Products from Rough Neck, AIAIAI, SML Wheels, Sno Dice, Macbeth, and Shogo are reviewed by SLUG’s scrappy team of skate, snow and sloth aficionados. … read more
Gallery Stroll – April 2010
I’ve always said art is where you look for it. In the case of the Utah Arts Alliance’s April show that means finding art in your pre-packaged dinners, plastic grocery bags and the plastic wrap usually reserved for leftovers. Plastic World is an innovative art installation featuring 100% plastic art by artist Derek Dyer. … read more
Movie Reviews – April 2010
Reviews of recently released films, including Alice in Wonderland, The Bounty Hunter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Ghost Writer, Repo Men, She’s Out of My League and more! … read more
National CD Reviews – April 2010
New releases from The Dillinger Escape Plan, Felix Cartal, GBH, Lair of the Minotaur, Ludicra, Red Sparowes, The Slackers, Titus Andronicus, The Weakerthans and many, many more are reviewed. … read more
Beer Reviews – April 2010
In honor of the original brother of the brew, and the holiday he has so pleasantly bestowed upon us, SLUG will be highlighting some black beers this month. If that was too “race”y please feel free to write me—I will put that into the “respond to immediately” folder along with the fan letter I received in ‘08. Hoppers’ Double Black, Squatters’ Outer Darkness and Bohemian’s Chocolate Wheat are reviewed this month. … read more
Video Game Reviews – April 2010
SLUG’s intrepid video game reviewers give you the drop on a trio of deuces: Bioshock 2, Mass Effect 2 and a special review of the Starcraft 2 beta. … read more
Book Reviews – April 2010
This month we review the Drug Dogs zine out of Provo, I Am Martin Eisenstadt by Martin Eisenstadt and One Million by Hendrik Hertzberg. … read more
Dear Dickheads – April 2010
SLUG defends conservative hairstyles and conservative points of view in this month’s installment of Dear Dickheads. … read more
Here Comes the Night: Garage Punk and Weirdness from Behind the Zion Curtain
About fifty or sixty rock n’ rollers, kids with sunglasses and dirty tennis shoes, are packed into a nervous coffee shop or the swarming living room of a crumbling Provo party house. They’re dancing like animals, twisting and kicking, whipped into a vicious frenzy by sloppy surf riffs, vicious primal howls and the brutish beat of floor tom and snare. Great God Almighty, it’s the heat of the beat. … read more
Class of 2010: Seniors Rule
I’m nearing my mid-30s now and have been skateboarding for a while. I can honestly say I have wheels older than some of the kids at the skatepark. However, I have no problem going out on a Saturday for a day of skateboarding with Matt Winskowski and Garrison Conklin, who are currently in their teenage years. It doesn’t seem creepy at all, even though if I were to talk to anyone else from their school or even close to the same age, I would have nothing to talk about. … read more
Localized: Bluebird Radio, Libbie Linton and Indian Headset – May 2010
May’s Localized is going down Friday the 21. Come for the urgent, electric indie rock of Bluebird Radio, and stay for the eloquent vocals and somehow heartening melancholy of singer/songwriter Libbie Linton. Indian Headset opens. Five bucks at the door. … read more
Mexican Millionaires
It all started with an opportunity to catch a free ride to Bahia de Kino, Mexico. The whole idea seemed impossible to me. How could I have fallen into a chance occurrence of driving to Mexico for an eight-day stay on the beach? The idea was so alluring and romantic that there was no possible way I could pass it up, especially knowing we would be driving, not flying. Traveling by road is a grand excitement that borders on obsession for me. … read more
