Taylor Tomlinson @ Wiseguys
For decades, women have struggled to be taken seriously in the world of stand-up comedy. It can be even harder when you re a young woman, and harder still when you have the pixie-ish looks of Taylor Tomlinson. Yet despite becoming a headliner around the country when she was barely 25 and a top ten finalist on the ninth and final season of
Last Comic Standing when she had only just become old enough to drink legally Tomlinson has become a distinctive voice in the stand-up world.
That voice is at the forefront of her 2020 Neflix comedy special
Quarter-Life Crisis, in which the California native takes the subject of her youth head-on. People get upset when I complain about being young, she says. I had a woman come up to me after a show, furious: You should really appreciate this time in your life, because some day you re going to have a family like me, and you re really going to miss it. I m like, Where are your kids buried? I m just trying to get
Exercised
It s the first of the year, that time when we all make resolutions about the way we want to change our lives and one of the most common resolutions involves getting more exercise. So despite all of those gaood intentions, why is it that gym memberships start to go unused a few months down the road, or a bunch of home exercise equipment suddenly starts showing up on KSL.com? If we know exercise is good for us, and can prolong our lives, why is it so dang hard to actually
do it?
In his new book
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding, Harvard University evolutionary biologist Dr. Daniel Lieberman explores this phenomenon by beginning with the realization that we re hard-wired as a species to avoid unnecessary exertion. In an interview with
The Nutcracker KSL broadcast
This strange year s strange holiday season might feel a little less strange with some familiar entertainment as part of it. While the closure of Salt Lake County arts venues forced the cancellation of Ballet West s beloved annual production of
The Nutcracker, those who have made it a tradition for all or part of its 65-year history can still get a dose thanks to a first-ever broadcast presentation.
In partnership with KSL-TV, Ballet West will present
The Nutcracker commercial-free on three nights Dec. 24, Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 beginning at 5:30 p.m. MT, and subsequently available to stream on KSL s free app. Those who grew up with the story in any of its many forms know and love E.T.A. Hoffman s story of a young girl who befriends a nutcracker that comes to life on Christmas Eve to battle the Mouse King. The familiar, beautiful music of Tchaikovsky is set to the legendary choreography of Ballet West co-founder William Christensen.