Opinion: Art is much more than a pretty picture
Sunday, April 21st, 2013 Posted in Arts and Life, Opinion | Comments OffBy Dani Hayes When I say I’m studying art history, I see the word “pointless” glaze over people’s eyes. Or a smirk crosses their lips. Or eyes wander as they scramble to change the subject. It’s annoying. I honestly can talk about ...
Opinion: Do women have to leave Utah to achieve equality?
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | Comments OffBy Jessica Sonderegger As a student and employee, I have come to an appropriate conclusion at the end of my undergraduate studies: if I am to seriously pursue a career—one where I will be recognized and adequately compensated for my expertise—I ...
Opinion: Confessions of a recovering Facebook junky
Monday, April 15th, 2013 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »By Jessica Sonderegger I consider myself one of the original gangsters when I reminisce about my Facebook story. Though I wasn’t even one of the first hundreds to join, I dare say I was one of the first few in ...
‘Justice and equality’—supporters of same-sex marriage rally in Logan
Monday, April 1st, 2013 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »Story & Photos by Jessica Sonderegger LOGAN—Shades of red decorated the steps of the historic Cache Country Courthouse as nearly 140 community members gathered in support of same-sex marriage equality and equal rights. “We are here to take a stand for justice ...
Confessions of a Sundance groupie: My Day with Dan Rad
Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 Posted in Opinion | 2 Comments »By Katie Swain PARK CITY—As a fiercely obsessed Harry Potter fanatic for the better part of my life, the fact that my opportunity to report on this year’s Sundance Film Festival coincided with the premiere of Daniel Radcliffe’s new film “Kill Your ...
Sundance 2013 closes: What a great party!
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 Posted in Arts and Life, Review | Comments OffBy Ben Hansen Special to the Hard News Café PARK CITY—As the blizzard blew snow sideways, Sundance 2013 blew out of Park City almost as quickly as it came in. After a whirlwind 10 days that concludes my sixth year of Sundancing, ...
Review: A glimpse inside the ultra-private Orthodox Jewish world
Sunday, January 27th, 2013 Posted in Review | Comments OffBy Dani Hayes PARK CITY—Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Hasidic communities have practically been invisible to the world. Rama Burshtein, a Hasidic Jew herself, wanted to give her people a voice and the result is “Fill the Void,” which offers outsiders a look at ...
Review: More like the unnecessary death of a good cast in a bad movie
Thursday, January 24th, 2013 Posted in Arts and Life, Review | 1 Comment »By Katie Swain PARK CITY—Fredrik Bond, director of “The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman,” walked onto the Eccles Theater stage at Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday, frazzled and confused, half-eaten apple in hand, admitting he was very hung over. While Bond ...
Sundance 2013: Radcliffe excels in daring, poetic ‘Kill Your Darlings’
Monday, January 21st, 2013 Posted in Arts and Life, Review | 1 Comment »By Katie Swain PARK CITY—“Kill Your Darlings,” which premiered Friday at Sundance, follows the true events of poet Allen Ginsberg’s transformation from emotional and sexual repression to the realization of his unorthodox genius and homosexuality—a process that is sparked by a ...
Sundance 2013: ‘Crystal Fairy’ is a trip . . . literally
Saturday, January 19th, 2013 Posted in Review | Comments OffStory & Photo by Ben Hansen Special to Hard News Café PARK CITY—The 2013 Sundance Film Festival opened with a handful of films on Thursday night. Perhaps the most anticipated of the bunch, “Crystal Fairy” promised star power (Michael Cera), an eccentric ...
School board OKs land purchase for new Millville high school
Sunday, December 16th, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments OffBy Curtis Lundstrom MILLVILLE -- Make room for a new high school. Alfalfa fields, on State Road 165 in between 2450 South and 2700 South, was approved for purchase by the Cache County Board of Education Thursday for the construction of the ...
Guest column: Don’t come to Canada, American secessionists
Friday, November 16th, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments OffBy Sherry King VANCOUVER, B.C. -- A note to American secessionists: For several very good reasons, DO NOT come to Canada. First, Canadian Immigration does not recognize the need for anyone to be a refugee from the United States. So much time ...
Opinion: Book nazis—Keep your mitts off my reading lists!
Sunday, October 21st, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments OffBy Ted Pease It’s incredible to me that busy-bodies spent so much of their time and energy last year trying to banish books from library shelves. “Incredible” in its literal sense: I can’t believe that anyone in 2012 a) is still ...
Review: Buckethead still making it happen after 20 years
Monday, October 8th, 2012 Posted in Arts and Life, Review | Comments OffBy Matt Thurber Photo by Ben Hansen SALT LAKE CITY—This fall, Buckethead's seminal album “Welcome to Bucketheadland” reached a milestone, marking 20 years of masked madness. To celebrate, Buckethead hit the road with his custom-made Gibson guitar and that’s about it ...
RIP: A year later, USU Eastern remembers beloved coach
Monday, October 8th, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments OffBy the USU Eastern Eagle staff Sometimes it seems like it was yesterday, while other times it seems like it has been an eternity since the sudden death of beloved coach and mentor Brad Barton on the one-year anniversary of his ...
Opinion: A question of principle—I just can’t vote for Mitt
Thursday, September 27th, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments OffBy Harry Caines CacheValleyDaily.com When this column is completed, they will have changed the secret handshake. The password to enter the Mahogany Lounge will be different—it was swordfish. And the pass key that used to give me access to the executive washroom ...
Logan, Utah, makes top-10 (we’re #3!) list of best college towns in U.S.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 Posted in Opinion | 1 Comment »By Ted Pease This is exactly how gossip and rumor and “rankings” work in both academe and the “information age,” but I’ll play along. Why not? The Chronicle of Higher Education—that stalwart standard for colleges and universities—has succumbed like everyone/everything else to ...
Opinion: The same old song about journalism’s academic-professional disconnect
Thursday, June 21st, 2012 Posted in Opinion | 2 Comments »By Ted Pease Jerry Ceppos, the new dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at LSU and a former newspaper editor, writes somewhat grimly this week about “How Journalism Professionals and Educators Can Close the Chasm.” His column took me back ...
Journalism is an (active) verb, and other lessons learned as a Church News intern
Thursday, June 21st, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments OffBy Allie Jeppson Salt Lake City Corrrespondent SALT LAKE CITY—I began journalistic writing only two years ago as a college freshman. If someone had told me in the summer directly following my high school graduation that I would be working for The ...
HNC Weekly News Roundup
Monday, April 23rd, 2012 Posted in Opinion | Comments OffNews about Cache Valley and USU from the Department of Journalism & Communication LOGAN—All the Local News from Northern Utah: Fight nears over damming Oneida Narrows on the Bear River northeast of Preston. USU dominates student journalism awards in the ...
