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Jenny Oaks Baker will release her new album, “Wish upon a Star: A Tribute To The Music of Walt Disney
Best-selling artist and Utah native ,” on Aug. 2. The album features songs produced and arranged by Emmy-award-winning composer Kurt Bestor. This project comes one year after her Billboard Classical No. 1 hit, “Then Sings My Soul.” Baker delivers a mix of popular favorites and lesser-known melodies on this album: Colors of the Wind [...]
Teachings of The Doctrine of Eternal Lives
Title: Teachings of The Doctrine of Eternal Lives Author: Anonymous Publisher: Digital Legend Genre: Nonfiction Year Published: 2011 Number of Pages: 390 Binding: Soft cover ISBN10: N/A ISBN13: 978-1-934537-96-1 Price: $22.50 Click Here to check availability Reviewed by Tim Ballard for the Association for Mormon Letters Recently, I had two very strange—and frankly disappointing—conversations with [...]
The Master’s Hand: The Art of Carl Heinrich Bloch by Dawn C. Pheysey and Richard Neitzel Holzaphel
Title: The Master’s Hand: The Art of Carl Heinrich Bloch Author: Dawn C. Pheysey and Richard Neitzel Holzaphel Publisher: Deseret Book/BYU Museum of Art Genre: Art and inspiration Year Published: 2010 Number of Pages: 176 Binding: Large hardback ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 978-1-60641-926-7 Price: $32.99 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle for the Association for Mormon Letters BYU’s [...]
Dating the Birth of Jesus Christ
Dating the Birth of Jesus Christ By Jeffrey R. Chadwick In his 1915 classic entitled Jesus the Christ, Elder James E. Talmage maintained that Jesus Christ was born on April 6 in the year 1 bc. Talmage was apparently the first LDS writer to propose this particular date. Nearly a century has passed since …
David Osmond on the Today show
David Osmond recently appeared on the Today Show. Click on the link below to watch this great little segment. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39851646/ns/today-today_health/ Click here to see David’s Albums
Famed LDS/patriotic artist Friberg dead at 96
From the SLC Tribune Renowned Utah artist Arnold Friberg has died at age 96, his family confirms. The painter and illustrator, known for his heroic depiction of Book of Mormon characters and patriotic-themed works, passed away Wednesday at a Salt Lake City rehabilitation facility following hip replacement surgery. Among his most famous non-religious works is [...]
Rare old Mormon paintings surface at Salt Lake gallery
SALT LAKE CITY — Two rare, historic paintings that will interest Mormons have come into Anthony Christensen’s possession. Christensen is the owner of Anthony’s Fine Art and Antiques at 401 E. 200 South. The paintings — a 1903 rendition of Christ in America done by Danish artist CCA Christensen (no relation to Anthony Christensen) and [...]
Highland man accused of bilking $17M from LDS investors
By Tom Harvey The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 05/07/2010 05:41:28 PM MDT // < ![CDATA[ var requestedWidth = 0; // ]]> // < 
By Peter Bacque Published: May 10, 2010 Updated: May 10, 2010 7:38 AM The companies Glade Knight founded are now worth billions of dollars. “I started with $100,“ said Knight, chairman and CEO of the four Apple REIT companies based in Richmond. “Anything over that is a profit.“ Not bad for a Utah cowboy. Today his companies [...]
Meet ‘Mahana’: ‘Lingo’ leads actress to lifelong fame
Naomi Kahoilua Wilson insists that making the Mormon film “Johnny Lingo” in 1969 was more like a huge Polynesian luau — fun coming above film formalities. She’s a reliable witness. She was Mahana. She still is, since the role of the shy outcast Mahana has become what Wilson terms a “full-time church calling” as opposed [...]