Year: 2012
X-Dance Review: Blue Sway (Surf)
Blue Sway
X-Dance Screening: Saturday, Jan. 14 @ 3:30pm
Created by legendary surf filmmaker and winner of the X-Dance “Lifetime Achievement award,” Jack McCoy, Blue Sway is a collaboration of stunning images accompanied by music by the legendary Paul McCartney. … read more
X-Dance Review: Shaun Palmer: The Miserable Champion (Snowboard)
Shaun Palmer: The Miserable Champion
Chainsaw Productions
X-Dance Screening: Saturday, Jan. 14 @ 10pm
Probably the most highly anticipated film of X-Dance 2012, The Miserable Champion takes a very gritty, very raw inside look at the life of one of actions sports founding fathers, Shaun Palmer. … read more
Add a Dash of Local Art: George Gundlach
Each month, SLUG features a local artist and their work on the west wall of the café in Whole Foods at Trolley Square. We asked January’s artist, George Gundlach to come by the SLUG office to create a personal piece just for SLUG, out of whatever we had lying around. We gave him the January 2012 issue, some paints, old colored pencils and some modge podge to see what he could come up with. … read more
Comedy: Marc Maron @ Wiseguys 01.14
To say that I’ve been waiting to have comedian Marc Maron tell me he loves me for ten years would be an understatement. It’s closer to fifteen—ever since I first saw him on TV. … read more
Nurses @ Kilby 01.14
When it comes to West Coast experimental pop/freak-folk outfits, I typically gloss over their reviews or any sizable mention in the press, since they’re not usually my cup of tea. As for Nurses, there’s something inextricable which compels me to grant their tracks more listens per usual—even placing certain songs on mixtapes. Fortunately, I was bestowed the chance to investigate this dilemmatic phenomenon by witnessing them live at Kilby. … read more
Napalm Flesh: Krieg Interview
The place to be for black metal fans, extreme metal fans, worshipers of darkness and all those other clichéd terms this Saturday Jan. 21 is Bar Deluxe for Krieg’s first ever performance in Salt Lake. For your reading pleasure, I interviewed frontman Imperial about his endeavors, US Black Metal and everything in between. As expected, we also have your weekly event rundown as well as reviews of Abysmal Dawn and Loincloth. … read more
Wish You Were Here
While on holiday in Cambodia, two couples, Dave and Alice Flannery and Steph McKinney and Jeremy King, partake in all the traditional tourist attractions the impoverished country has to offer, but after attending an underground dance party, Jeremy unexpectedly disappears and a dark secret is buried within the circle of friends.
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The Queen of Versailles
Rather than going the been-there-done-that route of a rags to riches story, director Lauren Greenfield accidently (yet exquisitely) delivers a riches to rags tale with the intimate glimpse into the wealthy lives of David and Jackie Siegel.
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
From the prankster beginnings of early hacktivist groups and the awkward birth of Anonymous from the loins of the website 4Chan, documentary filmmaker Brian Knappenberger follows the sometimes slow, sometimes mind-blowing-ly fast development of the hacktivist movement. Through interviews with former and current Anonymous members, footage taken by the activists themselves and some very impressive editing, We Are Legion presents a surprisingly historically correct version of past events that no newsroom would approve of.
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Ben Franklin Blowing Bubbles at a Sword
In his “first screening, ever, first short film, ever,” Jonathan Napolitano documents three “mental athletes” as they train for and compete in the 2011 USA Memory Championships. … read more