Posted // May 22,2012  - Is another origin story necessary? In case you missed the trailer for it that was attached to The Avengers, there’s a n ...

Posted // May 15,2012  - Thanos: The bad guy is everywhere Villains—in comic books, certainly, but in narratives in general—are always th ...

Posted // May 7,2012  - Prometheus viral marketing sleek, smart The movie I’m most excited for this summer movie season—after Marvel’s T ...

Posted // May 1,2012  - More than just freebies Every year, comic-book stores across the country open their doors and hand out comics to a ...

Posted // April 24,2012  - Learn secret-keeping etiquette To my mind, there are few things worse than being told the ending to a movie or book befor ...

Posted // April 16,2012  - Read up on the superhero team With less than a month to go before The Avengers film, it’s about time we sit down a ...

Posted // April 10,2012  - What makes a juicy movie trailer On March 30, a 30-second television trailer for The Avengers was released, and was consume ...

Posted // April 3,2012  - Let movie version be a movie Just about any big reader will tell you the book is always better than the movie adaptatio ...

Posted // March 20,2012  - Big fun at little Comic-Con There has been a renaissance of geek culture in the Salt Lake City area in the past few ye ...

Posted // March 13,2012  - Meet the villain of The Dark Knight Rises The third installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman saga, The Dark Knight Rises, hit ...

Posted // May 21,2012  - New book tells stories of individual LDS members I normally try to avoid hearing what other people think about a book before reviewing it&m ...

Posted // February 6,2012  - Emily Pearson's memoir of an unbelievable life It probably sounds like a cliché to say that Emily Pearson’s memoir Dancing W ...

Posted // December 26,2011  - Trio of new books explores LDS beliefs Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman Jr. have both had to answer plenty of questions about Mormon ...

Posted // October 31,2011  - Utah author creates the back story The classic Dickens tale A Christmas Carol begins with the sentence, “Marley was dea ...

Posted // August 9,2011  - Author explores polygamy in new book For journalists, that mysterious line called “objectivity” is fragile under th ...

Posted // July 5,2011  - Celebrate local fringe arts The Salt Lake City Main Library’s zine collection was founded in 1997 principally by ...

Posted // May 30,2011  - New conversion-themed LDS books The conversion process is a great vehicle for storytelling: the immersion into new ideas; ...

Posted // May 24,2011  - Exploring “The American Century” The new novel from author (Union Dues) and filmmaker (Matewan, Eight Men Out, Lone Star) J ...

Posted // April 4,2011  - Faking With Style: A Utah contributor helps @FakeAPStylebook fans to Write More Good. In 2009, the Twitter feed @FakeAPStylebook launched as a satire of the guide for journalis ...

Posted // January 3,2011  - A preview of upcoming works from local authors. If you haven’t finished 2010’s reading list, ditch it—because 2011 is sh ...

Posted // August 1,2011  - Comedian still pushing boundaries Humor and controversy have often gone hand in hand, with comedians like Lenny Bruce and Ge ...

Posted // April 13,2011  - And That’s the Truth: Lily Tomlin still embraces her classic characters after more than 40 years. It is sometimes difficult to imagine what entertainment legends were like before they beca ...

Posted // February 14,2011  - Comedian/podcaster Marc Maron isn’t afraid to let comedy get uncomfortably candid. Self-revelation has been a staple of comedy at least since Lenny Bruce, but Marc Maron tak ...

Posted // May 12,2010  - Serious Comedy: Former second-to-Last Comic Standing Marcus is set to bite The Hand That Feeds. Marcus talks about his stint on NBC’s Last Comic Standing as if it happened a decade ...

Posted // April 7,2010  - Medium Energy: Comedian Todd Barry creates high comedy with a low-key approach. You’ll be forgiven for not knowing comedian Todd Barry by name, but chances are you& ...

Posted // September 23,2009  - Totally Unmolested: Pot comic Doug Benson operates under the radar. Benson is a pot comic. Whether or not you're a toker, you know exactly what that means, al ...

Posted // April 15,2009  - What the Heckled?: Don’t be surprised if the comedy of Christopher Stephenson, Bob Montana and Levi Rounds pisses someone off. Christopher Stephenson, Bob Montana and Levi Rounds are hitting the local comedy scene wit ...

Posted // April 15,2009  - Don’t be surprised if the comedy of Christopher Stephenson, Bob Montana and Levi Rounds pisses someone off Salt Lake City's comedy scene includes performers associated with Uncensored Comedy, Under ...

Posted // September 17,2008  -   Andy Andrist is known for cringe humor—that which offends in order to further ideas, ...

Posted // May 7,2008  -   Guess where I am?” were the first words out of Scott Thompson’s mouth when rea ...

