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Finding a context for Utah’s love of online porn

0 Comments Published by les February 28th, 2009 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Politics, Salt Lake City.

Harvard Business School’s Benjamin Edelman has published a study in a recent issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives that raises some compelling questions: “Do consumption patterns of online adult entertainment reveal two separate Americas? Or is the consumption of online adult entertainment widespread, regardless of legal barriers, potential for embarrassment, and even religious conviction?” [...]

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Plan-B’s ‘Block 8′ traverses the razor’s edge of racism and war with honest, realistic portrayals

0 Comments Published by les February 22nd, 2009 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Performing Arts, Salt Lake City, Theater.

Editor’s Note: Peter Golub, a young gifted writer, editor and scholar whose work was the focus of a feature last month in The Selective Echo, is a guest reviewer for Plan-B’s current production of Block 8, a world premiere by playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett and director Jerry Rapier. The production continues to March 8 in [...]

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Quicksilver rhetoric and the pragmatic response

0 Comments Published by les February 21st, 2009 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Politics, Religion, Salt Lake City.

Utah’s Chris Buttars is hardly alone in this country when it comes to his fiercely homophobic sentiments. Oklahoma’s Sally Kern easily can match Buttars word for word. In Georgia, State Representative Charlice Byrd has proposed legislation that would “purge” the state’s colleges and universities of faculty members engaged in sociology courses and research dealing with [...]

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Plan-B Theatre, Utah AIDS Foundation stage timely reading of ‘The Normal Heart’ ---
Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez kindly provides some follow-up commentary to the reading of Larry Kramer’s work The Normal Heart staged by Plan-B Theatre and the Utah AIDS Foundation. In 1985, Kramer’s work clearly laid out the experiences of the earliest days of the AIDS crisis. Stark and brutal in themes, the play also faced down [...]
SLC filmmaker Andrew James finds a hopeful oasis in Detroit’s blighted landscape ---
‘It’s a war of little battles. The residents fight by lighting their yards, videotaping drug deals, harassing scrappers and chasing off thieves. Their enemy attacks in shocking ways. Like taking over the homes of bedridden old people. Like recruiting kids as dope-house spotters and runners. Like killing people’s dogs.’ – Detroitblogger John, Metro Times, 2010 [...]
Why Sandstrom’s proposed illegal immigration enforcement act is ‘Arizona Light’ ---
Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez, a regular correspondent lays out in concise, terse, brilliant form Stephen Sandstrom’s latest foray into making legislation that is ridiculously untenable and intellectually embarrassing. By the way, readers looking to make some intelligible sense of the mindset of Sandstrom and countless other elected officials on this particular issue, please consider Peter [...]
Pride redux: another Latino step forward ---
Editor’s Note: The following is a great piece by Mark Alvarez, our resident contributor who also is an attorney and a frequent commentator on immigration issue. Who says Latinos are slow for freedom? Argentina now has marriage equality. On Wednesday, Luis Majul wrote in his column (Spanish version) for the Argentine daily La Nación: The [...]
‘The Empress’, ‘X-ing’, ‘DemiUrge Emesis’ take top honors at Utah Arts Festival’s Fear No Film ---
Twelve awards were announced today in the Fear No Film portion of the Utah Arts Festival, including a Grand Jury Prize, Utah Short Film of The Year, Fear No Filmmaker Award, three honorable mentions, and the best film in each of six of seven categories around which the film festival was organized. The Empress by [...]