Reading Time: 2 minutes These days when someone encourages you to give up driving in favor of riding a bicycle, they usually bathe their argument in rhetoric about breaking dependence on foreign oil and stopping global climate change. Worthy arguments. Unfortunately, people are rarely motivated by moralistic calls to action. Plus, your individual choice not to drive a car […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have never drunk a curdled glass of half-and-half. Neither have I read Sarah Palin’s new book, Going Rogue. I’m definitely sure that I wouldn’t feel good after doing either one. It is neither secret, nor negative, that Utah is a staunchly conservative state. There are drawbacks to living in a subculture where a dominant […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Some people are just impossible to shop for. Sure, you can spend hours scouring the mall or surfing the Web, but with finals looming near, who has time for that? It’s easy to resort to gift cards, but those are trite. In a time-saving effort, here are perfect gifts for the hard-to-please demographics. The music […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The UVU Symphony Band’s winter concert will be held at the Reagan Theatre on Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. The set list includes music written by Pulitizer Prize winner Vincent Persichetti, Award-winning composer and director Leonard Bernstein, jazz pianist Dana Wilson, Broadway conductor Robert Russell Bennett and an original compostion by the band’s director, Dr. James Colonna. […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes I remember it clearly. “Mom, is Santa real?” “Uh…Yeah, but he died a couple weeks ago.” Oh the things parents put their poor, impressionable children through. We all had enchanting fantasies of Santa Clause when we were little, right up until they came to a screeching halt when we found out he’s not real. Although […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you are looking for a great show to attend over the holidays, head over to the SCERA Theater in Orem for a family-friendly Christmas production. The SCERA Theater is showing its production of Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical, which is a sequel to the original Nunsense production. Nunsense begins with Sister Julia, Child of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes With performances of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, local favorite Farley Family X-Mas and student-produced Holiday Night Live, comedy marks the month of December in the theatre department. Much Ado About Nothing, the love story of the ever-bickering Beatrice and Benedick, is directed by John Graham. This time, it has been set during the Mexican […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Imagine combining passionate musicians, a large audience and the energy of a live concert. Visualize the music racing through the floor and bursting out through the crowd, and your own lips. This is a guaranteed experience for those attending concerts put on by the local band j.wride. Yet, not all groups can promise such a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Accounting, resumés, corporate settings, brokers and packaging. Those are hardly words to be expected in an art class. But in the senior seminar art class, those are all topics being discussed as the class prepares for its exhibition and the real world of artists. The class has spent the semester learning how to prepare an […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The following confession of my holiday music preferences is indefensible. But I’m going to make a plea to that all-forgiving reservoir of sentimentality and nostalgia that defines the month of December. I pray that you won’t be completely disgusted when I place the following five words together in the same breath and give it a […]