Oct
27
I think the whole experience of how things work and gaining a better understanding of how a character works is Saints and Soldiers.  And it wasn’t just my character that I got an understanding for, it was all the men and women who serve in the Armed Forces.  That one felt great, and it fell [...]
Oct
22
Members of the LDS Church soon will be able to get a copy of their patriarchal blessing online, as well as a chance to contribute their technological expertise to a new LDS wiki, thanks to a Web initiative announced Tuesday on www.lds.org. More…
Oct
22
Make Wise Media Choices Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the first principle of the gospel (A of F 1:4), so naturally Satan makes it his first principle to pollute our minds with things that make our thoughts unworthy and that erode our faith in Christ. by John Bytheway More…
Oct
21
The Five Browns are all about bringing in a younger audience, but their approach might be familiar to the older listeners Wednesday night at E.J. Thomas Hall, when the pianists perform in the Tuesday Musical series. The Juilliard-trained siblings have been a hit since releasing their first five-piano CD, titled The 5 Browns, in 2005. [...]
Oct
21
As 6-year-old Alden Chiu sits on the bench of a large, black upright piano, his feet dangle nearly a foot from the floor. He is unable to reach and use the pedals or stop his restless legs from swinging anxiously below him. Alden's tiny hands occasionally struggle to reach the keys required for a given [...]
Oct
21
Review » In one of the funniest and most unexpected moments in "The Ark," Michael McLean and Kevin Kelly's family musical that just opened at the Grand Theatre, Noah's wife, Eliza, helps deliver a baby animal – in the front row of the audience. More…
Oct
21
A handful of local theater producers on Thursday questioned the need for a 2,400-seat, larger-than-Broadway-style playhouse in Utah, but say smaller theaters within a multipurpose facility would make the complex a more viable option. More…
Oct
21
Four decades before he became president of the LDS Church, the U.S. government investigated whether Gordon B. Hinckley was a foreign spy. More…
Oct
21
"It seems like you get more for your money with a record than with a dinky piece of plastic," said Randy Whipple, a resident of Salt Lake City who has been collecting vinyl records consistently since the 1970s. "Records are warm and pure, ears were made to listen to vinyl, to analog not digital." More…
Oct
21
While reviews of the new feature film "W." have remained mixed, many Utahns have already formed their opinions about the Oliver Stone movie. More…
Oct
20
OK, you Halloweeners, rejoice! Odyssey Dance Theatre's beloved dance macabre "Thriller" is back from beyond the grave. More…
Oct
19
Appiah then worked in London as a missionary for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and attended Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, to earn bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering. He now works as a senior product marketing manager for Motorola in Schaumburg. More…
Oct
19
An open letter to the local daily paper — almost every local daily paper in America: By Orson Scott Card More…
Oct
19
President Spencer W. Kimball once shared a vision that the arts were to be used as a tool for proclaiming the Gospel. He encouraged Latter-day Saint musicians, playwrights, actors, painters, filmmakers, and others to develop their talents, as well as their testimonies, so that their skills, magnified by the Holy Ghost, could be used glorify [...]
Oct
19
I don't know about you, but I like to consider myself an average college student. Well honestly, I'm a freshman – new to the school, staying in the dorms, I've got my meal ticket and I now know how to work the vending machines. However there is one thing that I haven't quite understood nor [...]
Oct
1
President Thomas S. Monson once taught of the perils we are faced through the purveyance of pornography. This evil seems very enticing, so much so that some refuse to let it go. In this modern day parable he teaches oabout a Tongan fishing lure, called a maka-feke. "Some publishers and printers prostitute their presses by [...]