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State and city leaders break ground on SLC’s newest supportive housing complex and honor longtime homeless advocate Pamela Atkinson.
“The governor knows how important housing is, the mayor knows, the lieutenant governor knows … the Legislature knows, and they apologized profusely at the end of the session that they took out $24 million,” Atkinson said.
A unique female perspective on the message of Jesus elevates the Biblical drama Mary Magdalene. Rich character study and a lovely sense of place elevate Kent Jones' Diane.
By Scott Renshaw, MaryAnn Johanson and Eric D. Snider
Apr 12, 2019 12:15 pm
In our Feb. 27th issue, we wrote about the innovative collaboration, Train Tracts. And after riding the rails for a month, the results of the traveling literary journals have arrived at the station and are now on display at the Rio Gallery in Salt Lake City as Transcontinental: People, Place, Impact.
Local officials react to LDS church’s amendment of policy regarding children of LGBTQ parents.
Signaling “a new era,” Dabakis asked listeners to look on the bright side. “This is a change. This must have been hard, this must have been difficult, and I’m appreciative of it,” he mused.
Mapplethorpe, The Public, Storm Boy, The Hummingbird Project
It's a movie weekend full of super-heroes, horror scares, fact-based stories and even Mel Gibson in the improbable role of a guy whose career might be destroyed by someone capturing him being racist on a recording.
By Scott Renshaw, David Riedel and MaryAnn Johanson
Apr 5, 2019 9:00 am
“The thing with hate crimes is that there are two victims: the person that was harmed, and the community they represent,” Derek Kitchen, the only openly gay member of the Legislature, said.
Stories of the disenfranchised are still rare enough in contemporary American popular culture that it’s somewhat of a surprise when you get a chance to see them. As two new local theater productions show, that doesn’t mean all such stories are created equal.
