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Clarifying that she wasn’t offering legal advice, Leah Farrell, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Utah, led the group through a broad view of the First Amendment while detailing some often overlooked nuances of the law.
The busy Thanksgiving holiday weekend brings the latest from Pixar, a tale of Charles Dickens and more. Disney/Pixar's Coco (pictured) creates a fascinating new world with an emotional hook that might be tied to its cultural specificity.
A long-awaited super-team-up might dominate the box office, but alternate offerings include a pair of intriguing documentaries, an animated Nativity story, and the winner of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or. Justice League unites Batman, Wonder Woman and more in a movie that looks like it tried to take every note of criticism on its predecessors. Cannes Palme d'Or-winnerThe Square (pictured) attempts art-world satire that mostly scores cheap points at the expense of hypocritical sophisticates.
Bob Woodward, Salty Cricket, Wasatch Contemporary Dance and more.
The week before Thanksgiving is bursting with options, from the grand opening of a new comedy venue, to creative dance, to a journalism legend. This is Beyond Essentials.
A thin week at the movies ahead of the pre-Thanksgiving surge is headlined by a remake of a classic mystery, plus a documentary by a cinematic legend. MaryAnn Johanson finds that Kenneth Branagh's all-star revisiting of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (pictured) is pretty to look at but otherwise meaningless.
A World War II era historical footnote becomes a lesson for The Age of Trump.
It's an inevitable by-product of the Age of Trump that virtually all new art will be viewed through its lens: What does it say about who we have become, or who we are fighting? But there's a particularly fascinating contemporary subtext to Eric Samuelsen's The Ice Front, and its world-premiere production by Plan-B Theatre Company, despite the plot being inspired by events more than 70 years ago.
