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- Culture, Arts & Entertainment April 16, 2025
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A sampling of geek-themed cookbooks
For Dining Guide, experience flavors from fantastic worlds and beloved actors.
- t's fascinating to watch or read about our favorite fictional worlds and salivate about all of the exotic flavors they might have in those distant places.
- News, March 12, 2025
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Donald Trump's anti-trans executive orders are harming kids like mine and turning schools into political battlegrounds.
Small Lake City
- I'll be honest, after the criminal activity perpetrated during his first term, I felt confident that a second Donald Trump presidency was an impossibility.
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment February 26, 2025
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Learning about anti-fascism from fiction
Star Wars, Star Trek, Superman, Lord of the Rings and more teach about responding to tyranny.
- Young revolutionary Karis Nemik tells Cassian Andor, "The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the Imperial Thought Machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident."
- News, February 5, 2025
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Imperfect Salt Lake City is the best bet when Utah and the nation crack.
Small Lake City
- Sometimes, it's too overwhelming to look at the nation and think there's anything meaningful we can do. Sometimes, the state level feels impossible, too.
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment January 29, 2025
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Big Shiny Robot: Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling and the fall of beloved creators
Creating new relationships with art when you don't want to support those who made it
- With more and more of our favorite artists publicly turning into monsters, it's getting difficult to know where the line needs to be drawn in separating the art from the artist.
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment December 26, 2024
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Best in Geek Media 2024
Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragons, Batman and more to mollify your existential dread
- It's the end of the year, and naturally we're looking at things introspectively, taking stock of the year.
- News, December 4, 2024
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Davis County's unsheltered are freezing to death in the name of Christ.
Small Lake City
- As winter sets in and temperatures drop, it's important the unsheltered have a place where they won't freeze to death.
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment November 13, 2024
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Big Shiny Robot: Board games for the holidays
Arcs: Conflict and Collapse in the Reach, BattleTech Encounters, Cartographers, Secret Hitler
- We're all worn out from fighting over politics.
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment October 9, 2024
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Witches in popular culture
Agatha All Along reminds us that we need more stories of powerful, magical women
- The show brings horror sensibilities and Marvel comedy to The Wizard of Oz and—led by Hahn's performance—is truly a delight.
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment September 4, 2024
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The case against banning Craig Thompson's Blankets
Contrary to Ken Ivory's assertions, this masterpiece belongs in Utah schools
- Utah state legislator Ken Ivory likes burning books, and he's very much into dystopian censorship.
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A sampling of geek-themed cookbooks
For Dining Guide, experience flavors from fantastic worlds and beloved actors.
April 16, 2025
The case for not messing with AI "art"
A creator implores us not to treat something created from others' work as worth anyone's time.
March 27, 2024
Utah lawmakers put women and children last by thumbing their noses at federal law.
Small Lake City
July 10, 2024
