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Bike Prom: Going Tandem

Bike Prom: Going Tandem
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The aromatic month of May is once again dedicated completely to our city’s most sustainable form of transportation: cycling. The Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is holding their fourth annual Bike Prom at Pierpont Place on May 10 at 8 p.m. after an open invitation ride around the city. I sat down with this year’s organizer, Jace Burbidge, and discussed the ins and outs of what this event is all about.  … read more

Stick Your Whole Nose In It: A Kiler Grove Wine Tasting

Stick Your Whole Nose In It: A Kiler Grove Wine...
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 A rowdy group of retirees, my husband and I gathered in the winery. Tables were set in up the warehouse amid huge barrels of wine and machinery. Michael Knight, part owner and winemaker, meticulously explained the art of winemaking, or “voodoo” as he calls it.  … read more

SLUG 25th Anniversary: Crosswording a Scene

SLUG 25th Anniversary: Crosswording a Scene

For SLUG Mag’s 25th anniversary issue, we’ve drummed up some games inspired by our local subculture, SLUG-related history and retrospective trivia on seminal music from SLUG’s anniversary year, 1989! … read more

SLUG 25th Anniversary: Beastie Boys SLUGlib

SLUG 25th Anniversary: Beastie Boys SLUGlib

For SLUG Mag’s 25th anniversary issue, we’ve drummed up some games inspired by our local subculture, SLUG-related history and retrospective trivia on seminal music from SLUG’s anniversary year, 1989! … read more

SLUG 25th Anniversary: 1989 Music Matchup Catch-up

SLUG 25th Anniversary: 1989 Music Matchup Catch-up

For SLUG Mag’s 25th anniversary issue, we’ve drummed up some games inspired by our local subculture, SLUG-related history and retrospective trivia on seminal music from SLUG’s anniversary year, 1989! … read more

SLUG 25th Anniversary: SLC Scene Search

SLUG 25th Anniversary: SLC Scene Search

For SLUG Mag’s 25th anniversary issue, we’ve drummed up some games inspired by our local subculture, SLUG-related history and retrospective trivia on seminal music from SLUG’s anniversary year, 1989! … read more

Giggles with Birbiggles: An Interview with Mike Birbiglia

Giggles with Birbiggles: An Interview with Mike Birbiglia
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Mike Birbiglia is a virtuoso storyteller. His one-man performances can have you rolling in the aisles just as quickly as they can have you hiding a tear from your significant other. He’s romantic, he’s hilarious, he occasionally defenestrates himself (maybe you’ve heard the story), and once he lived inside Macy’s. … read more

Localized: Baby Gurl

Localized: Baby Gurl

Photo: Gilbert Cisneros Urban Lounge is gonna get weird on Jan. 10. This month’s Localized features headliners Yaktooth, who are prepared to deliver their heavy-rock goulash, and Baby Gurl, a drums/bass two-piece bent on slamming out a grooving assault. Chaotic hardcore openers Die Off will pummel you, starting at 9 p.m. Localized, brought to you

David Ross Fetzer Foundation Kickoff @ Tower Theatre 12.17

David Ross Fetzer Foundation Kickoff @ Tower Theatre 12.17
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Tuesday night, Tower Theater overflowed in celebration of David Fetzer, a leading local actor/artist who was lost last year. … read more

Farewell Transmission: RIP Jason Molina

Farewell Transmission: RIP Jason Molina
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It’s an all-too-familiar story: A brilliant rock musician succumbs to addiction, the urge to pick up a bottle or a needle, and not put it down. Those are some of the oft-romanticized rock creation/destruction myths. Rock music history is a stockpile, a wrecking yard littered with them. One of the latest casualties, March 16 of this year, was Jason Molina of the bands Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co, from organ failure due to alcoholism. … read more