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FLASHBACK 1992: For the physically challenged, it's a life and death struggle to stop further budget cuts.

Disabling the Handicapped
By Rich Tuttle

FLASHBACK 1986: Steve Reynolds reviews the latest in home video releases.

Murphy's Romance Only Hit Among August New Releases
By Steve Reynolds

FLASHBACK 2008: How should a part-time legislature get educated on a controversial bill?

Do Your Homework
By Holly Mullen
FLASHBACK 1986: Steve Reynolds reviews the latest in home video releases.
FLASHBACK 1986: Steve Reynolds reviews the latest in home video releases.

FLASHBACK 1986: Steve Reynolds reviews the latest in home video releases.

Murphy's Romance Only Hit Among August New Releases
Six video releases are up for grabs this month, consisting largely of recent films with the exception of a long-awaited James Bond/007 spoof.

By Steve Reynolds January 20, 2025

FLASHBACK 1994: Orrin Hatch, the penny-stock solution, and medical intrigue.
FLASHBACK 1994: Orrin Hatch, the penny-stock solution, and medical intrigue.

FLASHBACK 1994: Orrin Hatch, the penny-stock solution, and medical intrigue.

The Senator and the Strange Cure
The therapy Hatch was actually getting dramatizes his tie to Utah's burgeoning "alternative medicine" industry and its various homeopathic and vitamin supplement cures. It also underscores his connection to the state's lingering, fraud-riddled penny-stock industry, the industry Hatch served and defended as an attorney before elected to office in 1976.

By Lynn Packer January 13, 2025

FLASHBACK 1996: The Library of Congress is on a mission to save America's film heritage.
FLASHBACK 1996: The Library of Congress is on a mission to save America's film heritage.

FLASHBACK 1996: The Library of Congress is on a mission to save America's film heritage.

Screening for Preservation
The thousands of films made since 1893 have provided a remarkable record of American life and culture. Unfortunately, more than half the movies produced in this country before 1951 have deteriorated and are lost forever.

By Mary Dickson January 6, 2025

FLASHBACK 1990: Dee Radams previews the lineup at the Sundance Film Festival.
FLASHBACK 1990: Dee Radams previews the lineup at the Sundance Film Festival.

FLASHBACK 1990: Dee Radams previews the lineup at the Sundance Film Festival.

Annual United States Film Festival Kicks off with Charmers and Alarmers
The 1990 Sundance United States Film Festival will be remembered for its retrospectives, documentaries and independent productions, instead of its lackluster "world premiere."

By Dee Radams January 6, 2025

FLASHBACK 1988: Salt Lake's Centre Theatre stands as a final testament to another era of moviegoing.
FLASHBACK 1988: Salt Lake's Centre Theatre stands as a final testament to another era of moviegoing.

FLASHBACK 1988: Salt Lake's Centre Theatre stands as a final testament to another era of moviegoing.

Won't Someone Adopt a Goober?
One more building falls, and with it lives and times are lost—the skyline loses one more old face. The look of Salt Lake is purified and like the memories of an inexperienced child the last old movie palaces vanish.

By Kelly Jacobs January 6, 2025

FLASHBACK 1992: What happens when "healthy" people go too far.
FLASHBACK 1992: What happens when "healthy" people go too far.

FLASHBACK 1992: What happens when "healthy" people go too far.

Food Vibrations
The Sun Bun Cafe became an experiment in bad energy, and a graphic example of the limited rights employees in Utah possess to protect themselves from their employers.

By Jim Rice December 30, 2024

FLASHBACK 1994: Ted Scheffler toasts in 1995 on the town.
FLASHBACK 1994: Ted Scheffler toasts in 1995 on the town.

FLASHBACK 1994: Ted Scheffler toasts in 1995 on the town.

Eating in the New Year
In an uncharacteristic act of bravery and a constant quest to become a better person, I'll be stepping out on the town to greet 1995. If you choose a similar course of self-flagellation, here is a sampling of some pretty good bets for your midnight ride.

By Ted Scheffler December 30, 2024

FLASHBACK 2008: Holly Mullen ponders legislative ethics in Utah.
FLASHBACK 2008: Holly Mullen ponders legislative ethics in Utah.

FLASHBACK 2008: Holly Mullen ponders legislative ethics in Utah.

Checkmate, Utah Style
How easy has it become for Republicans to run this state like their own private chess game?

By Holly Mullen December 30, 2024

FLASHBACK 2009: The Derby Girls want you to join them.
FLASHBACK 2009: The Derby Girls want you to join them.

