Arts & Culture

Welcome to Festival City U.S.A.

Most visitors to Cedar City are not originally from Utah. The vast majority had lived somewhere else, heard of Festival City USA, moved to Utah, and then came to visit. The city’s largest attraction, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, has won a Tony and claims to be internationally famous, yet many Utah County residents don’t even consider it to be a possible vacation destination. Some even skip over it to see the shows at the Tuacahn in St. George.

What goes unnoticed

Behind the scenes of the library, an insider shares personal insight on the stocking of the new library, and the emptying of the old. Backbreaking, heavy loads of moving text set to an eclectic soundtrack of music and observation.

Meet Marcus

NBC’s Last comic standing is like American Idol for comedians – only entertaining. Hailing from West Jordan, Utah, Marcus is one of the funniest contestants the series has ever seen.

Movie reviews

Get Smart — Not as intelligent as the original.
When I was a child growing up in California, every morning, while eating a bowl or two of Cookie Crisp, my brothers and I had a great routine: first weíd watch The Price is Right, then a rerun of Get Smart.

How to survive your first tattoo

There are certain things that college students do. They do these things not because they are expected to, but because at this time in their lives they just feel the need. We stay up too late, we make drunken fools of ourselves in parking lots and camping grounds, we pompously talk about poets and politicians, and we get tattoos.