Year: 2025
Film Review: Predator: Badlands
While Predator: Badlands is packed with non-stop action and bloody fights, it also challenges the notion of what true strength and weakness really are. … read more
Arts | Film | Film Reviews
Local Review: Star Carmen — Blue Blue Woman
I appreciated the thematic throughline they built — how love, loss and identity blur together until they feel inseparable. … read more
Silverside Deli Elevates the Salt Lake City Sandwich Game
Each ingredient at Silverside Deli is deliberately chosen and prepared a certain way that serves a purpose evident in every bite, achieving balance in flavor. … read more
Film Review: Christy
Christy is a disturbing and powerful story full of dramatic turns and literal life or death situations, so why is it such a slog to get through most of the way? … read more
Arts | Film | Film Reviews
Local Review: 0V10amps — 2
On the surface, 2 is a blend of three 20th-century rock genres that I love: glam metal, psychedelic and punk. But the more I listened, and the more sounds I heard … read more
Writing Through Waves: Utah Japantown Advocates Welcome Poet Sawako Nakayasu
Sawako Nakayasu’s reading feels especially timely as Japantown and its stewards and advocates sit at the precipice of a fraught time of change. … read more
James Badge Dale Is An Actor with Something To Say
Even if you don’t know the name James Badge Dale, you’ve loved him in something. He’s one of those actors who can disappear into a role. … read more
Rasa Legal: Clearing Records, Changing Lives
Rasa Legal has helped over 24,000 people check their eligibility for record clearance and has successfully expunged more than 5,000 records. … read more
Kimball Art Center’s ‘Gaze Into These Eyes’ Champions Justice-Impacted Artists
Kimball Art Center’s “Gaze Into These Eyes” invites viewers to reconsider how portraiture can reshape our understanding of justice, empathy and humanity. … read more
Film Review: Nuremberg
Whether or not Nuremberg is truly one of the year’s best films, it’s a good one, and the importance of its message at this point in time cannot be overstated. … read more
Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist @ The Union 11.01.2025
The night ensued with a mixture of hits from Alfredo and Alfredo II, with Gibbs delivering his bars word-for-word in his gravelly, hard-edged timbre, pausing only to hype up the audience, The Alchemist, and himself. … read more
Concert | Music | Show Reviews
Garbage @ The Complex 10.29.2025
Roughly 29 years, six months and a few breakups (for both me and the band) later, I’m walking with my girlfriend into The Complex to see Garbage for what could be the last time. … read more
