POSTED // Feb 27,2008 - Further proof isn’t needed that Utah’s liquor laws are drawn up by people who have no idea what they area talking about. This year, lawmakers voted low-alcohol beverages, like Smirnoff Ice, out of grocery stores and imposed a new mixed drinks...

POSTED // Feb 20,2008 - We’ve been basking in that rich, Buttars-y goodness wafting down from Capitol Hill ever since Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, assured us he’s “intensely committed to maintaining the fundamental moral values of the country.”...

POSTED // Feb 13,2008 - We recently received a funny and well-written letter to the editor about dental hygiene in prisons from City Weekly reader John “Weston” Osburn, currently a guest of the state in Bluffdale. The man suffers from dental neglect and I couldn’t...

POSTED // Jan 30,2008 - According to a Jan. 23 Seattle Post-Intelligencer item, Olympia, Wash., is home to the second-largest gay caucus in the United States. Washington’s Legislature contains six openly gay members, putting it ahead of such gay-friendly states as California,...

POSTED // Jan 23,2008 - Willard “Mitt” Romney was 24 when Willard, a movie about an eponymous rat-lovin’ misfit, was playing on the big screen. Even if the movie had nothing to do with it, you can’t blame Romney for going by something other than his...

POSTED // Jan 16,2008 - If you’re a Utah native or a transplant whose spent any amount of time here, you know that the rest of the world has its preconceptions about us—mostly wrong ones—and it can be difficult to set the world straight. We want the world...

POSTED // Jan 9,2008 - Now that Kraft Foods has discontinued Postum, the sinister Mr. Coffee Nerves lurks ever closer. The demise of the wheat-based caffeine-free coffee substitute may come as a disappointment, but it can hardly come as a surprise. Sure, we all have a jar...

POSTED // Jan 2,2008 - According to City Weekly reporter Ted McDonough (Read Article), I psychically predicted 12 months ago the publication of a 2007 LDS Church pamphlet some say heralds a kinder approach toward gay and lesbian Mormons. Now, as much as I’d enjoy being...