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Anyone who read Salt Lake City author Bree Despain's novel The Dark Divine could recognize its potential to connect with the Twilight audience. So Despain is deciding to take it directly to 'em.
Consumer advocates are warning there’s a new breed of sharks out there—credit unions offering payday loans with triple-digit interest rates.--- Linda Hilton, with the Coalition of Religious Communities held a press conference this morning outside of the America First credit union to protest a new trend in payday loan products being offered by local credit unions in Utah.
Well, the Utah Arts Fest has come and gone. Soon all those pissed-off drivers with led-feet can once again speed down 2nd East without a blockade in the way.
Salt Lake City funk band The Soulistics played a Sunday night show at Utah Arts Fest and blew the roof off of a roofless amphitheater.--- Including a few original beats among their repertoire of classic funk and Motown hits, the band was so on the audience couldn't help getting their groove on while stage hands had to run on stage for the last number to keep the bass drum from running off the stage.
Tonight join the People’s Journey, two Iraq War veterans, an Iraqi refugee and several youth from Afghanistan and Palestine all spreading a message of the need for peace—a message they learned the hard way.--- This unique cross section of voices for peace and understanding will be stopping in Utah tonight as part of a national tour.
A generation or more ago, illusionists like Doug Henning, Harry Blackstone Jr. and a young David Copperfield sold the spectacle of stage trickery to the world. ---We’ve lost a bit of our collective sense of wonder since then, but a performance like Michelangelo’s Illusionicity at Sandy Amphitheater Friday night can remind you what’s magical about magic.
Like
the changing of the seasons, the eclipse of the full moon this week,
or waiting for the Utah Jazz to choke; without fail the Utah Arts
Festival takes over Library Square. Hundreds
of artists from around the country and Canada decent upon downtown
Salt Lake City to take over four days at Library Square to showcase
and sell their artwork, along with good eats, Big Mouth Cafe with poetry, teh Fear No Film Fest in the library, and of course
the music on several stages.