Posted // March 12,2012  - 'Invincible' artist working in SLC For decades, if you wanted to break into comic books as a writer or an artist, you had to ...

Posted // May 11,2011  - Are superheroes being played by movie stars even in the pages? Comic-book “casting” has been going on for decades. Artists, after all, have p ...

Posted // March 28,2011  - Comics publishers trot out still more universe-changing —and wallet-lightening—plot developments. Big, company-wide event comics have long been a standard of the industry. ...

Posted // December 22,2010  - What the comics world taught me in 2010. Another year gone and another box full of comics packed away. Before we move to 2011, ther ...

Posted // September 13,2010  - A local comic-book creator's new book reveals his past life as a jerk. Despite the title of his new book, Derek Hunter is actually a stand-up guy. But before mar ...

Posted // August 16,2010  - Comic Bytes: The move to digital could forever change comic-book collecting. I love comics. I love the way that a good writer can take his time crafting a long-form st ...

Posted // June 23,2010  - Jet Set: Dave Stevens’ Rocketeer tales are finally gathered in one place. In 1981, Steve Schanes—publisher of Pacific Comics—approached Dave Stevens abo ...

Posted // April 14,2010  - Graphic Designs:Comics and graphic novels—even obscure ones—become perfect movie fodder. In the early 1990s, Joe Eszterhas scribbled a movie concept on a cocktail napkin and sold ...

Posted // March 10,2010  - Cold Pulp: The Chill overtalks its attempt at detective noir. Starr makes an admirable jump from prose to comics, but needs a little more practice. It's ...

Posted // January 13,2010  - A rundown of the best comic books of 2009. From the Big Two publishers all the way down to the unknown independents, 2009 was a solid ...

Posted // February 20,2012  - 'The Rambler': Felt performance For many people, contemporary dance is not very accessible. Choreographer Joe Goode knows ...

Posted // August 22,2011  - Alumni dance performance returns With the arrival of the arts season each fall comes yet another opportunity to be inspired ...

Posted // May 5,2010  - Repertory Dance Theatre’s Green Maps create intuitive layouts of the community. When looking at maps, some simply see static icons. Linda Smith, Repertory Dance Theatre ( ...

Posted // April 21,2010  - Accidentally on Purpose: Propel disrupts the expected with choreographed improvisation. There is an oft-quoted John Lennon lyric from his song “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy), ...

Posted // March 3,2010  - Click Up Your Heels: SLC Tap’s Deborah Robertson brings a classic dance style out of the shadows. It's early evening in the middle of the week in a Salt Lake City nightclub. Like many nigh ...

Posted // September 24,2008  -   Imagine a world in which a civilization celebrates its grand achievements by constructing ...

Posted // May 21,2008  -   Fourteen months ago, when Adam Sklute arrived in Salt Lake City to begin his tenure as Bal ...

Posted // April 9,2008  -   What is the weight of memory? They say the soul weighs approximately 21 grams, but the wei ...

Posted // February 27,2008  -   It’s a question for the ages: Can ballet dancers and modern dancers collaborate prod ...

Posted // January 9,2012  - Earlier work from 2011's Oscar noms It’s the most wonderful time of the year—when we movie lovers try to second-gu ...

Posted // July 12,2011  - Hollywood mines for fairy-tale gold Did you miss Beastly and Red Riding Hood at your local multiplex this winter? Chances are ...

Posted // March 28,2011  - But it can be tricky when movies try to talk about money. You think tax time is a plot to drive you mad with its incomprehensible financial gobbledy ...

Posted // February 1,2011  - Host your own pre-Academy Awards DVD festival to discover the nominees' roots. Chances are pretty good that at least a few of the actors who take home Oscar statues on F ...

Posted // November 8,2010  - Gridiron Blues: America loves football, but movies can’t quite seem to make it sing. I don’t get football. It’s not a great loss in my life, but it does mystify me ...

Posted // August 25,2010  - Hooked on Classics: When vintage TV shows finally hit DVD, do they hold up to our memories? It’s been almost a quarter of a century since Max Headroom—the visionary 1987- ...

Posted // June 28,2010  - Black Crude, Black Moo: Anger at the Gulf oil catastrophe isn’t mellowed by movies about petro-malevolence. Blowout preventer—that sounds pretty good right about now. Not for the crack at the ...

Posted // May 12,2010  - The performers behind the masks make comic-book movies soar. Explosions! Super-powered fisticuffs! Cool sci-fi gadgets! Caped flight! That’s all ...

Posted // March 24,2010  - Stream On: Roku, Netflix and Amazon present the brave new world of movies delivered straight to your TV. I've been a Roku user for almost a year, and it's edging so darn close to my dream— ...

