Arts & Culture

Taking Back Sunday Makes a Stylistic Leap with New Album ‘152’

Taking Back Sunday’s new album, “152,” may be a turning point for the long-running alternative rock band. In reshaping the energetic emo/indie rock sound that was established on the band’s popular 2002...

Local Author’s Debut Bestselling YA Novel ‘Sky’s End’ Receives Movie Buzz

Utah author Marc J. Gregson on his debut novel Sky’s End—Part One of the Above the Black series After Marc J. Gregson’s young adult novel Sky’s End dropped in January, it shot up...

Singer-Songwriter Sarah Jarosz Finds Inspiration and Grit in Nashville

Great artists are never satisfied with staying in one place creatively and tend to find ways to challenge and push themselves. Feel free to put singer-songwriter Sarah Jarosz in that category. It would...

OCA’s Artist Factory Program Highlights the Importance of Youth Arts Education

As we’ve witnessed public education funding come under fire over the past decade, some of the first programs to be cut are arts—despite proven studies that show how impactful arts education is...

Utah’s Independent Theater Companies Offer Fresh (and old) Takes on Shakespeare

"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue.”That is the first bit of instruction Hamlet gives to the players in Act Three of the...

2024 Kilby Block Party: Day Three Review

“This is very nice,” said James Murphy, frontman of LCD Soundsystem, as he looked out at the massive sea of people in the last hour of the 2024 Kilby Block Party, in...

2024 Kilby Block Party: Day Two Review

“I don’t feel the heat—I’m like a friggin’ lizard who’s been hibernating all winter.” So said Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch between songs at day two of the 2024 Kilby Block...

2024 Kilby Block Party: Day One Review

“This is the best view from a stage we’ve ever seen,” said Peach Pit singer Neil Smith during his band’s Friday afternoon set from the Lake Stage on day one of the...