Senior Staff Writer Paige Zuckerman
August 1, 2019

Contributor Limelight: Paige Zuckerman

Senior Staff Writer Paige Zuckerman has told the stories of various local people. With a knack for amplifying interviewees’ voices, Zuckerman crafts her features with simultaneous care and panache. You can find her cover story about this month’s cover artist and 11th Annual Craft Lake City DIY Festival Presented By Harmons artisan Ashley Love on pg. 20. Zuckerman finds joy in SLUG’s community stewardship, from the onset of story assignments to interviewing the subjects of her pieces. She also writes music reviews of releases and shows, some of her favorite content to make. She traces SLUG’s local focus through the communities of artists, musicians and business owners, as well as via our own programming of our local-music showcase, Localized, and CLC’s DIY Festival. It’s with ardent writers like Zuckerman that we’re able to foster community connection, and SLUG is lucky to have her!

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Local Music Singles Roundup: November 2024

Local Music Singles Roundup: November 2024
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Here in SLC, we’ll be focused on the right thing: sick local bands making sick music. Below are six more incredible tracks to dig into. … read more

Bold & Beautiful: Nancy Raygun

Bold & Beautiful: Nancy Raygun
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Standing out in the scene can be tricky, yet Nancy Raygun has accomplished that in spades, not merely for their cheeky and rather topical moniker. … read more

Local Music Singles Roundup: October 2023

Local Music Singles Roundup: October 2023
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All Hollow’s Eve is creeping in on us foolish mortals once again. SLUG is ditching the tricks and dishing out some raving treats in the October edition of our Local Music Singles Roundup! … read more

Charming Rodentia: Scrat Pack Rattery’s Tiny Best Friends

Charming Rodentia: Scrat Pack Rattery’s Tiny Best Friends
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Aislynn and Julie Smith started Scrat Pack Rattery in 2020 with the goal of rehabilitating rats’ bad raps and sharing some of nature’s most clever creatures.

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Woodbine Food Hall & Rooftop Bar

Woodbine Food Hall & Rooftop Bar
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The brand new Woodbine Food Hall & Rooftop Bar lives adjacent to Salt Lake’s downtown, yet far enough away to give a quiet and quaint atmosphere. … read more

Review: Bring Her – Comfort in the Shame

Review: Bring Her – Comfort in the Shame
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Bring Her = Skeletal Family + Siouxsie Sioux + a pinch of John Carpenter for good measure  … read more

Sweet Streets: Making Movement Safer for Salt Lake City

Sweet Streets: Making Movement Safer for Salt Lake City
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In late 2019, a few Salt Lake citizens enacted systemic changes in the ways we roam with Sweet Streets, a local people-first city planning advocacy group. … read more

Strangelove Bring So Much to Love

Strangelove Bring So Much to Love
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Strangelove warm the heart and thrill the spines of longtime Depeche Mode lovers and fair-weather fans alike. … read more

Viva La Vida: Celebrate the Season of Cozy with Vidas Wax Works

Viva La Vida: Celebrate the Season of Cozy with Vidas...
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More than just a tidy, smoke-free burn, Vidas Wax Works candles and wax melts are a mélange of beautiful and heartwarming scent combinations. … read more

St. Vincent @ Twilight Concert Series 09.18

St. Vincent @ Twilight Concert Series 09.18
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Tulsa’s own indie-rocker Annie Clark aka St. Vincent gave The Gallivan Center a gorgeous early-autumn night on the town last Saturday. … read more

Noah Cyrus w/ Ant Clemons @ Ogden Twilight 09.04

Noah Cyrus w/ Ant Clemons @ Ogden Twilight 09.04
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It feels like we are all pretty damn glad to get back to the gigs. Ogden Twilight is doing a pretty damn fine job making that happen.  … read more

Desert Edge Brewery is Home to the Canned-Beer Comeback Kids

Desert Edge Brewery is Home to the Canned-Beer Comeback Kids
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Desert Edge’s new canning operation aims to maintain the highly personal and intricate aspects of the brewery’s general modus operandi. … read more

