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Plan-B Theatre, Utah AIDS Foundation stage timely reading of ‘The Normal Heart’
0 Comments Published by les August 17th, 2010 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Contributors, Current Events, Performing Arts, Politics, Pop Culture, Salt Lake City, Theater.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 [...]
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SLC filmmaker Andrew James finds a hopeful oasis in Detroit’s blighted landscape
2 Comments Published by les August 16th, 2010 in Uncategorized.‘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 [...]
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Why Sandstrom’s proposed illegal immigration enforcement act is ‘Arizona Light’
1 Comment Published by les August 14th, 2010 in Business News, Communication, Community Dialogue, Contributors, Current Events, Politics, SLC, Salt Lake City.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 [...]
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