Guru’s Cafe in Provo offers local musicians a venue to perform at on Wednesday nights – and has done so for the past five years. Dean Judd, the cafe’s owner, came up with the idea in an effort to bring more customers into the restaurant. “At first, we were desperately searching for artists to come…
Utah Valley University students from the Department of Art and Visual Communications have opened their annual student art show this month. The exhibit will be on display at the Woodbury Art Museum, located in the southeast end of University Mall, until April 27. Over 100 pieces were selected from hundreds of entries. Five seniors getting…
Not even Brother Brigham’s whiskers are safe from BYU’s notorious beard ban. Legend has it, the statue of Brigham Young located just south of the ASB once had a beard, but when administrators decided that facial hair was a faux pas, the statue was decapitated and given a new, beardless head. The earliest mention of…
Melissa Neary and her family love Easter. Each year Neary’s family does an elaborate Easter egg obstacle course. They decorate hard boiled eggs together and then design a path with tires for the hard boiled eggs to roll through and ramps made out of dirt and rocks that allow the eggs to fly through the air. Neary said the eggs can break…
The Oscars wasn’t the only awards show this last weekend. Local stars shined bright last Saturday, Feb. 23 at the SCERA Center for the Arts in Orem as the center hosted its 8th annual Star Awards, ”An Evening of Stars.” The annual award ceremony recognizes individuals and organizations who have made significant contributions to the arts…
Generations of parents and children have delighted in Eric Carle’s book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” as they have followed the ravenous insect who chomps his way through apples, pears, plums and finally a formidable dessert table. Carle’s illustrations were first published in “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” in 1967, and now, almost 50 years later, his…
A particular assortment of Victorian-era valentines dating back to the 1840s could not be more different from today’s sentimental Hallmark cards. Instead of romance, these “comic valentines” inspired brawls. As a part of “Love your Library Week,” the BYU library will host a tunnel of “library love” on Thursday, Feb. 14, from 10 a.m. to 1…
The L. Tom Perry Special Collections Department in the library seeks to reignite the medieval reverie of the Bible on campus and throughout the community through the acquisition of a set of Saint John’s Bible facsimiles. The Saint John’s Bible is the first handwritten, illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine Abbey in more than 500 years. Minnesota’s St.…
A new comic series out of Provo, created by a BYU alumnus and an illustration student, is looking for its big break. Ed Peterson, an adjunct professor at Stevens-Henager College in Provo, started the comic series “Backwash” as a simple idea at the beginning of 2012. Peterson originally gained inspiration from the popular, long-running comic…
It is an unusual centerpiece, to say the least. Situated in the middle of the Academy Square Art Gallery in the bottom of the Provo City Library is a large, glossy, rainbow-swirled tree stump. It’s just one of a collection of thought-provoking, color-themed pieces curated by BYU senior Kev Nemelka in his first solo curatorial…