Tag: the Independent
Movie Review: ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’
Written by Adam Mast
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE-ROGUE NATION (PG-13)
Your mission is to see "Rogue Nation" as soon as possible!
If the thrilling, expertly crafted actioneer, "Mission: Impossible...
When government whistleblowers become an “Enemy of the State”
Written by Jack Ferm
The National Security Agency (NSA) was only the beginning: Congress—along with the Executive Branch—is so paranoid that we are on the...
In education, there needs to be room for both local and...
Written by Marianne Mansfield
Before long, school buildings across the state will welcome back their students. Some return after a several month break, others a...
Bardway, Baby! from Utah Shakespeare Festival offers a night of Disney...
photo courtesy of the Utah Shakespeare Festival
The Independent
Bardway, Baby! is back at the Utah Shakespeare Festival for its sixth annual night of musical entertainment....
Album Review: Alan Jackson’s cliched ‘Angels and Alcohol’ may drive you...
https://youtu.be/YcINJWBXr6s
In 1954, an entrepreneur named Ray Kroc took a hamburger stand in Phoenix and transformed it into one of the most commercially successful enterprises...
Album Review: Tame Impala’s ‘Currents’—hipster wet dream or post-Beatles porn?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLg-Kqa9vEo
The Tibetans believe that rebirth doesn’t happen immediately; allegedly, several years can pass between a person’s death and rebirth. Far out, man. Hopefully, John...
Album Review: Everything Everything’s ‘Get To Heaven’ is straight-up blasphemy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOUuWZ8-hBg
Album Review: "Get To Heaven" by Everything Everything
Where oh where did my prog rock go? Oh, where oh where could she be? It’s in...
Album review: Veruca Salt exhumes rock ‘n’ roll’s corpse with ‘Ghost...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMeYDS9kZcE
"Ghost note" is a jazz term that refers to notes played passingly and lightly between other notes; common to drums as well as pitched...
Album review: Thundercat’s ‘The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam’ is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBgjsCiWI4A
Earlier this year, Kendrick Lamar released “To Pimp a Butterfly,” which has proven to be one of the most universally highly praised albums of...
Album Review: With ‘The Monsanto Years,’ Neil Young once again gives...
The only thing missing is Hugh Grant and Robert Shapiro hanging from upside-down crosses.