Year: 2015
April 2015 Comic Book Reviews
Comic book reviews for Clive Barker’s Next Testament Vol. 2, The Fade Out, Vol. 1, G.I. Joe Volume 1: The Fall of G.I. Joe, The Life After, Vol. 1, Revelations, The Rocketeer: Complete Adventures Trade Paperback, Star Trek: Harlan Ellison’s City On The Edge of Forever, Star Trek: Golden Key Archives Volume 3, and Weird Love, Vol. 1: You Know You Want It.
SLUG Games Battle at Basin Presented by Ken Garff Fiat
The crowd huddled together Saturday, Jan. 10, as they watched the winners of SLUG Games: Battle at Basin Presented by Ken Garff Fiat—SLUG’s 15th Annual Snowboard and Ski competition at Snowbasin Resort—get crowned and receive their awesome prizes.
A Pinch of Salt: A History of Death By Salt
There had never been anything like it: Released in 2004, SLUG Magazine’s first Death By Salt compilation offered an overview of a wide array of local musicians as never seen before.
The Annex by Epic Brewing
The arrival of Chef Craig Gerome from San Francisco this year, however, has rocked this gastropub. The Annex is now more like a fancy restaurant with lots of great beer.
April 2015 Book Reviews
Book reviews for Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.: A Memoir, Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book, The Grumpy Guide to Life: Observations by Grumpy Cat, Helen Keller Really Lived, I Found My Friends: The Oral History Of Nirvana, The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals, and Robin Robertson’s Vegan Without Borders: Easy Everyday Meals from Around the World.
June 2015 Movie Reviews
Movie reviews for Inside Out, Mad Max: Fury Road, Me & Earl & The Dying Girl, Pitch Perfect 2 and Slow West.
Nothing Is Too Big: An Interview With Grieves
Grieves is pale, skinny and unapologetic. He is aware that he draws comparisons to Macklemore. He pays no attention to what assumptions Pitchfork makes about the originality of his rap or how many stars they slap on his album. This could come across as cockiness, but the truth is that his rhymes are rooted in soil too deep to be bothered by shallow judgments—hip-hop is as much about letting go as it is pushing forward
Park City’s New Namesake Brewery
The people of Park City love their beer—they deserve a brewery with some staying power. I think they’ve found it.
After Hours With The Spilt Ink Crew
Spilt Ink has been rapidly taking over the screen-printing scene in Utah—their success has resulted in their recent relocation to make room for expansions. With all the expansions Spilt Ink has undergone in the past year, Jeremy Conder believes that the integrity of the operation is something that will never be sacrificed.
Elementé: the Last of the SLC Bohemians
Elementé began 27 years ago, when friends Kate Bullen and Patrick Hoagland were having a conversation about the secondhand furniture scene in Salt Lake.
There’s No Substitute for Knowing Me: An Interview with Ariel...
Pink’s off-kilter brand of pop, which mixes influences as familiar as Brian Wilson and as strange as Frank Zappa, reveals something about his personality that’s entirely appealing and even slightly addicting. It’s in Pink’s music that we’re given a glimpse into his true nature.
The Wheel of Beer
Sure, paper menus are fine, but there’s nothing like having a real-time digital menu at your fingertips. After a few months, with little feedback on this tiny option in a tiny corner of The Bayou’s website, something odd began happening.