- Issue of
- Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2008
- Vol. 24, No. 38
Cover Stories
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Feature | Dead Air: KRCL is getting a corporate makeover. Is community radio done for?
Update: Focus Group HellOn Jan. 15, the managers of KRCL 90.9 FM, Salt Lake City’s community radio station, dropped a bombshell during a meeting of volunteers who serve as the station’s DJs. The station started 28 years ago by anti-war protesters,...
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The Bishop of Bling
National Young Lawyer of the Year Sean Reyes wants to be the face of modern Utah. The jury is still out.
News
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- Cover Story
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Feature | Dead Air: KRCL is getting a corporate makeover. Is community radio done for?
Update: Focus Group HellOn Jan. 15, the managers of KRCL 90.9 FM, Salt Lake City’s community radio station, dropped a bombshell during a meeting of volunteers who serve as the station’s DJs. The station started 28 years ago by anti-war protesters,...
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- Cover Story
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The Bishop of Bling
National Young Lawyer of the Year Sean Reyes wants to be the face of modern Utah. The jury is still out.
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News | Whose Bright Idea?: Two rival bills target renewable energy for Utah
In an otherwise quiet legislative session so far, renewable energy is making big waves in back rooms at the Capitol. Sens. Scott McCoy, D-Salt Lake, and Curtis Bramble, R-Provo, are duking it out over establishing a renewable portfolio standard (RPS)...
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News | Inked and Irked: American Fork tattoo parlor/church alleges religious discrimination by city
T stands for tattoo, and also trouble—with the law at least—when it comes to a clash between the Rev. Gregory Lowery’s combined Happy Valley Tattoo/Whole Life Ministries and the city of American Fork. Lowery’s unorthodox gospel...
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Hits & Misses | Cops, Immigrants & Scientists
Handcuffed Cops Cops have a hard enough job without politicians causing people to fear police officers. Ignoring law enforcement, a committee of Utah’s Legislature has green-lighted a bill to require state troopers be trained as immigration agents...
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5 Spot | Ken Jennings of Jeopardy! fame
Ken Jennings, whose Jeopardy! winnings broke the record at 2.52 million, signs his second book, Ken Jennings’ Trivia Almanac, at 7 p.m. on Jan. 31 at King’s English Bookstore. How do you feel about the epithet ‘nerd,’ and how...
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The Ocho | Vote, Utah!
Eight sure-fire tricks to get Utah voters out to the Feb. 5 presidential primaries: 8. The Jazz Bear shooting voter info pamphlets out of a T-shirt gun. 7. Voting booths placed at the end of buffet lines. 6. Complimentary “Pulling for Polling”...
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Private Eye | Bullet Points
A couple of years ago, somebody wrote a nice letter to the editor of City Weekly saying all kinds of truthful things about this column—Saltas can’t write, Saltas is an idiot, Saltas is a fat-ass Greek, Saltas should move, Saltas is a drunk,...
- Staff Box
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Staffbox | Dumb liquor-law suggestions
What dumb liquor-law suggestion can you give to the Utah Legislature? Careful now, they will take you seriously ... Jeff Reese: Before you can go out drinking, you need to pass a written “drinking test” and get your “drinker license.”...
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The Straight Dope | Mind the Silver
I recently read a Popular Science article by some geek who set out to manufacture silver bullets. He noted in the course of the piece that, prior to the Industrial Revolution, silver didn’t tarnish because of the lack of sulfur in the air. I’m...
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Ask a Mexican | Chihuahuas, DNA & Catholics
Dear Readers: Mucho feedback from ustedes regarding recent questions about archetypical Mexican dogs and the propensity of wabs to DUI. Let’s empezar with the doggies: You’re right about Chihuahuas. Crazy, tough dogs. I’m a dog rescuer...
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Cheap Shot | Yuppie Puppie Is the Cat’s Meow
It happened again. Last night I thought I was having a heart attack. My left arm went numb and my chest felt heavy. A repetitive, rhythmic sound woke me up. Was my brain oxygen-starved? Was this the bitter end of my heart beating? I read a lot about...
