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Injury-riddled Packers beat mistake-prone Bears

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Aaron Rodgers threw four touchdown passes and the injury-riddled Green Bay Packers converted three turnovers into scores in an eventful 35-14 victory over the mistake-prone...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Game of the Week: Bayfield football opens league play at Gunnison

Unbeaten Wolverines take on winless Gunnison

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Broncos’ Brandon Marshall: NFL teams can show support by hiring Colin Kaepernick

ENGLEWOOD — Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall says he appreciates NFL teams supporting the rights of their players to protest during the national anthem. He also suggests they show ...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Donald Trump’s still criticizing NFL owners over players who kneel

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says National Football League team owners are “afraid of their players.” And he’s still calling for action against those who kneel during the national ant...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

NFL: Message being lost in political firestorm over anthem

NEW YORK — The NFL says the message players and teams are trying to express is being lost in a political firestorm. The issues have been “overtaken by political forces,” NFL spoke...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Durango Demons YAFL teams go 4-0

All four Durango teams pick up wins

DATE: Sep 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Youth Sports

NFL teams return to practice, unity displays still in focus

As NFL teams returned to practice Wednesday, some conversations turned to football. Not all. The operative topic remained the demonstrations of unity each team showed last weekend...

DATE: Sep 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Prep Spotlight: Hunter Killough the right player at right time for Bayfield football

Killough delivers more than game-clinching interception to Wolverines

DATE: Sep 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Joke backfires on Von Miller in Broncos loss to Bills

Broncos must regroup after first loss

DATE: Sep 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

NFL anthem protests evolve past Kaepernick’s original intent

What began more than a year ago with an NFL quarterback protesting police brutality against minorities by kneeling silently during the national anthem before games has grown into a roar with...

DATE: Sep 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Denver Broncos bottle up LeSean McCoy but Buffalo Bills get the win

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. – Turns out, the Buffalo Bills can win without LeSean McCoy carrying the load. With McCoy bottled up for a second straight week, the Bills leaned on Tyrod Taylo...

DATE: Sep 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

NCAA football Top 25 capsules

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Damien Harris ran for a career-high 151 yards and three touchdowns, Bo Scarbrough added two TDs and top-ranked Alabama routed Vanderbilt 59-0 Saturday in the Southeastern ...

DATE: Sep 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: College Sports

150-200 demonstrators made their way from DHS to Buckley Park

Colorado history gets weird, wild, wacky at Fashion Do’s and Don’tsAnnual Snowdown event has become so popular, auditions are now required

Cowboys. Fancy ladies. Gold miners. Even-toed ungulates that some in Durango might consider more like rats.Where can you find a runway show that takes you on a whirlwind tour through the weird, wacky and wildly exaggerated 150 years of Colorado history? Only at Durango’s annual Fashion Do’s and Don’ts, held Wednesday, where models and audience members wore costumes celebrating Colorado’s sesquicentennial – the theme of this year’s two-week Snowdown celebration.Standout acts included the Ghosts of Durango, which featured four of Durango’s most famous ghosts: a Rochester hotel ghost in a Victorian get-up of a more “modern” variation; the Strater Hotel’s head of housekeeping, also head of more discreet services; a young girl haunting El Rancho’s bathroom; and Sheriff Bob Thompson, killed in a 1906 gunfight. according to emcee Suzan Lane. A Another act was the Secret Circus Society, featuring Rubi Starr, Jeni Gross, Tabatha Joy Bettin, Adrienne Young and Ethan Deffenbaugh dressed as a car and the roadside pests better known as deer. Group members said the inspiration for the costume came from lived experiences driving Durango roads. The two-person Cantine Couture act starred Leslie Ponce and Tyler Frakes in an homage to the plentiful variety of Mexican restaurants found in any Colorado town. Ponce, dressed in comically large Mexican pointy cowboy boots, ambled down the runway as if taking a stroll under the hot, dusty, high-altitude sun, while Frakes flitted about the stage in a bright yellow salsa dress. Ponce said this year’s costume had been tough to decide, but the final decision was inspired by TikTok videos of Mexican cowboys in pointy boots. This was the duo’s third year strutting down the runway. Why they keep coming back for more, Frakes said laughing, was, “for the fame, the glory and the attention.”

Fashion Do’s and Don’ts has been one of the most highly anticipated Snowdown events since its inception in the 1990s. It has more than doubled in size over the past several decades. Last year, there were a record number of models, and in order to keep the event at a manageable size, this year’s fashion show was the first one to require the acts to audition. But many of the models were unfazed by the change. “It was actually easy,” said Jodi Zuber, one part of the two-person duo that made up the 1950s Texas Invader Ski Couple. Her partner-in-costume, Danny Jaques, said they had been doing this for several years, and it’s good with everything going on in the world to “get some levity and let your hair down.” The performers were not the only ones in costume. Audience members also dressed in a wide variety of unique takes on what makes Colorado, Colorado. JonBenet Ramsey made a miraculous appearance, being played by an 82-year-old woman, as did Casa Bonita, an ensemble that included a taco, sopaipilla and gorilla in chains – to name some of the characters. By the end of the show, people were in high spirits, as usual. “It was just delightful,” said a first-time audience member. If blessed with the chance to get the much coveted tickets – he said he would jump on it. jbowman@durangoherald.com

Annual Snowdown event has become so popular, auditions are now required

Photos: Snowdown 2026 Fashion Do’s and Don’ts

Photos: Durango High School basketball teams lose to Montrose High School

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

About a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday

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Injury-riddled Packers beat mistake-prone Bears

Game of the Week: Bayfield football opens league play at Gunnison

Broncos’ Brandon Marshall: NFL teams can show support by hiring Colin Kaepernick

Donald Trump’s still criticizing NFL owners over players who kneel

NFL: Message being lost in political firestorm over anthem

Durango Demons YAFL teams go 4-0

NFL teams return to practice, unity displays still in focus

Prep Spotlight: Hunter Killough the right player at right time for Bayfield football

Joke backfires on Von Miller in Broncos loss to Bills

NFL anthem protests evolve past Kaepernick’s original intent

Denver Broncos bottle up LeSean McCoy but Buffalo Bills get the win

NCAA football Top 25 capsules

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