- Issue of
- Jun 12-18, 2008
- Vol. 25, No. 4
News
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News | Club Fighters: Foes of private membership law let it rip at DABC meeting
“I’m tired of being called names [by people who don’t speak English] where you don’t even know what the heck they are saying,” Moab-based Woody’s Tavern owner Shari Beck says. ...
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News | Books Behind Bars: Utah State Prison ships inmate book orders out-of-state, and skims the purchase price
There is no better way to while away five-to-life than with a good book. Gandhi in his autobiography wrote that he did his best studying in the pokey. It’s no surprise that books are a big deal in the slammer. And Utah has cut itself in on the action,...
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News | Flower Power: Proposed highway ensures death by asphalt for Hunter High’s botany learning lab
Most people don’t know a Low Larkspur from a Long-Footed Spring Parsley or Hairy Fleabone Daisy from a Wild Phlox, but Glade Player does. The 61-year-old Hunter High School teacher has been taking his botany and biology classes to study those species...
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Hits & Misses | Parking, Payoffs & Pipelines
Free Parking The Salt Lake City Council reversed itself during budget talks and decided not to eliminate free evening and weekend parking in downtown after all. The about-face came after a collective scream from citizens. Business groups like the Downtown...
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5 Spot | Artist Kristin Abraham & Musician Alfonso Llamas
In 2006, artist Kristin Abraham and musician Alfonso Llamas sold their belongings, packed up their Honda Element and hit the road. Traveling for one year, they spent a week in each state, where Abraham would paint and Llamas would record music and videotape...
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The Ocho | A Private Club for Members
Eight fine-print stipulations in the proposed repeal of Utah’s “private club” law: 8. Bar patrons will be charged a 20-percent convenience tax for the trouble and money they’ve been saved. 7. The tax’s convenience tax...
- Staff Box
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Staffbox | your most unusual or memorable summer job
What was your most unusual or memorable summer job? Jeremiah Smith: Does panhandling for ramen count as a job? Jennifer Higgins: Any of my wall-mural gigs. I painted a children’s wall mural for a public library in Illinois a couple years ago. I...
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The Straight Dope | Lawn Order
I recently read that the city of Turin, Italy, had decided to use sheep to keep the grass in its parks trimmed. Being the lazy sort, I started to wonder: Could my fenced quarter-acre backyard of Bermuda grass and crabgrass sustain a sheep? —Chris...
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Ask A Mexican | Mexican Ice Cream Truckers
Dear Readers: The Mexican has previously published only one Best of column in his nearly four years living under his cousin’s identity in this country with, but I must pull this week’s first pregunta out of the archives because ustedes keep...
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Cheap Shot | Popsicle Toes: Getting your Bountiful freeze on at Pace’s Dairy Ann
I’ve lived in Salt Lake City on and off since 1997. During the “off” times, I’ve lived and worked in Antarctica. You can say by living in Antarctica, I became an adventurer, but if you said that, I’d call you a liar. Really,...
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Deep End | Bar Hoping: DABC to drinkers: Come out of your closets and into the clubs
In a shocking about-face, the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control voted today to abolish membership fees for so-called private clubs. Not only that, they voted to offer incentives for citizens to visit private clubs to indulge their drinking...
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Lake Effect | Attention, Nice People
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...
- Miscellaneous
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Rasmuson | Radical Responses: Dogs, water and gas are not birthrights
When I was a high-school teacher, I had a student who smoked a lot of dope. His parents were puritanical but distracted, so on any given night in his sprawling house, he simply shut his bedroom door, opened the window and fired up a joint. Most days he...
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Mullen | Big Fat Cynics: Rebranding Utah republicans'come on, take the Kool-Aid
Item: The Utah Republican Party, still limping from its big loss on school vouchers and a series of very public political gaffes, has launched a quarter-million-dollar public relations blitz to help “rebrand” itself for voters. The campaign...
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Newsquirks | Spray Cans & Rectums
Curses, Foiled Again • When police in Sheboygan, Wis., stopped a vehicle for improper registration, one of the passengers identified himself by giving a false name, hoping to conceal unpaid traffic citations in another state. The name he gave,...
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The Way It Is | Shaantai Leary of East Coast Subs
Rising fuel costs have pushed the Salt Lake City 2009 budget into the red by nearly $1 million, causing city leaders to consider reducing free meter parking nights and weekends. Local businesses, however, railed against this, saying it would scare business...
