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“Crap. It’s All Crap”: A Review of Something Really Big...
This is not your typical Utah happy hour. No, leave the kids at home, order a beer and sit as perplexed and entertained as I was through this intimate, close-to-home and bewildering spectacle. A guy walks into a bar … or a club, rather, and a series of events through time unfold into a myriad
SLUG Style: Denae Shanidiin
Denae Shanidiin is an image maker, ceramicist, and protector of the land, air, and water. Her work responds to her own identity as an Indigenous artist and as a woman. … read more
Art | Art and Fashion | Fashion | Slug Style
Este Barrio No Se Vende: Jessica Sabogal’s Artistic Activism
Muralist Jessica Sabogal is a first-generation Colombian American whose spray-painted works reach out to marginalized people, show them support and speak the message of their struggle and humanity, which is so often misheard or misrepresented. … read more
Art | Art and Fashion | LGBTQ+
Cold Cave @ Urban Lounge 06.04 with Black Marble, Choir Boy
With the stage stripped down to three banks of keyboards, a trilogy of guitars and the lone drum set, three black-clad performers take the stage. A fog sets in against the backdrop of “My Heart is Immortal,” the closing track on Cold Cave’s fascinating 2018 release You & Me & Infinity. … read more
Book Review: Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes Wizards of the Coast Street: 05.29 What sacrifices are you willing to make to ensure interplanar balance? What role will you play in the conflicts to come? Those are two of the main narrative themes presented throughout Wizards of the Coast’s newest publication, Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes. Almost immediately upon cracking
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Junior Brown: The Torch Bearer
Junior Brown is someone who has put in over 30 years of touring and recording, keeping the fire alive for anyone who values sincerity over flash and glitz, and substance over a passing fad. … read more
Style & Substance: Zach Quinn Tells Why PEARS has Both
The story of PEARS is a modern day rock ‘n’ roll journey. They were a band for just over a year before Fat Wreck Chords signed them in 2015. They toured nationally before the release of their second album in 2016 and have been getting international recognition as one of the most fresh bands in the current punk scene. … read more
How to Bonanza
Folks, we anticipate quite a gathering this year at Live Nite Events’ Bonanza Campout Music Festival. The three-day outdoor music and camping festival at River’s Edge in Heber City takes place June 22–24 for its third year. This is the time for planning. This is the time to learn … how to Bonanza. … read more
Kimbra @ Metro 05.23 with Son Lux
Australia and New Zealand pop-Motown-R&B phenom Kimbra Lee Johnson and New York indie-electronic trio Son Lux made an odd yet delightful bill for the Metro stage Wednesday night. … read more
MGMT @ The Union 05.22
MGMT have grown and changed, and their show at The Union this past Tuesday presented them as a more laid-back group, with their mellow psychedelia bordering on pleasant jam-band territory. … read more