Editor’s Note: The Selective Echo is always pleased to bring guest postings from Mark Alvarez, a Salt Lake City attorney who is living in Mexico with his wife, Lorena. Mark shares a well-informed perspective about anti-emo protests and violence that have occurred in Mexico City and Queretaro.
“A civilization could be judged by the diversity it […]

Editor’s Note: Mark Alvarez is well known in Salt Lake City. He and his wife Lorena have been living in Mexico for five months and he shares observations about some changes in Mexico City that impart important lessons for our own downtown planners.
On the first and second of November, Mexicans celebrate the Day of the […]

Once again, local artist Ruby Chacon has graced the downtown landscape with a spectacular mural at the new Catholic Community Services of Utah building at 745 East 300 South.
The mural exemplifies the positive healing mission of the center that houses treatment services, men and women’s residential substance abuse programs, refugee resettlement and immigration, and administration […]

In oil, acrylic, pencil, or chalk, Ruby Chacon’s artistic voice is unmistakable. Her work is not just the story of her family. It is a passionate, convincing evocation of beauty, love, pride, and, tragedy – all essential elements in the transformative and transcendent nature of her art.
Visitors entering the fourth floor gallery in the Salt […]