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Gallivan Avenue: Salt Lake’s (Recently Remodeled) Living Room
The Gallivan Center’s website proclaims the area as “Salt Lake’s living room.” The Main Street plaza has always been a focal point for Downtown visitors, and, with the help of a few local businesses and organizations, it’s about to get much more exciting. … read more
From Scratch
I’ve always considered the Gallivan Center to be a jewel of Salt Lake City open space—a tucked-away, quiet oasis in an otherwise business-as-usual urban block. The increasingly busy space has led to a cluster of restaurants and eateries popping up along the small avenue that winds its way along the south end of the Gallivan Center. Of these food destinations, From Scratch is numbered among the best. … read more
Craft Lake City’s 8th Annual DIY Festival – Performers &...
Craft Lake City hosts the 8th Annual DIY Festival in its first-ever three-day format at the Gallivan Center: Friday, Aug. 12; Saturday, Aug. 13; and Sunday, Aug. 14. Craft Lake City continues its celebration of all-local creators—with over 50 performing acts and over 300 craft foodies, DIY engineers and vintage vendors at the festival. SLUG
Nitro World Games 2016
A spinoff of the ever-popular Nitro Circus, the Nitro World Games falls somewhere between the X Games and a monster truck rally in terms of pure entertainment via action sports. … read more
Damn These Heels Film Review: From Afar
Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas’ Golden Lion–winning feature debut is a terse and gripping story of two men and their relationship’s shifting dynamics of power, affection and closeness. … read more
Damn These Heels Film Review: Set the Thames on Fire
In what may well be the most WTF-worthy film of the festival, Ben Charles Edwards’ Set the Thames on Fire is a beautifully dark fairy tale that calls to mind the films of Terry Gilliam and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Taking place in a dystopic shadow of London, which has been drowned by the slow rise of the River Thames, Set the Thames on Fire introduces itself as “an agony in three acts.” … read more
Damn These Heels Film Review: Closet Monster
Like the title implies, Closet Monster is a film about the deep, dark fears that are born somewhere in our childhood. In the case of the film’s main character Oscar (Connor Jessup) however, these repressed anxieties are attached to his own homosexuality. It’s a well-illustrated look at the sexual confusion that many young people face, especially when negative stereotypes continue to perpetuate among those they care about. … read more
2016 Damn These Heels Film Reviews
Featuring films like Desde Allá (Lorenzo Vigas), Southwest of Salem (Deborah Esquenazi) and more, the Utah Film Center’s 13th annual Damn These Heels Film Festival continues to celebrate LGBTQ films, filmmakers and narratives. … read more
Damn These Heels Film Review: Southwest of Salem: The Story...
Southwest of Salem tells a shockingly similar tale of a trial that took place in San Antonio back in 1994. Both cases involved four lesbian women of color, and both cases clearly demonstrate how conservative mob mentality can hijack the criminal justice system.
Damn These Heels Film Review: Out Run
Out Run illuminates the complexities of LGBTQ+ lives and identities and how they interact with political movements, cultural norms and global progress toward—or away from—LGBTQ+ equality. … read more
Damn These Heels Film Review: MAJOR!
In her biographical doc, MAJOR!, director Annalise Ophelian celebrates the immense life and history of Miss Major. … read more
Damn These Heels Film Review: AWOL
Star-crossed lovers in rural American towns is something that we’ve seen before, but Shoval’s portrayal of a potential army recruit named Joey and her illicit romance with local housewife Rayna manages to breathe new, melancholy life into the genre. … read more
