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Princess in Black, Aeris Aerial Arts, Downtown Artist Collective, Orny Adams
Labor Day weekend is typically thin on the events calendar, but that doesn't mean you can squeeze everything into one print issue of City Weekly. It's time to go beyond Essentials.
Expanding Horizons and Meeting Strangers at the Foreigner Show
“Let’s skip Bonham,” I told my friend Grant last Saturday night at his first real rock ‘n’ roll show. At 25, Grant had seen only two concerts: a nameless, faceless, now-forgotten band in Spain more than a decade ago, and country star Martina McBride a couple of years later.
By Randy Harward and Alex Springer
Aug 28, 2017 12:13 pm
The Only Living Boy in New York, Whose Streets?, Birth of the Dragon
A variety of limited releases trickle into the pre-Labor Day weekend, including a timely documentary about media coverage of protests and one of the year's best films. The Only Living Boy in New York (pictured) takes the basic set-up of The Graduate and turns it into narcissistic coming-of-age nonsense.
Live Redux: Washed Out
Ever since the first episode of Portlandia, I’ve been obsessed with the gauzy, mellow synthpop sounds of Washed Out. As summer fades, and the memories of good times therein do likewise, it’s the perfect soundtrack.
Buddy action comedy, the return of Steven Soderbergh and a crowd-pleasing documentary make for another diverse weekend in Utah movie theaters. As attempts to recreate the chemistry of Midnight Run go, you could do worse than the dueling F-bomb fusillade of Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds (pictured) in The Hitman's Bodyguard.
Phase 1 of most recent attempt to clean up area underway.
The four day old Operation Rio Grande, a multi-state agency drive to clean up the streets around the downtown shelter of crime, can already claim a singular success. The drug dealers, apparently, have moved out of town.
The coalition, recently approved by the lieutenant governor’s office to gather signatures for a medical marijuana initiative, has hit the pavement with pens and clipboards.
Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Keith Squires reported on Tuesday that 160 officers were deployed to Rio Grande leading to 87 arrests. Of those, 33 detainees were released.
