POSTED // Jun 23,2010 - It’s all a fog now, but as I review the fossil record—with carbon-14 dating, of course—it appears that I started at City Weekly sometime in 1993 as a freelancer ...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Locked up in a 6-by-8-foot cell at the Utah State Prison, Patricio Toledo was haunted by demons. Not knowing what else to do, he began to draw in an effort to grasp a lifeline—hoping to purge the ill feelings and free himself from his past and the...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - In an unusual move, Salt Lake City Police Chief Ruben Ortega released protected personnel documents to news media in an apparent attempt to embarrass or retaliate against one of his police officers and president of the local police union. It was the...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - Depending upon whom you listen to, it is either an effort to undermine the voting public’s rights or a great move to protect the tradition of Utah living. It is either a plan financed by national, rightwing firearms and hunting groups, or a maneuver...

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - A management audit of the Salt Lake City Police Department is apparently unable to square poor morale among police officers with findings that Chief Ruben Ortega’s department is making progress and is relatively well run. But the yet-to-become-public...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - City Weekly’s old pal Rocky Anderson called the other day to wish us a happy Fourth of July, complete with fireworks. Wasn’t that special? The mayor likes to keep track of old friends around holiday time. He also mentioned that he wasn’t...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - NEWS FLASH! Dateline HURRICANE, Utah—An inmate at the Purgatory Correctional Facility is not a millionaire! Impressed? Well, Salt Lake City’s mainstream news media were so impressed that they ran the story for two—count ’em, two—days...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - It’s the dog days of summer and it’s damned hot. Oops, make that darned hot. When it’s this hot, nobody wants to do anything except go swimming and drink cold beverages. July and August can be what we call in the biz, slow news days....

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Wow, that Republican National Convention in Philadelphia was really somethin’, huh? (SNORE!) What a happy bunch of campers. And what a diverse group of people. My land, didn’t they have just about every race and creed on display? Let’s...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Well, here at Smartbomb we ragged on the Republicans for being completely boring and white bread, despite the choreography that displayed every Republican of color in the entire country during the recent Philadelphia confab. So now we must give the Democrats...