Lifestyle - The Durango Herald

BLM provides roundup of regional projects

Revived resources advisory council gets back to work

DATE: Mar 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

The way you speak now was shaped by what your ancestors ate

WASHINGTON – The way most of us speak today is shaped in part by how long ago our ancestors gave up chewing tough, raw meat. It’s widely known that languages evolve as societies d...

DATE: Mar 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

U.S. regulators outline oversight on meat grown in lab dishes

NEW YORK – Burgers made by growing cow cells in a lab dish have a clearer path to reaching supermarkets as U.S. regulators on March 7 outlined how the emerging food category will be monitore...

DATE: Mar 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

A race against time to document Native American shelters

Project aims to record historic Ute structures in Southwest Colorado

DATE: Mar 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Durango Dharma Center offers program about mindfulness, addiction recovery

The Durango Dharma Center will host a daylong retreat with Dave Smith, meditation teacher and addiction treatment specialist, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 24. During the past two ...

DATE: Mar 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Religion

California agencies at odds over Colorado River drought plan

PHOENIX – A major Southern California water agency is trying to push the state through a final hurdle in joining a larger plan to preserve a key river in the U.S. West that serves 40 million...

DATE: Mar 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Tracing the grains that make up Durango Craft Spirits’ bourbon

Distiller Michael McCardell makes a point to source regional ingredients

DATE: Mar 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

Did the Dietary Guidelines help make Americans fat?

It’s that time again. Time to revise the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, something that happens every five years. This time, those revisions will happen in the face of charges that, over t...

DATE: Mar 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

U.S. regulators clear path for genetically modified salmon

NEW YORK – U.S. regulators on Friday gave the green light to salmon genetically modified to grow about twice as fast as normal, but the company behind it may face legal challenges before the...

DATE: Mar 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food

They painted in the canyons: Archaic artists created compelling images 5,000 years ago

Of the thousands of Native American rock-art panels in the Southwest, none are older than the Barrier Canyon pictographs found throughout the Colorado Plateau and concentrated along rivers, ...

DATE: Mar 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

High court’s cross case could affect monuments nationally

WASHINGTON – A 40-foot-tall, concrete cross on public land in a Maryland suburb of Washington is at the center of a case before the Supreme Court. But similar monuments elsewhere in the coun...

DATE: Mar 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Religion

Arroz con pollo: the Cuban comfort dish that lifts rice to its full potential

For years, I have harbored a seemingly unpopular opinion in shame. But one of the cornerstones of being online is the broadcasting of your deeply held (if faulty) beliefs with unshakable pri...

DATE: Mar 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Food