POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Above all, Werner Herzog is a storyteller. The renowned filmmaker who has been at the forefront of New German Cinema, who has won cinema’s most-prestigious prizes and whose works have been viewed, discussed and dissected by film lovers around the...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Blame it on TV. Blame it on fast-food restaurants. But don’t look to David Ives’ Mere Mortals as a cause for the American culture’s short attention span and shallow consumerism. Instead, Mere Mortals delivers what American audiences...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Something old, something new, something borrowed—enough to make you blue. This dressed-up sentiment fits two Salt Lake City productions to a T, especially when you consider that Crazy For You and the female version of The Odd Couple weds previously...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - A Little Night Music is frequently referred to just as the Send In the Clowns musical. But just singling out the hit song for the show’s worth would be a terrible mistake, because the rest of A Little Night Music showcases emotional depth uncommonly...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Talk television has reached such an abysmal state that shock jock Howard Stern, who will be bringing his unique style of free speech to CBS-TV with a new late night show on Saturdays, noted with appropriate irony: The standards of television have gone...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - To listen to Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin tell it, they’re just a couple of knuckleheads who want to have some fun. The film-making duo, who created Universal Soldier and Independence Day, are the masterminds behind the highly-publicized effects...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - In an unusual move, Salt Lake City Police Chief Ruben Ortega released protected personnel documents to news media in an apparent attempt to embarrass or retaliate against one of his police officers and president of the local police union. It was the...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - If you want to know the landscape, listen to the people who live there. That was part of the message recently during a public hearing at City Hall concerning blight in the proposed Gateway Project area. If enough substandard conditions, better-known as...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Score one for drug dealers and their loyal customers: Three months after the removal of barricades along its north side, Pioneer Park has emerged once more as a drive-up shopping center for wild and crazy substances. Now for the good news: The drug activity...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - After five years and more than $100 million, Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt and the State Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) couldn’t find it within their power to live up to promises to protect children under state care. After all that time and...