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The mounting social, economic costs of Congress’ refusal to act on meaningful immigration reform

0 Comments Published by les October 30th, 2011 in Business News, Communication, Community Dialogue, Contributors, Current Events, Politics, Salt Lake City, SLC.

Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez, a Salt Lake City attorney, who frequently writes on immigration issues, is a guest correspondent for this piece which discusses the costs associated with the failure to move forward on comprehensive immigration reform. As always, it hits on the most acutely salient points in the current debate. Robert Altman’s “Nashville” begins [...]

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Plan-B Theatre’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ highlights timeless buffoonery of political ineptitude

0 Comments Published by les October 23rd, 2011 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Performing Arts, Politics, Pop Culture, Salt Lake City, SLC, Theater.

LADY MACBETH Don’t use your fake words on me. I answer to a higher law. What do you call that? When you hear God whispering in your ear? FOOL Substance abuse. –Aden Ross, 2011 At about the same time, ‘Amerika,’ was given its world premiere by Plan-B Theatre in 2006, Aden Ross had already begun [...]

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Utah’s HB116 will forever remain unconstitutional, unworkable, irresponsible

0 Comments Published by les June 8th, 2011 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Contributors, Politics, Salt Lake City, SLC.

Editor’s Note: The Selective Echo, with the wise contributions of Mark Alvarez, has consistently cited the flaws with the proposed state work permit program being put forward by HB 116 which the Utah Legislature passed and Gov. Gary Herbert signed. This bill also has been passionately advocated by the promoters of the deeply flawed Utah [...]

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Utah short film ‘Boomtown’ by Torben Bernhard, Travis Low to premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ---
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Pipilotti Rist documentary is good-mood entry for Creativity in Focus Series ---
Pipilotti Rist is a refreshingly gregarious artist as comfortable in her own eccentricities as she is in dealing with museum curators and security personnel who anxiously wonder about the logistical challenges her video art installations impose. However, the Swiss-born artist should not be underestimated because of her easy propensity for whimsy touches and occasional silliness. [...]
A New Year’s treat with Creminelli’s cotechino and lentils ---
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) There’s a wholesome earthiness about the New Year’s food traditions in virtually every culture. A particular personal favorite is lentils, of which [...]
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University of Utah’s Book Arts Program energizes a culture celebrating the printed word’s lasting value ---
‘Print is not dead. It is not even dying, at least not yet. Think of print like an overweight beast, shedding excess weight. The result is a leaner, more defined, more beautiful experience.’ – Kassia Krozser, 2010 Ingenuity never is scarce when it comes to the final student projects at the Book Arts Studio at [...]