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Annual VegFest Hits Salt Lake and Redefines ‘Veganism’

By Alison Myers, Arts Writer September 18, 2019

It’s a bright and blue day at Library Square as a toasting sun warms one of the year’s last summer weekends. The festival has attracted a wide assortment of people from around the state. Looking around,...

Up Close and Personal: The Pioneer Theatre Company Prepares an Intense and Engaging Season of Plays and Musicals

Up Close and Personal: The Pioneer Theatre Company Prepares an Intense and Engaging Season of Plays and Musicals

By Alison Myers, Arts Writer September 10, 2019

  Live theatre offers an authenticity that we can truly appreciate in the light of polished television and movies. To be sure, the experiences are unique enough to hardly be comparable and the...

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The Fabric of Our Culture: Ethical Shopping

By Alison Myers, Arts Writer August 27, 2019

Back to school clothes shopping is a parenthood obsession. Don’t I already have clothes? Yes, but this is the season’s excuse for consumerism. As a kid, the task seemed useless. Now, it seems reckless....

John Scheib, Dean of the College of Fine Arts (Courtesy University of Utah College of Fine Arts)

The Department of Fine Arts: The Good, the Good and the Predominately Good

By Alison Myers, Arts Writer August 24, 2019

  New Year’s Day marks a definitive divide between pride for the accomplished and hopes that the next year will reel in even greater satisfaction. Of course, it’s not New Year’s, and that’s...

Kirby Dorsey Releases Debut Album Kool Kid

Kirby Dorsey Releases Debut Album ‘Kool Kid’

By Alison Myers, Arts Writer July 23, 2019

  Fun — that’s what it feels like. From the first track, Kirby Dorsey’s “Kool Kid” seems to drag you in with a wink. The intro harkens back to elementary school, opening with a kid declaring...

Photo by Cameron Gott.

Alt-Country Band American Aquarium comes to the Metro Music Hall

By Alison Myers, Arts Writer June 19, 2019

  Maturing as an artist comes with a clearer sense of one's place in the world and the audience one reaches. For BJ Barham, the leader of the alternative-country band American Aquarium, this evolution...

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The Changing Face of Science Fiction

By Alison Myers, Arts Writer June 13, 2019

  Here’s the scenario — the civil rights movement is blazing across America, kids are being shipped in scads to fight a war that grows increasingly unethical every day and television has never...

Queer Spectra Arts Festival Opens Door to Vital Conversation

Queer Spectra Arts Festival Opens Door to Vital Conversation

By Alison Myers, Arts Writer June 11, 2019

  A panel of artists lines up, standing and sitting, against a white backdrop. The unusual suspects. “You can’t be what you can’t see,” Rhonda Kinard, a member of the Americana folk band...

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Grand Theatre’s ‘West Side Story’ Feels Tired but True

By Alison Myers, Arts Writer May 19, 2019

  As iconic as Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is for its star-crossed-lover syndrome, what makes it so iconic is that it's a commentary on prejudice. This commentary has been replicated...

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To Binge or Not to Binge Episode 54: ‘The Expanse’

By Alison Myers, Arts Writer May 19, 2019

  For me, summer constitutes a time to remember that I actually do care about learning, despite what my spring semester attitude might say otherwise. I exchange assigned books for ones that have...

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