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Downtown Salt Lake City kicks off its three-day EVE party, but that's just one way to get your New Year's party started early.--- EVE is certainly the largest event going down Wednesday night, at least in terms of scope.
Teena Marie made up the funky soundtrack of our lives in the '80s. --- Her collaboration with mentor "Superfreak" Rick James bestowed upon her
a unique musical handle: the "Ivory Queen of Soul"-- a white woman who
could sing and boogie down with the best of her Motown bretheren.
If you've ever skiied at Mt. Hood or attended the High Cascade snowboard camp there, you're probably familiar with Cobra Dogs, the food cart which has operated there for six years. --- Today, Cobra Dogs opens at Park City Mountain Resort, at the base of the Eagle Superpipe and Three Kings Terrain Park.
A male-to-female transgender Hispanic claims she has been victimized by guards during his current incarceration in the Salt Lake County jail.--- Davila-Escobedo, 32, has female breasts and male genitals.
As I sort through the debris of Christmas and try to ramp up for New Year's Eve, as is my nature, I am apt to pursue a post-mortem of the holiday just gone. What most strikes me most is the Broadway cinema's free screening of It's a wonderful life.---
The action is picking up as we meander toward New Year's Eve, starting with a CD release show from a much-buzzed-about local band.--- Holy Water Buffalo hail from Heber of all places, and the band just won a battle of the bands at Provo live music lair Velour.
Steve Earle was walking back and forth on top of a 15-feet-high, three-feet-wide brick fence while swigging out of a fifth of tequila laced with 19 hits of acid.--- A girl down below kept yelling, “Jump, you motherfucking chickenshit!” At that very moment Steve Earle knew he had found true love.
In
the entire time this blog has been in existence, I've never been able
to get a tattoo artist for an interview. True story, tried
several times before, they always back out at the last minute and
never mail back.
