Street Ready

Utah Arts Festival street performers forsake the stage for the sidewalk.

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Cast your mind back to this same time last year. Thanks to light-rail construction, Main Street was a blasted-out shell—an alien avenue. The highway system, or lack of one, fared no better. Like the circulatory system of someone in bad need of a...

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Midsummer Night’s Strings

When the temperature rises, the Utah Symphony spreads its wings.

By Ben Fulton

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Try being all things to everyone, the old saw goes, and you become nothing for no one. Count on the Utah Symphony to put that cliché to rest. Then again, they have a large cast helping them out this summer season. It’s that time of year when...

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Breaking Free

The healing force for one prison inmate was the discovery of his art.

By Christopher Smart

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Locked up in a 6-by-8-foot cell at the Utah State Prison, Patricio Toledo was haunted by demons. Not knowing what else to do, he began to draw in an effort to grasp a lifeline—hoping to purge the ill feelings and free himself from his past and the...

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Forever Voyeur

A gang of Little Rascals perpetuated the Olympic scandal while monkeys looked on.

By Scott C. Morgan

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - “I wanna besmirched by you,” is the song “Sweetcheeks Utah” chirps while she learns how to really impress members of the International Olympic Committee. Oblivious to the whorish nature of her little song and dance, this hopelessly...

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