Eleven awards were announced today in the Fear No Film portion of the Utah Arts Festival, including a Grand Jury Prize, Utah Best Short Film, three honorable mentions, and the best film in each of the six categories around which the film festival was organized. A festival jury of film-making and media industry peers along [...]

Editor’s Note: Day 9 of The Selective Echo’s coverage of the Utah Arts Festival features award winners for the artists’ marketplace, the IronPen competitions, and the Art Attack 5K run. Later today, the 11 awards of the Fear No Film portion of the festival will be announced including the Grand Jury prize, three honorable mentions, [...]

DID YOU KNOW? Pelo Telefone (1917), by Donga and Mauro Almeida, is generally considered the first samba recording. Well before Samba Fogo’s daily 9:30 p.m. performance in the round theater near the City Library, hundreds of Utah Arts Festival visitors already have packed the outdoor venue, anxiously awaiting the 40-member dance and musical troupe which [...]