POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Best Utah Cocktails Well, here it is “Best of Utah” time, which means over here at SmartBomb we’ve worked ourselves into a dither. Frankly, we could use a drink. So in keeping with the Best of Utah theme, here are recipes for several...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is working overtime to keep America free. For starters, he carries a concealed weapon wherever he goes. And as all Second Amendment revisionists will tell you, it’s actually freedom-loving patriots who pack heat...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Hey, who is that good-looking guy grinning like a skunk eating garlic on the cover of the new slick Salt Lake magazine? Boy, it looks a lot like Chris “I broke the Olympic Scandal and Don’t Forget It” Vanocur. By golly, it is Vanocur....

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Mayor: No Chicken! Nobody is about to call Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson a chicken. There’s nothing he loves more than facing down city council members and fire-breathing dragons. (No Nancy, we weren’t referring to you—necessarily.) But...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Feng Shui, Dude A feng shui (pronounced fung schway) consultant came through the City Weekly offices recently to tune up our chi. Some City Weekly staffers, apparently, were feeling there was a little too much sha in the place. Heck, here in the SmartBomb...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - You had to know this was coming: Belly buttons and cleavage have been banned in the Jordan School District. That’s right, banned. Britney Spears is reported to be the root cause of this epidermis epidemic that is running rampant among teenage girls....

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - An advertising firm in Denver is helping the homeless—well, that’s what they say, anyway. They’ve produced laminated signs with catchy phrases to help panhandlers separate passersby from their spare change. The placards also carry the...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Total Freedom and Draft Beer In a bold step toward achieving total freedom, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft recently lifted a ban on FBI agents spying on everyday Americans at political rallies, in churches, in brew pubs and miniature golf courses. Law-abiding...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The juggernaut that is Mitt Romney’s campaign for governor of Massachusetts has hit a chuckhole and possibly bent a rim following challenges to his residency near Beantown. It’s a small, technical hang-up, according to the Romney trenches,...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - We’ve all heard of road rage, where frustrated motorists flip the bird, attempt to ram anything in their way, or simply pull out their concealed handgun as part of their Second Amendment right to shoot anyone who deserves it. But here’s something...