citylog
The E-
Edition:
CW
page
by page
CWSTORE_BUG_120412.gif

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Citizen Revolt

Open Minds, Active Hearts

Posted // May 17,2012  - Westpointe Park Improvement Sunday This week, come out to a fundraiser party for the local chapter of the National Alliance o ...

Citizen Revolt

Planning Roller Coaster

Posted // May 10,2012  - Field trip, fundraiser & plant sale The idea of a mountain coaster at Snowbird resort has been a thrill ride of controversy fo ...

Citizen Revolt

Back to Work

Posted // May 3,2012  - Donations, bowls & climate change A first day on the job can be tough, especially when you're still adjusting to the country ...

Citizen Revolt

Walk for a Cure & Rally for May Day!

Posted // April 26,2012  -   This weekend, join a walk to raise funds to fight multiple sclerosis. ...

Citizen Revolt

Getting Earthy

Posted // April 19,2012  -   It's time to celebrate the amazing ball of water, dirt and people flying through the unive ...

Citizen Revolt

Adopting Kittens & Canyons

Posted // April 12,2012  - Pets, Stewardship & Living Traditions Summer is coming, and that means it’s a great time to adopt a furry hiking buddy or ...

Citizen Revolt

Writing Wrongs

Posted // April 5,2012  - Civil discourse, the Guv & Pride Fest This week, you can attend a social-justice writing conference at Salt Lake Community Colle ...

Citizen Revolt

River Runners

Posted // March 29,2012  - Riparian Corridor, Mia Love & The Police This week, get riparian with your local activism by taking part in a public workshop discu ...

Citizen Revolt

Phone It In

Posted // March 22,2012  - Tele-Townhall, Night For Sight, City Council This week, you can take part in a telephone town hall for candidates vying to represent th ...

Citizen Revolt

Lucky Pets

Posted // March 15,2012  - Adoptions, spring cleaning & health forums If spring fever is getting to you, why not sign up to volunteer at one of Salt Lake City's ...

Cover Story

The Great Obamacare Scare

Posted // May 23,2012  - 10 (untrue) reasons Utahns fear the ACA It’s been 24 years since Ronald Reagan quipped, “The 10 most dangerous words i ...

Cover Story

Obamacare Will Not Fix Health Care!

Posted // May 23,2012  - A single-payer program in Utah will lower costs and improve quality of medical services This year on Valentine’s Day, I joined 49 other physicians from across America in si ...

Cover Story

Split Personalities

Posted // May 16,2012  - Utahns living a dual life We’re all different things to different people. We’re not the same at work as ...

Cover Story

Last Stand

Posted // May 9,2012  - Goshutes battle to save their sacred water In Spring Valley in eastern Nevada, the swamp cedar trees stand in somber silence. No more ...

Cover Story

Funny Business

Posted // May 2,2012  - Think you know Utah stand-up comedy? The joke's on you It’s Tuesday night at The Complex, where it’s likely you’d be taking in ...

Cover Story

The Mysterious Mr. Smith

Posted // April 25,2012  - Brad Smith's ascent leaves behind questions When Kathy Anderson* picked up her 14-year-old daughter from school near Perry, Utah, unex ...

Cover Story

Romero & McAdams: Smart Asses

Posted // April 11,2012  - Dems vie for SL County Mayorship In 2008, the winds of Barack Obama’s campaign helped carry Utah’s usually beat ...

Cover Story

Steal This Bike

Posted // April 4,2012  - Who steals bikes? Where do they go? Yup, I'm gonna attach a GPS to a bike and just ... let it get stolen ...

Cover Story

City Creek Center: Three for the Money

Posted // March 21,2012  - As City Creek opens, Gateway & Trolley Square scramble to compete for shoppers Some see the 700,000 square feet of new retail space in Salt Lake City as a threat to neig ...

Cover Story

2012 Utah Legislative Recap

Posted // March 14,2012  - Sleeper Session or Nightmare on the Hill? If there's one thing the legislators of the 2012 session are losing sleep over, it's the 2 ...

Cover Story Sidebars

Review: The Book of Mormon Musical

Posted // March 23,2011  - The Book of Mormon: Obscene, irreverent and delightfully charming. What’s surprising about The Book of Mormon isn’t that parts of the musical pus ...

Cover Story Sidebars

Special Issues 2010

Posted // December 29,2010  - A special look back at the special year in City Weekly special issues. As you may have noticed, we love themed “special issues” here at City Weekly, ...

Cover Story Sidebars

Cops and Pot, by Grandpa Grow

Posted // September 29,2010  - A frank and detailed account of various marijuana growing operations. Former radio talk-show host Martin Davies, of Utah, authored this paper and provided it to ...

Cover Story Sidebars

Judge Faust's Ruling - UHP Trooper Lisa Steed

Posted // September 8,2010  -   Utah 3rd District Judge Robert P. Faust ruled against the defendant in this May 2010 rulin ...

Cover Story Sidebars

Judge Cutler's Ruling - UHP Trooper Lisa Steed

Posted // September 8,2010  -   "Trooper Steed's testimony lacks credibility in three remarkable manners," wrote Salt Lake ...

