http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/articles.sec-8420-1-lake-effect.html By Brandon Burt

nThe Provo Daily Herald supports the idea of breast-feeding. A baby’s got to eat, after all. The Herald just doesn’t want to see feeding time on social-networking sites. nA Jan. 2 editorial and Web poll shows broad support for Facebook’s decision to remove a bucolic photo of Provo mom Heather Farley breast-feeding her child in a flower garden. Farley and a group of “lactivi...]]> By Brandon Burt

Ellen Lindsey, the Fort Herriman Middle School health teacher who was placed on leave for allegedly revealing non-government-approved facts about sex during a sex-ed lecture, is a new hero.]]> By Brandon Burt

The St. George Spectrum & Daily News events listings for Sept. 27 included an environmental expo, a book festival, an electronics-recycling program and a chili cook-off. (They also included the strangely foreign-sounding introductory statement “So....]]> By Brandon Burt

September has been an exciting month for those who breathlessly anticipate LDS Church statements. Such statements regularly emanate from 50 E. North Temple, but two of them have garnered considerable attention this month.nOne, optimistically interpreted...]]> By Brandon Burt

The cremation controversy is back in the news—surprisingly, though, this time it’s not raging in the Provo Daily Herald. A Jennifer Toomer-Cook story in the D-News’ Sept. 13 religion section reported that, while cremation has become...]]> By Brandon Burt

If you are reading this, the Earth has survived its gravest threat to date: the first “full proton beam injection” Sept. 10 at the Large Hadron Collider on the French/Swiss border. According to some people—those scientists again—the...]]> By Brandon Burt

Nutjob political agitator group Focus on the Family Action (which is the arm of Focus on the Family devoted to nutjobs on the go) removed a video from its Website calling for members to pray for “rain of biblical proportions” during Sen....]]> By Brandon Burt

TRAX ticket-vending machines are moody. With a smooth technique and a bit of finesse, you can often induce one to accept dollar bills in exchange for a $2 one-way adult fare. If the machine doesn’t like your looks, however, it rejects your currency...]]> By Eric S. Peterson

The Associated Press recently discovered that 57-year-old Bernann McKinney was in fact Joyce McKinney, who in 1977, delighted British tabloids with her salacious tale of abducting and imprisoning an LDS missionary in an English cottage, forcing the poor...]]> By Brandon Burt

In today’s business world, there are so many techniques management can use to improve productivity and morale. The old “work or get fired” ethic is still in effect, but profit-sharing programs and casual Fridays are old hat. (Personally,...]]> By Brandon Burt

According to Bob Springmeyer’s Facebook profile, he is 65, married, likes bobsledding and canoeing, seems photogenic in a likeable and jovial way and has been fortunate enough to visit Japan. Springmeyer also has more than 900 Facebook friends,...]]> By Brandon Burt

According to the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification, crime in Utah is on the rise. However, Salt Lake City residents take heart: Crime rates here fell slightly between 2006 and 2007. Still, the substantial increase in Utah County crime has us worried:...]]> By Brandon Burt

Habitués of City Weekly’s glamorous rooftop smoking lounge have a front-row seat for the many attractive sights and sounds provided courtesy of the 222 S. Main high-rise construction site. Monday’s program was the best yet: a Port-a-John...]]> By Brandon Burt

The arrival of the hot-weather white-shoe season has tipster Eric looking forward to Salt Lake City’s summer entertainment lineup—particularly the Salt Lake City Jazz Festival, July 11-13 (SLCJazzFestival.org). The festival turned out to...]]> By None

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In keeping with its longstanding stated tradition of not telling its members how to vote, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent out a statement urging its members to support a proposed marriage-ban amendment in California. Titled “Preserving...]]> By Brandon Burt

Ellen Lindsey, the Fort Herriman Middle School health teacher who was placed on leave for allegedly revealing non-government-approved facts about sex during a sex-ed lecture, is a new hero. The resulting furor, during which purse-lipped and/or hysterical...]]> By Brandon Burt

As part of a cunning plan to turn the tables on park zombies, who normally scare people away from Pioneer Park, Salt Lake City is encouraging nice things to happen there, in hopes the zombies will themselves be scared away. Noticing that the area brightens...]]> By Brandon Burt

Salt Lake City’s “mutual commitment” registry (which is what we’ve agreed to call it because homophobic idiots are people, too, and they’re very sensitive and it makes them cry when they hear the phrase “domestic partnership”)...]]> By Bill Frost

We’ve mentioned it on our Salt Blog and in True TV, which is twice as much attention as Salt Lake City comedian Marcus has received from the rest of the local media for making it onto NBC’s Last Comic Standing. Sure, it’s not as big...]]>