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The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

Alex Vermillion Explores Language and Identity

Alex Vermillion Explores Language and Identity

February 8, 2016

How often do you stop and analyze the thousands upon thousands of words you use each day? Do you often think about how language is evolving or how your use of words can deny other people access to conversations? For...

Alternative Media Monday: Experience London Performances for Cheap with Digital Theatre

Alternative Media Monday: Experience London Performances for Cheap with Digital Theatre

February 8, 2016

It’s rather unfortunate most of the greatest performances in English theatre are in London, given the average trip there typically costs more than $3,000, room and board not included. Fortunately for...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Movie Review

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Movie Review

February 7, 2016

Mr. Darcy, the hero of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, has needed a good kick to the head for the past 203 years for his jerk-ish behavior. And in “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” the heroine...

Alternative Media Monday: Try Out Being a Mythical Beast with Choice of the Dragon

Alternative Media Monday: Try Out Being a Mythical Beast with “Choice of the Dragon”

February 1, 2016

Let’s face it, life would be better as a dragon. There wouldn’t be any midterms or finals, there’d be piles of gold everywhere and you could just eat all of the people who annoy you. Unfortunately,...

The Leopard Gecko at Geckos Live! at the Natural History Museum of Utah at the U in Salt Lake City, Utah on Saturday, Jan. 30th, 2016. (Rishi Deka, Daily Utah Chronicle)

“Geckos Live!” Reveals Art in Nature

February 1, 2016

At first glance, it’s almost unbelievable that geckos are real, let alone a natural product of evolution. In spite of their bulging eyes, sticky toes and detachable tail and skins, there’s something...

High school students from around Salt Lake City engage in a Q&A after viewing Life, Animated during the Sundance Film Festival, Wednesday January 27, 2016 (Mike Sheehan, Daily Utah Chronicle).

“Life, Animated” Smashes Stereotypes Surrounding Autism Spectrum

January 28, 2016

It’s a common stereotype in films and television that people on the autism spectrum remain perpetually child-like, innocent and completely incapable of having any kind of autonomous life. The Sundance...

What I Thought I Saw Exhibit Looks to Crush Stereotypes and Expectations

“What I Thought I Saw” Exhibit Looks to Crush Stereotypes and Expectations

January 27, 2016

Written by Megan Hulse This week through Friday, Jan. 29, the Honors College is hosting a photography exhibit titled “What I Thought I Saw” in the lobby of the Donna Garff Marriott Honors Center....

Little Gangster a Hilarious and Innovative Lesson Against Bullying

“Little Gangster” a Hilarious and Innovative Lesson Against Bullying

January 26, 2016

“Little Gangster” is a foreign language children’s film that captivated a theater full of high school students and made them laugh — a lot. It’s easy to see why. Based on a little-known children’s...

Visitors attend the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Saturday, January 23, 2016

Finding Themes in Sundance Films

January 25, 2016

The controversy over Daniel Radcliffe’s farting corpse character in “Swiss Army Man.” The hubbub over celebrities being a mere 30 minutes away from campus. The crowds desperate to get into that one...

Visitors walk by artists booths and at the Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City, Saturday, June 27, 2015.

Utah Arts Festival Calls for Literary Artists

January 25, 2016

Although the 2016 Utah Arts Festival is still months away, literary artists interested in performing and getting paid for doing so at the weekend-long celebration of creative talent need to apply by Friday,...