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Getting a feel for one of the latest bars to join the downtown SLC area.
Bars and clubs always seem to be coming and going. Some of the longest-running names have closed up shop, while others have slowly been transforming themselves into new types of hangouts in order to attract new people.
A trio of new multiplex releases all skitter in with late or absent press screenings, while art house fare includes a Daniel Clowes adaptation, new Terrence Malick and cannibal coming-of-age horror. Life offers a few tense, unsettling moments in its "alien on the International Space Station" premise, but can't make its CGI threat threatening enough.
Gov. Herbert announces he plans to sign controversial .05 DUI bill.
Herbert, who recognizes Utah has the lowest DUI rate in the nation, says the state has a “zero fatalities” goal, and lowering the legal limit to .05 will only help in that regard.
Utah welcomes 127 newly naturalized U.S. citizens.
Enlisted in the U.S. Army, Max Chadic vowed to defend a country that he wasn’t a citizen of. But on Wednesday—a day before his 29th birthday—that changed.
Chatting with the playwright and actors for this bizarre new play.
The latest production from Plan-B Theatre Co., Not One Drop, marks the third production created in partnership with the David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists. This world premiere of Morag Shepherd's play closes out Plan-B's season with a weird and surrealistic dark comedy featuring Colleen Baum and Latoya Cameron.
The debut of the first new gallery on Pierpont Avenue in eight years.
Pierpont Avenue used to be the heart of Salt Lake Gallery Stroll; the majority of businesses along the street between 300 and 400 West offered a treasure trove of monthly artistic exploration and wine drinking. But as people moved out for a bevy of reasons, the street quickly turned into photography studios, artisan shops and other come-and-go businesses, along with some residential.
Hey gang: As you're reading this, I'm most likely flying overhead to some place, hopefully not with whatever version of a hangover you get in your 30's. Once upon a time, St. Patrick's Day was one of those amateur-hour holidays where everyone could just pop out and get drunk without remembering the consequences; I didn't really deal with hangovers until I started getting older.
