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Demi Lovato in her YouTube documentary series “Dancing With the Devil.” (Courtesy OBB Media)

Review: Demi Lovato’s ‘Dancing with the Devil… The Art of Starting Over’

By Heather Graham, Assistant Copy Chief, Arts Writer April 21, 2021

  Demi Lovato has walked into 2021 and laid herself bare before the world to tell her truths. Her emotionally heavy YouTube documentary “Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil” directed by Michael...

A tourist wears a protective mask at Biffi Restaurant in Galleria Vittorio, Milan, amid coronavirus fears. (Photo by Valeria Ferraro | Courtesy Getty Images)

Alexander: Let’s Keep Mask Mandates — at Least in Restaurants

By CJ Alexander, Special Projects Managing Editor April 21, 2021

  Utah lifted the statewide mask mandate on April 10, and as a server at an Ogden restaurant, I am less than thrilled. For one, I’m not vaccinated yet, and neither are the majority of my coworkers....

UnSafe U protesters gather at the Public Safety Building on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City to protest the actions of officers involved in the Lauren McCluskey case on Aug. 6, 2020. (Chronicle archives)

Incoming ASUU Administration Discusses Plans to Defund Campus Police

By Jack O'Leary, News Writer April 21, 2021

  On April 20, the ASUU Diversity Board held a zoom panel with the incoming Wojciechowski administration to discuss defunding campus police. It's been an ongoing conversation at the University...

Rae Duckworth speaks about the guilty verdict for former police officer Derek Chauvin at the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building on April 20, 2021. (Photo by Natalie Colby | Daily Utah Chronicle)

Protesters Take to the Streets to Celebrate and Continue the Fight after Derek Chauvin is Found Guilty

By Natalie Colby and Kayleigh Silverstein April 21, 2021

After deliberating for just over 10 hours on April 20, 2021, a Minneapolis jury found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd. The news came almost 11 months after a teenage...

Department of Public Safety on Campus in Salt Lake City.

Officers Involved in McCluskey Case Claim They Were Mistreated by the U, Prepare for $10 Million Lawsuit

By Kayleigh Silverstein, Special Projects Managing Editor, News Writer April 21, 2021

  Months after the University of Utah settled a $13.5 million lawsuit with Lauren McCluskey’s parents, five officers involved in McCluskey’s case sent a notice of claim to the U claiming they...

Amber Ruffin for "The Amber Ruffin Show." (Photo by Mary Ellen Matthews | Courtesy Peacock)

‘The Amber Ruffin Show’ Is Slated for a Second Season

By Hannah Keating, Arts Editor April 21, 2021

  “The Amber Ruffin Show” is the newest program in NBC’s late-night lineup and one of the only to have garnered a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes for its first season. After a limited run...

University of Utah redshirt junior Jayden Kiernan (26) in an NCAA baseball game vs. Washington State at Smith's Ballpark in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 10, 2021.

Utah Baseball Takes Down UVU in Midweek Game

By Justin Prather, Sports Writer April 20, 2021

  The University of Utah baseball team traveled down to Orem for a midweek game against the Utah Valley University Wolverines on Tuesday, April 20. The Utes desperately needed a win after a three-game...

Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman star in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." (Courtesy Netflix)

Opening Up the Oscars: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Celebrates 1920s Blues

By Cade Anderson, Arts Writer April 20, 2021

  Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman shine beyond measure in George Wolfe’s film adaptation of the 1982 play by August Wilson. “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” released on Netflix on...

Internet 2021 (Photo by Hailey Danielson | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Alexander: Utahns Need Free Internet Access

By CJ Alexander, Special Projects Managing Editor April 20, 2021

  The pandemic’s grasp on the United States has offered us insight into our infrastructure’s failures and instability. Many of our institutions, services and governments have been unable to...

The Salt Lake City and County Building located in downtown Salt Lake City. (Photo by Jalen Pace | Daily Utah Chronicle)

Soter: It’s Time for a New Salt Lake Homeless Shelter

By Theadora Soter, Multimedia Managing Editor April 20, 2021

  Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has been in office since early 2020, and decreasing homelessness has been at the center of her agenda. Thanks to a growing population and an economic crisis,...