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"Honey" Album Cover (Courtesy Grand Jury Music)

Samia’s ‘Honey’ is A Vulnerable Indie Pop Experience

By Whit Fuller, Arts Writer February 3, 2023

  Samia’s third album “Honey” was released on Jan. 27. The singer’s latest brings home a moody blend of sadness, struggles and relationships overlaid with catchy melodies and hypnotically...

Boygenius during Rolling Stone photoshoot (Courtesy Rolling Stone)

The Rockin’ Ladies of Boygenius

By Eliza Delgado, Arts Editor February 2, 2023

  It’s been five years since indie supergroup Boygenius released their self-titled EP and now they are back with three new singles from their upcoming album “the record.” Boygenius Boygenius...

"The Daughter of the Regiment" at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Heather Hopkins | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Utah Opera Presents: Donizetti’s ‘The Daughter of the Regiment’

By Heather Hopkins January 31, 2023

  The Utah Opera cast shone in a heartwarming rendition of Gaetano Donizetti’s “The Daughter of the Regiment.” The opera is a story of unconventional familial love and loyalty amid the Napoleonic...

Jonathan Majors in "Magazine Dreams." (Photo by Glen Wilson | Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

Sundance 2023: ‘Magazine Dreams’: A Bodybuilder’s Downward Spiral

By Andre Montoya, Arts Writer January 30, 2023

Roids and Rage Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors), a quiet man watching over his grandfather and pursuing his dream of competitive bodybuilding, slowly, agonizingly spirals downward in “Magazine Dreams.”...

(Courtesy of The Sundance Institute)

Sundance 2023: ‘Run Rabbit Run’: Another Creepy Kid Movie

By Zach Anderson, Arts Writer January 29, 2023

  “Run Rabbit Run,” directed by Daina Reid, follows fertility doctor Sarah (Sarah Snook) and her troubled daughter Mia (Lily LaTorre). After losing her father, Sarah observes her daughter's...

Still from "The Amazing Maurice."

Sundance 2023: ‘The Amazing Maurice’: A Cat and Rat Caper

By Andre Montoya, Arts Writer January 29, 2023

  From Page To Screen Based on the book “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents” by Terry Pratchett and partially inspired by the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale of the “Pied Piper,”...

(Courtesy of the Sundance Institute and Matthieu Rytz)

Sundance 2023: ‘Deep Rising’: The Oceans Belong to No One

By Edie Raines, Copy Editor January 27, 2023

  Matthieu Rytz has returned to Sundance with another documentary showcasing the effects of climate change with his newest film “Deep Rising,” produced and narrated by Jason Momoa. What Lurks...

(Courtesy of The Sundance Institute)

Sundance 2023: ‘My Animal’: A Genre Melting Pot of Teen Self-Discovery

By Zach Anderson, Arts Writer January 27, 2023

  “My Animal” is a teen-wolf horror LGBTQ+ romance that follows hockey-playing werewolf Heather (Bobbi Salvör Menuez). Heather becomes an outcast due to her familial werewolf curse but finds...

(Courtesy Fox Maxy)

Sundance 2023: ‘Gush’: Everyone Should Make a Movie

By Luke Jackson January 27, 2023

  “Everyone should make a movie” said filmmaker Fox Maxy after the screening of her experimental film “Gush.” “The tools are right there, it’s exciting, it’s healing, it’s hard....

(Courtesy of the Sundance Institute and Babylon '13)

Sundance 2023: ‘Iron Butterflies’: A Thought-Provoking Look at Russian War Crimes

By Zach Anderson, Arts Writer January 26, 2023

  "Iron Butterflies," directed and produced by Kyiv residents Roman Liubyi and Andrii Kotliar, investigates the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 and the Russian's desperate attempts to...