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A new study finds black home-loan borrowers are charged higher interest rates than their white counterparts—and black women pay the highest rates of all. Top of the Alty World
Finding jewelry ideas everywhere with founder Athena Mansfield
Looking at the local fashion scene, we're seeing more names come up through the jewelry field. Not just your standard array of welded works and random gemstones linked together; we're talking crafty works that incorporate ordinary items and transform them into awesome pieces you may enjoy wearing.
Hello to all you boot-wearing, parade-watching, heritage-mistaking, can't-wait-to-see-a-rodeo enthusiasts! I'm very much in the camp of asking the question, "Why the fuck do we still have a rodeo?" We take over several locations over the weekend to show off how cruel we can be to animals while dressed in flannel, bad hats and ugly cowboy boots that will later be sold at Hot Topic as "fashion."
Once you're finished doing anything that has nothing to do with the holiday, check out these albums we got from local bands, including a release show happening this weekend. We're gonna start with a cool album from June that slipped passed us—but deserves your attention—by the band Rich Girlz.
Adaptations of a young-adult bestseller and a two-minute short film join a pair of Sundance 2015 entries among new releases in Utah theaters. In Pixels, Adam Sandler takes a fun concept—an alien invasion in the form of vintage video-game characters—and applies his now-typical approach of executing it in the laziest manner possible.
Limited tickets available in pre-performance drawings
Tickets for the Broadway hit The Book of Mormon were sold out quickly when they first went on sale in the spring. But if you don't have yours yet, you still have a shot at seeing the show.
