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It was a hot, sticky and buggy Thursday night at the first Twilight Concert series performance of the summer, but that didn’t stop the citizens of Salt Lake City from streaming into Pioneer Park in droves to see Blitzen Trapper and Belle & Sebastian.--- I arrived in time to catch the tail end of Blitzen Trapper’s set, as the setting sun turned the sky a beautiful rosy color, but as soon as I heard them, I wished I had been there from the beginning.
While there are moments of music discussion on the radio, a lot of it seems to be pandering and regurgitated nonsense that PR firms have sent down from the labels. --- We currently live in an era where major music, for all the dissection it goes through in publications and websites, is still conformed two to a sixteen-word byline that's been pre-approved for your listening “pleasure.” In short: Real music discussions are far and few between on the terrestrial airwaves.
This spring, Salt Lakers watched in rapture as the Peregrine Falcon Cam documented the lives of a falcon couple and their four eggs. The bad news is that only one of those eggs hatched.
Dear GYA, With the royal baby expected to come into the world this Saturday, I haven't been able to eat or sleep. I'm just too excited -- the baby could be here at any moment!
The other evening, I was preparing a batch of pasta with clam sauce and pondering what to drink with it. --- Then, I remembered that I had a bottle of Italian wine in my wine cooler that I hadn't tried yet: Mazzoni Bianco di Toscana 2011 ($20).
Most of us, myself included, have cheaply made furniture sitting in our homes that we paid too much for, or thought it was awesome because the store had a Swedish name. --- Part of being in a consumerist world is the obsession for things that serve a purpose, even if they don't last very long, which they inevitably don't.
If you’re interested in learning more about a company's plan to strip-mine tar sands out of some of Utah's pristine backcountry, adjacent to the famed Book Cliffs, then you won’t want to miss a volunteer orientation and work party Wednesday, put on by Peaceful Uprising.---