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Deep End | Big Nurse: Hillary Clinton orders the other candidates to take their medicine
Former associates of Hillary Clinton are not surprised she has traded in her standard-issue pantsuit for a crisp, white nurse’s uniform. “She always dressed up as a nurse on Halloween,” said childhood friend Arlene Muir. “She used...
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Lake Effect | So Gay!
According to a Jan. 23 Seattle Post-Intelligencer item, Olympia, Wash., is home to the second-largest gay caucus in the United States. Washington’s Legislature contains six openly gay members, putting it ahead of such gay-friendly states as California,...
- Miscellaneous
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Mullen | Our Turn
City Weekly founder and raconteur John Saltas is one of my bosses. Reason enough not to pull the guy’s chain too hard, eh? I wouldn’t say I do. But I will say this: Both Saltas and I love a good argument. Lately, we’ve had a regular...
- News Quirks
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Newsquirks | Hosed
Curses, Foiled Again While James Miller, 38, was being held as a burglary suspect in Dedham, Mass., he called his girlfriend to tell her to sneak him a handcuff key while hugging or kissing in court. Authorities thwarted the plan by monitoring Miller’s...
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The Way It Is | Matt Torres of The Coffee Connection
With KRCL moving to replace its volunteer daytime DJs with professional DJs (Read Article), City Weekly asked Matt Torres of The Coffee Connection if he thought the move would give public community radio a shot in the arm or does it just amounts to a...
Eat & Drink
- Restaurant Reviews
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Dining | Wine: Drink Your Spinach
OK, so you’ve decided to shed some pounds from ’07 or you’ve determined that meat will kill you or you just have grown weary of foie gras. You’ve resolved to eat vegetables! But how will this new love of green things affect my...
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- Restaurant Reviews
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Dining | Eat Your Veggies: Three new books open doors to healthy, flavorful dining
Through the years, I have toyed periodically with going vegetarian. It’s never quite stuck, and I always seem to find my way back to Philly cheesesteaks, Carolina barbecue, street-vendor tacos and organ meats that would disgust many a meat eater,...
- Restaurant Reviews
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Dining | Food Matters: Sweet Tomatoes, The AAA Four Diamond Award & Chef Dave Jones
During the month of February, Sweet Tomatoes is celebrating Mardi Gras with a special Ragin’ Cajun menu, featuring Louisiana-inspired goodies. Amongst the Cajun menu highlights at Sweet Tomatoes are Neighbor Joe’s gumbo, with spicy andouille...
Music
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Music Picks Jan. 31-Feb. 6 | French Quarter, Talib Kweli, Blood on the Wall, Ego Likeness, Bubba Sparxxx
Thursday 1.31 FRENCH QUARTER I went to Phoenix once and was not impressed. It seemed to be a hotter, starlet-free version of Los Angeles, with miles of strip mall after strip mall void of individuality. Stupidly, I assumed Tempe to be pretty much the...
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Hold Your Breath: Liars and No Age keep Salt Lake City on edge
Just remember that, no matter what else happens, there will always be Belgium. As the story is told, the power-pop/art-punk aesthetics of the Liars and the Los Angeles duo now behind No Age shared a stage there once. It wasn’t necessarily a planned...
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Music | Future Is Now: Brooklyn’s Yeasayer define the moment
From the eastern seaboard, where a third sun shines on skyscrapers, factories and boardwalks, comes Yeasayer, a quartet of musical mystics whose alchemical songs brim with volatility and beauty. They are the sound of day and night, up and down, war and...
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Music | Portia x 3: The High Beams, Lexi Sayok & Love You Long Time
Portia Early, X96 weekend DJ and host of Live & Local (Sundays, 8-10 p.m.), wants to tell you about three more of her favorite Utah bands and songs: The High Beams, “Dirty Clothes” This is another project that doesn’t sound...
