On Friday and Saturday night, the annual School of Music Scholarship Concert will take place at Libby Gardner Hall.
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Maturity, thoughtful lyrics lift songs
Wrought with the familiar themes of love and religion that made his debut album a critical success, Joshua James’ follow-up, Build Me This, shows he’s more unrestrained than ever.
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After years of hard work and putting so much time into a project, it can certainly be rewarding to see the finished product. This Friday is the time when students who are enrolled in, or have recently completed their master’s degrees in film production get to show off their finished work.
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A poet, a mathematician and a composer walk into a library, engage in a heated debate concerning the relative merits of their chosen fields and in the process find they have more in common than any of them could have ever imagined.
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Dance is often a selfish art form—the purpose of movement as merely movement itself. Efren Corado, a second-year graduate student in the department of modern dance at the U defies this selfish tendency in an exciting and charitable way, by merging dance and community involvement.
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The opening credits montage for “Gentlemen Broncos,” the latest from “Napoleon Dynamite” director Jared Hess, might be the most successful part of the film. The credits and titles are placed on the covers of a rotating selection of science fiction and fantasy paperbacks while the Zager and Evans tune “In the Year 2525” provides the soundtrack.
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For U music professor and composer Miguel Chuaqui, a career in music once seemed an unrealistic choice. Such ambition no longer seems frivolous, as Chuaqui has been named one of 12 winners in a prestigious international composition contest.
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Bazan’s heartfelt lyrics lift album
Like a series of memoirs about struggles of faith and addiction, David Bazan’s Curse Your Branches, represents his most polished, yet personal release to date.
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Ever since the Utah Museum of Fine Arts acquired its long sought-after sarcophagus, it’s been trying to figure out a way to dust off its Egyptian collection and bring it back into the galleries after a three-year hiatus.
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Dead pioneers aren’t the only thing creeping in the shadows of Haunted Village at This is the Place Heritage
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The popular public radio show “Selected Shorts” and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham will visit the Salt Lake City Library this week to take part in the 12th annual Utah Humanities Book Festival.
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The Pioneer Memorial Theatre continues its run of the Tony Award-winning contemporary classic “A Chorus Line” until the end of this week.
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Preview focuses on Wyoming murder
Friday, Kingsbury Hall, along with Plan-B Theatre, will present a preview performance of a new play by Moisés Kaufman, titled “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, An Epilogue.” In February 2000, Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project debuted “The Laramie Project,” which is about the reaction to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student, in Laramie, Wyo.
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The 28th annual Great American Beer Festival was held in Denver last weekend. The sold-out event centered around a competition among 495 commercial breweries from across the nation. This year, six were from Utah. A total of 3,362 different kinds of beer in 75 different categories were strictly judged according to their taste, aroma and appearance. Gold, silver and bronze medals were awarded to the winners, and 2,100 of these varieties were made available to the attending public.
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‘The Bakkai’ mixes modern elements — along with just about everything else
The annual Classical Greek Theatre Festival, now in its 39th year, is returning to Red Butte Gardens. The festival left Red Butte for financial reasons after an extended run in the 1990s, but artistic director Jim Svendsen said he always felt that Red Butte was the perfect setting for the outdoor production of a Greek play. This year, the Babcock Theatre presents Euripides’ play “The Bakkhai,” featuring the Greek god Dionysus.
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Each weekend, students go out to see what Salt Lake City has to offer for entertainment. For many students, money plays a major role in what they do. Since February, the department of physics and astronomy has made the decision easy for students and community members alike.
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On Sept. 10, filmmakers and representatives from Utah’s refugee and legal community will meet at the Park City Library for a free screening of “Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter.”
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A four-part exhibition put on by the U’s printmaking department will be housed in the Art Building’s Alvin Gittins Gallery for the next few weeks.
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Board designers mixed creative art, great ideas
Board games have spent thousands of years proving that they aren’t going anywhere. Flat surfaces with movable pieces and pictures have been found in caves and tombs that date back to 2500 B.C. Much of this enduring appeal might rest in the fact that they’ve never required electricity or leaving the house. But board games are also pieces of art, sometimes far more intricate in design than the games themselves.
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“Time and the Conways,” written by British novelist and playwright J.B. Priestley, tells the story of a seemingly contented family with high aspirations for the future.
