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Lake Effect: Calendar Boys

By Brandon Burt
POSTED // Sep 19,2007 - Apparently, there’s a golden window of time in the life of an LDS man after he’s been a gawky, pimple-faced missionary with a Mr. Mac suit, but before he’s become a Republican business ’droid with six Mr. Mac suits. The folks...

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Lake Effect: Tappy Feet

By Brandon Burt
POSTED // Sep 5,2007 - Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, isn’t gay, never has been. He said so himself. Obviously, what was really happening in that airport stall was a little-known Republican ritual, using hand and foot signals to communicate political strategies. Before...

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Lake Effect: Love, Main Street Style

By Brandon Burt
POSTED // Aug 29,2007 - Speculation is rampant over the Aug. 24 destruction of glass windows at the Salt Lake City mayoral candidate Keith Christensen’s campaign office on Main Street between 200 and 300 South. Was it a politically motivated attack? The Deseret Morning...

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Lake Effect: A Darker Shade of Pink

By Brandon Burt
POSTED // Aug 22,2007 - When Utah’s “right to work” law was enacted in those black-and-white, clean-cut 1950s, it was intended to bring about a glorious era of worker independence and an end to the Red Menace. Well, the nefarious socialists still haven’t...

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Lake Effect: Grazie, Glatze

By Brandon Burt
POSTED // Aug 22,2007 - In all his whimsical posturing, Michael Glatze has managed to confound benighted homophobes throughout the Christian right. Glatze claims he was a gay-rights “leader” because he once edited some obscure magazine targeting queer youth. But...

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Lake Effect: Chop, Mince, Dial

By Brandon Burt
POSTED // Aug 20,2007 - Tom Dickson has achieved YouTube.com celebrity as the man who can—and will—cheerfully purée just about anything. As owner/CEO of Orem-based Blendtec, the affable Dickson promotes his company’s line of high-powered blenders in...

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Lake Effect: A Hot Tip!

By Brandon Burt
POSTED // Aug 15,2007 - Sent by an anonymous reader on his Blackberry: “Just read your column on celebs behaving badly [‘Celeb Fever,’ Aug. 9]. You could have included Dina Lohan getting kicked off a Delta flight to Utah. “I happened to see it happen....

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Lake Effect

Celeb Fever

By Brandon Burt
POSTED // Aug 8,2007 - One of the good things about living our Life Elevated has been Utah’s traditional dearth of celebrities behaving badly. Sure, once in awhile Paul Lynde would get arrested for assaulting police at a Salt Lake City gay bar or Roseanne Barr would...

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Lake Effect: Scary Gary

By Brandon Burt
POSTED // Aug 6,2007 - It’s always good to see our friends in Happy Valley achieve notoriety, proving that Utah County’s reputation for blandness is ill-deserved. We’re also glad to see Santaquin has become a destination for Hollywood’s hottest playas....

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Cuckoo for Kokopelli

By Brandon Burt
POSTED // Jul 11,2007 - In recent decades, the mischievous, flute-playing trickster has become something of a pop icon. His image has been silk-screened on more T-shirts than Jim Morrison’s; gift shops throughout the Southwest sell coffee mugs, coasters and bumper stickers...
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