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Beyond the Bridge welcomes new esthetician

Trina Lone is a new esthetician at Beyond the Bridge. Lone brings seven years of experience, offering microdermabrasion with botanical facial, dermaplaning, chemical peels, eyela...

DATE: Sep 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Wine cellars moving up from basement

Many of them are now high-end living spaces

DATE: Sep 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Manhattan renters win as prices stay steady

Manhattan’s traditional peak apartment-leasing season wrapped up in August with no rent growth for landlords, a sign that their ability to push up costs may wane further in the coming months...

DATE: Sep 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Finding recycled building materials can be challenging

Recycled construction materials can help cut costs for builders

DATE: Sep 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Ski Town Computing opens on Main

Apple store specialist can repair iPhones, iPads, watches

DATE: Sep 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Building wealth – the old-fashioned and difficult way

The way most Americans build wealth is no secret: save, invest, repeat. How average people keep their wealth, though, gets a lot less attention. It boils down to how they handle r...

DATE: Sep 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Businesses invited to trade office open house

A Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade open house will be held 9 a.m.-noon Sept. 16 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds, 2500 Main Ave. Businesses can m...

DATE: Sep 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Devin Feeney joins FredrickZink & Associates

Devin Feeney has joined FredrickZink & Associates. He recently graduated from Fort Lewis College, where he obtained a bachelorâ€™s in business administration with an emphasis in ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Nonprofit funding available from Realtors group

The Durango Area Association of Realtors has funding available for local nonprofit organizations in need. Requests are being accepted for nonprofit organizations within La Plata a...

DATE: Sep 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

ServSafe manager certification training to be held

A ServSafe comprehensive food safety training for food service managers and cottage foods producers will be held from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 28 and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sept. 29 in the Florida Room of...

DATE: Sep 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

First National Bank announces new hires

First National Bank of Durango has announced the following new employees: Marianne Powell is a loan operations imaging specialist. Powell attended Fort Lewis College and previousl...

DATE: Sep 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Overtime rules workshop coming soon

The Durango Chamber of Commerce has announced an overtime rules workshop at 9 a.m. Sept. 21 at the Durango Public Libaray, 1900 East Third Ave. Information on the new Fair Labor ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Business

Colorado history gets weird, wild, wacky at Fashion Do’s and Don’tsAnnual Snowdown event has become so popular, auditions are now required

Cowboys. Fancy ladies. Gold miners. Even-toed ungulates that some in Durango might consider more like rats.Where can you find a runway show that takes you on a whirlwind tour through the weird, wacky and wildly exaggerated 150 years of Colorado history? Only at Durango’s annual Fashion Do’s and Don’ts, held Wednesday, where models and audience members donned costumes celebrating Colorado’s sesquicentennial – the theme of this year’s two-week Snowdown celebration.Standout acts included the Ghosts of Durango, which featured four of Durango’s most famous ghosts: a Rochester hotel ghost in a Victorian get-up of a more “modern” variation; the Strater Hotel’s head of housekeeping, also head of more discreet services; a young girl haunting El Rancho bathroom; and Sheriff Bob Thompson, killed in a 1906 gunfight. according to emcee Suzan Lane. A Another act was the secret circus society, featuring Rubi Starr, Jeni Gross, Tabatha Joy Bettin, Adrienne Young and Ethan Deffenbaugh dressed as a car and the roadside pests better known as deer. Group members said the inspiration for the costume came from lived experiences driving the Durango roads. The two-person Cantine Couture act starred Leslie Ponce and Tyler Frakes in an homage to the plentiful variety of Mexican restaurants found in any Colorado town. Ponce, dressed in comically large Mexican pointy cowboy boots, ambled down the runway as if taking a stroll under the hot, dusty, high-altitude sun, while Frakes flitted about the stage in a bright yellow salsa dress. Ponce said this years costume had been tough to decide, but the final decision was inspired by TikTok videos of Mexican cowboys in pointy boots. This was the duo’s third year strutting down the runway. Why they keep coming back for more, Frakes said laughing, was, “for the fame, the glory and the attention.”

Fashion Do’s and Don'ts has been one of the most highly anticipated Snowdown events since it’s inception in the 1990s. It has more than doubled in size over the past several decades. Last year, there were a record number of models, and in order to keep the event at a manageable size, this years fashion show was the first one to require the acts to audition. But many of the models were unphased by the change. “It was actually easy,” said Jodi Zuber, one part of the two-person duo that made up the 1950s Texas Invader Ski Couple. Her partner-in-costume, Danny Jaques, said they had been doing this for several years, and it’s good with everything going on in the world to “get some levity and let your hair down.” The performers were not the only ones in costume. Audience members also dressed in a wide variety of unique takes on what makes Colorado, Colorado. JonBenet Ramsey made a miraculous appearance, being played by an 82-year-old woman, as did Casa Bonita, an ensemble that included a taco, sopaipilla and gorilla in chains – to name some of the characters. By the end of the show, people were in high spirits, as usual. “It was just delightful,” said a first-time audience member. If blessed with the chance to get the much coveted tickets – he said he would jump on it. jbowman@durangoherald.com

Annual Snowdown event has become so popular, auditions are now required

Photos: Snowdown 2026 Fashion Do’s and Don’ts

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

About a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

The Durango Herald’s year in photos 2025

Photos: Chapman Hill fires up the snow guns