Ririe-Woodbury: Polychromatic

Posted on September 26, 2011 (September 9, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

Ririe-Woodbury - 80s Night live performance

This weekend marked the beginning of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company’s 2011-12 season. Last year’s final show was so colorful and imaginative it seemed reasonable to ask how the company could possibly supersede that prior spectacle. The company’s artistic director, Charlotte Boye-Christensen, was wise enough not to attempt such a feat. Rather, she courageously took the company in the opposite direction. While last night’s show bore the title Polychromatic, the set of pieces performed seemed considerably subdued compared to work produced by Ririe-Woodbury in recent seasons. … read more

X-Dance Review: Shaun Palmer: The Miserable Champion (Snowboard)

Posted on January 16, 2012 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

Shaun Palmer: The Miserable Champion
Chainsaw Productions
X-Dance Screening: Saturday, Jan. 14 @ 10pm
Probably the most highly anticipated film of X-Dance 2012, The Miserable Champion takes a very gritty, very raw inside look at the life of one of actions sports founding fathers, Shaun Palmer. … read more

Urban Gallery IV @ Neighborhood House 09.24-25

Posted on September 27, 2011 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

I didn’t go to the Urban Gallery last year, so when I got asked to cover the event this year, all my regrets of good times not had came bubbling to the surface. You see, a few of my friends did go, and they told me all about how much fun it was, how great the art was and how cheap the beer was. What they didn’t tell me about was Neighborhood House. … read more

Add a Dash of Local Art: George Gundlach

Posted on January 16, 2012 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

Each month, SLUG features a local artist and their work on the west wall of the café in Whole Foods at Trolley Square. We asked January’s artist, George Gundlach to come by the SLUG office to create a personal piece just for SLUG, out of whatever we had lying around. We gave him the January 2012 issue, some paints, old colored pencils and some modge podge to see what he could come up with. … read more

Skrillex’s Mothership Tour 09.24 @ Saltair

Posted on September 27, 2011 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

The Mothership Tour was something I had been looking forward to for months—with its amazing line up how could I not—Skrillex, 12th Planet, Nadastrom and Foreign Beggars. Unfortunately due to complications with their visas, Foreign Beggars were unable to grace Salt Lake City with their presence on Sat. Sept. 24, but even without them the show was astounding. … read more

Travis Rice Signing @ Quiksilver 09.22

Posted on September 28, 2011 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

It’s always hard being an outnumbered fan. The snowboarding industry caters to the young so well, that I feel like being older than 25 puts me in the senior citizen category. With this idea, you could imagine how sheepish I might feel attending the Travis Rice signing for his new film The Art of Flight at the downtown Gateway Quicksilver shop. … read more

Comedy: Marc Maron @ Wiseguys 01.14

Posted on January 17, 2012 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

To say that I’ve been waiting to have comedian Marc Maron tell me he loves me for ten years would be an understatement. It’s closer to fifteen—ever since I first saw him on TV. … read more

Nurses @ Kilby 01.14

Posted on January 17, 2012 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

When it comes to West Coast experimental pop/freak-folk outfits, I typically gloss over their reviews or any sizable mention in the press, since they’re not usually my cup of tea. As for Nurses, there’s something inextricable which compels me to grant their tracks more listens per usual—even placing certain songs on mixtapes. Fortunately, I was bestowed the chance to investigate this dilemmatic phenomenon by witnessing them live at Kilby. … read more

Low, The Moth & The Flame @ Velour 09.23

Posted on September 28, 2011 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

Velour was packed; I’ve only seen so many people in this venue at one of Velour’s high-energy shows. I guess I shouldn’t have been so surprised at how many people were there––it was Low––but it also seemed like a lot of people were there because locals The Moth & The Flame opened the show. … read more

Napalm Flesh: Krieg Interview

Posted on January 19, 2012 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

The place to be for black metal fans, extreme metal fans, worshipers of darkness and all those other clichéd terms this Saturday Jan. 21 is Bar Deluxe for Krieg’s first ever performance in Salt Lake. For your reading pleasure, I interviewed frontman Imperial about his endeavors, US Black Metal and everything in between. As expected, we also have your weekly event rundown as well as reviews of Abysmal Dawn and Loincloth. … read more

Napalm Flesh: Deafheaven Interview

Posted on September 29, 2011 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

This week we have an interview with yet another band taking black metal to uncharted territory: Deafheaven. Their mixture of black metal, hardcore, shoegaze and post-rock is one of the most interesting and fresh spins on aggressive music to emerge in the last year. We also have links to streaming music, reviews of new and recent releases from The Body & Braveyoung, Old Silver Key, Opeth, Midnight Odyssey, True Widow and Warbringer, as well as this week’s rundown of metal events. … read more

Wish You Were Here

Posted on January 20, 2012 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

While on holiday in Cambodia, two couples, Dave and Alice Flannery and Steph McKinney and Jeremy King, partake in all the traditional tourist attractions the impoverished country has to offer, but after attending an underground dance party, Jeremy unexpectedly disappears and a dark secret is buried within the circle of friends.
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