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The national GOP has selected Salt Lake City as a finalist city to host the 2012 Republican National Convention. While ultimately three other finalists will be announced in the coming weeks, SLC was the first finalist city to be named, which has got to make Utah’s adopted son Mitt Romney smile.---
The awards have been announced and the out-of-towners are heading home, but there's still one more day of Salt Lake City Sundance screenings. Your best choice should you head down to the Rose Wagner Center -- not the Tower Theatre, as mistakenly indicated in the Film Guide -- is Nowhere Boy, a biographical sketch of John Lennon as a teenager.
J.D. Salinger's friends recount tales of his life, proving that he was anything but a recluse.--- To some people, such as City Weekly's own Stephen Dark, J.D. Salinger had a seemingly huge impact on their teenage lives, especially with Catcher in the Rye.
The last full-day Sundance slate of Salt Lake City films offers a few great choices -- including what may be the festival's consensus best film. Winter's Bone has been hailed by most festival attendees as the strongest film in the U.S. Dramatic Competition.
If there’s anything that a good film festival should
do—indeed, that good art of any kind should do—it’s to introduce you to worlds
and points of view you hadn’t contemplated before. Even more compelling is when
you think you have contemplated a
word before, but realize that there much more to it than you though.
Think you got what it takes to try out for Utah’s Next Top Lefty Congressman? The Citizen’s Candidate group is holding its public audition Saturday, Jan. 30 to find a progressive challenger to District 2 Congressman Jim Matheson, D-Utah.---
