Archive for October, 2008
Chad Midgley’s off-season downtown produce offerings include summer-fresh surprises
0 Comments Published by les October 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized.The Selective Echo blog readers know, from past posts, just how resourceful Chad Midgley, the gentleman farmer from West Bountiful, manages to be during the off-season after the Downtown Farmers’ Market has closed for the year. In fact, the long, mild autumn has strengthened his diversified fresh produce offering and customers will be able to [...]
SLC Film Center to present La Ofrenda: The Days of The Dead
0 Comments Published by les October 30th, 2008 in Uncategorized.“In this Day of the Dead celebration, people mock death and gender and whatever else
needs a little push.” — La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead
A remarkably resilient 1988 hour-long documentary of the Days of the Dead celebrations ranging from small Mexican village Indian temples to San Francisco’s Mission District will be screened in a [...]
Is McCain getting a bum deal in media coverage?
0 Comments Published by les October 29th, 2008 in Uncategorized.Years ago, the athletic director at the university where I was doing public relations shared his frustrations with our staff concerning the sports coverage in the major metropolitan daily newspaper. Complaining that it seemed consistently unfair and rarely balanced, he asked the sports information director to schedule a lunch confab with the newspaper’s sports editor. [...]
