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A menu for the last luncheon served to the first-class passengers aboard the ill-fated Titanic has sold for $88,000 at an online auction.

Take an ordinary novel, add a dash of sex, an utterance of blasphemy, a spell of supernatural weirdness and a sprinkling of salty language and what do you get? A book that someone somewhere will argue shouldn’t be found anywhere near a library shelf.

When poet Juan Felipe Herrera was a boy, he learned to find beauty everywhere.

The Utah Shakespeare Festival’s fall season kicks off Thursday in Cedar City with the Bard’s early comedy “Two Gentlemen of Verona.”

The “Thomas & Friends” touring exhibit pulls into the Discovery Children’s Museum on Saturday for a 3½-month run, combining the fun of Thomas the Tank Engine with the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math curriculum known as STEM.

You can take Broadway in the Hood out of the ‘hood — which is exactly what happens this weekend as the theater troupe launches its 2015-16 season at The Smith Center with “Once on This Island.”