Queer and Now: How the Queer Spectra Arts Festival Captures the Tones of Intersectionality

Queer and Now: How the Queer Spectra Arts Festival Captures...
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Three years into its youthful tenure, Salt Lake City’s Queer Spectra Arts Festival has danced, swayed and spoken to the strange shifts of our world in more ways than the originators had imagined. Begun by modern dance graduates Dat Nguyen and Emma Sargent alongside Max Barnewitz and Aileen Norris, the collective decided that an interdisciplinary

Local Review: Sculpture Club – Worth

Local Review: Sculpture Club – Worth
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There’s simultaneously a youthful curiosity and a dour bewilderment entwined in the narrative of Sculpture Club’s Worth. … read more

Old Cuss Coffee Gives A Dang

Old Cuss Coffee Gives A Dang
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Brent’Lee K Williams’ eclectic touches make Old Cuss Coffee truck a roving charm in our city that we’re happy to see stick around. … read more

Finding a Wilder Flow with Rocky Lavoie

Finding a Wilder Flow with Rocky Lavoie
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WildFlow’s mission is all about deep integration and reconnection with our most native human truths, such as community, grief and relaxation. … read more

Three Pines Coffee and District Coffee Co.: Preserving Community in the COVID-19 Era

Three Pines Coffee and District Coffee Co.: Preserving Community in...
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Three Pines Coffee and District Coffee Co. are among the many local businesses that have found creative ways to weather the pandemic. … read more

Review: The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

Review: The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
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Manchester pop band The 1975 have made the rounds in the past few years, with their sophomore album having solidified their placement as rebellious influencers on the indie scene. However, they have arguably transcended this persona as of late. … read more

Local Review: The Wicked Notions – I Love You, but I’ll Never Tell You How Much

Local Review: The Wicked Notions – I Love You, but...
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The Wicked Notions = Nine Inch Nails + Placebo + The Neighbourhood … read more

Local Review: The Signal Sound – Broken Homes

Local Review: The Signal Sound – Broken Homes
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The Signal Sound = Green Day + The All-American Rejects + Yellowcard … read more

Local Review: The Gontiks

Local Review: The Gontiks
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The Gontiks = Deerhunter + Explosions In The Sky … read more

Local Review: Noble Bodies – It’s OK It’s Hell

Local Review: Noble Bodies – It’s OK It’s Hell
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It’s OK It’s Hell is a worthy listen, especially for fans of the late ’90s, early ’00s alternative era. Noble Bodies’ music is familiar to the genre and decade yet chock full of contemporary millennial narratives, making it a solid conduit for the old and the new in amalgam. … read more

Local Review: New Hollywood – Shell Shock

Local Review: New Hollywood – Shell Shock
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Local indie rock quartet New Hollywood offer charming, up-tempo punk and lilting indie rock with delightful retro sensibilities in their fresh new 11-track album, Shell Shock. … read more

Review: Dirty Projectors – Lamp Lit Prose

Review: Dirty Projectors – Lamp Lit Prose
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Dirty Projectors = David Byrne + Yes + a pinch of Frank Zappa … read more

Review: Depeche Mode – Spirit

Review: Depeche Mode – Spirit
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Depeche Mode = Fad Gadget + Red Flag + NIN + themselves … read more

Jaclyn Wright’s Multi-Media Metaphor Leaves a Deep Mark

Jaclyn Wright’s Multi-Media Metaphor Leaves a Deep Mark
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Jaclyn Wright’s Marked contains multiple components that broaden and build upon each other to create a body in themselves. … read more

Book Review: Fallible

Book Review: Fallible
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Fallible is a profoundly personal narrative on the ails of an industry and culture with respect to the experienced intersections of its author. … read more

Bewilder Brewing: How One of Salt Lake’s Newest Breweries is Standing Out

Bewilder Brewing: How One of Salt Lake’s Newest Breweries is...
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Bewilder Brewing exists right in the heart of the city, and Co-Founder Ross Metzger attests to his hopes for how they will thrive in the coming year. … read more

