- Issue of
- Jun 19-25, 2008
- Vol. 25, No. 5
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Feature | On Display: Powerful 337 sequel should wake up everyone who loves art
When Salt Lake City filmmakers Davey Davis and Alex Haworth invited artists, friends and family to a sneak preview of their 337 documentary early this spring, even they couldn’t predict audience reaction to footage of last year’s groundbreaking...
News
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- Cover Story
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Feature | On Display: Powerful 337 sequel should wake up everyone who loves art
When Salt Lake City filmmakers Davey Davis and Alex Haworth invited artists, friends and family to a sneak preview of their 337 documentary early this spring, even they couldn’t predict audience reaction to footage of last year’s groundbreaking...
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The $50,000 Question: Utah's Attorney General explains campaign donations received from company his office brought fraud charges against
Jean Welch Hill, Democratic challenger to Republican heavyweight Mark Shurtleff, believes it’s time she took over as the state’s attorney general. Hill counts many reasons why she should get the seat, including Shurtleff’s courtship...
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News | Too Much Information: Should teachers be punished for answering sex-ed questions?
It’s a good thing that Jennifer Seelig and Carl Wimmer have a nice, solid relationship, even in their polarity. Otherwise, Wimmer, the Republican representative from Herriman, might have taken Seelig’s phone call the wrong way. “Wimmer,...
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Hits & Misses | Nuclear Testing, Rising Prices and Salaries & Sock Monkeys
Nuclear Testing Congress has put up money for cancer testing of residents in an area of southeastern Utah that provided uranium for the United States’ first atomic bombs. The money comes after a federal study found rates of some cancers in Monticello...
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5 Spot | Dennis Paul Hobson Jr., founder and co-chair of the Utah Wiccan Alliance
Dennis Paul Hobson Jr., founder and co-chair of the Utah Wiccan Alliance (UWA) will join other Wiccans to celebrate summer solstice on June 21 at Liberty Park at noon. Organized in November 2007, the UWA is sitting pretty with over 700 members. Why...
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The Ocho | Podcast this!
Eight least-popular Salt Lake City-based podcasts currently available on iTunes:8. Ex-Mormons Who Really Have Nothing Unpleasant to Say About the LDS Church 7. Chillin’ With Shurtleff 6. Live! From the Burt’s Tiki Lounge Bathroom! 5. Pioneer...
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Private Eye | Scalpel, Please: I’ll miss my gallbladder more than I’ll miss Dubya
There’s nothing quite like getting up in the morning and feeling a bit lighter on the toes. Most people feel the benefit of weight loss either due to an exercise regimen or to a change in diet. I did neither. I opted for the tried and true method...
- Staff Box
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Staffbox | Summer va-ca vs. gas prices
How does the cost of fuel affect your vacation plans this summer?Jesse James Burnitt: I’ll be spending more time on my bike, so keep raising those prices! By the end of the summer, I want to see fields of abandoned SUVs. Wake up. Nick Clark: No...
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The Straight Dope | Second Guessing
I often see statistics on the number of deaths in the U.S. related to handgun accidents and murders by civilians. What I think would be a powerful statistic next to this is the number of people that have been saved by the use of a firearm. I have a funny...
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Deep End | The Pantsuit Party: Diehard Hillary followers have three words for you
Pundits are comparing the Hillarians, that vehement horde of true believing pantsuits, to the Ellen Jamesians, pointing out their shared belief in cutting off your nose to spite your face. (Readers will recall that the Jamesian, in John Irving’s...
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Deep End | The Pantsuit Party: Diehard Hillary followers have three words for you.
Pundits are comparing the Hillarians, that vehement horde of true believing pantsuits, to the Ellen Jamesians, pointing out their shared belief in cutting off your nose to spite your face.
- News Quirks
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Newsquirks | When Guns Are Outlawed
Curses, Foiled Again New Zealand police charged Michael Geoffrey Linn, 36, with robbing a bank in Cromwell after he drove to a lake and used gasoline and some papers from his car to start a fire to burn the clothes he wore during the hold-up. Nearby construction...
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Lake Effect | Herriman Ãœber Alles
Ellen Lindsey, the Fort Herriman Middle School health teacher who was placed on leave for allegedly revealing non-government-approved facts about sex during a sex-ed lecture, is a new hero. The resulting furor, during which purse-lipped and/or hysterical...
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- Miscellaneous
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Mullen | You Can Be Replaced: That’s your heart hollering at you to slow down
Someone close to me suffered a massive heart attack at age 42. As the cliché masters might say, the man was in the prime of life. But the day it happened—actually for a full week leading up to the coronary—he hadn’t been feeling...
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Ask a Mexican | Unruly Dodger Fans, Immigrant Reform & Germans
Dear Mexican: I recently went to a Los Angeles Dodgers game at Dodgers Stadium. It was good to see the familias having fun with their children, pero I then saw and heard something disturbing. There will always be rivalries in any sport, of course, pero...
