Editor’s Note: In the recent Salt Lake Magazine’s 11th Annual Dining Awards, The Metropolitan’s Culinary Collective represented by chefs Chris Durfee and Justin Shifflet took the 2009 honors for ‘Best Chef’. These two talented gentlemen graciously answered a few questions about spring menu planning. The Selective Echo is pleased to present their responses. SE: Besides [...]

‘Bigger, Stronger, Faster*’ is a surprising documentary in several respects. Hardly a clinical look at the use and allure of anabolic steroids, the 105-minute documentary, written and directed by Christopher Bell, examines the myths and obsessions of a nation’s simultaneous love and vilification of muscle-bound heroes. Bell not only chronicles his childhood heroes — athletes, [...]

In the arts, the greatest legends are born in unfinished work. In the Art of Fugue, written as the composer was going blind in the middle 1700s, Johann Sebastian Bach left the penultimate four-part fugue incomplete. All sorts of myths have been spun about its unfinished status. His physical incapacitation took over. It was intended [...]