Columnists - The Durango Herald

Gettin’ jazzy with it to support the hall

When you’re not a musician, actor, dancer or performer of some ilk, the odds of being under the spotlights on the stage at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College are slim and none....

DATE: Sep 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Local music offerings spilleth over

It’s feast or famine for local entertainment options. One weekend music fans, promoters and writers are dying for at least one thing to see, host or peck words about. Other weeke...

DATE: Sep 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Clubhouse Porch

Here we are at the end of another season of reporting on the golf scene in Southwest Colorado. We have gone through a successful changing of the guard at the Dalton Ranch Golf C...

DATE: Sep 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Clubhouse Porch

The Green Side of Life

After a 5 and a 6 the first two weeks of the regular season, a Steelers fan from Bayfield was as comfortable in Week 3 as a steel worker in Carolina. Doug Carman, aka steeler75, s...

DATE: Sep 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: The Green Side of Life

Sink your teeth into Apple Days

Freeze watch: Day 3 of autumn and still nothing. Not even a frost. Yes, the Durango area has received lots of rain – and mud, and rocks, and floating trash cans – but nights have...

DATE: Sep 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

These zombies are everywhere – and nowhere

Two young women sat down at the table next to mine in a restaurant. They began to talk, then one of them made the “wait-a-minute” gesture with her index finger. She pulled her ce...

DATE: Sep 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Your Ecological House

If you see a mountain lion, don’t act like prey

By Gary Skiba La Plata County Living with Wildlife Board Got deer? Most of us do, and where there are deer, there are almost always mountain lions in the vicinity. ...

DATE: Sep 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Living with Wildlife

Cogs, gears and goggles abound

Getting a jump on Snowdown 2015, Durango Friends of the Arts chose steampunk as its theme for its 2014 Luncheon and Fashion Show. It was a good education and a chance to create their outfits...

DATE: Sep 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Neighbors

Living on the Waiver Wire

Hello, Week 4 of the NFL. So long, for one week, to six NFL teams. Bye weeks always are one of the trickiest challenges to navigate during a fantasy football season. This week, pl...

DATE: Sep 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Living on the Waiver Wire

Garnier masters multidimensional manipulation

Gallic Books in London has translated another of Pascal Garnier’s little gems of noir fiction entitled Moon in a Dead Eye. It is a wonderfully eerie and darkly humorous account of the first ...

DATE: Sep 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Murder Ink

Action Line Health officials eschew any ideas of prairie dog platter

Could the next “Men Who Grill” feature prairie dogs as the main course? Being a localvore, I thought perhaps our free-range prairie dogs might be delicious if properly seasoned. There are ma...

DATE: Sep 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Action Line

1031 exchanges can be profitable for investors

The Internal Revenue Service provides a special provision for real estate investors called Internal Revenue Code 1031 exchanges. These exchanges allow an investor to sell one investment prop...

DATE: Sep 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: On Real Estate