How many ducks does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Mike Brown: Craft Cocktailing
Just like guys sagging their skinny jeans, there’s a trend I’m noticing in this city that I’m not a big fan of. For all I know, it’s a trend everywhere, but since I’ve been too broke to go on vacation for a year and a half, I don’t know. It’s a trend in the local booze world, with which I am way too familiar. It’s the craft cocktail.
SLUG Skate Photo Feature: Taylor Green
These photos are the result of three trips to the library, two (and a half) broken boards and a lot of skin and blood from Taylor Green’s back.
SLUG Skate Photo Feature: Chandler Seipert
Kicked Out of Everywhere was a skate video title from Real Skateboards circa 1999. That phrase describes street skating pretty well.
Plated In Gold: The Strongest Man at Sundance
Beef (Robert “Meatball” Lorie) and Conan (Paul Chamberlain) are best friends who gracelessly and humorously carry out a Don Quixote and Sancho Panza–style journey in The Strongest Man, a 2015 Sundance film in the “NEXT” section. “I think I have a hard time not putting some comedy in there,” says Kenny Riches, the film’s writer and director.
Gallery Roll – May 2015
Last year, in honor of National Bike Month, I took a group of friends on a Gallery Stroll bike ride. Later, one friend called it a Gallery Roll. When I researched it further, I found that Salt Lake Gallery Roll has been officially changing their name every May, for the last 10 years, to Gallery Roll.
Mike Brown: Quitting Smoking
Kurt Vonnegut once said that smoking is the only honorable form of suicide. I suppose that opinion is debatable, but then so is bacon, chocolate and Mormonism. Cigs give you cancer, bacon gives you heart attacks, chocolate gives you diabetes, and Mormonism will bore you to death. And if death is inevitable, then doesn’t that mean that we all are just committing suicide a tiny bit each and every day somehow?
Guy Harding: The Brains Behind The Brew
If you’ve been to Nobrow Coffee Werks or Publik Coffee Roasters, you may have noticed their dutiful baristas brewing your coffee with a machine that looks like it was pilfered from the lab of a mad scientist. Have no fear, citizens—you are merely gazing upon what could very well be the future of coffee brewing as we know it.
Cam Wood: SLUG BMX Photo Feature
Cam Wood has been around forever. From having standout parts in Killjoy and That’s It, running The Wood Shop BMX shop and riding professionally for S&M Bikes for several years, Cam is someone that needs no introduction.
20 Years of Madness: A Meeting of Minds with Filmmakers Jerry White Jr. and Jeremy Royce
In the ’90s, a group of friends in Michigan decided to get serious about film and took to their local public-access studio to capture what were then landmark documents in adolescent hijinks. The show, appropriately called 30 Minutes of Madness, aired 13 episodes composed of visually and, at times, conceptually cohesive comedy skits. However, it eventually met its end, and took with it the film aspirations of most of the cast.