THE BLOCKS presents Exhibitions on Main, a new opportunity for our community to exhibit stories, bodies of work and more on Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City. ABOUT Exhibitions will be on display for three (3) months at a time. The exhibitions will be displayed in the top 6 windows in one of two […]
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From its start 12 years so, Craft Lake City’s DIY Festival has been a beloved regular on Salt Lake City’s busy summer festival schedule. Then, of course, came COVID-19 and an unwelcome pause on much of what makes summer fun in Utah, from the Red Butte Outdoor Concert Series to Snowbird’s Oktoberfest. But thanks to […]
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One of downtown Salt Lake City’s least lauded attributes is its architecture. There, sleek new buildings like the Salt Lake Library Main Branch, the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building and the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building—to name just a few—complement dozens of ornate, century-old edifices including the Kearns Building, Peery Hotel and the Capitol […]
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Just as I was reaching the bottom of my Netflix/Amazon Prime/Hulu barrel, there it was like a gift from above: not one but TWO sources of brand new cinematic content, from a pair of organizations based right here in THE BLOCKS. The Utah Film Center’s 2020 Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival has gone virtual […]
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$12.83. That’s how much Sarah Tamburelli made in tips the first time she broke out her ukulele to strum and sing on the street. Since then she’s adopted the solo performance moniker Sarah Little Drum and her repertoire has expanded from singing and the ukulele to include burlesque and a parrot accordion-accompanied Hula-Hooping routine. Tamburelli’s […]
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This Sunday, June 21 (Father’s Day!), before you’ve had your coffee, read the paper and head out for a hike or a pedal, set a phone alert for 2 p.m. to catch the creatively adaptive return of 12 Minutes Max. “We intend to keep doing the livestream version of 12 Minutes Max until we are […]
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When was the last time you had a night out with your partner that looked like this: a semi-private, interpretive gallery tour, followed by dinner inside said gallery, capped off by a hands-on, art project? Yeah, I never have either. And after more than two months of cancelled fun, an evening like that sounds like […]
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Warm weather is finally upon us and I can’t remember a summer I’ve looked forward to more. While many of my most beloved summer events—i.e. concerts and festivals—have been cancelled due to COVID-19 (sigh), thankfully, art continues to thrive in downtown Salt Lake City. Case in point: the Main Street Kiosk Project. In late April, […]
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The last two months has meant getting more intimate with our at-home surroundings than we ever thought possible, both for better and for worse. (Case in point: My living room’s, 1990s-era oak fireplace surround has become the bane of my existence.) Thankfully, this week there’s an affordable, socially distanced opportunity to infuse much-needed new life […]
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Within just two weeks of the pandemic’s arrival on our doorstep, Plan-B Theatre Company made a nimble pivot and took presentation of its spring 2020 play, THE AUDACITY online. This week, Plan-B illustrates, once again, how artistic expression can thrive in the “new normal” with RADIO SLAM, four world-premiere plays hosted by Jay Perry on […]
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