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  • BYU hosts art about Utah women by Utah women

    "Shelf Preservation," by Utah artist Trent Alvey, is among the works featured in the BYU Museum of Art's new exhibition about gender roles in ...

  • Don’t Mistake Silence for Inaction

    Some are crediting the Mormon church’s current official public silence and inaction on same-sex marriage for the recent successful enactment of same-sex marriage in some U.S. states. That, of course, completely ignores the fact that Mormons, at the direction of the Mormon church, are the primary and deliberately hidden driving force, including massive funding and organization, behind the ...

  • E-Waste Is Engulfing Us

    According to EPA studies, more than 80 percent of discarded electronics end up in landfills and incinerators around the country and the world. In the Salt Lake Valley, the Trans-Jordan landfill is right outside the city limits, meaning that toxic chemicals like cadmium, mercury, barium and lead from improperly disposed of "e-waste" can end up leaching into our local water tables and ...

  • Study SLC Leads Nation in Gay Parents

    Posted // 2013-05-21 - This news is certainly unexpected, and perhaps even shocking to some, considering that Utah has a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. However, as reported by ...

  • Public Voting Open for SLC Design Competition

    Posted // 2013-05-21 - Six designs have been selected as finalists in an innovative design competition to reimagine "the spaces between" two downtown Salt Lake City blocks. Now through May 31 the public can vote on a vision of downtown they like whether that means interactive games downtown or the creation of a giant upside down replica of two city blocks placed on stilts and ...


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Movie Review

The Majestic

The Majestic is the third film directed by Frank Darabont, but it is the first that is not based on something written by Stephen King and set in a prison. And, after watching The Majestic, it is clear that Darabont needs grimmer source material to offset his candy-colored sentimentalism and too-comfortable populist leanings. ...

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  • Dexter Season 8 Deb Hits the Bag Bottle

    Turns out, Dexter’s sis Debra isn’t cut out for the vigilante serial-killer life and she may be the one who finally hands Dexter to the cops on a cellophane-wrapped platter. But not before a few scenes of her day-drinking in that most cliched movie/TV manner: brown-bagging a booze bottle in the car. It’s 2013-why not a Coke can? Or sport bottle? There are sooo many choices for ...

  • New Tunes Tuesday French Montana Daft Punk The National

    Posted // 2013-05-21 - The only thing that would be better than New Tunes Tuesday would be New Tacos Tuesday-but as I don’t have those cooking skills, you’ll have to hold onto ...

  • New drug keeps cystic fibrosis symptoms at bay

    SALT LAKE CITY — Cindy Baldwin, 24, sits at her piano these days and plays a different tune. Life's music has never been better. For the first time, her life threatening disease appears to have reached a plateau — a miracle plateau in her definition because the progressive damage to her lungs from cystic fibrosis (CF) may have ended. "It's been amazing to see the ...

  • Utah Jazz to pick 14th in NBA draft Cleveland Cavaliers nab No. 1 pick again

    " The beauty, I think, in this year's draft is … if we stay there, we like the projections and the different possibilities at 14. But I think we'll be able to add to the group in a number different ways whether we move up or ...

  • XanGo trying to oust co-founder who accused partners of embezzlement

    in a federal lawsuit last week is now the subject of a complaint in state court seeking his ouster from the company. The Lehi-based multilevel marketer claims Bryan B. Davis for years failed to do his job as XanGo's lead attorney and breached his ethical obligations to the company and his partners, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in 3rd District Court. The 24-page complaint alleges ...

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