Arts & Entertainment

Ambition and emotion run high in ‘Rent’

Everything about this show is big. The subject matter is big and heavy – enduring love, heartbreaking loss, sexuality, addiction,…

August 27, 2015

Visual Arts

Oh, the kitsch these days!

Rachael Anderson and Minna Jain explore practical art at Studio &.

August 27, 2015

Film

Review: No Escape

“No Escape” is an outlandish, sometimes brutally violent, exploitative, fast-paced white-knuckler featuring your classic American everyman who suddenly develops action-hero…

August 27, 2015

Film

Review: We Are Your Friends

Much of “We Are Your Friends” plays like an electronic dance music update of a very good John Travolta movie…

August 27, 2015

Film

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 28-Sept. 3

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Amy Despite just two albums to her name, Amy Winehouse is one of the…

August 27, 2015

Music

Billboard poll asks executives whether they believe allegations against Kesha or Dr. Luke

Last year, Kesha filed a lawsuit against Dr. Luke, whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald, in which she alleged that…

August 24, 2015

Music

No matter what comes next, One Direction has cemented a place in music history

Members of One Direction, from left, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Niall Horan, wave during an…

August 24, 2015

Visual Arts

Trash and treasure: The art of the dumpster

One woman’s quest to bring art to unexpected places and people, one dumpster at a time

August 20, 2015

Film

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 21-27

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Blazing Saddles (Wednesday only) Vulgar, crude and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this…

August 20, 2015

Film

Review: Hitman: Agent 47

Rupert Friend is half-man half-machine in “Hitman: Agent 47.”Reiner Bajo/Twentieth Century Fox via Associated Press Not for a second does…

August 20, 2015

Film

Review: American Ultra

Jesse Eisenberg, left, and Kristen Stewart star in “American Ultra.”Alan Markfield/Lionsgate via Associated Press So it’s one of the small…

August 20, 2015

Film

Review: Irrational Man

In the dark, wickedly funny and sometimes flat-out wiggy little number titled “Irrational Man,” Allen returns to an idea he…

August 13, 2015

Film

‘Straight Outta Compton’: An enlightening portrait of N.W.A.

Longtime admirers of the Los Angeles ensemble, who helped create West Coast gangsta rap with their confrontational lyrics and defiant,…

August 13, 2015

Film

Review: The Stanford Prison Experiment

In the chilling and conversation-provoking “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” Crudup delivers his usual excellent work, this time dramatizing the real-life…

August 13, 2015

Film

Review: The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Like the “Mission: Impossible” film franchise, “The Man From U.N.C.L.E” is based on a Cold War-era television series created in…

August 13, 2015

Film

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 14-20

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Irrational Man When a burned-out, brilliant professor – one who believes in lessons from…

August 13, 2015

Film

FX boss: There’s ‘too much television’ with decline ahead

John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks & FX Productions, noted that last year the total of original scripted TV series…

August 11, 2015

Film

What Stephen Colbert says about Trump as opening night nears

Stephen Colbert participates in “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” segment of the CBS Summer TCA Tour at the Beverly…

August 11, 2015

Music

Women push for equality, and quality, in country music

Tae Dye, left, and Maddie Marlow, of the musical group Maddie & Tae, perform at the CMT Music Awards in…

August 11, 2015

Film

Review: Fantastic Four

They’ve got croissants in a basket and coffee in fancy white china cups. What’s that about? Are they mocking the…

August 6, 2015

Film

Review: Shaun the Sheep Movie

Fans of the British television series that inspired the film will not be surprised by this. The adventures of the…

August 6, 2015

Film

Review: The Gift

Australian actor Joel Edgerton (“Exodus: Gods and Kings,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Warrior”) harkens back to those films (as well as…

August 6, 2015

Film

In ‘Amy,’ the singer Amy Winehouse comes into clear, unsettling focus

Here’s another convenient buzzword: trainwreck. As most people familiar with her signature beehive hairstyle and dramatic cat-eye makeup know, Winehouse,…

August 6, 2015

Film

Review: Ricki and the Flash

When one thinks about Streep’s incredible body of work, her singing doesn’t immediately come to mind. But over the past…

August 6, 2015