Strangelove: The Depeche Mode Experience with Electric Duke @ Metro 02.21

Strangelove: The Depeche Mode Experience with Electric Duke @ Metro...
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Strangelove is one of those rare and refined tribute bands that rejuvenates one’s faith in the power of professional imitation. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Sanzaru

Slamdance Film Review: Sanzaru
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The disorienting and claustrophobic thirller Sanzaru shows a solid potential for director Xia Magnus in their thematic concepts, visuals and soundscapes. … read more

Lighting Lanterns in the Dark: The Rape Recovery Center and its Social Justice & Outreach Leaders

Lighting Lanterns in the Dark: The Rape Recovery Center and...
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For 45 years the Rape Recovery Center has been the flagship trauma-informed and multiculturally conscious sexual-violence safe space in Salt Lake. … read more

Funky, Quirky, Cute: Nicole LaRue Designs a Charming Rebellion

Funky, Quirky, Cute: Nicole LaRue Designs a Charming Rebellion
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Designer, illustrator and author Nicole LaRue embodies her art. One of LaRue’s most impactful designs came alive with the Washington Women’s March. … read more

The Japanese House @ The Complex 10.19 w/ Overcoats

The Japanese House @ The Complex 10.19 w/ Overcoats
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The Japanese House played a fairly clipped set—especially in comparison to their springtime visit. Much to the chagrin of the crowd, the set had no encore. … read more

ABS is Making a Dent For Your Zen

ABS is Making a Dent For Your Zen
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ABS purports the healing and wholesome benefits of their products, a claim being further validated over the past few years in the science of CBD as a whole. … read more

Harmons Hands-on Cooking Experience: The Harmons Cooking Class Program

Harmons Hands-on Cooking Experience: The Harmons Cooking Class Program
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Seven of Harmons’ many locations partner in a particularly pointed offering to the Utah foodie scene: the Harmons’ Cooking Class Program. … read more

The Book of Mormon @ The Eccles Theater 08.24

The Book of Mormon @ The Eccles Theater 08.24
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Per the usual Matt Stone & Trey Parker brand, The Book of Mormon is crass, fearless, utterly lacking in political correctness and ultimately full of heart. … read more

Phantogram @ Ogden Twilight 08.17 w/ Bob Moses, Palace of Buddies

Phantogram @ Ogden Twilight 08.17 w/ Bob Moses, Palace of...
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A Saturday night Phantogram show at Ogden Twilight is a truly special treat, with only a few of the season’s awesome offerings occurring on the weekend. … read more

Ashley Love Loves Her Craft

Ashley Love Loves Her Craft
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Though her works often defy genre, Ashley Love identifies a sort of realm in which she plays as an illustrator and what inspired her to land within it. … read more

Washed Out @ Ogden Twilight 07.12 w/ Deerhunter, Le Voir

Washed Out @ Ogden Twilight 07.12 w/ Deerhunter, Le Voir
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As a midpoint for 2019’s Ogden Twilight Concert Series, Washed Out & Deerhunter were downright fantastic and funky. … read more

Yeasayer @ Urban Lounge 06.23 w/ Oh, Rose

Yeasayer @ Urban Lounge 06.23 w/ Oh, Rose
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Known for big, sprawling and beautiful bridges, Sunday’s set was a solid, albeit quick, sampling of Yeasayer’s weird and wonderful world. … read more

WASI Brings Colorful and Queer Sounds of Love and Acceptance to Utah

WASI Brings Colorful and Queer Sounds of Love and Acceptance...
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Ahead of their stop at Gold Blood Collective in Utah during Pride month, SLUG spoke with WASI about the big, rainbow picture of the tour. … read more

Capturing Home, Visibility and Stillness: Denae Shanidiin and Indigenous Images

Capturing Home, Visibility and Stillness: Denae Shanidiin and Indigenous Images
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Denae Shanidiin’s images often center around the simple yet sacred human moments in Indigenous experience, including painful and raw realities. … read more

