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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 [...]