SandBoxUtah: Times Live "Sundance festival swaps Utah mountains for London"

"Sundance London, a smaller version of the US film festival set up by the actor and director in 1985, will showcase 22 films as well as a string of live music performances at the 02 Arena in southeast London.

"Music and cinema look like they could be the next hybrid," Redford, 75, said at a press conference at the 02.

The star of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid said the London gala would be a "scaled down version of what we do in the mountains in Utah", where Sundance has grown into the United States' biggest independent film festival.

"I was reluctant to see us go out until the time was really right, and it felt like it was," he said.

Sundance London, which runs until Sunday, will host the British premieres of 14 American feature-length movies and 8 short films originally screened at its US sister festival...."
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SandBox Utah: Deseret News "Officials see dim Colorado River water outlook"

AP via Deseret News:
"LAS VEGAS — Water officials say a dry month in the Wyoming, Colorado and Utah mountains that drain snowmelt into the Colorado River could mean less water arriving later this year at the reservoir serving Las Vegas.

Federal snow surveyor Randy Julander that after an unusually warm March, much of the range he covers in Nevada, Utah and California already resembles conditions usually seen in May. That has federal water forecasters slashing river level projections.

"March was simply not kind to us," Julander told the Las Vegas Review-Journal for a Friday report (http://bit.ly/IkHWX4 )....."  (Read more?  Click title)

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