Cover Story Sidebars

Don't Walk the Line: 15 Practical Tips to Beat a DUI

Posted // September 8,2010  -   Don't mix these up: Politely decline field sobriety tests (eye test, walk the line, one le ...

Cover Story Sidebars

Coldest Beer Readers' Picks

Posted // July 21,2010  - From Bowling Alleys to Zion Nat'l Park, you picked your favorite places to get a cold one. Bonwood Bowl: Many people treat their neighborhood bowling alley like a neighborhood bar, ...

Cover Story Sidebars

Utah's Coldest Beer: The Bars

Posted // July 21,2010  -   5 Monkeys: Tucked just west of State Street in Murray, 5 Monkeys sports a colorful jungle- ...

Cover Story Sidebars

The Plays at the Utah Shakespearean Festival 2010

Posted // July 14,2010  - Reviews: Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Pride and Prejudice, The 39 Steps and Great Expectations--the Musical A Shakespeare play where a religious divide in the community is a major concern? Yeah, tha ...

Cover Story Sidebars

Plan Your Trip to Utah Shakespearean Festival

Posted // July 14,2010  - The best things to see, eat and drink in Cedar City. Obviously, this is the first step in any visit to the Utah Shakespearean Festival. There a ...

Hits & Misses

Church vs. 'Hood

Posted // May 23,2012  - Also: Green Guardians, Raid Rage One thing for sure: Paul Mero knows a duck when he sees one. That’s why the head of ...

Hits & Misses

Drunk Not Disorderly

Posted // May 16,2012  - Also: Exposing Bullying, Foxes in the Henhouse One of the comments on the Deseret News story regarding neighborhood bars noted that there ...

Hits & Misses

Points for Trying

Posted // May 9,2012  - Also: Cody Stewart, Bike Lame As Utah Republicans become more and more self- righteous, it’s refreshing to hear th ...

Hits & Misses

Yes to Violence?

Posted // May 2,2012  - Also: No Ethics, Where Is Susan? Is there no end to Sen. Mike Lee’s reading and apparent memorization of the Constitu ...

Hits & Misses

Lost Funds

Posted // April 25,2012  - Also: Like an Open Book, Counted Out Women around the nation reacted when the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure decided to pull ...

Hits & Misses

Must Be Mormon

Posted // April 18,2012  - Also: Scandal Sheet, Being Supportive Not to diminish the candidacy of boy wonder Ben McAdams, but when are Democrats going to g ...

Hits & Misses

Positive Attention

Posted // April 11,2012  - Also: Still Disrupting, Blue Ribbon Effort Suddenly, there’s a whole lot of interest in an association that’s been around ...

Hits & Misses

Sign of the Times

Posted // April 4,2012  - Also: Tim DeChristopher, Terry Diehl Some code words from yesteryear are just hard to get rid of. Take “multiethnic,&rdqu ...

Hits & Misses

Artistic Liberties

Posted // March 29,2012  - Also: Liquor Laws, Clearing the Air Take one look at the painting, and you’ll want to say again, “Oh, just get ove ...

Hits & Misses

Controversial Cartoon

Posted // March 21,2012  - Also: Lee Won't Budge, Federal Lands No, it wasn’t just a Utah thing that kept a controversial Doonesbury strip from the ...

Letters

Vicious Cycle

Posted // May 23,2012  -   Under a banner of “National Bike Month,” one of the bikers for Stick Dog bike ...

Letters

Here's a Novel Thought

Posted // May 23,2012  -   Clovis Lark’s opinions about Jim Catano’s opinions about former household name ...

Letters

Should Have Gone Deeper

Posted // May 23,2012  -   The May 17 article “Split Personalities” is troubling. There’s a sensati ...

Letters

Church Membership Overstated

Posted // May 16,2012  -   The publication of 2010 census data has produced a host of press reports about the explosi ...

Letters

Alternative Meatloaf

Posted // May 16,2012  -   Jim Catano’s opinion piece opts for a Sylvester Stallone Expendables cast as an alte ...

Letters

Blame System, Not Soldier

Posted // May 9,2012  -   So, a soldier in Afghanistan flips and kills 16 unarmed civilians, including children, and ...

Letters

Winery Love

Posted // May 9,2012  -   I just read the nice article Ted Scheffler wrote, and am honored that he likes my wines so ...

Letters

Liberal Boot-Licking Lackeys

Posted // May 9,2012  -   A recent letter in City Weekly by the infamous “Casino” Jack Abramoff was some ...

Letters

Higher-up Hall Passes

Posted // May 2,2012  -   Reading about Brad Smith’s past legal entanglements in his former life as Box Elder& ...

Letters

The Mormon Motive

Posted // May 2,2012  -   The emerging Democratic view and strategy for going after Republican Mitt Romney in the up ...

Media Player

Looking Back on the Trib

Posted // March 29,2012  - McCartheys recall better days

Media Player

KCPW: Crunch Time

Posted // September 28,2011  - KCPW needs a serious cash infusion For Salt Lake City public radio station KCPW, this week’s fund drive is a matter of ...

Media Player

Observe & Report

Posted // July 27,2011  - Today's news reporters: Jacks of all trades It was on the upper floors of a German publishing house where I first realized that multip ...

