POSTED // May 7,2013 - There was a time, not long ago, when you couldn’t look through local theater listings without finding at least two or three simultaneous productions of Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

POSTED // Apr 11,2013 - Doug Gibson is the opinion editor at the Standard-Examiner, an Ogden-based daily newspaper. Born in Long Beach, Calif., Gibson earned a journalism degree at Brigham Young University and has worked at newspapers in Ely, Nev., and Boston. Gibson writes The Political Surf blog, as well as a blog covering boxing and MMA. He also edits Currents, a weekly online publication dealing with LDS themes.

POSTED // Mar 18,2013 - An encounter with Elias “Lefty” Caress leaves an indelible impression. Not so much a performer as a force of nature, the 33-year-old Caress possesses an incandescent, yet unassuming, affability

POSTED // Sep 25,2012 - The first one was free, they said. But all it took was one mouthful of Pop Art popcorn and I was hooked.

POSTED // Sep 11,2012 - For more than three decades, La Frontera has been serving up its down-home, moderately priced Mexican cooking to hungry Utahns.

POSTED // Jul 10,2012 - For as long as Utah’s cultural divide—that seemingly unbridgeable chasm that separates faithful Latter-day Saints from the Rest of Us—continues to exist, there will be Saturday’s Voyeur.

POSTED // May 8,2012 - The Gilded Age: The Civil War was over and Thomas Edison was ushering in a new age of innovation and electrification ...

POSTED // Apr 24,2012 - Sara Librandi burst onto the Utah political scene as organizer of the local Unite Against the War on Women protest, part of a 50-state event. Protesters will gather April 28, from noon to 2 p.m., at the south stairs of the Utah Capitol

POSTED // Apr 17,2012 - Don’t be fooled by the deceptively dry title of Salt Lake Acting Company’s latest production. Yes, it may sound like an academic snoozefest. But it’s actually a rollicking comic farce.

POSTED // Feb 28,2012 - For years, I’ve been arguing that director Lane Richins’ proper place is in the heart of Salt Lake City’s theater district.