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Billie Eilish dethrones Lil Nas X with her first Billboard No. 1 single

Goth-tinged pop star Billie Eilish made history Monday when she became the first artist born in this century to land a No. 1 song – “Bad Guy,” in this case – on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. ...

DATE: Aug 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Review: ‘Good Boys’ a surprisingly sweet comedy about raunchy side of tween boy life

Much has been made of how “Good Boys” – an R-rated comedy about a trio of sixth-grade nerds caught up in a misadventure involving drugs, sex toys, beer and slapstick mishaps – looks like a j...

DATE: Aug 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘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

Hickenlooper quits Democratic presidential race

Former Colorado governor says he’s mulling Senate run

DATE: Aug 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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

Review: Mob wives turn mobsters in ‘The Kitchen,’ a pale shadow of last year’s similarly themed ‘Widows’

A bunch of guys try to pull of a heist, which goes drastically wrong. The women they leave behind pick up the pieces to embark on a life of crime that’s as cathartically liberating as it is ...

DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: There’s no treasure to be found in the boring ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’

At some point in time, a live-action version of “Dora the Explorer” must have seemed like a good idea. After all, the animated TV series has, for eight seasons, been a bilingual cash cow for...

DATE: Aug 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Chevel Shepherd talks about life after ‘The Voice’

Singer to take stage Friday at La Plata County Fair

DATE: Aug 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Movies playing in Durango Aug. 9-15

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) North by Northwest (Sunday only) While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roge...

DATE: Aug 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Army recruiters released their first rap video this year; it wasn’t exactly a mic drop

The 3-minute music video for the song “Giving All I Got” has many of the hallmarks of an archetypical hip-hop production: shots of men in hoodies walking in slo-mo down a graffiti-filled cor...

DATE: Aug 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment