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Council likely to still give $25K for "clean-air celebration"
On Saturday afternoon, the Downtown Alliance-led Kickstarter campaign for the "US's largest disco ball" sputtered to a close about $11,000 shy of its $25,000 goal. The enormous 20-foot-diameter mirrored ball was meant to be a clean-air replacement for the traditional fireworks at the annual Eve celebration, but unfortunately, it's now more of a lesson for how not to execute a Kickstarter campaign.
Let's imagine for a moment that you're a reindeer—hairy, muscular, with a nice fuzzy rack—and it's Christmas and you're hanging out in a shopping mall full of screaming babies and teenagers. Are you revelling in the holiday cheer?
The University of Utah has a long history of premature celebrations, but none of them have then been animated to show players drinking Champagne on the field, dancing with bikini-clad ladies and riding horse-sized ducks. But thanks to Taiwanese Animators, the geniuses behind absurd CGI renditions of national news stories, we now have this important piece of Utah history immortalized for future generations.
As you get older, Halloween costumes become more and more of a colossal pain in the ass. With every passing year, the temptation grows to throw on a garbage bag and call it a California Raisin.
For a major motion picture release, everything rides on opening weekend. If a movie does well and sells a lot of tickets, it stays in theaters for a longer period of time.
Coming up with a good nickname is hard work, and since Steamboat Ski Resort in Colorado already owns the rights to "Ski Town, USA," what other nickname could Visit Salt Lake possibly come up with other than "Ski City USA"? Yep, that's actually Salt Lake City's new nickname, "Ski City USA," which makes it sound like the entire population of SLC is working at a discount sporting goods store.
