Reading Time: 2 minutes “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” currently streaming on AppleTV+, is a weird masterpiece by filmmaker Joel Coen. Coen, along with brother Ethan Coen, is well known for directing thrillers like “No Country for Old Men” and comedies like “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou.” In “ The Tragedy of Macbeth” Coen ventures into new territory with a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes “West Side Story,” the acclaimed retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in 1950s New York City, directed by Steven Spielberg, premiered in Dec. 2021. It generated a meager $35 million at the box office in its first three weeks. Essentially, it flopped. But it shouldn’t have. First of all, the movie is gorgeous to look […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes In January, UVU’s Noorda Center for the Performing Arts put on the opera “La Boheme,” a production detailing the tragic love story of a poet and a seamstress living a Bohemian lifestyle in nineteenth-century France. This was a great opportunity for UVU theatre students. They were able to perform alongside tenor Isaac Hurtado and soprano […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes With another semester coming to a close, stressors are quickly piling onto many students’ already-hectic schedules and they’re looking for a source of relief. For those of us in Utah Valley, that relief may be an escape into nature. According to a summary of 14 studies conducted in the United States, Sweden, and Japan, spending […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Criminal Justice Week was hosted at Utah Valley University last week, where experts in backgrounds as varied as death investigators to FBI agents shared their experiences. The speakers each offered a unique perspective on the state of crime and punishment, both past and present. The week started off with a presentation by Jason Bullock, a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Silent Sky,” a UVU theatre production, ran for the last two weeks at the Bastian Theatre, where it aimed for the stars and succeeded in every respect. It is the epitome of a good story well told. “Silent Sky” is a play about so many things it’s hard to know where to begin, which is […]