- Issue of
- Sep 25 - Oct 1, 2008
- Vol. 25, No. 19
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Feature | Drug Deal: Siegfried & Jensen attorneys landed a huge drug case contract from Utah’s Attorney General. Did their hiring of Mark Shurtleff’s daughter seal the deal?
Joseph Steele, senior partner in the high-profile personal injury law firm Siegfried & Jensen, will tell you that combined decades of experience made him and fellow attorney Matthew Garretson the natural choice to help represent the State of Utah...
News
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- Cover Story
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Feature | Drug Deal: Siegfried & Jensen attorneys landed a huge drug case contract from Utah’s Attorney General. Did their hiring of Mark Shurtleff’s daughter seal the deal?
Joseph Steele, senior partner in the high-profile personal injury law firm Siegfried & Jensen, will tell you that combined decades of experience made him and fellow attorney Matthew Garretson the natural choice to help represent the State of Utah...
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News | All Ramped Up: Salt Lake Valley Health Department’s ban on back-yard skating riles boarders.
For as long as skateboarders have been chased out of parks and off downtown sidewalks, the expression “skateboarding is not a crime” has been the battle cry of a generation. While skateboarding on private property has often been cause for...
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News | Slippery Slope: The Utah Avalanche Center budget struggles to keep up with a busy backcountry.
The nip in the air has some Utahns already itching for snow, but some worry a key partner in their enjoyment of the backcountry—the Utah Avalanche Center—won’t be around when the snow arrives. A dip in funding for the organization that...
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Hits & Misses | Private Club Laws, Gas-Hogging Government Bureaucrats & CA’s Proposition 8
Drinking Logic A statement recently posted at the LDS Church’s official Webpage holds good news for those who think the time has come to chuck Utah’s ridiculous private club law: It doesn’t say “No.” The statement makes...
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5 Spot | Dining Critic Ted Scheffler
Longtime dining critic Ted Scheffler joins the City Weekly staff as dining editor on Oct. 1. So, what’s up with the promotion? Well, after a 15-year job interview—I began reviewing restaurants for the Private Eye in early ’94—I...
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The Ocho | Skinning The Leonardo
Eight more exhibits coming to The Leonardo after the cadaver-riffic Body Worlds:8. Cuisines of the Cosmos: A collection of exotic, international restaurants ranging from Sbarro to P.F. Chang’s (originally titled The Food Court of Forever). 7....
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Private Eye | Crow Magna Man: Forget U'I’ll take Weber State and Magna.
“Can I get my money back for those free tickets I received?” The above was the opening sentence to an e-mail I received this week from one of the lucky winners of the free BYU football tickets I recently gave away. I had bought, for...
- Staff Box
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Staffbox | Can I get a witness?
If you ever needed a character witness, whom would you choose?Scott Renshaw: The question presumes I have a character that I’d want to have witnessed. Cesar Guzman: I would choose my drug dealer Catalina as my character witness. Derek Carlisle:...
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The Straight Dope | Siren Song
Over the years I’ve noticed a variety of siren sounds for emergency vehicles. Is it true siren sounds have to be changed periodically, particularly in urban areas, to prevent drivers from getting used to a particular sound and not paying attention? ...
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Ask a Mexican | Anchor Babies & Mexican Penis Size
Dear Mexican: What is an anchor baby? I am a 45-year-old male born in the U.S.A. My mother was born in ex-Yugoslavia (now Serbia), and my father was also born in ex-Yugoslavia (now Croatia). My father arrived to this country via a green card about four...
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Cheap Shot | Roll Before You Crawl: Getting unpredictable at The Republican, Piper Down, Tokyo Sushi and Willie’s.
It starts off like a joke: A man walks into a bar. However, I can attest, this is no joke, because I was the “man.” This man walked into The Republican (917 S. State). Sitting at the bar were two guys, guys like Statler and Waldorf, the two...
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Deep End | Smarty Pants: My summer of love with sassy Sarah Lou Palin.
People would be making a big mistake if they underestimate my old girlfriend Sarah Palin (when we dated, I knew her as Sarah Lou Heath.) She’s been getting a lot of grief from cynical elitists for her ignorance of American history and foreign policy,...
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Lake Effect | Beers, Yes; Queers, No
September has been an exciting month for those who breathlessly anticipate LDS Church statements. Such statements regularly emanate from 50 E. North Temple, but two of them have garnered considerable attention this month.nOne, optimistically interpreted...
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- Miscellaneous
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Mullen | Kick Me: Dumb and stunned and simply longing for someone to trust.
Last week, I picked up my friend—I’ll call her Kay—and drove to the Downtown Farmers Market. Hitting the market together early in the morning is the closest thing to hanging out that two overscheduled, 50-something women can muster....
- News Quirks
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Newsquirks | Beware the Buttbuttinator
Curses, Foiled Again Police in Williamsburg, Ky., arrested two men and two women for stealing a 20-foot-long section of railroad track. Unable to load the track onto their truck, even with a hoist, they chained it to the back and dragged it behind them,...
