VAULT!, described as “an intimate studio showcase of contemporary dance,” premiered Aug. 5th hosted by Nichele Van Portfleet and sponsored by loveDANCEmore. … read more
VAULT! @ The Marriott Center for Dance 08.05
The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival @ The Fringe Factory and Dumke Black Box
Salt Lake’s third annual Fringe Festival comprised eight days, more than 40 shows and 200 performances and is held in several states across the nation. … read more
Film Review: mother!
Despite the more literal aspects of its storyline and the parallels to Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby, mother! isn’t entirely centered on Mother’s pregnancy. … read more
Dying in Vein: The Opiate Generation
After watching Dying in Vein, a documentary directed by local filmmaker Jenny Mackenzie, it doesn’t look like much has changed as far as anti-drug education in Utah. … read more
Bruce Campbell in: The Worst Interview Ever
Now, Bruce Campbell is on tour promoting his new book, Hail to the Chin, while presenting his geek-based trivia show, Last Fan Standing, to all 35 stops. … read more
Inflammable Material: Jake Burns of Stiff Little Fingers
Celebrating 40 years of roots-radical anthems, Stiff Little Fingers are still going strong. In 2014, they released their 10th studio album, No Going Back, through Pledge Music, and toured alongside Bad Religion and The Offspring, with a followup solo tour in 2015. … read more
Collin Williams: My Suicide Note — A Dark Stand-Up Comedy Show
As a comic, Williams’ coping skills were to make jokes of everything around him. He has seen the other side of suicide, too, as he’d been at the bedside of a friend who attempted it as well. He was thinking, “I can keep trying to kill myself, or I could turn this into a show. And then I tried both.” … read more
Perturbator, Visigoth, Darklord @ Metro 09.06
The show Kent provides is an energizing blend of madness and melodic trance worth the ringing ears and mechanized nightmares. … read more
Film Review: Menashe
Upon watching Joshua Weinstein’s Sundance Film Festival selection Menashe, it was clear just how little I really knew about Hasidic Judaism. … read more
Creature Feature: Kay Bye
Originally from sunny Southern California, Samuel Mckitty, aka Kay Bye, like her name might imply, is a sassy queen full of attitude and cartoon glamour. … read more
SLUG Style: Gerda Saunders
Gerda Saunders is a retired educator and was formerly Associate Director of the Gender Studies program at the University of Utah. … read more
An Evening You Might Forget: Steve Martin & Martin Short @ Eccles Theater 08.27
Between Martin Short’s hopping-on-one-foot dancing and Steve Martin’s poised banjo playing, the night had a lot of “stomp” to it. … read more
