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It's not often you find an artist able to glide between genres quite as gracefully as Patty Griffin.--- Granted, the singer/songwriter tromps through closely related fields, but watching her Kingsbury Hall show Tuesday, one couldn't help but be impressed with her dextrous handling of gospel and country, folk and blues.
Trying
to sum up nearly 25 years worth of radio into a single paragraph is
no easy task, especially when accounting for the specific show we're
going to discuss today. Which honestly, at times requires a
bibliography just to keep it all straight.
The device has a cool-sounding literary name—roman á clef—but it could just as easily
be called cover the ass. ---In short,
it’s a way fiction writers have of telling stories where everyone knows exactly
who you’re talking about, except that you give the characters different names
and pretend that any similarity to persons living or dead is purely
coincidental.
It's natural to think of hippie-dippy jam bands and reggae crews when any sort of enviro-related music fest pops up. The Gallivan Center went another way with Earthfest 2010, ---slated for April 22, and the public doesn't seem too stoked on their choice of headliner, or the price.
Three of seven alleged attackers of DJ Bell and Dan Fair are currently in custody while the other four have posted bail. Bell and Fair were the victims of an attack on July 5, 2008, in South Salt Lake ---after next-door neighbors accused Bell of kidnapping two children.
When I was
a kid I remember my grandmother on my mom’s side having a phrase for all the
tea you’d find at the overpriced grocery store. She called it… Shit Stew.
The hole where Port O' Call used to be in
Downtown Salt Lake City, 400 S. West Temple, closed since February 2009
... --- (Aerial photo by Marty Foy--see this week's episode of Zionized)
