Arts and Culture
You can never get enough love can you? So this Friday, on Utah NOW, we're offering an extended version - a special edition of our program on love. We'll explore that powerful bond that draws one person to another by way of science and art, and of course, stories. Here's the working question..."Just what is love?" (rebroadcast)
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This week on Utah NOW we're profiling the StoryCorps Project. It's a venture that's been traveling the country collecting stories. They've been in Salt Lake since March and as they head out of town we'll take the opportunity to play some stories and talk about the model that drives the project...listening is an act of love. (rebroadcast)
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This week on Utah NOW we're exploring the obsession to possess and collect rare and valuable books. A lot of people have this fixation and some take it to extremes. We'll tell the story of a book thief but also the bookseller who helped catch him who happens to be Utah's own Ken Sanders. (rebroadcast)
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This week on Utah NOW - National Public Radio's Diane Rehm. We're broadcasting our conversation with the popular radio host recorded live at the Rose Wagner Center in Salt Lake City. We talked about her compelling personal story, which includes a condition that threatened to take her voice. She also discussed the changing media landscape and tells a few stories along the way. (rebroadcast)
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This week on Utah NOW, a conversation with the actor and singer Brian Stokes Mitchell. Mitchell was in town recently promoting the CD and DVD of his Christmas concert last year with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Mitchell has been described as America's "last leading man." We'll talk about his acclaimed work on Broadway and the concert stage and how jazz influenced it all.
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The Ken Burns' series on National Parks has gotten us thinking about the different facets in that relationship between Americans and Land. This week on Utah NOW we're exploring that relationship, from history and art to politics and spirituality... we'll talk about how land moves people and spurs them to action.
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Filmmaker Ken Burns joins us this week to talk about America's best idea, the National Parks. It's his latest documentary project and it took him to the country's most spectacular places. The film however, isn't as much about the places as the people who fought to protect them.
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This week on Utah NOW, we're profiling a new documentary that traces the complicated history of Black people in Mormonism. We'll talk about how Black Mormons reconcile their racial and cultural identity with their faith and ask why the myths and misperceptions persist.
Watch the doucmentary "Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons"
Oct. 7th at 9 PM on KUED 7.1
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This week on Utah NOW the writer Carol Lynch Williams will join us to talk about her popular new book for young adults. It's the story of a thirteen-year-old girl coming of age in a polygamist community that has presented her with an impossible choice.
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This week on Utah NOW...reflections of America, on July 4th. It's a program of stories and images and art that express the experience of a wide range of people who call themselves "Americans."
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This week on Utah NOW - The writer Paula Huntley joins us. Huntley has written a chronicle of her journey to Kosovo, where she taught english to a group of Albanian students. We talk to Huntley about her students' fears and hopes for their homeland...and their book club that brought them together.
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This week on Utah NOW a conversation with Richie Ramone, one of the drummers with the influential punk rock band The Ramones. He was in Utah recently performing his original arrangement of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. As you can imagine Richie's take on the classic is packed with percussion. We'll talk about music, his life and life with The Ramones.
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This week on Utah NOW, we ask the question...what is sacred? A recent episode of HBO's "Big Love" portrayed a private and sacred temple ceremony practiced by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We'll look at the struggle between the spiritual privacy of religion and the expressive freedom of art.
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This week on Utah NOW we're profiling the latest production from the Plan-B Theatre Company called "Block 8". It's the story of Ken, a young Japanese-American imprisoned by his country in an internment camp and expected to prove his loyalty. The play explores the boundaries in a society's drive to feel secure.
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This week on Utah NOW, an encore presentation. We're profiling the Body World's exhibit now on display in Salt Lake City. The show uses real cadavers stripped of their fat and skin and arranged in poses. It's giving us an opportunity to explore our cultural, religious and artistic impressions of the human body - dead and alive.
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This week on Utah NOW we're profiling the Body World's exhibit now on display in Salt Lake City. The show uses real cadavers stripped of their fat and skin and arranged in poses. It's giving us an opportunity to explore our cultural, religious and artistic impressions of the human body - dead and alive.
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This week on Utah NOW the head of PBS Paula Kerger will be with us. Public broadcasting like many American institutions these days is refining its identity in a changing media environment and a struggling economy. Here's how the New York Times put it not so long ago, 'Is PBS still necessary?'
