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Citizen Revolt

Evil Corporation Quiz, Budgets & Sausage-Grinding

Posted // June 13,2013  -   Corporations are people and can therefore buy elections with impunity. ...

Citizen Revolt

Organizing for Anarchy

Posted // June 6,2013  -   Anarchist Scott Crow as he discusses changing your world by sidestepping government ...

Citizen Revolt

Quit Bitchin' & Just Run, Already

Posted // May 30,2013  - Celebrate National Trails Day This week has opportunities for every level of activism. At the grass-roots level, celebra ...

Citizen Revolt

Stick It to Big Agribusiness

Posted // May 23,2013  - March Against Monsanto Saturday This weekend, join activists rallying at the Utah Capitol against agribusiness giant Monsa ...

Citizen Revolt

Open Fossil-Fuel-Free Spaces

Posted // May 16,2013  - Stick up for open spaces This week, stick up for open spaces in Salt Lake City and fight for clean, open, carbon-fr ...

Citizen Revolt

Think of Your City & Don't Forget Mother

Posted // May 8,2013  -   Join a special celebration raising awareness of compassionate immigration reform ...

Citizen Revolt

Sustainable Streets & Communities

Posted // May 2,2013  - Open Streets, Beer, Blues & Brats This weekend, celebrate 1.5 miles of vehicle-free streets in downtown Salt Lake City in su ...

Citizen Revolt

Plant a Tree, Organize Resistance

Posted // April 25,2013  - Arbor Day, Work Party & Live Green This weekend, give back to the earth you walk on and the air you breathe by joining nonpro ...

Citizen Revolt

Rape Recovery Center

Posted // April 18,2013  - Also: Bank Protest, Sugar House Streetcar April is sexual assault awareness month, and local nonprofit the Rape Recovery Center is h ...

Citizen Revolt

Pathways to Peace

Posted // April 11,2013  - Get hands-on with Peaceful Uprising & Raqib This weekend is packed with training and inspiration for the local activist wanting to mak ...

Cover Story

Wasteland

Posted // June 19,2013  - You see trash. Someone else sees a way to stay alive. I did some dumpster diving back in high school, though we didn’t call it dumpster di ...

Cover Story

Frack You

Posted // June 12,2013  - Filmmaker Josh Fox Battles the oil industry to warn about the dangers of fracking Of all things flammable in the wide world, tap water shouldn’t be one of them. At le ...

Cover Story

Money Train

Posted // May 29,2013  - Critics complain that UTA cronies keep taking taxpayers for a ride For years, Liesa Manuel took the bus and train from her home in Rose Park to her job at a ...

Cover Story

Hacker Valley

Posted // May 22,2013  - A gang of Utah tech geeks might be your computer's-and the country's-last line of defense Hackers are among us: shopping at the same grocery stores, sharing buses with us, even wor ...

Cover Story

Par For The Course

Posted // May 15,2013  - Utah's attorneys general, past and present, learn the high cost of a free golf vacation Many of us enjoy vacation “bragging rights” and happily post photos of landmar ...

Cover Story

Shadow of Guilt

Posted // May 8,2013  - Until the Utah Supreme Court weighs in on her factual innocence, Debra Brown lives one day at a time. “The last day in prison is a day I will never forget,” Debra Brown says. There ...

Cover Story

Disposable Dad

Posted // April 24,2013  - Even With Court-ordered Visitation Rights, This Divorced Father Still Got Dumped By His Kids. Dave Jones (not his real name) appears calm and accomplished. A Wyoming native who grew up ...

Cover Story

Johnny's Rotten

Posted // April 10,2013  - Johnny Bangerter wants to move forward as an activist but just can't shake his racist punk past Johnny Bangerter was the man with the plan to take over and occupy Zion Canyon as a whites ...

Cover Story

A Lesson in Change

Posted // April 3,2013  - Principal Ike Spencer and his faculty show what it takes to turn around a struggling west-side school In his first weeks as principal at West Lake Junior High, Ike Spencer learned that student ...

Cover Story

Bunker Hill

Posted // March 21,2013  - The 2013 Legislature hunkered down against the feds, socialism and a gun-grabby White House. The world didn’t end in December 2012, as the Mayans predicted, or with the re-elect ...

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

Educate Better

Posted // June 19,2013  - Also: Fight Fight Fight, God Trumps Government Wow, how embarrassing can it get for Utah? Miss Utah USA, Marissa Powell, has been awarded ...

Hits & Misses

Missing the Big Picture

Posted // June 12,2013  - Also: Clarity in Smoke, Score for Science So now we’re getting interested in the government’s data collection. It took n ...

Hits & Misses

Unexpected Surprise

Posted // June 5,2013  - Also: Eye on Big Business, 'Splainin' to Do While it’s no surprise that a survey done by the Libertas Institute finds Utah to be ...

Hits & Misses

Divided We Fall

Posted // May 29,2013  - Also: Oh My Heck, Learning for All We knew the decision on gay Boy Scouts would be controversial, but most interesting is whe ...

Hits & Misses

Put in His Place

Posted // May 22,2013  - Also: Unquiet Youth, Power to 'Merica Mike Noel, R-Kanab—not your mother’s Cowboy Caucus crony—recently got a ...

Hits & Misses

No Spare Change

Posted // May 15,2013  - Also: Spread the Love, Moving Movies Uh-oh! American Fork could be dishing out a whole lot of trouble by erecting barriers to t ...

Hits & Misses

Meanwhile, in Utah

Posted // May 8,2013  - Also: Gone Too Soon, Too Cool for School Things happened fast this week, with a rifle raffle and a slaughterhouse video barely maki ...

