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Hearing the unimprovised story behind the latest improv group.
Over the course of the past year, we've seen 50 West slowly turn itself into a chill location that's brought in intimate performances and given comedy shows a new home in the downtown area. One of the latest additions in the comedy field to make their residence there is Crowdsourced Comedy, an improv group who don't just ask for single words or phrases; they ask you for a story, or mounds of information, and improv their way around the major groundwork laid before them.
Two historically-based dramas and the warm, fuzzy comedy stylings of Nancy Meyers are among the new releases in Utah theaters this week. Meyers (Something's Gotta Give, It's Complicated) brings us The Intern (pictured), with retiree Robert DeNiro teaching dot-com CEO Anne Hathaway important (and often adorable) life lessons.
Activists are planning a series of protests in Salt Lake City from Sept. 27-30 to highlight a lack of services and programs for Utahns with disabilities. The protests will begin with a rally on Sept. 27, but after that, 86-year-old veteran and disabled activist Barb Toomer declines to say what ADAPT has in store for the Beehive capital, other than to note any demonstrations will be "nonviolent, like Dr. Martin Luther King."
42nd Street runs Sept. 22-27 at Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South.
There are so many things that are right about 42nd Street—as well as a few things that are bemusing about its current Broadway Across America touring production. Oh, the production itself is terrific, never mind about that.
Shawn Reid kept having nervous breakdowns but refused to believe he was bipolar, clinging to the idea that it was his ADHD that was undermining his existence. This year, the 29-year-old found a psychiatrist who told him that he believed that—theoretically at least—the same chromosome that is responsible for Reid's auburn hair can also be responsible for him being bipolar.
Go onto Craigslist, and—nestled amidst ads listing DVDs, VHS tapes and CDs for sale—you will find the following title: "Gay marriage is stupid' The Movie. It's on sale for $12—there's a limit of three per person—from a seller in Sandy.
Men's fashion has been underrepresented in Salt Lake City for a long time. I have to thank the late Bill Loya and his namesake store and Jack Barnard of the Chalk Garden for helping to drive fashion to our salty city long before Nordstrom moved to the City Creek Center and before Trax existed.
If you weren't following my Twitter feed this past weekend, you might have missed that I was at a gaming marathon fundraiser. Because of that event, I didn't have a chance to cover Gallery Stroll this month (first time missing the event since I started).
