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Category: Best of the Week

  • Twenty Three Week Four

    It took 79 months to get to that screen.

    Media: Much needed winter comedy from Paul T. Goldman (TV), Detroiters, S1 (TV), You People (film). Couldn’t bring myself to actually watch Milf Manor (TV) so I watched Cody Ko’s recap. Most disturbing forest encounters (youtube). That is a lot of fluff, compared to this horrific tale: The Escape Artist – The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World (book), which is an important read and very well done. Alex Hollings talking about Highly Classified Aerospace Programs on The Team House (podcast) was a great listen.

    from the notebook: Back in 1988 I photographed some kids playing with guns outside our apartment. This week one of the kid’s kids found the photos and reached out. Love that.

    He is the one with the fluffy hair and mullet…

  • Twenty Three Week Three

    Twenty Three Week Three

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Nate Blouin, D-Salt Lake City, as the Senate gives final passage to a bill aiming to crack down on the ability of doctors to prescribe hormone therapy for minors who are transgender, at the Capitol building in Salt Lake City on Friday January 20, 2023. At right is intern Ari Webb, whose statement Blouin read during the vote.

    Many moments fly by. This one hit. I was photographing from the Senate gallery as Sen. Nate Blouin read a statement by Ari Webb during the voting on and passing of another anti-transgender bill in the Utah Senate. A quote from Bryan Schott’s article in The Salt Lake Tribune:

    “This is a reminder of the fact that people like me are not accepted by the majority of this body. This is not a partisan issue. No one is trying to indoctrinate your kids into the trans community that would welcome them with open arms. I would not be alive if I had not been able to transition, and I am lucky that my attempts to take my life before that time failed,” Webb wrote.

    Media: How Eric Adams Started Mentoring a Con Man (longform). How “Battle Royale” took over video games (longform). Overreach (book):

    The people are not stupid. They watch and laugh nervously and see how low the actors will go

    The PEZ Outlaw (film) treats its quirky characters with a loving hand. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (film), something I should have seen last year.

  • Twenty Three Week Two

    Twenty Three Week Two

    The archives say the week was this:

    Media: Landlocked (film) was the kind of film you can’t forget (in the best way). Sick (film) takes you back to early COVID-19 quarantine and adds a human killer. Saw Avatar: The Way of Water (film) in the theater. And to catch the backstory of a MySpace outsider influencer, My Name is Jonah (film)

    From the notebook: Watching Sicario (film) again. There’s this brilliant exchange, something like this:

    “Tell me how the cartels work.”

    “You’re asking me to describe how a watch works. Better to focus on what time it is.”

  • Twenty Three Week One

    Twenty Three Week One

    We started off the year in Moab. Always beautiful. More so when no one is around. We took advantage and spent every day in Arches National Park, where we fell in love back in January 1989.

    Media: Loved The Menu (film) and luckily watched You Should See This (film) just before the guy got canceled. Great to see Avail (music) back onstage via hate5six. And does Shapka translate to HAT? Russkaja (music) knows.

    From the notebook: We hiked into Delicate Arch. On the hike up the rocks a lone hiker is wandering way off course to the right, lost despite the obvious signs. We round the bend into the arch’s presence and it feels so crowded. Even though it’s only around twenty people. A guy is flying a buzzing drone (they’re banned in the park). An influencer is filming a video. The guy who was lost on the trail is yelling at a couple, who is yelling back at him. An older couple is walking slowly towards us, clutching each other in terror, as if they’re going to slip to their deaths on the sandpaper-like redrock.

    I can only imagine what it looks like in the summer.

  • Week Thirty-Five

    Week Thirty-Five

    Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Nancy Watson blows a kiss at a vigil at the State Capitol in Salt Lake City for Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021.. Hoover was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A vigil at the State Capitol in Salt Lake City for Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. Hoover was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Family members at a vigil at the State Capitol in Salt Lake City for Staff Sgt. Taylor Hoover on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. Hoover was killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan.

    Utah v Weber

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lightning flashes over Rice-Eccles Stadium as a storm blew through as the Utah Utes host the Weber State Wildcats in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Family members of Ty Jordan react at the unveiling of a memorial in Rice-Eccles Stadium as the Utah Utes host the Weber State Wildcats in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021.
  • Week Thirty-Four

    Week Thirty-Four

    Walmart Field Guide

    walmart, on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021.

    City Creek

  • Week Thirty-Three

    Week Thirty-Three

    Parleys Canyon Fire

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Parleys Canyon Fire burns, as seen from Emigration Canyon on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021.
  • Week Thirty-Two

    Week Thirty-Two

    Punishment at the Peak – Demolition Derby

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Zeb Hansen gets a sendoff from his family before competing at Punishment at the Peak, a demolition derby in Grantsville on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) John Gullo works to get his son’s car back into working condition during Punishment at the Peak, a demolition derby in Grantsville on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dalton Gullo is handed a trophy during Punishment at the Peak, a demolition derby in Grantsville on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021.

    Utah Football

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The new locker room for the Utah Utes and Ken Garff Red Zone at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City was officially unveiled in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021.

    Mask Mandate Request

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dr. Angela Dunn issues a public health “order of constraint” requiring masks in Salt Lake County schools on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021.

