Luke Jackson

After about an hour and a half of trying to find a parking spot, my wife and I, along with a thousand other folks, arrived at the second and final night of Illuminate: Utah’s Light Art and Creative Tech Festival. Festivals of any type have been pretty few and far between over the past...

When my inexperienced mind approaches the art form of opera, I think of the music from “Carmen,” a mysterious masked man singing from the depths of a theatre and that one episode of “SpongeBob” where he turns out to be an opera prodigy. Opera, only due to my lack of exposure, has never seemed to..…

It’s hard to believe that we are coming up on two years since COVID-19 disrupted our lives. In case you haven’t noticed, things have been a little bit different since then. Even though, as of Thursday, Dec. 23, Salt Lake City is still averaging about 363 new COVID-19 cases a day, we are essentiall…

On the Pioneer Memorial Theatre stage, the quaint home of retired schoolteacher Eleanor Bannister sits in front of us. It’s everything you’d expect from a 60-something woman living in 1995 small-town Texas. The blue and orange dusk sky provides a background to the chorus of lively singing birds. J…

Somehow, the passage of time has not been halted and the end of Pioneer Theatre Company’s ’21-’22 season is staring us in the face. The much anticipated conclusion “Hello, Dolly!” premiered on May 13. As such, I was given the express pleasure of speaking with Paige Davis who has taken on the semin…

As someone who might be called “an enjoyer of movies,” I’ve made a specific effort to visit the theater at least once a week for as long as I can remember. Since the world ended a couple years ago, movie theater attendance has dwindled. Typically, the theater is empty aside from myself and an...

In early 2017, I found a man online who was selling both a Nintendo Switch and “Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.” His price was a little higher than that found in stores, but the console had just barely come out and was sold out everywhere else. As a stupid kid with a...

This is the start of a casual monthly piece for the Chronicle’s Art desk to recommend the art that has been connecting with us from music to movies to podcasts

Transcript Luke Jackson: Hi, everybody, my name is Luke Jackson. And I’m the current arts desk editor here at the Chrony. And this is Big Emotions: Episode Two — our arts desk podcast. We have an amazing co-host and our amazing producer with us today. And also one of our wonderful writers is here, and

Porn is nuanced, and there are people out there, like the Ersties team, who want it to be healthier. We deserve real portrayal of pleasure.