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Dear GYA, Our family has plenty of holiday traditions, but none of them top watching Kurt Bestor just straight-up Kurt Bestoring all over the Christmas spirit. Seriously,when he gets behind a piano and Kurt Bestors through my favorite holiday classics, I just can't help but leave the auditorium with a little piece of Kurt Bestor in my heart.
We're just over a month away from the next big convention to hit Salt Lake City, which means it's time for local artists with a flair for the geeky and obscure to start cranking out designs in time to be a part of FanX in January. One of the standout local names from the last Comic Con was Obake Style, featuring prints and jewelry themed around monsters and Japanese culture, with an array of other items as they've branched out into pop-culture.
Physicians for Human Rights is calling for an investigation into health-care workers identified in the CIA torture report who may have committed war crimes by conducting human experimentation on detainees. Top of the Alty World
Dear GYA, Brewvies is showing Bad Santa tonight and like Die Hard and Home Alone, it is one of the most underrated Christmas movies in existence. It's a story about redemption, the holiday spirit and Billy Bob Thorton dropping f-bombs every 34 seconds.
A talk with the hosts before their Monday season finale
We've had a lot of podcasts pop up over the past year, many of them focused on geek/nerd topics as well as a group discussion shows of various themes. One of the more foul and down-to-earth shows to come out this year was TRATCast, a trio of friends going over news articles and stories they found funny as they sit around a table drinking and talking.
A look at a documentary film series by three directors
With the local film scene kind of taking more of a pendulum swing toward slow or inactive, it's been hard to figure out over the past year what's been working and what hasn't. Many individuals seem to be content working on their own material in privacy and haven't shown much beyond film competitions while others have been collaborating together for something big on the way.
