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‘Where Art Lives’: A grand preview of the 34th Utah Arts Festival

0 Comments Published by les June 20th, 2010 in Art, Communication, Community Dialogue, Cuisine, Current Events, Education, Film, Fine Art, Music, Performing Arts, Photography, Pop Culture, SLC, Salt Lake City, Theater, Tourism, Youth Organizations.

Editor’s Note: The Selective Echo will present nine days of in-depth coverage of the 34th annual Utah Arts Festival, beginning today. Previews of various events and activities will be followed by frequent updates and spotlight features during the festival. There will be more than 20 feature articles and 100 images. Each day’s coverage also will [...]

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Plan-B Theatre’s ‘Amerigo’ aims at the wacky zeitgeist of the American identity

1 Comment Published by les April 3rd, 2010 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Education, Mexico, Performing Arts, Politics, Pop Culture, SLC, Salt Lake City, Theater, Tourism.

In the forthcoming world premiere of Plan-B Theatre’s “Amerigo,” playwright Eric Samuelsen relies, in significant part, on comedy to highlight fundamental issues of American identity for a robust debate between Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci, as moderated by Niccolo Machiavelli and adjudicated by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a Mexican lesbian nun, playwright and [...]

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Outdoor Nation’s unprecedented campaign to ensure no child is left inside

1 Comment Published by les January 20th, 2010 in Business News, Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Education, SLC, Salt Lake City, Tourism, Youth Organizations.

No one can doubt the most obvious health implications – obesity and diabetes, to just name a couple – being experienced by a generation of American youth who seem perfectly at ease settling into a sedentary lifestyle where avatars and virtual reality more frequently replace direct visceral contact with nature, adventure, and physical exercise. Yet, [...]

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Caputo’s new 15th and 15th store in SLC satisfies a lot of dreams ---
There was a time when Matt Caputo dreamed of turning his father’s business – Tony Caputo’s Market and Deli – into a chain of 100 stores or more. Chalk it up to impertinent youthful exuberance. After all, it was exciting to see his father’s business grow into Salt Lake City’s most important center for fine [...]
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 [...]