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Franck’s intimate culinary and sensory presentation soothes with grace, warmth

0 Comments Published by les September 25th, 2009 in Business News, Cuisine, Customer Service, SLC, Salt Lake City, Tourism.

Editor’s Note: Peter Golub graciously stood in for me at a recent preview of Franck’s new fall menu in Salt Lake City. I’m pleased to offer his elegantly descriptive account of the dinner. In 2001, former Utah Jazz star Mark Eaton decided to find a chef de cuisine for his new business venture, a unique [...]

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Art, activism and adventure at Mestizo Coffeehouse

0 Comments Published by les September 24th, 2009 in Art, Communication, Community Dialogue, Contributors, Current Events, Fine Art, Hispanic heritage, SLC, Salt Lake City, Tourism.

Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez, a familiar name to regular Selective Echo readers, offers a good look at Mestizo, an increasingly important and prominent anchor in the city’s arts profile. Mestizo Coffeehouse and the Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts formed in 2003 to create art and to build community in Salt Lake City. This month, [...]

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A chorus of voices in ‘The Sonosopher’ and the story of Alex Caldiero

1 Comment Published by les September 20th, 2009 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Film, Performing Arts, Salt Lake City.

Editor’s Note: Utahns are getting a first look at an impressive biographical documentary film directed by Torben Bernhard and Travis Low, recent Utah Valley University graduates. The film explores the life, art, and the creative process of Alex Caldiero. More comfortable with the title of sonosopher as opposed to the more traditional tag of poet [...]

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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 [...]