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The evolution of Ariana Grande into a ‘Dangerous Woman’
Ariana Grande's music is inescapable.Switching between channels on the radio, flipping through videos on YouTube or scrolling through the latest on Spotify, chances are high that Grande will pop up in...
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Album reviews: The Shins, Old 97s and Colin Hay
From the playful stylings of The Shins to the still kickin' Old 97s to a frequently introspective Colin Hay, here are reviews for the new albums by these three venerable acts:The Shins, "Heartworms"...
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Concert preview: At 77, Judy Collins keeps on because ‘I never want to stop...
Judy Collins acknowledges being "very surprised" that her most recent album, "Silver Skies Blue," earned her and co-performer Ari Hest a Best Folk Album nod at the 2017 Grammy Awards.While she didn't...
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Rappers becoming fixtures on food scene
Miami Beach, Fla. • Snoop Dogg furiously stirred flour into a creamy bechamel sauce, a whisk in one hand and a microphone in the other, during a cooking demonstration with chef Guy Fieri.He tossed...
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Review: Kendrick Lamar is darn good on new album
Two years since his Grammy Award-winning "To Pimp a Butterfly," Kendrick Lamar is back with an album as bold and declarative as its title: "DAMN." And while Lamar grapples with familiar subject matter...
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Concert preview: Suicidal Tendencies will treat Salt Lake show like it ‘might...
With yet another run of shows set to wrap on Saturday, Suicidal Tendencies vocalist "Cyco" Mike Muir, who formed the crossover thrash band back in 1980, has become a bit philosophical.The tour in...
View ArticleWillie Nelson back with new songs on ‘God’s Problem Child’
Willie's back, thank goodness. "God's Problem Child " is Willie Nelson's first CD of completely new material in three years, and his advanced age (Don't look now, he turned 84 on April 29) hasn't...
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His career skyrocketing, family comes first for Chris Pratt
There's not much time for daydreaming when your life is as mapped out as Chris Pratt's. In less than three years, Pratt has gone from underdog to full-fledged movie star, with fortuitously timed...
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Utah Opera takes on the case of the reluctant bride
And you thought your prospective in-laws were intimidating.In Gaetano Donizetti's classic opera "Lucia di Lammermoor," not only must the young Scottish lovers Lucia and Edgardo grapple with their...
View ArticleOpera and orchestra partnership produces ‘Elixir of Love’ at U. of Utah
The long-running partnership between the University of Utah Lyric Opera Ensemble and the Paradigm Chamber Orchestra continues this weekend with two performances of Donizetti's romantic comedy "The...
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Utah Symphony brings the ‘Rite’ touch to season finale
"The Rite of Spring" doesn't shock contemporary audiences as much as it did when Igor Stravinsky unleashed it on the Parisian public 104 years ago. But it still has the power to bring listeners to the...
View ArticleString players take a bow at NOVA closer; artistic director announces his...
The NOVA Chamber Music Series closed its season Sunday with a celebration of strings. Several of the community's top violin and viola players were featured in pieces that pushed their technique and...
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Fyre Fest fiasco: Bahamas party lives, dies on social media
In this day and age, the young and beautiful live and die on social media.And it's been a sudden and ugly death for the ill-fated Fyre Festival, a multiday music, art and culture party that promised...
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Concert preview: Cavalera brothers getting back to their ‘Roots’
Max and Iggor Cavalera are best known as the Brazilian brothers behind the pioneering metal band Sepultura, which rose to prominence in the 1990s. In recent years, however, they've perhaps become...
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Utah Symphony players orchestrate musical mission to Haiti
Almost a year after playing New York's fabled Carnegie Hall, several members of the Utah Symphony performed at a venue their music director, Thierry Fischer, deemed equally important to the orchestra's...
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‘Daughters of the Dust’ earns place in movie history
It's still a small miracle, one that hasn't been sufficiently celebrated, that "Moonlight" won the Oscar for Best Picture last month.The fact that a story of African-American lives told by African...
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Movie review: Clunky ‘Sleight’ showcases new lead Jacob Latimore
Perhaps the greatest trick of "Sleight " is how its two charismatic leads magically make its clunky and overwrought elements almost disappear.Key to this is 20-year-old Jacob Latimore, who shines in...
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Musician collapses during birthday concert finale and dies
Atlanta • When Col. Bruce Hampton slowly fell to his knees during the finale of his star-studded birthday concert, fans and musicians alike thought it was another one of his quirky performance acts.As...
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The heart behind the vision of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy 2’
"Guardians of the Galaxy" was just the warm-up.Two years ago, writer and director James Gunn and his cranky, lovable band of multihued misfits in space seemed like a sort of gamble for the Earth-bound...
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Malick misses the music in ‘Song to Song’
Ever since his luminous 2011 tone poem "The Tree of Life," when he juxtaposed the birth of the cosmos with the dynamics of a father-son relationship, the output of filmmaker Terrence Malick has been an...
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