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DHS graduate plays at Sydney Opera House

A 2018 Durango High School graduate spent the better part of July in Australia visiting family and friends, and oh, playing violin in the 2018 High School Honors Orchestra Performance Series...

‘Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D’ to be remastered for IMAX

LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson’s estate and IMAX are partnering to digitally remaster “Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D” into IMAX 3D. The partnership was announced Wednesday, which w...

San Juan String Band to perform at Cortez Public Library

The Journal The San Juan String Band is scheduled to perform from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Cortez Public Library. The band will help the library launch its Wednesday Act...

Fans mourn Aretha Franklin at gospel-infused public viewing

DETROIT – The regal presence Aretha Franklin exuded in life was captured at her viewing on Tuesday, with the late Queen of Soul in a gold-plated casket dressed completely in red, including h...

Local musicians committed to the cause

Durango has a rich music community, but can you make it playing here?

Steven Tyler sends cease-and-desist to Trump for use of song

BOSTON – Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is again demanding that President Donald Trump stop using the band’s songs at rallies. Tyler’s attorney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ...

Grammy-winning country star Gretchen Wilson arrested

WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. – Grammy-winning country music star Gretchen Wilson has been arrested at a Connecticut airport after what was described as a minor disturbance on an incoming flight. ...

At VMAs, Madonna gets backlash after bizarre Aretha Franklin tribute

After Aretha Franklin died last week, MTV’s Video Music Awards producers scrambled to plan a tribute that would air during the network’s annual telecast on Monday night. The stakes were high...

Aretha Franklin, secret style icon: With the drop of a fur coat, she proclaimed her self-worth

No one could drop a fur like Aretha Franklin. When she was performing, she didn’t slither out of her mink or her chinchilla as though she was doing a flirtatious little striptease...

Riders in the Sky moseying to Durango

‘America’s Favorite Cowboys’ to play two nights at Bar D Chuckwagon

‘Queen of Soul’ had feature role in Durangoan’s film

Aretha Franklin played Mother Nature in ‘Snow Monsters’

Aretha Franklin, music’s ‘Queen of Soul,’ dies at 76

Aretha Franklin, whose exceptionally expressive singing about joy and pain and faith and liberation earned the Detroit diva a permanent and undisputed title – the “Queen of Soul” – died Aug....