POSTED // Aug 23,2012 - In many ways, Built to Spill is the little engine that could of indie rock—there from the beginning of the genre in the early ’90s, plugging away one album after another.

POSTED // Jul 30,2012 - Every face tells a story, in its contours and lines something of the history and personality of the individual.

POSTED // Jun 18,2012 - An arts festival, by nature, is a temporary phenomenon—a celebration of the artistic impulse that lasts only a few days, in which a few city blocks are set aside for art on display and in process of being created

POSTED // Jun 5,2012 - The food at art openings, unfortunately, is oftentimes not as creative as the art on the walls.

POSTED // May 14,2012 - The theme of the sixth-annual Mountain West Arts Conference, held May 3 at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City, was “mapping.”

POSTED // Apr 30,2012 - The whole is larger than the sum of its parts. That’s one of the main tenets of Gestalt psychology—and it also summarizes the artwork of Margaret Tarampi.

POSTED // Apr 18,2012 - Lisa Miller uses materials like blown bike innertubes to create urban-chic wallets, belts and purses.

POSTED // Mar 19,2012 - John Bell has the postmodern blues: the struggle to create meaning through art in an age when not only the traditionally meaningful is drowned out ...

POSTED // Mar 15,2012 - If there's such a thing as a classic indie-rock sound, it's emulated on Girls' new record, which is filled with brilliant songwriting and arrangements

POSTED // Mar 6,2012 - It didn’t mean much to some people, but the sight of a cast-iron smoker in the parking lot of a West Jordan convenience store ...