Reading Time: 4 minutes Pantrucas is a little place in the foothills of Provo. For the last eight years, Ricardo and Margarita Minond have worked diligently in the restaurant they started with the sole purpose of bringing good, authentic flavor from their Chilean home to the residents of Utah County. And for eight years, they’ve succeeded. On our visit, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes On May 5, 2014, the initial line-up of celebrity guests and changes to this fall’s forthcoming Salt Lake Comic Con were announced at a press conference. Among those changes to structure are the pricing plans, which now include discount ticket priced for college students. “They’re essentially half-price and all you need is a college ID […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes On Saturday, May 10, The Leonardo—Salt Lake’s contemporary museum of culture and science—debuted its newest exhibit, Animal Inside Out, one of the latest shows from the producers of the groundbreaking Body Worlds anatomical exhibitions. Using the plastination process developed by Dr. Gunther von Hagens, Animal Inside Out is an “anatomical safari” showcasing the actual muscles, […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Salt Lake City Comic Con is back with their FanXperience convention, which kicked off with a press conference on Thursday, stardate 308708.44745687456. Doubling the floor space from last September’s convention and expecting 100,000 attendees, it looks as though Dan Farr and his production team now understand the enormity of what they introduced to the Beehive state. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Illustration by Trevor Robertson Hollywood is one of the most prominent and pervasive voices in American culture. Over a century it has evolved from the silent era to the talkies, through musicals, westerns, noirs, to the invention of the summer blockbuster and now to this generation’s obsession with the midnight release. It’s seen a golden […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes “What do you do if you see a friend drunk at the bar and you see him stumbling towards the car with his keys in his hand?” asked Dr. Stephen Zunes on Thursday, March 20, when he spoke to about 50 students, many of them studying Peace and Justice at UVU. His discourse focused on […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes So, USA, John Boehner—you know, the Republican House Speaker from Ohio— appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Thursday January 23 because, apparently, we hadn’t already bled the lines between celebrity and professional politician enough. Despite Boehner playing it cool and shooting off one-liners explaining that Leno has been begging him to come […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Newphoria, the self-proclaimed “biggest New Year’s Eve party” in the Valley. The narrow hall between admission and the dance floor was lined with tables covered in swag—glowsticks, light rings, sunglasses with glow-in-the-dark frames. “Don’t walk past here without grabbing something that glows,” the barker said, his own pair of glow-in-the-dark sunglasses perched on top of […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes UVU students have a unique engaged learning opportunity with the university’s sponsorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times exhibit, which began its six-month engagement at The Leonardo in Salt Lake on November 22. What began as a monetary sponsorship when The Leonardo initially approached the university, quickly evolved into a […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lissie, the folk-rock artist who’s been catching the attention of the music world since the release of her first album “Catching a Tiger” August of 2010, just followed it up in October with her sophomore effort “Back to Forever.” Lucky for Salt Lake City, she’s touring through the beehive state in support of her latest […]