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The notion of home for two Wallaces at heart of Plan-B’s adventurous world premiere production

0 Comments Published by les February 28th, 2010 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Performing Arts, Pop Culture, SLC, Salt Lake City, Theater.

“My habits and the unchanging season sustain me. Evil is what questions and disrupts. … I started to establish the present and the present moved on. What I established is already buried under layers of tape. Before I can say I am, I was. … Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless [...]

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Ellsberg, Burma, Mideast on deck for SLC Film Center documentary screenings

0 Comments Published by les February 23rd, 2010 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Film, Politics, Pop Culture, SLC, Salt Lake City, Tourism.

The SLC Film Center continues its impressive series of first-rate documentaries in a fresh wave of free, public screenings wisely timed for their topical urgency. First on deck is the Oscar-nominated 2009 film, “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers,” directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith. The film will [...]

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Government from scratch

0 Comments Published by les February 19th, 2010 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Politics, SLC, Salt Lake City.

Editor’s Note: Salt Lake City attorney and writer Mark Alvarez, familiar to Selective Echo readers for his occasional columns, offers a terse yet highly instructive commentary on government. In particular, readers should pay close attention to the last several paragraphs. Absolutely. This game must be changed. As Andrew Sullivan occasionally notes, in the halls of [...]

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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 [...]