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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Clark Planetarium expands sensory friendly experience
SALT LAKE CITY () — Clark Planetarium announced that it will be expanding its Sensory Friendly Saturdays program in an effort to provide more accessibility. The experience, which was offered only on the first Saturday of each month, will now be available every Saturday. Beginning on May 31, the event will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. According to a press release from the planetarium, Sensory Friendly Saturdays look to provide a welcoming environment for guests with sensory sensitivities. During these hours, the planetarium will adjust the lighting and sound levels in its free exhibit areas, as well as in the Hansen Dome and Northrop Grumman IMAX theatres. Get crafty: 10 unique classes for date nights or family fun along the Wasatch Front There are also sensory support items, such as noise-canceling headphones, sunglasses, weighted blankets, needs charts, magnifying glasses, and sensory objects available at the ticketing counter, upon request. The planetarium said these accommodations help create a calmer atmosphere. In 2023, Clark Planetarium earned the Sensory Inclusive Certification through KultureCity, a nonprofit that promotes sensory accessibility and inclusion. The certification ensures that frontline staff are trained to recognize and support guests with sensory processing needs, and that proper accommodations are available. 'Our goal is to make space and science accessible to everyone,' said Duke Johnson, Director of Clark Planetarium. 'By expanding Sensory Friendly Saturdays and maintaining our KultureCity certification, we're reaffirming our commitment to ensuring that all visitors can enjoy what we have to offer.' Alzheimer's Association Utah providing resources, research, and real support for families Plexaderm: Smoother skin in 10 minutes, no needles required Man charged with alleged sexual abuse of human trafficking victim in Duchesne County Sun cloud mix with a few spotty afternoon showers possible TRAFFIC ALERT: Southbound I-15 closed near Payson after deadly crash Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘The Actor' Review: No Direction Home
As a teenager, I had a recurring dream of visiting my grandmother, only to find her gone, and everything — her street, her rowhouse — looking just a little bit off. Confused, I would sit down on her front step and think, 'This is just a dream. I'll sit here until I wake up.' That sense of being trapped in a dimension partway between the real and the unreal, the familiar and the strange, is the disorienting force of Duke Johnson's 'The Actor.' Adapting the Donald E. Westlake novel, 'Memory' — written in the 1960s and published posthumously in 2010 — Johnson and Stephen Cooney have shaped an unsettling, sorrowful journey from damage to a kind of deliverance. However, the man taking that journey, a theater actor named Paul Cole (André Holland), might disagree. A 'Twilight Zone'-style voice-over sets a spooky tone and underscores the movie's committed theatricality. After being caught in flagrante by a furious husband, Paul lands in the hospital with a head injury and without the ability to remember. Stranded in small-town Ohio in the 1950s, knowing only that he has an apartment in New York City, Paul finds a job in a local tannery, a room in a boardinghouse and begins to save for a bus ticket home. Before he can do that, he meets the lovely Edna (a wonderful Gemma Chan) and begins to fall in love — if that's even possible when your meetings can vanish like missing frames on a roll of film. The notion of life being edited without your knowledge or consent lends 'The Actor' a sadness and surreality that the cinematographer, Joe Passarelli, takes to heart. His smudged, smoky images cast a veil of nostalgia over Paul's plight as he returns to Manhattan and learns from friends that he may not have been a very nice person. Yet, if you can't remember, does it matter? Do you cobble together a self from others' memories of you, or do you ditch the past and start over? Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
