014

The Fort Lewis College Concert Choir – seen here during a recent rehearsal at Roshong Recital Hall – will perform an encore of Charissa Chiaravalloti’s much buzzed-about original, “Grace,” today…