- Issue of
- Dec 18-24, 2008
- Vol. 25, No. 31
News
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Labor Pains
Federal lawsuit alleges sexism and pregnancy discrimination at Siegfried & Jensen.
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Mullen | Poetic License: Santa Claus lives in our imagination, hearts and minds.
Ioana Cupsa was genuinely surprised the day I answered her e-mail. She wrote to me on Dec. 8, with “story idea” in the subject line. nBy far, most e-mail I get at City Weekly comes from commercial ventures or marketing firms and public relations experts hawking everything from a struggling band’s CD to a new line of organic baby food. Each e-mail is rarely distinguishable from th...
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The Way It Is | Helge Seljaas of Arendal Kitchen Design
nSalt Lake school officials are concerned about energy drink distributors such as Red Bull appearing on school grounds and at high school sporting events where they pass out free energy drinks. School officials say the presence is unwanted and violates school district rules on advertising and promoting health and wellness. City Weekly asked Helge Seljaas of Arendal Kitchen Design in Sugar House if...
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Deep End | Last Call: Ingenious cell-phone devices to shut you up fast.
Just in time for Christmas comes the perfect stocking stuffer. It is a gizmo that shuts off your cell phone if you try to use it while operating a motor vehicle [“Yes! Anti-teen Technology,” Salt Blog, Dec. 11]. Developed by a Utah urologist now living in Kansas and a professor of civil engineering at the University of Utah, the device fits over your car key and transmits a Bluetooth r...
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Feature | Final Shot: Salt Lake Police fired Rob Joseph nine years ago. He’s not about to get over it.
nAs a child growing up in Queensland, Australia, Rob Joseph loved Serpico, the classic 1973 true-crime thriller featuring Al Pacino as “an honest cop” who turns state’s evidence about corruption in the NYPD. Serpico made Joseph want to be a policeman. n“I thought that being a cop suited my desire to help people,” Joseph says. In retrospect, he adds, “That was g...
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5 Spot | Derryl Yeager, Odyssey Dance’s Company’s artistic director
nOdyssey Dance’s Company’s IRS debt has made some headlines lately. We asked artistic director Derryl Yeager what it all means.n n nDoes this recent spate of negative publicity spell the end of Odyssey Dance?nNot at all. The article emphasizes what we owe but doesn’t emphasize the fact we’ve filed an Offer and Compromise that will greatly reduce the debt and make it possibl...
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Hits & Misses | Utahs Driving Less, Expensive Ethics Reform & Mine Inspectors
Ticket to Riden Short of drilling a hole through the mountains and installing a giant fan to blow smog out of Utah’s valleys, the only way Beehive State residents are going to breathe clean air in the near future is if they stop driving. There’s good news on that front in a recent survey from the Federal Highway Administration. People are driving less all over the United States compare...
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Lake Effect | Fight On!
nSOS, and calling Chris Buttars, please: In all but declaring a regular jihad on Christmas, the Salina and Richfield city councils have officially decided to 86 nativity scenes on city property this holiday season. nThe Associated Press reports that both councils took their city attorney’s legal advice to—imagine—keep church and state separate and to take a pass on the crè...
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Staffbox | Christmas Wishes for Memorable Educators
Do you have a memorable teacher or professor you want to send a Christmas wish to? n n nDerek Jones: Mr. Newman. In high school, I approached the principal to form a Gay-Straight Alliance. He came forward and let me know he would be the adviser for our group. It was a truly proud and heroic act as he put a lot on the line coming out like that. Mr. Newman, it’s been a few years, but I want yo...
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The Ocho | Gather 'Round the Xmas TV
nnnnEight little-known Christmas TV specials and movies airing this week:nn8. Law & Order: Ralphie the Red Ryder Freeway Sniper (NBC) n n7. A Very Real Christmas: Home for the Holidays and Nowhere Near the Playoffs With Real Salt Lake (KSL 5) n n6. Rudolph’s Shiny New Flask (ABC Family) n n5. Big Budah’s Supa-Funky Yuletide Dance Party (Fox 13) n n4. Betrayed By the Beard: The Mrs...
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Private Eye | Meet Him in the Muss: If there ever was a Utah Man, it was Parry Sorensen.
It wasn’t a good circumstance, a funeral service, but I finally saw what the football field at Rice-Eccles stadium looks like from the executive tower high above the west bleachers. It was Monday and the field was covered in snow. I guess it’s a good place to watch a football game if you don’t mind mingling with people who don’t like to mingle with the cuppa joe masses sitt...
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Cinema | Will Power: Only the world’s biggest movie star could sell Seven Pounds as uplifting.
Posters and other advertisements for Seven Pounds promise … well, not all that much, actually. In a film marketing universe where the general object of a trailer or commercial is to give away pretty much the entire plot, Sony Pictures has been downright elusive about what the hell this thing is even about. Maybe we can determine that it’s a drama, and that there are tragic elements&md...
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True TV | A True TV Christmas: The annual (lazy) cartoon column.
nnnDVDnn n n n Burn After Readingn Dumb gym monkeys (Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand) attempt to extort money for misplaced CIA files; hilarity and George Clooney’s beard ensue. It’s like the Coen Brothers’ other film, The Big Lebowski. Only not. (Dec. 21; NBCUni.com)n n n n Death Racen Like in...
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Freewill Astrology | Dec. 18-24
nARIES (March 21-April 19)nWhat I foresee for you in 2009 is an upgrade in your approach to creating and maintaining your alliances. I envision you having dramatically enhanced intuition about how to connect with people in satisfying and interesting ways. I picture you being able to push beyond your habit-bound ways of conducting your relationships, ensuring that you’ll be entertained and mo...
