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SLC Film Center presents 4 Utah screenings of ‘The Tillman Story’ with director Amir Bar-Lev

0 Comments Published by les May 17th, 2011 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Film, Politics, Pop Culture, Public Relations, Religion, Salt Lake City, SLC, Tourism.

Got people here down on their knees and prayin’ Hawks and doves are circlin’ in the rain Got rock and roll, got country music playin’ If you hate us, you just don’t know what you’re sayin’ — Neil Young, ‘Hawks and Doves,’ 1980 In a grand-scale orchestration of statecraft and stagecraft, Patrick Tillman, the former [...]

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Plan-B Theatre’s ‘Borderlands’ lifts the exploration of faith to a higher sense of purpose

1 Comment Published by les April 1st, 2011 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Performing Arts, Pop Culture, Religion, Salt Lake City, SLC, Theater, Tourism.

For those enduring the irreparable heartbreak of losing loved ones in a tragic accident or for those confronting the mental anguish of being told they are unworthy of divine promise because of a difference that can never be changed, the literalist tendencies to which virtually every religious faith of humankind bows toward carry a cruel, [...]

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A witness to faith: Plan-B Theatre’s ‘Borderlands’ sets out to explore ‘for those who wonder’

1 Comment Published by les March 27th, 2011 in Communication, Community Dialogue, Current Events, Performing Arts, Pop Culture, Religion, Salt Lake City, SLC, Theater.

On his Comedy Central television show, Stephen Colbert is distinctly postmodern in the way he discusses his devout faith to Catholicism. In a 2007 segment, standing next to a photo of Pope Benedict XVI, he highlighted the pope’s controversial statement that non-Catholic faiths were defective. ‘Catholicism is clearly superior. Don’t believe me? Name one Protestant [...]

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Utah short film ‘Boomtown’ by Torben Bernhard, Travis Low to premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival ---
At its peak in the early 1880s, the Horn Silver Mine in Frisco, Utah was cited in the U.S. Annual Mining Review and Stock Ledger as ‘unquestionably the richest silver mine in the world now being worked.’ Miriam B. Murphy, who has written frequently about Utah’s early history, described the town’s story as the perfect [...]
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 [...]
Caputo’s chocolate collection celebrates the artisan maker’s capacity for disruptive innovation ---
‘The cacao you start the process with is the single most important factor in great quality, artisan chocolate, after that you rely on the skill of the chocolate maker to do the rest.’ – Martin Christy Look no further than the impressively diverse chocolate collection at Tony Caputo’s Market and Deli for the definitive example [...]
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 [...]