Backward Living

Obsessing over long-dead relatives is not always a good thing.

POSTED // May 5,2010 - The annual meeting of the National Anti- Genealogical Society (NAGS) last week went largely unnoticed by both the media and the public at large ...

Deep End

Mark "Bud" Willes brings his news-biz savvy to KSL

The LDS Church’s media boss seizes control of everything.

By D.P. Sorensen

POSTED // Apr 28,2010 - It’s good to be back in the Deep End. For a while, it looked as though the LDS Church had successfully taken over City Weekly ...

Deep End

Be Very Afraid

BYU neuroscientists are getting fat off the fear factor.

By D.P. Sorensen

POSTED // Apr 21,2010 - These groundbreaking studies all demonstrate the same scientific rigor that characterizes the fear-of-getting-fat studies.

Deep End

Thou Shalt Not Coddle Pedophile Priests

No more Mr. Nice Guy

By D.P. Sorensen

POSTED // Apr 14,2010 - Editor’s note: We still haven’t heard from D.P. Sorensen, the apparent nom de plume of the proprietor of this space. Rumors abound ...

Deep End

No Deep End?

Nom de Paw: Mysterious D.P. Sorensen missing since April 1.

By D.P. Sorensen

POSTED // Apr 7,2010 - Call me Aldeni. That's not my real name, at least in a nominal sense, but it will do for now. What you need to know is that I am not "D.P. Sorensen," whoever he is. There is, however,...

Deep End

LDS Church acquires City Weekly

Church calls it a faith-promoting opportunity

By D.P. Sorensen

POSTED // Mar 31,2010 - When news of the pending City Weekly sale reached my desk, I realized this might be my last chance to write for the paper.

Deep End

History of Mormons and the Media

By D.P. Sorensen

POSTED // Mar 31,2010 - Form its earliest days, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has understood the importance of the various media, whether newspapers, telegraph...

Deep End

What Others Are Saying

By City Weekly Readers

POSTED // Mar 31,2010 - “I grew up reading City Weekly with a flashlight under the covers after my mom and dad had gone to bed. It will always have a special place in my heart. I met my wife through the City Weekly cla

Deep End

Murder on the Hogle Express

Suspicious zoo deaths linked to violent orangutan.

By D.P. Sorensen

POSTED // Mar 24,2010 - Officials at Hogle Zoo, under fire for the skyrocketing mortality rates for their animal inmates, announced that a Bornean orangutan named Talukan...

Deep End

There's the Rub

Garn in undeserved hot water after getting soaked.

By D.P. Sorensen

POSTED // Mar 17,2010 - The Nude Hot-Tubbing Association of America announced yesterday that it had hired disgraced Utah House Majority Leader Kevin Garn as its new national spokesman ...