Arts & Culture

Interview: Is Arts Fest Headliner Andy Frasco Growing Up?

Could it be that Andy Frasco is maturing? He’s returned to touring and Utah fans at this year’s Utah Arts Festival can expect Andy Frasco and the U.N. to still bring the...

Third Eye Blind Headlines Ampitheaters Across the US This Summer

Twenty-seven years ago, Third Eye Blind blasted onto the music scene with a self-titled album that went six-times platinum and included the enduring alternative rock hits “Semi-Charmed Life,” “Graduate,” “How’s It Going...

Local Artist Sticker Machine Makes it Fun and Easy to Collect Local Art 

There’s a nearly universal childhood experience of being dragged along for mundane adult errands, struggling to keep your hands to yourself in the grocery store cart, or counting the minute hand at...

Review: The 16th Ogden Music Festival

The nonprofit organization, Ogden Friends of Acoustic Music (OFOAM), knows how to create a first-class music festival. Don’t let the “acoustic” moniker fool you. The festival held at Fort Buenaventura on May...

Taking Back Sunday Makes a Stylistic Leap with New Album ‘152’

Taking Back Sunday’s new album, “152,” may be a turning point for the long-running alternative rock band. In reshaping the energetic emo/indie rock sound that was established on the band’s popular 2002...

Local Author’s Debut Bestselling YA Novel ‘Sky’s End’ Receives Movie Buzz

Utah author Marc J. Gregson on his debut novel Sky’s End—Part One of the Above the Black series After Marc J. Gregson’s young adult novel Sky’s End dropped in January, it shot up...

Singer-Songwriter Sarah Jarosz Finds Inspiration and Grit in Nashville

Great artists are never satisfied with staying in one place creatively and tend to find ways to challenge and push themselves. Feel free to put singer-songwriter Sarah Jarosz in that category. It would...

OCA’s Artist Factory Program Highlights the Importance of Youth Arts Education

As we’ve witnessed public education funding come under fire over the past decade, some of the first programs to be cut are arts—despite proven studies that show how impactful arts education is...