Weekend Event
Outdoors Report
— Tribune: State moves to expand, preserve eastern Utah’s Tabby wildlife area, but it could cost $41 million
— KSL.com: Antelope Island bison roundup conjures bygone days of US West
New Films
— Holmes and Watson: Deseret News review
— Vice: Tribune review
Concerts
— “The Nutcracker,” Ballet West, through December 29, Capitol Theatre, 50 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, $60-$150
— “A Magical Cirque Christmas,” Saturday, 3 and 8 p.m., Eccles Theater, 131 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, $25-$125
— “National Geographic: Symphony for Our World,” Saturday, 8 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 West South Temple, Salt Lake City, $35-$95
— Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Assembly Hall, Temple Square, 50 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, free
Theater
— “A Christmas Carol” through December 30, Brigham’s Playhouse
— “Pinkalicious the Musical” through December 30, Salt Lake Acting Company
— “How the Grouch Stole Christmas” through January 5, Desert Star Playhouse
— “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” through January 5, Utah Children’s Theatre
— “The Wizard of Oz” through February 2, Hale Centre Theatre
Museum Exhibits
— Working Hard to be Useless Exhibition through December 29; Daniel Everett: Security Questions, Molly Morin: Information Density Exhibitions through January 12; Whoop Dee Doo: Matt Roche and Jaimie Warren Exhibition through March 3, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
— Lasting Impressions: Etchings and Drawings by Carl Bloch Exhibition through January 5; For Home and Country: Posters and Propaganda from the Great War Exhibition through January 12; Pulitzer Prize Photographs Exhibition through March 3; Electronic Gallery: 4.1 Miles Exhibition through March 23; Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 29 Exhibition through 2018; To Magnify the Lord: Six Centuries of Art and Devotion Exhibition on view through summer 2019; Patrick Dougherty: Windswept Exhibition through October 19, 2019, Brigham Young University Museum of Art
— Dreamscapes, Park City Collects III Exhibitions through January 6, Kimball Art Center
— 33rd Annual Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah, Journeys: Monomyth and Transformation Exhibitions through January 16; Beginnings: The Mormon Art & Belief Movement Exhibition through February 16; Sanctuaries of Mind Exhibition through summer 2019; Round Up: Icons of the West Exhibition through June 19, 2021, Favorite Ladies: Patterns, People, and Play, SMA: Milestones and Memories Exhibitions ongoing, Springville Museum of Art
— salt 14: Yang Yongliang Exhibition through June 2, 2019; Spencer Finch: Great Salt Lake and Vicinity; ongoing exhibitions: Arts of Africa; American and Regional Art: Mythmaking and Truth-Telling; Chinese Art: Emulation and Innovation; European Art; Ancient Mediterranean Art: Res Mortis; Ancient Mesoamerica; Modern and Contemporary Art: A Fuller Picture; Arts of the Pacific; Greater Merit: The Temple and Image in South Asia, Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Et cetra
— Last Friday Gallery Stroll, Friday, 6 – 9 p.m., Park City
— Torchlight Parade, Sunday, 5:30 p.m., Deer Valley Resort, 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City
— Last Hurrah SLC New Year’s Eve Party, Monday, 8 p.m., The Gateway, 18 North Rio Grande Street, Salt Lake City
— 2018 Night Bright: A New Year’s Eve Party, Monday, 8 p.m., Museum of Natural Curiosity, 3605 Garden Drive, Lehi
— New Year’s Eve Celebration & Fireworks, Monday, 5:30 p.m., Park City Mountain Resort, Canyons Village at Park City, 4000 Canyons Resort Drive, Park City
— New Year’s Eve Powwow, Monday, 5 p.m., Mountain America Expo Center, 9575 South State Street, Sandy
— New Year’s Eve Torchlight Parade, Fireworks & Bonfire, Monday, 5 p.m., Alta, East State Highway 210/Little Cottonwood Canyon, Alta
— New Year’s Eve at Union Station, Monday, 8:30 p.m., Union Station, 2501 Wall Avenue, Ogden
— Noon Year’s Eve, Monday, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, 12033 South Lone Peak Parkway, Draper
— Noon Year’s Eve 2019, Monday, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City
— Provo NYE Countdown: The Greatest Show, Monday, 7 p.m., Provo Recreation Center, 320 West 500 North, Provo
