http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/articles.sec-8439-1-miscellaneous.html By Eric Jacobsen

The computer market has been pretty quiet for the past six months. Aside from Intel pretending to sell processors it can’t deliver, and lots of excitement surrounding wireless technologies that are years away, things have been still. Thanks to...]]> By Eric Jacobsen

The best games of the year come out in summertime. This must be by accident, because parents buy large amounts of games for their kids at Christmastime—parents don’t usually look at the boxes, so even crap games sell pretty well. Game programmers...]]> By Eric Jacobsen

“Eh? You kids and your fancy neuro-digital uplinks. Goshdarnit, back in my day we used our fingers to get on the web. We pounded keys and squeezed mice. Animal rights be damned, we liked it! And when the power went out, we’d boot up the old...]]> By Eric Jacobsen

When I think about interface design, I think about my parents. My father is an engineer. One of my earliest memories is of him taking apart a remote-controlled Radio Shack tank, turning the controller into an ISA expansion card, and then writing a Basic...]]> By Eric Jacobsen

Recently, this column examined Microsoft’s and Apple’s next stabs at creating a better user interface through style. Apple is taking the high road with OS X, an interface that Steve Jobs has described as “something you’d want to...]]> By Ben Fulton

After finally getting around to viewing Napoleon Dynamite at the local theater—yes, I am the spittin’ image of him, just as Music & TV Editor Bill Frost maintained during my brief absence—the only other event I’m looking forward...]]> By Scott Renshaw

I’d like to give Nora Ephron credit for taking the high-concept comedy into the realm of the meta-high-concept comedy with Bewitched. That, however, would require the assumption that Ephron knows what she is doing as a filmmaker. And anyone who...]]> By Ben Fulton

In case you didn’t know by now, Karl Rove began his political career in Salt Lake City as chair of the University of Utah’s College Republicans in 1973 and 1974. And who would have ever guessed that, after dropping out of the University of...]]> By Mary Dickson

We just celebrated a very significant holiday'the Fourth of July. Significant not because of fireworks, flags, off-key renditions of “The Star Spangled Banner” and other trumped-up displays of patriotic fervor, but because of what the holiday...]]> By D.P. Sorensen

I kept flicking the remote, but the pictures were just the same: the mangled red double-decker bus; people dazed or bandaged; faces smudged with black smoke; ambulances wailing and flashing; reporters badgering beleaguered officials; solemn commentators...]]> By Ted McDonough

In her final year teaching high school, Erin Jensen had her 11th-grade American literature students read The Crucible, a classic Arthur Miller play that lambastes Cold War red-baiting by comparing it with the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. She didn’t...]]> By Jamie Gadette

In a perfect world, David Turner would stay out of the spotlight. The Davis County resident prefers to work behind the scenes, without calling attention to his name. But, his role as a heartbroken dad might further efforts to speed up the divorce process...]]> By Shane Johnson

Exoro Group political consultant and sucker for all that’s news LaVarr Webb once believed the business he toiled in for 20 years was about disseminating information, not censoring it. That was until a couple months ago, when Webb approached Newspaper...]]> By Brian Staker

The name of one of Salt Lake’s newest art galleries says it all. The creators of the works embellishing the walls at the Unknown Gallery aren’t members of the glitterati, such as it is, of our town’s comparatively modest art scene. If...]]> By Jennifer Winters

I’ve had an interest in the military ever since I was a child,” says Dru Hazelton, an instructor in the English department at Salt Lake Community College. What particularly drew his attention to the military can be traced back to a private...]]> By Jeremy Mathews

In the late ’90s, an ambitious group of companies started popping up to rent and sell modified videos and DVDs that make PG-and-higher Hollywood titles family friendly. And in so doing, they have definitively proved that dirty language and sexual...]]> By None

When Goldener Hirsch Inn’s restaurant won last year’s Best Park City/Deer Valley Restaurant award in Salt Lake Magazine, it caused me to do a bit of a double-clutch. That’s because there must be more fine-dining restaurants in Park City...]]> By Scott Renshaw

Kids these days, if they were so inclined, could be pretty smug about the superiority of their pop culture over that of the generation that came before. Frogger vs. Grand Theft Auto, “cassingles” vs. iPod, The Bionic Woman vs. Lost'and don’t...]]> By Greg Beacham

Daniel Auteuil is probably France’s pre-eminent actor, but he’s never made a splash on this side of the ocean. And he probably never will; his talents are distinctly French, from his decidedly unintimidating appearance to his fascinating face,...]]> By Sean Moeller

Anton Newcombe uses swarming, time-warped psychedelia as his out. His beautiful art has his back no matter which direction the nasty, disparaging words are coming from. When he’s getting referred to as a hothead heroin addict, prone to occasional...]]>