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Cheap Shot | Panda-monium: Black and white and kung-fu all over at Karate for Kids
I told my parents I hated them. They promised my sister a horse, my brother a cat—but they would not let me have a pet panda bear. Even at 5 years old, I knew “hate” had to be the worst thing you could say to your mom and dad. Worse...
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The Way It Is | Meara McClenahan, salesperson at the Capitol Theatre box office
Congress recently passed a bill extending unemployment benefits for another 13 weeks nationwide. While the bill in Utah may help more than 12,000 unemployed in the state, Republican congressmen Chris Cannon and Rob Bishop voted against the bill, agreeing...
Restaurants & Bars
- Restaurant Reviews
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Dining | Food Matters: El Pollo Loco, Tiburon Grill, Ruth’s Chris & Fratelli Ristorante
On June 26, the first Utah location of El Pollo Loco will open its doors in Lehi. I’ve eaten often at West Coast El Pollo Locos, famous for their citrus-marinated flame-grilled chicken served with warm tortillas and fresh salsas, which are prepared...
- Restaurant Reviews
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Dining | Wine: White House Vino
Susie Selby has something you don’t. No, I don’t mean a winery, though she has that too. But she has an official George W. Bush Sharpie pen. “It was slightly chewed on one end,” she said as we sipped and supped at last week’s...
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- Restaurant Reviews
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Dining | Birthday Tardy: Tucanos’ subpar service doesn’t leave much to celebrate
Utahns love an all-you-can-eat buffet—which is why, I suppose, Tucanos Brazilian Grill in The Gateway was mobbed on a recent rainy Wednesday evening. With most midlevel and upscale restaurants suffering under the weight of a lousy economy, I was...
Music
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Music Picks June 19-25 | Live: The Bowmans, Corey Christiansen Quartet Weinland, Wolf Eyes, Mark Knopfler
Thursday 6.19 THE BOWMANS Anitfolk is a misleading term for The Bowmans’ sweet-and-low-down sound. Antifolk is the label Billy Bragg once coined for his acoustic-punk stew, and the New York City strain typically refers to oddball singer/songwriters...
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Music | Skull Candy: Kevin Kirk’s still peddlin’ evil as The Heavy Metal Shop turns 21
The Heavy Metal Shop is a local and international institution, whether anyone knows it or not. Kevin Kirk opened the music ’n’ gear store in Sugar House 21 years ago; the infamous HMS skull logo has been a staple of every metal musician and...
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Music | Ah Ha Hum: Imaad Wasif unpacks the voices in his head
Imaad Wasif’s latest music explorations are a slice of love and a bit of madness. The lauded indie-rock guitarist from bands like Lowercase, Alaska! and the New Folk Implosion spent the past several years honing his solo chops while touring in support...
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- CD Reviews
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Music | CD Revue: Hold Steady, Dennis Wilson, Kaskade
Hold Steady Stay Positive It’s hard to defend The Hold Steady, it really is. Detractors aren’t wrong when complaining about Craig Finn’s sing-speak vocals, and their standard bar-rock sound is nothing to write home about. That’s...
Culture
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Visual Art | Going to the Wolves: Printmaker Chad Tolley explores the animal side of the male psyche
Slam. The metal and wood surfaces of the press make contact with paper, the artist’s hand distant at the moment the dark, fluid ink rushes through the porous surface of the fiber like blood flowing under the skin. But where is the human touch? The...
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- Film Reviews
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Cinema | CONTROL Issues: Stuck with a title and a history, Get Smart loses its comedic potential
As a 21st-century American over the age of 6, I understand that the answer to why Hollywood does anything is almost always “money.” For example, why would a studio launch a movie version of Get Smart, a 40-year-old television series that was...
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True TV | Tru Crude: Penn & Teller, Guys Choice, Two Coreys, Baby Borrowers, Black Gold
Summer TV Update Remember how The Only TV Column That Matters™ told you last month that Rescue Me would likely be returning on FX in July? Yeeeah. Now, the fifth season premiere has been pushed back to April 2009 (!), but FX will be airing five-minute...
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Free Will Astrology | June 19-25
ARIES (March 21-April 19) We’re halfway through 2008. It’s a perfect moment to take inventory of how well you’re capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities. So let me ask you, Aries: Are you working your ass off in order...
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- Entertainment Picks
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The Essentials | City Weekly’s Entertainment Picks June 19-25
VISUAL ART By Brian Staker Pop art is a genre that seems perpetually on the verge of cliché or self-parody. JANN HAWORTH: POP PLASTIQUES at the downtown Main Library manages to say something new in the style—but then, Haworth had a hand in...
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- Summer RecFest
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Summer RecFest 2008 | Dutch Oven Recipes
n n n n Team Thayn 3 Pot Aye Caramba! Apple Pie Crust: 4-1/2 cups flour 3 tablespoons buttermilk powder ¾ teaspoon salt ¾ teaspoon baking...
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Sports | Kickin’ It Old School: Adult kickball leagues relive the days of recess'only with beer
The remarkable growth of the Utah Capital Division of the World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA) is pretty easy to explain according to league president Beau Brosius: “It’s like having recess and then having beers. That’s the whole...