Media Player

Broadcast Views

Posted // June 28,2011  - Breaking news: iPad contests boost ratings Using contests to drive ratings has been around for as long as I can remember. Hell, in ra ...

News Articles

Smart ALEC

Posted // May 23,2012  - Rep. Jennifer Seelig catches heat for association with ALEC It was all pretty funny double-agent play until Feb. 26, 2012, when Trayvon Martin was kil ...

News Articles

Golden Opportunity

Posted // May 16,2012  - Company cashes in on gold fever Gold Bullion International founder Savneet Singh knew that launching a business that store ...

News Articles

Patriotic Demonstration

Posted // May 9,2012  - Blind Vietnamese immigrant protests Medicaid cuts When Phuong Nguyen heard about a Washington, D.C., protest against possible federal cuts t ...

News Articles

Bioidentical Hoax?

Posted // May 3,2012  - Utah companies skirt FDA regulations to promote "natural" hormone treatment Tired of being normal? Are you a middle-age woman suffering from “sagging, dragging ...

News Articles

Occupy Uprising

Posted // April 26,2012  - Activist groups rally together through the spring While the message of sticking it to the corporate man may not be new for these groups, wha ...

News Articles

The Anti-Mormon Moment

Posted // April 18,2012  - LDS critics capitalize on Romney's GOP nom Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will for the first time see one ...

News Articles

Drilling: Blame Obama

Posted // April 11,2012  - SUWA says pres rubber stamps Utah gas projects The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management has given a preliminary t ...

News Articles

No Money, More Engagement

Posted // April 4,2012  - Michelle Facer Baguley spending zilch on campaign Salt Lake County legislative candidate Michelle Facer Baguley is looking to capitalize on ...

News Articles

Cop Fight

Posted // March 22,2012  - Bar brawl: Cop vs. Corrections Captain A few men walk into a bar and get into a fight. The fight spills out the bar until the pol ...

News Articles

Lost Years

Posted // March 14,2012  - Why hasn't Mark Yowell been released? Karen Baldwin wants to marry her boyfriend, Mark Yowell. The only problem is that the gove ...

Rant Control

A Hard Decision

Posted // June 8,2011  -   D.P. Sorensen’s May 26 satire column “Putting Circumcision to a Vote” ex ...

Rant Control

Communication Clash

Posted // June 1,2011  -   Gustavo Arellano’s syndicated Ask A Mexican column took on the issue of “prope ...

Rant Control

Facing the Music

Posted // May 25,2011  -   Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday was May 24, and City Weekly music blog contributor ... ...

Rant Control

Redesign Renders Ranters Speechless

Posted // May 18,2011  -   The usually vocal City Weekly online commenters were silent this week—no doubt dazzl ...

Rant Control

Nope, That's Not Art

Posted // May 10,2011  -   The most recent Hits & Misses column sounded off on artist Jon McNaughton, whose art is no ...

Rant Control

Sobering Allegations

Posted // May 4,2011  -   Stephen Dark’s recent cover story featured Cottonwood Heights bar owner Jim Stojack, ...

Rant Control

Atheist-Mormon Affinity

Posted // April 27,2011  -   Sean Gallacher wrote a letter to City Weekly suggesting that satirizing Mormons like Broad ...

Rant Control

Dangerous Billboards

Posted // April 20,2011  -   Are electronic billboards so distracting to drivers as to be unsafe? City Weekly founder J ...

Rant Control

The Ogden You Never Knew

Posted // April 13,2011  -   Calling Ogden “a city that has been less than successful in the revitalization arena ...

Rant Control

Mormon Smash

Posted // April 6,2011  -   It’s been called the hottest show on Broadway, and City Weekly’s Geoff Griffin ...

Staff Box

Dream Bikes

Posted // May 23,2012  -   Do you own your dream bicycle? What is it, or what would it be? ...

Staff Box

City Weekly vs. Cockroaches

Posted // May 16,2012  - Who would win in the extinction wars? Who do you bet on in the extinction wars? City Weekly or cockroaches? ...

Staff Box

What Has Your Prez Done for You?

Posted // May 9,2012  -   What has Obama done for you lately (or not)? ...

Staff Box

Goodbye Jim

Posted // May 2,2012  -   What memory of Jim Rizzi’s 10 years at City Weekly will stay with you? ...

Staff Box

Will Equality Ever Happen?

Posted // April 26,2012  -   Do you think men and women will ever be truly equal in the workplace and in the world? ...

Staff Box

Spring Has Sprung

Posted // April 11,2012  -   What are your springtime rituals? ...

Staff Box

Back to School

Posted // March 22,2012  -   Would you go back in time and change anything about your academic career? ...

Staff Box

Susan Powell: Case Closed?

Posted // March 7,2012  -   Do you think Josh Powell’s death closes the book on the Susan Powell case? ...

Staff Box

Burned By Love

Posted // February 22,2012  -   Have you ever been burned by love? ...

Staff Box

Sex-Education in School

Posted // February 15,2012  -   What was your highlight from sex-ed classes in schools? ...

 
Close
Close
Close