Year: 2013
Movie Reviews: Salt Lake Film Festival
The Salt Lake City Film Festival celebrates five years Sept. 26–29. Featuring the best in local filmmaking, along with highlights from this festival season’s national and international independent films, the SLCFF has something for every level of film buff. Here are reviews for some of the SLCFF films showing this year for your consideration. … read more
The Mysterious Design of Life and Death: A Profile of...
Isaac Hastings creates cryptic, carefully designed, line-dominant artwork that conveys both spiritually infused and dream-inspired symbols. His meticulous design is featured on the cover of SLUG this month to honor the magazine’s 300th issue. A self-described “jack of all trades, master of none,” Hastings is humble—he sports a black hoodie, jeans and a beanie during our interview and speaks frankly about his evolution as an artist. … read more
Beer Reviews
September is a weird month for beer. The weather is still relatively warm, but autumn is right around the corner. … read more
Beautiful Godzilla: Davey Davis For President!
About six years ago, the urban cycling scene in Salt Lake City was at the height of its glory, with Davey Davis at the helm … er, handlebars. … read more
Mike Brown: High School
The leaves are changing, the temperature is dropping and another glorious, globally warmed summer is over. September is here, and if you aren’t already cutting class by the time you read this, you should be. … read more
Skate Photo Feature: Colin Brophy
After years of nobody touching this rail, Colin landed a frontside 5-0 and this backside Smith within a week of each other. … read more
Princess Kennedy: Dyslexia’s A Drag
One thing you didn’t know about the Princess is that she’s severely dyslexic. Actually, I didn’t even know this until well into my 20s, when my mother sent me a folder stuffed with my kindergarten assignments. … read more
Getting To Point B
Point B, starring the late David Fetzer, is “a stylized sci-fi comedy about four grad students who accidentally develop a crude teleportation device,” says Cannon, the film’s producer. … read more
Video Game Reviews
Reviews for Battlepillars, Beyond: Two Souls, Dead Trigger 2, Dishonored, Disney Infinity, The Elder Scrolls Anthology, Infinity Blade II, Outlast. Pokémon X and Y, The Silver Gymnasium and Sonic: The Lost World. … read more
SLUG Holiday Comix – November 2013
SLUG Holiday Comix Presents: Guy “Fawkes” Day, Nov. 5 by Brandon Dayton … read more
Make Us Laugh, Clowns! SLC’s First Comedy Carnivale
Hold on to your dicks, because Utah’s first-ever submissions-based comedy festival, SLC Comedy Carnivale, is happening from Sept. 17–21. … read more
Book Reviews
Reviews for Bellman & Black: A Novel, Diablo III: The Book of Tyrael, Incidential Contact, Leaving Salt Lake City and Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith.
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