Reading Time: 2 minutes Commuters on busy streets in Pleasant Grove and American Fork may have recently noticed some art in a normally bland place: bus shelters. Not only is this art new, but it is done by artists with close ties to the cities that house the shelters. Tammy Rodeback is an art student at UVU mostly known […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Folk-rock icons Carole King and James Taylor will be stopping in Utah on their “Troubadour Reunion Tour” on July 15 at the EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City. Carole King began her career as a songwriter, penning hits for Aretha Franklin, The Animals and Dusty Springfield before recording her critically acclaimed solo album “Tapestry” in […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Scera Shell will open its 2010 summer theater season with classic musical Funny Girl on June 10. BYU stage events coordinator Jennifer Reed is making her premier as a director at Scera. Reed’s diverse professional theatrical resume spans back 20 years; she has experience as a performer, director, and stage manager. “People my age […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The tumbleweed-strewn desert of music venues in Utah Valley has a new oasis on 800 S. in Orem with the opening of a new venue, The Kage. Owner Kage Ahanonu, a long-time rap and hip-hop artist out of Provo, has been dreaming of this opportunity for years. Finding adequate space for the right price and […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The entire second leg of U2’s “360-Degree” tour has been canceled after lead singer Bono received emergency spinal surgery on May 21 in Munich, Germany. Bono is under doctor’s orders to begin a rehabilitation program lasting at least eight weeks. The band’s first stop on the second leg of the tour was supposed to be […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Former child star Gary Coleman died last week on May 28, 2010, after hitting his head and suffering an epidural hematoma. He was 42 years old. He is survived by his wife Shannon Price. Coleman was born in Zion, Illinois on Feb. 8, 1968. He was adopted by Edmonia Sue and W.G. Coleman, who would […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute While human rights activists around the world debate the ethics surrounding capital punishment, 35 states in the U.S. continue to offer the death penalty as a sentence for capital offenses. Ronnie Lee Gardner is facing execution in June 2010, and his chosen method of death by firing squad is striking up the controversy once again. […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes From Goya’s The Third of May to the ubiquitous blindfold and cigarette depicted in so many cartoons, the images associated with execution by firing squad are a highly recognizable idiom in today’s intricate language of signs and symbols. However, it turns out that the firing squad is not nearly as common in the American penal […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes In the United States, long gone are the days of burning and beheading as forms of capital punishment. Lethal injection has become the preferred method, accounting for 98.9 percent of all executions in the U.S. between 2001 and 2005. It has been touted a humane, practical and painless form of execution, allowing the convicted offender […]