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Urban Flea Market 07.31.11
The inaugural day for the Urban Flea Market on July 31st welcomed visitors with dozens of booths full of homemade crafts, vintage collectables, clothes, jewelry, furniture, and smooth jazz provided by KRCL. Photos by Megan Kennedy. … read more
Urban Flea Market 07.31.11
The Urban Flea Market is held at Washington Square in downtown Salt Lake City. The market offers many different vendors selling an assortment of items including books, wallets, jewelry and clothing to name a few. They also provide an arts and crafts area for children, family friendly music, and local animal shelters to showcase animals that are available for adoption. July 31st kicked off the first Urban Flea Market of the summer, but the event will be held one Sunday of every month through October 2011. Photos by: Melissa Cohn … read more
National CD Reviews
New and recent releases from All Shall Perish, Big D & The Kids Table, City of Ships, Cults, Helms Alee, Jeff the Brotherhood, Larry and His Flask, Mariachi El Bronx, SBTRKT, They Might Be Giants, Today is the Day, Ty Segall, YACHT, Zomby and many more are reviewed. … read more
5 Blockbuster Movie Reviews
This month, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Horrible Bosses, Larry Crowne, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon are reviewed. … read more
Book Reviews
This month we review a pair of local books in Hurricane Lamp: poems. by Sundin Richards and Mini Cupcakes by Leslie Fiet as well as Neu Sex by Sasha Grey. … read more
Dear Dickheads
A call to action from local independent presidential candidate Barte P. Hess. … read more
Beautiful Godzilla: Baby Got Back
This month’s blog is brought to you by Sir Mix-A-Lot and his appreciation of fine, fat bottomed girls. Unfortunately, being an FBG isn’t all limo back seats and baked goods. Aside from finding a pair of jeans to go over my voluptuous assets (thank the fashion gods for jeggings, right?), finding the right saddle on which to rest those back pockets has become a real … well … pain in the ass. … read more
Ramp Locals on a Sunny Day in the Northwest
This year for Go Skateboarding Day, I decided to explore something new and head to the Northwestern United States. I had never been to Seattle, Wash. before and felt it was time to experience some new terrain. I flew in early the morning of June 21 ready to skate and have a good time. I am lucky enough to quickly jump into a skate gang in any town I visit, and Seattle was no exception. I was inducted into the Ramp Locals upon arrival. … read more
Electrifying Late-20s Skateboarding: The Bolts of Thunder Story
Bolts of Thunder Gone Wild is an upcoming skateboard video due to premier August 12. This video is a little different than what you would expect to see from most professional and local videos. It’s not filmed in HD and there probably aren’t any names you will recognize from local or national videos. What this video does have is a bunch of skateboard “lifers.” … read more
All Out Ballz Out with Cerebral Ballzy
As Cerebral Ballzy eased into the intro of “On the Run” at Urban Lounge last June, you knew that front man Honor Titus was going to do justice to the Dead Boys back patch on his jean jacket. The normal, grooving, garage rock vibe that Urban usually hosts transmogrifies into a pissed, circle-pit hardcore show as Titus screams, “Catch me if you can! Catch me if you can! I don’t think you can! … read more