- Issue of
- Jan 14-20, 2010
- Vol. 26, No. 35
Cover Stories
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Citizen Lobbying in Utah
Storm the Hill: City Weekly's guide to citizen lobbying.
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How to Stalk Your Utah Legislators
Utah Legislature’s website and your county clerk can help.
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Utah Legislators Who Listen
City Weekly-approved starter list of approachable lawmakers.
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Tips from Utah's Veteran Citizen Lobbyists
How Claire Geddes and others have found success.
News
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- Cover Story
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Citizen Lobbying in Utah
Storm the Hill: City Weekly's guide to citizen lobbying.
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- Cover Story
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How to Stalk Your Utah Legislators
Utah Legislature’s website and your county clerk can help.
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- Cover Story
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Utah Legislators Who Listen
City Weekly-approved starter list of approachable lawmakers.
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- Cover Story
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Tips from Utah's Veteran Citizen Lobbyists
How Claire Geddes and others have found success.
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UTA Route Reductions
Utah bus riders face reduction and elimination of weekend routes.
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- Hits & Misses
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Lesbian Parents, Inversion Costs & More Challengers
Artificial insemination ain't so bad.
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- 5 Spot
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Hank Louis of the U of U's Design Build Bluff
Hank Louis is founder and instructor of the University of Utah’s Design Build Bluff program, which builds eco-housing for low-income Navajo families.
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- Citizen Revolt
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Martin Luther King Jr. Events
’Tis the season to remember Martin Luther King Jr., the father of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
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- The Ocho
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Utah Air: Chunky-Style
Eight fun ways to enjoy the Wasatch Front's worst-in-the-nation air-quality index.
- Staff Box
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What sin would you tax?
If you were able to lobby a lawmaker, what “sin” would you tell him or her to tax?
- Letters
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In Harmony Now?
If Thomas Crawford wants to cast aspersions, he should at least get his facts straight.
- Letters
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Driven to Drink
Regarding the letter from Daniel Barker: You don’t make sense. Yes, you mentioned it takes fossil fuel and water to fatten the grain-fed cows.
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- Opinion
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I Love Cigarettes
Why is Utah senator calling for tripling tax on smokes?
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- The Straight Dope
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Cat Trap
Is it necessary for the fire department to rescue a cat that’s stuck in a tree? I mean, c’mon, they got up there. Can’t they get down on their own?
- Editorial Videos
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10 Places to Do It in Utah
Who knew Deena Marie's mom was so hot?
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- Ask a Mexican
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Amnesty Mexicano
Dear Mexican: I’m surprised by the choice of the word “amnesty” by those who would demonize immigration reform, especially in the South.
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- Deep End
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Downtown Spreading
LDS Church eyes parking lot for the sport of the gods, lawn bowling.
- News Quirks
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Central Unintelligence Agency
Dennis Montgomery, head of a small software company in Reno, Nev., duped the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security...
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- Nice Tats
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January 14, 2010: Caitlin Heighton
I got this after a very “shocking” time in my life.
- Rant Control
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Mormon Means, Immigrant Ends
Many believe genetics prove the Book of Mormon is about as accurate as a Brothers Grimm fairy tale when it comes to the origins of American Indians...
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- Zionized
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Zionized 23: Sacred Geometry
Local artist Trent Alvey opens her exhibit Sacred Geometry.
Eat & Drink
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- Wine
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Apres-Ski Drinks in Utah
Where to go and what to drink after the lifts close.
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- Wine
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Frida Bistro
Mexican food at a higher level—beyond the taco/burrito/enchilada basics.
- Wine
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Big Rock Cafe, New Dragon Diner
The restaurant and resort setting is gorgeous—at the foot of Big Rock Candy Mountain, among ponderosa pines ...
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- Restaurant Reviews
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10 Best Utah Dishes
10 things from Utah restaurants you must put in your mouth.
Music
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Velour Anniversary, Amy Speace, Tash, Edit, Umphrey's McGee & Access Film-Music Party
Live: Music Picks Jan 14-20
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Glade Sowards
Exposed: Glade finds a reason to release.
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Trannyshack, W Lounge Martini Tour & 62 Years of Twilite
San Francisco’s infamous drag troupe is crashing into Salt Lake City’s club scene Jan. 15 for Club Sound’s weekly Gossip night.
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Orion Independent Music Festival
Starry Nights: New music festival hunts for talent.
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- CD Reviews
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Kurt Vile & Vampire Weekend
Some musicians take a while to get revved up, polishing their songs and performance until they reveal their art to the world.
Culture
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- Get Out
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Kicking smoking empowers man to take on mountain
Zack Ralphs: Scaling Mount Kilimanjaro
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- Books
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Utah in the Twentieth Century
Book chronicles the state’s social and cultural transitions.
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- Film Reviews
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The Lovely Bones
Lost in Translation: Peter Jackson’s radical reworking of The Lovely Bones results in a failed thriller.
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- Film Reviews
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A Single Man
Sad, Pretty Pictures: Tom Ford should have let the grim beauty of A Single Man speak for itself.
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- True TV
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Archer, Project Runway, Human Target, 24, Life Unexpected, My Life as Liz
Spy Hard: Agents, models, targets and hipsters.
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- DVD Reviews
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Across the Hall, Damages, Smokin' Aces 2, Weeds, Whiteout
New DVD Releases Tuesday, Jan. 19
- Free Will Astrology
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Jan. 14-20: Correcting the Misdiagnoses
The number of bacteria per square inch on a toilet seat averages about 50. Meanwhile, your telephone harbors over 25,000 germs per square inch and the top of your desk has about 21,000.
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- Entertainment Picks
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Six Degrees of Separation
Thursday 1.14
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- Entertainment Picks
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Winter Dew Tour
Thursday 1.14
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- Entertainment Picks
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Audrey Niffenegger
Wednesday 1.20
- Entertainment Picks
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Jerry Hardesty: Reflections
Friday 1.15
- Entertainment Picks
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Cash Levy
Friday 1.15
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- Entertainment Picks
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John Hess: Woven Textile Reliefs
Friday 1.15
- Entertainment Picks
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Bree Despain: The Dark Divine
Saturday 1.16
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- Entertainment Picks
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Touch(ed)
Friday 1.15
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- Comics
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Comic Books 2009
A rundown of the best comic books of 2009.
- CWMA Videos
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CWMA Nominee David Williams
David Williams performs The Sargasso Sea.
- Film Festival
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Sundance Film Festival Categories
Dramatic Competition Documentary Competition Premieres Park City at Midnight Spotlight NEXT World Drama World Documentary New Frontier Shorts Programs
- Film Festival
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Sundance 2010 Alphabetical Film Listing
# 3 Backyards7 Days8: The Mormon Proposition12th & Delaware A AbelAll My Friends Are Funeral SingersAll That I LoveAnimal KingdomAnimation ShowcaseArmless B Bass AckwardsBhuttoBilal's Stand
