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Comics | Comics Reliefs: Forget 2008’s Crisis/Invasions and check out the year’s finest work.Visual Art | Fast and Bulbous: Sri Whipple’s abstract sensuality...Holly Jolly Shopping Spree 2008“Do Pop-Tarts!”Dance | Sudden Appearances: Ririe-Woodbury lights up in a visually stunning new production.Rumi Poetry ClubBooks | Apostasy Now: Paul Toscano continues to explore faith and uncertainty in The Sacrament of DoubtVisual Art | Point and Shoot: Saans Gallery’s Holga show gives photography some retro action.TrueTV: Habeas Corpses24Seven | Where it’s @ for the week of Oct. 18-24
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The Essentials | Entertainment picks for the week of Dec. 26-Jan. 1Visual Art | Point and Shoot: Saans Gallery’s Holga show gives photography some retro action.Theater | Bits & Pieces: An amputee war veteran and Frankenstein’s monster headline Halloween theater productions.Visual Art | The Bell Curve: Artist John Bell continues thinking “like a builder” in a new gallery space.Visual Art | A Boy’s Life: Artist Daren Young explores growing up—and growing older—gay in “HOMO/Evocative.”“Do Pop-Tarts!”Visual Art | Wall Eyed: Local artists turn the hidden spaces of Sam Weller’s bookstore into a gallery.Opera and ShakespeareDance | No Graffiti Required: Trent Call and Ririe-Woodbury take their “urban” collaboration in an unexpected direction.Comics | Comics Reliefs: Forget 2008’s Crisis/Invasions and check out the year’s finest work.
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The Essentials | Entertainment picks for the week of Dec. 26-Jan. 1
POSTED // Dec 26,2007 - CONCERTS By Scott Renshaw OK, so you’re not spending New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas this year. Little did you know that Salt Lake City wouldn’t just ring in 2008 by becoming Vegas, but Vegas circa 1965.For 30 years, BOB ANDERSON has submerged...
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Sports | Flash in the Pan: Is there a market for more professional basketball in Utah?
POSTED // Dec 12,2007 - Just how much of a “basketball jones” do local hoops fans have? We’ll find out this winter when, in addition to the usual menu of one NBA franchise and three NCAA Division I programs in the relatively short distance between Salt Lake...
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Theater | Poly Glut: The Foreigner’s hilarious comedy trips over its darker themes
POSTED // Dec 12,2007 - People talking funny are funny. Accents are funny. Malapropisms are funny. Most of all, people speaking foreign languages are funny. This is even more true when the language being spoken has been entirely invented for optimal humor. Pioneer Theatre Company’s...
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The Essentials (24-Seven) | Critics Picks Dec. 13-19
POSTED // Dec 12,2007 - VISUAL ARTS By Jamie Gadette Those familiar with Salt Lake City’s art scene recognize local curator/entrepreneur KENNY RICHES as one hell of an altruistic guy. This perspective is only partly accurate. There are a few things to keep in mind when...
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Books | Saints Preserve Us: LDS-centric publishers can produce tales with a broader appeal
POSTED // Dec 5,2007 - Utah is home to publishers catering to readers from the state’s dominant religion, regularly putting out titles such as Ready Resources for Relief Society or Scripture Chase Sudoku. While such works may not appeal to the un-Sainted or the merely...
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Theater | Lost Boy: Our reviewer finds he may have outgrown some of the charms of Peter Pan
POSTED // Dec 5,2007 - Peter Pan is the summer blockbuster of musical theater. It has overwrought villains, stunning production values, cool special effects and a script that seems like an afterthought. It also has, most importantly, kids on wires flying around. That’s...
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Comics | Spidey’s Web: As comics head online, retailers face an uncertain future
POSTED // Dec 5,2007 - Minutes after opening the door, Black Cat Comics is already full of customers eager for their weekly fix of comics. It takes three employees to keep things running smoothly, but owner Greg Gage handles it like a seasoned veteran and is sure to greet everyone...
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The Essentials (24-Seven) | Critics Picks Dec. 6-12
POSTED // Dec 5,2007 - BENEFIT By Jamie Gadette On Dec. 8, 24Tix and SLUG magazine break with tradition and launch an electric alternative to straight-laced fund-raising affairs through COMMUNITY FOR A CAUSE, a benefit concert that brings together local businesses, artists...
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Theater | Faith No More: Mormon missionaries lead Julia Sweeney down a path to Letting Go of God
POSTED // Nov 28,2007 - Julia Sweeney—in keeping with the Catholic faith in which she was raised—has a confession to make. The encounter with Mormon missionaries that she chronicles in her poignant, funny journey-to-atheism monologue Letting Go of God did not actually...
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Visual Art | Stranger Than Paradise: Maureen O’Hara Ure mixes past and present, heaven and hell.
POSTED // Nov 28,2007 - When one of the most singular local artistic visions is on display, that’s enough to make it a must-stop on Gallery Stroll night. But Maureen O’Hara Ure’s collection of paintings Stranger and Stranger at the Art Barn also marks a significant...
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