Reading Time: 4 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | Deputy Managing Editor | @tiffany_mf Bruges is this magnificently Europeanesque experience found conveniently on Center Street in Provo. Inside the eatery is little Belgium, complete with the Manneken Pis (you know, the naked boy statue fountain that looks like its peeing), brick walls with antique waffle irons hung up and open windows that give […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | News Editor | @tiffany_mf I had the pacific pizza, which is pineapple and ham. How boring of me, when there are choices like the CCB, which is chicken and bacon bits, or the zim, which is a pizza with sauerkraut. The cheese was so a melty and hot that it set the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photos by: Brooke Morrill and Valerie Cheatham It’s become a tradition for men to take the month of November and forego shaving. It’s not just a chance to try out the look, but those chin curtains are all grown for charity. Since 2004, the Movember Foundation has been running annual events to raise funds […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo credit: Brooke Morrill and Nicola Pritchett Kyle Spencer| Managing Editor @kyledspencer The City of Brotherly Love welcomed members of the UVU Review staff for a five-day visit to attend the Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Association 2014 convention. As we learned from print, digital and photo journalists alike, we gleaned insights on what allowed them to […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The staff of the UVU Review was asked “What is one song you never get tired of?” and these were their responses*. If you want to get a feel for the UVU Review newsroom, listen to this playlist and write a few articles under a deadline. It’s sure to do the trick. *Creative license was […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes Haley Madison | Blog Editor | @haleyshantelle Last year, we would go to dinner every Friday night as a newspaper staff. I always begged to go to Black Sheep Cafe, finally going on my birthday when I enjoyed the Navajo tacos. For a restaurant that I was so desperate to try, it has been off […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes Photo courtesy: Amazon The UVU Review chooses our favorite films to celebrate Halloween THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN Directed by: James Whale | Written by: William Hurlburt (Unrated) In James Whale’s masterful sequel to his already brilliant “Frankenstein,” the director never plays it safe– he yanks us from the deceptively-simple moral fable of the first […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Akwasi Frimpong Culture Writer “Akwasi, Akwasi, e-te-seng!” “Akwasi, how are you?” Five dark-skinned boys asked in my mother tongue at the Salt Lake International airport. These five boys, all athletes from Utah Valley University, my new home, and originally from Africa like myself, formed a welcoming committee. On August 15, 2008, I departed to […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Friends, Romans, Wolverines, We come not to praise The V, but to bury it. The semester is coming to a close, and we, your humble editors, will be departing for greener, or at least different, pastures. The next issue will be a Year-In-Review – the sort of thing a magazine does when it’s tired and […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Not study.” — Andy Beutler, Designer “Don’t study, or I lower my standards for what grades I want.” — Jarom Moore, Assistant News Editor “I spend quality time with Netflix.” — Kelly Cannon, Assistant Culture Editor “Baking and cleaning my house. That is not a lie.” — Mindy Harward, Cuture Editor “Hulu.” — Audrey Moore, […]