Casual Friday: Weekend Events & Outdoors Report
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Outdoor Notes

-- Tribune: Snow biking: A new way to ride in winter

-- Tribune: Plan ahead to enjoy spring break in Utah

-- Tribune: Wharton: Let’s hope the Sagebrush Rebellion fails

-- For the latest wildlife news and information and the fishing report visit the DWR website

Weekend Events

New Films

-- The Hunger Games: Tribune review

-- We Need to Talk About Kevin: Tribune review

Concerts

-- Celtic Night, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main St., Logan, $15-$19

-- Solas, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Peery's Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, $15-$22

-- Utah Baroque Ensemble, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Temple Square Assembly Hall, free

-- Bonneville Chamber Music Festival, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Allred Auditorium, Weber State University, Ogden, $9-$

-- “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” Utah Regional Ballet, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center, Provo, $16-$20

-- “Passage,” Repertory Dance Theatre, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; also Saturday, 2 p.m., Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 South, $15

-- Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3,Utah Symphony, Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, $17-$65

-- Utah Ballet, Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; also Saturday, 2 p.m., Alice Sheets Marriott Center for Dance, U., $12 for general, $8 for students

-- “Across the Vast Eternal Sky,” Salt Lake Choral Artists, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Waterford School Concert Hall, 1480 E. 9400 South, $10 for general, $5 for students

-- Courtney Smith Jazz Trio, Excellence in the Community Concert Series, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Gallivan Center, 239 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, free

-- Gifted Music School Spring Gala, Saturday, 6:30 p.m., Libby Gardner Concert Hall, University of Utah., $25 for general, $5 for students

-- SUU Jazz Band, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Heritage Theater, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, $8, $6

-- Virtuoso Series - Vivaldi Virtuosi, Sunday, 7:30 p.m., Libby Gardner Concert Hall, University of Utah, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, $25for general, $5 for students (free for U. students)

-- Organ concerts, every Saturday, noon, and every Sunday, 2 p.m., Temple Square Assembly Hall, free

Theater

-- “The Crucible” through March 24, Grand Theatre

-- “Flash Gordon Conquers the Evil Planet” through March 24, The Children’s Theatre

-- “The Gondoliers” through March 24, Brigham Young University

-- “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” through March 24, Heritage Theatre

-- “Rumors” through March 24, Westminster College

-- “Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Musical Show” through March 25, Egyptian Theatre, Park City

-- “The Hobbit: An Adventure in Puppetry” through March 26, Little Brown Theatre, Springville

-- “Twelve Angry Men” through March 26, Sugar Factory Playhouse

-- “Love’s Labor’s Lost” through March 30, Brigham Young University

-- “Anne of Green Gables” through March 31, Covey Center for the Arts

-- “Arsenic and Old Lace” through March 31, Midvale Arts Council

-- “The Cradle Will Rock” through March 31, Weber State University

-- “The Drowsy Chaperone” through March 31, CenterPoint Legacy Theatre

--“Next to Normal” through March 31, Midvale Main Street Theatre

-- “Bye, Bye Birdie” through April 7, SCERA Center for the Arts

-- “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” through April 7, Terrace Plaza Playhouse, Ogden

-- “Laughing Stock” through April 7, Pioneer Theatre Company

-- “Xanadu” through April 7, Hale Center Theater Orem

-- “Zorro the Musical” through April 11, Hale Centre Theatre

Museum Exhibits

-- 40th Annual Utah All-State High School Art Show; Wayne Kimball, Robert Marshall and Bruce Smith: A Collective Retrospective, Exhibitions through March 23, Springville Museum of Art

-- 100th Anniversary Exhibit of the Girls Scouts of America; Art by Artists at the Main, Exhibitions through March, Eccles Community Art Center

-- 10th Anniversary of Salt Lake 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Retrospective; SCI Institute: The Art of Science; Visualizing Finance, Exhibition through April 7, Kimball Art Center

-- Fleeting Impressions: Prints by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) Exhibition through April 7; The Weir Family, 1820-1920: Expanding the Traditions of American Art Exhibition through May 19; Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges with the Arts of Islamic Culture Exhibition through September 29, Brigham Young University Museum of Art

-- Joshua Luther: Meaning Exhibition through April 21; Constant Dullaart: Onomatopoeia Exhibition through May 15; Karl Haendel & Petter Ringbom: Questions for My Father; 2012 Sundance Film Festival: New Frontier, Exhibitions through May 19; Fax Exhibition through June 23, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

-- At Work: Prints from the Great Depression; The Faculty Show: Recent Work by The University of Utah Art Faculty, Exhibitions through May 6; George Rouault: Circus of the Shooting Star / Cirque De L'Etoile Filante Exhibition through May 13, Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Et cetra

-- Winter Silent Movie Series, Friday, 7:30 p.m., The Organ Loft, 3331 S. Edison St., South Salt Lake City

-- Snowflake Festival, through Sunday, Our Lady of the Snows Center, 10189 East State Highway 210, Alta

-- Tumbleweeds Film Festival, through Sunday, venues vary

-- Holi – Festival of Colors, Saturday and Sunday, Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple, 8628 South Main Street, Spanish Fork

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Ten Things You Need to Know for Friday
by Bryan Schott
May 24, 2013 | 4201 views | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Countdown: There are 166 days to the 2013 municipal elections, 249 days until the start of the 2014 Legislature, 525 days until the 2014 midterm elections and 962 days until the 2016 Iowa Caucuses. 

An analysis says expanding Medicaid coverage will save Utah more than $130 million and would give health insurance to 123,000 residents [Tribune].

A new report ranks Utah #1 for economic outlook next year [Utah Policy, Tribune].

House Majority Leader Brad Dee goes on a European vacation with three lobbyists, but Dee insists the trip was above board because everybody paid their own way and they didn’t discuss politics [Tribune].

Former Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is caught on tape offering to get $2 million for Utah Businessman Darl McBride if he would shut down a website critical of another Utah businessman. That money was to come from a third Utah businessman who was in trouble with the Attorney General’s office [Tribune].

Former Legislator and current blogger Holly Richardson says she’s had enough with the “culture of corruption” permeating the Attorney General’s office [Holly on the Hill].

Sen. Orrin Hatch wants to hear from Utahns who think they have been inappropriately targeted by the IRS as part of his investigation into misconduct by the agency [Tribune].

Kennecott lays off 100 workers because of the massive landslide at their Bingham Canyon Mine [Tribune, Deseret News].

The Boy Scouts vote to allow gay members in their ranks [Deseret News].

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman launches a new political action committee to support Republicans who share his point of view [Tribune].

Gov. Gary Herbert says he is confident the state can work out a deal to avoid taxing the electricity used by the new National Security Agency data center at Camp Williams [Tribune].
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