Reading Time: 2 minutes Losing focus happens after facing complications on tour. Things like schedules, travel time, food, money and occasionally, unexpected injuries can derail bands from touring. But for Buck and Shanti Curran, members of the indie/folk duo Arborea, losing focus isn’t an issue. Arborea has been touring the U.S. since April on their Red Planet Tour. On […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Although contemporary art and organized religion seem to go together like oil and water, many young artists are striving to create common ground between the two. Casey Jex Smith, Utah native and MFA graduate from the San Francisco Art Institute, is one such artist. In addition to being an imaginative illustrator, Smith is a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes One joins the Freemason fraternity for one of three reasons: to feel part of something, to gain a social network of people or to find out their secrets. Junior Warden of the Damascus number 10 chapter, Matthew Nelson, joined for what he describes as a healthy combination of the three. In the early 2000s, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last Thursday night I was at Ozz Billiards in Provo when I heard Michael Bublé coming from behind a thick black curtain that separated the building in half. “I feel very Mad Men right now,” I said to my date. Curiosity eventually overcame us and we wandered past the curtain. What we found was […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes What would make a woman lean out of her car window and scream at a guy on a bicycle as she passes? I’ve been wondering about this ever since it happened to me several times over the summer. It still surprises me that it happened. I mean, Utah Valley is a pretty bike-friendly place. Bike […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The aroma that wafts through the halls at UVU every Wednesday at noon puts that of pathetic weenie roasts to shame. The best part is that it is local and cheap. That’s right, it is none other than Provo’s delicious J Dawgs. J Dawgs was founded in June 2004 by owner Jayson Edwards. Edwards […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s a sight not uncommon on campus. A student will bring their child to class because they have no other option. One student/mother brings her child to class regularly because of personal reasons. Her name is not disclosed to protect her identity for this story. She is a single mother, recently divorced with no money […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes For people who are not looking at the contract or agreement they sign when they get a new job, it’s time to start looking closely because the words “at will” may be embedded somewhere in there. Utah is one of the states with at-will employment laws, meaning an employer can fire an employee without […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am a Mac person. I conducted research for this article on my iPhone as I waited to pick my kids up from school and wrote it using the iMac in my office while listening to music on my iPod. As a Mac person, when I heard that Steve Jobs had passed away […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recycling your old assignments may be considered plagiarism Kyle Jones was stealing. He wasn’t worried though. He was only stealing from himself. This was Jones’s second bout with the same class. Neither the topics nor the assignments had changed from the first go ‘round, and this particular aviation class was online. […]