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Local news is laughable

By By Janice Kopaunik • August 24, 2007

The local media's handling of the tragedy of the trapped miners inside the Crandall Canyon Mine was a disaster and highlights a key problem I see with the "news." It is beginning to seem like the term "news" is used loosely with no connection to the related piece's newsworthiness.

Letter: Examine the benefits of diversity

August 24, 2007

Editor: I just got back from spending three months in Nicaragua. I was in search of "cultural identity" because my parents had to learn English and forget who they were when they came to America to fit in back in the '80s. They spoke to us in English and did things "the American way.

Show transit the love

August 24, 2007

Those on campus this summer were certainly accustomed to the chomping of concrete, the rising wave of fresh asphalt and the rolling commotion of construction that kept commuters on their toes. This brought many -- well, at least me -- to question, "Is this all necessary?" A hard-on for bulldozers and jackhammers isn't unique to the U.

Threat levels generate fear, not security

By By Luke Hinz • August 24, 2007

Late this summer, I was driving through the sleepy town of Tooele and I stopped at a local gas station. Osama bin Laden was nowhere within the recesses of my mind, and Iraq, for once, was equally distant from my train of thought -- that is, until I approached the gas station.

The Word: Chrony’s guide to the SLC music scene

By By Makena Walsh • August 23, 2007

August 23 Holy ruby rock socks! Portugal. The Man is the resurrection of The Grateful Dead in 2007, a rock-and-roll sance no doubt enacted during one of its Alaskan homeland's month-long periods of darkness. Gourley's high-pitched croon is almost as delightful as that of The Mars Volta's wailer, Cedric Bixler-Zavala.

Pulling punches

By By Danny Letz • August 23, 2007

Considerable risk is required in most life-altering ventures. Like Orson Welles' character states in "The Third Man," the milquetoast-neutrality of Switzerland has resulted in no cultural achievements in its 450-year history, outside the cuckoo clock. (Read: Safe bets aren't always the best.

Detroit rock city

By By Trevor Hale • August 23, 2007

Gaining popularity and respect as a cover band scares the hell out of a lot of musicians. To some, the cover band is the butt-end of the best musician jokes. The Detroit Cobras were never afraid of that label, though. It could be that the songs they choose to cover don't suck, or just that they make no apologies for being a damn good rock and roll band.

Cultural buffet — on stage

August 23, 2007

"I don't want to give this one away," said acting professor Barbara Smith, director of the U theatre department's upcoming production of Euripides' Helen. "Unlike a lot of Greek scripts, this one's really plot-driven," she said. Based on Helen of Troy and with a translation by Kenneth McLeish, Euripides' Helen elaborates on a tale suggested by the lyric poet Stesichorus.

The Drop: Don’t go to the music store without it

August 23, 2007

Blaqk Audio Cex Cells Interscope Three out of five stars The past few years have witnessed mobs of mascara-streaked, trust-funded hipsters stab the finer memories of '80s pop to death in their oft-dubbed "new wave revival." And it's clear that nothing from the new wave is half as brave or killer as the Depeche Mode tapes we all once snuck from our older sisters' ghetto blasters.

Take five and go get some culture

August 23, 2007

Thursday, Aug. 23 to Thursday, Aug. 30 "Life After Death: New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection" Salt Lake Art Center (20 S. West Temple) 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Free The Salt Lake Art Center's new exhibit displays works from one of the 20th century's most intirguiging artistic paradigms.