Eat & Drink
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- Restaurant Reviews
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Dining | Half-Shell, Will Travel: A late-blooming oyster lover hits the books at Oyster U
A firm believer in continuing education, I recently went back to school. And I’m proud to report that I am now a graduate of Oyster U. having passed (with flying colors, I might add) the rigorous curriculum prepared by the faculty of Pacific Seafood...
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Dining | Food Matters: Mignonette sauce, Oyster lovers & Father’s Day brunch
My favorite oyster accompaniment is mignonette sauce, which really isn’t a sauce at all but more of a dressing. It’s delicious. In fact, I sometimes think that, for me, eating oysters is just a method of transportation for getting the mignonette...
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Dining | Wine: Celebrating Sonoma
Having recently been afforded the pleasure of a trip to Sonoma County, the epicenter of California wine country, I’m already jonesing to return. With more than 350 wineries in Sonoma County and 13 designated wine regions—not to mention 40...
Music
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Music | Deed After Deed: RZA works out his demons via Bobby Digital
"Peace,” is his greeting. Guy says he’s cool, “just chillin’ and shit.” The image that forms isn’t of a hip-hop star soakin’ up chlorine and Hennessey in his pool; it’s of a superhero in his fortress...
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Music Picks June 12-18 | Live: Reggae Under the Stars, Gypsy Dave & The Stump Jumpers, The Warlocks, Salt Town Greasers, Singer
Thursday 6.12 REGGAE UNDER THE STARS “The more I drink/the more I love you/The more I love you/ the more I drink” might not be a fitting credo for tonight’s Reggae Under the Stars benefit concert, but, then again, Insatiable’s...
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Music | Get Lost: The Black Angels want you to lose yourself in a psych-rock drone
The sad fact of rock journalists: We’re all kinda the same. We’re like sheep—just with a superiority complex, a creepy knowledge of chord progressions and at least one famous friend we can namedrop when it suits us. (Mine: Ronnie Vannucci...
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- CD Reviews
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Music | CD Revue: Wolf Parade, Jaguar Love, The Anniversary
Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer Three years since their astounding debut LP, Apologies to the Queen Mary, Wolf Parade continues to produce material rooted in a unique trade-off collaboration two dominating frontmen: Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner. By pairing...
Culture
- Summer Guide
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Summer Guide ’08 | Summer Theater Listings
Through June 15 The Tricky Part Plan B Theatre Company Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center 138 W. Broadway, 355-2787, ArtTix.org Through June 15 Revenge Of Yoga, the Musical SB Dance Jeanne Wagner Theatre, Rose Wagner Center 138...
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- Summer Guide
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2008 Summer Guide
Getting from spring to summer in Utah: What a long, strange trip it’s been. Between straight-line winds, driving hail and May blizzards, we’ve seen the wettest spring in years. And yep, I’m pretty sure the webbing that’s developing...
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Summer Guide ’08 | Veg Out: Killer veggie grillin’
We’ve all got the backyard barbecue stereotype firmly in our minds: Dad’s out back stoking the flames with a can of beer in one hand and charcoal lighter fluid in the other. Naturally, he’s preparing the grill for meat: hot dogs, burgers...
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Summer Guide ’08 | Get Outside! Get Your Woodball On!
Our fair state enjoys numerous ways to experience and revel in the majesty of the great outdoors, for example: crawling commando-style on your hands and knees through thorny brush and scrub to flank the enemy and rain down upon them a barrage of CO2-fired...
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Summer Guide ’08 | Summer Concerts Listings
June June 13 Dwayne Dopsey Ogden Amphitheatre, 343 25th St., Ogden, 801-629-8311 The Golden Boys Peppermill Concert Hall, 300 Wendover Blvd., Wendover, 800-648-9660 June 14 Creedence Clearwater Revisited Peppermill Concert Hall, 300 Wendover Blvd.,...
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Summer Guide ’08 | Quick Fixes Part I: The staff of City Weekly solves the many quandries of summer so you don’t have to
Contributors: Ryan Bradford, Brandon Burt, Stephen Dark, Bill Frost, Jamie Gadette, Geoff Griffin, Ted McDonough, Holly Mullen, Eric Peterson, Jenny Poplar, Scott Renshaw, Jerre Wroble These hellishly hot days aren’t the best for problem solving....
