One of my Christmas presents from my parents was a copy of The Man Who Ate Everything, a collection of essays by Vogue food critic Jeffrey Steingarten. It’s a fantastic read. Steingarten mixes personal essay with food, science, travel and recipe writing in a way that’s informative, provocative, sensual and hilarious.
I had read several of [...]

The fantastic Mormon/punk-themed documentary “New York Doll” is playing at Movies 8 aka the ‘dollar theater’ in Provo through Thursday, Jan. 26. Show times can be found on the Cinemark Web site.
Movies 8 is located at 2424 N University Pkwy. Ticket prices range from $ .75 to a whopping $1.50.
Also: Read my review of [...]

So it turns out that literary darling JT Leroy* isn’t a former teenage cross-dressing hustler from the South turned transgendered San Francisco reclusive author. Nope, he is the work of Laura Albert, a middle class writer from San Francisco (with her husband’s half sister playing the rare public appearances). A fairly full account of the [...]

The 5th Annual LDS Film Festival starts this Wednesday and goes through Saturday at the SCERA Center in Orem. I thought I’d mention a few things that stand out in the program because it looks like they’ve got a lot of really good things going on this year.

In honor of Joseph Smith Junior’s impending 200th birthday, my former stake held a celebration for its youth at summer 2005’s end on the green of a neighborhood community center. The stake provided its young people with tee shirts to wear to the event, each sporting leafy green cartoon trees captioned with the slogan, “Find [...]

My all-time favorite BYU class was Steve Walker’s The Bible as Literature. It was the best of both worlds – it had the spirit of the very best religion classes and the stimulation of the best literature classes. What was particularly impressive about the class, though, was not that we covered so much material, but [...]

The Snarker appears upset at the omission of discussion of the recently released, church produced film, Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration, so I thought I’d appease him. The bloggernacle will no doubt provide better commentaries on the film from people who know their history better than I, so I will leave the details of [...]