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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 24 hours. 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.
A legislative audit released this week dumped 133 pages of damning findings on the Utah Transit Authority, pummeling the agency for everything from fat executive bonuses to the questionable decision to pre pay a developer $10 million up front for a parking garage that the developer never even submitted official plans for. At the UTA's board meeting, members of the public condensed the findings of the weighty audit into shorter opinions about what should happen next with the agency.
Still closing out the festival season, we've got a few more events left before we hit the fall and people start gearing up for the holiday baraazs. One of the more prominent illustrators you may catch at these events is Kate Wolsey, selling her prints and one-off cartoon creations, featuring an array of characters who often tell an entire story within their small world.
You could wait for my comprehensive, thoughtful and brilliant Fall TV 2014 Preview to drop in City Weekly next week, or you could make up your own mind about three new series right now: Check out the pilot episodes of two comedies and one dramedy about the vapidity of social media, opposites attracting and snarky cancer teens—guess which is which! Selfie (ABC; premieres Tuesday, Sept. 30)
Dear GYA, You think you can out chug me? You think you have what it takes to tip one back and pound a cold one through your feeble little beer hole faster and stronger than me? Well, bring it on! Let's do this! Now, I'm only gonna say this once, anybody who wants to step to the Chuggernaut and bring shame to their households, can meet me at O' Shucks at 5:30 p.m.
Salt Lake City has an ordinance on the books dictating the color, location and fee schedule for sidewalk news racks, but hasn't enforced it for several years, according to city officials who, on Aug. 19, petitioned the Salt Lake City Council to tighten the ordinance. Under current law, news-rack owners are supposed to renew their license with the city each year and pay a $5 fee per news rack.
In a feat worthy of the film The Wizard, 15-year-old Sandy resident and Pokemon genius Nikoli Zielinski recently won the Pokemon World Championship Games in Washington, D.C. Pokemon is a card and video game in which people become collectors of Pokemon (Pokemen?
It's not often that you get a chance to bend the ear of influential politicians and community leaders, and even more rare to hoist a beer with them. Well, today you can do exactly that: Share a brew with Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker.
A legislative audit of Utah's peculiar taxpayer-backed venture capital fund known as the Utah Fund of Funds, found the program had been overstating its ability to create jobs and bring capital into the state. All of this was done while the fund had acquired $100 million in debt, with losses having to be paid by taxpayers in 2017 when the banks would collect on loans th
e program has drawn on since 2006.
Happy Tuesday, music fans. My favorite new album coming out this week is probably the latest from Montreal, Canada-based singer-songwriter Cold Specks.
