Film
‘The Irish Pub’: Pouring pints as a public service
Documentary taps into country’s culture through bars
Arts & Entertainment
Books
40 years later, Power Broker is standard reading
Author and biographer Robert Allan Caro’ 1,300-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography The Power Broker was published 40 years ago.Associated Press photo/Bebeto Matthews, File “It had a profound effect on me,” says…
Arts and Entertainment
Dancing priests become Internet sensation
AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File<br><br>A video of father David Rider, left, and father John Gibson dancing has gone viral. The Rev. David Rider, 29, of Hyde Park, New York, and the…
Arts and Entertainment
Annie Lennox embraces jazzy ‘Nostalgia’
Musician Annie Lennox tried her hand at reinventing jazz standards on her new CD “Nostalgia.”Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP The former Eurythmics star sat down – slowly and deliberately – with…
Arts and Entertainment
Still the same: Bob Seger launching tour, album
At 69, Bob Seger just released a new album and is preparing to go back on the road.Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP “I think I’m in pretty good shape,” Seger said…
Arts and Entertainment
‘Disgraced’ star Josh Radnor – ‘a 24-hour thinker’
Actor Josh Radnor, star of the television sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” is now on Broadway in Ayad Akhtar’s “Disgraced.”Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Radnor is on Broadway in Ayad…
Music
The legacy (and return) of Sleater-Kinney, once America’s best rock band
This week Sub Pop releases “Start Together,” a limited-edition vinyl boxed set that contains all seven studio albums by Sleater-Kinney. It’s a body of work that spans 1995-2005 and ranks…
Film
Cost of making ‘Hobbit’ movies up to $745 million
Peter Jackson is seen at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Jackson’s is directing the movie trilogy “The Hobbit,” which continues to set new benchmarks for studio…
Arts and Entertainment
From Kors to DVF, fashion mourns de la Renta
Designer Oscar de la Renta, right, and model Karlie Kloss backstage before the presentation of the Oscar de la Renta Spring 2013 collection at Fashion Week in New York.Associated Press…
Music
Vega to bring folk vibe to Durango
Suzanne Vega will play a show in Durango on Thursday.Photo courtesy of Community Concert Hall Vega, who shot to fame in the late ‘80s before becoming a Lilith Fair staple,…
Arts and Entertainment
India, unposed
In the summer of 2013, Craig Semetko was one of 10 photographers worldwide invited by Leica Camera to take part in an exhibition celebrating its 100-year anniversary. Semetko ended up…
Arts and Entertainment
Gray Mountain won’t disappoint Grisham fans
John Grisham has written one of his best legal dramas in years with Gray Mountain.Associated Press photo/Doubleday John Grisham has been writing legal thrillers and dramas that resonate with readers…
Arts and Entertainment
A musical avant-gardist is back where she belongs
Nika Roza Danilova – the musical avant-gardist who performs under the moniker Zola Jesus – is so intertwined with art and spectacle that her planned performance last year at Washington’s…
Visual Arts
Exhibition probes the mystery of Sherlock Holmes
Curator Timothy Long is silhouetted as he poses for photographers with a Sherlock Holmes style pipe and deerstalker hat beside an internal window forming part of the exhibition “Sherlock Holmes:…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts Briefs
The Fort Lewis College Environmental Center will present its 13th annual REEL Environmental Film Experience on Thursday at the Smiley Auditorium with a screening of “DamNation.” Doors open at 5…
Film
For Rogen, Hilarity charity is serious business
Actor/writer Seth Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller Rogen lead Hilarity for Charity, a movement established with the Alzheimer’s Association to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s Disease.Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP “It’s…
Books
TV pioneer and sitcom king Norman Lear pens a book
Associated Press photo/Penguin Press<br><br>Even THIS I Get to Experience is a new a memoir by Norman Lear. Lear’s father Herman – by turns flamboyant, loutish, charming and downright criminal, and…
Film
Review: The Book of Life
Bookended by amusing contemporary segments in which a sassy museum tour guide (Christina Applegate) hosts a group of skeptical school kids, the story concerns the romantic triangle among the free-spirited…
Film
Review: Fury
Ayer, a veteran of the Navy and L.A. crime films like “Training Day” and “End of Watch,” wants to make it clear from the start that he’s making a film…
Film
Movies playing in Durango Oct. 17-23
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Once Chance The remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by…
Performing Arts
Funnier than Congress?
The Capitol Steps, the only comedy troupe in America that attempts to be funnier than the United States Congress, will return to Durango for a show at 7:30 p.m. Saturday…
Downtown Lowdown
The only thing in D.C. funnier than Congress
Its foibles, faults and blunders are at the least frustrating and the most infuriating, yet they remain commonplace in the decisions made by mostly white men that should be guiding…
Arts and Entertainment
Arts briefs
The Fort Lewis College concert band and jazz ensemble will present the fall band concert, “Geographies” at 7 p.m. Monday at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000…
Arts and Entertainment
A&E Happenings Oct. 17-23
Employee Arts Showcase, 4:30-6 p.m., Pine River Valley Bank, Bayfield branch, 301 Commerce Drive, 884-9583. Cannondolls, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Greg Ryder, 6 p.m., 6512’…
Arts and Entertainment
Cracks in facade of the American Dream
FLC presents Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’
Music
Afroman releases pro-legalization remix of ‘Because I Got High’
Associated Press photo/Shawn Baldwin<br><br>Rapper Joseph Foreman, aka Afroman, has rejuvenated his weed anthem “Because I got High” to raise awareness for marijuana legalization efforts. In the case of Afroman, the…