SLUG Mag in Spain and Morocco

SLUG Mag in Spain and Morocco
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For this year’s vacation, SLUG Magazine took off to the streets of Valencia, Spain, where it spent time partying at La Tomatina and basking in a city of science near the beach. After a week in Spain, SLUG flew to Morocco where it wandered the medina of Tangier, Chefchaouen, Fes and Rabat. … read more

Dying in Vein: The Opiate Generation

Dying in Vein: The Opiate Generation
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After watching Dying in Vein, a documentary directed by local filmmaker Jenny Mackenzie, it doesn’t look like much has changed as far as anti-drug education in Utah. … read more

Film Review: mother!

Film Review: mother!
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Despite the more literal aspects of its storyline and the parallels to Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby, mother! isn’t entirely centered on Mother’s pregnancy. … read more

The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival @ The Fringe Factory and Dumke Black Box

The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival @ The Fringe Factory...
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Salt Lake’s third annual Fringe Festival comprised eight days, more than 40 shows and 200 performances and is held in several states across the nation. … read more

Bruce Campbell in: The Worst Interview Ever

Bruce Campbell in: The Worst Interview Ever
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Now, Bruce Campbell is on tour promoting his new book, Hail to the Chin, while presenting his geek-based trivia show, Last Fan Standing, to all 35 stops. … read more

Collin Williams: My Suicide Note — A Dark Stand-Up Comedy Show

Collin Williams: My Suicide Note — A Dark Stand-Up Comedy...
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As a comic, Williams’ coping skills were to make jokes of everything around him. He has seen the other side of suicide, too, as he’d been at the bedside of a friend who attempted it as well. He was thinking, “I can keep trying to kill myself, or I could turn this into a show. And then I tried both.” … read more

Creature Feature: Kay Bye

Creature Feature: Kay Bye
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Originally from sunny Southern California, Samuel Mckitty, aka Kay Bye, like her name might imply, is a sassy queen full of attitude and cartoon glamour. … read more

Film Review: Menashe

Film Review: Menashe
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Upon watching Joshua Weinstein’s Sundance Film Festival selection Menashe, it was clear just how little I really knew about Hasidic Judaism. … read more

SLUG Style: Gerda Saunders

SLUG Style: Gerda Saunders
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Gerda Saunders is a retired educator and was formerly Associate Director of the Gender Studies program at the University of Utah. … read more

Film Review: The Hitman’s Bodyguard

Film Review: The Hitman’s Bodyguard
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If it’s done correctly (like in Deadpool), it can be one of the best films of the year. However, when a script just wants to be dirty to be dirty, there’s nothing imaginative about it. This is easily one of the biggest disappoints of 2017. … read more

Film Review: Wind River

Film Review: Wind River
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Wind River does suffer from multiple-ending syndrome, but that’s really the only negative aspect of this fantastic piece of cinema. … read more

Cultivating Resilience: Wasatch Community Garden’s GREEN TEAM Farm

Cultivating Resilience: Wasatch Community Garden’s GREEN TEAM Farm
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The mission of the GREEN TEAM was threefold: to support permanent housing and work for homeless women, to provide produce to Head Start—a program to give quality food to local schools—and to cultivate a shared community space that would thrive in an oft ignored area of the city. … read more