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The Gay Agenda
28Friday
HELLBENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED!
Ladies and gentlemen, our time has finally come: at long last, the queers have their own slasher movie. Hellbent features everything you’d expect from a classic horror flick: blood, pretty people with no clothes, and an impossible evil villain. Only this time around we get shirtless boys instead of vapid blonde co-eds. Take a date and you’ll have an excuse to cling to him during the scary parts.
Opens tonight at the Regency Trolley Square Cinemas, 602 E. 500 South. Information at 746-1555 or regencymovies.com
29Saturday
What better way to spend the day than communing with your community at the Center? Valerie, Jennifer and the gang have put together no fewer than two terrific events for your weekend enjoyment:
Spend the afternoon at the Queer Carnival: psychics, tarot card readers, massage therapists and henna tattoo artists will be on hand while live music and the scent of fresh baked goods for sale will fill the air. Games for the kids, a raffle, costume contests…that’s what I call family fun. Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
Then, when the sun goes down, let your wild side show at the Lesbian Halloween Dance. Utah’s lesbians are invited to put on their Halloween best and then salsa, meringue, and party until the Witching Hour.
Carnival: 3pm to 7pm. Dance: 8pm-11pm. Both events at The Center, 355 N. 300 South. Admission is free, information at 539-8800 or glbtccu.org
30Sunday
David Gray is one terrific songwriter, “Babylon” aside. Gentle melodies, intimate lyrics, and a voice like watered-silk: sounds like the perfect way to spend a Sunday evening before you have to get up and face a non-David Gray type work week.
7:30pm, Kingsbury Hall, 1395 East President’s Circle, University of Utah. Tickets $30 at 467-TIXX or smithstix.com
31Monday
Everyone knows the story of how Orson Welles gave the country a collective coronary with his infamous War of the Worlds broadcast. Nothing is as terrifying as our own imaginations, which radio has a unique power to exploit. Plan B Theatre Company will have you scaring the bejesus out of yourself tonight when it broadcasts Radio Poe over KUER 90.1’s airwaves: a talented group of actors, aided by a splendid array of live sound effects, will interpret “The Tell Tale Heart” and “Premature Burial”, two of Edgar Allan’s most macabre stories. I suggest your listen with the lights on, or take comfort in numbers at one of two listening parties at the Beehive Tea Room.
Free listening parties at 11am (live) and 7pm (rebroadcast) at the Beehive Tea Room, 12 West 300 South. Information at planbtheatrecompany.org
1Tuesday
My Morning Jacket is the kind of hipster band that your vintage sweater/ horn-rimmed glasses friend loves. The only reason you don’t love them yet as well is that you haven’t really listened yet. Come to the show tonight and you’ll find yourself at the thrift shop tomorrow!
7pm, In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West. Tickets $15 at 467-TIXX or smithstix.com
2Wednesday
While best known for crafting what is inarguably one of the most obnoxious ditties in the history of western music, the “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” theme song, Rockapella are actually a respected and much loved group with more than twenty original albums to their credit. I’m sure they’re as embarrassed about the Carmen thing as we all are, so check them out tonight and give their real stuff a chance.
Tonight and tomorrow at 7:30pm, Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 South Main Street, Logan. Tickets $15 to $25 at 355-2787 or arttix.org
Rob Thomas is an earnest pretty boy, sure, but people seem to like him. Finally dropping the dead weight and leaving Matchbox Twenty, he’s released a solo album that’s garnering generally favorable reviews. I suggest fellow bitter, My Morning Jacket loving skeptics like myself give him the benefit of the doubt when he attempts to prove himself in West Valley tonight.
7:30pm, E Center, 3200 S Decker Lake Drive, West Valley. Tickets $35 at 355-2787 or smithstix.com
3Thursday
Song of Singapore is equal parts jazz concert and musical theatre—a rollicking satire of great romantic films of the forties like Casablanca. The Grand Theatre’s production, which continues through this week, features some of Utah’s best jazz musicians turned actors, and, judging from audience response, the boys already have chops.
Tonight through Saturday at 7:30pm, The Grand Theatre, 1575 S State Street. Tickets $10-$24 at 957-3322 or the-grand.org
4Friday
This weeekend’s program at the Utah Symphony features pianist Vladimir Feltsman playing Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto, which will, I promise, turn all of your insides into warm water. I think that about says it all.
Tonight and tomorrow at 8pm, Abravanel Hall, 123 S West Temple. Tickets $12 to $42 at 533-NOTE or utahsymphony.org
5Saturday
Athletes and athletic supporters are invited to attend the Gay Games Kick Off Party tonight at the Trapp Door. Utah native and current Gay Games Co-Vice President Kevin Boyer will be on hand to talk about creating and fostering sports organizations in Utah as well as to encourage Utah athletes to compete in the next Games. Even if you’re like me and you only run if you’re being pursued by something, you should attend: a room full of gay athletes. Need I say more?
7–9pm, The Trapp Door 100 S 615 West.
6Sunday
Conor Oberst, better known as Bright Eyes, is 24 years old and has been a highly successful recording artist for more than a decade. He owns his own record label. He’s played with some of the most esteemed musicians of our time. He’s been called the Second Coming of Dylan. And people say my generation lacks focus.
7:30pm, Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E President’s Circle, University of Utah. Tickets $25 at
9Wednesday
Jimmie Walker, the guy who said “Dyno-mite” in the seventies, is in Salt Lake tonight. Hopefully he’s got some other material as well, because otherwise you’re in for a very awkward 29 minutes and 50 seconds of dead air.
8pm, Wise Guys Comedy Café, 3500 S 2200 West, West Valley City. Tickets $10 at 467‑TIXX or arttix.org
upcoming
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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