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Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker will join representatives of theatres from Denver, Dayton, Ohio, and Durham, N.C., in a community dialogue reviewing the pros and cons of what Salt Lake City’s performing-arts theatre could do for Utah’s capital city.--- Becker’s push for a world-class performance-arts center downtown is moving closer to and closer to its opening night, but before that happens, his office, in conjunction with The Downtown Alliance, is hoping to bring citizens unconvinced of the benefits of such a theatre out to a community dialogue tonight, where they can hear other cities' representatives explain how the theatres have changed their cities for the better.
As Utah County's music scene grows, so do the opportunities to contribute and make it flourish. --- We've already seen bands strike it big with audiences, music venues rise, recording studios churn out albums and there's even a music-video production company making awesome videos.
The band that played to the largest crowd ever at the old Park West (now Canyons) amphitheater is back in town, and so are some dudes from the Grateful Dead. And that's just the beginning.---
What’s new tonight: Unforgettable (CBS) Now we see if the second episode of the cop-adjacent show formerly known as The Rememberer lives up to the promise of the first—since the first wasn’t all that great, the bar ain’t high.
This week, Repertory Dance Theatre offers a special free symposium for (almost) everything you ever wanted to know about revolutionary 1960s artistic movements, but were afraid to ask. On Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 7 p.m., RDT presents The Revolutionaries: Vanguards of the 1960s.
Probably one of the strangest imports we've seen in a long while has been the tiny "blind box" toys. --- If you haven't seen them, a trip to your nearest comic-book shop would be suggested, but essentially they're small vinyl figurines that barely move, which come inside boxes that you don't know what's inside.
Dr. Scott Sampson will present at a University of Utah lecture Tuesday on the theory that human evolution has designed us to care about the natural world -- that was until children started spending more time in front of a computer screen than outdoors. “Instead of seeing ourselves as above and superior to the natural world, we need to see ourselves as embedded in it,” Sampson says.---
This week’s new offerings at Ogden’s Art House Cinema 502 run from brutal
Ukrainian realism to frisky French farce. Sergei Loznitsa’s My
Joy—making its American premiere here this Thursday—feels like a cinematic
demonstration that when Thomas Hobbes described life as “nasty, brutish and
short,” he must have been talking about the Ukraine.
Utah is close to picking a congressional map that will draw Utahns' political boundaries for electing their congressional delegates for the next decade. Come to the meeting Tuesday to see the final six maps go through their—hopefully—final round of elimination.---