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The Straight Dope | Quake Detectors
Can animals sense earthquakes? I’ve heard stories about cats carrying their litter of kittens out of a building just prior to a quake. Is there any truth in it? We’ve had two quakes in the last three hours, and my goldfish didn’t do a thing. —Nick E., Manchester, England n nOf course animals can sense earthquakes. Human beings can sense earthquakes. Some years ago, a frie...
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Newsquirks | Next Time, Try Doughnuts
Curses, Foiled AgainnA man who robbed a gas station in Aurora, Ind., tied up the clerk and then ran out the door with a carton of cigarettes. The robber stopped, however, when he realized he’d forgotten the bag of money. Police said he tried to re-enter the store but couldn’t because the door was equipped with an electronic lock.nn• Police responding to the theft of an ATM in Leav...
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Ask a Mexican | Favorite books regarding Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
Dear Readers: A couple of columnas ago, I published a short list of my favorite books regarding Mexicans and Mexican-Americans and urged ustedes to submit better choices so that gabachos can have a Christmas shopping list for their favorite Mexicans, or to understand nosotros better. Muchos responded, and below is a list of the most-recommended tomes, along with my brief descriptions. But before e...
Eat & Drink
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Spirits: Wine Under the Tree
If you’re reading this column, you’ve got less than a week to finish up your Christmas shopping. Haven’t even started yet? That’s OK. Don’t panic. We’re here to help. nWine gifts can be meaningful ones. But as much as I appreciate receiving a bottle of wine for the holidays, I do like to see at least a smidgeon of thought go into it. At this time of year, it&rsq...
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Chic Showdown: A fine-dining comparison pits Park City’s Mustang against Philadelphia’s 10 Arts.
Over the span of a few days this month, I dined in two very interesting restaurants. One is just a half hour from Salt Lake City, the other much farther. I don’t normally review out-of-state restaurants in City Weekly, but I found the similarities and differences between Park City’s Mustang and 10 Arts by Eric Ripert in Philadelphia illuminating. Both are individually owned establishme...
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Curry In A Hurry Anniversary, Wild Grape & Cristiano Creminelli's
Curry x 10: Congratulations to Mona Nisar and her family, owners of Curry in a Hurry, as they celebrate the restaurant’s 10th anniversary. “We want to give back to our community that has supported us all these years,” Mona said. And boy did they ever! Last Wednesday, the folks at Curry in a Hurry fed hordes of anniversary celebrants free curry plates for lunch. It’s been 10...
Music
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Know Your Local ... Hip-Hop Artist: Mike Booth
Salt Lake City emcee/hip-hop producer Mike Booth is known for his signature symphonic hooks and lyrics in The Fantasmic Four and The Bad Apples, his project with Louis Wildamiss.
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Music | We’re Off to See the Witch: Eliza Wren’s dark side of Oz.
When Eliza Wren was a little girl, she always had a taste for spooky things. n“I always really loved scary movies,” Wren says, “But it’s not like my mom was going to let me rent The Exorcist. I had to take what I could get.” nThe local musician wasn’t a morbid little girl. She was simply drawn to things that pushed the outer limits of the imagination. nWren indu...
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Music | Body Movin’: SLC’s Sex on the Run shake some action just for you.
I caught up with Salt Lake City electro-rockers Sex on the Run awhile back at Club Orange. About 45 minutes before their set, the group members joked about electrical tape and its potential effects on their dance moves. They’ve had a few close calls—near onstage collisions that probably only enhanced the experience of their energetic live shows. At the time, lead singer Tom Bennet, gui...
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Music Picks Dec. 18-24 | Live: Jerry Joseph, Utah Food Bank Benefit, Swollen Members, Eden's Watchtower Holiday Show & Roots & Culture Night
nThursday 12.18nJERRY JOSEPH & HIS ELECTRIC BANDnJerry Joseph is a local institution who doesn’t live here anymore. His imprint on the local music scene is so thick each of his tour stops in Salt Lake City feels rather like a homecoming. Joseph originally laid the foundation for his enduring legacy during the ’90s when he formed the Jackmormons, building on the popularity of his fo...
Culture
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Know Your Local ... Hip-Hop Artist: Mike Booth
nSalt Lake City emcee/hip-hop producer Mike Booth is known for his signature symphonic hooks and lyrics in The Fantasmic Four and The Bad Apples, his project with Louis Wildamiss. Their latest release, How Ya Like Dem Apples Pt. I (Penalty Box Records), has snagged plenty of strong critical acclaim and delivers a sound somewhere between The Beastie Boys and Eminem. Booth also hosts a weekly radio ...
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The Essentials | City Weekly's Entertainment Picks Dec 18-24
nTHEATERn By Scott RenshawnFor years, Sarah Shippobotham has been the voice behind voices on the Salt Lake City stage—a gifted teacher and dialect coach who has given scores of local actors their accents. Too rarely has she gotten her own opportunities to step into the spotlight. But in Utah Contemporary Theatre’s production of Pamela Gien’s THE SYRINGA TREE, she gets a doozy. nO...
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Visual Art | Point and Shoot: Saans Gallery’s Holga show gives photography some retro action.
The digital age has several implications for photography: more technical manipulative control, instant results and the elimination of darkroom developing. These developments have simultaneously decreased demand for—and pushed the envelope of—fine-art photography. The Holga Show 2008 at Saans Gallery takes photo art back a couple decades to the age of toy cameras—which, in the mid...
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Comics | Keeping Watch: A new book explores the birth of a landmark graphic novel series.
In the mid-1980s, comic books began trying to move farther away from the campy, “gee whiz” attitude that had been associated with the genre for years. Companies were reaching out to new, edgier creators looking for ways to revitalize the industry. For DC, this meant plucking talent from a British comic magazine called 2000 AD. This, of course is where they got wind of artist Dave Gibbo...
