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From folk-rock to funk and reggae, the High Sierra Music Festival in Quincy, Calif. offers four days of explosive music leaving folks with nary a fireworks desire for their Fourth of July weekend.--- Nestled in the quiet, lush mountains north of Lake Tahoe, the festival, in its 20th year, is one of the west's great music festivals. Better yet, it's less than a 10 hour drive from Salt Lake City.Held on the Plumas-Sierra Fairgrounds in town, the area is transformed into a tent/ RV village where fans and artists mix and mingle in a casual and fun environment with 10,000 attendees and over 50 artists on four daytime and four nighttime stages.
College students have a lot of options during the summer: lounging by the pool, working full-time to pay for tuition, taking classes, interning at a law firm (maybe, say, Daddy’s) ---or even taking the first steps down the adventure path known as journalism by interning for an illustrious, local, independent alternative newspaper. But what if your Facebook status was this: “Today, we rode bike 75 miles in the name of charity.” Instead of, say, “Road trip to Cali...dude!
An entertaining roundup of post-WWII gay- and lesbian-themed pulp fiction appears in the New Yorker's Book Bench blog. Thrill to such provocative titles as "Satan Was a Lesbian," "Senator Swish" and "The Man From C.A.M.P."
A weekday early afternoon at the Utah Arts Festival is a strange beast. As crowds gather and wander through the 90 degree heat, much of the festival isn’t yet ready to kick into gear.
At the Park Silly Market this past weekend I came across a vendor selling terrific homemade hummus: Happy Monkey Hummus. --- The all-natural hummus comes in a variety of flavors and sells for $6 per 8 oz. tub.
It’s National HIV Testing Month and that means the Salt Lake Valley Health Department will be holding free testing next week.--- Local health experts estimate there are roughly 100 new HIV cases reported every month in Salt Lake County alone.
The busy weekend just got busier: Wasatch Roller Derby will host Greeley, Colo.'s Slaughterhouse Derby Girls Saturday, June 26--the Colorado roller-derby invasion continues. The bout goes down at the Taylorsville Rec Center (4948 S. 2700 West), as WRD's all-star Mid-Afternoon Terror takes on Slaughterhouse at 4:30 pm, with a halftime show by the dudes of derby, the Uinta Madness men's roller-derby league.
If you think you can just pop into the Utah Arts Festival just before some band you want to see is about to play, think again.--- I foolishly did just that on opening night, and ended up stuck in line and eventually giving up on trying to see the Cowboy Junkies.
Claudia Wright, an upstart candidate selected by a rogue citizens' committee left her mark on the Democratic Party.--- Wright may have been trounced at the polls by Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, Tuesday, but that doesn't mean her campaign was worthless.
