For kids, one of the best parts of the holidays is the winter break. For parents, however, the prospect of two weeks with nothing for the littles to do may seem a bit daunting. Well, as they say, help is on the way. From now through New Year’s Eve, THE BLOCKS is bursting with holiday […]
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Thanksgiving is in the books, which means the holiday season is now in full swing. And there’s no better place to get your holiday spirit on than in THE BLOCKS. Here we offer a curated list of December events and activities to help you make this Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanza/Winter Solstice season your most memorable ever. You’re welcome.
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What do Beethoven—and Puccini and Bach and Haydn—and modern dance have in common? Plenty. So says the choreographers and dancers behind Repertory Dance Theatre’s Sounds Familiar, a series of modern dance pieces set to iconic classical music. This high-energy, old-meets-new mash-up runs at the Rose Wagner Performing Art Center November 21-23. Sounds Familiar runs November […]
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With the annual holiday crush nearly upon us, there’s no better time than now to bank a little one-on-one time with your soul mate. Following are four, super-fun pre-holiday date night ideas for an evening on THE BLOCKS, sure to earn you brownie points with the one you love … or maybe just the one […]
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If lately you’ve felt downtown Salt Lake City seems a bit brighter, a bit more colorful and simply filled with more good vibes, you’re not imagining things. Over the last few years, murals have popped up on building walls in both traffic thoroughfares and along intimate nook-and-cranny alleyways throughout THE BLOCKS, including the Ave Maria […]
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There are times when the bottom doesn’t seem low enough. Then, after surviving a car crash and knocking on a door seeking assistance, Renisha McBride was shot and killed near Detroit. In the midst of those stirring and unrestful early days of the Black Lives Matter movement, it was hard to feel anything but the […]
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A high-tech and sobering reality check playing now at the Broadway. The next time you’re out and about in THE BLOCKS, whether for dinner, drinks, shopping at City Creek or the Gateway or simply on your lunch break, consider stopping into the Broadway Centre Cinemas (111 E. Broadway) to check out Roger Ross Williams’s virtual […]
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Call it versatility or maybe it’s just plain curiosity, one thing is for sure: Trent Call likes to create. And he does so with a diversity that’s pretty atypical. Just this year, in fact, his commissions and just-for-fun projects have included murals, signs, oil paintings, photography, screen printing and a very cool letter and number […]
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From skateboards to one-man/woman plays, here’s the off-the-radar exhibitions, theater productions and music performances on tap in THE BLOCKS this month Photo credit Stuart Ruckman and Urban Arts Gallery
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The chances are high that any child in any school – my own children! – will, at some point, meet a Flora. My hope is that each student that experiences FLORA MEETS A BEE will get to know this flawed and funny human and gruff-exterior-but-heart-of-gold insect well enough that they will see the value of […]
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