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Free flicks, another Les Mis and some fine rock & roll on tap Wednesday.--- You can't beat the price of the City Weekly Street Team's event tonight at Brewvies--it's free, suckas!
With so many events and concerts taking up this weekend, I decided that we should so something different. --- Not like I was avoiding any of the major events happening around the valley, but there comes a point where shows get so much press that going off to cover it seems almost lazy because most of the work has been done for you.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz passed a bipartisan amendment out of a committee to restrict troop operations in Afghanistan to “targeted” counterterrorism efforts and commence a plan for major troop withdrawal.--- Chaffetz introduced an amendment to the House Rules Committee yesterday that would call for the President to establish a plan to commence troop withdrawal in Afghanistan.
From our vantage point on the roof, Dave & I commented as audience members exited from the Rice-Eccles Stadium after the big U2 concert Tuesday evening.--- I managed to edit the resulting video down to 15 minutes -- which, in Internet time, is something like a thousand years.
If you're penny-pinchin' because the economy is down -- or are just plain frugal, but still would like to experience some culture and indulgence -- look no further. Each week, Events for Cents will inform the masses about the fun, the free, the charming and the cheap.---
U2 might not have been able to make the U’s Rice-Eccles Stadium feel intimate with their long-awaited show Tuesday night, but they did manage to prove that stadium-sized rock shows don’t have to suck. Indeed, in U2’s hands, they can be exhilarating.---
It might have been a first for a Salt Lake TV newsroom. Several
hundred KUTV2 viewers were given tickets for an advance showing of Oprah
Winfrey's final show at the Clark Planetarium IMAX Theater at the Gateway, complete with goodies and raffle prizes.
Singer-songwriters rule the airwaves with today’s release, but they get a little boost by a pop goddess and a noisy Japanese trio.--- The ex-Sonic Youth singer/guitarist Thurston Moore offers up a something pretty on Demolished Thoughts.
This just in: Showtime has canceled United States of Tara, but renewed Nurse Jackie (both are currently in the middle of their third seasons). This just in-er: Nurse Jackie still sucks.
