POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - With a frozen credit market, crumbling economy and a shrinking job pool, Utah college students are finding the prospect of entering the real world seriously depressing. How are they coping? By staying in school. n Even while saddling themselves with added college-loan debt, Utah students are finding the state’s colleges and universities a good place to weather a stormy economy. The state&rsq...

POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - Failed to mention it in the column, but how ’bout them Utes?!?nScott Renshaw: Congratulations! You’ve just earned the right to 1. earn no respect by beating a marginal ACC or Big East champion, or 2. have your ass handed to you by whichever SEC team loses its conference championship game. nBen Rosch: What a freakin’ fun season. I only got to actually go to the TCU game and about ...

POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - When gale-force winds blew through town last week, they uprooted the last of my neighborhood’s Barack Obama lawn signs. But the day after, when calmer weather prevailed, the neighbor across the street had driven her sign back into the soft ground of her front yard—right where it had been since summer. nObama yard signs and window placards are still in place all over Salt Lake City. I c...

POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - nJudge NotnAfter Utah’s Senate shot down Judge Robert Hilder’s nomination for the Utah Court of Appeals, the outpouring from the legal community was deafening. One lawyer told City Weekly the only time he’d seen Hilder angry was when the judge had a tooth abscess—and Hilder called afterwards to apologize. Lawyers used words like “brilliant” describing Hilder, bu...

POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has been getting some bad press lately—he’s been criticized for using official stationery, emblazoned with the great seal of Utah, to endorse a product called DigitalBridge, which is apparently some sort of dental apparatus. Mr. Shurtleff is alleged to have communicated his enthusiasm for the device to his fellow attorneys general across the land, c...

POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - nAsk homophobes why gays and lesbians should not have equal rights, and they are likely to give you any number of reasons, including: n• Gays are a threat to traditional marriage. n• Gays already have equal rights, and are only seeking special treatment. n• Gays represent society’s moral decline. n• Same-sex marriages don’t produce children. (Shh! Don’t tell t...

POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - n nEight more things you don’t want to hear around the Thanksgiving dinner table:n8. “Uncle Ron canceled—but he said to watch for him on the To Catch a Predator marathon today.” n7. “No, it’s not Tofurkey, it’s even better: Tirekey, made from recycled car radials!” n6. “Home for the Holidays was all rented out, so I got The Ingmar Bergman...

POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - nTooele Police are concerned about a rash of recent animal killings, especially after a Tooele family had two pet pygmy goats stolen and decapitated. While a law passed last Legislative session makes animal torture a felony, the law applies only to domestic dogs and cats. If the goat killers are caught, they will not be subject to felony charges. City Weekly asked Terrece Beesley of Art at the Mai...

POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - nScott Jacobs was the first gallery artist to be officially licensed worldwide by Harley-Davidson in 1993. He sells limited edition prints through art galleries and Harley dealerships in 82 countries and aboard 88 cruise ships (ScottJacobsStudio.com). Jacobs was recently at the Harley-Davidson of Salt Lake dealership where he discussed his unique artistic niche. n nIt’s hard to picture the e...

POSTED // Nov 19,2008 - If you could host Dan Savage for a few days in lovely SLC, where would you take him?nJeff Reese: I would make sure he came during Gay Pride, so that he could see Utah doesn’t mean “Mormon” and “closed-minded.” I would also give him a tour of some of my favorite dance clubs. n nJackie Briggs: I would take that fool skiing. I mean, who wants to ski in Colorado? n&n...