REVIEW—LIZA: A TRULY TERRIFIC ABSOLUTELY TRUE STORY (2024)
"I am a part of all that I have met," poet Alfred Tennyson wrote In “Ulysses”, a poem in blank verse that served as a dramatic monologue detailing the Greek hero's travels, encounters, and escapades,...
View ArticleREVIEW: EXTRACTED (2025)—Episode 1: “Survive the Night”
Photo courtesy of Entertainment WeeklyI’m not really a reality T.V. enthusiast, but have to admit that one of my guilty viewing pleasures has been watching the American version of Big Brother, which...
View ArticleTREEFORT 2025—RAÍCES: The Evening Class Interview With Miguel Almeida
Miguel Almeida is an illustrator / muralist based in Boise, Idaho. He works both digitally and traditionally to create colorful illustrations. His personal work is largely inspired by his Mexican...
View ArticleTHROWBACK THURSDAY—SVFF 2013 / TREEFORT MUSIC FEST 2013: CINEMA DISRUPTION...
"Interesting distributing something like this with the internet and then not really knowing much beyond that."—Zach Voss, Retroscope Media. Fourteen years ago, in the Spring of 2011, I brokered my...
View ArticleREVIEW: EXTRACTED (2025)—Episode 2: “Gimme Shelter”
Austin & Justin Denison in HQ; courtesy of Fox.With 80 robotic surveillance cameras positioned in the Survival Zone, and who knows how many observing from HQ, the amount of footage needing to be...
View ArticleREVIEW: EXTRACTED (2025)—Episode 3: “The Hunt”
Justin & Austin Denison. Photo courtesy of Fox.The third installment of the Fox reality series Extracted raises the question of where it is that drama resides? Which human qualities offer...
View ArticleTHROWBACK THURSDAY: TREEFORT MUSIC FEST 9 (2021)—The Evening Class Interview...
Photo: Rachel Bennett. All rights reserved.Since first seeing Smokey Brights at the 9th edition of Treefort Music Fest, I have caught them in performance several times. They continue to be one of my...
View ArticleTREEFORT FEST 2025 / ARTFORT / THE EVENING CLASS INTERVIEW WITH BOBBY GAYTAN
Any city is composed of surfaces: walls, streets, sidewalks, fences and traffic boxes. A citizenry negotiates these spaces, maneuvering through the rhythms of their working lives, craving diversion to...
View ArticleTHROWBACK THURSDAY / TREEFORT MUSIC FEST 2016—The Evening Class Interview...
It is wonderful to see how the Treefort Music Fest has expanded over the years, but I will always have a fondness for its early years and the young musicians and artists who embraced me when I first...
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