Year: 2018
Vicious Cyclers: SLC’s Bike Couriers
These days, electronic words travel at the speed of light. But sometimes, a physical object needs to get from point A to point B—fast. It might surprise most people, but in a dense urban environment, the quickest and most efficient method is a bicycle courier. … read more
Shahrazad: Halal? Is It Meat You’re Looking For?
I feel like I have only scratched the surface of what Shahrazad has to offer. I still need to try the lamb and the goat—the word on the street is that they are among the best in the valley. Honestly, I could eat there every day and feel completely happy never straying from the chicken skewers and hummus. … read more
Youth Education at SLC Bicycle Collective: Build Bikes, Build Community
SLC Bicycle Collective works with schools around the valley, the Boys & Girls Club and even juvenile offenders and troubled young people. It provides youth with structure, “a sense of building community and the chance to meet different types of people they may not otherwise meet,” Coil-Pittman says. … read more
Group Ride Information
If you’re looking to get more involved in the Salt Lake City (and surrounding areas) bicycle community, here are some events taking place this month to help get your foot in the door. … read more
Mike Brown: Getting Rad With Tate Roskelley
I met Tate Roskelley via Instagram. At the time, I had no idea he was a pro BMXer/amateur paperboy. Tate was running a pretty epic, fake Karl Malone IG account with crude Photoshop skills, and was funny as fuck. The account was epically entertaining, and a ton of people thought it was me throwing shade at the Mailman. … read more
Front 242 @ Metro 04.21 with Contaminated Intelligence
Front 242’s studio recordings are primal, but their live performance lifts the material to a completely different level. … read more
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate
This is political, personal and requires you to confront yourself. It’s hard, and it’s a space we should all try to live in more earnestly. Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate runs until June 2 at the Springville Museum of Art. … read more
Skate Photo Feature: Coda Bonell
I don’t know how he does it, but Coda Bonell is always proving that he can heel flip everything and anything. This spot was a battle for a lot of shredders this day, and he was able to pull this heel flip indy grab off relatively quickly—and made it look like it takes him no effort whatsoever. … read more
Film Review: The Rider
Melding fact and fiction, Chloé Zhao’s second feature film, The Rider, remains on the Pine Ridge Reservation to paint an aching portrait of rodeo cowboys among Oglala Lakota Tribe (Sioux) community. … read more
Film Review: Lean on Pete
Lean on Pete’s initial imagery, that of a boy and his horse trekking across the desert, plays into the romanticized conception of an America that doesn’t exist now and probably never did. … read more
Review: Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
Bloodlight and Bami pulls back the curtain and gives us the fly-on-the-wall cinema verité approach—this is a portrait of the artist, not just of Jones but of the artist as identity. … read more
Film Review: Isle of Dogs
Isle of Dogs is set in the not-too-distant future Japan. The overpopulation of sickly canines has become virtually unbearable. Rather than seeking a cure for the illnesses, the ghastly mayor banishes all dogs to Trash Island, and that includes his nephew Atari’s pet, Spots (voiced by Liev Schreiber). … read more
