Contributed by Rachel Hanson

Ballet West has opened their 09/10 season with Song’s of the Valley, Three Preludes, and The Dream. Each ballet is quite different -- and all but one is a nice start to what promises to be an interesting season.

Read More

Thought you'd heard the last local roller derby news of 2009? Not quite: There are three events this month, even though they're not competition bouts. Oh, and Whip It is at Brewvies--had to get that in.

Read More

Sure, he had a small role in I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (for the dozen of you who saw it, he was a bartender), but Los Angeles comic/actor Bill Dawes has appeared in some good stuff, too--like All My Children and Sex and the City, not to mention both Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. But not SVU--they have no sense of humor.

Read More

.. Wow. The North Carolina-based comedy duo Rhett & Link came to Salt Lake City, and now we have our own cheesy America-is-living-hard-times commercial, complete with Mormon missionaries.

Read More

I caught the penultimate show of Judge Memorial High School's production of Rent last Friday. This was the production that had a few Utah Catholics upset for what they saw as promoting homosexuality. The play's director, Darin Hathaway, came out on stage before the performance and noted that they'd sold 3,000 tickets. "It's not a gay show," he said. "It doesn't glorify Aids. [...] You'll see the face of God in each kid on this stage."

Read More

Only 16 months after Heather Ferrell became Executive Director of Salt Lake Art Center, the facility is going to be searching for a new leader again.

Read More

Saturday, Oct. 24: While the planned Salt City Derby Girls’ expo bout at the Gallivan Center in SLC was rained out (skating on wet cement, never a good idea), Ogden’s Junction City Roller Dolls’ season-ender bout at the Davis Conference Center in Layton went off without a hitch--and the theme wasn’t Black vs. Blue!

Read More

Want to own your own cinema?

Take a leaf out of the book of Scott and Jennifer Fotheringham. They bought a delapidated little cinema in Beaver, which dates back to 1926 and turned it into a family business. Main Street Theatre (55 N. Main), so named for its location, is a gorgeous throwback to the days when the one-screen cinema with a 35 mm projector was the heart of small town life, before megaplexes in nearby cities sucked away their clients with a multitude of first run movies.

Read More

The real end of the 2009 local women's roller derby season is finally here--if you've procrastinated all summer, get thine ass to at least one of these events Saturday, Oct. 24 (as Utah's leading/only roller derby reporter, I'll be at both).

Read More

Comedy fans and folks in search of another diversion from the 9 to 5 grind, welcome to the fabulous world of Chuck The Scout.

Read More