Authors: Brian Kubarycz
Let The Dance Begin: NOW Dance Company Performs The Wedding
On Friday and Saturday, July 26 and 27, NOW Dance Company officially launched its career with a performance of The Wedding, held in the Salt Lake Masonic Temple ballroom. NOW was formed by Charlotte Boye-Christensen in collaboration with her partner/husband Nathan Webster. Boye-Christensen recently departed from the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, after serving for several years as artistic director. … read more
He’s Grown Accustomed to This Place: An Interview with Salt...
Much has happened since SLUG ran a 2001 cover story on local sculptor Cordell Taylor. Then, Taylor expressed his frustration with our local government and business owners’ lack of support for the arts, as well as gallery goers’ lack of appreciation for the amount of effort and money required to make and exhibit contemporary art.
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Beer in the Beehive
Del Vance’s Beer in the Beehive: A History of Brewing in Utah is a book that has more than a little in common with its subject … read more
Walk All Over You
If you have attended recent gallery strolls, you may have been an unwitting—and perhaps unwilling— participant in modern dance. Since February, Corinne Cappelletti has been leading a team of investigators known as the New Pedestrian on monthly tours of Salt Lake City. Clad in white union suits and equipped with individual headlamps, these free-ranging researchers make downtown their laboratory. … read more
Localized: Danger Hailstorm, The Deathless Pros and Uncle Sam –...
The right equipment is vital, all band members agreed. Massive cabinets are not empty show, Wim insisted. “They’re essential for the proper tone.” … read more
Localized – May 2009
This month SLUG’s Localized presents Palace of Buddies, Birthquake and openers The Buttery Muffins at Urban Lounge. … read more
Matt Winegar
Matt Winegar is a local producer, audio engineer and musician. All this he sums up tersely as “making records.” “Lots of kids get confused by this,” he says. As he explained why this is the case, we spoke of recording studios and the state of musical technology in the broadest sense––drums and wires, but also the body parts and skills that make up the total experience music. … read more
School’s Out Forever: Avenue Q Finds Signs of Life After...
Acceptance, self-discovery, and ignoring outer and inner detractors are the primary lessons Avenue Q invites its audience to consider. … 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
CLC Band: it foot, it ears
Emerging within a musical climate increasingly populated by power duos, it foot, it ears is a local duo with a difference. it foot consciously renounces the displays of might offered by local favorites Eagle Twin, a band they still greatly admire. To the contrary, it foot searches for ways to surrender power, to create music structured around states of syncope, stuttering and collapse. … read more