August 2020
About The Cover: Our August issue celebrates Craft Lake City’s upcoming Virtual DIY Festival. For this cover, participant Abraham Von August (@abrahamvonwaffles) depicts the Festival’s interactive experience of local creativity with colorful panache. Read about August’s work on pgs. 6–7!
Animal Club Jewelry: Craft Lake City Kid Row Artisans
Because Hudson Smith’s creations are wearable, each piece allows the wearer to express their own favorite animal choices to the world. … read more
Sonali Loomba: Craft Lake City Performer
To watch Sonali Loomba perform is an invitation to explore her vibrant culture, to remember our own roots and to be inspired. … read more
Hy Amenero: Craft Lake City Artisan
Hy Amenero’s works have a surrealistic and deathly quality—subjects include hollow-eyed, furry humanoids and the floating skeletal heads of birds of prey. … read more
Miss Misc.: Craft Lake City Vintage Vendor
Vintage Vendor Miss Misc. doesn’t aim to outline a specific style as much as it does seek to serve its clients in their individuality and uniqueness. … read more
Quaranzine: A Series of Quarantine-Themed Mini-comics
Quaranzine was started to help foster community with other local comic creators and make a collaborative piece of art that comments on these strange times. … read more
Queerations: Craft Lake City Artisan
Quirkiness is the brightly colored basis of Psy Robison’s Queerations, and the brand holds nothing back in their pursuit of kitsch. … read more
Beer of the Month: Zólupez IPA
With bits of real lime peel added in, Cerveza Zólupez Beer Company’s Zólupez IPA is much different than your traditional IPA. … read more
Contributor Limelight: Mekenna Malan
With her vibrant, personable prose and her clear passion for a breadth of musical styles and approaches, Mekenna Malan is vital to SLUG’s music discourse. … read more
Riley Winch: Hometown Culture
From the hills and countryside of Heber, Riley Winch has been living and skating in the small town that grows by the day. … read more
Mike Brown: Jerry Sloan – The Man, The Myth, The...
For Mike Brown, the day former Jazz coach Jerry Sloan passed away will be included in the many tragedies of this year when looking back. … read more