Slamdance Film Review: 20 Years of Madness

Slamdance Film Review: 20 Years of Madness
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The doc’s director, Jeremy Royce, deftly illuminates the tensions that arise between the veteran cast members, using footage from the original show to unearth the anxieties that dissolved the group in the first place. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Bloodsucking Bastards

Slamdance Film Review: Bloodsucking Bastards
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In the first feature film written by the comedy genius team Dr. God, Fran Kranz plays Evan, an overworked call center employee who can’t seem to find his way up the corporate ladder. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Birds of Neptune

Slamdance Film Review: Birds of Neptune
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Free to mature under each other’s care in their childhood home in the Pacific Northwest, the sisters have developed their own ways of coping—demure Rachel (Britt Harris) retreats into making music, while Mona (Molly Elizabeth Parker) escapes into performances of wild characters, such as the “Nazi androgynous cabaret dancer,” who wears a 10” strap-on dildo. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: The Resurrection of Jake the Snake

Slamdance Film Review: The Resurrection of Jake the Snake
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Fans of the golden age of wrestling should not miss out on this earnest documentary about Jake “The Snake” Roberts. … read more

SLUG Games: Battle at Basin Presented By Ken Garff Fiat

SLUG Games: Battle at Basin Presented By Ken Garff Fiat
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The riders were showing off such skills that the judges started to have some fun by offering their personal cash on top of that offered by Ken Garff Fiat for those who could throw down whatever trick was called out by the MC. … read more

SLUG Games: Battle at Basin Presented By Ken Garff Fiat

SLUG Games: Battle at Basin Presented By Ken Garff Fiat
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The crowd huddled together this past 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 receiv … read more

10 Years of Anime Banzai

10 Years of Anime Banzai
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Anime Banzai is the largest Japanese anime convention in Utah, and it just celebrated its 10th anniversary last weekend at the Davis Conference Center in Layton. The 3-day convention went Friday through Sunday, Oct. 17–19. … read more

Summer of Death: Roughside of the Trax V

Summer of Death: Roughside of the Trax V

SLUG’s Summer of Death skate contests have been a skateway drug for countless Utah skaters for 15 years. This summer’s second and final installment of Summer of Death, Roughside of the TRAX, took place on Sept. 13, and made use of some sweet spots along Salt Lake’s TRAX lines. … read more

Summer of Death: Roughside of the TRAX 5

Summer of Death: Roughside of the TRAX 5
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The Summer of Death skate series wrapped up this past weekend with SLUG’s annual Roughside of the TRAX contest. Using TRAX as our transportation and the city as our skate park, the contest is unique, with new spots and features each year. … read more

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: More Swords Please – The Booths of Salt Lake Comic Con

Salt Lake Comic Con 2014: More Swords Please – The...
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Salt Lake Comic Con has come and gone yet again, packing masses of costumed dweebs into the Salt Palace to view panels and dig through the hundreds of booths on the show room floor. Amidst the hundreds of sabre vendors there were some real high lights and low lights, and we figured you’d want a run down. … read more

PAX Prime 2014: Sunset Overdrive

PAX Prime 2014: Sunset Overdrive
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Sunset Overdrive is all about chaos. The game is an open-world shooter where mutants run rampant in the streets, searching for their precious Overdrive—a deliciously toxic energy drink that turned them into mutants in the first place. It may sound like another dystopian future shooter, but Insomniac works hard to set itself apart. … read more

PAX Prime 2014

PAX Prime 2014
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This year, Penny-Arcade Expo (PAX) celebrated its ten-year anniversary—for a decade now, PAX has been a gamer haven. During each PAX Expo, the downtown Seattle streets are flooded with people from all over the country who just want to play video games all day. Some of them spend most of their time standing in line waiting to play video games, while others hang out in freeplay areas to play a huge assortment of games in all the different areas of gaming: tabletop, console, and PC. … read more