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A SLAM-dunk success to close out Plan-B’s season

0 Comments Published by les May 31st, 2009 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Performing Arts, Salt Lake City, Theater.

For each of the five playwrights who had just 12 hours to pen a 10-minute play for Plan-B Theatre’s And The Banned Slammed On, a simple text message from producing director Jerry Rapier rightly tweaked the focus and the results were excellent and exciting. Wondering if they would need to stay faithful to the details [...]

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A few Wisconsin cheese stars find their deserved way into Caputo’s

0 Comments Published by les May 29th, 2009 in Business News, Cuisine, Salt Lake City.

In North America, even as more states encourage cheese producers to make artisanal products made from the milk of animals which graze in natural pastures, Wisconsin still holds sway in the continent’s most prestigious cheese competition sponsored by the American Cheese Society. In a show that easily draws more than 1,100 entries each year, Wisconsin [...]

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First-ever Playwrights’ Lab Recital is a bounty of writing talent

0 Comments Published by les May 28th, 2009 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Performing Arts, Politics, Salt Lake City, Theater.

New plays certainly are the life force of the theater and the playwright occupies a unique position among the industry of writers. For the audience to follow along and become engaged with the story being told on stage, the playwright’s responsibility and integrity must be borne out of passion and enthusiasm if the theatrical narrative [...]

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Utah short film ‘Boomtown’ by Torben Bernhard, Travis Low to premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ---
At its peak in the early 1880s, the Horn Silver Mine in Frisco, Utah was cited in the U.S. Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger as ‘unquestionably the richest silver mine in the world now being worked.’ Miriam B. Murphy, who has written frequently about Utah’s early history, described the town’s story as the perfect [...]
Pipilotti Rist documentary is good-mood entry for Creativity in Focus Series ---
Pipilotti Rist is a refreshingly gregarious artist as comfortable in her own eccentricities as she is in dealing with museum curators and security personnel who anxiously wonder about the logistical challenges her video art installations impose. However, the Swiss-born artist should not be underestimated because of her easy propensity for whimsy touches and occasional silliness. [...]
A New Year’s treat with Creminelli’s cotechino and lentils ---
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) There’s a wholesome earthiness about the New Year’s food traditions in virtually every culture. A particular personal favorite is lentils, of which [...]
Caputo’s chocolate collection celebrates the artisan maker’s capacity for disruptive innovation ---
‘The cacao you start the process with is the single most important factor in great quality, artisan chocolate, after that you rely on the skill of the chocolate maker to do the rest.’ – Martin Christy Look no further than the impressively diverse chocolate collection at Tony Caputo’s Market and Deli for the definitive example [...]
University of Utah’s Book Arts Program energizes a culture celebrating the printed word’s lasting value ---
‘Print is not dead. It is not even dying, at least not yet. Think of print like an overweight beast, shedding excess weight. The result is a leaner, more defined, more beautiful experience.’ – Kassia Krozser, 2010 Ingenuity never is scarce when it comes to the final student projects at the Book Arts Studio at [...]