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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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Theater | Where There’s Smoke: Doubt poses hard questions about the practical value of suspicion.
POSTED // Nov 7,2007 - John Patrick Shanley sets the events at Doubt’s New York City Catholic elementary school in 1964—and not just so he can drop in a reference to the recently deceased Catholic president John F. Kennedy. Those familiar with the timeline of the...
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24Seven | Where it’s at for the week of Nov. 8-14
POSTED // Nov 7,2007 - Thursday 11.8 Charge! Tonight the Babcock Readers enter the battlefield in a literary—not literal—sense. AMERICAN HEROES ALL takes a journey through the war-themed writings of eight authors’ work, including Pachal N. Strong’s Bells...
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Theater | Double Exposure: Visual art and theater tell the story of Utah’s nuclear-testing “downwinders.”
POSTED // Oct 24,2007 - There are two kinds of attack: with warning, and with no warning. This statement attests to the bone-chilling oversimplification by the federal government of a serious endeavor with even more severe consequences—nuclear testing. It also begs the...
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Books | Eco Location: Two new books explore Utah’s connection to tangled environmental politics.
POSTED // Oct 24,2007 - It sometimes can be difficult to understand why our government does things the way it does, or why we as a society are unable to address serious challenges in a productive manner. Many try to blame it on one bad influence: lobbyists, crooked politicians,...
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24Seven | Where it’s @ for the week of Oct. 25-31
POSTED // Oct 24,2007 - Thursday 10.25 Achmed the Dead Terrorist, Super Melvin and bitter old Walter have plenty to say—but not without a hand strategically stuck up their rear ends. In his latest comedy extravaganza SPARK OF INSANITY, ventriloquist/comedian JEFF DUNHAM’s...
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Theater | Now stepping into The Batting Cage: One performance strikeout, and one home run.
POSTED // Oct 17,2007 - Pygmalion Productions’ staging of Joan Ackermann’s The Batting Cage is about sisters—drastically different sisters with little in common. The gulf between them has only been widened by the grief they feel for their recently deceased...
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Visual Art | The Salt Lake Art Center showcases an ongoing tradition of turning found material into art.
POSTED // Oct 17,2007 - In the art world, sometimes less is more. With his hand in three shows at two different galleries, Salt Lake Art Center curator Jim Edwards demonstrates how talented creative people sometimes turn minimal resources into an embarrassment of riches, by...
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24Seven | Where it’s @ for the week of Oct. 18-24
POSTED // Oct 17,2007 - Thursday 10.18 “True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” It’s the first line from one of the most popular horror stories ever written, Edgar Allan Poe’s The...
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Video Games: Suspended Game
Control of video-game content takes another ugly turn with Manhunt 2.
POSTED // Oct 16,2007 - My protest against censorship goes back a long way—to a shopping mall in Steubenville, Ohio, not far from where I grew up. I was newly 18 and so glad I could buy the music and movies that I wanted to. Enter a fresh-faced lad of about 15 or so who...
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Magazines: Finders Keepers
The creators of Found magazine bring discarded bits of communication back to life.
POSTED // Oct 10,2007 - Some selected definitions of the surprisingly multifaceted word find: (v. tr.) 1. To come upon, often by accident; meet with. 2. To perceive (oneself) to be in a specific place or condition 3. To recover the use of; regain. (n.) Something that is found,...
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