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This week on Utah NOW the historian Susan Sessions Rugh will be with us. In her new book, "Are We There Yet?" she traces the evolution of the family vacation from its beginnings in the forties to it's decline in the seventies. We'll talk about the changing patterns of family life and the tradition of the American road trip.
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This week on Utah NOW, the pictures that changed the world of art forever.
We're profiling the blockbuster exhibition that has opened at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. It's a collection of masterworks from names like Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet. We'll talk about the art, about the movement it began and the story of its creation.
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The Utah artist Brian Kershisnik's work has been described as a journey of exploration. From his vantage point in rural Utah, Kershisnik finds forms for the elements of the life he sees around him. This week on Utah NOW, we're profiling Brian's vision for life and art. (Re-broadcast)
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You may not have heard of her, but in cyber-space, Heather Armstrong is practically an A-List celebrity. She's a blogger - and she makes a pretty healthy living at it. This week on Utah NOW Armstrong will join us to talk about what it's like to share her personal life with cyber-strangers in the blogosphere.
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In the one-man play he's written about his experience as a gay Marine serving in Iraq, Jeff Key explains he couldn't reconcile the reasons he had joined the military with the justification for what he came to believe was an immoral war.
Key's one-man play "The Eyes of Babylon" is opening this week in Salt Lake City. He'll join us to talk about it on Utah NOW.
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This week - PBS is re-broadcasting its groundbreaking documentary on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - 'The Mormons'.
We're taking the opportunity to re-visit our hour-long Utah NOW on the subject - where we talk about the series and gauge reaction to this portrait of the faith.
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It's not often we talk to international superstars on the program, but this week on Utah NOW the singer Sissel is with us.
Last Christmas she caused a sensation when she sang with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. We'll talk about music and the inspiration she draws from her native Norway.
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The scheduled presentation of the Governor's Monthly News Conference has been canceled.
This week on Utah NOW--a re-broadcast of our conversation with writer and former Utahn Ron Carlson.
Here's the set-up for his first novel in years. Three men gather in southern Idaho to build a giant ramp for a motorcycle stunt on a reality TV program.
Here's the set-up for our show--a conversation with Carlson on writing, loss and the West.
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This week on Utah NOW -- we continue our conversation with filmmaker Ken Burns.
Burns' latest series premiers next week on PBS stations around the country. It is a deeply personal chronicle of World War Two and like all of Burns' work, it's history brought to life through stories.
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This week on Utah NOW--the writer, philosopher and sometime-Utahn Robert Fulghum will be with us.
Fulghum came to prominence by sharing the lessons he learned in kindergarten. His essays are observations of the smallest things that raise the biggest questions.
We also say farewell to Utah teacher and statesman J.D. Williams.
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This week on Utah NOW--we begin a series of conversations with the filmmaker and master storyteller Ken Burns.
From "The Civil War" to "Jazz" - from "Baseball" to his upcoming film on World War II; Burns' work has a breathtaking reach. But at its core, you'll find the American experiment expressed in a story.
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This week on Utah NOW--writer and former Utahn Ron Carlson.
Here's the set-up for his first novel in years. Three men gather in southern Idaho to build a giant ramp for a motorcycle stunt on a reality TV program.
Here's the set-up for our show--a conversation with Carlson on writing, loss and the West.
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This week on Utah NOW--as the state prepares to celebrate its pioneer history, we're talking about the legacy of Utah's early settlers in the artifacts they left behind.
What did their houses, buildings and furniture tell us about their lives and their communities? And what are the challenges to preserving this history?
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A PBS series profiling the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will again bring Mormonism into the national spotlight. On an hour-long edition of Utah NOW, we're talking about the series and gauging the reaction to this latest portrait of the faith. Find out what Utahns say after viewing the documentary. Did it clear up misconceptions or reinforce them? Join us for a balanced, considered response to the national broadcast.
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This week the Utah NOW team travels down to Spring City for an on-location edition of Utah NOW.
Years ago the interstate bypassed Spring City here in Sanpete County, which didn't do much for the economy, but it did preserve the authentic character and the buildings of this pioneer settlement. This week on Utah NOW we're profiling this unique community. We're talking about its art, its history, and its challenges for the future.
