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The University of Texas-Austin has a collection of documents and oddities belonging to the late, great David Foster Wallace, including his marked-up copy of the American Heritage Dictionary with 23 entries circled. ---Were these his favorite words?
Finally someone may get to the bottom of why green Jell-O and funeral potatoes are so uniquely Mormon.--- The University of Utah’s Tanner Humanities Center has awarded it’s first ever Mormon Studies fellowship to Kate Holbrook, a doctoral candidate at Boston University for a project to study Mormon culture and food. Her project entitled “Radical Food: Mormon Foodways and the American Mainstream” will delve into the connections between food and culture from 1930 to 1970.
Remember the American Fork teens who were busted for "rapping" their order at a McDonald's drive-thru last year? Neither did we, until they showed up on Comedy Central last night.
Years ago, Salt Lake City had a spunky little mayor who focused on the nuts-and-bolts issues of a city, such as pedestrian safety. To this day, one of his pet projects, orange flags, still can get people talking.---
I'd never noticed East High School's weird slogan until today. As we drove past, there it was: a big, fancy screen-printed banner, as big as you please, with the words "East High School 'Where Amazing Happens.'"---
In the latest round of sparring between Sen. Bob Bennett and contender Mike Lee, Bennett blasted Lee in a video for making the claim that there are as many “thugs” in Afghanistan as there are in Utah County. ---So let’s consider the thug life in Afghanistan vs. Provo.
As rumored in various radio media yesterday, 101.9 The End has dumped its DJs and gone, as they say, "jockless" for the first time since its inception in 1996. As reported by All Access, this means no more Jimmy Chunga and ... who else was on The End?
On the heels of a successful legislative session, the Salt Lake Animal Advocacy Movement (SLAAM) took to the streets, picketing University of Utah researchers who use animals in their research, or vivisectors, to use the activists' term. ---New legislation passed in 2010 ended the requirement on animal shelters to sell pound puppies (and kitties, too) to research labs.
Big day for TV news--the least surprising being Larry David's decision to bring back Curb Your Enthusiasm for Season 8. Did anyone believe Larry could stay away from "Larry"?
