Lifestyle - The Durango Herald

Phoenix urban garden mysteriously closes amid land dispute

PHOENIX – A sprawling urban garden on a vacant lot where Phoenix residents have grown everything from melons to okra closed Friday after the gardeners were mysteriously ordered out as a fede...

DATE: Feb 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

From mobile shop, man removes gang tattoos for young people

GREELEY (AP) – Jesus Bujanda and his wife, Gayedine, got the idea to open up a tattoo removal business thanks to their nephew. He’d been incarcerated and had a big neck tattoo. He’d had his ...

DATE: Feb 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Small sandwiches add up to a worthy meal

Making two-bite sandwiches for a weeknight meal is a nice way to mix things up every now and then. Ideally, they need to pack a lot of flavor into a tidy package. Luckily, this is...

DATE: Feb 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Prescribed burn planned at Mesa Verde

Mesa Verde National Park is planning a prescribed fire between February 13 and March 13, weather permitting. The Chapin Mesa burn will be conducted to dispose of material create...

DATE: Feb 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Trump aims to lift limits on church political activity

Action could have far-reaching consequences

DATE: Feb 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Religion

Durango Friends offer talk about Quaker activism

The Durango Friends Meeting will present its fifth discussion in a six-session series about Quakerism at 11 a.m. Sunday. This series is open to people interested in deepening thei...

DATE: Feb 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Religion

Christ the King to host family night Feb. 17

G-FORCE youth group will host a family game and movie night from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 495 Florida Road. A variety of games will be a...

DATE: Feb 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Religion

In just a few shakes, chickpeas get you to a frothy, egg-free cocktail

As a child, for reasons probably scrutable only to Dr. Freud, I was viscerally repulsed by raw eggs. I spent hours overturning rocks to watch ants go about their panicked evacuations, and I ...

DATE: Feb 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

FireWise offers orientation for new Neighborhood Ambassadors

FireWise of Southwest Colorado will offer an orientation session for residents who want to become Neighborhood Ambassadors for their communities. The session will be held from 5:3...

DATE: Feb 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

What separates ‘craft’ from industrial chocolate? It’s about diversity.

In the 1964 Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart described his now-infamous threshold test for pornography: “I know it when I see it.” The same sentiment holds true ...

DATE: Feb 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Food

Southwest Colorado residents win wildfire mitigation awards

FireWise of Southwest Colorado announces that Rebecca Samulski, FireWise assistant director, and Jim Tencza, neighborhood ambassador for Timberdale Ranch in La Plata County, are recipients o...

DATE: Feb 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Workshops in Mancos to help beginning farmers, ranchers

The Southwest Farm Fresh Cooperative will co-host two workshops in February for beginning and expanding farmers and ranchers. The workshops will take place at the Mount Lookout Gr...

DATE: Feb 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life