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NBC names Hoda Kotb as Lauer replacement on ‘Today’

NEW YORK – NBC News opened the new year Tuesday by appointing Hoda Kotb as co-anchorwoman of the “Today” show’s first two hours with Savannah Guthrie, replacing Matt Lauer after his firing o...

DATE: Jan 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

The second season of ‘The Crown’ feels as restricted as the monarch herself

Thanks to Prince Harry’s and Meghan Markle’s engagement, 2017 was a gift to Americans who treat the British royal family like a particularly delicious soap opera. Netflix, of course, has the...

DATE: Dec 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Actress Rose Marie of ‘Dick Van Dyke Show’ fame dies at 94

LOS ANGELES – Rose Marie, the wisecracking Sally Rogers of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and a show business lifer who began as a bobbed-hair child star in vaudeville and worked for nearly a cent...

DATE: Dec 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

‘Super Size Me’ director Morgan Spurlock wonders ‘when will they come for me’ and confesses sexual misdeeds

For weeks, women have come forward with allegations of sexual harassment against powerful men. On Wednesday evening, one man went against the grain and admitted his own long history of sexua...

DATE: Dec 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Jim Nabors, TV’s homespun Gomer Pyle and singer, dies at 87

HONOLULU – Jim Nabors, the shy Alabaman whose down-home comedy made him a TV star as Gomer Pyle and whose surprisingly operatic voice kept him a favorite in Las Vegas and other showplaces, d...

DATE: Nov 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

‘Partridge Family’ star David Cassidy hospitalized

NEW YORK – “Partridge Family” star David Cassidy has been hospitalized in Florida. His representative tells The Associated Press on Saturday that Cassidy is “now conscious” and “s...

DATE: Nov 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Disney Channel is making history with its first gay coming-out story

Disney Channel’s “Andi Mack” is making history with the network’s first story line about a gay character coming out. The comedic drama from “Lizzie McGuire” creator Terri Minsky f...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

’80s tropes that ‘Stranger Things’ turns upside down

When “Stranger Things” debuted last year, it felt like a concentrated dose of 1980s film splendor. That’s one reason the Netflix series became such a phenomenon – all those nostalgic nods to...

DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

What you need to know about Nickelodeon sexual harassment allegations

The news out of Nickelodeon shows how cases involving power and inappropriate behavior infect most every corner of Hollywood. Last Thursday, Nickelodeon fired “Loud House” showrun...

DATE: Oct 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

New characters give ‘Thomas & Friends’ a jolt of girl power

NEW YORK – Girls are finally getting a bigger role in Thomas the Tank Engine’s boy-dominated world. Mattel, the toy maker that owns the Thomas brand, will add two female main char...

DATE: Oct 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

George RR Martin to headline film forum in New Mexico

SANTA FE – Author and producer George R.R. Martin will be among the experts participating in an upcoming forum on the film industry and its effects on New Mexico. The discussion i...

DATE: Oct 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

‘This Is Us’ returns, and this is what made us cry the hardest

(Spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned.) Weep-inducing “This Is Us” has returned, and the NBC drama has once again delivered an hour of television that prompted tears to fall across ...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

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