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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

GlobalFEST Brings New Music From Around The World To Kingsbury Hall

GlobalFEST Brings New Music From Around The World To Kingsbury Hall

March 30, 2016

It can be all too easy to fall into a musical rut. Music sites like Pandora and Spotify do their best, but they don’t have everything. Every once in a while it’s good to push beyond your regular playlists...

Alana Kindness, left, and Christina Groves, middle, watch Rachel Groves, right, speak during The Sing Our Rivers Red Exhibit in the College of Social Work at the U on Friday, March 25, 2016. (Rishi Deka, Daily Utah Chronicle)

Sing Our Rivers Red Exhibit Memorializes Dead, Disappeared Native Women

March 28, 2016

Over 1,181 women have been murdered or have gone missing in Canada since 1980. One of the biggest reasons? They were all aboriginal, native to Canada. Their deaths and disappearances have left lasting...

Best Offbeat Netflix Movies to Watch During Spring Break

Best Offbeat Netflix Movies to Watch During Spring Break

March 13, 2016

Netflix is a godsend for college students. Not because it helps out with homework (because, let's be honest, no one with Netflix open is planning on getting any school work done), but because it provides...

City Creek Canyon, Wednesday, March 9th, 2016, Peter Creveling Utah Chronicle

Spring Break Staycations: Cruise Down City Creek Canyon

March 10, 2016

Spring Break is often seen as an either/or — you can either do something fun and exciting all week long, or you can do nothing — there is no in-between. Activities labeled “fun and exciting” include...

The Zions Bank Broadway at the Eccles launch event in Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday, Mar.3rd, 2016. (Rishi Deka, Daily Utah Chronicle)

The Arts are Alive and Well in Utah as New Theater Venue Opens

March 7, 2016

It seems no matter where you look, someone is claiming that the arts are dying. This phrase — scary to some and pleasing to others — seems to be increasingly popularity in dominant discourse. The 'death...

Music and Hilarity of A Gentlemans Guide Enchant Audiences at Kingsbury Hall

Music and Hilarity of “A Gentleman’s Guide” Enchant Audiences at Kingsbury Hall

March 3, 2016

The lights dim, and the audience's attention moves to a frame made of gold columns, which creates the perspective that there is a moving picture on Kingsbury Hall's larger stage. Live music begins to pour...

The Vagina Monologues Thoughtfully Deals With Funny and Sensitive Issues

“The Vagina Monologues” Thoughtfully Deals With Funny and Sensitive Issues

March 1, 2016

Audiences may have heard the word "vagina" more in two hours at the Fort Douglas Post Theater than they had in their lifetimes previous to that point. "The Vagina Monologues," a collection of read-aloud...

U Students Prepare Weekend Performances of The Vagina Monologues

U Students Prepare Weekend Performances of “The Vagina Monologues”

February 26, 2016

Sex education being what it is here in Utah, as well as in many other places around the United States, it is no wonder that people respond as strongly as they do to the word 'vagina.' Usually the word...

Murder, Music and Money: Gentlemans Guide Kills It On-Stage

Murder, Music and Money: “Gentleman’s Guide” Kills It On-Stage

February 25, 2016

Fresh off the Broadway stage, “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” is a ridiculously funny spoof on classical plays, music and ideas. Death after death after death combine with the hilarity of...

Octavio Campos Gives Lecture On Queer Performance Art

February 21, 2016

Attending lectures by artists, whether or not you identify as an artist yourself, is very rarely a bad idea because artists often present ways of thinking that others have never considered and which can...