Salt Lake City Weekly
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Salt Lake City's Weekly Newspaper provides thorough, relevant, and interesting reporting and writing on local news, arts, and entertainment for residents of Salt Lake City and the environs. Covering Salt Lake City and Utah news, politics, music, film, television, and arts; movie times, club calendars, restaurant listings, and blogs.
Salt Lake City Weekly
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Dude, can you spare a donut? 10. Love your outfit, it really brings out your eyes ..read more
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The creative tension between sports and arts may be a given—but the existential battle for dominance in Salt Lake City is not. The Day the Music Died The creative tension between sports and arts may be a given—but the existential battle for dominance in Salt Lake City is not. The city and state governments have been giddy at the prospect of hosting major league sports in downtown, but now the effort appears to be at the expense of the Utah Symphony ..read more
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"To continue is power." ARIES (March 21-April 19) When my friend Jessalyn first visited Disneyland as a child, she was smitten by its glimmering, unblemished mystery. "It was far more real than real," she said ..read more
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Dozens of Utah Transit Authority employees gathered on the street outside UTA headquarters on Wednesday, before crowding into a Board of Trustees meeting to speak against the outsourcing of transit services to a third-party contractor. DEPOT DISTRICT—Dozens of Utah Transit Authority employees gathered on the street outside UTA headquarters on Wednesday, before crowding into a Board of Trustees meeting to speak against the outsourcing of transit services to a third-party contractor. The demonstrators—a mix of bus and train operators as well as maintenance staff and union representatives—held s ..read more
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Pilsner malt has been the main ingredient in most lagers for quite some time. Now, however, brewers are also finding advantages in using it for IPAs. Pilsner malt has been the main ingredient in most lagers for quite some time. Now, however, brewers are also finding advantages in using it for IPAs ..read more
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In Holladay, Utah, authorities were summoned to a home on April 23 to advise a homeowner on how to dispose of "a lot" of explosives, including "ancient dynamite" that had been in the family for "generations and generations." Boom! Talk about explosive developments ..read more
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Although The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has always structured its hierarchy on male authority, its theology and practice concerning women is rather intricate and complex. Although The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has always structured its hierarchy on male authority, its theology and practice concerning women is rather intricate and complex. Throughout much of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, the Relief Society (a central LDS women's organization) was given far more power and authority than it has today ..read more
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Dustin Kensrue @ The Commonwealth Room 5/12, Spring Battle of the Bands @ Boardwalk Sound 5/13-18, and more. Crankdat @ Venue 6SIX9 5/10 Crankdat, aka Christian Smith, hails from Ohio, the home of American bass music. Known for its Lost Lands festival, which includes the heaviest bass EDM artists, Smith is one of the kingpins ..read more
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During their 1824-25 winter encampment in Cache Valley, a bet was made among the mountain men: What lay at the end of the Bear River? During their 1824-25 winter encampment in Cache Valley, a bet was made among the mountain men: What lay at the end of the Bear River? One young man named Jim Bridger was selected to follow the river to its end ..read more
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After reading No Walk in The Park, I thought a more apt title might be "Meanderings of a Grand Canyon River Guide." After reading No Walk in The Park, I thought a more apt title might be "Meanderings of a Grand Canyon River Guide." Sometimes by boat, often on foot, Michael Engelhard—anthropologist and wilderness/river guide—wanders over the Colorado Plateau country in search of "thrills, eco-wisdom and legacies ..read more