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Summer Guide ’08 | Trail Mix: Best hikes in and around Salt Lake City
I have lived in some amazing hiking places: Seattle, New England and the Alps. They all had their high points. But, hike for hike, none of those places match Utah’s diversity, history or scenic grandeur for hiking.nListed below are my hiking pearls,...
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Summer Guide ’08 | Summer Festivals
June 13-14 Highland Games and Scottish Festival Thanksgiving Point 801-768-2300 Scottish dancing and highland athletics, along with 12,000 Scot-loving people make for a good time. The 34th annual event will host clan tents, tattooing, musical groups,...
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Summer Guide ’08 | Shake & Bake: Local bartenders’ tastiest summer concoctions
Getting bartenders to part with a favorite drink recipe is akin to begging parents to keep their cryptosporidium-pooping babies in their backyard wading pools instead of at county pools: not likely to happen. Nevertheless, City Weekly’s summer interns...
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Summer Guide ’08 | Summer To-Do List
Diversions & Shopping Clark Planetarium, 110 S. 400 West, 456-STAR Experience daily star shows, 3-D music concerts and 3-D Imax movies. Located in The Gateway in west downtown Salt Lake City, open seven days a week from 11 a.m.nThe Gateway Mall,...
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Summer Guide ’08 | Quick Fixes Part II: The staff of City Weekly solves the many quandries of summer so you don’t have to
QUANDARY: The carbonation in beer, soda and other summer drinks is destroying your bones. THE FIX: Sure, it gets hot in Salt Lake during the summer, but it’s nothing compared to the heat/humidity endured by our Latin American neighbors—which...
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Summer Guide ’08 | Pop Stars: City Weekly’s film critic knows a thing or two about popcorn
Twenty-five years ago, when I was a teenager working in a California multiplex, the industry’s mantra was, “Movies for show; concessions for dough.” We all knew that the theater didn’t make its money off of the cost of the movie...
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Summer Guide ’08 | Disc-y Business: a disc golf guide
Walking off the beaten path through Creekside Park at 1650 E. Murray-Holladay Road (4800 South) on a sunny afternoon, you have to keep your head about you lest a rogue Frisbee clip it. By far the most popular disc golf course in Salt Lake Valley, the...
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Theater | Truth to Power: Confessional drama and local satire light up summer stages
The Tricky Part The lights don’t go down at the beginning of Plan-B Theatre Company’s production of The Tricky Part—not before David Spencer strolls to the front of the audience. Already in character as playwright Martin Moran, he conversationally...
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Visual Art | Prints Charming: Signed & Numbered’s limited edition inventory serves art collectors on a budget
Isn’t it fun havin’ stuff other people can’t have … or at least only a select few? It makes gifts, records, cars and art one-of-a-kinds or limited editions special, and more coveted. Same goes for independent local businesses—you...
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- Film Reviews
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Cinema | It Had to Be Lou: The Incredible Hulk rekindles the spirit of a mediocre TV series
In an effort, perhaps, to exorcise the sense of failure surrounding Ang Lee’s 2003 film version of Hulk—which did a monster opening weekend then promptly circled the box-office drain—most of the roles in The Incredible Hulk have been...
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True TV | Still Smokin’: Bill Engvall Show, My Boys, Kathy Griffin, Battlestar Galactica, Weeds, Secret Diary of a Call Girl
The Bill Engvall Show, My Boys Thursday, June 12 (TBS) Season Premieres: If the traditional joke/laugh-track/guilt-pang sitcom is dead, nobody told TBS—ironically, home to reruns of new-school comedies like The Office and My Name Is Earl....
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Freewill Astrology | June 12-18
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Successful representations of reality become more important than the reality they represent,” writes W. Daniel Hillis at The World Question Center (TinyURL.com/ywth3). Examples: paper money supersedes gold; a...
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- Entertainment Picks
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The Essentials | City Weekly’s Entertainment Picks June 12-18
COMEDY By Scott Renshaw Periodically, throughout a stand-up comedy performance by MARIA BAMFORD, her nervous, breathy squeak of a voice will give way to something else—but don’t call her an impressionist. Maybe she’ll be channeling the...
