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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Happy Birthday - From Hell!

Imagine my horror when this showed up in my e-mail box yesterday: Two of the worst motherfuckers on the planet, Dr. "Not Really a Doctor" Laura and Bob "Flanders" Lonsberry!

Mesa Drive: Dead End

Add another local (or should I say half-local) band to the obituary column this season. Mesa Drive has declared their breakup.

Respecting Myself

When my daughter was in high school, she got together with some friends for a night of home videos, which turned out to be "clean flicks." As the only non-Mormon in her group, she asked why parts of the film were missing.

Utah: New Jersey of the West?

Tom Guinney of the Gastronomy restaurants has sent a strongly-worded letter attacking EnergySolutions to Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. and every member of Utah’s Legislature. In the Feb 23 letter, Guinney, a member of the Salt lake Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee and the Downtown Alliance trustee board, writes that if the nuclear services company is allowed to import foreign nuclear waste for burial in the Beehive State, “Utah will come to be viewed as a global New Jersey of nuclear waste, with disastrous consequences for our tourism industry.” EnergySolutions has offered Utah half of its profits from importing used foreign nuclear reactor parts, if the Legislature allows the imports.

SLUG Magazine's 20th Anniversary

Break out your finest, its time to mark a milestone not just for the scene, but for local journalism in general. --- Born out of the backroom of the old Private Eye's offices twenty years ago, SLUG Magazine hit the streets with look at the local music scene, which at the time received little to no attention from anyone.

Your Local Artist Moment

Presenting the first in what we hope will be a regular showcase of an artist's work currently on display in a local gallery. This week: "The Sacrifice of Isaac," photography by Matt Glass, part of the artist's "Apocrypha" series at Utah Arts Festival Gallery.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

New Music!

A couple of great albums came out on Tuesday, both definitely worth your hard-earned cash. Black Lips managed to release 200 Million Thousand despite their recent rumble with authorities in India, a kerfuffle that had the Southern boys kicked out of the country!

Cosmic Debris

In honor of Mardi Gras, I salute the "debris" sandwich, a po' boy made famous by Mother's restaurant in New Orleans. It's one of the tastiest things I've ever gotten my lips around.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Waddoups on Toast, Hold the Buttars

Some find Mike Waddoups especially hard to stomach this session.

Separated at Birth?

I've noticed that Joseph Smith has been changing over the past 30 or so years. When I was a kid, his portraits all depicted him as a somewhat gawky, intense-looking young man. In the decades to follow, however, his features have evened out quite a bit, the intensity has been replaced with a calm, mature, farseeing, visionary affect.

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