Posted // February 3,2010  - The film industry still doesn’t seem to think sports movies can be for— or about—women. Whip It arrived on DVD on Jan. 26. What’s that? You’ve never heard of Whip It? ...

Posted // May 22,2012  - How to train like elite athletes No matter how hard you run, bike, play tennis, skate or climb, you’ll never get perf ...

Posted // May 15,2012  - Taylorsville Mayor Russ Wall's active lifestyle Coming out of a Taylorsville grocery store, I saw a man in a crisp white shirt, dress pant ...

Posted // May 8,2012  - Get outdoors, do good Splore is a 30-year-old organization, staffed mostly by volunteers, that provides outdoor ...

Posted // May 1,2012  - A cool oasis for summer workouts There are so many ways to get a good workout in Utah that the biggest difficulty is decidi ...

Posted // April 24,2012  - Work out while Fido plays They hang out with their peers and play. We wait around and pick up their poop. So who&rsq ...

Posted // April 17,2012  - Tone key muscles to get attention Everyone wants to look good in their bathing suit or tank top. That’s why this is th ...

Posted // April 10,2012  - Local traditions mark end of ski season How would you like an all-day party where you’ll have a great time, meet new friends ...

Posted // April 3,2012  - Enjoy spring snow with cross-country skiing Warning: This week’s column is iffy. If the projected storm drops a few inches of sn ...

Posted // March 27,2012  - Avoid injury & gain the benefits If you run or ride, you’ve certainly seen this: Someone pulls up to a park or trailh ...

Posted // March 20,2012  - Prepare your skis for wacky condition Those who hang it up right now are missing the true delight of skiing at this time of year ...

Posted // April 23,2012  - Next generation introduced to classical music One has certain preconceptions about appropriate attire for the symphony. A Wookiee costum ...

Posted // April 3,2012  - Salt City Slam team headed to nationals On Monday, March 26, Mo’s Neighborhood Grill is lit like a pool hall; its narrow cor ...

Posted // December 5,2011  - Contributors' holiday arts activities Nothing says Christmas to me like the classic tale from Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol ...

Posted // November 21,2011  - Natural History Museum & The Leonardo Four hundred years ago, if you were interested in seeing fascinating objects to learn abou ...

Posted // October 10,2011  - The "Pope of Trash" in SLC Thursday Well before personal “branding,” multi-platform marketing or “outsider a ...

Posted // October 3,2011  - Thrills and chills at scary attractions You might think that if you’ve seen one haunted house, you’ve seen them all&md ...

Posted // September 5,2011  - A love of the medieval style It’s hard enough for some adults to imagine themselves enjoying a musical performanc ...

Posted // May 11,2011  - After a time in the shadows, downtown’s Pierpont Avenue picks up the pace. There is a “mayor” of Pierpont Avenue, and he sports an ornate Victorian-era s ...

Posted // March 21,2011  - The Violin Making School of America teaches its students an art that yields more art. Throughout centuries, the craftsman’s pride has remained constant, but the method of ...

Posted // August 2,2010  - Message in a Podcast: Troubled youth share their stories by Sending Messages. When it comes to our podcasting community, a great deal of the material is more topical th ...

Posted // October 17,2011  - What's SLC with no NBA? The Utah Jazz were supposed to open up their preseason schedule Oct. 10, with the regular ...

Posted // July 26,2011  - Adult ball league serious about fun For F.B.G.M., the clinking of $1 PBR cans is a triumphant sound. As other Beehive Sport an ...

Posted // May 17,2010  - Blitz to face Las Vegas Showgirlz. Attending a Utah Blitz football game is, in most ways, much like attending a high school f ...

Posted // October 28,2009  - Has Boozer eclipsed President Obama as Utahns’ favorite target for conservative bile? Boozer is the clear front-runner for Utah’s most hated ... ...

Posted // September 23,2009  - Zebra Rules: How to officiate a "lawless" sport on wheels. Online Exclusive: Local roller-derby referee Collin DeShotz (aka Niall Wade) officiates ga ...

Posted // September 16,2009  - Athletes relish the chance to visit Salt Lake City. Getting athletes to come to the Dew Tour stop in Salt Lake City isn't difficult... ...

Posted // September 2,2009  - Brandon Wood’s Major-League talent is still on display in a minor-league park. Brandon Wood's swing is a major-league swing. His hands start low, about chest level, and ...

Posted // May 13,2009  - No Further Revue: Summer pro hoops in Utah becomes a victim of its own success. It’s a sad situation that occurs over and over: A community builds an alternative, g ...

Posted // April 29,2009  - Pride League softball provides recreation with a unique social function. At first blush, it seems like any other recreational softball league holding games on the ...

