POSTED // Feb 3,2009 - 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. All I really remember is that the tables had green tablecloths on th...

POSTED // Jan 28,2009 - In years past, we were already ducking shrapnel at this point of a new session of the Utah Legislature. Going a full two days without some major legislative faux pas, ego-branded pissing match or yet another Republican threat to disembowel any and all Democrat-sponsored bills appears to be a big plus. However, with 43 days until this session ends, I’m not taking bets that this sense of harmo...

POSTED // Jan 7,2009 - I lit my University of Utah football victory cigar before breakfast on Friday morning, Jan. 2. The Utes wouldn’t wallop Alabama for another eight hours or so, but the sweet smell of success emanating from The Cigar Factory on New Orleans’ Decatur Street was just too tempting. I walked past several people skillfully rolling cigars and into a humidor where a nice fellow suggested my best...

POSTED // Dec 31,2008 - Yeah, I know. I can read our comment boards, too. City Weekly is fish wrap. City Weekly makes good bird-cage liner. City Weekly has no influence, so Jim Matheson shouldn’t talk to us, anyway. City Weekly needs to be punished for being mean to Matheson. City Weekly is a rag. City Weekly isn’t a real newspaper and real journalists don’t work here. City Weekly is free—otherwis...

POSTED // Dec 24,2008 - Growing up in Bingham Canyon, I heard season’s greetings uttered in many languages besides the Queen’s English that I speak and write with to this very day. In our home, it was Kala Christougena. Our neighbors were Japanese. According to a recent e-mail I received from a great old friend who is an LDS stake president and who served his mission in Japan, I assume they said, Kurisumasu O...

POSTED // Dec 17,2008 - It wasn’t a good circumstance, a funeral service, but I finally saw what the football field at Rice-Eccles stadium looks like from the executive tower high above the west bleachers. It was Monday and the field was covered in snow. I guess it’s a good place to watch a football game if you don’t mind mingling with people who don’t like to mingle with the cuppa joe masses sitt...

POSTED // Dec 10,2008 - Last time we met, I went on and on about giving away City Weekly’s season tickets for Runnin’ Ute basketball. I won’t make that mistake again this week (I’ll make other ones instead). Still, I have to note that the giveaway went only so-so. There were fewer people responding than there were available tickets, so there’s still time to send me an e-mail. Just ask for th...

POSTED // Dec 3,2008 - Next week, we’ll know which BCS bowl game the University of Utah is going to. I’ve pretty much talked myself into going wherever Utah ends up, despite the fact I haven’t seen the Utes play a single down this year, or last, except on TV—barring the game against Oregon that I nearly saw last year in Corvallis, Ore. I spent basically the entire game in the stadium clinic with ...

POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - I didn’t hear back from Seattle gay author and columnist Dan Savage regarding last week’s offer to bring him to Utah on our dime. I sent him an e-mail, also. I expressed that he could tell me to eff off, but that didn’t happen, either. I’d hoped he would meet local GLBT leaders and unite with them equally in a diligent fight for personal dignity. It’s not like people ...

POSTED // Nov 19,2008 - I wonder what to make of some online comments lately that question my decision to cut the umbilical cord/link between Savage Love columnist Dan Savage and the City Weekly Website (the column has never run in the paper). nSavage recently had called for a boycott of not only all things LDS, Mormon and Utah, but seemingly all things starting with the letter U. As a Utah native, I found no reason to p...