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Cautious McAdams sticks close to 2013 Salt Lake County budget

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:57:43 MDT

Cautious McAdams sticks close to 2013 Salt Lake County budget

By Mike Gorrell The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 12, 2013 06:57PM MDT

Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams didn’t tinker much when his chance came to make mid-year revisions to the 2013 budget he inherited upon taking office in January. “It’s probably the lightest June adjustment period I can ever remember,” longtime county financial officer Darrin Casper said Tuesday when he introduced McAdams’ proposed adjustments, which will be up for final County Council approval Tuesday. Driving the mayor’s conservative fiscal approach, Casper said, was an insistence on keeping...

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Roger Ebert Scholarship to help young critics at Sundance

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:33:28 MDT

Roger Ebert Scholarship to help young critics at Sundance

By Sean P. Means The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 6, 2013 02:33PM MDT

The memory of Roger Ebert will be honored at next January’s Sundance Film Festival, by a new generation of movie critics learning to do what he did. At the “Celebrate Sundance” fund-raiser held Wednesday night (where Ebert was awarded, posthumously, Sundance’s Vanguard Award), Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam announced the establishment of the Roger Ebert Scholarship for Film Criticism. The scholarship will provide grants to six-to-eight young critics, so they can attend and cov...

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Sundance and you pick summer outdoor films

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:10:03 MDT

Sundance and you pick summer outdoor films

By Sean P. Means The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 6, 2013 12:10PM MDT

The Sundance Institute is bringing back some old favorites from the Sundance Film Festival to outdoor screens in Salt Lake City and Park City this summer -- and you, the moviegoer, get to help choose one of the movies. The 16th annual Free Outdoor Summer Screening Series will include five movies, all past festival or Sundance Institute lab entries. The fifth one will be determined by an online poll later this summer. The series, according to Sundance co-managing director Sarah Pearce, “pays trib...