POSTED // Aug 19,2009 - Janet Cortez has a beautiful view from her front windows. That view has increasingly become gut-wrenching, though...

POSTED // Aug 5,2009 - Scott Johnson got an extra life. It sounds like an additional incarnation, when you get to come back to life in a video game, but it’s actually his vocation...

POSTED // Jul 29,2009 - People walked on the moon. Walked on the moon. It sounds like science fiction, but it's history—40-yearsgone history. Outside the living memory of many, many people now alive ...

POSTED // Jun 24,2009 - When I show up to talk to Saltgrass Printmakers' Erik Brunvand about the steamroller-printing demonstration at the Utah Arts Festival, he is online ordering more aprons for the event...

POSTED // Jun 10,2009 - "Straight to DVD": It's a phrase that has inspired fear in the hearts of movie lovers, because it has long indicated a flick not good enough to warrant a theatrical release ...

POSTED // May 6,2009 - There's an old song by the pop duo Daryl Hall and John Oates called "Everywhere I Look," which wanted— almost 20 years ago ...

POSTED // Apr 8,2009 - animal companions in its titles even when the movies have nothing to do with pets. There are good reasons to check out movies like Wag the Dog, Dog Day Afternoon, A Boy and His Dog, Dog Soliders.

POSTED // Mar 25,2009 - In these lean times, everyone is tightening the belt. With budget cuts and funding deficits encroaching from all sides, the nonprofit sector faces sizeable hurdles. When businesses are scrambling to survive, and disposable income contracts, it seems that the artsand their corresponding nonprofit organizationsare hit hard.

POSTED // Mar 25,2009 - In our age of ever-shortening attention spans, we want every experience to aspire to the quality of television viewing, in which you can skip past anything that isn't instantly stimulating, and everything is broken down into easy digestible chunks.

POSTED // Mar 11,2009 - There are few genres within cinema that remain as marginalized as avant-garde or experimental film, and there are a number of reasons for this. First, this work is just flat-out difficult to find.