Authors: Alexander Ortega
Artes en Español: the Sor Juana Contest for Poetry and...
Artes de México en Utah’s Sor Juana Contest for Poetry and Prose in Spanish is Utah’s statewide contest for literary writing in the language. … read more
Book Review: Our Colony Beyond the City of Ruins
Janalyn Guo’s Our Colony Beyond the City of Ruins is an excellent short-story collection, one I earnestly recommend picking up. … read more
You Can Think Globally and Eat Locally: Zaater & Zayton...
Zaater & Zayton adapts their catering to match customers’ tastes, and cite customer favorites as their grilled meats and staples like falafel. … read more
Dance Fever at Art’s Place: The Dancehall Experience You’ve Been...
On a Saturday night, I felt right at home amid a display of jovial energy at Art’s Place. The presence of inexhaustible dance-lovers sustains the warm—nay, red-hot—atmosphere as the dance partners deftly executing the steps of voluptuous cumbia moves. … read more
SLC Artist Horacio Rodriguez Repurposes Mesoamerican Artifacts with 3D Printing
Horacio Rodriguez’s art looks to take on new meanings and nuances with each new project, each a reflection of our increasingly hybridic world. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
This documentary explores (some of) his love of Marianne Ihlen, with whom he was in an open relationship for many years and who is thought of as his muse. … read more
Sundance Film Review: The Infiltrators
The Infiltrators is the stirring documentary cum dramatization about how members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA) helped aid in halting various deportations from the U.S. … read more
Sundance Film Review: This Is Not Berlin
This Is Not Berlin celebrates the (sexual and artistic) counter-cultural liberation that this permutation of the punk scene heralded in the ’80s. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Sea of Shadows
Sea of Shadows presents the grave, complex problem of illegal fishing in the Sea of Cortez for the endangered fish totoaba. … read more
Sundance Film Review: The Sharks
The cinematography, natural lighting and photography in The Sharks is stunning, as it captures lush treescapes and waves crashing against rocks on beaches. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch succeeds in not trying to assail each topic but giving us a panoramic view of how all of these human activities cumulatively affect the planet. … read more
Sundance Film Review: THE WITCH HUNTERS
Though it’s lighthearted, THE WITCH HUNTERS offers a mature conversation about legitimate issues through the lens of young characters. … read more
