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In the space of an hour, three different press releases pinged my inbox today, in full town-crier mode about a historic meeting between Mormon church-owned KSL TV and members of the local LGBT community. Must be big news, right?
The last days of W Lounge are here, but the long-standing dance spot and the DJs who love it aren’t going out without a bang. Here's what’s on deck.---
Watch the entire pilot episode that prompted Utah NBC "affiliate" KSL 5 to opt out of showing The New Normal next month, right here and now! By the way: It kind of sucks.
If I said that you could buy a David Ramey-produced (yes, that David Ramey) bottle of white wine for 11 bucks, you wouldn't walk, you'd RUN to the wine store, right? Well, that's what I'm telling you.
Dear GYA, I noticed that Will.i.Am of the Black Eyed Peas debuted his new song "Reach For The Stars" from the Mars Curiosity Rover yesterday. Maybe it's my dyslexia, but when I first about read this I was psyched because I thought it said shitty music was leaving Earth, then I discovered that it's actually raining down on us from space.
You can read about the speeches of Ann Romney, Chris Christie, and Mia Love in plenty of other outlets. But this is the only forum where you can hear about all of the notables wandering around the RNC’s media center today!---
Mike Brown isn't only the abrasively offensive lead singer of The Fucktards, he's also a zine maker! --- I know what you're thinking to some degree, and it goes a little something like, “I've heard the Fucktards live, so I can only imagine what his unfiltered opinion is!” But shockingly, the material found in the pages of Leviathan is actually quite funny and somewhat insightful as Brown's look on the world is photocopied and passed around the city for cheap.
Oops -- X96 under-booked its Big Ass Show, states Corey O’Brien in a YouTube video, where he details how a local band can fill in the hole.--- The annual Big Ass Show will be held, like last year, at Gallivan Center on Sept. 29.
