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Jackie Kennedy’s fairy-tale wedding was a nightmare for her dress designer

The 1953 wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier and then-Sen. John F. Kennedy was so perfect it is still being talked about more than 65 years later. As recently as 2017, gossip website The List was ...

DATE: Aug 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

New Mexico poets holding fundraiser for El Paso victims

ALBUQUERQUE – The poet laureate of New Mexico’s largest city is helping organize a poetry reading fundraising for the victims of the El Paso mass shooting. Michelle Otero will co...

DATE: Aug 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Muscle Shoals songwriter, artist Donnie Fritts dies at 76

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Donnie Fritts, a Muscle Shoals songwriter, artist and actor who was a frequent collaborator with Kris Kristofferson and wrote the song “We Had It All,” recorded by numerou...

DATE: Aug 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Marvel celebrates 80th anniversary with massive comic

LOS ANGELES – Marvel Comics is celebrating its 80th anniversary with a massive issue that pays tribute to its history and introduces a new object with implications for the superhero universe...

DATE: Aug 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 30-Sept. 5

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) The Peanut Butter Falcon Zak is a young man with Down syndrome who runs away from a residential nursing home t...

DATE: Aug 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Arts Calendar

Wednesday, Aug. 28 Story Hour, 9:30 a.m., James Ranch, 33846 U.S. Highway 550. Terry Rickard, 2 p.m., Office Spiritorium, 699 Main Ave. Lego Build and Race, 4...

DATE: Aug 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Netflix to give ‘The Irishman’ exclusive theatrical release

NEW YORK – Netflix will give “The Irishman” an exclusive theatrical release for about four weeks, providing theaters most of November to play Martin Scorsese’s big-budget crime epic before i...

DATE: Aug 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Model became Dior muse by knocking on his door

LONDON – Before there were supermodels, there were “mannequins” – living, breathing women who played an active role in designing haute couture by standing very, very still. Designers and art...

DATE: Aug 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

We’re buying what Kristen Dunst is selling in ‘On Becoming a God in Central Florida’

Friends, have I got a TV show for you. True, it has a sort of lame and unnecessarily pretentious title – “On Becoming a God in Central Florida” – but I’m here to tell you it will clean your ...

DATE: Aug 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Global fashion top players join forces in environmental pact

ROME – Thirty-two leading companies in the fashion and textile industry have given themselves a set of shared goals under a “Fashion Pact” aimed at reducing the environmental impact of their...

DATE: Aug 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Singer Eddie Money says he has stage 4 esophageal cancer

NEW YORK – Eddie Money says he has stage 4 esophageal cancer. The singer known for such hits as “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight” says his fate is in “God’s hands.” ...

DATE: Aug 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

High Country Hustle set for first album release

Bluegrass band to hold album release party

DATE: Aug 24, 2019 | 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.