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Maya Rudolph to star in live ‘A Christmas Story’ in December

NEW YORK – The Fox network has cast Maya Rudolph to help lead the live TV musical “A Christmas Story” this winter. The “Saturday Night Live” veteran and star of “Bridesmaids” will...

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

The arguments about women and power in ‘Game of Thrones’ have never been more unsettling

“Game of Thrones” is a series that embodies the tropes of high fantasy and subverts them. And in no area in the series has that been more clear than its gender politics. Women on ...

DATE: Aug 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Wondering how ‘Kevin Can Wait’ will get rid of Erinn Hayes?

It was the strangest twist of the TV season: In June, shortly after the first season finale of CBS’ Kevin James sitcom “Kevin Can Wait,” the show’s creators decided to get rid of the charact...

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

The only way for ‘Game of Thrones’ to be true to itself is to end as tragically as possible

After Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) set triumphant sail for Westeros at the end of the sixth season of “Game of Thrones,” and after a rather talky beginning to the seventh season of the...

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

Are the dragons in trouble on ‘Game of Thrones’?

“Game of Thrones” is full of ominous foreshadowing, but it’s rarely as explicit as what viewers saw last week when Qyburn unveiled a deadly new contraption. Cersei had promised a group of no...

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

‘Stranger Things’ is coming back; here’s what you need to know

The nostalgia-heavy, small-screen blockbuster “Stranger Things” returns to Netflix with a new season on Oct. 27 – just in time for a pre-Halloween weekend binge session. Netflix u...

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

Part-time Durango resident gets DIY Network series

Tim McClellan hosts ‘Boomtown Builder’ after disqualification from HGTV show

DATE: Jul 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Michael Phelps defends Shark Week ‘race’ against great white

Don’t expect an apology from Michael Phelps to TV viewers who were disappointed with his race against a simulated great white shark for a Discovery Channel Shark Week special. The...

DATE: Jul 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Taraji P. Henson to host Black Girls Rock honoring Issa Rae

NEW YORK – Taraji P. Henson will host BET’s 2017 Black Girls Rock Awards honoring “Insecure” creator and star Issa Rae and others. BET said the Oscar nominee and “Empire” actress ...

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

Diahann Carroll reﬂects on a career of ﬁrsts on stage and screen

WASHINGTON – Diahann Carroll, at 81, welcomed a visitor to her “fabulous” suite at Washington’s Willard Intercontinental Hotel – marble bathroom, dining table for eight, stunning views of th...

DATE: Jul 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Of course ‘Doctor Who’s’ new Doctor is a woman

Science fiction has always been about progress

DATE: Jul 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Who’s next: Jodie Whittaker 1st female star of ‘Doctor Who’

LONDON – British actress Jodie Whittaker was announced Sunday as the next star of the long-running science fiction series “Doctor Who” – the first woman to take a role that has been played b...

DATE: Jul 16, 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