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5 Spot

Pat Bagley: Editorial Cartoonists Convention

Posted // June 19,2013  - On his process, the convention and cartooning in Utah Brace for scrutiny, Salt Lakers: The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists is hold ...

5 Spot

Utahn Stumps the Schwab

Posted // June 12,2013  - "Obsessed with sports" Michael Smith wins national sports trivia competition Most people watch sports absorbing nothing but potato chips and cheap beer. Michael Smith ...

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Element 11

Posted // June 5,2013  - Art, play & love for Burners and non-Burners We run our festivals on the 10 Burning Man principles. One of them is inclusiveness. Every ...

5 Spot

Float in a Pod

Posted // May 30,2013  - Heal body & mind with flotation therapy Do you sometimes miss being a zygote splashing around in the womb? Salt City Float Spa off ...

5 Spot

John Saltas: Jerre Wroble's Impact on CW

Posted // May 22,2013  - Departing editor will be long remembered City Weekly publisher John Saltas and Editor Jerre Wroble go back 10 years. Wroble was hir ...

5 Spot

Lincoln Fest @ Library

Posted // May 15,2013  - Civil War re-enactors at SLC Library If your DVD of the Academy Award-nominated Lincoln is already wearing out and Feb. 12, 201 ...

5 Spot

Help Is a 4-Letter Word

Posted // May 8,2013  - Hairdresser/Author Sherri Mills Despite all the weepy songs about relationships that went bad because the wife never got f ...

5 Spot

Breast Cancer Update

Posted // May 2,2013  - Dr. Saundra Buys on advances, awareness and mammograms Dr. Saundra Buys will be speaking about breast-cancer treatment and research as part of th ...

5 Spot

Psychic Cheryl Merz

Posted // April 24,2013  - Local medium sees & speaks with spirits “I’d say this work chose me,” Cheryl Merz says of her ability to see dea ...

5 Spot

Contrails: Clearing the Air

Posted // April 17,2013  - John Lin: Pollution, climate change & conspiracies Should you be scared of jet contrails, the white streaks billowing across the sky? John Li ...

Ask a Mexican

Uptight Gringo Ladies

Posted // November 7,2011  - Also: Why the bedsheet dresses? What I want to know is how come Mexican women are so comfortable with their bodies? What m ...

Ask a Mexican

B to the W to the S-Words

Posted // November 1,2011  -   The three anti-Mexi slurs you used are so 1950s—the only people who use those words ...

Ask a Mexican

Conquests & 9/11

Posted // October 24,2011  - Also: Is 'Mexican' Offensive? Dear Mexican: There’s something I’m concerned about, or bothered by. I was bor ...

Ask a Mexican

Gardeners With Benefits

Posted // October 17,2011  - Also: Soccer goats? I’ve seen Hot Gardener once since I first wrote you, and HG made it clear he still w ...

Ask a Mexican

Mexis & Metallurgy

Posted // October 10,2011  - Also: "Illegal" is an English word What's up with all the elaborate wrought-iron fences in the Mexican parts of town? ...

Ask a Mexican

Tu or Usted?

Posted // October 3,2011  - Also: Not all Gringos alike Dear Mexican: I learned Spanish in school as a teen. Then, it seems, because I was young, ...

Ask a Mexican

Latinos of Los Angeles

Posted // September 26,2011  - Also:Chicano movement Dear Mexican: I hear that at the last Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors hearing abou ...

Ask a Mexican

Smokin' Local

Posted // September 19,2011  - Also: Who covers Latino issues? Dear Mexican: I am a half-breed, as they say (Mexican father, Anglo mother), and recently ...

Ask a Mexican

Lazy Puerto Rican or Mexican?

Posted // September 14,2011  - Also: Pigs for winter Dear Mexican: I live in upstate New York, and while we have a relatively small Mexican pop ...

Ask a Mexican

Men Waiting For Work

Posted // September 5,2011  - Also: What's authentic Mexican music? Every single day between the hours of 5 a.m. and 12 p.m., there are at least one hundred M ...

Comic Strips

The K Khronicles: Oklahoma Fetus Viewings

Posted // May 21,2010  -   Back to the Comic Strips page ...

Comic Strips

This Modern World: World Where Glenn Beck is a Sane Person

Posted // May 21,2010  -   Back to the Comic Strips page ...

Comic Strips

Mueller: Tarzan the Banker

Posted // May 21,2010  -   Back to the Comic Strips page ...

Comic Strips

Red Meat: Salivary Hot Plate Ballet

Posted // May 20,2010  -  

Deep End

A New Man

Posted // June 19,2013  - John Swallow scurries to repair his image Visitors strolling past the embattled Attorney General’s Office last Thursday at app ...

Deep End

New Knockers

Posted // June 12,2013  - Plastic surgery popular with young moms I cannot recommend highly enough an article in this month’s Salt Lake Magazine. It i ...

