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The Metropolitan’s ‘Best Chefs’ share smart spring menu tips

0 Comments Published by les March 31st, 2009 in Business News, Cuisine, Salt Lake City.

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 [...]

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Olympic gold medalist Derek Parra to join SLC Film Center presentation on steroid documentary

0 Comments Published by les March 26th, 2009 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Film, Salt Lake City.

‘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, [...]

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Plan-B’s ‘Di Esperienza’: An invitation to experiment on and off stage

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

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 [...]

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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 [...]