Budgetary showdown in Springville pits sports against art Remember Revenge of the Nerds? It was a timeless story of Jock versus Nerd—a struggle as crimson and primeval as cat against dog, squid against whale or Whopper against Big Mac. Superficially, the film was merely a 90-minute romp about scientifically-inclined underdogs standing up to persecution and […]
Local-level politics are boring as hell – but suck it up, citizens There’s a race on for Utah House District 60. What’s so important about District 60, you ask? Well, District 60 contains the territory Orem Center Street south to University Parkway and from I-15 east to the Provo River. It is, in fact, the […]
Musings on Utah’s unlikely love of all things bloody There is no sex allowed in Zion, unless it be between a man and his wife. Drugs are a big no-no too, and anyone loosely keeping the dream alive that some day weed will be legal in this teetotaling hellhole would be more realistic hoping for […]
Well, sort of The Elie Wiesel Foundation will be hosting the Conference of Nobel Laureates Oct. 5 and 6 at Manhattan’s Ninety-second Street Y. Presiding over the conference will be Wiesel, author of the Holocaust memoir Night, and David Axelrod, senior advisor to President Obama. “But wait,” you say. “How do these diplomatic wheelings and […]
Apparently, 2010 is the year that people forgot just how much oil and water don’t mix. For those readers too caught up in the disastrous BP quagmire to notice environmental snafus in their own backyard, on June 12 of this year, 30,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into Red Butte Creek after a pipeline owned […]
People who think that their high school years comprised the best time of of their lives are subnormal, with maybe a bit of a masochistic streak. Most folks wouldn’t revisit those troubled times of raging hormones, teenage angst and prodigious acne on a bet. And these are the straight people. Imagine having to traverse the […]
Underground tunnels denote many things, but none of them terribly pleasant. Morlocks live in tunnels. As do Mole People, Lizard People, Crawlers, Sewer Gators, Graboids and Gollum. Also, muggers and rapists. Which, unlike the above listed, is a very real threat. The state of Utah has set its sights on a relatively small project – […]
The pair of bros ahead of us are wearing what look like rotting leis. Weekend parking in Salt Lake City has forced us to park half a mile away from the County Building, in whose yard the more punctual alcoholics are sipping samples of the Beehive State’s finest brews. We’ve been quietly trying to guess […]
I returned to the United States after an extended sojourn in the Italian peninsula, and found I had a small quandary on my hands. Namely, pizza just did not taste good to me anymore. I’m not saying that I found pizza disgusting, or that I got sick of pizza. Heavens, no. Heresy. But I was […]
While Utah is more famously known as the home of Mormonism, the Sundance Film Festival and Arches National Park, unbeknownst to most outsiders and an appalling number of the state’s residents, Our Lovely Deseret is also the spawning ground of some very delectable brews. And while many a private soiree has been held in flimsy […]