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Netflix’s ‘Amanda Knox’ movie shows how the ‘crazy’ media coverage affected the case

There are many upsetting scenes in Netflix’s “Amanda Knox” documentary, which started streaming Friday. One smaller moment almost slips by unnoticed: Viewers hear audio of Knox’s mother visi...

DATE: Oct 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

National Gallery acquires rare 17th-century Dutch painting; will be on display starting Tuesday

WASHINGTON – Timing is everything. The National Gallery of Art will open an exhibition Tuesday featuring a rare 17th-century painting by Caspar Netscher that it acquired only last...

DATE: Oct 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

‘Folksong Festival’ radio host Oscar Brand dies at 96

LOS ANGELES – Oscar Brand, a longtime force on the American folk scene whose radio program “Folksong Festival” showcased Woody Guthrie and a young Bob Dylan among music greats and newcomers,...

DATE: Oct 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Van Gogh paintings stolen in 2002 found in Italian farmhouse

ROME – Police investigating suspected Italian mobsters for cocaine trafficking discovered two Van Gogh paintings hidden in a farmhouse near Naples, masterpieces that had vanished in 2002 dur...

DATE: Sep 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Arc of History rock will be auctioned online

Sculpture’s metal base will be sold to salvage company

DATE: Sep 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

They took Grandmaster Caz’s rhymes without giving him credit - now he’s getting revenge

NEW YORK - Grandmaster Caz, clutching a mic as the bus rambles toward Harlem, remembers when he and his buddies decided to act. It was the late 1970s and disco had taken over. Patti LaBelle....

DATE: Sep 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Too bad ‘Masterminds’ wastes one of the year’s best comedy casts

If there is a single shot in “Masterminds” that represents the intellectually and aesthetically untaxing comic spirit of this blithely lowbrow farce, it is the one that follows an ill-advise...

DATE: Sep 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘Amanda Knox’ pulls back curtain on a media circus

New documentary now on Netflix

DATE: Sep 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Arts & Entertainment Calendar

Friday 30th Cowboy Poetry Train, 10 a.m., Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, www.durangotrain.com. Cowboy Gathering – Bonnie Conrad, Jane Chavez and Roger Conrad, 5...

DATE: Sep 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Rolling Stone has come up with the 100 greatest TV shows of all time; my list was a little different

The Oct. 6 issue of Rolling Stone is out, with the magazine’s list of “The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time” on the cover. (No. 1? Hardly a spoiler alert needed – it’s HBO’s “The Sopranos.”...

DATE: Sep 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Derujinsky’s photographs captured in new book

Andrea Derujinsky brings dad Gleb’s legacy to print

DATE: Sep 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Books

Goldie Hawn’s key to romance with Kurt Russell? No marriage

The Associated Press LONDON – Goldie Hawn says the key to her successful 33-year Hollywood romance with Kurt Russell is that they never got married. The actress appeare...

DATE: Sep 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

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.