Arts & Entertainment

Books

Tapping the wisdom of weeds

Durango forager pens book on unlikely edibles

December 1, 2014

Books

A U.S. military novel on honor, duty, depravity

Relocation of Native Americans follows a dark path – with sliver of light

December 1, 2014

Visual Arts

Our people, places and culture

“Durango City Limits,” a juried photography competition with a focus on the people, places and culture of Durango, opened Monday…

December 1, 2014

Books

Richard Jefferies, rediscovered

Brooke and Terry Tempest Williams to discuss new book project at DAC

December 1, 2014

Film

Strayed to try screenplays after ‘Wild’ experience

Reese Witherspoon and author Cheryl Strayed are seen at the premiere of “Wild” in London.Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP The author…

December 1, 2014

Film

Fans go wild over 88-second ‘Star Wars’ teaser

A short trailer for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” has electrified franchise fans since it hit the web on Friday.Associated…

November 30, 2014

Visual Arts

Meet sociologist and author Sarah Thornton, the Jane Goodall of the art world

To get the stories about artists, author Sarah Thornton becomes a silent observer.Washington Post/Linda Davidson “Does it still smell?” Thornton…

November 30, 2014

Music

She & Him talk about orchestra, new album

Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward pick songs that stick out

November 27, 2014

Books

Local authors become booksellers for a day

Maria’s to host Indies First event

November 27, 2014

Film

Review: Horrible Bosses 2

Having haplessly tried to murder their bosses in the first “Horrible Bosses,” Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis return…

November 27, 2014

Film

Review: Penguins of Madagascar

Parodying his own work and documentary films’ obsession with the flightless birds, the German filmmaker gives an auspiciously clever start…

November 27, 2014

Film

Movies playing in Durango Nov. 28-Dec. 4

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Birdman. A black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) –…

November 27, 2014

Performing Arts

Rare Shakespeare Folio discovered in French town

The accidental discovery in the small library in northern France of an original first folio of William Shakespeare’s plays –…

November 26, 2014

Film

Witherspoon goes on a soul-baring ride in ‘Wild’

Reese Witherspoon in a scene from “Wild,” which opens in U.S. theaters on Dec. 5.Associated Press photo/Fox Searchlight Pictures, Anne…

November 26, 2014

Books

Reading Harry Potter gives clues to brain activity

Scott Kurdilla, a medical research technologist at Carnegie Mellon University, waits for a volunteer for a brain scan experiment on…

November 26, 2014

Film

‘Birdman’ leads Spirit Awards nominations

Diego Luna, left, and Rosario Dawson announce the nominations for the 30th Annual Independent Spirit Award Nominations at a press…

November 25, 2014

Visual Arts

Bartholomeus Spranger’s wild, weird and voluptuous art at the Met

“Hercules and Omphale” (circa 1585) is among the paintings in a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art billed as…

November 25, 2014

Music

Opera ovation

Soloists Cory McKern, left, and Gemma Kavanagh were among the roughly 150 musicians who took the stage for the San…

November 25, 2014

Music

From Durango to Carnegie Hall

DHS violinist selected for elite honors performance

November 24, 2014

Books

Calling all members of the Legion of Ska

After two decades, brewery releases comic book

November 24, 2014

Books

Sustained by brief blaze of glory

Jerry Lee Lewis has found the ideal biographer in Rick Bragg

November 24, 2014

Books

Exclusive: Letter that inspired Kerouac found

Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac, right, and his friend and fellow Beat author Neal Cassady are depicted in a mural…

November 24, 2014

Visual Arts

Idaho artist’s life illustrated the term ‘self-taught’

Idaho artist James Castle in an undated photo.Courtesy of James Castle Collection and Archive “We don’t have a lot of…

November 24, 2014

Film

Movies playing in Durango Nov. 21-Nov. 27

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Pride It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National…

November 20, 2014