POSTED // May 9,2013 - Although today, Brazil’s proclivity for exporting hot beauty trends, Victoria’s Secret models and good music has made it commonplace for Americans to treat their tresses with formaldehyde and their nether regions with wax

POSTED // Jan 24,2013 - With its tight-knit communities and popular neighborhood stomping grounds, it’s impossible to avoid running into people you know on any given day in any corner of Salt Lake City. The music scene is no exception.

POSTED // Aug 31,2012 - “You must surrender the sickness of wanting to be creative to a higher power,” said Nashville songwriter Jason Deere at Soundcheck Series’ latest workshop Aug. 8 at Metcom Studios in Salt Lake City.

POSTED // May 31,2012 - Desert Rocks’ expansion into an all-out “consciousness festival” includes the addition of workshops, speakers, films, visual artists and performance art to the four-day camping hootenanny. Here are City Weekly’s picks, which are included with a festival pass, for mind-expanding must-dos at the new location, Jenk Star Ranch in Green River.

POSTED // May 16,2012 - Patricia Modesto is Utah’s 2012 Samba Queen, winning the title in March when she competed against Utah’s hottest samba dancers in Samba Fogo’s third annual Samba Queen competition.

POSTED // May 3,2012 - Fabulous things are happening on Main Street in Park City. Kathryn Burns is resurrecting the late Harry O’s space into a “fabulous nightclub” ...

POSTED // Apr 19,2012 - We don’t bat an eye when a young starlet shaves her head, poses nearly nude at age 15 or appears in rehab as often as she does in the tabloids. But when an indie band matures in the public eye, we’re not sure how to react. We expect them to know who they are, and to sing about it so we can identify with them.

POSTED // Apr 4,2012 - David Cobb works for Move to Amend, whose Salt Lake City branch is trying to collect 9,000 signatures by April 15 for a city ballot initiative that would ask voters in the November elections to support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.