POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Good news for Jazz fans: When the Nu Skin Jazz Dancers take the floor at the Delta Center for the home opener on Nov. 1, they will conceivably be able to perform their various gyrations within 3 feet of Jazz fans, and nobody can call it a lap dance. The...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - There’s an old debate about whether demography is destiny. While neither side has been able to absolutely prove its case, there can be no doubt that demography helps explain why Utah is a pretty odd place.nnThe idiosyncrasies of the numbers that...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - BYU football is back. After four straight nonwinning seasons, 2006 saw the Cougars win their conference, earn a national ranking and get invited to a bowl game. With everything just like it was in the old days, can the hatred BYU football has traditionally...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - When the Rev. France Davis first arrived in Salt Lake City in 1972, he showed up at an apartment where he had already paid a deposit and arranged to have a telephone line installed. When the landlady saw him for the first time and realized he was black,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - When Brian Evenson began writing The Open Curtain, he was a Mormon. By the time he finished the book, he was not. Leaving the religion one grew up in can be fertile ground for a novelist to explore. He can examine the tension between losing one’s...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - They come from as far away as Elko, Provo, Idaho Falls, Logan and Evanston. Some speak the language the film is in; some don’t. A group of people from a variety of nations now living in a variety of places in the Intermountain West gathers together...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - There was a time in Salt Lake City when newspaper boys stood on downtown corners selling evening newspapers to businessmen who were on their way to the Walgreen’s cafeteria to get dinner. It was an age when every conceivable “sin” could...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Of the many entertainment options available in Salt Lake City, the best value may be found in a place that’s recently come to be derisively known as the “Radium Stadium.” That’s where Larry Miller'after all, you know this guy and...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The Utah Jazz are back in the playoffs for the first time since 2003. That was also the last time John Stockton and Karl Malone were live players, inside the Delta Center, instead of as statues standing outside an arena of a different name. It’s...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - There’s a professional sports team that plays in the arena formerly known as the Delta Center. The franchise is owned by a local automobile dealer. The squad scores points by the dozens and plays in front of crowds of more than 10,000 fans wearing...