POSTED // May 31,2012 - Desert Rocks’ expansion into an all-out “consciousness festival” includes the addition of workshops, speakers, films, visual artists and performance art to the four-day camping hootenanny. Here are City Weekly’s picks, which are included with a festival pass, for mind-expanding must-dos at the new location, Jenk Star Ranch in Green River.

POSTED // May 24,2012 - Charity Rose Thielen challenged Brinton Jones to a friendly bet. Jones and the rest of Salt Lake City’s The Devil Whale were recording Teeth in 2010 at Studio Litho in Seattle,

POSTED // May 24,2012 - Alex Zhang Hungtai’s most crucial idea for Dirty Beaches didn’t originate in a bedroom, studio or other conventional station of creativity.

POSTED // May 17,2012 - When you stroll through the Living Traditions Festival grounds and hear the array of sounds and smell the culinary crafts ranging from traditional African fare to Turkish grub to South American specialties

POSTED // May 17,2012 - In 1821, Cherokee silversmith Sequoyah finished his creation of the Cherokee alphabet, making reading and writing in that language possible for the first time.

POSTED // May 16,2012 - Michael Pollan slapped Mike Cundick in the face. The best-selling author and food-policy activist, Pollan, doesn’t have anything against the lead singer of local punk band Loom, he’s just like that

POSTED // May 10,2012 - Most musical instruments are not primarily associated with one particular style of music, especially in these days of cross-cultural collaborative adventures. The exception is the harmonica.

POSTED // May 10,2012 - They came out of Texas like in a black & white horror film: a croaking, four-headed creature with malevolent intent.

POSTED // May 3,2012 - Fabulous things are happening on Main Street in Park City. Kathryn Burns is resurrecting the late Harry O’s space into a “fabulous nightclub” ...

POSTED // May 3,2012 - His friend spent a few hours on the outer rings of Saturn, but Braden McKenna won’t describe the landscape he was transported to after ingesting hallucinogenic mushrooms while listening to Free Magick.