Review: Hot Pursuit

Review: Hot Pursuit
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Hot Pursuit’s acting and jokes are so poor that it will also leave the viewer more empty and soulless than a Tinder one night stand. … read more

Review: Nickelodeon – Bunch of Play Dates

Review: Nickelodeon – Bunch of Play Dates
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Nickelodeon’s Bunch of Play Dates hit all the marks and was a welcome addition to our screen time rotation. … read more

Hasa Diga, Offended People: This is The Place for The Book of Mormon

Hasa Diga, Offended People: This is The Place for The...
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The floodgates have been opened and comedic rivers now runneth over through the “Sal Tlay Ka Siti” valley: The Book of Mormon is finally playing in Utah! … read more

Review: The October Faction, Vol. 1

Review: The October Faction, Vol. 1
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Whenever someone walks into Black Cat Comics asking what’s good on the shelves right now, we inevitably start shouting over each other in frothy jubilation at the chance to answer that very question. … read more

Captured Locally: Logan Sorenson @ Sugar Space

Captured Locally: Logan Sorenson @ Sugar Space
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Logan Sorenson—whose vibrant photographs you’ve more than likely seen in SLUG—documents people. Currently located in the high-ceilinged industrial charm of the Sugar Space Arts Warehouse is Captured Locally, Sorenson’s solo exhibition that fittingly showcases the freelancer’s vast portfolio of locally taken snapshots with people—dancers, musicians, strangers—in the limelight. For the opening reception of Captured Locally,

SLUG Style: Marcee Blackerby

SLUG Style: Marcee Blackerby

“I’m a storyteller first and foremost, so I haven’t had formal art training, but I feel like I’ve been an artist in residence. My husband Rick Blackerby is an artist. It sort of just rubbed off on me. I think it is a way of fighting back.” … read more

Desert Rose: Craft Lake City Artisan

Desert Rose: Craft Lake City Artisan
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Desert Rose Jewelry desertroseshop.com Malinda Fisher’s favorite piece of jewelry that she’s ever made is also her very first metal work—a bold bracelet of hammered wire that wraps around her forearm. Fisher made the piece when she enrolled in a metal-smithing class in an effort to teach herself how to work with the raw material.

Amy Falls & Amy Fry: Craft Lake City Performer

Amy Falls & Amy Fry: Craft Lake City Performer
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  Amy Falls & Amy Fry amyfalls.com • mdcslc.com As longtime contributors to the local dance community in Salt Lake City, choreographers/performers Amy Falls and Amy Fry are collaborating together for the first time. Falls has an academic background in modern dance from the University of Utah and is currently serving in a managerial position for

Little Teeth Marks: Craft Lake City Artisan

Little Teeth Marks: Craft Lake City Artisan
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Little Teeth Marks etsy.com/shop/LittleTeethMarks Stacie Van Arsdale has created art—and stories—since elementary school. “I would bring materials from home and make these little pompom people,” she says. “I’d build a house for their sitcom lives.” Since then, the Davis County–based Van Arsdale has taken her wild imagination to run her Etsy shop, Little Teeth Marks,

Candace Jean: Victorian Grace

Candace Jean: Victorian Grace
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Looking at the illustrations of local artist Candace Jean is a way to transport us to a magical realm where creatures take on human characteristics, where botanical fauna morph into faces or where bugs are crowned as royalty. Her work touches on the creepy and strange, but not in a horrific way: Think gothic classicism