Arts and Entertainment

Eli Cook will plays blues in Cortez

Named one of top 3 solo blues artists in the world by Blues Matters magazine

DATE: Apr 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Utah Shakespeare Festival making a stop at M-CHS

The Utah Shakespeare Festival will be presenting one performance of “Hamlet” Thursday Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. in Montezuma-Cortez High School’s Ralph E. Vavak Memorial Auditorium. Ticke...

DATE: Feb 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Cortez library, theater to screen award-winning ‘Cartel Land’

The Cortez Public Library and Sunflower Theatre will be showing the 2016 Academy Award nominated documentary film “Cartel Land,” on Monday, March 14. “Cartel Land” is a riveting, ...

DATE: Feb 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Miss Tess and Talkbacks come to Cortez

Miss Tess and the Talkbacks will perform at the Sunflower Theatre on Valentine’s Day, Sunday Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. Infused with classic country and honky-tonk, southern blues, New Orl...

DATE: Feb 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

J2B2 rocks M-CHS auditorium day and night

John Jorgenson’s bluegrass band J2B2 energized and amazed both students and evening concertgoers in two concerts on Tuesday, Feb. 9 at the Ralph E. Vavak Memorial Auditorium at the Montezuma...

DATE: Feb 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Library, Sunflower to show ‘Out in the Cold’

The Cortez Public Library in collaboration with the Sunflower Theatre, will show the documentary film “Out in the Cold” at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8 “Out in the Cold” director J.D. O’...

DATE: Feb 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Documentary explores roots of revolutionary group

In the late 1960s, as change was coming to America — as cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights — a revolutionary culture was emerging s...

DATE: Feb 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

‘Kung Fu Panda’ back for third round

Move over, Poe Dameron. Po the panda is back in town. And this Dragon Warrior is every bit as brave as the galaxy’s favorite Resistance pilot. DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Pand...

DATE: Jan 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Local jazz musician Newnam takes stage at Sunflower

Popular local jazz musician Bob Newnam will perform Saturday at the Sunflower Theatre with his jazz quartet consisting of Jack Maynes on keyboards, Evan Suiter on bass, and Mike Morris on dr...

DATE: Jan 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Highly prized Snowdown tickets going for big bucks

Turning profit ‘violates spirit of Snowdown’

DATE: Jan 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Silverton filmmaker focuses on Animas River cleanup

Calls for residents to speak up about spill

DATE: Jan 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Hains’ fiber artwork on display in Artisans of Mancos window

Nancy Hains’ fiber artwork will be on display at the Artisans of Mancos’ window display through January. Born in Buffalo, New York, Hains headed to California, where she owned a p...

DATE: Jan 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment