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A story in Saturday's Deseret News on the numbers of undocumented people being deported from the United States with and without criminal convictions was a painful reminder of the need for caution when reporting on immigration.--- The story highlighted that while since a three-year-old Bush-administration program called Secure Communities had resulted in 30,000 undocumented immigrants with convictions being deported, 33,000 had been kicked out of the United States with no non-immigration crimes.
In Louisiana, red beans and rice are a Monday meal tradition, a classic example of Creole cuisine. Families often cook red beans and rice on Monday, utilizing leftover ham bones from Sunday dinner.
Whether you love it or hate it, you can't really deny that contemporary art has become dominant in SLC. --- With so many artists living in the city, the galleries themselves can't keep up with the list of rising names every year, prompting some to start their own galleries to showcase the latest and greatest.
For an evening with bands as elephantine as Typhoon and as prodigious as The Decemberists, it takes a roomy review to cover it all. To begin the second Twilight Concert Series concert of 2011, Typhoon, the indie rock orchestra from Portland, Oreg., took the stage with a request: “Does anyone have a cello we can borrow?” Theirs broke literally a minute before taking the stage.
This week’s news explored the plight of low-income tenants forced from their home for complaining to their landlord about bed bugs. According to a Salt Lake Valley Health Department scientist, however, it’s not just low-income that need to look out for the pests.---
