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Friday Dolores Quilt Show, 9 a.m., Dolores Community Center, 400 Riverside Ave., Dolores. Preschool story time, 10:30 a.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 37...

DATE: Aug 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Steven Tyler sends cease-and-desist to Trump for use of song

BOSTON – Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is again demanding that President Donald Trump stop using the band’s songs at rallies. Tyler’s attorney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ...

DATE: Aug 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Grammy-winning country star Gretchen Wilson arrested

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. – Grammy-winning country music star Gretchen Wilson has been arrested at a Connecticut airport after what was described as a minor disturbance on an incoming flight. ...

DATE: Aug 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Netflix draws flak for show about Mexico City elites

Netflix’s new reality show in Mexico hasn’t even premiered yet and already it’s garnering plenty of attention – a lot of it negative. Netflix announced Monday that “Made In Mexico...

DATE: Aug 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Argento denies sexual assault, says Bourdain made payment

NEW YORK – Two days after a report detailed an accusation of sexual assault against #MeToo activist Asia Argento, the Italian actress and filmmaker said she never had a sexual relationship w...

DATE: Aug 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Danny Boyle departs James Bond over ‘creative differences’

NEW YORK – The next James Bond movie has lost its director. Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, along with star Daniel Craig, announced Tuesday that Danny Boyle...

DATE: Aug 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: ‘Alpha’ is a boy-meets-wolf love story

Sweet, strange and at times slightly scary, the ice age fable “Alpha” tells the origin story of man’s best friend. You could call it “Dog Zero,” for the way it portrays the first wild wolf t...

DATE: Aug 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 24-30

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) NTLive: Macbeth (1 p.m. Sunday only.) Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy explores the dam...

DATE: Aug 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

At VMAs, Madonna gets backlash after bizarre Aretha Franklin tribute

After Aretha Franklin died last week, MTV’s Video Music Awards producers scrambled to plan a tribute that would air during the network’s annual telecast on Monday night. The stakes were high...

DATE: Aug 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Aretha Franklin, secret style icon: With the drop of a fur coat, she proclaimed her self-worth

No one could drop a fur like Aretha Franklin. When she was performing, she didn’t slither out of her mink or her chinchilla as though she was doing a flirtatious little striptease...

DATE: Aug 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Bolo ties gallop back on runways, Instagram

Bolo ties, the official neckwear of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, and the ne plus ultra for the Western cowboy for more than 60 years, are having a moment on fashionable young necks. In Par...

DATE: Aug 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Riders in the Sky moseying to Durango

‘America’s Favorite Cowboys’ to play two nights at Bar D Chuckwagon

DATE: Aug 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Photos: Thousands take to the streets for ‘No Kings’ march and rally in Durango

Photos: Navajo Trail OpenFriday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Friday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.