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Classical music can come from any instrument, even a computer, according to a band of laptop musicians here at the U.
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The department of modern dance is providing the perfect opportunity to stray from the ordinary with its graduate concert “The Odds.” Through dance, choreographers Nancy Carter, Erin Empey, Juliana Hane, I-Fen Lin, and Shannon Vance beckon the audience to travel with them into fantastical new worlds and deep into the psyche to discover what lies in their artistic ventures.
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Studio 115 is an experimental and creative division of the U’s theater department. The department stages seven productions a year and chooses each one carefully. “Alaska” is a play written by young, obscure playwright DC Moore. It’s the story of a 24-year-old named Frank who works at a movie theater. He dropped out of college, loves history, sells pot and reads the Bible. He’s also filled with hate.
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On Saturday, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts will hold a free public screening of filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Zabriskie Point.”
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The famed Silk Road refers to massive network of trade routes that stretched from China to eastern Europe during a 1,500-year period.
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Utah ballet and modern dancers proved themselves to be mature artists in the Utah Ballet Special Event Performance, which ended last Saturday. But it was the out-of-towners—aka Germans—that provided the most excitement. Their piece, “Troy Games,” startled the audience with a sensual and beautifully masculine performance.
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U students hope to bring fellow filmmakers together with those across the nation by establishing a student-affiliate chapter of the David Lynch Foundation on campus.
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Mark Twain isn’t known for playwriting, but in 1898, he wrote three acts titled “Is He Dead?” The project never got off the ground. At the time, no one was interested in it. But the manuscripts were recently published and adapted for the stage by the American playwright David Ives.
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As we plunge into the season of traditions—jack-o’-lanterns giving way to turkey and stuffing, and supermarkets playing Christmas carols on repeat—the Eastern Arts student club is hosting “WorldDance 2009” to celebrate the ancient cultural traditions of Iran.
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Going to college can be expensive—really expensive. But that doesn’t mean extra-curricular activities are sitting around in the dark doing nothing. Here are a few tips to make life affordably more entertaining.
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Halloween isn’t just about the free candy anymore. That might be enough to satisfy the kid in you, but for the hungry adult, there is food—free food—to be found as well if you know where to look. That’s where we’ve got your back.
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This year alone, the U Singers have sung in 13th-century churches, enormous underground caverns in Slovenia and the third-largest cathedral in Europe.
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One of the most popular ways to write a screenplay for a film is to adapt the material from a book.
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Halloween makes me feel jealous—like how I feel at parties when people are dancing. I can’t dance. I understand both concepts though. It’s about letting loose, not taking yourself too seriously, right? See, both my parents were great dancers, so I can’t really blame genetics for that. But I do think my mom had something to do with my anxiety about Halloween.
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Halloween is just around the corner, which means horror movie time! There are so many to choose from, where does one start? Consider the following for your viewing:
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Before autumn thoughts turn to turkeys, pumpkin pies and Thanksgiving, students at the U have October to get scared silly.
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Urban Lounge is under ambitious new ownership and will play host Oct. 9 to a band synonymous with equally ambitious musicality.
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Magician Paul Draper is returning to the U for his first public performance in seven years. For three consecutive nights, he will give local audiences a chance to witness his unique abilities. But the show is also a rare opportunity to see the combination of entertainment by way of a specific education.
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When it comes to alcohol, the U might be a dry campus, but that won’t stop the Union Programming Council from throwing an Oktoberfest party.
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Unfortunate news struck the Tower Theatre when it was discovered that its digital projector shorted out during a screening of “Afghan Star.”
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U alumna and author Zoe Murdock read and discussed her new fictional book about fundamentalist Mormon polygamists, Torn by God, Saturday at the King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City.
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Showcase incorporated original choreography, designs
The showcase, which has been in the works since before school started, included pieces designed and choreographed by students for students.
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Every January, film enthusiasts and Hollywood stars come to Utah from all over the world to discover the next great indie film that the Sundance Film Festival is famous for offering.
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The U’s chess club recently split the 2009 Chess College of the Year award with the Miami University of Ohio. In a rare tie between the two schools, the award recognizes the university club that most contributes to the promotion of chess—both in its community and throughout the country.
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