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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

I would have ignored ‘Insatiable,’ but your outrage made it seem interesting. (It wasn’t.)

Had things gone normally, I wouldn’t have given Netflix’s “Insatiable” – a ghastly dramedy about a manipulative Georgia teenager who gets swept into the melodramatic vortex of the local beau...

DATE: Aug 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

This rom-com for dog lovers is entertaining, but it has some ﬂeas

A galumphing comedy offered as a balm for the late summer doldrums, “Dog Days” crossbreeds romantic clichés with cute canines and inspired bits of offbeat humor. As a mutt, it possesses a ce...

DATE: Aug 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

An artist found a parasitic worm in his eye – and turned it into art

The painting was not an image of anything in particular, just an abstract confluence of psychedelic colors and wormlike patterns inside a perfectly round circle. Ben Taylor didn’t like it mu...

DATE: Aug 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

‘Meg’ is big but has no teeth

Notwithstanding its obvious similarities to a certain summer-of-’75 blockbuster about a great white shark, the new “Jaws”-on-steroids thriller “The Meg” – about a 75-foot shark – may remind...

DATE: Aug 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Bringing Pokemon to Durango

10-year-old player wants to grow the card game locally

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Dolores Mountain Quilters Guild’s show to be held Aug. 24-25

The Dolores Mountain Quilters Guild plans to hold its 2018 biennial quilt show Aug. 24-25 at the Dolores Community Center. Show times are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 24 and 9 a.m. to 4 ...

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Sweetwater Station to performs at Mancos State Park

Park restarts music series as fire threat declines

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Music

Arts Calendar

Friday Preschool story time, 10:30 a.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., 375-3380. Kids Summer Reading Program: Caregiver Cafe, 11 a.m., Pine River Library, 3...

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

A revamped Oscars

LOS ANGELES – The Oscars are adding a new category to honor popular films and promising a brisk 3-hour ceremony and a much earlier air date in 2020. John Bailey, the newly re-elec...

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

A musical prelude from out of the 416 Fire’s ashes

Gordon Thomas brings together music and photography to commemorate firefighters

DATE: Aug 9, 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.