Deep End

Bush League

Posted // June 5,2013  - Dubya gets intimate with SLC All of the former president’s talents were on display last week at Zions Bank’ ...

Deep End

No Sympathy for the Devil

Posted // May 29,2013  - Booting demons not just a Catholic thing At least the gent didn’t barf green stuff all over the pontiff’s white cassock ...

Deep End

Play Through

Posted // May 22,2013  - Shurtleff & Swallow skirt laws of golf/life Mark Shurtleff and his manservant John Swallow are giving golfers a bad name. You’ve ...

Deep End

Reinventing the Wheel

Posted // May 15,2013  - Becker rolls out plans for rickshaw fleet Mayor Ralph Becker has a bold new plan to regain the widespread popular support he’s ...

Deep End

Hot Athlete Action

Posted // May 8,2013  - Locker rooms not dens of homosexual sin The statuesque young tennis player was ironing her clothes in the nude. Tennis legend and ...

Deep End

Presidential All-Stars

Posted // May 1,2013  - Sports expert ranks POTUS draft picks Last week, the five members of the most exclusive club in the universe, Living Presidents, ...

Deep End

Somebody's Watching Me

Posted // April 24,2013  - The government is tracking us A long time ago on a campus not that far away, we would sometimes catch a glimpse of a sli ...

Deep End

Where Is My Mind?

Posted // April 17,2013  - Bad behavior from Boyd K. Packer's brain I am but a simple scribe, just one amongst a host of scribes who toil anonymously deep in ...

Editorial

Mormon Feminism

Posted // June 19,2013  - Elizabeth Smart calls for change At a human-trafficking forum at Johns Hopkins University in May, Elizabeth Smart said she ...

Editorial

Lend Me Your Ears

Posted // June 12,2013  - Writing lyrics is harder than it looks Of the three Johns whose words fill this space week by week, only one has “songwrite ...

Editorial

Give the People What They Want

Posted // May 29,2013  - Kite-flying and gun control Most of my childhood memories are awash in summer sunshine. Only a few have snow underfoot ...

Editorial

Join the Club

Posted // May 22,2013  - Everybody has a story to tell Yogi Berra was right: It is déjà vu all over again. After a 16-year absence from t ...

Editorial

Is This Good For the Company?

Posted // May 16,2013  - It's key to do your thing "right and with respect" When Chicago Cubs second baseman “Ryno” Sandburg was inducted into the Basebal ...

Editorial

Two Weeks' Notice

Posted // May 8,2013  - Editor Jerre Wroble: It's Time For a Change In two weeks' time, I'll be leaving the building as editor of City Weekly. ...

Editorial

Music Matters

Posted // May 1,2013  - Why it's important to support local music A woman had fallen through the caving-in floor—that’s what we were told after ...

Editorial

Returned "missionary" Tim DeChristopher

Posted // April 24,2013  - Activist returns from jail more devoted to cause As I move into my 63rd year on this spherical space rock, I’m becoming ever more awa ...

Editorial

Labor of Love

Posted // April 17,2013  - The Fonnesbecks never stopped fighting to preserve historic buildings In 1971, Chris Fonnesbeck joined a handful of picketers in front of LDS Church headquarter ...

Editorial

Judge Not

Posted // April 3,2013  - That weirdo next to you might not be a bad guy My late uncle had a saying that always made me laugh. “I’m going out among &rs ...

Free Will Astrology

June 14-20: Practical Actions

Posted // June 14,2013  - Express yourself concretely, Gemini Long after the artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani died, his paintings sold for millions of ...

Free Will Astrology

June 7-13: White Lies

Posted // June 7,2013  - Make a conscious choice, Gemini How free do you want to be, Gemini? A tiny bit free, hemmed in by comfortable complication ...

Free Will Astrology

May 31-June 6: Noodle-Slurper

Posted // May 31,2013  - Be as inhibited as you dare, Gemini In Japan it’s not rude to slurp while you eat your ramen noodles out of a bowl. That ...

Free Will Astrology

May 24-30: Enduring Creation

Posted // May 24,2013  - Identify it & nurture it, Gemini Giant sequoias are the biggest trees on the planet. Many are more than 300 feet tall and 3 ...

Free Will Astrology

May 17-23: Edge of Reality

Posted // May 18,2013  - Wander around on the other side, Taurus You have arrived at the edge of reality. Or rather, to be precise, you have arrived at the ...

Free Will Astrology

May 10-16: Wonderful Features

Posted // May 10,2013  - Trust your intuition, Taurus You may have only a dim idea about how your smartphone and computer work, but that doesn&r ...

Free Will Astrology

May 3-9: Alternate Identities

Posted // May 3,2013  - Stimulate good ideas, Taurus Imagine you’re in a large room full of costumes. It’s like a masquerade store ...

