Arts
Gallery Stroll – April 2011
We’ve all heard the saying “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure,” Salt Lake City artist Reclaimed Sentiment is putting that theory to test. Using discarded mass-produced landscapes and old LDS Primary class images Reclaimed Sentiment transforms the unwanted and forgotten into the extraordinary and refreshing by following two rules: Everything used to create the art must be found secondhand and the art must be affordable and accessible to the masses. … read more
Movie Reviews
Battle: Los Angeles, I Saw the Devil, Kaboom, Limitless, Mars Needs Moms, Paul, Red Riding Hood, Source Code and The Lincoln Lawyer are reviewed this month. … read more
Movie Reviews
Reviews of The Adjustment Bureau, I Am Number Four, The Eagle, Just Go With It and Sanctum are featured. … read more
Gallery Stroll – March 2011
It’s said that March enters with the roar of a lion and exits with the calm and subtlety of a lamb. No matter its entrance, March marks a change in the season. This month’s Gallery Stroll picks were selected because they have entered the scene with subtlety, but they are boldly making roaring additions to the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll scene. … read more
Movie Reviews – February 2011
Reviews of Country Strong, The Dilemma, The Green Hornet, No Strings Attached and Season of the Witch. … read more
Movie Reviews – January 2011
Reviews of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Fighter, Little Fockers, Gulliver’s Travels, I Love You Phillip Morris, Somewhere, The Tourist, TRON: Legacy, True Grit and The Warrior’s Way. … read more
Gallery Stroll – January 2011
Community is very important to artists. It feeds their creativity, influences their subject matter and validates their work. The creative process can be daunting and lonely. Combine that with the cost of good ventilated space and you end up with a warehouse full of artists’ studios: separate spaces, but community living. One such place is Captain Captain. … read more
Psychopathia Universalis: Spring Awakening Comes to Utah
Bygones are never really bygones. Whether recalling a previous era or an earlier stage in life, we need the past in order to gauge who we are now. Where do we come from, how far have we come and how have we changed? Could our lives have been otherwise? We all ask these questions. Or so claims Courtney Markowitz, star of Spring Awakening, a rock musical soon to hit Utah. She says the show explores “the results of what happens when such questions are not answered.” … read more
Cipher @ Rose Wagner Theater
This last weekend The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company presented Cipher, a show choreographed entirely by artistic director Charlotte Boye-Christensen. The first half of the evening was comprised of a suite of dances that Ririe-Woodbury had already performed in recent years. But any initial disappointment I might have felt on discovering this was quickly dispelled. … read more
The 2010 Chrismahanukwanzakah (Thanks Virgin Mobile) Gift Guide
Now that we’ve stuffed our faces full with the souls of bloated poultry (Tofurky if you’re a hippie, Wild Turkey if you’re a lush), it’s time to start thinking about the holidays and how you’re going to spend your hard earned cash on shit you probably don’t need, but certainly love to have in your possession. Let the consumerism begin! … read more