Culturally, growing up in the 1980s is not a subject of conversation that one holds bragging rights. In fact, many people, including myself, have dubbed it the “What the hell were we thinking” decade. I won’t say the decade was all bad, it most certainly wasn’t; but artistic freedom was palpable as bong hits and bongo...
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Author Timothy Jay Smith
Set in a fictitious West African nation, though very much derived from cultural and social aspects plaguing the continent, Timothy Jay Smith’s action-thriller, Cooper’s Promise, tells of a U.S. soldier’s inherent need for redemption, both patriotically and personally. Swift in delivery, yet beckoning...
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Playwright Brighde Mullins bends the basis of nature versus nurture in her new play Rare Bird. Having no apparent ties to Utah, Mullins, a graduate of Yale University and a professor at University of Southern California, granted the world premiere production of Rare Bird to the University of Utah Department of Theatre. (A...
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Who’da thunk scrapbooking could be so titillating?
Utah’s most progressive Mormon housewife is, once again, packing ‘em in hard and tight. A rolling tide of adoring fans, and a few guppies, flooded the Chapel Theatre for a preview performance of the world premiere of Dottie — The Sister Lives On! at the Salt...
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It has become clear that higher education in Utah has finally spread its wings in terms of the arts, typically underappreciated and ridiculed disciplines, especially when it comes to controversial subject matter. And here, I’m speaking of the performing arts, and solely in particular Westminster College’s regional premiere of...
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Having being criticized for stereotyping, the buzzed-about new gay film, Weekend, is guilty of said criticism, but it is so much more than that, and it deserves to be shared. Yes, many people will likely find the drug-and-alcohol-driven “hook-up” between the main, and for all intent, sole characters of British writer/director...
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