Review: The Japanese House @ The Complex w/ Art School Girlfriend 05.05

Review: The Japanese House @ The Complex w/ Art School...
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Although The Japanese House is perhaps less probable to fill some of the clownishly large shoes of her Dirty Hit originating brethren, she’s clearly destined for her own fashion of greatness. … read more

Review: The 1975 @ UCCU W/ Pale Waves, No Rome 04.29

Review: The 1975 @ UCCU W/ Pale Waves, No Rome...
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For their third run-in with Utah audiences, the bombastic and ever ballooning indie pop foursome The 1975 graced the UCCU Events Center making for a wonderfully unusual Monday evening … read more

Rolling in the Red Rocks: The St. George Bicycle Collective

Rolling in the Red Rocks: The St. George Bicycle Collective
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Since October 2017, Utah bike culture has experienced a whole new space for community growth and collaboration at the St. George Bicycle Collective. … read more

These Boots Were Made For Women: Pink Boots Society Grows its Craft for Utah Women Brewers at Roosters Brewing Co.

These Boots Were Made For Women: Pink Boots Society Grows...
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Pink Boots Society’s Collaboration Brew Day encourages collegiality to create a beer, the sales proceeds of which go to a scholarship fund. … read more

Invisible Eulogy: Gregg Deal Brings Native Visibility to the Transcontinental Exhibit

Invisible Eulogy: Gregg Deal Brings Native Visibility to the Transcontinental...
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Gregg Deal’s exhibition will depict Native erasure and the effects of the railroad and other related developments on indigenous populations. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: We Are Thankful

Slamdance Film Review: We Are Thankful
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We Are Thankful and its protagonist are genuine, real and undeniably lovely in their authenticity. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Cat Sticks

Slamdance Film Review: Cat Sticks
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Cat Sticks delves into the desperate, nightly endeavors of several addicts maneuvering their torturous jones and unglamorously careening through the sad underground of their city. … read more

Slamdance 2019 Film – Desolation Center and the Birth of the Modern Music Festival

Slamdance 2019 Film – Desolation Center and the Birth of...
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This year, the Slamdance Film Festival will debut Desolation Center, the story of the early iconoclasts of DIY culture and the roots of modern, outdoor music and performing-arts festivals. … read more

Pale Waves @ In The Venue 11.28.18 w/ The Candescents & Kailee Morgue

Pale Waves @ In The Venue 11.28.18 w/ The Candescents...
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Fans of teenage nostalgia with a few sharp edges will enjoy the sounds of Pale Waves, as displayed with “Eighteen” and “New Years Eve,” all of which were played to perfection live. Mid-set, the anthemic “Drive” was a delight to hear—being arguably the grandest track of their debut album. … read more

Dueling in Duality: Amy Irvine’s Call to Cabal

Dueling in Duality: Amy Irvine’s Call to Cabal
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Amy Irvine is indeed seeking to drum up a different dialogue and practice around the patriarchal origins of being in and fighting for the wild—and the often grossly individualistic entitlement to wild spaces and resources. … read more

Of Montreal @ Metro Music Hall 11.02 w/ Reptaliens

Of Montreal @ Metro Music Hall 11.02 w/ Reptaliens
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Of Montreal’s bombastic music and equally theatric (yet charmingly indie) stage performance made for a gleefully, fun gig. Their Friday night onstage may have been one of the most colorful performances Metro has seen in a while.  … read more

A Spirited Brew: Moab Distillery

A Spirited Brew: Moab Distillery
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Moab Distillery is in a growing phase, with new offerings on the horizon—and you can find them and Moab Brewery at SLUG Mag’s Brewstillery Nov. 17 at the Union Event Center. … read more

Good Standing: Designing a Native Story of Faith and Love

Good Standing: Designing a Native Story of Faith and Love
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Matthew Greene’s Good Standing is a creative take on the traditional, single-performer method with an unusual set design, intensely personal character portrayal and a story with roots that run deep for its collaborators and community. … read more

