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When you are a child, your world is often constrained to home, school and the places you read about in books. A book or a letter becomes an invitation to explore the outside world, a chance to...

With Halloween falling on Monday this year, we have the whole weekend to celebrate. Here’s what’s going on: Friday The Passage Between: Celebrating Transitions and Impermanence, opening reception...

LOS ANGELES – Tom Hanks wants in on Channing Tatum’s gender-swapped remake of his 1984 mermaid romantic comedy “Splash.” Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are developing a new take on the film with Tatum...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Kenny Chesney will receive the Pinnacle Award during the 50th annual Country Music Association Awards, joining Garth Brooks and Taylor Swift as the only recipients. The award,...

NEW YORK – In the late 1960s, the researchers at Newsweek magazine were known as “the Dollies.” The Dollies were all women, and when they handed over the results of their work to their male bosses,...

NEW YORK – Veronica Roth wants the tour for her sci-fi/fantasy novel Carve the Mark to be a little like the book itself, a “sojourn” defined by “exploration and curiosity.” “(W)ith each stop on the...

Netflix presented a challenge to seasoned binge-watchers with its release of “Black Mirror” on Friday. With just six episodes, at about an hour a pop (plus one 90-minute installment), could fans...

Friday “Picture Perfect: Contrarian Voices in Photography, ” opening reception, 5-7 p.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606. Harvest Festival, to celebrate Dancing Spirit...

By Nick Gonzales Herald staff writer What if the kid from “The Sixth Sense” grew up and became Marty McFly from “Back to the Future”? “Odd Thomas” does its best to answer that question....

Let’s state the obvious: Yes, producers had to amp up the drama when they inexplicably gave the sweet-but-very-dull couple Ben Higgins and Lauren Bushnell their own reality show. Titled “Ben &...