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Indigenous People's Day 2025 Indigenous People's Day 2025

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | Written by Mya Simon, Photographed by M'iitra Pino

Indigenous People's Day 2025

October rain does little to keep FLC from celebrating Indigenous culture 

Fiesta en la Mesa Fiesta en la Mesa

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 | Steven Ben

Fiesta en la Mesa

Members of Ballet Folklorico de Durango, a cultural arts program that promotes Mexican culture, perform Sept. 19, 2025, during Fiesta en la Mesa...
Banging Heads in Buckley Park Banging Heads in Buckley Park

Thursday, October 2, 2025 | Mya Simon and Garrett Middleton

Banging Heads in Buckley Park

Locals share an inside look into Durango's metal scene. 


Indy Eats: The Living Tree Offers a Light Option

By: Breana Talamante-Benavidez

The Living Tree Live Foods Salad Bar, located on the 600 block of Main Ave, offers a variety of light and hearty salad options as well as chili and nachos.

The Living Tree Live Foods Salad Bar, located on the 600 block of Main Ave, offers a variety of light and hearty salad options as well as chili and nachos. The atmosphere is very casual and welcoming. I was greeted as soon as I walked up to the line. I noticed that, not only does the menu consist of traditional salads, there are also salads that offer different, more robust flavors. The...

Redefining Masculinity

By Benjamin Mandile

In the past, men have been seen as tough and invulnerable, but in recent years across the world, the Mankind Project and other movements have started to redefine the issue of masculinity.

In the past, men have been seen as tough and invulnerable, but in recent years across the world, the Mankind Project and other movements have started to redefine the issue of masculinity. Within the Durango community, people are working to bridge the gap between men and women.     Masculinity is a system of meanings people associate with being a man, Keri Brandt, a professor of...

Netflix: What To Watch This Month

By Teal Lehto

After you finish your homework, of course. 

Unleashed (2016) Have you ever wished your dog was a person? Or perhaps you’re more inclined to desire feline companionship? If your answer to either or both of those questions was yes, Unleashed may be the movie for you. This quirky rom-com focuses on a recently dumped app-designer who loses all trust in the male half of our species as a result of the break-up. Then due to some...

Don’t freeze, go see “Black Panther”

By Kayla Cata

“Black Panther” is everyone’s story, and it inspires us all to stand up for what we believe in and make a difference, in our world.

Marvel’s “Black Panther” lit up the box office this past weekend grossing about $427 million worldwide and $242 million domestically, according to Vanity Fair.   While the hype for this movie’s release was huge, the delivery was even bigger and more powerful than imagined. Right from the start the people of Wakanda have viewers on the edge their seats and...

Art Exhibits in the Center of Southwest Studies

By: Becca Day

The Center of Southwest Studies rotated new artifacts out to its art gallery exhibits, Treasures of the Southwest and Ben Nighthorse Campbell: Colorado’s Renaissance Man, and will hold an opening reception Feb. 21  at 5:00 p.m.

 

The Center of Southwest Studies rotated new artifacts out to its art gallery exhibits, Treasures of the Southwest and Ben Nighthorse Campbell: Colorado’s Renaissance Man, and will hold an opening reception Feb. 21  at 5:00 p.m.   The art gallery opened a year ago but is rotating new items out of its collection into the gallery, Shelby Tisdale, director of the CSWS,...

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