Issues: Issue 268 - April 2011
Food Review: Da Hotdog King
Troy King is called Da Hotdog King––as are his fleet of hotdog carts. As Salt Lake’s only genuine Chicago hotdog cart, this newest soon-to-be Utah legend sits on the corner of 400 South and Main Street on weekday afternoons. The proud owner of two carts in Chicago and two in Atlanta, King is the friendliest high-powered executive you’re ever likely to chat with over a steam table. … read more
Product Reviews
Reviews of products from Airwalk, Logitech, Thirty-Two, Rusty/So R.ad, Peach Treats and Reclaimed Wreckage. … read more
Movie Reviews
Battle: Los Angeles, I Saw the Devil, Kaboom, Limitless, Mars Needs Moms, Paul, Red Riding Hood, Source Code and The Lincoln Lawyer are reviewed this month. … read more
Beer Reviews
There was a time when I actually had to look around for new beer hitting the market. But with all the options now, it’s pretty fucking hard for me to go out to a pub (Republican excluded) and say, “I’ll have the regular.” With this scatter shot of fantastic new styles hitting streets in SLC, it’s time to sit back and enjoy your beer-battered bukkake of selections. … read more
CD Reviews
New and recent releases from Akron/Family, Buck 65, Burzum, Defeater, Dropkick Murphys, Grails, Obscura, O’Death, Ringo Deathstarr, The Sounds, Thursday and many more are reviewed. … read more
Gallery Stroll – April 2011
We’ve all heard the saying “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure,” Salt Lake City artist Reclaimed Sentiment is putting that theory to test. Using discarded mass-produced landscapes and old LDS Primary class images Reclaimed Sentiment transforms the unwanted and forgotten into the extraordinary and refreshing by following two rules: Everything used to create the art must be found secondhand and the art must be affordable and accessible to the masses. … read more
Dear Dickheads – April 2011
Broship beef. … read more
Contributor Limelight: Hailee Jacobson
This marketing maven and social networking star is bringing all of SLUG’s social media sites into the 21st century with her innovative ideas and mad mutli-tasking skills. … read more
Local Reviews: Ravings Of A Madman
These guys are having such a good fucking time being pissed off. In the Time it Takes to Hate is a heavy album, in content and sound. It is an exorcism of noise and emotion which can be exhilarating for both the audience and performer, but on occasion, and with sub-par execution, it can also be totally disorienting. … read more
Local Reviews: Subrosa
No Help for the Mighty Ones begins with whispers and it ends with whispers, but there’s a whole lot of darkened and beautiful noise in between. Once this album passes through one’s auditory passages and their individual psyche, they will be changed forever. … read more