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The Runnin’ Utes light the U after defeating the BYU Cougars at Jon M. Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Dec. 09, 2023. (Photo by Xiangyao “Axe” Tang | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Utah Men’s Basketball Takes Down Washington State to Open Up Conference Play

By Kyle Garrison, Assistant Sports Editor January 1, 2024

  The Utah men's basketball team opened up Pac-12 play with a dominating 80-58 win over a Washington State team that entered the game with an impressive 9-2 record. Utah held just a 2-point lead...

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A Look at Cafe on First’s Community Board

By Josi Hinds, News Editor December 30, 2023

  Cafe on First is a coffee roaster and cafe located in the Lower Avenues. Inside you’ll probably see groups of friends chatting or studying together, people from the neighborhood running in...

Students from the Utah Ballet Department perform in a dress rehearsal in the Marriott Center for Dance on campus on Nov. 4, 2015. (Photo via the Daily Utah Chronicle Archive)

A Natural Pairing: Sexuality and the Arts

By Grier Abercrombie, Arts Writer December 27, 2023

  The University of Utah has a strong arts presence on campus with several performing arts centers and widely-known arts departments. One such department is the School of Dance, with its renowned...

The Utah Utes cheer after the 2023 Las Vegas Bowl at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, NV on Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023. (Photo by Xiangyao “Axe” Tang | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Las Vegas Bowl: Utah Football Falls to Northwestern in Defensive Battle

By Abbey Thomas and Sean Overton December 23, 2023

The University of Utah football team (8-5, 5-4 Pac-12) faced Northwestern in the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl in their last game as a member of the Pac-12. Not only was this game historic for the...

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Leveling the Playing Field One Whistle at a Time

By Kyle Garrison, Assistant Sports Editor December 23, 2023

  On Oct. 31, 1997, the first-ever female referee officiated an NBA game. The woman who made it possible is Violet Palmer. Palmer was a longtime WNBA referee but was never given the opportunity...

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Letting Women Be Women in Entertainment

By Haley Freeman, Arts Writer December 22, 2023

  The arts haven’t always been equal. Gender roles that began with familial standards of men working and women raising children kept women from performing onstage until the 18th century. The...

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The Utah Starzz: Salt Lake’s Forgotten WNBA Franchise

By Jonah Marriott, Sports Writer December 21, 2023

The year was 1997. Titanic was the biggest movie in the world, Bill Clinton was president and a brand new sports league had just begun play: the Women’s National Basketball Association. The WNBA focused...

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Cozy Book Recommendations for Sweater Weather

By Grier Abercrombie, Arts Writer December 19, 2023

  Sweater weather is upon us. Now is the perfect time to get away from the cold Utah weather by escaping into the expansive worlds of fiction. Several genres come to mind when imagining fall...

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We Need to Talk About Porn

By Luke Jackson December 19, 2023

  Porn is a heavy and, honestly, culturally ugly term. There’s a lot of baggage and wincing at the sheer mention of it. As much as some of us (in the state of Utah) like to pretend that it doesn’t...

(Courtesy of Studio Ghibli)

‘The Boy and the Heron’: Another Studio Ghibli Classic

By Ethan Blume, Arts Writer December 18, 2023

  Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, “The Boy and the Heron” is filled with many traditional Studio-Ghiblisms, including a young kid discovering a fantastical world, 1940s Japan, cute creatures,...