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The video for Joshua James’ song “Esperanza,” directed by Velour Live Music Gallery owner Corey Fox and Matt Eastin and released June 17, is one of the year’s most visually striking locally made music videos. The wistful song is from the compilation album Esperanza: Songs From Jack Kerouac’s Tristessa—released in 2013—inspired by Kerouac’s novella Tristessa, which tells the story of the love affair he had with a prostitute named Esperanza Villanueva during a visit to Mexico in the ’50s.
Prosecco, which is made from Prosecco grapes (duh), is typically more fizzy than French-style bubbly and is Italy's most popular sparkling wine. --- It's easy to love and also easy on the wallet; you can find great Prosecco for under $20.
One of my favorite comfort food meals is lamb shanks slow-braised in a rich wine-and-tomato ragu. --- If you prefer, you could substitute veal, beef or pork shanks.
Dear GYA, In light of recent complaints by a handful of citizens, I'm stepping up enforcement of Salt Lake City's off-leash laws. I think it goes without saying that house pets that are let outside should be on leash... except for cats.
The Islamic State of Syria and Iraq militants rule through strict sharia law, but they also have a very sophisticated bureaucracy for governing that includes welfare programs and even a consumer protection office.---
The Life in a Day is a monthly video series designed as a creative challenge for local skaters to produce a video in the span of one day. The ultimate goal is to illustrate an honest portrait of the skater, to capture how they skate, how they think, how they interpret public space and architecture.
Saying The Salt Lake Tribune is in “imminent danger” of ceasing publication, a newly-formed non-profit on Monday filed suit in federal court against Deseret News Publishing Company and the Tribune's owner that seeks to overturn a business deal that critics say will kill the state's largest newspaper.--- The suit, filed by the group Citizens for Two Voices, seeks injunctive relief from the deal, known as a joint operating agreement (JOA), that the two papers' owners hammered out last fall.
Dear GYA, Filling in for Paul, the Psychic Octopus, who is dead (See you at the crossroads little buddy), we now have Clam, the Psychic Clam--an oracle of such divine wisdom, it can accurately answer all of our World Cup related questions.
