Avery Greig

  The Garden took over the Loading Dock in Salt Lake City on Friday, Nov. 12 with their newest album “Kiss My Superbowl Ring” and signature “Vada Vada” sound. Let’s Do the Vada Vada! Goblins, jesters and twin brothers could only mean one thing — The Garden has arrived in Salt Lake City after months of...

Beach House is back, baby! Get ready for the micro-dosed, four-chapter release of Beach House’s eighth studio album “Once Twice Melody.” Dream-Pop Sovereign Returns Fans of the Baltimore-based dream-pop duo could not be more thrilled. After three torturous years since their last album release “7” …

The Utah Museum of Fine Art’s latest salt series installment features artist Horacio Rodriguez, whose work urges viewers to examine the identity of borders and the layered contexts of the ancient and the contemporary. Salt 15: Horacio Rodriguez It’s official: Horacio Rodriguez is the UMFA’s fifte…

Artist Nicole Gaitan spills excitement over permanent residency in Park City’s Pando Fine Art Gallery and discusses finding her self-taught, artistic individuality. Ketchup to Canvas “Since I was little, I was always interested in art,” said California born, Jackson Hole-based artist Gaitan. Akin …

This April, multimedia artist Ya La’Ford will begin an artist’s residency at Ogden Contemporary Art, and Utahns could not be more excited. Ya La’Ford: The Artist With her impressive and multifaceted educational background, including a law degree as well as an MFA, La’Ford’s art manifests upon nume…

Somewhere nestled in the downtown area of Salt Lake City, perched shy off of 300 South, lies an internal fantasy world born from the mind of book collector Ken Sanders. Rows of shelves stacked with over 100,000 books line the inside of the cream brick edifice, the building itself decorated in flags,…

  The Natural History Museum of Utah welcomes its newest and most vibrant exhibition to its galleries — The Nature of Color. The exhibit, organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, dives into the stories that color provides on humanity, society and the natural world alike.  Concept of Color Colors keep...

Grounder, I Hardly Know Her! “This song is about just how pissed off I am,” Athens Boyle said during a bedroom show in the Marriott Honors Community, a common affair for an odd 2019 evening. As the chords to “Special Place” rang out, it was unknown that the tune would soon become the first Grounder...

  The media has painted a distinct image of the American college student — fresh-faced yet sleep-deprived, eager, liberated and entirely broke. What aspects of this stereotypical archetype are genuine and what facets are mere figments of the media’s imagination? ‘Sko Students, all Shapes and Sizes My personal contradiction between collegiate expectations and actual university...

  If my time at the Chronicle has imparted one thing to me, it is a deep and true love of getting to understand members of our Salt Lake and University of Utah community. One year after our last conversation, I sat down with Ken Sanders of Salt Lake’s heart and soul Ken Sanders Rare...