Recent Posts

• Urban Gallery’s vibrancy graces SLC’s Neighborhood House, courtesy of 337 Project artists ---

  The photos below show some of the art of the 337 Project’s Urban Gallery at the Neighborhood House at 1050 W 500 S. The current installation, which was unveiled Oct. 3, comprises eight site-specific paintings – the largest being approximately 12 feet high and 20 feet wide – that have been “hung” inside the frames […]

• My friends: Second presidential debate a snoozer ---

  “My friends.” McCain lobbed that phrase quite a bit in his responses during the second presidential debate this evening. In fact, he used it so frequently in some of his responses — often three times in a stretch — that a YouTube mashup video was up and running 50 minutes into the debate or town […]

• Race and the presidential election: Why the Bradley Effect still matters ---

  Editor’s Note: Last month, I published a post about the race card factor in the presidential campaign and I referred to research by Anthony Greenwald, a psychology professor at the University of Washington, and Bethany Albertson, a fellow faculty member in the political science department, who believe the race factor matters. This new post throws […]

• Darn right! Biden-Palin veep debate was entertaining ---

  Darn right. Sarah Palin met whatever meager expectations were set for her prior to tonight’s vice presidential candidates’ debate. Stylistically, she was folksy, chirpy, and appealing — occasionally wrinkling her nose — and she managed to avoid answering just about every question. In fact, during the first half of the debate, she seemed to dominate […]

• EJ Curry’s Hip Expressionist exhibit opens at Mestizo ---

  Artist E. J. Curry calls his work Hip Expressionist. In Southern California, basketball and hip hop music kept him safe from violence and racism. In Utah, where he enrolled in the University of Utah’s fine arts program and earned his bachelor’s degree in painting and drawing, Curry has cultivated expressive power from the duality of […]