Community Through Kicks: Alexis Whitney’s SLC Muay Thai

Community Through Kicks: Alexis Whitney’s SLC Muay Thai
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Whitney also hosts the Utah Women’s Muay Thai Club. On the fourth Friday of every month, the club provides a space for women of all skill levels to practice. … read more

Local Music Singles Roundup: December 2024
Bridget Hanson is Achieving the Things She Wants to Achieve

Bridget Hanson is Achieving the Things She Wants to Achieve
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Bridget Hanson’s Posies, Pins, and Other Pragmatics is a poetic flowering of the author’s inner and outer worlds.
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Water and Rebirth in the West: Zak Podmore’s Life After Dead Pool

Water and Rebirth in the West: Zak Podmore’s Life After...
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In Dead Pool, Zak Podmore reminds us that the federal government has a habit of making mistakes with Utah’s public lands. … read more

The Anarchy of Dance in “Lake Bodies”

The Anarchy of Dance in “Lake Bodies”
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“Lake Bodies” has been successful and was shown at the Great Salt Lake People’s Summit and as a part of Westminster University’s 2024 showcase, Glisten. … read more

Anti-Protagonists and Anti-Detectives in Michael Farfel’s Glossy Eyed, Buzzy Fly

Anti-Protagonists and Anti-Detectives in Michael Farfel’s Glossy Eyed, Buzzy Fly
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Glossy Eyed, Buzzy Fly continually asks its readers to transgress their own bodies from our world into an ever-layered realm of strange realities. … read more

Chris Nielsen and the SLC Synth Alliance

Chris Nielsen and the SLC Synth Alliance
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A collective of electronic artists out of the greater Salt Lake area, the Alliance is dedicated to uplifting and performing music created by digital means. … read more

“Crooked Solace”: Bailee Elaine’s Short & Sweet (and f*cking brutal)

“Crooked Solace”: Bailee Elaine’s Short & Sweet (and f*cking brutal)
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In her collection Short & Sweet (and f*cking brutal), Bailee Elaine explores her own journey with grief following the death of her brother Brady in 2004. … read more

Authentic Nature: Lisa Thompson’s Wild Wasatch Front

Authentic Nature: Lisa Thompson’s Wild Wasatch Front
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Human society and nature are usually viewed as opposites, but in her book Wild Wasatch Front, Thompson and the NHMU draw on urban ecology to dispel that myth. … read more

Frogs, Swords and Drawing Boards: B. Pope’s Kermann Comics

Frogs, Swords and Drawing Boards: B. Pope’s Kermann Comics
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“I really love art from people who aren’t formally trained. You just see something that’s so different than what you’re going to see anywhere else.” … read more