Damn These Heels 2018: Close-Knit

Damn These Heels 2018: Close-Knit
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Naoko Ogigami’s thoughtful, pastel-hued family drama Close-Knit follows the self-sufficient and searching Tomo, played by Rinka Kakihara. … read more

Damn These Heels 2018: The Misandrists

Damn These Heels 2018: The Misandrists
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The Misandrists is the most frustrating movie I’ve seen in a while. I got whiplash trying to understand whether the film was celebrating women or only pretending to—satirizing with camp or offering an actual worldview. … read more

Damn These Heels 2018: Freelancers Anonymous

Damn These Heels 2018: Freelancers Anonymous
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What happens when a millennial gets stuck in an unfulfilling office job? She takes it upon herself to create a startup, of course—but not without some twists and turns along the way. … read more

Sandy’s Newest Coffee Specialty: The Bean Yard

Sandy’s Newest Coffee Specialty: The Bean Yard
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Walking through the front door of The Bean Yard, it’s clear to see the sleek, communal vision of Sandy’s newest coffee shop. Eugene Kim, co-founder and General Manager, stands behind a brand-new, chrome espresso machine working on his latte art. … read more

 
 
Review: The Aliens

Review: The Aliens
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The Aliens is a performance that’d be subtle enough for TV but is still connective enough for theatre. “Half of this play … is silence,” writes playwright Annie Baker, and it’s true. It works in this production because the audience is so close. … read more

Crowdsurfing at Warped Tour ’18

Crowdsurfing at Warped Tour ’18
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On Saturday, June 30, the energy around the final Warped Tour was palpable. There was the usual buzz of excitement with a twinge of the bittersweet. Warped Tour was my coming of age. I moshed to my favorite bands, discovered new music and forged friendships that have lasted to this day. As a final goodbye

Content Shifter: 9 Apocalyptic TV Series

Content Shifter: 9 Apocalyptic TV Series
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Are we living in the end times? Yeah, probably—what are you going to do about it? Better to just binge some apocalypse-centric TV shows while waiting for the end of civilization—and there are plenty to choose from. … read more

Bonanza Campout 2018

Bonanza Campout 2018
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Bonanza: an extravaganza; a situation or event that creates a sudden increase in wealth, good fortune, and prosperity. No definition could have better described the party found at the River’s Edge. … read more

Creature Feature: Lucy Fur

Creature Feature: Lucy Fur
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To Lucy, drag has been an extremely important means of expression. “I’ve been dying my hair and getting wild piercings for years, and it’s always been a big part of me—to not feel scared to do what I want to do or to be who I am,” he says. … read more

Violent Femmes @ Red Butte Garden 06.13 with Marcia Mello 

Violent Femmes @ Red Butte Garden 06.13 with Marcia Mello 
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It’s hard to not feel nostalgic. In fact, it was a longing for the past that prompted me to attend the show in the first place. I saw the Violent Femmes numerous times in the ’90s. The first time, a night spent with friends at Kingsbury Hall where bassist Brian Ritchie smoked a giant cigar, is one of my fondest memories. … read more

“Crap. It’s All Crap”: A Review of Something Really Big by SB Dance

“Crap. It’s All Crap”: A Review of Something Really Big...
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This is not your typical Utah happy hour. No, leave the kids at home, order a beer and sit as perplexed and entertained as I was through this intimate, close-to-home and bewildering spectacle. A guy walks into a bar … or a club, rather, and a series of events through time unfold into a myriad

SLUG Style: Denae Shanidiin

SLUG Style: Denae Shanidiin
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Denae Shanidiin is an image maker, ceramicist, and protector of the land, air, and water. Her work responds to her own identity as an Indigenous artist and as a woman. … read more