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From grocery shopping to "Peeping Toms" to savage hunting, former Ririe-Woodbury dancer Andrea Dispenziere presented her work-in-progress this weekend---%uFFFDat the Sugar Space (616 E. Wilmington Ave, 888-300-7898). "Hunting the Hemo Goblin," a series of vignettes, explores hunting from the modern-day sense of grocery shopping to the mythological Artemis.
An apparent victim of his own success, Russ Adams’ zombie film props and shrunken head gifts apparently didn’t jive with the Ogden Farmers Market’s vision.--- Russ Adams an independent filmmaker from Ogden was happy to be invited by the Ogden Farmers Market to hold a booth at their weekly gathering where next to produce stands and jewelry and gift vendors he would share a space to show off his studio’s sculptures and artwork.
The Discovery Channel's "Shark Week" has become such an institution that it can be both the punch line for a 30 Rock joke and an inspiration for a savvy local aquarium to bring in visitors. The Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy is cleverly piggybacking on the cable network's iconic "Shark Week" with a week of educational and fascinating activities surrounding its own population of cartilaginous predators.
Another major Salt Lake City arts facility is under new management. This time, it's the Utah Museum of Fine Arts introducing a new -- well, sort of new -- executive director.
Chants of “Si se puede!” bounced throughout the capitol Thursday as more than a hundred rallied to protest Utah’s infamous immigration list and Arizona’s controversial S.B. 1070.--- While the chants of revolution mixed with refrains from Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” had a powerful echo effect inside the state capitol, the acoustics also tended to muffle the talks given by the numerous speakers who presented at the rally.
