Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel My Absolute Darling may be difficult to read, but the judges of the 15 Bytes Book Awards for Fiction say we should. The story of 14-year-old Turtle Alveston’s abuse at the hands of her father can be harrowing, but redemption and grace are found in […]
RadioWest has a terrific new project. In partnership with cityhomeCOLLECTIVE, the ubercool Salt Lake City real estate, design, and neighborhood cheerleading operation, they are filming the interiors of the interesting houses of interesting people most of us otherwise never would get to see. Called “Habitat,” the series began […]
What’s your favorite book? That’s the question KUED, in conjunction with PBS’s The Great American Read, has been asking Utahns all summer long — at the Farmer’s Market, the Pride Festival, Craft Lake City and elsewhere. “This isn’t meant to be a list of the best books written, […]
The Underwater American Songbook, Rebecca Pyle’s 2018 digital chapbook, is structured around a captivating and engaging conceit: the collection, as Pyle explains in a foreword, is “a body of almost-lyrics about objects found underwater all around New York.” Each of the 10 poems, therefore, focuses on some sunken […]
When I arrived at Sugar Space Arts Warehouse in the early evening, it was sweltering. Inside, the AC was blowing to its max while a very small crowd milled about. Comprised almost entirely of other dancers from around Salt Lake City, and presumably some close friends and family […]
LoveDANCEmore journal editor Samuel Hanson, a Utah native now based in New York City, speaks with Emma Wilson, a dance artist from Houston who completed a BFA in Modern Dance at the University of Utah, minoring in Environmental Studies as well as Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. She is […]
Neeli Cherkovski was raised in a bohemian Los Angeles family where his father ran a bookstore. At age 16 he created the literary journal, Black Cat Review. From 1969-71 he and lifelong friend Charles Bukowski created and edited the literary magazine Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns. Throughout Cherkovski’s career he […]
Salt Lake City’s bungalows are charming, but let’s be honest, they all kind of look alike. Not the case with this bungalow, on the corner of Williams Ave. and 400 East. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map 15 Bytes
Artists from Utah’s 15 (round 1): (top row) Frank McEntire, Anne Cullimore Decker, Stephen Goldsmith, Ruby Chacon, Terry Tempest Williams (middle row) Joan Woodbury, Paul Davis, Brad Slaugh, Anna Campbell Bliss, Bonnie Phillips (bottom row) Sam Wilson, Sandy Brunvand, Brian Kershisnik, Trent Alvey, John Erickson. UTAH’S 15, our […]
No, we’re not a pay-to-play sort of publication. People aren’t sending us a check and expecting us to write an article on them. But we recently sent out an email about our current edition, noting that on average it costs us $125 to produce an article in 15 […]
There’s so much junk on the internet, you begin to wonder why we spend so much time there, but then you come across something like this: on Thursday, Utah County artist Justin Taylor posted a video he created about BMX freestyler Scotty Cranmer, who suffered a life-altering accident […]
Anyone who has lost a solitary loved one can relate to the situation: a household full of objects — clothes, books, photographs, dishware — too sentimental to simply throw away, not precious enough to keep. Are the clothes old enough that they’ve come back in style? Maybe one of […]
