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Deseret News dead wrong on Mexico

0 Comments Published by les August 23rd, 2009 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Mexico, Politics, Salt Lake City.

Editor’s Note: The following by regular correspondent Mark Alvarez pinpoints a recent Deseret News editorial concerning the Mexican efforts in combating the drug cartels. Alvarez recently returned to Salt Lake City after spending two years in Mexico. The editorial is yet one more example of the generally shoddy quality of many mainstream editorials today in [...]

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NowPlayingUtah: Music and Celtic festivals for a late summer respite

0 Comments Published by les August 15th, 2009 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Music, Now Playing Utah, Performing Arts, Salt Lake City, Tourism.

Editor’s Note: The Selective Echo is pleased to offer a regular feature, in alternating weeks, of major events highlighted through NowPlayingUtah.com, the state’s first comprehensive source for unique arts and cultural events. Its features are distinctly user friendly — searchable calendar of events, highlights of directory listings for a wide array of organizations and venues [...]

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Regrouping after the lost decade: A sobering analysis

0 Comments Published by les August 13th, 2009 in Business News, Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Salt Lake City.

Amid the often irresponsibly conducted debate about health insurance reform arises a must-read report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) comparing the extent of the small business sector in the United States against other nations. And, the results are quite surprising. For a nation that historically has pegged its reputation on individualism, [...]

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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 [...]