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For those of us who are adults and know what it's like to not be living at home at 26, we know the pain of scrounging to find a sofa to sleep on. --- When you just start out on your own, whether it be post-dorm studio apartment in the valley or the rundown bungalow with six of your closest Craiglist friends, travels to the Desert Industries to buy four pieces of furniture on $50 become an adventure, ending with you owning several dusty and chipped versions of '70s arrangements, as well as a giant cable spool as a coffee table.
Through hours of damning revelations on the first day of the House’s presentation on its findings from its five-month probe into former Utah Attorney General John Swallow, lead investigator Steven Reich told committee members—in the most professional and polite way possible—that Swallow's credibility during the investigation had gone from suspicious to, by the time of his resignation, pants-on-fire. --- The first day of the investigators' presentation paints Swallow as, at best, being cursed with the ability to destroy all technology he touches, and, at worst, guilty of criminal obstruction of justice—a term investigator Reich said he would leave up to prosecutors to decide.
The Utah Film Critics Association selected Gravity as Best Picture of 2013, one of three awards won by the hit science-fiction thriller. The film also won Best Directing honors for Alfonso Cuarón, and Best Cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki in voting held Dec. 19.
Kids these days can no longer relate to a traditional, jolly, old fat man in a red suit. No, today's youth need an extreme Santa -- one who listens to dubstep, blasts through icicles and somersaults off tall buildings.--- Local stuntman Ronnie Shalvis, aka Ronnie Street Stunts, recently debuted his action-packed video Parkour Santa, which features the bearded saint flipping his way across Salt Lake City rooftops.
Happy Thursday, music fans! This is part three of my Christmas-themed Throwback Thursday blogs for December, but I'm doing something a little different this week.
Dear GYA, As a full-grown, uninsured, man-boy, I resent President Obama's latest Affordable Health Care ad showing a man-boy wearing pajamas and drinking hot chocolate.
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