Culture
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- Film Reviews
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Cinema | Inner Life: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly lets us inside a “locked-in” mind
Medical misfortune didn’t turn Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) into a saint. Just emerged from a two-week coma—the distraught mother of his children, Celine (Emmanuelle Seigner), only recently gone from his bedside at a hospital near...
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True TV | MILF Money: Lost, Eli Stone, Welcome to the Captain, Old Christine, House
Lost Thursday, Jan. 31 (ABC) Season Premiere: The fourth season of Lost was going to be just 16 episodes long (down from the usual 22), but only eight had been completed before the still ongoing writers’ strike hit. Did ABC decide to take the high...
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Free Will Astrology | Jan. 31-Feb. 6
ARIES (March 21-April 19) The Onion newspaper reported on a South Carolina man who was so grateful for what God had done in the previous week that he put an extra $5 in the collection plate at church on Sunday. Brad Thaden was especially pleased with...
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- Entertainment Picks
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The Essentials | City Weekly’s Entertainment Picks Jan. 31-Feb. 6
MUSIC By Geoff Griffin This weekend’s performances by the Utah Symphony offer something for those who like their artists successful—and long-suffering. The first half of the program features works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Miklos Rozsa,...
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Comics | Forward Thinking: A look at what’s in store in the comics world in 2008
With 2007 and all the “best of the year” columns left safely in the past, it’s time to look ahead and see what kind of great stories will be told throughout the comics community this coming year. The hype machine has already been set...
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- Film Festival
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Sundance | Chilly Reception: In cold, snowy Park City, Sundance 2008 delivered few hot films
Every year during the Sundance Film Festival, two things reliably happen around Tuesday of festival week. First, about half of the journalists, celebrities and studio bigwigs in attendance head home. Second, at least one or two films have become the ones...
Guides
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Get Oriented: Free for All
How to live the good life when you have nothing left to lose.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Get Active: Ski & Board Resorts - Powder Play
Check out the 11 ski resorts we have up our sleeves.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Get Oriented: Know Your Numbers
Ignorance of city ordinances is no defense.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Culture: Dance - Where Feet Meet
Local dance companies invite you to a moving experience.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Eats and Drinks: Cinco de Scheffler
What a way to make a living—getting paid to eat. (Don’t tell City Weekly’s Publisher Jim Rizzi this, but I’d do it for free!) Nonetheless, restaurant reviewing does have its downsides.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Get Oriented: See And Do Downtown & Around Town
Clark Planetarium: Experience daily star shows, 3-D music concerts and 3-D Imax movies. Located in the Gateway Center in west downtown Salt Lake City, open seven days a week from 11 a.m.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Get Active: Insider Adventure
Psst! This is just between you and me.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Get Oriented: Brave New Metropolis
Downtown dwellers ride the wave of Salt Lake City’s comeback.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Culture: Theater - A Play A Day
Regular servings of Utah’s performing arts keep you healthy and wise.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Get Active: Night Life - Boogie Nights
There’s a bar stool AND a dance floor with your name on it.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Get Oriented: Mighty Neighborly
Your guide to the sweet little ’hoods we call home.
- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Culture: Literary Lions
Where to find Utah’s literary lions … and hear them roar.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Get Oriented: A Mayor's Welcome
Dear City Guide reader: More than 30 years ago, I made the decision to move to Salt Lake City—it was one of the best decisions of my life.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Culture: Visual Arts - Visual Cues
Departing gallery director Kenny Riches names 25 local artists who should be on your radar.
- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Get Active: Ski & Board Resorts - Cool & Green
Ski Resorts offer a summertime reprieve from the heat
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Get Oriented: Speak Up, Baby
How to get your political groove on in Salt Lake City.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Culture: Festival Hunger
Here in Utah, we’re a festive bunch. Give us some music, art, costumed dancers, savory ethnic delicacies served on paper plates and 3.2 beer poured in plastic cups, and we’ll rock on.
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- City Guide
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City Guide 2008 | Symphony: Concerted Efforts
One our premier cultural crown jewels is the UTAH SYMPHONY, founded in 1922. It merged with the opera in 2002 to become the Utah Symphony & Opera.
