Editor’s Note: The Selective Echo welcomes back Wendy Christensen for her regular report on the latest at Positively 4th St. Music, located on 400 South in the lower level of the Stoneground Building.

Turntables are selling left and right with new and used models constantly rotating. New music releases arrive every Tuesday afternoon and special orders […]

As a composer, George Crumb has effectively broken the notion of tradition-bound categories in music. From his deep love and respect of Mozart in his childhood to the popular music, jazz, folk songs, and sounds of Asian, African, and South American music that he has heard throughout his 78 years, Crumb has shown that a […]

“Say that I starved;
that I was lost and weary:
That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun;
Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseased;
Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream!”
Everett Ruess – Wilderness Song
As a high school sophomore, Debora Threedy took her first acting class to overcome her fear of speaking […]

Salt Lake City has cultivated a strong fondness for the “dueling pianos” bar shows. And, now downtown boasts two venues which draw healthy crowds throughout the week. Keys on Main, located at 242 South Main Street, opened this month to solid reviews.
The new club (8,000 square feet) seats more than 200, quite a bit larger […]

Editor’s Note: The Selective Echo is pleased to offer, once again, another column by Mark Alvarez, a well-known attorney and public figure in Salt Lake City, who is living in Mexico City with his wife, Lorena. Let me echo every word of this important column. It is a wisely articulated powerful statement that reflects what […]

John-Paul Jespersen, 25, a Salt Lake City photographer whose work is gaining attention not just locally but also in the world’s community of artists and professionals, is among the winners of the second annual World in Focus: The Ultimate Travel Photography Contest sponsored by PDN magazine and the National Geographic Traveler.
His beautiful photo of a […]