Asha Pruitt

This year, The Daily Californian’s arts reporters Maya Thompson, Sarah Runyan and Asha Pruitt traveled to Park City, Utah to view the festival’s prestigious lineup on the big screen. Here’s what they watched.

The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus performed its annual Holiday Spectacular on Dec. 11, bringing warmth and joy to the eager audience.

Though Disq hails from Wisconsin and Sorry traveled all the way from London, the two sets mixed ’90s Midwest emo with ’70s British post punk for a near perfect pairing.

I’m the type of person who loves a good bit. Any kind of running gag, played with utmost sincerity, is more holy to me than a hymn.

Though some viewers may be overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the artist’s fantastical story, it’s only a glimpse into the frightening possibilities of the future, and Kongkee knows perhaps better than anyone the existential anxiety that plagues both past and present.

The record is a fragmented conceptual journey that lusts and longs for love, though it sometimes loses direction.

I excelled at playing the role of the angsty, ungrateful daughter.

The beloved queer entertainer, known as the runner-up on season nine of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” dazzled audiences at San Francisco’s The Chapel on Nov. 5 with co-headliner Jujubee.

For a long time, any enjoyment of trashy vampire novels or silly pop songs had to be cloaked in a thick layer of irony in order to be viewed as acceptable by society.

Playing through gritted teeth and avoiding eye contact, with passion and sweat dripping off his brow, he still managed to connect with the audience while rarely addressing them directly.