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Private Eye

Raining Tears

The conservative crying machines sing the same old tune for millions.

By John Saltas
POSTED // Apr 8,2009 - Few things are as predictable and consistent as San Diego weather. Even with our mountains covered in snow, Salt Lake City feels like San Diego as I write this. But such a sensation is neither predictable nor consistent...

Private Eye

Best Wishes

By John Saltas
POSTED // Apr 1,2009 - When City Weekly editor Jerre Wroble interviewed me for the Five Spot column (see p. 8) about publishing 20 years’ worth of Best of Utah, I sighed and gave a short thank you to Zeus.

Private Eye

Close My Eyes

Don't get MADD, get sensible on private clubs.

By John Saltas
POSTED // Mar 25,2009 - The president of the local chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is Mr. Art Brown. It's not known if his nieces and nephews call him Auntie, but none theless, Mr. Brown is a mother at heart.

Private Eye

Bail Me Out

We got fat the old fashioned way—by getting our asses kicked, then crying in our beer.

By John Saltas
POSTED // Mar 18,2009 - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that the mammoth insurance company AIG has awarded its stellar management staff $165 million dollars in bonus money.

Private Eye

Missing Links

I finally agree with Sen. Chris Buttars on, of all things, evolution.

By John Saltas
POSTED // Mar 11,2009 - After 40 years, Utah's private clubs may finally become extinct. While I can't wait for July 1 to go into a private club without being asked for ID or a club card, until that bill actually passes both the House and Senate, until Governor Huntsman signs it into law, and until I pinch myself twice, I won't be burning my private club memberships.

Private Eye

Edit This!

Our new editor, booze walls and Ken Garff.

By John Saltas
POSTED // Mar 4,2009 - For the sixth time in 25 years, it’s my pleasure to introduce a new editor of City Weekly. It would be the seventh, but I never introduced myself way back when. I just was.

Private Eye

Uphill Bill

Asking for normalcy when the opposition isn’t normal.

By John Saltas
POSTED // Feb 26,2009 - Such is the degree of nasty on their nasty meters that each year, Utah's talking heads engage in a local competitive sport trying to create newer, bigger and badder adjectives to describe certain members of the Utah State Legislature.

Private Eye

Damn Yankee

Lying to the American public is getting to be old hat.

By John Saltas
POSTED // Feb 19,2009 - Two years ago I saw just my second New York Yankees baseball game at Yankee Stadium. Its hard to get motivated to go to New York City just to watch a ballgame, but my whole family is made up of Yankee fans, so off we went. The Yankees beat the Seattle Mariners that evening, and I forget the score.

Private Eye

Love the Sinner

By John Saltas
POSTED // Feb 13,2009 - It’s a tough gig selling cars these days. That’s bad for the bar business. All over town, people who earn their living selling cars are buying fewer cocktails at cocktail hour. If they even show up at all, that is.

Private Eye

Dyin’ in Zion

By John Saltas
POSTED // Feb 9,2009 - I walked into Port O Call for the very first time on the very first day the club opened. At the time, our offices were on Historic Main Street in Midvale, not downtown. But our back page was always sold to Mainstay Vodka, and I knew the distributor of that product Terry Nish (he of Salt Flats race-driving fame), very well.
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