Country Grammar

More: You’re looking at countryJim Waive readies his second record “I just came in here from force of habit. I don’t intend to spend too much time in here,” sings bestselling country musician and “Hee Haw” host Buck Owens. “But I heard you marching for the music. And if you play ‘A-11,’ there’ll be tears.” […]

Choking…on cash

The first screening of locally tied film production company ATO Pictures’ Choke at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival was Monday, January 21 at 8:30pm at the Racquet Club in Park City, Utah.

Jukebox

Chan Marshall’s concert at the Satellite Ballroom in 2005 was everything I’d been led to expect it would be: a few sparse, harrowing blues originals from the nervous chanteuse with the dark bangs in her eyes, interrupted halfway through as she voiced her anxieties, saying she “felt like she was being watched by the KKK,” […]

Photo phest phrenzy

The board of the Festival of the Photograph functions a bit like the aperture of a camera, the part behind the lens that expands to capture more light.

Achewood

Chris Onstad, the cartoonist that has been writing Achewood since 2001, took a breather during the winter holidays and ran a few “classic” Achewood strips from December 24-28 (which I greedily and somewhat shamefully read at my desk, shoulders bucking with silent laughs). Within the same week, Time named Achewood the year’s best graphic novel […]

Hartz to lose job to Turner?

The work of curating and directing a museum or art gallery isn’t that much different than curating and directing a website. For a lot of local art spaces, images and text are swapped on a monthly basis for more images and text—abstraction swapped for realism, the name and mission statement of Artist A swapped for […]