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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

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is an escapist rom-com delight, but it’s also a lot more than that

“Crazy Rich Asians,” the hotly anticipated film based on Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel, won’t disappoint fans who have been counting down the days till its arrival, like so many daisy peta...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Durango Arts Center presents musical for our fractured time

“Next to Normal,” the bracing American musical about how one family member’s mental illness impacts everyone in the group, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2010. At the time, ...

DATE: Aug 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

‘BlacKkKlansman’ Spike Lee’s best movie in years

Among Spike Lee’s prodigious filmmaking talents, opening sequences are perhaps his most distinctive. He creates ambitious, operatic overtures for his films, mini-movies that introduce viewer...

DATE: Aug 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Queen of Soul’ had feature role in Durangoan’s film

Aretha Franklin played Mother Nature in ‘Snow Monsters’

DATE: Aug 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Aretha Franklin, music’s ‘Queen of Soul,’ dies at 76

Aretha Franklin, whose exceptionally expressive singing about joy and pain and faith and liberation earned the Detroit diva a permanent and undisputed title – the “Queen of Soul” – died Aug....

DATE: Aug 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Aerosmith to launch residency in Las Vegas next year

NEW YORK – Aerosmith is the latest act to head to Las Vegas to launch a residency. The rock band announced Wednesday that “Aerosmith: Deuces are Wild” would kick off April 6, 2019...

DATE: Aug 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

YouTube criticized for showing terrifying horror movie ad that viewers couldn’t click away from

The YouTube ad begins with a volume sign, its familiar white bar dancing left then right before finally switching to mute. For one second, there is only the mute sign against a black backgro...

DATE: Aug 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 17-23

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Yerma (1 p.m. Sunday only) A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a ...

DATE: Aug 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

How Aretha Franklin’s ‘Respect’ became an anthem for civil rights and feminism

It was Valentine’s Day 1967 when Aretha Franklin sat down at a piano in the Atlantic Records studio in New York and recorded “Respect.” The Queen of Soul, now gravely ill, took th...

DATE: Aug 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Chronicling the culinary world of the Navajo

‘Food Sovereignty’ offers recipes, history

DATE: Aug 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Books

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.