Authors: JR Boyce
Beehive Bazaar
For most, Christmas is a veritable Kilimanjaro of obligation, guilt, financial acrobatics, and endless lines. But take heart, consumer! Get in your car, get over the played-out arch-snobbery that keeps you north of Point of the Mountain, and drive your ass down to Provo for the Beehive Bazaar. … read more
Prodigy to Professional: The Playwright Prowess of Matthew Ivan Bennett
Matthew Ivan Bennett is currently the resident playwright at Plan-B Theatre Company, dedicated to making Utah a better place for the arts. … read more
Book Reviews – May 2009
Reviews of The Religious Art of Zen Master Hakuin, Hew Screw + Glue: How Things Are Made and Northline! Check out these books! … read more
Neil Bly
Unless you are a devotee of a certain few bands out of Utah County, you’ve probably never heard of Neil Bly. He doesn’t solicit bands to record with him. He doesn’t advertise Friendless Records, the studio he runs in his Provo basement. He doesn’t even have a set price on hours. He has a Web site that not many people seem to know about, but Bly’s reputation, if not widely known, is indisputable in terms of his vast abilities in the studio. … read more
Book Reviews – November 2009
Books reviewed this month are Hakuin’s Precious Mirror Cave, Last Shop Standing and The Night In Question … read more
Derby Girls: Valkyries on Wheels
There is a strange primeval pleasure found in the company of a woman who is capable of beating my ass to a pulp. Last week I was watching tryouts for the Salt City Shakers—The Salt City Derby Girls All-Star team—and I heard a story about an unidentified Shaker nearly banned from the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association for hauling off and punching some high-falutin harpy from Los Angeles square in the face. Valkyries on wheels! Sleeve-tattooed Vixens! Be still my heart! … read more