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NowPlayingUtah: Park Silly Sunday Market, Cellomania, and tomato sandwiches

0 Comments Published by les September 4th, 2009 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Cuisine, Current Events, Music, Now Playing Utah, Salt Lake City, Tourism, Youth Organizations.

Editor’s Note: The Selective Echo is pleased to offer a regular feature, in alternating weeks, of major events highlighted through NowPlayingUtah.com, the state’s first comprehensive source for unique arts and cultural events. Its features are distinctly user friendly — searchable calendar of events, highlights of directory listings for a wide array of organizations and venues [...]

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NowPlayingUtah: Music and Celtic festivals for a late summer respite

0 Comments Published by les August 15th, 2009 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Music, Now Playing Utah, Performing Arts, Salt Lake City, Tourism.

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NowPlayingUtah: Bikeriders, politicians, The Mikado make for summer diversions

0 Comments Published by les July 9th, 2009 in Art, Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Fine Art, Music, Now Playing Utah, Performing Arts, Pop Culture, Salt Lake City, Tourism.

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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 [...]