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The last time we chatted with our old friend Sohrab Mirmontazeri was back in late 2008 as a finalist at the Tower Theater's Open Screen Night. --- Since then, he's been working hard to get his directing career on track, creating small pieces for several festivals as well as taking part in other films behind the scenes.
Saturday, Aug. 20: Ogden’s Junction City Roller Dolls faced off against Everett, Wash.’s NorthWest Taco Kickers, a travel-only “rogue” team with no ties to a league.
“I could spend the next 15 months campaigning to do Senator Hatch’s job or I could spend the next 15 months doing the job I was elected to do,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told a press conference today in announcing that he would not run against incumbent Sen. Hatch in the 2012 election.--- Chaffetz held a press conference today at the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics, to announce that despite months of public talk about squaring off against Hatch, a six-term incumbent in the 2012 election that he had now decided his time would be better spent remaining in the House of Representatives.
More new under-the-radar fare this week at Ogden’s Art House
Cinema 502, including minimalist realism and wartime in Asia. Matthew Porterfield’s Putty
Hill (pictured) certainly brings its own distinctive vibe to American indie drama,
following a bunch of characters in the titular Baltimore working-class neighborhood after
the death of one young man from a drug overdose.
Sometimes an up-and-coming band gets handed a silver spoon and gets to open for a band that already has a group of excited and loyal followers.--- Ivan and Alyosha acknowledged this when I rolled up to the merchandise table to speak with them after their 45-minute set opening for Brandi Carlile last night at Red Butte Garden. The Seattle band, formed by Tim Wilson and Ryan Carbary in 2007, and later joined by Tim Kim and Pete Wilson, is an, “indie, folk-pop rock band with aspirations of world domination (they’re funny, too)” that gained national recognition from NPR during coverage at SXSW.
The best thing that ever happened on a Monday was the creation of that The Mamas and the Papas song. But today might not be bad if you listen to our tips to entertain yourself.---
It isn't every day that Salt Lake City hosts the best-selling artist of the year, and Adele's show at the Gallivan Center proved that popular music can be moving, soulful and far more than the auto-tuned crap that typically gluts the charts.---
For this month's Gallery Stroll, we're going to be doing things a little differently, and before we jump into interviews, I believe a little recap is in order. --- August is generally the hardest month to book on this blog for Stroll.
