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Ferguson: Rickie Fowler keeps celebrating everyone else’s majors

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Rickie Fowler, golf’s version of an action hero, keeps showing up too late to save himself at the majors. His final six holes at the PGA Championship were nothin...

DATE: Aug 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Report: Tiger Woods had marijuana, painkillers in system at arrest

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Tiger Woods had the active ingredient for marijuana, two painkillers and two sleep drugs in his system when he was arrested on a DUI charge earlier this year, a repor...

DATE: Aug 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Justin Thomas picks the right golf major at the right time to win

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The son and grandson of golf professionals, Justin Thomas couldn’t think of a better major to win than the PGA Championship. And at age 24, he couldn’t think of ...

DATE: Aug 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Justin Thomas rallies to win PGA Championship

Chip in, clutch putts power first-time major winner

DATE: Aug 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Jordan Spieth: PGA Championship will be toughest major to win

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Jordan Spieth went for it. It just turned out not to be his week to make golf history. The 24-year-old Spieth walked away from the third round of the PGA Champio...

DATE: Aug 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Kevin Kisner survives wild finish to take PGA Championship lead

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Kevin Kisner survived a calamitous finish at the PGA Championship thanks to a good bounce off a bridge that allowed him to escape with a bogey and take a one-shot lead into...

DATE: Aug 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Hideki Matsuyama, Kevin Kisner tied for lead at PGA Championship

Rain delay helps afternoon players

DATE: Aug 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Durango High golfers cut 14 strokes at Delta Invitational

Tichi leads Demons with 6-over 78

DATE: Aug 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Kevin Kisner, Thorbjorn Olesen lead PGA Championship

Fast greens tough in final major

DATE: Aug 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Durango boys golf opens season on strong note at Conquistador

All five Demons shot in the 80s

DATE: Aug 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Jordan Spieth leans on Olympian Michael Phelps to help with mental approach

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – If Jordan Spieth needs some help with the mental aspect of his game during this pressure-packed week of golf, he knows exactly where to turn. Michael Phelps is r...

DATE: Aug 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

John Daly sings with Hootie, leaves PGA course broody

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – John Daly struggled on his final hole Thursday. Maybe he needed Hootie to hold his hand. Daly went from contender to curmudgeon after a triple bogey on the 18th ...

DATE: Aug 10, 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

Ferguson: Rickie Fowler keeps celebrating everyone else’s majors

Report: Tiger Woods had marijuana, painkillers in system at arrest

Justin Thomas picks the right golf major at the right time to win

Justin Thomas rallies to win PGA Championship

Jordan Spieth: PGA Championship will be toughest major to win

Kevin Kisner survives wild finish to take PGA Championship lead

Hideki Matsuyama, Kevin Kisner tied for lead at PGA Championship

Durango High golfers cut 14 strokes at Delta Invitational

Kevin Kisner, Thorbjorn Olesen lead PGA Championship

Durango boys golf opens season on strong note at Conquistador

Jordan Spieth leans on Olympian Michael Phelps to help with mental approach

John Daly sings with Hootie, leaves PGA course broody

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