Arts & Entertainment

Music

A percussive Pennington evening

Former FLC professor returns for recital

October 22, 2015

Music

Lawn Chair Kings: ‘Sometimes … sustained feedback might occur’

Alt-country band discusses 15-year evolution

October 22, 2015

Visual Arts

Repurposed children’s toys explore the dark sides of childhood

Patti Singer’s sculptures using repurposed children’s toys explore under-examined and uncomfortable aspects of childhood

October 22, 2015

Film

How ‘Star Wars, Episode VII’ explains all the great cultural debates of our time

And while I may well do some modified version of this (suggestions are flying fast and furious on Twitter), I…

October 22, 2015

Film

Aaron Sorkin doesn’t want people calling the Steve Jobs biopic a biopic

Michael Fassbender stars as Steve Jobs in a scene from the film, “Steve Jobs.”Universal Pictures “Maybe they should have called…

October 19, 2015

Film

Eddie Murphy briefly returns to stand-up at Twain Prize ceremony

Eddie Murphy presents the award for best original screenplay at the Oscars in February. Murphy received the Mark Twain Prize…

October 19, 2015

Music

Adele is playing the long game, and it’s working brilliantly

Four years after her last album, the singer Adele appears to have teased British television viewers with a snippet of…

October 19, 2015

Performing Arts

Putting a new face on ‘Otello’

FLC to broadcast live Met production of ‘Otello’ Oct. 24

October 15, 2015

Performing Arts

What’s it like to perform the same play 84 times, 6 nights a week for nearly 4 months?

From top left, Jason Lythgoe, Caitlin Cannon and Geoff Johnson perform in “Guitar Strings, a Cowboy and a Lost Peacock,”…

October 15, 2015

Film

Review: Learning to Drive

As the film opens, Clarkson’s character, a New York book reviewer named Wendy, is being dumped by her husband of…

October 15, 2015

Film

Review: Crimson Peak

After a prologue set in Buffalo, where the dashing English baronet Sir Thomas Sharpe (Hiddleston) has wooed and wed a…

October 15, 2015

Film

Review: Bridge of Spies

To wit: “Bridge of Spies.” About 40 years into his career and still a master of his craft (a few…

October 15, 2015

Film

Review: Goosebumps

Based on the series of children’s horror stories by R.L. Stine, the big-screen adaptation of “Goosebumps” has been a long…

October 15, 2015

Film

Movies playing in Durango Oct. 16-22

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Slapshot (Wednesday only) Paul Newman plays Reggie Dunlop, the coach of a pathetic minor-league…

October 15, 2015

Film

Actress Ellen Page just doesn’t care how straight men perceive her

Actress Ellen Page came out in February 2014 in an emotional speech delivered at the Human Rights Campaign’s Time to…

October 12, 2015

Books

Tom Petty was a heroin addict in the ’90s. Here’s why he’s finally talking about it

Tom Petty performs during the Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Tour 2014 at the Cruzan Amphitheater on September 20, 2014…

October 12, 2015

Performing Arts

Comedy and drama, 10 minutes at a time

10-Minute Festival culminates with five, fully-staged, bite-sized plays

October 8, 2015

Music

Guest conductor Richardson leads San Juan Symphony in style

Blake Richardson, guest conductor, right, and cellist Inbal Segev perform with the San Juan Symphony Oct. 3 at Fort Lewis…

October 8, 2015

Film

Review: The Walk

It also might help if you learn how to ride a unicycle, juggle, tumble, achieve pure excellence in the art…

October 8, 2015

Film

Review: Pan

So much for yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum. Inserting a grunge anthem into a tale that’s been transplanted from…

October 8, 2015

Film

Movies playing in Durango Oct. 9-15

(128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Beetlejuice (Wednesday only) Thanks to the carelessness of a cute little dog, newlyweds Geena…

October 8, 2015

Film

Hillary Clinton attempts to declaw ‘Saturday Night Live’

Kate McKinnon, left, portrays Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, portrays Val, appear during the “Bar Talk” sketch…

October 5, 2015

Film

The ups and downs of Matt Damon’s highly unfortunate press tour for ‘The Martian’

Matt Damon poses for a portrait in promotion of his upcoming role in “The Martian” at the 2015 Toronto International…

October 5, 2015

Film

Review: Sicario

Nonsense. The war is over and drugs won, and now we’re just trying to prevent the fire from consuming us.…

October 1, 2015