Princess Kennedy: The Wise-Tran Cometh

Princess Kennedy: The Wise-Tran Cometh
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Starting this month through January, the UMFA is featuring the photographic work and video performance art of Samoan-born artist Shigeyuki Kihara, aka Yuki.  … read more

Damn These Heels! Festival Coverage 07.12-14

Damn These Heels! Festival Coverage 07.12-14
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Last weekend, the Utah Film Center hosted its 10th Annual Damn These Heels! Film Festival, a series dedicated to screening films with LGBT-centered elements. This year, the UFC screened 21 films, had a handful of panel discussions and threw a bit of a party on Friday night to kick things off the right way.  … read more

Movie Reviews

Movie Reviews

From lighthearted rom-coms to iconic documentaries, Salt Lake’s Damn These Heels! LGBT Film Festival features some of the most heavy-hitting films in contemporary, queer cinema. … read more

DEEP Aerobics with Miguel Gutierrez @ The Rose Wagner Black Box 06.07

DEEP Aerobics with Miguel Gutierrez @ The Rose Wagner Black...
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Friday, June 7 at The Rose Wagner Black Box, the people became powerful. Miguel Gutierrez, a dance improv artist from New York, donned the attire of a “reverse, perverse missionary,” wearing his Church uniform backward (amid his dyed-blond fade and beard) to rile up dancers and nondancers alike. His call to duty, as he introduced himself with a Book of Mormon and an American Flag, was to educate those in attendance about Death Emo Electric Protest: DEEP Aerobics, which was curated by loveDANCEmore and SB Dance, and sponsored by—you guessed it—SLUG Magazine. … read more

Review: The Runs – Pretty Girls

Review: The Runs – Pretty Girls
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Pretty Girls needs more “Hey! Ho!”s and “Gabba gabba hey!”s. The lyrics are extruded from a Joey Ramone-‑like perspective, and the vocals of Scott Free have a similar cadence and tone to Joey.  … read more

Utah Pride Recap

Utah Pride Recap
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Utah Pride is the weekend genderqueer people of the Western states wait all year to come out for. Because of the massive turnout and absolute madness, it is a weekend where the planets of the LGBTQQ community collide and become one constellation of beautiful people. … read more

Zine Reviews

Zine Reviews

Zine reviews for Paramour Magazine, Paper Instagram and Slay Team: The Poser Wars.
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Review: The Knife – Shaking The Habitual

Review: The Knife – Shaking The Habitual
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Shaking the Habitual extends beyond the scope of the record—it’s a manifesto for a 21st Century pop culture ontology. … read more

Creature Feature: Cartel Chameleon Fenice, Public Trans

Creature Feature: Cartel Chameleon Fenice, Public Trans
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Within younger generations, drag culture is at a crossroads; our age is a chameleonic one, and post-Internet, we’re in a remarkable moment of subcultural revival. Cartel and the Bad Kids are bringing their mutant message to Salt Lake’s divided communities, straight and queer. … read more

Joey Arias and Kristian Hoffman @ Urban Lounge 02.28 with the Bad Kids

Joey Arias and Kristian Hoffman @ Urban Lounge 02.28 with...
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Called the “demigod of the demimonde” by Time Out New York, Joey Arias has made a career out of following the twists and turns of drag and performance culture since 1976, when he drove from L.A. to New York with dreams of performing. … read more