Huge: The Benefit Art Show for Comunidades Unidas

Huge: The Benefit Art Show for Comunidades Unidas
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The Huge Benefit Art Show will be held on Feb. 11 at the Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts to raise awareness and funds for Comunidades Unidas. … read more

The Life Acoustic: Teacher Kim Driggs

The Life Acoustic: Teacher Kim Driggs
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Kim Driggs has been teaching guitar at the studio for 25 years now, longer than any other instructor at Acoustic Music Studios. … read more

The Handmade Tale of The Great Salt Lake Guitar Co.

The Handmade Tale of The Great Salt Lake Guitar Co.
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Through the tall windows of The Great Salt Lake Guitar Co. (GSLGC), I saw owner Reo Stika repairing guitars behind a workbench. The shop, which specializes in handmade guitars, was a welcoming refuge from the cold night, with warm lighting and a long corridor of exposed brick and perfectly mounted acoustic guitars. … read more

Melissa Collins: The Life of a Luthier

Melissa Collins: The Life of a Luthier
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Melissa Collins is a local luthier that practices her art out of her home workshop. She specializes in the making of the viola, cello and violin. Collins moved to Salt Lake City in 2010 to enroll in the The Violin Making School Of America, a renowned luthier school in the heart of our city. This

Mike Brown: Jumbotrons and DJ Juggy – A Utah Jazz Love Story

Mike Brown: Jumbotrons and DJ Juggy – A Utah Jazz...
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One of the biggest and best upgrades that they finally made this year was putting longtime local DJ and hip-hop heavy-hitter DJ Juggy behind some wheels of steel inside the arena and making him the official in-house DJ of the Utah Jazz. Naturally, I had my SLUG editor pull some strings so I could get on the court with Juggy. … read more

Shades of Entropy Art Show @ Shades of Pale Brewery 01.20

Shades of Entropy Art Show @ Shades of Pale Brewery...
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Tolman and Silversy aim to produce more art shows in the future with the goal of subverting how people approach art. Salt Lake’s underground art scene and community will continue to flourish with collaborative efforts and visions of talented artists and enthusiastic support from locals. … read more

Excavating Anton Chekhov: Riot Act’s Whit Hertford on Poor Bastard

Excavating Anton Chekhov: Riot Act’s Whit Hertford on Poor Bastard
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Whit Hertford, American-born artistic director and founder of Riot Act, has written Poor Bastard to be non-traditionally staged in the basement of the CUAC gallery in downtown Salt Lake City. This comedy, set in rural America, is available to view until Jan. 28 and is definitely one production you won’t want to miss. … read more

Ford Clitaurus at Slamdance: MP Cunningham

Ford Clitaurus at Slamdance: MP Cunningham
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Ford Clitaurus is a 2017 Slamdance Film Festival short with an oddball sense of humor. Taking place in Salt Lake City, the story follows three friends’ misadventures, from an inspirational interview with a triathelete gone awry to a sheepdog competition to playing chess with a Sufi mystic while pondering one’s sexuality at Liberty Park. … read more

SLUG Style: Guy Wheatley

SLUG Style: Guy Wheatley
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Guy Wheatley is a cinephile, aesthete and projectionist. He is often described by his friends as a “man out of time.” He can be found at Tower Theatre offering context and suggestions for how to best appreciate the world of cinema. … read more

Taylor Mac: Manifesting Our Future Through Performance

Taylor Mac: Manifesting Our Future Through Performance
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On Jan. 14, the exceptional talent of Taylor Mac makes its debut in Salt Lake City at Kingsbury Hall. One of the greatest theater artists of our time, Mac (who uses “judy” as a gender pronoun) is known for judy’s talented performance pieces and playwriting. … read more