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
Vivienne Franzmann’s The Witness is more complex than your average family-conflict play: It explores themes of race, class and privilege within family. … read more
Jessica Rodriguez is the president of Latinos in Action at Cyprus High School, a local chapter of the national organization that empowers young Latino students toward educational and career success. When Rodriguez saw that some of her peers were denied the Presidential Service Award due to their undocumented status, Project Service is Service was born. … read more
For one night, the sounds, sights and flavors of Brazil will feel a little closer to home with Taste of Brazil, a program featuring Julliard Performance Conservatory graduates Dustin Gledhill on piano (of Hive Riot fame) and Lucas Pullin on guitar performing the music of 20th-century Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos at The Forge Collective on Aug. 6 at 7:30 p.m. … read more
Khensu’s beats are down-tempo and enticing, luring the listener in with deep bass lines, unrelenting hi-hats and snare drums. Drawing influence from a wide variety of sources, Khensu has created a sound that is unlike other producers’ in both the electronic music scene and the hip-hop world. … read more
Like many other artists before her, Bjorling draws deeply from nature and allows it to be her guiding force in each creation she puts forth. In this way, it’s as if the world is painting itself through her—all she has to do is pick up her brush. … read more
The gods of brutality and legend have given great gifts to Salt Lake City this year by way of the whispered household names of the extreme metal underground. Enter Nile, part of the Summer Slaughter Tour—a tour boasting maximum brutality—crushing The Complex in Salt Lake City on Aug. 6. … read more
Regatta Garage, along with local builders Pangea Speed, Salt City Builds, Bang Moto and others, will be displaying custom bike builds at the upcoming Craft Lake City DIY Festival on Sunday, Aug. 14, as a special preview in conjunction with the motorcycle and art show Salty Bike Revival (SBR). … read more
Emerging during the second wave of the British punk revolution in 1979, The Newtown Neurotics were formed by frontman and guitarist Steve Drewett and boast songs that have openly radical themes commenting on equality, oil depletion, misogyny and unemployment, long before such rhetoric had made its way into mainstream discussion. … read more
An event so terrible … so horrifying … … read more
For artists like Dumb Luck, making music is a multifaceted expression of life and experience. There are no set rules for style, no stipulations nor boundaries that an artist has to fit into. Instead, music is a mirror, a vehicle for expressing one’s own life experience, a way to tell a story. … read more
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
