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The unique West Valley hip-hop duo New Truth released their debut EP, Truth Be Told, Wednesday morning via their bandcamp site ... aaaaand it's a heater.---
Utah LGBT advocates hailed the United States Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling today that The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which barred the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage, was unconstitutional. It's a decision advocates see as a turning point in American society.---
CBS’ Big Brother returns for its, oh, 79th?, season tonight, but Conan O’Brien has something more compelling and way less disease-ridden: Coma House. In Coco’s latest fictional reality series he’s producing for TBS, contestants just lie there and vegetate all night while the cameras roll.
Dear GYA, I'm pretty excited that one of my all-time favorite beers, Fat Tire, will finally be available here in Utah. But, for beer snobs it's bittersweet.
In this week's Salt Lake City Weekly "Drink" column, I wrote about my affinity for Rose wines and included a few recommendations to try. --- Unfortunately, I totally spaced out one of my favorites -- d'oh!
The Utah Arts Festival came and went this past weekend with an array of awesome art and performances, but if you left the house you already knew that. --- This year's fest was bumped up a week earlier than normal, featuring more out-of-state artists than ever, a Craft Lake City booth to build glowing robots, the Salt Lake Community College Community Writing Center bombarded the area with fridge-magnet poetry, over 100 bands and performing artists over five stages, and then there were the Bandaloop performers who were dancing on the side of the City Library's glass windows.
Court filings in a case against the founder of Qwest Communications allege that the NSA sought mass quantities of customers' records even before 9/11.---