Free Will Astrology

April 26-May 2: Good Omen

Posted // April 26,2013  - Try something unfamiliar, Taurus In 1921, Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev—born under the sign of the Bull—pre ...

Free Will Astrology

April 19-25: Imminent Delivery

Posted // April 19,2013  - Suspend senses belief, Taurus I’m happy to report that help from the invisible world is available to you right now ...

Free Will Astrology

April 12-18: The Holy Spirit

Posted // April 12,2013  - Illuminations arrive this week, Aries German theologian Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a central figure in the rebellion against ...

Guest Editorial

Broken Bridge

Posted // June 6,2012  - Empty words from gay support group Gay marriage remains controversial. So, Dear Reader, let’s start instead with some o ...

Guest Editorial

Right of Way

Posted // November 23,2011  - Eviction of Occupy SLC is a loss for community I thought I knew what community was. If I’m midway through a cookie recipe and I nee ...

News Quirks

Why They Call It Dope

Posted // June 17,2013  -   Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 22, drove more than 2,000 miles from Idaho Falls, Idaho, to ...

News Quirks

Rogue Vehicle of the Week

Posted // June 10,2013  -   During the opening weekend of Iron Man 3, a man walked into a theater in Jefferson City, M ...

News Quirks

Close Shave

Posted // June 3,2013  -   After an unidentified man called 911 in Largo, Fla., to report an explosion, he told respo ...

News Quirks

No-Man's Land

Posted // May 27,2013  -   Now that penmanship is rarely practiced, Washington state has replaced the term with &ldqu ...

News Quirks

Who Needs a Limo?

Posted // May 20,2013  -   Her bill is more than $400,000, of which Medicaid pays only $425 per trip ...

News Quirks

Duck & Cover

Posted // May 13,2013  -   Minnesota’s Rocori School District, where two students were shot to death in 2003, s ...

News Quirks

Slightest Provocations

Posted // May 6,2013  -   I am going to plow all three of you. ...

News Quirks

Badder Business Bureau

Posted // April 29,2013  -   Authorities charged David Kitzki with setting fire to his house in Mequon, Wis. Kitzki, wh ...

News Quirks

Father of the Year

Posted // April 22,2013  -   Shawn Wayne Hughes, 32, agreed to sell his 6-year-old daughter for $1,500, according... ...

News Quirks

Short Fuses

Posted // April 15,2013  -   While visiting neighbor Nathan Hess, 30, in Marston Mills, Mass., Dwayne Peters, 31, broug ...

Nice Tats

June 3: Hayley McDaniel

Posted // June 8,2011  -   "It reminds me of the person I strive to be." —Hayley McDanielSalt Lake ...

Nice Tats

May 27, 2011: Tyler Brawley

Posted // May 27,2011  -   A reminder to live life and not hide from it. ...

Nice Tats

May 20, 2011: Andrew Jueidi

Posted // May 23,2011  -   "My dad has a lion on his arm so I decided it would be a good idea." ...

Nice Tats

May 13, 2011: Melissa Kipp

Posted // May 13,2011  -   Last May, I was hit by a car on my scooter and almost lost my life. This is my reminder th ...

Nice Tats

May 6, 2011: Charity Duncan

Posted // May 6,2011  -   I feel my Cancerian zodiac fits me well, but I didn’t want an obvious sideways 69 on ...

Nice Tats

April 29, 2011: Ciera Sims

Posted // April 29,2011  -   "I love bees!" ...

Nice Tats

April 22, 2011: Carol Lyon

Posted // April 22,2011  -   "I’ve always loved this Time Life picture." ...

Nice Tats

April 15, 2011: Amber Ann Bailey

Posted // April 15,2011  -   "Because occasionally my girlfriends like to kiss dudes." ...

Nice Tats

April 8, 2011: Jaimee Fleischman

Posted // April 8,2011  -   The anchor is becoming strong and stable and the roses represent love, purity, gratitude a ...

Nice Tats

April 1, 2011: Misty Mulkey

Posted // April 1,2011  -   Last year we lost 16 family and friends. This was for all of them. ...

Private Eye

Utah Phonies

Posted // June 5,2013  - State's splendor & beauty masks rotten core Utah has so many fantastic offerings that it’s hard to know where to start. From sal ...

Private Eye

Nancy's Numbers

Posted // April 10,2013  - Trib's circulation games are always good for a laugh I was reading the March 31 Sunday Trib when I came across a Conway column about measuring ...

Private Eye

Best of Best

Posted // March 27,2013  - Lose or win, complaints will come This is the time of year when many among the City Weekly staff duck for cover. No matter w ...

Private Eye

Green Smoke

Posted // March 13,2013  - Religion comes down to money The Roman Catholic cardinals who will select a new pope for the Catholic Church officially ...

