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Skiing: Biathlete wins two national titles

By By Paige Fieldsted and By Paige Fieldsted • March 27, 2008

Although the ski team's season ended a couple of weeks ago, cross-country skier Annelies Cook has been hard at work. Last weekend at the North American/U.S. National Championships in Coleraine, Minn., her hard work paid off as Cook won two national biathlon titles.

Institute students honor favorite professor

By and • March 27, 2008

Gregory Owens hasn't been teaching at the U for long, but students seem to have taken a liking to his interactive teaching style. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Institute of Religion at the U recently chose Owens as the recipient of its annual Excellence in Education Award.

Football: Returning the favor

By By Cody Brunner and By Cody Brunner • March 27, 2008

The U athletic budget just got a little bigger. Former Utah standout and current Carolina Panthers star wide receiver Steve Smith was on campus Wednesday afternoon to pledge a $250,000 donation to the athletics department to endow a scholarship for a wide receiver.

Stop-Loss’ hammers it home

By By Rachel Adams and By Rachel Adams • March 27, 2008

There are times when every moviegoer has to admit that he or she isn't completely objective in his or her judgments. I'll admit that there are less-than-objective reasons I gave this movie such a low score. One, I hate war movies. Two, I'm tired of all the war movies.

21′ is a bust

By By Sam Potter and By Sam Potter • March 27, 2008

OK, I think we get it. Las Vegas is by and large a facade full of glitz and glamour, a cesspool of hedonistic pleasures to which people think they can escape but will ultimately bite them in the backside. It has become Hollywood's favorite backdrop for stories on the hubris of man, a way to show the greed and pride in all of us and the nasty results that follow if one chooses to pursue them.

Five reasons to get off your couch (3/27-4/2)

By and • March 27, 2008

"On most days, we view an image and instantly draw a conclusion about its meaning. We quickly move on with our lives, secure in our understanding of what we saw.

The Drop (3/27): Chronicle’s guide for the music store

By , , , and • March 27, 2008

Blacklisted began increasing the amount of good old rock 'n' roll style in its hardcore sound on 2007's Peace on Earth, War on Stage E.P., but Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God turns it up to 11.

U theater takes on passion and foreign culture with ‘Blood Wedding’

By and • March 27, 2008

"This play is about passion, it's about violence, it's about honor," said Actor Training Program junior Leticia Vélez of the U theater department's current Babcock production. In her fifth and final play at the U, Vélez said the 20th century "Blood Wedding" by Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca "has been the most intense show" in which she has performed.

World renowned cellist to perform at Libby Gardner Hall

By By Christie Franke and By Christie Franke • March 27, 2008

The Virtuoso Series is here again, this time with professional cellist Colin Carr as its main attraction. Tonight, Carr will take audiences in the Libby Gardner Concert Hall by storm. How, you ask? Well, there was once a composer named Beethoven. He wrote extraordinarily passionate music including a series of works for cello and piano.

The Word (3/27-4/2): Chronicle’s guide to the SLC music scene

By By Makena Walsh and By Makena Walsh • March 27, 2008

Lake of Falcons is better than your average indie rock trio. Think Built to Spill tempered by Fugazi and mixed with a touch of Northwest grunge -- the indie rocker's perfect gramophone cocktail.