A poet, a mathematician and a composer walk into a library, engage in a heated debate concerning the relative merits of their chosen fields and in the process find they have more in common than any of them could have ever imagined.

Utah ballet and modern dancers proved themselves to be mature artists in the Utah Ballet Special Event Performance, which ended last Saturday. But it was the out-of-towners8212;aka Germans8212;that provided the most excitement. Their piece, "Troy Games," startled the audience with a sensual and beautifully masculine performance.

U students hope to bring fellow filmmakers together with those across the nation by establishing a student-affiliate chapter of the David Lynch Foundation on campus.

For U music professor and composer Miguel Chuaqui, a career in music once seemed an unrealistic choice. Such ambition no longer seems frivolous, as Chuaqui has been named one of 12 winners in a prestigious international composition contest.

Going to college can be expensive8212;really expensive. But that doesn't mean extra-curricular activities are sitting around in the dark doing nothing. Here are a few tips to make life affordably more entertaining.

The opening credits montage for "Gentlemen Broncos," the latest from "Napoleon Dynamite" director Jared Hess, might be the most successful part of the film. The credits and titles are placed on the covers of a rotating selection of science fiction and fantasy paperbacks while the Zager and Evans tune "In the Year 2525" provides the soundtrack.

As we plunge into the season of traditions8212;jack-o'-lanterns giving way to turkey and stuffing, and supermarkets playing Christmas carols on repeat8212;the Eastern Arts student club is hosting "WorldDance 2009" to celebrate the ancient cultural traditions of Iran.

This year alone, the U Singers have sung in 13th-century churches, enormous underground caverns in Slovenia and the third-largest cathedral in Europe.

One of the most popular ways to write a screenplay for a film is to adapt the material from a book.

Ever since the Utah Museum of Fine Arts acquired its long sought-after sarcophagus, it's been trying to figure out a way to dust off its Egyptian collection and bring it back into the galleries after a three-year hiatus.