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Local Music Reviews November 2016

Local Music Reviews November 2016

Local Music Reviews for Choir Boy, Archive Recordings, Elytra, Kordlhan, m.duby, Selling the Ashes and more to come. … read more

Salt Lake Comic Con 2016

Salt Lake Comic Con 2016
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Salt Lake Comic Con 2016, the massive biannual event that has proven that Salt Lake City and Utah is a boiling hotspot of geekdom, movie buffs and fantasy, kicked off Sept. 1 at the Salt Palace Convention Center. … read more

SLUG @ Utah Pride Parade 2016

SLUG @ Utah Pride Parade 2016
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The 2016 Utah Pride Parade painted 200 South with a colorful palette of enthusiastic support for LGBTQ+ Utahns as supporters marched under a proud rainbow umbrella. SLUG Magazine’s bevy of bikers and bumblers passed out magazines, sunglasses, stickers, enameled pins and Death by Salt V compilations. … read more

Motos in Moab 2016

Motos in Moab 2016
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In what has become unholy tradition, Motos in Moab returned screeching in sideways to the outskirts of the little dusty town usually known for hiking boots, kayaks and landscape photography. What began as a simple motorcycle ride and campout blossomed into what many attendees are calling the “motorcycle Burning Man.” … read more

Subversive Shrink: Post-Graduate Malaise

Subversive Shrink: Post-Graduate Malaise
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Dear Subversive Shrink, I spent years in graduate school. I spent tons of money and time to get a fancy degree, and years later I find myself often wondering if I am “cut out” for the work that I do. I’m young, but I have zero interest in going back to school to try again

Subversive Shrink: Being a Good Ally

Subversive Shrink: Being a Good Ally
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If your workplace has an ethics code, brush up and become empowered via information. Know what you are expected or required to address and how. Also, explore your workplace culture and the safety of reporting and know who will support you. It takes a village to be an ally! … read more

Mr. Jesse Walker’s 6th Annual Bunny Hop

Mr. Jesse Walker’s 6th Annual Bunny Hop
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On Sunday, March 27, The Garage on Beck hosted Jesse Walker’s 6th annual Bunny Hop, a day-long event benefitting the Volunteers of America, Utah – Homeless Youth Resource Center. Festivities included vinyl-spinning DJs, a raffle, hat contest, performances, dancing, special drink offerings as well as a Garage on Beck buffet, including their signature fried funeral

Subversive Shrink: The Power of Subversive Dialogues

Subversive Shrink: The Power of Subversive Dialogues
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Dear Subversive Shrink, I have a family member who is quite patriarchal in an almost WASP sort of way, and I’m seeking to reevaluate how to respond to their expressions of their ideologies, with which I disagree. On one hand, many years ago, I was inspired when Jello Biafra advised to simply talk to somebody

Review: Golden Daze – Self-titled

Review: Golden Daze – Self-titled
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Golden Daze = Toy + The Byrds + Mac DeMarco … read more

27 Club Performer: Loke

27 Club Performer: Loke
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I find it interesting that so many iconic artists are so powerful onstage and then off stage, shy and semi insecure. I love that some people communicate better through an instrument or paint, or whatever medium. I think that in regards to Jimi, this aspect made him so humble. … read more