    Mask Mandate Fails

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) People fill the room as the Salt Lake County Council voted down Dr. Angela Dunn’s mask ordinance for K-6 students, on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) People sing the National Anthem under a Three Percenter flag after the Salt Lake County Council voted down Dr. Angela Dunn’s mask ordinance for K-6 students, on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021.
  • Week Thirty-One

    Week Thirty-One

    Cosm

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A crowd immersed in scenes from the Olympics displayed on a 180 degree 8K LED dome at the Cosm Experience Center in Salt Lake City on Friday, July 30, 2021. At left is Cosm CEO Jeb Terry.

    The White Family

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Family and friends cheer as USA swimming Rhyan White places fourth in the 200-meter backstroke at the 2020 Summer Olympics on Friday, July 30, 2021.

    Large Dangerous Rocket Ships

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) People stare up to the sky as Bryce Chanes’s rocket Porthos climbs to 5,558 feet. Utah Rocket Club hosted Large Dangerous Rocket Ships, one of the country’s premier rocketry events, at the Bonneville Salt Flats on Saturday, July 31, 2021.

    K

  • Week Thirty

    Week Thirty

    RSL v Colorado Rapids

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Real Salt Lake forward Bobby Wood (7) celebrates a first half goal as Real Salt Lake hosts the Colorado Rapids, MLS Soccer at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy on Saturday, July 24, 2021.

    Low Moon Lake

    Sugar House

  • Week Twenty-Nine

    Week Twenty-Nine

    Millcreek

    His Eminence

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America and Bishop Oscar A. Solis during a visit to the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Deacon Lynn Johnson leads the tour.

    50

  • Week Twenty-Eight

    Week Twenty-Eight

    I-70

    Moab

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rim Village, a subdivision in Moab on Thursday, July 15, 2021.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Irrigation in Moab on Thursday, July 15, 2021.

    Green River

  • Week Twenty-Seven

    Week Twenty-Seven

    Sulphur Creek

    Calf Creek

    Walmart Field Guide

    Josue

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) BYU swimmer Josue Dominguez will be the only male swimming for the Dominican Republic at the Olympics in Tokyo. Dominguez was photographed at BYU in Provo on Thursday, July 8, 2021.
  • Week Twenty-Six

    Week Twenty-Six

    Golf x Water

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Old Mill Golf Course in Salt Lake City on Friday, June 25, 2021.

    Living Traditions

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Grupo Folklorico Tollan performs at the Living Traditions festival in Salt Lake City on Saturday, June 26, 2021.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The crowd joins dancers in a friendship dance during an intertribal pow wow at the Living Traditions festival in Salt Lake City on Saturday, June 26, 2021.

    Recharge

  • Week Twenty-Five

    Week Twenty-Five

    Jan

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jan, Switchpioint in St. George on Friday, June 11, 2021.

    Table X

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Table X in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, June 23, 2021.

    American Fork

  • Week Twenty-Four

    Week Twenty-Four

    Colorado City

    LDS / NAACP

    Naturalization

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) New citizen Zainab Masud displays her naturalization certificate during a naturalization ceremony that was part of Utah’s World Refugee Week celebration, in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, June 15, 2021.

    NBA Playoffs – Jazz v Clippers

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah Jazz forward Royce O’Neale (23) yells after an offensive foul was called on the Clippers, as the Utah Jazz host the Los Angeles Clippers in a Game 5 matchup, NBA basketball in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, June 16, 2021.
  • Week Twenty-Three

    Week Twenty-Three

    Marlow

    East Canyon Fire

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) East Canyon Fire burns north of East Canyon State Park, on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.
    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) East Canyon Fire burns north of East Canyon State Park, on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.

    Utah Theater Protest

    USMNT

  • Week Twenty-Two

    Week Twenty-Two

    The Virus

    Moab Homelessness

  • Week Twenty-One

    Week Twenty-One

    Assignment: Taylorsville Center for the Performing Arts

    Assignment: West Davis Highway

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) kicks off construction of the West Davis Highway with an event in Layton on Tuesday, May 25, 2021.

    Assignment: Girls Tackle Football

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kearns vs Herriman Sting in the Utah Girls Tackle Football League Division 2 championship game at Herriman High School on Thursday, May 27, 2021.
  • Week Twenty

    Week Twenty

    “Photograph the Brigham Young Monument”

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Brigham Young statue on Temple Square in Salt Lake City on Friday, May 14, 2021.

    The Genesis Project

    Edgar

    Kevin

    Magna

    Critical Race Theory, two sides

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) As Michelle Love-Day speaks, Sophia Anderson (rear) holds up a sign with the opposite opinion, during a news conference by the Utah Educational Equity Coalition at the State Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, May 19, 2021.

    Gov

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at his weekly news conference in Salt Lake City on Thursday, May 20, 2021.

    Faith

    (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Alexis Hilbelink, at her home in Salt Lake City on Thursday, May 20, 2021. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill announced Thursday that a Unified police officer was legally justified in shooting Alexis’s husband, Matthew Hilbelink, who was suicidal and who had pointed a gun at an officer.