Reading Time: 2 minutes When it comes to seeing the world, there are two ways to do it. You can either A) be a tourist, or B) be a traveler. The major difference is that money is not an object for tourists. They stay in four star hotels and buy the most expensive travel packages. This would be someone […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you Google “Shark Speed,” most of the nearly seven million results are about the velocity of Great Whites or are links to Discovery Channel’s annual awesome-fest known as Shark Week. In time, that will most likely change if the guys in the local band Shark Speed continue to put out material like their forthcoming […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Whenever Africa is mentioned, the first thing that comes to the minds of many is exotic animals, poverty and war, but for Alex Nyagah, there are deeper aspects to consider. Coming to UVU from Kenya, Nyagah, who is majoring in Technology Management, feels the image of Africa is distorted by the media. “While it is […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Brightly colored lights, performers dancing across the stage, glamorous costuming and powerful songs resonating throughout the theater are the essential elements for the Broadway musical experience. On Jan. 18, the SCERA theater brought Broadway to Utah with the special one-night event, “Night of Broadway.” “You don’t have to go to New York to watch great […]
Reading Time: 1 minute Many novice writers study literary classics in hopes that some intellectual genius might rub off on their pliable young minds. However, any astute aspiring writer with intentions to succeed in any material sense of the word won’t neglect the work of contemporary authors who receive a lot of buzz. Stephen King is one such author, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes As the old cliché goes, you don’t know a man until you walk a day in his shoes. Yet at the end of the day, those shoes can be taken off, allowing the temporary wearer to sleep soundly knowing they were lucky enough to know a man and also lucky enough to not have to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Utah Valley men’s basketball team got back to its winning ways at home, scoring a season high and dominating the University of South Dakota, 86-68. The Wolverines got off to a slow start, managing only four points in the first five minutes into the game, but after a media timeout Utah Valley settled down. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Life experiences shape us into unique individuals with different likes, dislikes, passions, pasts and futures.These differences often manifest themselves through artistic expression; thus original artwork tells the story of the artist. With the recognition of this fact in mind, the Covey Center for the Arts is featuring the individuality of four local artists in “Self […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are now two ways in which Utah resembles a third world country. The first is our well-documented birthrate; the highest in the nation. But this month we managed to set ourselves apart yet again by showing the rest of the nation that we may only be the thirty-fourth most populated state in the country […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The guitar I want most doesn’t exist. Apparently no one ever thought the tight, guttural chime of a Fender Mustang deserved to be wedded with the sustain of a long scale neck with a heavy maple body. I could build this guitar – there are many sites, like warmoth.com, that make custom guitar building a […]