Making Meaning in What You’re Eating: Eat Local Week

Making Meaning in What You’re Eating: Eat Local Week
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Alison Einerson was an early cultivator of Utah’s strongly sprouting Eat Local program, with a mission to make local food a sustained extension of the larger cultural and personal narrative. … read more

DeelanZ: CLC Performer

DeelanZ: CLC Performer
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In November 2013, Dylan Lewman (soundcloud.com/deelanZ) found himself in an enveloping darkness, being medically induced into a month-long coma. … read more

Andrea Burggraf: CLC Performer

Andrea Burggraf: CLC Performer
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Andrea Burggraf is Utah’s nomadic child, having lived the folkloric life traveling the world and discovering her troubadour soul. … read more

House of Tenebris: CLC Artisan

House of Tenebris: CLC Artisan
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Adrian and Rachel Prazen’s relationship and craftsmanship were forged from dark and intricate places. After coming in and out of the tempering fire, they channeled their struggles and strengths into a thriving jewelry business. … read more

Ogden Twilight 2018: Sylvan Esso 07.17

Ogden Twilight 2018: Sylvan Esso 07.17
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Durham, North Carolina’s, electro pop duo Sylvan Esso became an especially compelling cohort among the stellar 2018 Ogden Twilight Concert Series lineup Tuesday night. … read more

A Place of Power: Russel Albert Daniels and the Authentic Native Image

A Place of Power: Russel Albert Daniels and the Authentic...
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Russel Albert Daniels is a quiet, pensive artist who contains an expansive river within him, much like the spaces and stories his work reflects. His photographs have captured the complexity of the modern Native experience intersecting with nature and contemporary political struggle. … read more

Kimbra @ Metro 05.23 with Son Lux

Kimbra @ Metro 05.23 with Son Lux
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Australia and New Zealand pop-Motown-R&B phenom Kimbra Lee Johnson and New York indie-electronic trio Son Lux made an odd yet delightful bill for the Metro stage Wednesday night. … read more

Shifting Gears: SLC Bike Collective’s Women, Trans, Femme Program

Shifting Gears: SLC Bike Collective’s Women, Trans, Femme Program
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WTF is the SLCBC’s weekly women-, trans- and femme-affirmative offering. Every Wednesday, the shop closes to regular business and opens to anyone who identifies on the WTF spectrum, with a loving yet firm reminder to cis-male-identified patrons to please make space for these oft underrepresented customers. … read more

Cigarettes After Sex @ Urban 04.21

Cigarettes After Sex @ Urban 04.21
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Cigarettes After Sex provide a beautiful soundtrack for a cultivated, classy yet ever-so-slightly racy date-night, as their Urban Lounge set proved. Whether imbibed in the background of private late-night moments or onstage with a sold-out crowd, Cigarettes make for a most luscious, velvety auditory torte. … read more

Localized: Sonnei

Localized: Sonnei
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Sonnei is an artist whose expression has shape-shifted sonically and aesthetically. From school programs in second grade to the typical national anthem stint to singing with local dynamos, their career has been one of transformation. … read more

Localized: Stephanie Mabey

Localized: Stephanie Mabey
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Mabey’s most recent EP, I Still Taste Fire, released in September 2016, yet her older catalog is concurrently carving a path for her expanding potential. Having no management or outside art direction, Mabey is honing her sonic and aesthetic identity in a wholly organic process, from the roots up. … read more

Kiitos Brewing Crafts the Conscious and Delicious

Kiitos Brewing Crafts the Conscious and Delicious
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“Always look local,” says Clay Turnbow, the congenial home brewer–turned–Head Brewer at Kiitos Brewing. A minimalist, unpretentious yet ultra-cool oasis nestled amid a semi-dilapidated industrial park, Kiitos offers a cheerful gathering space for the love of the suds. … read more

Finding a Home: Art Makes an Impact at the Rio Gallery

Finding a Home: Art Makes an Impact at the Rio...
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The brainchild of local professional artist and curator Clinton Whiting, Art In The Home is a meditation on the powerful impact that owning original works can sustain for families who might not otherwise access them. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End

