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THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR JUN 1 - 7

City Weekly Pride Pageant, Utah Asian Festival, Holi Festival of Colors SLC, and more.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAY 25 - 31

Chasten Buttigieg: I Have Something to Tell You, Utah Symphony: Mahler's Symphony No. 3, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical @ Eccles Theater, and more.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAY 18 - 24

Allison Hong Merrill: Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops, Local Voices: Equality Utah's Gorgeous Planet, Art Access: 300 Plates, and more.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR JUN 1 - 7

City Weekly Pride Pageant, Utah Asian Festival, Holi Festival of Colors SLC, and more.
also like so much in American queer life, drag just keeps moving forward with a sense of joy and self-acceptance. In such an environment, City Weekly is more than proud to support that creative form with the annual Pride Pageant.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAY 11 - 17

KRCL Music Meets Movies: Meet Me in the Bathroom, Pioneer Theatre Company: The Prom, Plan-B Theatre Company/KUER Radio Hour: The Case of the Missing Dog, and more.
KRCL's "Music Meets Movies" series has presented a wide range of documentaries over the years, ranging across decades and genres.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAY 5 - 10

HAZE MAT & Sara Serratos @ Finch Lane Gallery, Impractical Jokers @ Maverick Center, Utah Opera: The (R)ev- volution of Steve Jobs, and more.
Finch Lane Gallery boasts a long history of presenting unique, challenging work to the public.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR APR 27 - MAY 3

Neal Shusterman & Eric Elfman: I Am the Walrus, Fortune Feimster @ Kingsbury Hall, Pygmalion Theatre Company: Near Mint, and more
Writer Neal Shusterman has achieved plenty of individual success, including the New York Times bestselling Unwind series.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR APR 20 - 26

Sinisterhood podcast "Full Moon Energy Tour" @ Wiseguys, Wasatch Theatre Company: Fun Home, Good Co. Theatre: Queer the Stage, and more.
The world can be a sinister place, but credit the dynamic duo consisting of comedians/best pals Christie Wallace and Heather McKinney with shining some light into its darker expanse, and bringing some laughter to the situation all at the same time.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR APR 13 - 19

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company: To See Beyond Our Time, Ballet West: The Wedding,, Plan-B: Fire!, and more.
Alarming scientific reports about the future of the Great Salt Lake—and the potentially toxic consequences for those living near it—made national news recently

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR APR 6 - 12

Easter fun, Broadway at the Eccles: Hairspray, Salt Lake Acting Company: Yoga Play, and more.
Utah boasts plenty such events from one end of the state to the other, allowing for plenty of opportunities to celebrate secularly.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAR 30 - APR 5

Shane Gillis, Salt Lake City DuoFest, Ella Al-Shamahi @ Kingsbury Hall, and more.
Despite winning a football scholarship to West Point early on, he chose instead to pursue a career in comedy.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAR 23 - 29

Wasatch Theatre Company: The Melancholy Play, Sankofa, This Journey: Go Back and Get It @ Salt Lake Acting Company, Geoff Dembicki: The Petroleum Papers @ Sundance Resort Author Series, and more.
An often-absurdist farce that explores the thin lines between the emotions we identify as "good" and those we identify as "bad," and deconstructed the idea of the "manic pixie dream girl" character even before culture critic Nathan Rabin coined the phrase.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAR 16 - 22

Mike Birbiglia, The Sandlot 30th anniversary,
There are may different ways for a career in stand-up comedy to proceed. For Mike Birbiglia, that journey involved the realization that maybe he wasn't exactly a stand-up comedian, but a storyteller.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAR 9 - 15

Reel Rock/Fly-Fishing Film Festival, Brian Regan, St. Patrick's Day Parade & Siamsa, and more.
Utah is well-known throughout the world as both a film-festival destination (thanks to the Sundance Film Festival every January) and an outdoor-recreation destination (thanks to its diverse terrain).

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR MAR 2 - 8

Britt Wray: Generation Dread @ Tanner Humanities, Pioneer Theatre: Putting It Together, Fem Dance Company: Embrace, and more.
It's more than possible that most of us have considered, while reading the latest piece of climate news, what our lives will look like as time goes on and the world continues to change.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR FEB 23 - MAR 1

Plan-B Theatre Company: Go Home Come Back, Melissa Villaseñor @ Wiseguys, Utah Symphony: An American in Paris Film in Concert, and more.
Dramatists have demonstrated a fascination with speculating on the nature of the afterlife.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR FEB 16 - 22

New World Shakespeare Company: Macbeth, The Future of Refugees in Utah Symposium, All-Star Weekend Activities, and more.
According to Megan Chase, co-director of New World Shakespeare Company's production, that sensibility of "how strict gender roles shape and drive the actions of the characters" is part of what makes it an ideal choice for helping support the Utah transgender community.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR FEB 9 - 15

Salt Lake Acting Company: Hairy & Sherri, Ballet West: The Sleeping Beauty, Naomi Oreskes: The Big Myth, and more.
The trope of the "Austin hipster" has been part of the popular culture for decades, but for Austin native Adrienne Dawes, the concept can take on a slightly darker tone.

THE ESSENTIAL A&E PICKS FOR FEB 2 - 8

Peking Acrobats, Wasatch Theatre Company: The Final Act, Repertory Dance Theatre: Regalia, and more.
There are plenty of reasons to go out to the theater, but among the most persuasive is a chance to see things you just don't ordinarily get a chance to see—like folks who can balance atop a pyramid of chairs, or engage in acts of trick cycling and other similar bits of physical prowess.

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