Arts
Local Tattooers: Thai Le
Thai Le, a local artist with almost two decades experience tattooing, is currently working at Zen Tattoo, located at 294 W. 4500 South. … read more
Local Tattooers: Oscar Garcia
Oscar Garcia, a tattoo artist with 12 years of experience, is currently working at Oni Tattoo Gallery, located at 325 E. 900 South. … read more
Mike Brown: Tattoo Horror Stories and Customer Etiquette
The following is a simple guide to some shit that should already be a given but somehow always isn’t. It’s a couple quick do’s and don’ts from some tattoo artists’ perspectives about how a customer should behave when going in to get drilled, based on real-life tattoo horror stories. … read more
Local Tattooers: Aleki Manu
Aleki Manu, an artist of nine years experience, is currently working at Artsy By Nature Tattoo, located at 4901 S. State Street #B. … read more
Local Tattooers: Tori Loke
With just under a decade of experience tattooing, local artist Tori Loke is currently stationed at Black Thumb MST, located at 131 W. 2100 South. … read more
Local Tattooers: Troy Trujillo
Troy Trujillo is 20 years into a fruitful career as a tattoo artist. Currently he works at Lonely Hearts Club Tattoo, located at 11 E. 400 South. … read more
Creature Feature: Lucy Fur
To Lucy, drag has been an extremely important means of expression. “I’ve been dying my hair and getting wild piercings for years, and it’s always been a big part of me—to not feel scared to do what I want to do or to be who I am,” he says. … read more
“Crap. It’s All Crap”: A Review of Something Really Big...
This is not your typical Utah happy hour. No, leave the kids at home, order a beer and sit as perplexed and entertained as I was through this intimate, close-to-home and bewildering spectacle. A guy walks into a bar … or a club, rather, and a series of events through time unfold into a myriad
SLUG Style: Denae Shanidiin
Denae Shanidiin is an image maker, ceramicist, and protector of the land, air, and water. Her work responds to her own identity as an Indigenous artist and as a woman. … read more
Art | Art and Fashion | Fashion | Slug Style
UMOCA Gala 2018: Seven Deadly Sins
The UMOCA (Utah Museum of Contemporary Art) annual gala is always reliably and delightfully indulgent. This year’s theme was Seven Deadly Sins, and the event was held inside the museum’s Main Gallery space. … read more
Este Barrio No Se Vende: Jessica Sabogal’s Artistic Activism
Muralist Jessica Sabogal is a first-generation Colombian American whose spray-painted works reach out to marginalized people, show them support and speak the message of their struggle and humanity, which is so often misheard or misrepresented. … read more
Art | Art and Fashion | LGBTQ+
Chad Kirkland Photography: A Journey from the Dark Room to...
Chad Kirkland is a local freelance commercial and editorial photographer. He has shot for companies like Google, Converse, The Wall Street Journal and more. More impressive than his list of clients, however, is his work. “It’s my typewriter, my paintbrush, my microphone and amplifier,” he says, referring to his camera. … read more
