Arts & Culture

Imagine successfully working with your sibling. Now imagine two siblings whose collaborative efforts rank them among the foremost directors of independent filmmaking. Meet Joel and Ethan Coen. Happening upon the…

Every first Thursday of the month at the Royal Palace Theater in Spanish Fork (located at 165 N Main St) the "BluesJam" rocks the house. Local blues artists play for…

To support the Wheelchair Foundation, a group of local college students held their sixth "Rock the Block" benefit concert and dance party Friday, Sept. 28 in the Reams’s parking lot…

Have you ever noticed the round knobs that have been welded at regular intervals on the exterior handrails next to stairways across campus? The knobs discourage skateboarders and roller bladers…

Thoroughly Modern Millie has opened with a bang at the Hale Center Theater in Orem. The small theater, reminiscent of off-off-Broadway, has packed in show-goers for the company’s 137 production….

New Play Group, a fledgling theater troupe based in Provo, produced a quartet of short plays exploring how faith is created and how it is tested, according to a recent…

A good story can go a long way. Exhibit A: Michael Clayton. Often, filmmakers mistakenly assume that special effects can compensate for a poor story. Heresy. Exhibit B: D-War.Michael Clayton…

Sean Penn takes another successful crack at writing and directing with this adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s non-fictional book. Into the Wild is a beautiful, aesthetic-filled journey you experience through the…

The theater department’s next production, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning playwright Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness!, opens this week in the Ragan Theater.Director Professor John Graham describes Ah, Wilderness! – one of the only comedies written by mostly-serious O’Neill – as the way O’Neill wished his family could’ve been.

At one time or another, most people want to escape civilization or even reality itself. That’s exactly what Chris McCandless did when he ventured into the Alaskan bush on a…

Monday Oct. 15, was an extremely packed evening for live music.

If you haven’t looked into 2K’s first person shooter masterpiece, then what are you waiting for? With engrossing graphics, suburb action and intense storytelling, it’s sure to please just about everyone. The game takes place in the year 1960, and you are the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Atlantic Ocean.

As the theater department enters its first year with seniors, the theater majors are really beginning to emanate the light of their experiences. The perfect example is with their latest…

Based on an innocent 1972 film by the same name, the Farrelly brothers’s remake of The Heartbreak Kid twists its ideal premise (meeting Miss Right after marrying Miss Wrong) into…

Resident Evil: Extinction is the third installment of a video game-gone-movie series; and like the first two releases, it’s a zombie movie. If you haven’t seen either of the previous…