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Playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett goes “back to the page” for his new play Art & Class

BY Matthew Ivan Bennett

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March 18, 2021

As a writer-actor, I seek an actor’s viewpoint when I write. But I found that I needed more in developing my new play Art & Class, which centers on a Latina art teacher in Northern Utah accused of showing pornography to her sixth-graders in th …

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Utah Bioregional Reader: What is our Land Use History?

BY Amy Brunvand

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March 11, 2021

The narrative line of bioregional history should be the story of different but sequential cultures occupying the same space, and creating their own succession of places. – Dan Flores Land use means human interactions with the surface of the Earth. Peop …

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Breaking the Wall of Silence Around Unintended Pregnancy with the Audio Play, “P.G. Anon”

BY Julie Jensen

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February 11, 2021

Julie Jensen’s latest play, “P.G. Anon,” opens Plan-B Theatre’s 2021 Audio-Only Subscription Series, streaming February 25-March 7. One day a friend of mine was complaining, “You don’t understand,” she said, “what straight women go through: pills, rubb …

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Utah Bioregional Reader #4: Where Does Our Garbage Go?

BY Amy Brunvand

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January 19, 2021

If you’ve got pollution, we’ve got the solution Just ship it to Utah, we’ll keep it for you. We’ll take plutonium, depleted uranium. It’s a no-brainium, we’ll keep it for you. –Kevin Jones (“We’ll Keep it for You” bluegrass song lyrics) For most urban …

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Now it’s time to leap: Greta says goodbye (1982-2020)

BY Greta Belanger deJong

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December 1, 2020

“You can type. You can get a job with the phone company!” My dad, troubled that his almost-40-year-old daughter was making minimum wage at a job with no traditional benefits, was trying to be helpful. Wasn’t it time to give up this magazine hobby? I’d …

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One last (print) run: reader comments on the news of Greta’s retirement and the end of CATALYST in print

BY John deJong

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December 1, 2020

In mid-October we launched our campaign inviting you, the reader, to help us financially to bring this final issue to print. We also invited readers to leave memories and reflections, along with words of farewell for our departing staff, as John and Gr …

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Soul sisters: Greta Belanger deJong and Kate Edwards

BY Kate Edwards

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December 1, 2020

Greta and I have certainly been soul sisters since before time began, but in terms of this particular lifetime, we actually did manage to find our way to be born on the very same block. After about six months during which I’m quite certain that our inf …

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Sacred places and protected land: The Utah Bioregional Reader series, Part Three

BY Amy Brunvand

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November 30, 2020

I came to realize that one factor in particular—the search for something beyond normal experience—characterizes life in the Great Basin. Many people don’t just find themselves living here: They are here for a reason, even if that reason is sometimes my …

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Obituary for Great Salt Lake: Even lakes are not immortal.

BY Staff

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November 30, 2020

Great Salt Lake experienced her final glimmering sunset today, succumbing to a long struggle with chronic diversions exacerbated by climate change. She was born 13,000 years ago to Lake Bonneville, who occupied the basin previously, and the Holocene Ep …

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What we have in common: Laying the groundwork for exploring our differences

BY Diane Hamilton

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November 30, 2020

Talking about our differences is urgent, exciting, and even dangerous. But our commonalities appear to be so numerous as to be beside the point, part of the status quo, or so obvious that talking about them might be predictable, boring, or even worse, …

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