Jan Shipps, noted author and long-time scholar on Mormonism, will be speaking on Tuesday, November 17th, at the Salt Lake City Main Library. This special lecture is sponsored by Sunstone and is free to the public. Ms. Shipps will be reflecting on the field of religious studies, and how the advances and techniques of this [...]
An interesting revolution has been going on in Utah County for the past few years called The New Play Project. It’s a collective of Mormon playwrights who, according to their website, gives “emerging Latter-day Saint writers a place to produce their work while maintaining their standards and values.”
So far, it has produced some excellent work, [...]
Do you watch House M.D.? On the third season’s last DVD there’s a short sequence on how some of the show’s cast and crew got a little jazz band together – Hugh Laurie himself at the piano (and yes, he even plays “Minnie the Moocher” for all those Jeeves and Wooster fans out there).
At [...]
By Rory Swensen
Christmas Season, 1989. I was a freshman at the University of Utah, my first year away from home. Like any college student, I was looking for extra holiday cash, and the Help Wanted ad for a shopping mall Santa seemed like just the thing.
Despite my 18-year-oldness, the manager was desperate to fill the [...]
As to the ‘Eroica,’ I had meant to tell you how I felt about it, but it opens the flood-gates, and I can’t. The wail of grief, and then the sympathy which should comfort the sufferer. The wonderful funeral dirge, so solemn, so full, so deep, so splendid, and always with courage and comfort. The [...]
Kathy’s post reminded me of our earlier exchange, on the occasion of Segullah’s introduction to the bloggernacle. Rereading, I had two thoughts:
1) I am not very nice when I’m feeling defensive. (Sorry, Kathy)
2) The problem of branding in Mormon publications is a very strange beast.
Brian Doyle, the editor of Portland Magazine, reflects here on his 30 years as an editor for various venues. Very funny, very insightful, and it even has a Mormon in it!
A quick snippet:
“Editing is hardly ever what the non-inky world thinks it is, which is copyediting, which is merely the very last and easiest piece [...]
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