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The Way It Is | Riki Eastmond of Bennion Jewelers
School vouchers are re-emerging as a 2008 election issue. The Utah Democratic Party is reminding voters of Republican support of the voucher issue, which was defeated in referendum this past November. State GOP leaders, however, contend that school vouchers...
Eat & Drink
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Vienna Bistro, Little Taste of Britain & Mini-Burgers
One of the delights of dining at Vienna Bistro on weekends is a Russian violinist named Vladimir. He roams from table to table playing world-class violin and, upon request, also shares his fervent opinions about politics and culture—everything from...
- Restaurant Reviews
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Dining | Wine: Something Fisher-y
You’re about to read the details of a wine dinner that hasn’t even happened yet. How do I do it? Well it’s not some Penn & Teller trick, nor am I a time traveler. Last week, I had the rare opportunity to preview a wine dinner that...
- Restaurant Reviews
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Dining | Frody Factor: Amidst the debris of downtown, Vienna Bistro’s owner keeps customers happy.
His soul patch and the hair on his head are blondish-turning-to-gray, but Frody Volgger has the Jagger/Richards look of a rock star. I think it’s the endless hours he spends on his feet at his restaurant, Vienna Bistro, that keep him so slim and...
Music
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Music Picks Sept. 25-Oct. 1 | Live: Jeff Hanson, CarCrashLander, James Shook, Night of the Immortals & Bluesapalooza
Thursday 9.25 JEFF HANSON Like Death Vessel, a similarly gifted indie folk/pop artist with an unusual falsetto, Jeff Hanson deftly transcends the novelty of his high-pitched voice. He makes good music. Damned good music—period. Both artists are...
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Music | Pure and Simple: Salt Lake City’s Paul Jacobsen does his hero proud.
Every year, Paul Jacobsen posts a glowing online tribute to Steve Earle in honor of the veteran country artist’s Jan. 17 birthday. Never mind that his closest friends already know the story—how Jacobsen’s brother Andy introduced him...
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Music | Our Town: Sego Festival lifts the curtain on a hipper Provo.
Downtown Provo is rising. For proof, look no further than a two-block strip of University Avenue where a new breed of young urban professionals have set up shop offering in-the-know locals rare access to boutique and vintage clothing, live music, cutting-edge...
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Music | Koan Alone: Bart Davenport enjoys the sound of one geek clapping.
The way Pete Townshend got tinnitus was not from his loud amps at his gigs,” says Bart Davenport. Tinnitus—“this fucking ringing in my ear that happens to me 24 hours a day,” he said about it—is the last thing the San Francisco...
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Music | Two High: Brooklyn’s High Places aren’t trying to be mysterious.
Relationships are often created in the unlikeliest places at the unlikeliest times. At hand is a particular duo that met as one half pursued a music degree in bassoon performance and the other worked in visual art while teaching etching and lithography....
Culture
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Theater | Good to Fair: Short Shorts and My Fair Lady kick off the Salt Lake City theater season.
Short Shorts Festival Wasatch Theatre Company’s Page-to Stage Short Shorts Festival incorporates ingredients that could make for a long and unrewarding night of theater: nonexistent sets, sparse props, and previously unproduced scripts by local...
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Dance | Babel On: Forty years after its creation, Tower still resonates with significance.
Imagine a world in which a civilization celebrates its grand achievements by constructing a majestic tower. This tower is meant to represent the beauty of the world in total, a nod to the brilliance of global humanity. Now imagine that tower falling,...
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- Film Reviews
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Cinema | G.I. D’oh!: Spike Lee turns Miracle at St. Anna into a war story with no focus, and no point.
I have to confess that I’m not entirely sure what the “miracle” at St. Anna is meant to be. I get that there is a small confluence of events that comes together during the larger, very horrific awfulness that transpires in the tiny Italian...
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True TV | Pie & Dry: The Office, Dexter, Californication, Little Britain USA, Chuck, Pushing Daisies
The Office Thursday, Sept. 25 (NBC) Season Premiere: Did you watch all of those online Webisodes with Kevin over the summer? Yeah, me neither. On the season premiere of The Office (which wasn’t previewed for the TV intelligentsia), says here that...
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Free Will Astrology | Sept. 25-Oct. 1
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Every day for 44 years, the German writer Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt composed a poem for his wife, the lively and brilliant Karoline von Dachroden. In accordance with your astrological potentials, Aries, I will ask you to briefly...
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- Entertainment Picks
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The Essentials | City Weekly’s Entertainment Picks Sept. 25-Oct. 1
COMEDY By Jennifer HeaneyGeorge Lopez has canceled this appearance. Ticket refunds available at point of purchase. GEORGE LOPEZ is arguably the most successful Latino comic in mainstream American pop culture. His success has come from more than 20 years...
