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Snowbird’s annual Oktoberfest celebration kicked off last weekend, and carries on Saturdays and Sundays (and Labor Day) through Oct. 9, 2011. --- Germany’s ginormous Oktoberfest held in Munich is the single largest festival in the world.
In a few short years, a Sugar House streetcar will likely be a permanent fixture in the neighborhood. If you’re interested in public transit in your neighborhood, or just want to make sure the city doesn’t lay tracks in your front yard, then you’ll want to check out tonight’s meeting.---
Kids are at the center of this week's new bargain-theater offerings: singing kids, kids fighting an alien and a boy named Christopher Robin. From writer/director J.J. Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg comes Super 8, the science-fiction thriller about adolescents in a small Ohio town circa 1979 whose DIY movie project inadvertently captures the crash of a military train, and the escape of ... something.
Poetry slams around the state usually leave the mic open for anyone to come up and pontificate to their heart's content. --- They bring the finest thoughts they have to the room and leave everything on the stage where they stood.
This month, courtesy of Facebook, many of us are busy parsing randomly ordered names of our online contacts into fictional, precompiled categorical lists, often with hilarious results. It's like a social-networking-y version of Madlibs!
The bold and the beautiful, the daring and the daunting, all get a voice this weekend, Aug. 26-28, for Salt Lake Acting Company’s second annual Fearless Fringe Festival.--- In an effort to continually develop emerging plays and local playwrights while simultaneously delving into non-mainstream topics, SLAC brings the festival back with Little Happy Secrets and Do Not Hit Golf Balls Into Mexico on the bill.
Marc Sessions Jenson lost a court battle today to allow him to offer a home in Idaho as compensation to victims he owed $4.1 million. Jenson, whom, City Weekly previously reported, sought to fundraise for Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, will face sentencing in October.---
The big W is hoping to open big with a location on Parley’s Way that would expand beyond the zoned conformities. A hearing will be held tonight on whether an exception should be allowed so the store can open a supercenter-sized Walmart on 2705 E. Parley’s Way.---
On Monday night, I decided to give the new West Valley TRAX line a whirl and see how fast I could get to the Death Cab for Cutie/Frightened Rabbit show. The ease of the commute was terrific, and the show wasn't bad, either.---
