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![Roots Runnin’ Wild: An interview with Chuck Ragan](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/042b_ChuckRagan_LisaJohnsonPhoto_HiRes-1024x604.jpg)
Roots Runnin’ Wild: An interview with Chuck Ragan
Chuck Ragan is one of those artists that has the ability to speak to a vast amount of different people. He’s a punk rocker with roots. He’s an outdoorsman, a poet and he’s able to tap into those things and be relevant. Though we may have awhile to wait for new music from Chuck, I know that it’ll be worth the wait. … read more
![Film Review: Assassination Nation](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/AssassinationNation-1.jpg)
Film Review: Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation empowers young women while condemning the forces that have taught them how to act. If you can’t act like a young lady, we’re going to murder you, figuratively or literally, so take your pick. … read more
![Four Courses of Dessert in SLC: Normal Ice Cream](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/357-Header-SLC-Desserts-Normal-Ice-Cream.jpg)
Four Courses of Dessert in SLC: Normal Ice Cream
“Normal Ice Cream cares about every single step, how it tastes, what the textures are and how it looks because we live in a visual world, after all.” … read more
![Creature Feature: Gemma Nigh](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Untitled-2-2.jpg)
Creature Feature: Gemma Nigh
Born and raised in Sandy, Utah, Gemma Nigh got into the realm of performance art while attending Cyprus High School. “Growing up in Utah was definitely interesting. I lived in a super-Mormon neighborhood but never really played with any of the other kids,” she says. … read more
![V School Bringing Opportunity to Salt Lake City](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DSC_7280.jpg)
V School Bringing Opportunity to Salt Lake City
V School is a tech-education boot camp teaching industry-celebrated curriculum, and has been since its start back in 2013. The school offers lessons in coding, UX and UI design, as well as other skills that are hand-selected by the school’s board. … read more
![Amen Dunes @ Urban Lounge 08.17 with Okay Kaya](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/AD-4.jpg)
Amen Dunes @ Urban Lounge 08.17 with Okay Kaya
The most striking aspect of the set, though, was its simplicity. Guitar, bass, drums, some piano or synth—depending on the track—performed totally live (no tracks, no loops) under a monochromatic wash of light. It’s not a new approach to live performance, but it was genuine and it was, most certainly, refreshing. … read more
![NOW-ID’s A Tonal Caress Review](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/NOW-ID-2018-1346-1024x684.jpg)
NOW-ID’s A Tonal Caress Review
“The desire to understand and be understood is at the core of human experience,” writes Charlotte Boye-Christensen, NOW-ID’s artistic director. “Every gesture opens a fleeting vulnerability with opportunities and dangers of self expression.” … read more
![Black Milk @ Urban Lounge](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/BlackMilk_DelaneyTeichler_5-1024x680-1024x680.jpeg)
Black Milk @ Urban Lounge
When you dig into the Motor City’s sonic landscape, you’ll discover many different acts with varying talents and abilities such as Trick-Trick, Phat Kat, Bronze Nazareth, Illa J and others (RIP MC Breed, Proof and J. Dilla). … read more
![THE BLOCKS @ Exchange Place 07.13](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/SLUG-THEBLOCKS-RANDYROBERTS-6-1024x640.jpg)
THE BLOCKS @ Exchange Place 07.13
The main objective for THE BLOCKS is to make it easier for people to more fully embrace the arts and diversity that this town has to offer and to put Salt Lake on the map as a place for artists of all types. … read more
![Book Review: Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DD-783x1024.jpg)
Book Review: Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes Wizards of the Coast Street: 05.29 What sacrifices are you willing to make to ensure interplanar balance? What role will you play in the conflicts to come? Those are two of the main narrative themes presented throughout Wizards of the Coast’s newest publication, Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes. Almost immediately upon cracking
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