Mike Brown’s Crafting Disasters

Mike Brown’s mom was likely proud of his wood shop creations, regardless of how shitty they turned out.

I’m no good at making anything. Luckily, we live in a society where you don’t really have to be good at making anything or doing anything. For anything I would actually need done or made, there’s someone or some company I can hire to do it for me. The only craft or service I consistently supply for myself, I guess, would be masturbating. … read more

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: Dropping Acid with K.R. Starrs

On their first U.S. tour, K.R. Starrs and his followers in Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats will indoctrinate pliable minds at Urban Lounge on Oct. 4.

My first experience with Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats was with their second album, 2011’s Blood Lust. A tribute to the vile psychedelia initiated by the likes of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, what really caught me was how close they could come to heavy metal roots without sounding derivative.  … read more

Mestizaje en Microcosmos

MICA Director and Gallery Curator Renato Olmedo-González has curated SELF_Created: Identity Today at the Mestizo Gallery inside Mestizo Coffeehouse.

A December 2013 graduate from the University of Utah in Art History and Latin American Studies, Olmedo-González gravitates toward self-portraiture in fine art. He acknowledges, furthermore, that more pedestrian (nonart) forms of self-portraiture permeate our psyches as digital simulacra via Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. … read more