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Movie Reviews: Salt Lake Film Festival
The Salt Lake City Film Festival celebrates five years Sept. 26–29. Featuring the best in local filmmaking, along with highlights from this festival season’s national and international independent films, the SLCFF has something for every level of film buff. Here are reviews for some of the SLCFF films showing this year for your consideration. … read more
Gallery Stroll: Art Appreciation 101
Welcome back, students! Your minds—gooey from the summer sun, sticky and ready to grab ahold of new information and experiences—give me great joy! … read more
Getting To Point B
Point B, starring the late David Fetzer, is “a stylized sci-fi comedy about four grad students who accidentally develop a crude teleportation device,” says Cannon, the film’s producer. … read more
A Damn Movie Podcast Faceoff: Adam vs. Adam
For the past five years, Adam Palcher and Adam Sherlock have been transmitting reviews and Top 5 lists on movies that range from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to Forgetting Sarah Marshall—with more film industry gossip than you can find in a WalMart check-out line (Tom Cruise is gay?!). … read more
Make Us Laugh, Clowns! SLC’s First Comedy Carnivale
Hold on to your dicks, because Utah’s first-ever submissions-based comedy festival, SLC Comedy Carnivale, is happening from Sept. 17–21. … read more
Artists For Local Agriculture: Grow It Yourself
Since November of 2011, Artists for Local Agriculture have been encouraging artists in the Salt Lake City area to reach out by inspiring and educating those in their communities through urban gardening. … read more
The Rose Exposed Variety Show @ Rose Wagner 08.30
The Rose Exposed is a kickoff party of sorts, designed to celebrate the upcoming seasons of six very local and very talented groups of performing artists. With performances ranging from modern dance to miniature piano concertos, The Rose Exposed offered a little something for everyone. … read more
Ririe-Woodbury: Kinetic Spaces @ UMOCA 08.16
Increasingly “performance,” of one kind or another, is as important at these events as painting, sculpture or video art. The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s inaugural Utah Biennial: Mondo Utah, is one such effort, and last Friday it played host to Kinetic Spaces, a dance installation performed by Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. … read more
Creature Feature: A Conversation with Willard Cron
Willard Cron came into Salt Lake City to fill the dark corners of its alt. nightlife with everlasting light and kitschy attitude. Willard helped initiate the Bad Kids performance group and became an insta-celebrity, towering over crowds at his height of 6’4” (7’ in homemade creepers). Who is Willard? Who are the Bad Kids? Willard answers these and other pressing questions. … read more
Movie Reviews
Reviews for Crystal Fairy, Cutie and The Boxer, Fruitvale Station, Only God Forgives and Pacific Rim. … read more