Like someone’s balding, forty-five year old uncle who has suddenly become obsessed with Lady Gaga, the ineffably passé Academy Awards are desperately trying to get cool. And like that pathetic middle-aged guy, the harder they try, the lamer they’ll get. As Mckay Stevens pointed out several months ago, the upcoming 2010 Academy Awards have expanded [...]

Well, this is quite certainly too late to be helpful, but here it is anyway. I know, I should have seen this earlier, and reviewed it before Halloween came and went, because now no one cares. But oh well. Live and learn. I think this is still a pertinent conversation, because this is a very [...]

If life has taught me anything in my 22 short years, it is that you don’t always get exactly what you want. The same goes for concerts. Saturday night’s Fictionist and NightNight show at Velour provided a microcosm of two bands at very different points in their musical evolution, one bursting with new creative life [...]

This is something we’ve wanted to do for awhile, but have failed to find time for — until today. We hope you enjoy this Rhombus podcast, the first of the many we hope will follow. While this inaugural installment centers on politics, we hope to offer podcasts on many different topics featuring our various contributors [...]

Many criticisms of the early LDS Church centered on what were perceived as overly liberal views of women’s rights. Nevertheless, in 1870, Brigham Young wanted to make it known that Mormon women weren’t “downtrodden” and Utah became the second territory to allow women’s suffrage. With such a strong foundation of female equality, it came as [...]

WEEK 9: BYU at Wyoming After a very long bye week for BYU and its fans, Cougar football is back in business. Well, they have a game scheduled this Saturday and I guess it’s up them if they are really ready to play football again. There is no doubt that the bye week came at [...]

I’ll try to be brief. Gentlemen Broncos has been getting eviscerated by critics. There are a handful of very good reviews, which you can find here, here and here (I don’t care what anyone says, I like Armond White), but the overall response to this film has been almost ragingly negative. I’m so much of  [...]

The recession has been particularly hard on downtown Provo. Despite the quaint charm of the city’s historic architecture, an alarming number of spaces remain empty. Sadly, the recession has taken an especially heavy toll on businesses participating in the local arts community and Provo’s recently thriving gallery stroll has lately appeared to be in its [...]

I believe in being honest, so I won’t pull any punches here — I generally loathe any type of religious music as a matter of personal principle. That’s not hyperbole. I’ve had horrible experiences with the genre. I used to become visibly angry when my mission companions would force me to listen to endless EFY [...]

Since its founding in 2005, Real Salt Lake has had a lot of ups and downs. The first couple years the team had virtually no confidence in themselves, even fully expecting to lose their games. Prior to all that, there was a lot of criticism in the community over how to fund the building of [...]