Posted // March 18,2009  - Our state has become a basketball powerhouse— which somehow seems fitting. We all cringed laughed rejoiced recently when it was announced that Utah is the leader in ...

Posted // May 12,2011  - Thursday May 12-Saturday May 14 @ Wiseguys Trolley Square Not many stand-up comedians can boast a 30-year-plus professional career before they&rsquo ...

Posted // May 12,2011  - Through May 28 @ SLCC Grand Theatre In a town stuck in a 20-year drought, water is so scarce that private toilets are unthinka ...

Posted // May 12,2011  - Thursday May 12-Saturday May 14 @ Sugar Space In this age of a highly politicized global culture, it seems suitable to explore the charg ...

Posted // May 12,2011  - Friday May 13 @ The King’s English North Carolina author Sarah Dessen has been writing for teens since 1996, long before high ...

Posted // May 12,2011  - Through May 21 @ Rose Wagner Center Sam Shepard’s 1980 play about the complicated relationship between two brothers does ...

Posted // May 12,2011  - Sunday May 15 @ Cathedral of the Madeleine Jazz was created in brothels and bars in New Orleans and perfected in raucous New York Cit ...

Posted // May 12,2011  - Through June 17 @ The Art Barn Self-taught local artist Justin Carruth’s oil paintings (detail of “Premonitio ...

Posted // May 12,2011  - Friday May 13-Saturday May 14 @ Rose Wagner Center This challenge lies at the heart of the experimental Innovations, an evening of original w ...

Posted // May 12,2011  - Thursday May 12-Monday May 16 @ Davis County Legacy Events Center This year’s spotlight bird at the 13th annual Great Salt Lake Bird Festival is not e ...

Posted // May 12,2011  - Saturday May 14-Sunday May 22 @ Capitol Theatre In the finale, with the entire company singing, the grand message of Falstaff can be under ...

Posted // May 8,2012  - Where you sit surprisingly important Think carefully about where you sit in the Rose Wagner Studio Theater for Wasatch Theatre ...

Posted // May 8,2012  - Charles Morey's farewell production When a single song is as iconically associated with a musical as “The Impossible Dre ...

Posted // May 8,2012  - "Hysteria" gets an electrifying treatment The Gilded Age: The Civil War was over and Thomas Edison was ushering in a new age of inno ...

Posted // April 17,2012  - Breathing life into the classic text There are certain advantages to adapting a literary classic like The Scarlet Letter, playi ...

Posted // April 17,2012  - Comedic musical goes off without a hitch Sometimes a show is more than just good; it’s downright fun. Wasatch Theatre Company ...

Posted // April 17,2012  - SLAC does science funny Don’t be fooled by the deceptively dry title of Salt Lake Acting Company’s lat ...

Posted // March 26,2012  - Radio pioneers present In the Dark To unlock the mysteries of color, Isaac Newton, then 22, took a stiletto knife and pressed ...

Posted // February 28,2012  - More like an outline true adaptation The problem with Pioneer Theatre Company’s production of Emma—adapted from the ...

Posted // February 28,2012  - Flaws are easy to forgive In staging the U.S. premiere of Zorro: The Musical, Hale Centre Theatre has accomplished t ...

Posted // February 28,2012  - Gut-wrenching and inspiring For years, I’ve been arguing that director Lane Richins’ proper place is in th ...

Posted // May 14,2012  - An intersection of visual arts, poetry, science The theme of the sixth-annual Mountain West Arts Conference, held May 3 at the Utah Cultur ...

Posted // April 30,2012  - Gestalt portraits connect the dots The whole is larger than the sum of its parts. That’s one of the main tenets of Gest ...

Posted // April 9,2012  - Photographer finds humanity in celebrity When Snoop Dogg had the gas tank in his Snoop DeVille filled with water instead of gasolin ...

Posted // March 19,2012  - Artist plays with celebrity, post-modernity John Bell has the postmodern blues: the struggle to create meaning through art in an age w ...

Posted // March 5,2012  - A look at 40 years of Utah art Since 1965, Phillips Gallery has featured hundreds of artists—and seven of the best, ...

Posted // February 13,2012  - Annual Earth-friendly art exhibit at Red Butte “Sustainable” probably isn’t the first word you think of in tandem with ...

Posted // January 30,2012  - Photographs document obscure processes For artist Christine Baczek, when it comes to her exhibition of photographs at Nox Contemp ...

Posted // January 26,2012  - The lost art of household crafts In the digital age, there’s been a backlash in the arts by artists striving to hold ...

Posted // January 2,2012  - Upcoming gallery shows in 2012 The start of a new year brings with it new possibilities for life as well as art, and amon ...

Posted // December 19,2011  - Abstraction through color and gesture Art can imitate life, and life can imitate art—and in the aggressive and vibrant abs ...