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False alarm on missile creates uneasy moment at Sony Open

HONOLULU – Charles Howell III was eating breakfast in his hotel when the restaurant at the Kahala started buzzing. Everyone had their phones. Everyone received the same push alert...

DATE: Jan 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Thomas returns at Sony Open and scene of scoring records

Thomas broke the PGA Tour’s scoring record last year

DATE: Jan 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Byrd back in big leagues and thrilled to be at Sony Open

HONOLULU – Jonathan Byrd resisted the urge to pout about his predicament. A five-time winner on the PGA Tour, he spent 14 years competing against the best on venerable courses whi...

DATE: Jan 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Tiger Wood plans to play Torrey Pines, Riviera on West Coast

KAPALUA, Hawaii – Tiger Woods is playing twice in California over the next six week as he begins another comeback on the PGA Tour from back surgery. Woods announced Thursday he wi...

DATE: Jan 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

New year on PGA Tour can’t start soon enough for players

No. 1 Dustin Johnson leads loaded field in Hawaii

DATE: Jan 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Jordan Spieth starts a new year with a new status: He’s engaged

KAPALUA, Hawaii – Jordan Spieth now can remember 2017 for a silver jug and a diamond ring. Spieth confirmed Tuesday that he proposed to longtime girlfriend Anne Verret, and while ...

DATE: Jan 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Tiger Woods decides to be his own swing coach

Tiger Woods is embarking on his latest comeback without a swing coach. Woods said Friday on Twitter that since fusion surgery on his lower back in April, he has been relearning hi...

DATE: Dec 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Hoffman builds 5-shot lead as Woods fades in Bahamas

NASSAU, Bahamas – Charley Hoffman handled the blustery conditions for a five-shot lead in the Hero World Challenge as Tiger Woods fell 10 shots behind. The wind was the strongest ...

DATE: Dec 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Woods atop leaderboard, but only briefly in the Bahamas

Hoffman takes lead after 12 birdies in second round

DATE: Dec 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Tiger Woods returns with solid round at the Hero World Golf Challenge

Fleetwood’s 66 leads first round

DATE: Nov 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Focus more on how long Tiger Woods lasts more than his score

NASSAU, Bahamas – One year later, the scene hadn’t changed. Jordan Spieth paused on the 17th green and looked across the water to the adjacent fairway at Albany Golf Club as Tiger...

DATE: Nov 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Ferguson: Tiger Woods is back, but maybe not the guy on TV

NASSAU, Bahamas – Tiger Woods couldn’t have scored more points with his two children than when he took them to Miami this summer to watch Barcelona in a friendly, and then arranged for them ...

DATE: Nov 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

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 donned 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 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 the 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 years 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 it’s 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 years fashion show was the first one to require the acts to audition. But many of the models were unphased 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

The Durango Herald’s year in photos 2025

Photos: Chapman Hill fires up the snow guns

False alarm on missile creates uneasy moment at Sony Open

Thomas returns at Sony Open and scene of scoring records

Byrd back in big leagues and thrilled to be at Sony Open

Tiger Wood plans to play Torrey Pines, Riviera on West Coast

New year on PGA Tour can’t start soon enough for players

Jordan Spieth starts a new year with a new status: He’s engaged

Tiger Woods decides to be his own swing coach

Hoffman builds 5-shot lead as Woods fades in Bahamas

Woods atop leaderboard, but only briefly in the Bahamas

Tiger Woods returns with solid round at the Hero World Golf Challenge

Focus more on how long Tiger Woods lasts more than his score

Ferguson: Tiger Woods is back, but maybe not the guy on TV

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