Slamdance Film Review: Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End
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The best of art comes from the creation that follows destruction. Mr. Fish: Cartooning From The Deep End is a documentary full of raw, ugly, animated humanity that respects that tension. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Human Affairs

Slamdance Film Review: Human Affairs
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Genevieve, a young French expat living a quiet Vermont life, travels to New York to make the first personal contact with Sidney and Lucinda, the couple for whom she is three months into surrogacy. … read more

Two Sides of the Self: M/M at Slamdance

Two Sides of the Self: M/M at Slamdance
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M/M is a beautifully shot, modern and stylish film by director Drew Lint, and will show at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival. … read more

Pale Waves @ Kilby Court with The Candescents 11.24

Pale Waves @ Kilby Court with The Candescents 11.24
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Pale Waves come onstage with a sophisticated air of taut professionalism. “Goth Mum” Barron-Gracie immediately serves her perplexingly dark vibes with smart, delicious bubblegum hooks. … read more

The Third Space: The Printed Garden’s Good Reads and Grounding

The Third Space: The Printed Garden’s Good Reads and Grounding
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Comfortable, quiet and safe are more than descriptors of the books neatly lining The Printed Garden’s shelves. They are also the central spirit of the store itself; the “third space” Cance has crafted with heaps of heart. … read more

Perturbator, Visigoth, Darklord @ Metro 09.06

Perturbator, Visigoth, Darklord @ Metro 09.06
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The show Kent provides is an energizing blend of madness and melodic trance worth the ringing ears and mechanized nightmares. … read more

Cultivating Resilience: Wasatch Community Garden’s GREEN TEAM Farm

Cultivating Resilience: Wasatch Community Garden’s GREEN TEAM Farm
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The mission of the GREEN TEAM was threefold: to support permanent housing and work for homeless women, to provide produce to Head Start—a program to give quality food to local schools—and to cultivate a shared community space that would thrive in an oft ignored area of the city. … read more

Mew w/ Monakr @ The State Room 08.16

Mew w/ Monakr @ The State Room 08.16
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There’s no rock-star energy in Mew’s performance, yet their talent is unmistakable. The set was pleasantly varied with early tunes and recent tracks. … read more

Review: Beautiful Bipolar

Review: Beautiful Bipolar
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Utah-based writer Danielle Workman’s Beautiful Bipolar is an oddly charming glimpse into veering fear, resignation and radical hope. … read more

Modern 8: Emotive by Design

Modern 8: Emotive by Design
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For 16 years, modern8—a small collection of brand-scape architects—have been bent on pondering the deeper meanings of their community. It is their mission to market a more attachment-informed process. … read more

History in the Making: Strap Tank Brewing Co.

History in the Making: Strap Tank Brewing Co.
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Strap Tank’s beer menu is replete with nuanced, flavorful brews with unique profiles and no undesired or unintentional artifacts. The complex boutique beers run the gamut from fruity, sparkly saisons to daringly hazy, hoppy pale ales … read more

The 1975 @ Saltair with Colouring, Pale Waves

The 1975 @ Saltair with Colouring, Pale Waves
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Droves of trendy teenage millennials converged on Saltair on May 5, and when the doors opened, the screaming diaspora flooded into the venue oddly juxtaposed with a soothing oceanic odor in the air. My self-imposed mission entailed chasing the night’s act—burgeoning genre-bending pop masters The 1975. … read more

Caffe Ibis: Magic Beans & the Elevation of Utah Coffee Culture

Caffe Ibis: Magic Beans & the Elevation of Utah Coffee...
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Utah enjoys a vibrant coffee community, and Caffe Ibis is a harbinger of the best that the brown bean of brilliance has to offer. … read more

Project Service is Service

Project Service is Service
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Jessica Rodriguez is the president of Latinos in Action at Cyprus High School, a local chapter of the national organization that empowers young Latino students toward educational and career success. When Rodriguez saw that some of her peers were denied the Presidential Service Award due to their undocumented status, Project Service is Service was born. … read more