24Seven: Where it’s @ for the week of Sept. 27-Oct. 3

POSTED // Sep 26,2007 - Thursday 9.27 And you thought that emptiness you felt after reading the seventh and final installment of Harry Potter would haunt you forever? Get a Harry Potter fix—or at least a version of him—at Off Broadway Theatre in the production HENRY...

24Seven: Where it’s @ for the week of Sept. 20-26

POSTED // Sep 19,2007 - Thursday 9.20 Common courtesy suggests a handshake when meeting someone. But when your new acquaintance is a dead ringer for mountain-man Jedediah Smith or an American Indian chief, it’s understandable if you’re left gaping. Midvale City Park...

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Arts & Culture: Where it’s @ for the week of Sept. 6-12

POSTED // Sep 5,2007 - Thursday 9.6 With all due respect to the teaching profession, history classes can be boring. But maybe it isn’t the short teenage attention span to blame so much as it was the material presented. According to James Loewen (Lies My Teacher Told...

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Arts & Culture: Where it’s @ for the week of Aug. 30-Sept.5

POSTED // Aug 29,2007 - Thursday 8.30 In the Broadway musical 42nd STREET, producers want the new show Pretty Lady to become a hit in the midst of the Great Depression. And, as the story goes, the loveable Peggy Sawyer transcends her klutzy audition to become an overnight sensation....

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Arts & Culture: Where it’s @ for the week of Aug. 23-29

POSTED // Aug 22,2007 - Thursday 8.23 Before KUED-TV producer Ken Verdoia mediated the debate between Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson and talk-show host Sean Hannity, he was focused on more pressing issues (they do exist) than the politics du jour. Tonight, the Healthy Environment...

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Where it’s @ for the week of Aug. 23-29

POSTED // Aug 22,2007 - THUR26 In WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN, filmmaker Steven Okazaki chronicles the aftermath of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through the stories of survivors. Some disfigured and most psychologically damaged, survivors offer unbelievable...

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Arts & Culture: Where it’s @ for the week of Aug. 16-22

POSTED // Aug 15,2007 - Thursday 8.16 Red Butte Garden has forgotten to post one sign on its grounds: “Prepare to leave the gardens with a ‘greenthumb’ inferiority complex.” But, just because experienced gardeners might not achieve a fraction of Red Butte’s...

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Where it’s @ For the week of Aug. 9-15 2007

POSTED // Aug 8,2007 - Thursday 8.9 If you build it, they will come—and they did. Each year, the Utah Arts Alliance asks local artists to submit proposals for solo and group shows. But with many would-be solo artists and only 12 months in a year, the Alliance’s...

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Where it’s @ For the week of AUGUST 2-8

POSTED // Jul 31,2007 - THUR 2 Here’s a clue you won’t want to ignore: Acclaimed mystery author RHYS BOWEN is on tour promoting the first book in her newest series, Her Royal Spyness. While it’s no mystery why the author has been nominated for every major mystery...

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