POSTED // Jul 30,2008 - As much as I like good and friendly advice from good and friendly readers, I am caught off guard by some advice recently lent to me on the comments boards of SLWeekly.com, the City Weekly Website. Usually the advice I get is more in line with me doing...

POSTED // Jul 23,2008 - In 1984, I walked into the offices of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (DABC) to present my idea for a private club newsletter. No club owner would sign on with me if I didn’t have assurances (permission) that producing such a newsletter...

POSTED // Jul 16,2008 - I took a road trip last week through the Four Corners region. So, I’m here to warn you: If you do similarly, don’t expect great phone reception around every bend and don’t expect an Internet café in Tuba City, Ariz. With my normally...

POSTED // Jun 25,2008 - Three of our writers at City Weekly got some happy news this week. Stephen Dark, Scott Renshaw and Ted McDonough were all recognized by the Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) at a recent soiree held by that group....

POSTED // Jun 18,2008 - There’s nothing quite like getting up in the morning and feeling a bit lighter on the toes. Most people feel the benefit of weight loss either due to an exercise regimen or to a change in diet. I did neither. I opted for the tried and true method...

POSTED // Jun 4,2008 - It’s entirely possible that our first-ever Chelada Party didn’t improve the weather. It wasn’t really intended to do so, but it was hailed as a harbinger of summer and a welcome mat to all things warm and sweaty. One look outside, and...

POSTED // May 21,2008 - I was in San Francisco this past weekend and missed most of Game 6 between the Utah Jazz and Los Angeles Lakers. Throughout a meal of sushi in Japantown and coffee in North Beach, I was being fed countless texts from home with game time updates. They...

POSTED // May 7,2008 - • The Chelada Party is On We just don’t know when. As per last week’s offer, I invited people in the bar business to offer up their places for an evening in order to hold the First Ever Salt Lake City Chelada Party. Port O’ Call...

POSTED // Apr 30,2008 - The chelada weather challenge enters another week. I recently wrote about cheladas and how in different parts of Mexico you can get different chelada concoctions. Some people call beer mixed with Clamato the basis for a chelada, and others deem a chelada...

POSTED // Apr 23,2008 - It’s still not chelada weather. I don’t know what burr is stuck in Mother Nature’s leggings, but I’d say she’s going to going to keep it cold a few more weeks, then she’ll suddenly heat up and the floods of 2008 will...