Film Review: Call Me By Your Name

Film Review: Call Me By Your Name
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Burnished and sensuously crafted, Call Me By Your Name is an ambrosial painting of adolescence: of intimacy and love, of bodies and sensuality, of decisive moments and how they unfold. … read more

Film Review: Father Figures

Film Review: Father Figures
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The majority of Father Figures’ jokes that do connect mainly work because of the undeniable chemistry that Wilson and Helms have with each other on-screen. … read more

Film Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Film Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the type of film that needs to be seen on the big screen for those multiple “ooh” and “ahh” sequences. … read more

Critical Beatdown: Local Beat Heads Unite

Critical Beatdown: Local Beat Heads Unite
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For almost a year now, Adam Terry has curated and hosted Critical Beatdown at a bar called Good Grammar in Salt Lake City. The concept was simple: to create an environment where local “beat producers, electronic musicians, beat machinists, synth wizards,” etc. can perform their work in a safe place where experimentation is encouraged and where networking happens naturally. … read more

SLUG Style: Meagan Gonsalves-Vorwald

SLUG Style: Meagan Gonsalves-Vorwald
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Meagan Gonsalves-Vorwald is a librarian at the Sweet Library Branch, a literature buff and a self-proclaimed super nerd. … read more

The Third Space: The Printed Garden’s Good Reads and Grounding

The Third Space: The Printed Garden’s Good Reads and Grounding
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Comfortable, quiet and safe are more than descriptors of the books neatly lining The Printed Garden’s shelves. They are also the central spirit of the store itself; the “third space” Cance has crafted with heaps of heart. … read more

Track History, Tell Stories: Michael McLane on Literature, the Environment and Social Justice

Track History, Tell Stories: Michael McLane on Literature, the Environment...
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Historically and culturally diverse experiences led McLane to use storytelling and poetry to highlight social justice issues pertaining to “the intersection of human processes and how they’re detrimental to the environment—and to us.” … read more

Sound, Symbolism & Meter: Utah Poetry – Rock Canyon Poets

Sound, Symbolism & Meter: Utah Poetry – Rock Canyon Poets
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Rock Canyon Poets holds their workshop every month, along with a separate open mic. They also aim to collaborate with the community. … read more

Film Review: Justice League

Film Review: Justice League
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While the majority of critics across the globe have been quite harsh with DC’s cinematic interpretations of their comic book–superhero films, this critic found them to be more enjoyable than not. … read more

Film Review: Coco

Film Review: Coco
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Rather than waiting till the end I’m going to go ahead and get it out of the way: Coco is by far the greatest animated movie of 2017. … read more

A Story’s Mask: Enter the Inner Workings of Michael Mejia’s Tokyo

A Story’s Mask: Enter the Inner Workings of Michael Mejia’s...
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Tokyo is rewarding and responsible in that its form is all about process and awareness—of readership, authorship and culture. … read more

Paisley Rekdal: Mapping Literary Utah

Paisley Rekdal: Mapping Literary Utah
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Paisley Rekdal, creator of Mapping SLC and Utah’s current Poet Laureate, is in many ways a gatekeeper between literature and gripping relics of time. … read more