Nicholas Carr’s new book, The Glass Cage: Automation and Us, is an absorbing look at humankind’s growing reliance on automation.Associates Pressphoto/W. W. Norton & Company I haven’t needed to memorize…
John Mellencamp just released his 22nd album, “Plain Spoken.”Photo by Amy Sussman/Invision/AP That they’re both dead doesn’t really matter. Mellencamp believes in channeling, that other voices speak through him when…
Actress Lena Dunham’s new book, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s ‘Learned,’ was released Tuesday.Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file “I think I may be…
Lucinda Williams’ new album, “Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone,” is a testament to the power of patience and a good guitar solo.Associated Press photo/Highway 20 Records “Have compassion…
Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering makes women the focus
The New York Film Critic Series continues at 3:45 p.m. Thursday at the Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive, with a screening of “Gone Girl.” The David Fincher film…
Community Cinema begins Wednesday with ‘Women in Space’
Maddox did well over five years of investigating the brothers by combing through libraries, newspaper archives, Fort Lewis College documents and interviewing family members. There were many conflicting accounts of…
Terry Hartzel, 5:30 p.m., Diamond Belle Saloon, 699 Main Ave., 247-4431. Informal Tango Practice, 6-9 p.m., Rotary Park Gazebo, 1565 East Second Ave., www.tangodurango.com. Super Ted’s Super Trivia Night, 6:12…
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke was busy torquing the architecture of both on Friday when he suddenly released his second solo album, “Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes,” through BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer software system…
On Tuesday, Prince will release his first album in four years, “Art Official Age,” along with music from his latest protege act, 3RDEYEGIRL, “PLECTRUMELECTRUM.”Associated Press photo/NPG Records There are few…
Chris Taylor mines the history and culture of the “Star Wars” franchise in his new book, How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion…
Actress Elizabeth McGovern hands out flyers on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile to promote her band Sadie and the Hotheads. The group will launch its first U.S. tour Dec. 4 in Washington,…
Host John Oliver is seen on the set of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” in New York.Associated Press photo/HBO, Eric Liebowitz His subsequent report questioning the pageant’s scholarship program…
“A Place to Stand” is scheduled to be screened in Santa Fe on Saturday and follows the life of Baca from Estancia, New Mexico, to his time in the Arizona…
Alas, Washington doesn’t always choose big-screen roles similarly worthy of his unique talent. This is especially true of “The Equalizer,” a mediocre thriller that tries to establish the 59-year-old actor…
(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Wish I Was Here Director Zach Braff’s follow-up to his indie breakout hit “Garden State” tells the story of a thirtysomething man who finds…
The self-stylized descendants of the Brothers Grimm and Neil Gaiman (whose “Coraline” they adapted for their first of three features), Laika seems to yearn for a little more darkness, a…
Local photographer Paul Pennington’s work is included in the September/October issue of Orion Magazine. A photo of Pennington’s will be featured in the magazine’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of…
John Two-Hawks, a Grammy-nominated Native American flute artist, will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave. Two-Hawks will be playing the…
30th Anniversary Sidewalk Celebration, Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave., 247-1438. Manhattan Short Film Festival, 4 and 6:30 p.m., Animas City Theatre, 128 E. College Drive, tickets are $12 in advance…
Oscar season brings releases from Fincher, Falardeau and Nolan
“A Course in Miracles One Through Seven,” by Bradley Kachnowicz.Courtesy of 3rd Ave. Arts The festival is hosted by 3rd Ave. Arts, and all events take place at St. Mark’s…
Under the plan, the Forest Service would consider the nature of a proposed project before approving a special use permit then charge fees of up to $1,500 for commercial filming…
Terri Tacheny plays her harp as one of the gorillas stands nearby outside the Primate House at Como Zoo in St. Paul, Minn.AP photo/The Star Tribune, Elizabeth Flores Her solution:…
“It’s hard to have a name that no one can Google,” said Riley, who has his own search engine problems sharing a name with a multi-ringed pro basketball coach. Here’s…
Hugh Eakin, left, and Robert Silvers, in a scene from the documentary, “The Fifty Year Argument: An Inside Look at The New York Review of Books,” which airs on HBO…
Associated Press photo/Doubleday<br><br>Walter Mosley, author of Rose Gold, goes far beyond the gumshoe genre in his books. Walter Mosley evokes the curious turns of the Patty Hearst kidnapping saga and…
