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No more reruns: From tonight until around May 26, the broadcast networks really, really care about you, TV viewers! After an April overloaded with more repeats than TV Land (even a Lost rerun, WTF?), the nets are kicking it into high gear with new programming tonight--not that "tonight" matters as much anymore, since only half of younger viewers actually watch TV shows "live" these days, with DVRs now in over 30 percent of 'Merican homes.
In what the Salt Lake City Arts Council's Casey Jarman termed "a closely guarded but very poorly kept secret," Pioneer Park was named the new home of the Twilight Concert Series for at least the summer of 2010. Six of the eight shows were announced Thursday morning as well.---
It doesn't fit the narrative coming from FoxNews where Tea Party rallies are the top story in politics this year, but Log Cabin Republicans have shown new influence in Utah politics in ways never seen before. ---At a recent debate, the organization hosted six of eight Republican senate candidates--or their representatives--including incumbent Bob Bennett, an impressive feat for a Utah organization that focuses on queer issues.
While
the function and operation of gear-works have always fascinated the
engineering minds, few look at the industrial mechanisms as forms of
artwork.
The ubiquitous orange flags will be relegated to less dangerous crossings.--- With
the introduction of the HAWK system in Salt Lake City, many (or, at
least, me) have wondered about the future for the beloved (at least by
me) orange flags.
No one -- except those few in the studio while it was being recorded -- ever got to see or hear The Beatles play "Abbey Road" live. Well, here's the next best thing.
Does this new cheap-o ad from the Democratic National Committee make GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney look like Wall Street's bitch? More importantly ... this is news to anyone?
Movie fans are familiar with the concept of
“scene-stealers”—those minor supporting performances that command attention,
even though the story isn’t really about them. ---Sometimes, they stick in you
memory in a way that even the protagonists don’t.