Private Eye

The Real McCoy

Posted // January 16,2013  - Former SLC bartender makes good with Chargers I just learned that Mike McCoy is set to become the next head coach of the San Diego Charg ...

Private Eye

Josephine

Posted // December 19,2012  - We all have blood on our hands Today, I’m eight days past my birthday. Josephine would have only three days past he ...

Private Eye

Fasting for Romney

Posted // November 7,2012  - Watch out: John Saltas is hungry I became hungry back in September, like fellow Mitt Romney worshipers, when it became wide ...

Private Eye

Lost Highway

Posted // September 26,2012  - Not-so-fond memories of Hank Jr. Am I the only person not crying buckets because the University of Utah football team got w ...

Private Eye

Brian Barnard: Legal Superfly

Posted // September 12,2012  - Attorney was much more than a gadfly In recent articles written since Brian Barnard died, he’s still described as a gadfl ...

Private Eye

Sold Out

Posted // August 22,2012  - Thanks for nothing, Utah football Anyone who’s read this column for the past few years already knows what’s comi ...

The Ocho

All Dunkin' News, All Dunkin' Time

Posted // June 19,2013  - 8 important (and only) news stories being reported this week Eight important (and only) news stories being reported this week ...

The Ocho

The NSA Is Listening

Posted // June 12,2013  - 8 words & phrases that may trigger NSA suspicion during phone or online conversations Eight words and phrases that may trigger NSA suspicion during phone or online conversation ...

The Ocho

Be the Bachelor

Posted // June 5,2013  - 8 Bachelor/Bachelorette eligibility reqs Eight eligibility requirements for trying out for The Bachelor/Bachelorette in Salt Lake C ...

The Ocho

Rockin' Summer

Posted // May 29,2013  - 8 new summer music festivals Eight new summer music festivals ...

The Ocho

Memorial Day Excuses

Posted // May 22,2013  - 8 excuses to not work on Memorial Day Eight excuses for your boss as to why you just can’t work on Memorial Day ...

The Ocho

Trekkin'

Posted // May 15,2013  - 8 other titles for Star Trek Into Darkness Eight alternate titles that were considered for Star Trek Into Darkness: ...

The Ocho

Mother's Day Don'ts

Posted // May 8,2013  - 8 gestures that don't count as Mother’s Day gifts Eight gestures that don’t really count as Mother’s Day gifts ...

The Ocho

No Hannibal For You

Posted // May 1,2013  - 8 reasons KSL 5 canned NBC's Hannibal Eight reasons KSL 5 will no longer be airing NBC’s Hannibal ...

The Ocho

Take the Cinnamon Challenge

Posted // April 24,2013  - 8 reasons it's popular with teens Eight reasons the “Cinnamon Challenge” is popular with teenagers ...

The Ocho

Puttin' the F in FCC

Posted // April 17,2013  - 8 things you'll soon see on primetime TV Eight things you’ll soon see on primetime TV should the Federal Communications Commi ...

The Straight Dope

I'll Fly Away

Posted // June 17,2013  -   Balsa-wood-and-tissue-paper airplanes powered by houseflies. ...

The Straight Dope

Up in Smoke

Posted // June 10,2013  - Are e-cigs noncarcinogenic? In a staff report on your site about whether nonsmoking actors use fake cigarettes when pl ...

The Straight Dope

Rule the World

Posted // June 3,2013  - Secret societies: Beat 'em or join 'em? The Straight Dope columns I find particularly interesting are the ones about secret societ ...

The Straight Dope

Make a Killing

Posted // May 27,2013  - How's the whacking business? I’ve always wondered—has anyone tried to estimate how many people are getting ...

The Straight Dope

Packing Heat

Posted // May 20,2013  - Is that a gun in your pants? In TV shows and movies, we often see someone shoot a revolver and then immediately place i ...

The Straight Dope

Death From Above

Posted // May 13,2013  - Beware of falling pianos “A young man named George Snyder was instantly killed at Grand Rapids Monday. He was ...

The Straight Dope

Time to Get Ill

Posted // May 6,2013  -   Everyone hops into a time machine with a madman at the controls ...

The Straight Dope

Bored to Death

Posted // April 29,2013  - Is there an explaination for boredom? Is there a scientific explanation for the phenomenon of boredom? Can you be bored to death ...

The Straight Dope

Bad Vibrations

Posted // April 22,2013  - I use my motorbike daily to get around. Last week, my mom said the vibrations from the tank could damage my sperm. Is there any truth to this? Nonetheless, your mother may not be too far off base. Motorcycle exhaust greatly reduces s ...

The Straight Dope

Falling Objects

Posted // April 15,2013  - Have there been any confirmed deaths by falling pianos? How about anvils? Have there been any confirmed deaths by falling pianos? How about anvils? —Stephen, ...

 
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