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Crate diggin’ with Spaff and WFMU, beer pongin’ with Thunderfist.
Virtual Crate Diggin’: Lenny & the Squigtones Elder Utah Smith
I will rhapsodize about the joys of crate diggin’—going to record stores and searching for hours through boxes, looking for undiscovered gold or rare gems—forever. Same goes for virtual crate diggin’.
The Salt Lake City Council passed a civil penalties ordinance that gives some teeth to cracking down on businesses that are hotbeds of crime this week.
Apes are set to rule the multiplex, challenged only by a dopey teen thriller, while SLC art house offerings include horny nuns and a variety of feisty Jewish women. The lazy horror of Wish Upon wastes 90 minutes of everyone's time by not being scary, coherent or thematically interesting.
In the current issue of City Weekly, I give several reasons why Iron Maiden is excellent. On Friday night, I saw the band live for the first time, and now I have a zillion more.
The web-slinger returns (again) to multiplexes, along with an off-beat romantic comedy and a pair of historical dramas. Comedian Kumail Nanjani's real-life romance inspires the unique relationship comedy in The Big Sick (pictured).
What do pro athletes owe us, and why do we assume it's anything?
For approximately six hours on the Fourth of July, Twitter completely lost its collective mind. Those who spend much time on Twitter will respond with "so what else is new," but the subject of the mind-losing for once wasn't political, or even something a celebrity said or did.
More events for your arts and entertainment calendar
The whiff of fireworks still lingers in your nostrils, but it's time to get back to work. That doesn't mean you can't look forward to even more interesting events than we can fit in a single print issue of City Weekly.
Petitions, new taxes and curtains: Here's your latest Utah and alcohol news roundup
Utah’s alcohol laws are perpetually in flux. In addition to lowering the DUI level, lawmakers last session also passed a 144-page liquor bill that eliminated the Zion Curtain and raised the alcohol tax by 2 percent. That law took effect on Saturday.
This week's cover story, "Shelter War" looks at the story behind a curious nonprofit called the Pioneer Park Coalition and the influence it's sought to wield over city, county and state policymakers regarding the downtown homeless. Curious if only because it must be one of the very few Salt Lake City nonprofits, along with Fourth Street Clinic, to ever be named in a rap song.
