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Tuscany’s 14-foot vineyard chandelier is an artistic and engineering marvel

0 Comments Published by les February 11th, 2010 in Art, Business News, Communication, Community Dialogue, Cuisine, Fine Art, SLC, Salt Lake City, Tourism.

The new 14-foot chandelier in the entry hall of Tuscany, the elegant Italian restaurant which sits in Holladay at the base of the Wasatch Mountains, is a marvel of the captivating art form of blown glass.
Its sheer magnitude — with a weight of two tons and 85 percent of that represented in pure crystal — [...]



Caffe d’bolla heads to Mountain Regional Barista Competition

0 Comments Published by les February 10th, 2010 in Business News, Coffee, Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Customer Service, SLC, Salt Lake City, Tourism.

Three years running, Caffe d’bolla will be Utah’s sole representative to the Mountain Regional Barista Competition to be held in Loveland, Colorado tomorrow (Feb. 11) through Sunday (Feb. 14).
Owners John and Yiching Piquet will use a two-bean blend consisting of Brazil Sweet Yellow Bourbon from Daterra Farms and an El Salvador bean from Finca [...]



Eight years after hosting Olympics, Salt Lake City and other Utah cities find fruitful legacy

0 Comments Published by les February 8th, 2010 in Business News, Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Public Relations, SLC, Salt Lake City, Tourism.

Although it has been eight years since Salt Lake City dispensed itself well as the host of the 2002 Winter Olympics, the city’s travel and tourism portfolio continues to benefit handsomely from the highly valued visibility of this global event as evidenced in previous Selective Echo posts here, here and here.
“We have an opportunity every [...]





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  • Laying the groundwork for a Utah march on immigration reform ---

    Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez has a first-hand account on the initial planning of the forthcoming Utah march for immigration reform. The event, scheduled for March 21, is taking shape.
    Saturday at Centro Cívico Mexicano, 155 S. 600 W. in Salt Lake City, several hundred Latinos met for Rumbo a la reforma migratoria or working towards immigration [...]

  • Plan-B Theatre: Wallace visible ---

    Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez, an attorney and writer who is a regular contributor to The Selective Echo, is guest reviewer for Plan-B Theatre’s world production of “Wallace.” He attended the opening night performance.
    Near the end of Plan-B Theatre’s ‘Wallace,’ Wallace Thurman stands on a wooden table surrounded by three chairs and a circle of [...]

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

    “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 [...]

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

    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 be [...]

  • Government from scratch ---

    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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