Reading Time: < 1 minute The GWC recognized Wolverines soccer’s overall dominance last week, naming Nicole Archibald Spencer and Lauren Sack as the Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week, respectively. Spencer, who leads the team with eight goals and five assists, scored six total points in wins over North Dakota and North Dakota State. Sack, a freshman from Nevada, […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute [monoslideshow id=14] Amanda Simpson is out to prove that not all pornography deals with nudity; some porn is all about close-up graphic images of cakes and sandwiches. Simpson’s cookbook FOOD PORN DAILY is based on her successful blog of the same name; but while the blog features photos with no recipes, the book takes a […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Sufjan Stevens at Kingsbury Tonight Sufjan Stevens, the indie-prince of Middle America, is coming to Utah to spread the word of “instinct over craft.” Stevens is currently on tour promoting his Oct. 12 release, The Age of Adz, pronounced like “odds.” Adz is his first full-length original collection of songs since 2005’s Illinois. Adz abandons […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s that time of year in Provo — the annual Gypsy Tapestry belly dance performance is about to grace the stage yet again. While Gypsy Tapestry holds performances at various locations throughout Utah and Salt Lake counties, the comfortable seating, ample stage room, and professional lighting and sound of the Covey Center for the Arts […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes On the tail end of their production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Salt Lake Acting Company continues its fortieth season this week with Boom, a quirky, un-romantic comedy. Boom, by San Francisco playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, features a female journalism student named Jo and a male marine biologist, Jules, on an erotic, seemingly casual […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Two people on one black box stage surrounded by a relatively small audience: It’s one of the most voyeuristic and intimate settings for a play, and quite possibly the perfect setting for The Egyptian Theatre Company’s performance of John Patrick Shanley’s intensely passionate Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. “The style of the play is […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Blood donation policy still in place against homosexual men. Every two seconds, someone in America needs blood. Many students at this school gave blood during the blood drive on Oct. 27, but homosexual and bisexual men are still banned from being allowed to donate, due to an FDA policy dating back to 1983. Blood is […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation to speak. Leading atheist author and activist Dan Barker is coming to Utah to lecture and sign books this Saturday. In an event organized by the University of Utah’s club SHIFT, or Secular Humanism, Inquiry and Freethought, Barker will speak about freedom from faith. Barker was an evangelist […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes My name is Cameron Simek and I play games – but don’t call me a gamer. Let’s try an experiment. Close your eyes and think of a gamer. What do you see? Is it some fat kid who lives in his parent’s basement, drinking Mountain Dew, eating Doritos and playing World of Warcraft? This seems […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes A Biker’s plea for help proves humanity of online communities. On Oct. 23, Nick Moore learned that he was going blind. Moore’s face does not look like a blind man’s face. He looks young, trendy and invulnerable at first glance. There is no sign of old age, no drooping lids. Nonetheless, the 24-year-old graphic designer […]