Year: 2015
Review: Branches and Twigs
If you’re a typical resident of Salt Lake City, or perhaps even just “The West,” there’s a chance that your ancestors aren’t very clear, mentally. Meaning, you can’t say much about your greatgreat-grandparents other than that you have a vague awareness that they belonged to the nomadic, proletariat mass of people who left their homes at some point for greener pastures. … read more
Tastemakers 2015: A Taste of Salt Lake City
Tastemakers, billed as “Utah’s Premier Dining Event,” is an annual event hosted by Salt Lake Magazine featuring tasty bites, beer and wine from popular restaurants in SLC. … read more
E3 2015: Prepare to Party Hard with Dark Souls 3...
The best thing about E3 is that a mind-altering video game experience is always waiting just around the corner. Even when I think that I’ve seen every genre or game mechanic that there is to see, some crazy-ass developer comes up with something that makes me redefine what a video game is. On my second day of E3, I dug deep into the fertile loam of publishers tinyBuild and Bandai Namco to find a lineup of games that tested my boundaries in all the right ways. … read more
Review: 33 1/3: Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack
Ask any gamer what the most iconic piece of music in gaming history is and you’ll probably get one of three answers: Legend Of Zelda, Tetris and Super Mario Bros., with the last one being the first most spoken of. … read more
E3 2015: Old and New Loves – Starfox and Yarny...
I finally made my way out of the west hall today to do some exploring in the south hall. I couldn’t leave the West Hall without finishing up with Nintendo’s biggest games—Starfox Zero and Super Mario Maker. In the South Hall, I found one of the most beautiful platformers I’ve ever seen. … read more
March 2015 Movie Reviews
Movie reviews for Fifty Shades Of Grey, It Follows, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Super Sentai Zyuranger and What We Do In The Shadows.
Review: Clive Barker’s Nightbreed Vol. 1
To horrorphiles like yours truly, Clive Barker is an absolute god. His hand, both on the page and behind the camera, has given us such brilliance as Hellraiser, Lord of Illusions, The Midnight Meat Train and, of course, Nightbreed, a tale which writer Marc Andreyko (Wonder Woman ’77) and artist Piotr Kowalski (The Dark Tower) add to with this collection. … read more
March 2015 DVD Reviews
DVD reviews for Annabelle, The Case Against 8, Doctor Who: Season 8, Intruders, The Judge, Looking, Married… With Children, Men, Women & Children and Rudderless.
April 2015 – Beer Reviews
It used to be that Utah was a beer wasteland. For decades, it was impossible to get your hands on quality beers that were made outside of the state. This all changed in 2010 when Utah’s lawmakers created a variance that would allow beer distributors to store the beer and allocate all of that precious state warehouse space for liquor and wine.
E3 2015: Jesus Is My Co-Op Buddy – Day Two
It’s the second to last day here at E3 and I think that this will go down as one of the best times I’ve had in recent memory. I got to mingle with celebrities, play some of the hottest games, have ridiculous photos taken with models that flirted with me for my obvious good looks and definitely not because they were paid to, be a rock star in front of an adoring crowd with the new Guitar Hero game and, to top it all off, I was given free beer by the last people I would expect to be handing out beer. … read more