Arts Briefs for May 10
The Durango Public Library will offer a class focusing on basic iPad skills from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. May 17. The class will cover downloading free ebooks and audiobooks from…
The Durango Public Library will offer a class focusing on basic iPad skills from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. May 17. The class will cover downloading free ebooks and audiobooks from…
President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, arrive at Dallas Airport on Nov. 22, 1963, shortly before the president was assassinated. PBS says its fall schedule will include…
Steve Carell answers a fan question at “The Office” Wrap Party on May 4 at PNC Field in Scranton, Pa. The actors who play Pam, Jim, Dwight and other beloved…
Robert Gentile, 76, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in November to illegally selling prescription drugs and possessing guns, silencers and ammunition. With credit for time already served and good behavior, Gentile…
Opposition explodes on social media
Downtown galleries welcome spring with annual fête
‘Your Mama’s a Superhero’ celebrates inner, outer beauty of Mom
(1120 Main Ave., 259-7940, www.thebackspacetheatre.org) Hysteria. HHH Dr. Robert Dalrymple makes a fascinating discovery in Victorian England that makes him very popular with the ladies of the day. I’ll leave…
The better tracks (HH½ out of four), though, are the ones that don’t self-consciously try to evoke Gatsby’s period. Gotye’s “Hearts a Mess” is the clear standout, reconfirming his melodic,…
Fiction 1. The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout (Random House) 2. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books) 3. The Hit by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing) 4.…
Revelers are led by professional dancers as DJ Afrojack plays his mixes at the XS nightclub in Las Vegas on Jan. 20. XS is the top-earning nightclub in the country,…
Library to host digital copies of records from island home
Set designer’s touch sets ‘Little Mermaid’ apart
VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave, Atria Books, by Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn with Gavin Edwards, 336 pages hardcover, $25.Atria Books Video jockeys…
Early Bird Karaoke, 3-7 p.m.; also 8 p.m.-close, 8th Avenue Tavern, 509 East Eighth Ave., 259-8801. Ska-B-Q with The Assortment, 5 p.m., Ska Brewing Co., 225 Girard St., 247-5792, www.skabrewing.com.…
Kellydu1-i-syn Kelly, half of the 1990s teen rap duo Kriss Kross, was found dead Wednesday of a suspected drug overdose. Kellys mother, Donna Kelly Pratte, 54, and his uncle, Lamar…
Karen Skelly with Karen Skelly Photography will share her secrets to taking better images during the next Womens Resource Center Empowerment Workshop at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Lost Dog Bar…
Johnny Depp, who plays Tonto in the upcoming film “The Lone Ranger,” speaks to theater owners and media April 17 as director Gore Verbinski looks on during the Walt Disney…
(1120 Main Ave., 259-7940, www.thebackspacetheatre.org) Hysteria. HHH Dr. Robert Dalrymple makes a fascinating discovery in Victorian England that makes him very popular with the ladies of the day. Ill leave…
Ronnie Milsap was part of a star-studded lineup who performed Thursday at the funeral for country music star George Jones in the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tenn. Jones…
Long ago, when I asked my 5-year-old son what he was painting, he said, The whole world. And he was. He was expressing his inner experience of home, neighborhood and…
The Cyndi Lauper-Harvey Fierstein collaboration “Kinky Boots received 13 nominations for next month’s Tony Awards.Matthew Murphy/The O+M Co./Associated Press “Kinky Boots” is based on the 2005 British movie about a…
“Giant,” based on the 1952 Edna Ferber novel of the same name, made it’s off-Broadway premiere at the Public Theater this winter, and “Hands on a Hardbody,” a show with…
“Kinky Boots” and “Matilda” are each a virtual lock to get a Tony Award nomination today for best musical, and each show will be eager to capture as many nods…
STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald – DURANGO – 04/20/13 – From left: Paige Moore, 12, Brook Gauthier, 13, Sierra Heller, 16, and Ruth Dickson, 10, practice in the Dance in the Rockies…