2016 Damn These Heels Film Reviews

2016 Damn These Heels Film Reviews
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Featuring films like Desde Allá (Lorenzo Vigas), Southwest of Salem (Deborah Esquenazi) and more, the Utah Film Center’s 13th annual Damn These Heels Film Festival continues to celebrate LGBTQ films, filmmakers and narratives. … read more

Damn These Heels Film Review: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

Damn These Heels Film Review: Southwest of Salem: The Story...
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Southwest of Salem tells a shockingly similar tale of a trial that took place in San Antonio back in 1994. Both cases involved four lesbian women of color, and both cases clearly demonstrate how conservative mob mentality can hijack the criminal justice system.

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Damn These Heels Film Review: Out Run

Damn These Heels Film Review: Out Run
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Out Run illuminates the complexities of LGBTQ+ lives and identities and how they interact with political movements, cultural norms and global progress toward—or away from—LGBTQ+ equality. … read more

Damn These Heels Film Review: MAJOR!

Damn These Heels Film Review: MAJOR!
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In her biographical doc, MAJOR!, director Annalise Ophelian celebrates the immense life and history of Miss Major. … read more

Damn These Heels Film Review: AWOL

Damn These Heels Film Review: AWOL
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Star-crossed lovers in rural American towns is something that we’ve seen before, but Shoval’s portrayal of a potential army recruit named Joey and her illicit romance with local housewife Rayna manages to breathe new, melancholy life into the genre. … read more

Radical Feminism in Contemporary Art: An Interview with Artist Cori Redstone

Radical Feminism in Contemporary Art: An Interview with Artist Cori...
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Cori Redstone is an L.A. contemporary artist—but her roots are based right here in Utah. Like many Utah children, Redstone was raised in a conservative home that denied her the right to self-expression; however, Redstone did not let that stand in the way of finding her authentic self. … read more

SLUG Style: Deena Marie Manzanares

SLUG Style: Deena Marie Manzanares
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Deena Marie Manzanares is an actor for stage and film, model, television host, blogger and new mother, and she’s got plenty of insight to share about working acting jobs, the wild world of social media and being a new mother in heels. … read more

Halloween in Summer: Building a Frightening Magna Main

Halloween in Summer: Building a Frightening Magna Main
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In addition to offering local ghouls the opportunity to celebrate their favorite holiday more than once a year, the Halloween in Summer Festival has led to the added bonus of creating community among businesses on Magna Main Street and the town’s residents. … read more

Matt Gubser: Irreverently Funny

Matt Gubser: Irreverently Funny
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Photo: Red Scott It’s been two years since stand-up comedian Matt Gubser has made a stop in Utah. Returning to Utah Friday, July 1,  he will bringing his smart and poignant comedy to Ogden audiences at The Loft at the Ziegfeld Theater. Gubser is a wickedly funny comic hailing from San Francisco, typically skewering social-political topics

Movie Reviews: Yoga Hosers

Movie Reviews: Yoga Hosers
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Those familiar with Tusk know that it’s the first in Smith’s True North trilogy, and Yoga Hosers is more of a traditional sequel than are other films in Smith canon. … read more