Arts
Ghouls and Dolls: A Bad Kids Pageant @ Metro Bar...
Another year of Utah Pride festivities (un)officially kicked off at Metro Bar Thursday night.
10 contestants, each of whom earned a spot in the competition after a tough preliminary round, performed for Bad Kid Collective titles: Wicked Kid, Ardent Kid, Avant Kid and Baddest Kid. … read more
Review: Helheim Book One – The Witch War
When I heard this was a comic about witches, demons, vikings and the risen dead, my inner metalhead started headbanging windmill-style. … read more
Zine Reviews
Zine reviews for Burning Salts, Death Wound Zine and The Dithering Doodles. … read more
Movie Reviews
Movie reviews for The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Godzilla, Neighbors, The Other Woman and The Signal. … read more
Television Reviews
Reviews for Atlantis: Season 1, Beetlejuice: Seasons Two and Three, Game of Thrones: Season 3 Blu-Ray, Vikings: The Real Warriors Miniseries and 20 Ft Below: The Darkness Descending. … read more
Land @ Jeanne Wagner Theatre 04.10-12
Attending Repertory Dance Theater’s “Land” felt like visiting an old house, the home of someone who’d lived in Utah a long time. She loved the idea of the West as much as she loved the landscape itself, and had surrounded herself with objects, books and memories that recorded a history of her sentiments. … read more
Movie Review: The Life of Riley
Review of the film B.B. King: The Life of Riley … read more
Gallery Stroll: Art Squared
If you want to see what someone is really made of, look into their heart. At the heart of Utah is The City Library, The Salt Lake City and County Building and The Leonardo, sitting in historic Washington Square, adjacent to Library Square. It’s used for everything from the Pride Festival to the Salt Lake City Marathon, from local open-mic performances to international traveling exhibits like Body Worlds at The Leonardo. I often find myself in this neighborhood, attending events, enjoying the library, or—yikes—paying a parking ticket, but for those of you who are not familiar with the Squares, let’s take a stroll. … read more
SLUG Style: Max Pain and the Groovies
Whether they’re out at Denver’s Psych Fest collecting weird shit like “trollops” (ask one of the band members about it) or decorating one of their jackets with pins and buttons found laying around the tour bus, the boys always feel at home in SLC, saying they prefer it to any other scene they’ve played in because of it’s low-ego, no bullshit feel when it comes to personal style. … read more
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Feast @ Now Dance Co. 05.24
O, Utah! Should I stay or should I go? That’s the question at the heart of Feast, last weekend’s evening-length performance from choreographer Charlotte Boye-Christensen’s NOW-ID. … read more