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The Gay Agenda
29Thursday
Not all comedy troupes are the stuff of family-hour television. The Mixed Comedy Company, for example, is downright risqué—they perform all over the city in bars. Which is a pretty solid strategy for an improv company, because the risk of bombing is exponentially smaller when performing in front of an audience tanked up on Stoli.
7:30pm, The Tavernacle, a private club for members, 201 E 300 South. 519-8900.
30Friday
It doesn’t take much of an excuse for the Agenda to don its feathered hats and lederhosen, but we tend to blend into the crowd a bit better when we do it at Oktoberfest. Come and enjoy the foliage at Snowbird’s annual celebration of beer and a culture so incredibly rich that it managed to give us both the cuckoo clock and megalomaniacal fascism. And strudel.
12pm-6pm,Snowbird Resort, Highway 210, Little Cottonwood Canyon. Admission is free, information at 742-2222.
1Saturday
Out singer/songwriter Sacha Sacket returns once again to Salt Lake tonight in a free show at Nostalgia, the best kept secret in Salt Lake coffeehouses.
7pm, Nostalgia Café, 248 E 100 South. Free.
If you missed Thursday’s comedy troupe, give JoKyR and Jesster a try over at SugarBeats in Sugarhouse. Two of Utah’s most prolific improvisers perform high stake, character driven improv with, according to their website, “a combined experience of over 22 years and a combined weight of over 315 lbs.” The duo has toured from coast to coast in the U.S. and Canada.
7:30pm, SugarBeats, 2106 S. Highland Dr. $5
2Sunday
Sebastio Salgado spent six years traveling to forty countries to compile the three hundred photographs that make up his exhibit Exodus. The pictures tell the stories of thousands of men and women living in city slums and refugee camps all over the world. The exhibit has been seen by three million people as well as in Rolling Stone and The New Yorker. The Leonardo, the art and science center located at Library Square has brought the show to Salt Lake.
1pm-5pm today, 10am-6pm Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 10am to 9pm Wednesdays and Fridays, 1pm-5pm Sundays through December 17, the Leonardo at Library Square, 209 E 500 South. Tickets $7-$10 at the door. theleonardo.org.
4Tuesday
In an age when eight year old children are on antidepressants and our culture has become constitutionally incapable of feeling genuine emotion, it’s nice to see that Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails remains resolutely gloomy and infuriated. If you ask me, what he needs is either a nice soy chai and a pedicure or the love of a good woman, but he seems to be enjoying the music thing. As an aside, Tori Amos once made fried chicken for Trent in the kitchen of the Sharon Tate murder house. Pleasant dreams!
7:30pm, E Center, 3200 S. Decker Lake Drive. Tickets $32 and $42 at 467-TIXX or smithstix.com.
5Wednesday
My Chemical Romance—boys with floppy hair, tight t-shirts and agony. Boys whom Trent Reznor could eat as an appetizer. Boys who make pretty decent emo music. That just about covers it.
7:30pm, McKay Events Center, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem. Tickets $14 and $17 at 467-TIXX or smithstix.com.
7Friday
Wonder of the World, Pygmalion Production’s season opener, is a firecracker of a play about a woman who experiences an epiphany and travels to Niagara Falls to find herself, encountering a Laugh-In sketch’s worth of zany characters along the way. Good for her—sometimes I feel like going out to find myself, but it’s usually just about when The Simpsons is about to come on. And a boy’s gotta have priorities.
8pm tonight, then 8pm Thursdays through Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm through Oct. 29, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W Broadway. Tickets $18 at 355-2787 or arttix.org.
Remember when the Fishers had a birthday party for David right after his horrible attack? The same day Claire and her friends took drugs and finger-painted on the walls? The really beautiful song they all sing along to is by Death Cab for Cutie, who were also featured in an episode of the O.C. where Cohen….but I digress. Suffice it to say that Six Feet Under and The O.C. have pretty rigorous musical standards, which is a ringing endorsement of the band. Where Clair Fisher and Seth Cohen go, the Agenda will always follow.
6pm, In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West. Tickets $18 at 467-TIXX or smithstix.com.
8Saturday
The plaza of the beautiful Ogden Union Station on Wall Ave. is the setting for the second annual Ogden Arts Festival. Two stages with live music, artist booths and a beer and wine garden will line Washington Blvd. A Plein Air Paint Out begins at 9am and finishes at 3pm, and winners will split over $1000 in prizes. A silent auction goes from 3:30 to 5pm. If it rains, the event moves into the station.
10am to dusk, 100 block of Washington Blvd. Free. www.OgdenArtsFestival.com
The Drepung Loseling Monks will bring their Mystical Arts of Tibet to Park City tonight, conveying a message of peace to the world through ancient and sacred music and dance. The performance features elaborate Tibetan costumes and instruments. Sure beats going to whatever clap trap opened at the megaplex, eh?
7:30pm, Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Boulevard, Park City. Tickets $15-$50 at 355-2787 or arttix.org.
10Monday
Those crazy rascals at Desert Star Playhouse have done it again, this time sending up one of television’s character-less procedural dramas with the hilarious CSI: Provo. The show gently pokes fun at two inordinately deserving topics: bad television and Utah. What more need we say other than that the cast features Aaron Swenson, Plan B Theatre Company’s Hedwig and a Metro Arts Award winner. Here’s your chance to see what he looks like in pants!
7pm Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 7pm and 9:30pm Fridays, 12pm, 3pm, 7pm and 9:30pm Saturdays through November 5, Desert Star Playhouse, Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State Street. Tickets $10-$29.99 with dinner option at 266-2600.
11Tuesday
Can you remember your life before you came out? Isn’t it so much better now? If you’re reading this and haven’t made the grand leap with a flourish, here’s the day especially made for you. Today is National Coming Out Day across the nation. To celebrate, The Center is hosting Talk About It!—a ‘friendraising’ and fundraising breakfast. Kate Kendall of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (who penned this issue’s guest editorial) will be the special guest. Breakfast is free, but a donation would be appreciated and an RSVP is required.
7:30am, Sheraton City Centre Hotel, 150 W. 500 South. Free. Call 539-8800 ext. 20 or email thecenter@glbtccu.org to RSVP.
12Wednesday
The game show just too gay for prime time continues its tour of the gay watering holes of the city. The Royal Court’s How Gay is That?! makes its way to Todd’s Bar and Grill. Hosted by Lucky Charms and Patrick, contestants will have to decide such things as what’s more gay: Bert and Ernie, Spongebob Squarepants or Tinkie Winkie?
9:30pm, Todd’s Bar and Grill, a private club for members, 1051 S. 300 West. $5 donation benefits the Royal Court’s AIDS Fund
upcoming
Sunday, OCTOBER. 16, Salt Lake Men’s Choir performs Frost in Autumn, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. saltlakemenschoir.org
OCTOBER 19–23, National Gay Men’s Health Summit, Salt Lake City Center Hilton. ngmhs2005.org
OCTOBER 22, Pair Up to End AIDS, Salt Lake Library Square from noon to 7pm, Rally at 6:30pm
NOVEMBER 17–27, Plan B Theatre Company brings back Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. planbtheatrecompany.org
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