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A new PBS series profiling the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will again bring Mormonism into the national spotlight. On an hour-long edition of Utah NOW, we're talking about the series and gauging the reaction to this latest portrait of the faith. Find out what Utahns say after viewing the documentary. Did it clear up misconceptions or reinforce them? Join us for a balanced, considered response to the national broadcast. In a unique collaboration between KUED and KBYU, Utah NOW: Viewing THE MORMONS will be simulcast on both channels Friday at 8 pm.
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For some, Sunday is a day of worship. For others the day is less about devotion as - a day off. This week on Utah NOW we're talking about Sunday; how people have observed it over time and just what the day has become, today.
She's a household name in the extreme ski industry, and he's the CEO and president of a successful financial firm. Kristen Ulmer and Kent Cannon spend their Sundays quite differently, but what do their Sundays reflect about the day as a whole?
Our studio guest is author Craig Harline. The History professor from BYU talks about his new book, "Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl."
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In cities throughout the state there's a critical conversation going on about how you preserve the character of a place; that's the question at the center of a story developing in Salt Lake's Sugar House area. This week on Utah NOW we're talking about the conflict that always comes with change.
Studio guests include Soren Simonsen, a Salt Lake City Councilman, and Keith Bartholomew, an assistant professor of urban planning at the University of Utah's College of Architecture and Planning.
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Mothers have always had ridiculous expectations to live up to, but the scholar Susan Douglas says a movement is growing that gives the moms of the world a break. This week on Utah NOW we're talking about the myths and the realities of being a mother in modern society.
Our studio guest Susan Douglas is a professor of communications at the University of Michigan and author of "The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How it Has Undermined Women."
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The Utah artist Brian Kershisnik's work has been described as a journey of exploration. From his vantage point in rural Utah, Kershisnik finds forms for the elements of the life he sees around him. This week on Utah NOW we're profiling Brian's vision for life and art.
This show features interviews with Brian Kershisnik and his wife Suzanne, David Dee, director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and David Ericson, owner of David Ericson's Fine Art.
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Doris Baizley's new play, "SEXSTING," which has just opened at the Salt Lake Acting Company, is more than a simple indictment of an internet predator. This week on Utah NOW we're talking about the questions of ethics and privacy in an effort to police the relationships of a virtual world.
Studio guests include playwrights Susan Raffanti and Doris Baizley.
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Over the centuries believers and artists have always come up with their own take on the image of Jesus Christ - from stern judge to serene shepherd. This week on Utah NOW we'll talk about how and why those images have changed and explore the relationship between art and devotion.
Studio guests include Pastor Tim Dahlin, director of the Christian Center of Park City, and Richard Holzapfel of BYU's Religious Studies Department.
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Dance has a more fleeting nature than most art-forms- it lives in the moment. While it gives the experience its vitality – it also makes it difficult to account for or preserve. This week on Utah NOW we’re profiling the Ririe Woodbury Dance Company and asking how you perpetuate the ephemeral art of dance.
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Mormons have become recognizable enough to be a part of the way popular culture depicts people of faith. This week on Utah NOW we’re asking how the perception of Latter-day Saints is changing, and how it’s different when the work comes not from the outside, but from believers themselves.
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Along with throngs of supporters President Bush will be met by hundreds of protestors when he visits Utah next week. On Utah NOW we’re breaking down the elements of dissent…In a country founded by revolution how crucial is protest to a vibrant democracy and what are the limits?
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This week on Utah NOW we explore the nature of leadership. Just what is the essence of a good leader? In times of crisis or war – what are the characteristics people look to for direction and strength. From the founders to modern America – how does leadership play out in the country’s social and political climate?
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Host Doug Fabrizio talks to Utah playwright, Aden Ross. Known internationally for her work, her latest production, Amerika is an examination of the relationship between money and power, lies and "terrorism." After a sold out Salt Lake run, Plan-B Theatre is taking the play, Amerika to the Toronto Fringe Festival this summer. What is Aden Ross' process of creating art while surrounded by our unique Utah culture? What does her work tell us about how we do or don't get along as a society?