Hits & Misses

Bend in the Road

Posted // May 1,2013  - Also: Invisible Money, West-side Reads There’s something inspiring about a vision made real. That’s what has long bee ...

Hits & Misses

Airing Grievances

Posted // April 24,2013  - Also: At the Crossroads, Always Guilty Earth Day is every day, clean-air advocates say. But this week kicked off with a cold rece ...

Hits & Misses

Dumb Masses

Posted // April 17,2013  - Also: Tax Breaks, Science Rules Well, it is the end of the world as we know it, if you are to believe Fair Elections Utah. ...

Letters

Barbecue Where?

Posted // June 12,2013  -   I’m new to Salt Lake City and looking for interesting restaurants, so after reading ...

Letters

Inmates Are Part of Society

Posted // June 12,2013  -   Did you know that fewer than 5 percent of inmates sent to prison die incarcerated, even am ...

Letters

How Do We End the Problem?

Posted // June 12,2013  -   Good job taking down the UTA cronies [“Money Train,” May 30, City Weekly]. ...

Letters

Prison Should Stay Put

Posted // June 5,2013  -   The Utah State Prison should remain in Draper [“Jail Bait,” April 4, City Week ...

Letters

“Public” Transit Won’t Pay for Itself

Posted // June 5,2013  -   While visiting Utah, I ran across your attack on light rail [“Money Train,” Ma ...

Letters

Why Another Venue?

Posted // June 5,2013  -   I wrote to NewPerfomingArtsCenter.org/feedback, as I had received a postcard from them. ...

Letters

Get Rid of the Bias

Posted // June 5,2013  -   John Rasmuson, in keeping with the preponderant political views expressed in City Weekly, ...

Letters

Holy House for Homeless

Posted // May 29,2013  -   While in California recently, I stopped at an eatery and looked up across the street to be ...

Letters

A Touchy Situation

Posted // May 29,2013  -   On April 21, I was biking home from work along the same route I have used for almost five ...

Letters

Don’t Mistake Silence for Inaction

Posted // May 22,2013  -   Some are crediting the Mormon church’s current official public silence and inaction ...

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

Truck Feud

Posted // June 19,2013  - 2009 Draper City contract turns into ugly, years-long battle between councilman and mechanic If it were an episode of The People’s Court, the ugly contract dispute between Drape ...

News Articles

Camping for Change

Posted // June 14,2013  - Activists hope experiencing nature at planned tar-sands areas will motivate Utahns to take a stand After a leisurely hike, you stand on a peak and scan the majestic horizon, your breathing ...

News Articles

Shurtleff's Book Club

Posted // May 31,2013  - Publisher says Shurtleff said he'd lined up multilevel-marketing company Pre-Paid Legal to buy 100,000 copies of his book Author and Tea Party activist Candace Salima says that when then-Attorney General Mark Shu ...

News Articles

SLC March Against Monsanto

Posted // May 29,2013  - Local mom organizes protest As many as 400 concerned citizens had taken a day out of their holiday weekend to make som ...

News Articles

Alty & Alive

Posted // May 22,2013  - Utah alt publications conquer bad economy Daily newspapers have been writing their own obituaries for so long now that most readers ...

News Articles

Protection for Overdose Reporting

Posted // May 16,2013  - Students call for new Good Samaritan law Zach Baker, head of Salt Lake Community College’s Students for a Sensible Drug Polic ...

News Articles

Hanging With Have-Nots

Posted // May 8,2013  - Local activists make friends with homeless It’s an 80-degree day in downtown Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Park at 300 South a ...

News Articles

California Schemin'

Posted // May 8,2013  - A political insider and a convicted felon host the former attorney general at a luxury resort, hoping to win him over It could be a lead-in for a joke: A Utah attorney general, his fundraiser, and a political ...

News Articles

SixtyNine Seventy Competition

Posted // May 1,2013  - Design competition invites architects from around the world to re-imagine SLC Imagine if an exact replica of two blocks of downtown were re-created, turned upside down ...

News Articles

Home Sweet Shipping Container

Posted // April 24,2013  - SLC sees first eco-friendly, affordable "tiny home" The housing problem in Salt Lake City and the country is as stark as it is simple—no ...

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

Wrong Lesson

Posted // June 19,2013  - Ever taught something that wasn't true? Were you ever taught something in school or church that later turned out not to be true? ...

Staff Box

Sing Me a Song

Posted // June 12,2013  - What song do you love for its lyrics? What song do you love for its lyrics? ...

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Hitchhiking Tales

Posted // May 22,2013  -   Have you had a noteworthy hitchhiking experience? ...

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This Call May Be Monitored

Posted // May 8,2013  -   Has a company ever billed you for something you didn’t want? ...

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Greatest Hits

Posted // May 1,2013  - Favorite moment of 2013 CWMAs What was your favorite moment of the 2013 CWMA showcases? ...

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Public Transit Adventures

Posted // April 3,2013  - What’s the best or worst thing that’s happened to you while riding UTA? What’s the best or worst thing that’s happened to you while riding UTA? ...

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Memorable BOU Moments

Posted // March 27,2013  - What's Yours? What is your most memorable Best of Utah moment? ...

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Pope Madness

Posted // March 13,2013  -   What are you paying more attention to: the selection of a new pope or March Madness? ...

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Cat Menaces

Posted // March 6,2013  - Possible laws to curb cat crimes What laws should the Legislature pass to curb cat crimes? ...

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Candid Camera

Posted // February 27,2013  - Do you miss old-school picture-taking? Do you miss old-school picture-taking, or does your cell phone’s camera take care of ...

 
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