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Shannon is a chilling killer in ‘Iceman’

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:01:02 MDT

Shannon is a chilling killer in ‘Iceman’

By Sean P. Means The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 17, 2013 02:01PM MDT

It’s the actor’s job in a movie to create a compelling performance out of an interesting character, and the director’s job to frame that performance within the context of a well-structured drama. In the lurid, one-note crime drama “The Iceman,” actor Michael Shannon does his job brilliantly, but director/co-writer Ariel Vromen doesn’t hold up his end of the deal. Shannon portrays real-life contract killer Richard Kuklinski, who committed more than 100 murders before his eventual arrest in 1986. ...

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Utah Valley releases finalists for AD position

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:02:31 MDT

Utah Valley releases finalists for AD position

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 18, 2013 12:02AM MDT

Utah Valley released the four finalists for the school’s position of athletic director, replacing Mike Jacobsen who will retire June 30. UVU plans a series of campus and community forums Tuesday and Wednesday as part of the search for the institution’s new athletic director. The four finalists for the position are Kurt Esser, senior associate athletic director at the University of New Mexico; Vincent Otoupal, athletic director at California State University, Monterey Bay; Kent Stanley, senior a...

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Utah Senate confirms Pierpont to head Workforce Services

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:30:23 MDT

Utah Senate confirms Pierpont to head Workforce Services

By Cathy McKitrick The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 17, 2013 02:30PM MDT

Last August, Utah Governor Gary Herbert appointed Jon Pierpont as acting executive director of the state’s Department of Workforce Services. Pierpont took the reins at a time when caseloads were high, budgets were tight and employee morale was running low. On Wednesday, state senators voted unanimously to keep him on the job. “Thankful, humbled and honored,” Pierpont responded. At age 44, the Provo native has spent half of his life working in various capacities in the agency he now leads. After...

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AP Source: Rutgers makes Louisville’s Hermann AD

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:58:27 MDT

AP Source: Rutgers makes Louisville’s Hermann AD

The Associated Press

Updated May 15, 2013 11:58PM MDT

A person familiar with the decision says Rutgers has hired Julie Hermann from the University of Louisville to be its new athletic director. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the school was still working on an official announcement. The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., first reported the hire. Hermmann has been the Cardinals’ senior associate athletic director and senior woman administrator. She becomes the third female athletic director at a school among the 124 playing at colle...

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Michigan’s Brady Hoke: Notre Dame ‘chickening out’

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:59:11 MDT

Michigan’s Brady Hoke: Notre Dame ‘chickening out’

The Associated Press

Updated May 15, 2013 04:59PM MDT

Grand Rapids, Mich. • Michigan coach Brady Hoke has taken the Notre Dame rivalry up a notch. Hoke made a crowd chuckle on Monday at West Michigan Sports Commission luncheon by saying the Fighting Irish are “chickening out” from the storied series. Notre Dame exercised an option in its football-scheduling contract with Michigan last fall to cancel games from 2015-2017. Hoke lamented that the Irish will continue to play rivals Michigan State and Purdue, joking he knows why they made that dec...

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Ballet West’s ‘Innovations’ is all about collaboration

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:42:40 MDT

Ballet West’s ‘Innovations’ is all about collaboration

By Kathy Adams Special to The Tribune

Updated May 11, 2013 10:42AM MDT

For two weeks each year, Ballet West leaves its home stage at the 1,876-seat Capitol Theater to perform “Innovations” in the more intimate 500-seat Jeanné Wagner Theatre, inside Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. The annual program, now in its sixth year, encourages current company dancers to try their hand at choreography. It also introduces new works by a guest choreographer. This year’s guest choreographer, Jodie Gates, will premiere “Mercurial Landscapes,” a new work set to Vivaldi’s “The ...

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Ririe-Woodbury names new artistic director

Fri, 10 May 2013 23:27:53 MDT

Ririe-Woodbury names new artistic director

By Kathy Adams Special to The Tribune

Updated May 10, 2013 11:27PM MDT

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company has appointed Daniel Charon as its new artistic director. Charon is only the second hire in the company’s 50-year history since its founding by Shirley Ririe and Joan Woodbury. He also is the company’s first male artistic director. He replaces Charlotte Boye-Christensen, who stepped down to found NOW, a new interdisciplinary dance company in Salt Lake City. Based in New York since 1995, Charon danced with prestigious companies such as Limón Dance Company, Doug Varo...

11-time NCAA champ will remain Mount Union AD

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:33:58 MDT

11-time NCAA champ will remain Mount Union AD

The Associated Press

Updated May 8, 2013 11:33PM MDT

Alliance, Ohio • Mount Union’s Larry Kehres, who won 11 NCAA Division III championships in 27 seasons while compiling a remarkable 332-24-3 record, is stepping down as head football coach to remain athletic director. His son, Vince, will replace him in charge of the Purple Raiders. Larry Kehres, in his 39th year working at his alma mater, began working as an assistant football coach and professor in 1974. He was Mount Union’s first head swimming coach, was hired as athletic director in 1985 ...

DVD review: ‘Reacher’ so macho it’s almost funny

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:04:02 MDT

DVD review: ‘Reacher’ so macho it’s almost funny

By Sean P. Means The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 6, 2013 10:04AM MDT

Grade • B- DVD • You half-expect the title card “Jack Reacher will return” at the end of “Jack Reacher,” the latest attempt to give Tom Cruise an action franchise. Cruise plays the title character, novelist Lee Child’s rogue military-police investigator who lives off the grid but arrives in Pittsburgh after a sniper shoots five people seemingly at random — but, as Jack figures out, the killings aren’t random at all, but part of a devious plot orchestrated by a mastermind called The Zec (played...

New UDOT chief is its longtime No. 2 official

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:10:25 MDT

New UDOT chief is its longtime No. 2 official

By Lee Davidson The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 6, 2013 11:10PM MDT

After conducting a nationwide search for a new executive director of the Utah Department of Transportation, Gov. Gary Herbert selected someone close to home on Monday — elevating Carlos Braceras, who had been UDOT’s deputy director for 12 years. “He understands Utah and he understands Utah’s transportation system,” Herbert said. “His well-articulated vision for Utah’s future transportation system focuses on our economy, optimal mobility, maximum value for tax dollars and our unique quality of l...