Ballet West’s haunting rendition of Giselle

Ballet West's Giselle curtain call

Often billed as ballet’s original ghost story, Giselle is the haunting love story of a young peasant girl and a noble who deceives her. The performance kicks off the 2014-15 Ballet West season and runs through November 16, 2014. Newly conceived by Ballet West’s Artistic Director Adam Sklute, this classic and well-loved drama includes more … Read more

Deer Valley adds to its array of eclectic dining with The Brass Tag

Long revered as the king of ski resort dining by elevating the standard for slopeside food and beverage, Deer Valley Resort quietly added a new, nighttime offering to its empire at the end of the summer. The Brass Tag is located at The Lodges at Deer Valley in the Snow Park area. The restaurant is … Read more

Grimm Ghost Tours: Welcome to Haunted Salt Lake

the ghost of Rio Grande

October is the ideal time to indulge in ghoulish activities. Salt Lake City’s history is ripe with intrigue and mystery. A haunted tour of the city is just what I needed to scratch my supernatural itch. Grimm Ghost Tours offers a few different ghostly experiences, I selected the Old Town tour, which covers the heart … Read more

Two Utah Film Center documentaries about creative genius transcending technology, modernism

The Utah Film Center (UFC) will present two documentary films – one about a San Antonio inventor of digital imaging technology who sets out to painstakingly recreate a 17th century masterpiece by painter Johannes Vermeer and the other about the Sagrada Familias temple in Barcelona – that underscore just how creative genius transcends technology and … Read more

Getting Lost in the Grand Gulch

woman goes for a swim in a swimming hole surrounded by red rock

“Let’s skip town, take a couple of days off work, and explore Blanding, Utah!” said no one, ever. That’s a slight exaggeration; my friend Elaine and I did see three people in three days on Grand Gulch primitive area trails near Blanding the first weekend in October. I’m not sure I would have ever explored … Read more

NOVA Chamber Music Series’ opening concert to set joyful, lyrical mood in music from Leipzig to Provo

nova bach hicks mendelssohn

The 5,300 miles which separates Leipzig from Provo will evaporate immediately when the NOVA Chamber Music Series opens its season Oct. 26 with a program featuring works by two of Leipzig’s greatest music figures, Bach and Mendelssohn, and two pieces by composer Michael Hicks who is on the music faculty at Brigham Young University. A … Read more

A Visit With Amour Spreads

“We sold out of our elderberry marmalade yesterday, so we need to go find some berries to make more marmalade” said the message from Casee Francis, one half of the Amour Spreads duo. Casee and John Francis don’t freeze fruit once picked, so when they’re out, it’s time to look for some more in the … Read more

Plan-B Theatre’s Radio Hour adaptation of Grimm tales is exquisitely creepy

If anyone needed to get in the mood for Plan-B Theatre’s exquisitely creepy rendition of three Grimm Brothers tales prior to the live broadcast on KUER-FM’s RadioWest show, the news lead-in at the top of the hour did the trick. In less than four minutes, audience members in the downtown Jeanne Wagner Theatre heard news … Read more