Arts
SLUG Style: Buxom Modern Plus Boutique
Jenny Hayes is the owner of Buxom Modern Plus Boutique, which specializes in vintage-inspired and modern clothing for women in sizes L-6X. Anastasia Furrow is a plus size model, as well as employee at Buxom Modern Plus Boutique. … read more
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Comedy @ The Loft 03.26
Comedy traveled up North to start the spring in style, bringing five local comics to the top floor of the Ziegfeld Theater—aptly named The Loft—in Ogden as part of a new monthly event. … read more
Adventure Time: The Wasatch Mountain Film Festival
While browsing among the latest outdoor recreational gear at this year’s Adventure+Gear Expo is enough to get the blood pumping, it takes a bit more to become truly inspired. With that in mind, local outdoorsman and film enthusiast Stuart Derman has partnered with Wasatch Mountain Arts to create the first annual Wasatch Mountain Film Festival. … read more
Jackson Banks: Keeping It Weird
Jackson Banks, the rising star of Utah comedy, is having a pretty awesome month. He just turned the big 2-4, has appeared on numerous comedy stages throughout the state, and walked away with a coveted X96 Radio From Hell Film Festival award. … read more
loveDANCEmore @ Memorial House 03.22
loveDANCEmore, a series of community events showcasing the dances and dancers of Salt Lake City, staged a one-day performance at the Memorial House. … read more
The Dark Side of Taboo: “Mystic” by The Bad Kids...
A few people firmly placed themselves in front of the stage and watched three performers of The Bad Kids Collective as they performed various tasks, ranging from making potions to collecting organs from a headless bust—all while completely oblivious to the patient onlookers. … read more
Gallery: Pure Paint For Now People @ Weber State
Weber State Univerisity’s Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw gallery hosts the Pure Paint For Now People exhibit that showcases a whole range of talented artists with paintings of all size decorating the room. … read more
Review: Pure Paint For Now People @ Weber State
Pure Paint for Now People, the current exhibition at the Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber State University, seeks to explore the definition of contemporary painting with a curated selection of pieces by locally, nationally and internationally recognized artists. … read more
It’s Always Comedy and Other Funny Opinions @ Keys on...
Two comedy powerhouses married in a glorious ceremony of laughter, tears, and beers on a freezing cold Sunday night at downtown SLC’s Keys on Main. This wasn’t a romantic pairing, but a marriage of two comic geniuses combining their recurring shows into one behemoth of a comedy event. … read more
Creature Feature: Arousalind
Hannah Montgomery, who grew up in Salt Lake City, was introduced to the Bad Kids through her friend and Chalk Garden Co-op coworker Willard Cron. In the spring of 2013, Willard invited Montgomery to a performance by New York–based cabaret singer Joey Arias at Urban Lounge. … read more
Kicking & Dancing: The Political/Poetical María Magdalena Campos-Pons
For Campos-Pons, Our America is important for a community that is often “undefined and without context,” she says. Latino Americans are “like the universe,” Campos-Pons says. “Look at how many galaxies, how many stars, came out of [the Big Bang]. The idiosyncratic physical and cultural makeup of the Latino people—their identity—is like that: a mix of many things that become one.”
Gallery Stroll: Utah Ties
One day, you have a chance encounter thousands of miles away from home and you’re reminded that the world is full of threads that tie us together—being from Utah is a thread that links you to people all over the world. The Central Utah Art Center (CUAC) acknowledges and celebrates these threads in their annual Utah Ties show, opening March 20.
