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Right and Right
POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - After finally getting around to viewing Napoleon Dynamite at the local theater—yes, I am the spittin’ image of him, just as Music & TV Editor Bill Frost maintained during my brief absence—the only other event I’m looking forward...
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The Plame Game
POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - In case you didn’t know by now, Karl Rove began his political career in Salt Lake City as chair of the University of Utah’s College Republicans in 1973 and 1974. And who would have ever guessed that, after dropping out of the University of...
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High Fidel(io)ity
Beethoven birthed the punk attitude. Fidelio is his only opera.
POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - In today’s alt-rock-saturated consumer culture, so-called “rebellion” is sold easily as stock. And it’s a pretty callow sight, too: Marilyn Manson makes a spectacle of Satanism, one of rock’s most tired clichés, then...
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Arts & Entertainment - 99 -
Henna designs herald a more feminine, less painful alternative to tattoos.
POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Parents fainted. Legislators tried to put age limits on it. And professional illustrators raked in the cash. We’re talking, of course, about tattoos, the epidermal art that made twentysomething skin the canvas of the ’90s. But like every fad,...
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Urban Art Guerrillas
Borrowed Walls mix art forms in space and time. Won’t you lend them your mind?
POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - It was an ambush of aesthetics—a hijacking of the moment. And, admittedly, it was pretty cool. Minutes ago, whole groups were quietly sauntering their way through a west-side art exhibit during the monthly Gallery Stroll. Now they are standing outside,...
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Sound in Spirit
For the Calvary Baptist Church choirs, music is worship.
POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Ushers wearing white gloves cordially guide you to a pew. At the back of the Calvary Baptist Chruch, a soundman works the knobs of a P.A. system. An electric bassist, pianist and organist play a coordinated riff. Behind them, the church’s men’s...
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Street Ready
Utah Arts Festival street performers forsake the stage for the sidewalk.
POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Cast your mind back to this same time last year. Thanks to light-rail construction, Main Street was a blasted-out shell—an alien avenue. The highway system, or lack of one, fared no better. Like the circulatory system of someone in bad need of a...
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Midsummer Night’s Strings
When the temperature rises, the Utah Symphony spreads its wings.
POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Try being all things to everyone, the old saw goes, and you become nothing for no one. Count on the Utah Symphony to put that cliché to rest. Then again, they have a large cast helping them out this summer season. It’s that time of year when...
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