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"'Cause girl I got something that's gonna pull us both through / I can go to work for this jail tattoo." — Mac Pontiac, "Jailhouse Tattoo"--- Gangster Tattoos: The best thing I read today was from my CW cohort, Jesse Fruhwirth.
The Salt City Derby Girls and the Junction City Roller Dolls are facing off for the first time in the 2010 local roller-derby season tomorrow—but with a twist.--- Instead of the usual all-star travel team vs. all-star travel team format, individual SCDG home teams The Bomber Babes and The Sisters of No Mercy will take on JCRD home teams Railway Banditas and Hilltop Aces, respectively, in an all-evening double-header at the Davis Conference Center (800 W. Heritage Park Blvd.) in Layton.
This Sunday night at 8 p.m. KUED debuts the third season of Inspector Lewis, a British detective series that as a sequel to the still much missed Inspector Morse, in many ways more than ably fills its substantial shoes.---
Immigrants recently apprehended on suspicion that they are gang members or felons may have been identified as such based on nothing more than a nautical star tattoo. Big surprise: ICE has been doing similar things for nearly a decade.---
This Saturday morning at 10 a.m. you can catch a 'flash mob' style burst of Argentine tango at 10 a.m. by the Argie bakery Pampas in Sugarhouse on 2156 South Highland Drive.--- Brian Salisbury coordinates these gifts of what he calls "guerilla tango" and in the past has abruptly orchestrated a burst of late night tango by practised and not so proficient dancers at Exchange Place by the Boston Building in downtown Salt Lake one midnight, or at the fountain on the southest corner of Library Square and the gazebo on Liberty Park.
This Sunday night gay latino night club promoter Manuel Arano returns to The Trappdoor under its new name Studio 27, reopening "Pachanga night," which was for six years the hottest gay Hispanic show in Utah. But will lightning strike twice?---
"I got the pistol, so I'll keep the pesos / That seems fair." — The Refreshments, "Banditos"--- More than a year ago, Utah's Super Friends responded to an urgent call to action from their Hall of Justice.
