Casual Friday: Weekend Events & Outdoors Report
08/16/2012 | 369 views | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend | print

Outdoor Notes

-- Tribune: Hike of the week: Left Hand Fork/Ridge Trail

-- Tribune: Wildlife group wants more oversight of Utah’s $1 million hunting

-- Tribune: Canyons Resort reveals where SkiLink would go

-- For the latest wildlife news and information and the fishing report visit the DWR website

Weekend Events

New Films

-- Farewell, My Queen: Tribune review

-- Klown: Tribune review

-- The Odd Life of Timothy Green: Tribune review

-- ParaNorman: Tribune review

-- Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed: Tribune review

-- Trishna: Tribune review 

Concerts

-- Hart Strings, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Brigham Young Historic Park, State and 2nd Ave., free

-- Price Family, strings and piano, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Temple Square Assembly Hall, N. West Temple, free, but must be age eight and older.

-- Park City Music Festival, through August 20, times and venues vary

-- Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Temple Square Assembly Hall, free

Theater

-- “Private Lives” through August 17, Caine Lyric Repertory Theatre

-- “Fiddler on the Roof” through August 18, SCERA Center for the Arts

-- “Aida” through August 18, Sandy Amphitheater

-- “The Death of Eurydice” through August 18, Zion Theatre Company

-- “School House Rock Live! Jr.” through August 18, Draper Historic Theatre

-- “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” through August 18, Sundance Summer Theatre

-- “Steel Magnolias” through August 18, Caine Lyric Repertory Theatre

-- “The Odd Couple” through August 19, Egyptian Theatre, Park City

-- “The Addams Family Home Evening” through August 25, Deseret Star Playhouse

-- “Comedy of Errors” through August 25, The Children’s Theatre

-- “Little Women” through August 25, Murray Park Amphitheater

-- “Princess Ida” through August 25, Holladay Arts

-- “Twelfth Night” through August 25, The Children’s Theatre

-- “Wicked” through August 26, Capitol Theatre

-- “Turquois Wind” through August 30, Utah Shakespearean Festival

-- “Mary Stuart” through August 31, Utah Shakespearean Festival

-- “Scapin” through August 31, Utah Shakespearean Festival

-- “Forever Plaid” through September 1, Pickleville Playhouse

-- “The Merry Wives of Windsor” through September 1, Utah Shakespearean Festival

-- “See How They Run” through September 1, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre

-- “Titus Andronicus” through September 1, Utah Shakespearean Festival

-- “To Kill a Mockingbird” through September 1, Utah Shakespearean Festival

-- “Saturday’s Voyeur’ 2012: ‘The Mormon Moment” through September 2, Salt Lake Acting Company 

-- “The Hanging of El Bandito, Reimagined” through September 8, Pickleville Playhouse

-- “Beauty and the Beast Jr.” through September 15, Empress Theatre

-- “Arsenic and Old Lace” through September 22, Hale Center Theater Orem

-- “9 to 5” through September 29, Hale Centre Theatre

-- “Aladdin” through October19, Tuacahn Amphitheatre

-- “Hairspray” through October 20, Tuacahn Amphitheatre

-- “Les Misérables” through October 20, Utah Shakespearean Festival

Museum Exhibits

-- The Invincibility Fable Exhibition through August 18; Cantastoria Exhibition through September 15; Mr. Winkle: Object of Projection Photographs by Lara Jo Regan Exhibition through October 20, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

-- 39th Annual Quilt Show; 150 Years of Cyrus Dallin; Explorations: 50-Year Retrospective of Painting by Anton (Tony) Rasmussen, Exhibitions through August 29; Exploring Animals Exhibition through November 10, Springville Museum of Art 

-- Photo Finish Exhibition through September 2; Speed: The Art of the Performance Automobile Exhibition through September 16, Utah Museum of Fine Arts

-- One of a Kind: New Monotypes by Kathryn Stedham & Jeff Juhlin; Past Presence: Select Works by Photographers in the B.Y.U. Fine Art Department Exhibitions through September 16, Kimball Art Center

-- Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges with the Arts of Islamic Culture Exhibition through September 29, Brigham Young University Museum of Art

Et cetra

-- Salt Lake Gallery Stroll, Friday, 6 – 9 p.m., Downtown

-- Helper Arts and Music Festival, through Sunday, 131 South Main Street, Helper

-- Oktoberfest, Saturdays, Sundays and Labor Day through October 7, Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort

-- Downtown Farmers Market, through October 27, Pioneer Park, Salt Lake City

 

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Ten Things You Need to Know for Friday
by Bryan Schott
May 24, 2013 | 7935 views | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Countdown: There are 166 days to the 2013 municipal elections, 249 days until the start of the 2014 Legislature, 525 days until the 2014 midterm elections and 962 days until the 2016 Iowa Caucuses. 

An analysis says expanding Medicaid coverage will save Utah more than $130 million and would give health insurance to 123,000 residents [Tribune].

A new report ranks Utah #1 for economic outlook next year [Utah Policy, Tribune].

House Majority Leader Brad Dee goes on a European vacation with three lobbyists, but Dee insists the trip was above board because everybody paid their own way and they didn’t discuss politics [Tribune].

Former Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is caught on tape offering to get $2 million for Utah Businessman Darl McBride if he would shut down a website critical of another Utah businessman. That money was to come from a third Utah businessman who was in trouble with the Attorney General’s office [Tribune].

Former Legislator and current blogger Holly Richardson says she’s had enough with the “culture of corruption” permeating the Attorney General’s office [Holly on the Hill].

Sen. Orrin Hatch wants to hear from Utahns who think they have been inappropriately targeted by the IRS as part of his investigation into misconduct by the agency [Tribune].

Kennecott lays off 100 workers because of the massive landslide at their Bingham Canyon Mine [Tribune, Deseret News].

The Boy Scouts vote to allow gay members in their ranks [Deseret News].

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman launches a new political action committee to support Republicans who share his point of view [Tribune].

Gov. Gary Herbert says he is confident the state can work out a deal to avoid taxing the electricity used by the new National Security Agency data center at Camp Williams [Tribune].
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