As I watched the Super Bowl this past weekend, Bruce Springsteen played a few of his favorite songs during the halftime show. Fans chanted along as “Born to Run” came over the speakers as well as “Glory Days”, and it seemed that the only thing missing was a frothy mug of beer in everyone’s hand.
Two UVU student choreographers will compete in the Choreography Design Project this Thursday and Friday in the Ragan Theater. The Project, which is sponsored by the Utah Regional Ballet, allows emerging, pre-professional, and professional choreographers to compete with their peers, using professional dancers.
Last Friday Clark Planetarium opened Under the Sea 3D, a documentary narrated by Jim Carrey about life in the ocean in exotic, isolated locations in the Indo-Pacific region. Fish seemingly appear to float around the theater in true 3D form. According to imax.
Hypnosis has been popularized as a game played by con artists and scoundrels. However, it is actually a science used by experts to reach the inner mind, although many of us are probably skeptics. Thursday night, professional hypnotist Bruce McDonald performed his craft in the UVU Ballroom.
February is a great month to read Mark Twain’s classic, Pudd’nhead Wilson. Twain had a newspaper man’s eye for details and a sharp wit which he never hesitated to employ. Twain’s literature satirized the American life and reflected the absurd in a way that popular television shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report still successfully mimic.
In post-World War II era Germany, young Michael Berg (David Kross) and Hannah Schmitz (Kate Winslet), a woman several years his senior, engage in an intimate affair. Michael is a charming boy with childlike excitement for the sexual encounters in which he engages with Hannah, and she, in an attempt to divert her attention from the real world, enjoys being read to from the novels Michael is studying in school.
G, widely known for its uncomplicated, mysterious sign on Geneva Road near Center Street in Orem, is home to UVU student Guillermo Cruz. The establishment, which is set up as a cozy single-serving buffet style restaurant, is also Cruz’s base camp for a catering and personal chef service.
Last week, UVU hosted an iPod Kiss-off, giving pairs of students the opportunity to win an iPod by holding the box between their lips for as long as possible. Prizes were given out for first, second, and third place winners.
Alex Caldiero, scholar-in-residence for the philosophy and humanities departments, will perform at Mestizo coffee house in Salt Lake this Saturday. He will also perform a piece called “The Cart Before the Horse: An Experiment in Radical Pedagogy” in LA 127 this Wednesday.
The UVU Outdoor Adventure Center will host the world renowned Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour this week, with feature films at the Ragan Theater. Named for Banff, Canada’s oldest national park, the Banff Mountain Film Festival features some of the best documentary footage on mountain subjects in the world.