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If you're a film critic, you will be asked this question. You will be asked this question for what seems like forever, but really just amounts to the three months between the first trickle of critics' group awards in early December and the red carpet ceremony at the end of February: "So, what's gonna win the Oscar."
Best of Utah Music kicked off Wednesday at The Urban Lounge, with the first of this year’s two DJ showcases. Bello, Choice, Mr. Vandal, Grimblee and DJ Delmaggio all showed off their skills, making for a night that was full of surprises and killer beats.
The biography of a great British artist and the return of that time-traveling jacuzzi are among this week's new releases in Utah theaters. Eric D. Snider laments Hot Tub Time Machine 2 missing the emotional center of John Cusack's character from the original, leaving little but one-dimensional vulgarity.
A preview of the fashion events happening next week
Last April the city of Provo saw one of its biggest fashion events ever, as Provo Fashion Week launched four shows to highlight the community of designers in their area who were making major strides. Nearly a year later the second annual event will take over several venues in the city from February 24 to March 3, showcasing several runway shows, a designer sample sale, a bridal fair and more.
Most everything that was said at the Wednesday-morning press conference about a bill to essentially reinvent Utah's criminal-justice system was essentially old news. That emphasis should be on community treatment beds over prison beds; that drug addicts and the mentally ill should not be treated the same as hardened criminals; and that prison should not be a warehouse for nonviolent offenders who have nowhere else to go.
An effort by some Utah lawmakers to crush a compromise brokered in 2014 that preserved the state’s caucus nominating election system was met with opposition Tuesday when legislators refused to extend the starting point for election reforms. Rep. Fred C. Cox, R-West Valley City, asked the House Government Operations Committee to draw out the time table for Senate Bill 54, which was seen as a compromise in 2014 between politicians and election activists.
Provo group helps unite female and non-binary musicians
A topic that isn't really broached in the music scene is the representation of women and non-binary individual performers in the music scene. SLC itself has become its own kind of melting pot for genres and performers, and while different aspects of the culture seem to be represented, it's far from a perfect blend as the majority of musicians are men.
Rep. Justin Miller, D-Salt Lake City, had a bill to accommodate public employees who breastfeed clear an early hurdle Tuesday when it passed favorably out of the House Political Subdivisions Committee. Even still, the committee raised the concerns that will likely follow the bill through the process: Does that state need to force local government agencies from school districts and counties to accommodate breastfeeding employees?
