Utah County construction update Jan. 13-19

January 13, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes With the inevitability of snow this winter, UDOT is proactively making its annual warnings about driving during bad weather. Be sure leave time for weather delays in your travel plans, make sure to keep plenty of distance between vehicles and keep speeds down.   Also, make sure to keep up to date on construction. Below […]

Wednesday woes: Bro grabs

January 11, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.   -Socrates   Hey, dude, it’s nice to meet you. My name is John-Ross. Most every calls me J.R., though. I wish I had a cool nickname that everybody called me, but the only alias that’s ever really stuck is […]

Mental health: Don’t be shy

January 10, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes One out of every four people in the U.S. are suffering from some sort of mental illness at any given moment. The odds that a person will experience mental illness at some point in their life are even higher, at about 50 percent.   While depressive illnesses are the largest contributors to mental illness, social phobia […]

Local Secrets of Thai Cooking Unveiled

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 4 minutes Cans of coconut milk, packages of noodles, and curry pastes of all flavors and colors line the shelves. Kanakum Lawson, whose friends call her Kim, sits behind the register, a small, simply-bound book to her right: “My Mom’s Homemade Thai Recipe Book” by Kanakum Lawson.   Lawson, who operates Asian Market in Provo, has a […]

Book Clubs in Utah Valley

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes In the vast cornucopia of literature, it’s hard to decide what to read.   Voltaire vies for attention over Vonnegut. Shakespeare strives against Sandburg. Gibran grapples with Goethe. Horace holds back Hemmingway.   We’re immersed in unturned pages—and we always will be. No literary bucket-list is long enough to reach the shore. For this purpose, […]

Hardcore Band Parallax

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes Screaming can be misunderstood. Obviously in every day situations when someone screams, it’s alarming. Kicking, flailing, stomping and punching the air are often inappropriate. But when set to music, violent activities like these can hold healing gestures.   On Dec, 17th in Provo at Muse Music, 150 N University Ave, a final good-bye show and […]

Sub 4 Santa Christmas Gifts

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutes “I saw a flier on campus.”   We each find Christmas in a different way.   Matt Swanson (name changed for privacy) began his search for Christmas by glancing at a paper tacked to the wall. The Sub 4 Santa program has been around for years, but for one family it made all the difference […]

Thank you and farewell to Mike Fackrell

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: < 1 minute Death is a difficult thing to face. And for most college students it is not something we have to think much about. But at this time, we, the UVU Review staff ask you to take a minute and think about it. Recently, the UVU Review staff received devastating news, that one of our own, Michael […]

Woodbury Art Museum exposes hidden voices

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes T-shirts, held by clothespins on lines hanging low across the room, displayed raw emotion, scrawled with permanent marker by victims of abuse and violence. The graphic nature of the personal feelings of pain and anger was countered by the simple, almost quiet attributes of the black-and-white prints in the main section of the museum, also […]

Men’s basketball season re-cap

January 9, 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutes This season has done little for the nerves of those associated with the men’s basketball team.   The Wolverines started out the season 4-4 and a little shaky, losing to some strong competition with the likes of Houston, Arkansas, Wyoming and Utah State. They played tough and hung in most games other than a 34 […]