Theaters Utah

The Town Council has given final approval to plans for a giant-screen theater next to Zion National Park. The council voted unanimously this week to approve a permit for California-based World Odyssey to build the controversial 300-seat indoor theater, which will be joined by a 12,000-square-foot retail complex and a parking lot, at the entrance to the most popular of Utah's five national parks. Company officers said they expect construction to begin immediately.

The Town Council has given final approval to plans for a giant-screen theater next to Zion National Park. The council voted unanimously this week to approve a permit for California-based World Odyssey to build the controversial 300-seat indoor theater, which will be joined by a 12,000-square-foot retail complex and a parking lot, at the entrance to the most popular of Utah's five national parks. Company officers said they expect construction to begin immediately.

The last two adult movie theaters operating in Utah are shutting down as part of a plea bargain, a federal prosecutor said Monday. The closures culminate a decade-long crusade against theaters that show X-rated programs, U.S. Atty. Brent Ward said at a news conference. "Only a handful of cities in the United States our size or larger are free from any adult businesses," he said. "Today, Salt Lake City becomes one of these cities.

The last two adult movie theaters operating in Utah are shutting down as part of a plea bargain, a federal prosecutor said Monday. The closures culminate a decade-long crusade against theaters that show X-rated programs, U.S. Atty. Brent Ward said at a news conference. "Only a handful of cities in the United States our size or larger are free from any adult businesses," he said. "Today, Salt Lake City becomes one of these cities.

Nora Ephron, take a cue. The romantic comedy, as we've known it, just took a radical turn. And you can thank the Farrelly Brothers. That's right. "Dumb & Dumber" filmmakers Peter and Bobby Farrelly have managed to attract huge female, couple and even older audiences to their 20th Century Fox film, "There's Something About Mary"--a movie filled with gross-out gags and over-the-top sexual humor. Typically Farrelly movies are what teen males rush out to see.

Although, since the Beatles, we British music fans have often affected insouciant confidence in the superiority of our taste over the rest of the world's--and particularly America's--regardless of crude measures such as sales and chart positions, we experienced a Damascene moment in the late '90s. It was when the Billboard 200 album chart revealed that the only British entrant younger than 50 was classical-pop ingenue Charlotte Church. "Oh, crikey!" we said.