Joining a new gym is like converting to a new religious group. There is an etiquette observed in these temples of body-sculpting worship. Perhaps you – with your New Year’s gym attendance resolution in mind – have already attempted to penetrate the ranks of the sweaty acolytes, only to feel like a hopeless poseur. As someone […]
Sometimes we need a helping hand to get into the holiday spirit, and there are few better ways than reading a Christmas-themed book. Hold off on re-reading your Christmas classics and give “Twelve Days of Christmas” by Debbie Macomber a try. Macomber gives us a perky and sassy heroine in Julia Padden and a handsome […]
There are great ways to be productive while binge watching your favorite series on Netflix. With Thanksgiving now over, attention has firmly turned to Christmas, which means it’s time to finally figure out what to get everyone. I love homemade gifts, both for giving and receiving, and I picked three simple ones to share that […]
I love a good biography, but “Jody’s Journal” is as dry as the desert it takes place in. Complied by Cathy Wright and published by a nonprofit organization called the Hole-In-The-Rock Foundation, the book “Jody’s Journal” is split into two parts — an editorialized biography and a recreation of Josephine “Jody” Catherine Chatterley Wood’s journal. […]
A large scoring gap was evident between Dixie State University’s men’s cross-country team and the women’s team. The cross-country teams traveled up to Billings, Montana, for the NCAA Division II West Region cross-country championships Saturday. The men’s team raced 10-kilometers and improved their overall team placing from last year, going from nineteenth out of 23 […]
In the wake of a Dixie State University student’s arrest Nov. 2 for child porn, there have been questions raised about DSU’s responsibilities toward students. After receiving anonymous tips concerning child pornography, detectives from the Washington County police department and Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force members arrested Decius Christopher Duran, a 18-year-old freshman psychology […]
I never thought I’d string the words “liberal redneck” together. One slim white book has changed that for me. “The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin’ Dixie Outta the Dark” came to stores on Oct. 4, and was written by three comedians: Trae Crowder, creator of the hit YouTube series “The Liberal Redneck”; Corey Ryan Forrester; and Drew Morgan. They approach […]
There are plenty of reasons people have hard races, but it isn’t usually due to the race course stealing their shoes. At the Pacific West Conference in Hilo, Hawaii, one of Dixie State University’s top men’s cross-country runner had his shoe sucked away by the muddy course by the time he hit the second mile […]
Being pitted against stronger opponents can make or break a team. Packs of cross-country runners chased an orange utility vehicle at Southern Utah University’s Color Country Invitational Saturday. Held at Cedar Ridge golf course in Cedar City, two utility vehicles escorted the racers, one in front guiding the leaders and the other close behind the […]
Things are never black and white, even when it comes to rape. “Wrecked” by Maria Padian, a new and engaging young adult fiction, hit bookshelves Oct. 4. It follows a girl entering her freshman year in college named Haley, whose roommate, Jenny, accuses another student of rape after a wild and drunken night. Haley becomes […]
