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‘Easy Rider’ star and writer Peter Fonda has died at 79

LOS ANGELES – Actor Peter Fonda, the son of a Hollywood legend who became a movie star in his own right after both writing and starring in the counter-culture classic “Easy Rider,” has died....

DATE: Aug 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: This ode to Springsteen and the power of music may be the feel-good movie of the summer

Arriving like a fresh gust of wind off the Jersey Shore during a largely torpid summer, “Blinded by the Light” goes one better than the jukebox musicals that have played like barely warmed-o...

DATE: Aug 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Punk Rock Breakfast serving up music

Event a benefit for the CODY Project

DATE: Aug 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Gerald Wells challenges viewers with exhibit at Durango Arts Center

Burley Wisehart on display through Aug. 31

DATE: Aug 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts

Woodstock fans flock to concert site for anniversary

BETHEL, N.Y. – Woodstock fans are expected to get back to the garden to mark the 50th anniversary of the generation-defining festival. Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is hosting ...

DATE: Aug 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Lizzo’s 2-year-old song might still qualify at 2020 Grammys

NEW YORK – Lizzo’s breakthrough hit “Truth Hurts” is a 2-year-old song, but it still has a chance at the 2020 Grammy Awards. Typically, older songs that become hits long after the...

DATE: Aug 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Jury selected in N.C. defamation lawsuit against author Sparks

RALEIGH, N.C. – A jury is ready to start hearing evidence in a federal lawsuit accusing novelist Nicholas Sparks of defaming the former headmaster of a private Christian school. T...

DATE: Aug 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Books

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 16-22

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Indian Horse In late 1950s Ontario, 7-year-old Saul Indian Horse is torn from his Ojibway family and committed...

DATE: Aug 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Francis Ford Coppola on ‘Apocalypse Now’ 40 years later

NEW YORK – If filmmaking is a war, then “Apocalypse Now” was very nearly Francis Ford Coppola’s Waterloo. The battles Coppola fought while making his 1979 epic nearly destroyed hi...

DATE: Aug 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

San Francisco Opera cancels Domingo concert

The San Francisco Opera says it is canceling an October concert featuring Placido Domingo after the publication of an Associated Press story that quoted numerous women as saying they were se...

DATE: Aug 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Arts Calendar

Wednesday, Aug. 14 Story Hour, 9:30 a.m., James Ranch, 33846 U.S. Highway 550. Fired Up Stories, 10:30 a.m., Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave. Terr...

DATE: Aug 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

In wake of harassment allegations, Plácido Domingo disinvited from Philadelphia Orchestra season-opening gala

The Philadelphia Orchestra has pulled its invitation to tenor Plácido Domingo to headline its season-opening gala Sept. 18 in the wake of an Associated Press article in which nine women said...

DATE: Aug 13, 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.