FLASHBACK 2009: The Derby Girls want you to join them.

Zionized 20: Derby Girls
Marty Foy hangs out with the Derby Girls for a night of skating.

By Marty Foy December 23, 2024

FLASHBACK 1987: The Christmas spirit appears to John Dorsey ... on TV!
FLASHBACK 1987: The Christmas spirit appears to John Dorsey ... on TV!

FLASHBACK 1987: The Christmas spirit appears to John Dorsey ... on TV!

Christmas Spirit as a Way of Life
I was determined to find some sign that the true Christmas spirit of giving of one's self was alive and well, before chronic cynicism set in.

By John Dorsey December 23, 2024

FLASHBACK 1989: Social worker Debra Daniels teaches empowerment to victims of domestic abuse.
FLASHBACK 1989: Social worker Debra Daniels teaches empowerment to victims of domestic abuse.

FLASHBACK 1989: Social worker Debra Daniels teaches empowerment to victims of domestic abuse.

A Better Way for Battered Women
A social worker of the first order ("committed since day one"), Debra is quick to point out that, although alcohol is the number one factor in male and female domestic violence, "it is not the cause, but only a symptom. Even if the abuser stops drinking, the abuse doesn't stop if a person is predisposed to act violently."

By John Saltas December 16, 2024

FLASHBACK 2008: Life was a series of stories, and Parry Sorensen loved them all.
FLASHBACK 2008: Life was a series of stories, and Parry Sorensen loved them all.

FLASHBACK 2008: Life was a series of stories, and Parry Sorensen loved them all.

Big Parry
The world as it was presented Parry with an inexhaustible cast of characters, and everyone he met was a player in the grand pageant of life. Parry was a great newsman because he knew that everyone had a story.

By D.P. Sorensen December 16, 2024

FLASHBACK 1997: The Fast-Track I-15 Reconstruction Project lacks coordination but guarantees tens of millions in so-called "bonuses" to the contractor.
FLASHBACK 1997: The Fast-Track I-15 Reconstruction Project lacks coordination but guarantees tens of millions in so-called "bonuses" to the contractor.

FLASHBACK 1997: The Fast-Track I-15 Reconstruction Project lacks coordination but guarantees tens of millions in so-called "bonuses" to the contractor.

Highway to Hell
A source reports that UDOT has lost control of the project and is allowing Wasatch Constructors to call the shots. There are indications that support that charge.

By Andrea Moore Emmett December 9, 2024

FLASHBACK 1993: Gloria Quick grills the right-wing jester politics at Joe Morley's Smokehouse.
FLASHBACK 1993: Gloria Quick grills the right-wing jester politics at Joe Morley's Smokehouse.

FLASHBACK 1993: Gloria Quick grills the right-wing jester politics at Joe Morley's Smokehouse.

Ribbing Limbaugh
Morley says he thinks Rush is funny, and that he agrees with much of what Limbaugh says. But, admits Morley, not all customers agree with Limbaugh and the Rush Room did cost him a couple of patrons.

By Gloria Quick December 9, 2024

FLASHBACK 2002: Christopher Smart gives a completely unnecessary analysis of the Winter Olympic Games.
FLASHBACK 2002: Christopher Smart gives a completely unnecessary analysis of the Winter Olympic Games.

FLASHBACK 2002: Christopher Smart gives a completely unnecessary analysis of the Winter Olympic Games.

Oh, These Wacky Games
By the time you read this, the 2002 Winter Olympics will be winding down to a few precious days. And, as Mitt Romney would say, it’s been one helluva ride. Here at SmartBomb, we gotta say that Mitt and his crew at SLOC did a wonderful job pulling the whole affair off, with only a few tintsy tiny snafus and perhaps an F-word here and there.

By Christopher Smart December 2, 2024

FLASHBACK 2004: After another election resulting in the same president, critics ask if the Salt Lake NAACP does enough.
FLASHBACK 2004: After another election resulting in the same president, critics ask if the Salt Lake NAACP does enough.

FLASHBACK 2004: After another election resulting in the same president, critics ask if the Salt Lake NAACP does enough.

NAACP: What's That Spell?
While writing this story about the Salt Lake Branch of the NAACP, my interviews revealed that perhaps some things did need fixing. I learned that Salt Lake City's black community is as fractured as a windshield from a head-on crash. But at least some people from different groups can agree on what made the wheels come off.

By Don Merrill December 2, 2024

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