Thanksgiving always left something to be desired in the Sousa clan. We had traditions and we abided by them, but our traditions were terrible. Even at their worst I had never feared for my safety, but sometimes traditions change. Once upon a time, I at least had my grandmother’s cooking to look forward to. The […]
“We played this show up in a cabin, way up in the mountains. It was snowing like crazy and no one knew where the actual cabin was. Everybody was walking around for like a mile in the snow with their instruments over their backs.” Jordan Towner plays strings in Westward the Tide, a prolific local […]
So, USA, it looks like you’re back. For a little while at least, until we come up against the new deadline and we all have to start worrying again. While I can’t say we weren’t doing just fine without you, I guess it’s nice to be back to what passes for “business as usual” these […]
So, USA, you really outdid yourself this time. You told everyone to go home and turned off the lights. Of course Congress still gets a paycheck and we’re still bombing the hell out of third world countries, but the veterans can’t visit their memorial—which seems to be a really big deal for them—and everybody else […]
By Alex Sousa, Managing Editor, @TwoFistedSousa So, USA, everybody seems to be talking about the looming government shutdown and there’s a lot of debate about whether or not it will actually happen. This isn’t the first time a government shutdown has threatened the people. It’s happened before—17 times before—and the fact is, a “government shutdown” […]
Cage The Elephant kicked the door in opening for Muse at Salt Lake’s EnergySolutions Arena on September 19. I have to say, if one ever wanted to start a rock show off right, Cage The Elephant is the band to choose. Elephant’s sound is eclectic, but it’s relentlessly high-energy and it never let up for […]
So, USA, you just had to get the last word in. Let’s recap: in a desperate appeal to the American people, President Vladimir Putin writes an op-ed published in the New York Times trying to talk some sense into the war-mongering attitude that was being presented by the elected officials. But, it just wasn’t acceptable […]
By Alex Sousa, Managing Editor, @ TwoFistedSousa Around 5:30 p.m. a car fire erupted in parking lot L4 on the north side of UVU campus near the library. The flames originated from a Pontiac Grand Prix and spread to the four surrounding vehicles according to Kevin Kemp of the Orem City Fire Department. “The […]
With their third album being released next month, and recently kicking off a new tour that will bring them to Salt Lake’s EnergySolutions Arena on Thursday September 19, I had the chance to talk to Lincoln Parish, guitarist of Cage the Elephant. Hey Lincoln, I thought we’d get started talking about your new album. Your […]
It was there on the 1100 block of the convention floor, my back to a table full of Dr. Who memorabilia, that I had no choice but to watch a de-helmeted Boba Fett lock lips with a pink-haired Black Widow. When that grizzled, intergalactic bounty hunter finally came up for air I realized that I […]