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More Honeypot headliners, and Swantourage's working-class jazz
Honeypot Glass Blowing Competition & Art Festival Redux
Glass blowing—the alchemical art of melting down material known to shatter into gooey blobs, then using your very breath to stretch and twist it into colorful, intricate shapes—is fascinating. It’s almost enough to drive an entire festival, but the Honeypot Glass Blowing Competition & Art Festival (The Art Garden, 627 W. 100 South, 801-722-5865, honetypotglasscomp.com) is much more than that.
Dozens of short theater, dance, monologue and other performance pieces will make their debuts over the course of the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival's 10-day run. And as with any festival, there's an inevitable FOMO component, as there's no way you can get a chance to watch everything.
Summer may already be winding down at the multiplexes, but it's a four-star weekend at the art house with three exceptional new releases. Atomic Blonde (pictured) overloads its stripped-down action-thriller pleasures—and potential for Charlize Theron badassery—with Cold War drama.
Happy Birthday Harry Potter, Pacific Island Heritage Month kickoff and more
When your Utah options for entertainment are too plentiful for a single print issue to contain, you need more information to look Beyond Essentials. A pair of events at local venues acknowledge Harry Potter's birthday in this, the 20th-anniversary year of the original publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's (or Philosopher's) Stone.
Utah makes the Top 5 most fiscally healthy states list, baby.
Our beloved state ranked 3rd when it came to having enough cash to pay short-term debts and 4th in the area of having enough revenue to cover yearly expenses.
In search of Christian Jonassen, and jamming with jazz.
Whither Christian Jonassen? The day Christian Jonassen came into my life—courtesy of Bob Moss and Mike Kirkland, who handed me a copy of his debut album—was one of the most confusing and happiest days of my life.
Governor Herbert promises to inject rural workforce with 25,000 jobs.
Gov. Gary Herbert is often heard praising Utah’s economic numbers as a reflection of the state’s industrious citizenry and his office’s business-friendly attitudes.
