Arts
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: Sister Aimee
Sister Aimee Sundance Film Festival Director: Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann The story of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, as told by the film Sister Aimee, claims to have 5 1/2% truth to it. The historically accurate 5 1/2% is this: Sister Aimee was a wildly popular evangelist who founded the Four Square Church in the
Content Shifter: 8 Sober TV Series to Stream
Here are eight series that deal with the concept of sobriety to stream in February while sucking down shaky tumblers of club soda. … read more
Gathering Music: The Library’s Process of Preserving Local Histories
The SLUG local music archive, along with the Downtown library’s own collection of local music, is now available to the public via the Main Library. … read more
Cities and The Sky – Yang Yongliang’s salt 14
Utah Museum of Fine Arts exhibition, fully titled salt 14: Yang Yongliang, is a series of six internally lit landscape photographs and one huge 4K video. … read more
Ririe-Woodbury Breaks New Ground: the live creature and ethereal things
This piece has truly been a local collaboration, and a chance to create a multi-genre happening that is truly of Salt Lake. … read more
Creature Feature: Brook Neilson (Is Garbage)
Brook has spent years working to understand herself and has continually pushed herself to connect with others through her art, the unique way in which she experiences the world. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men
Gathered in a theater in Staten Island, members rap group Wu-Tang Clan reminisce the circumstances that brought them into fame. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Memphis ’69
In the summer of 1969, blues artists came together to celebrate the sound and soul of blues music, despite the political climate. … 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: Extremely wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile Sundance Film Festival Director: Joe Berlinger It is difficult to ignore the “controversy” surrounding Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, starring Zac Efron as Ted Bundy and Lily Collins as Bundy’s longtime girlfriend, Liz. The controversy has to do with many people believing the trailer, and Efron’s performance, would
Sundance Film Review: Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis: Birth of The Cool Sundance Film Festival Director: Stanley Nelson The greatest names of jazz always include the ultimate in cool: jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. Julliard-trained and performing in jazz ensembles since an early age, Davis was known for his artistic flare, his emotive, vulnerable sound, and his chameleon-like ability to adapt to
