Halloween is Ruined: Performance Life with Klaus von Austerlitz

Posted on October 2, 2013 (May 21, 2024) by Asha Pruitt

Klaus often blends scary and kawaii imagery for a confrontational look.

Halloween is ruined. Its most treasured sensibilities are under attack. Goths have turned the occult into ridiculous camp and queers have turned ridiculous camp into a cult. So, if Oct. 31 is the only day of the 365 that you’d think of dressing yourself up outrageously, you might be a lamebrain. For local performance artist Klaus von Austerlitz, every costume is a performance, and every performance a carefully constructed vessel of artistry and social critique. … read more

Donning the Yellow Face: People Productions @ Sugar Space Warehouse Theatre

Posted on June 11, 2015 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

Hollywood’s whitewashing is as blatant as ever—consider anything from Mickey Rooney’s racist depiction of Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany’s to the recent casting of Emma Stone in Cameron Crowe’s Aloha as a character of quarter-Chinese, quarter-Hawaiian descent. The same whitewashing can be said for the theatre. … read more

SLUG Style: Doug Fabrizio

Posted on June 11, 2015 (May 21, 2024) by Asha Pruitt

Every month, SLUG Style features a distinct and unique member of the community and asks them why they do what they do. Exploring more than just clothing, SLUG Style is an attempt to feature the people who give Salt Lake City flavor through personality and panache. … read more

CrucialFest 5 Recap: Area 51 – Day One

Posted on June 19, 2015 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

It’s finally here! My musical Christmas is here (I should have a beer advent calendar) and oh boy, was it a fun first night. In a matter of six hours, I saw eleven bands. While bouncing between the booze and sans-booze rooms at Area 51 (a venue I haven’t been to since I was 17. It hasn’t changed a bit.) I had my face melted off on multiple occasions. … read more

Designing Behind the Scenes

Posted on October 2, 2013 (April 25, 2023) by Asha Pruitt

(L–R) Andrew Branch, David Morgan, Patti M. Cook, Tristan Shepherd, Nathan Smith, Gary Vlasic, Robyn Erkelens, Candice Holman, Warren Lloyd, Tyler Bloomquist, Elpitha Tsoutsounakis at Salt Lake Design Week.

In the event of the designers of the world suddenly disappearing, what would things look like? How would they work? Everyday items, like phones, toasters and bathmats, which we all unassumingly use daily, would cease to exist in the user-friendly and attractive nature that we currently enjoy them. This is where Salt Lake Design Week comes in: to show us what it actually takes to design a building, snowboard or bathmat. … read more

16th Annual Summer of Death Skate Contest

Posted on July 2, 2015 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

Parley Southworth (1st Place), nose blunt bomb drop from the railing.

SLUG held the first contest of the 16th annual Summer of Death skate series on Saturday, June 20, at Banzai Skatepark in Lindon, Utah. Congratulations to Summer of Death 1st Place champion Parley Southworth! Check out Lauren Ashley’s full recap here and a gallery from the event here with photos from SLUG photographers Weston Colton and

What’s In The Box!?: Geek Fuel – May 2015

Posted on June 12, 2015 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

For many collecting geeks and nerds across the nation, that old sensation of getting something cool in the mail never goes away (There’s just some things you can’t replace, Google!). … read more

Haters Gonna Hate: My Week With Hatred

Posted on June 10, 2015 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

Hatred has no shortage of violence—the plot of the game is to take control of a psycho and murder as many people as possible. And that’s it. The game offers no explanation as to why a player should guide this greasy-haired maniac on a killing spree, and therein lies the game’s biggest problem. … read more

New World Presents: Creating A New World

Posted on July 2, 2015 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

(Top, L–R) Cody Layton, Trevor Williams, Ether Stern, Jes Stobaugh, (Bottom, L–R) Camille Overmoe, Chad Wing and Bobby Ward comprise some of the New World Presents team.

About a year ago, a friend of mine invited me to a new party at Photo Collective Studios called Deep Space, hosted by a group of friends who called themselves New World Presents—college-age burners with a vision to create a fulfilling and inspiring environment for themselves and their peers to enjoy. What I arrived at

Of Meat and Marrow: a Sexy, Spooky Thriller

Posted on October 2, 2013 (January 24, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

SB Dance’s collaboration with local band Totem and Tattoo, featuring vocalist Vanessa Angulo, brings another element of energy to the performance.

Looking for something to do on Halloween that will offer you more than playing dress-up and dancing to “The Monster Mash”? SB Dance has something for you. Of Meat and Marrow will be performed at the Rose Wagner Theatre on October 25–27. A “rock-opera-dance-circus” for a mature audience, the show is equal parts sexy and silly, with horrifying monstrosity. … read more

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Destination Desolation

Posted on July 2, 2015 (September 27, 2022) by Asha Pruitt

(L–R) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Peter Hayes, Robert Been and Leah Shapiro return to Salt Lake City for the Twilight Concert Series on July 23.

Midsummer 2007, I received a phone call from Harv Hallas, tour manager for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, asking me to jump on to the last leg of the band’s monumental Baby 81 tour. It was a baptism by fire as I attempted to manage merch sales and act as ambassador to the increasing number of

The Pie: Utah’s Pizza Institution

Posted on October 2, 2013 (May 15, 2023) by Asha Pruitt

The Pie Pizzeria’s Holy Shiitake represents a lighter side of the menu while still holding up to this Utah pizza establishment’s quality standards.

When I transferred from Arizona State up to the University of Utah in 2001, one of the first things I did was seek out good pizza. The shock of living in a new place left me in need of comfort, and pizza had always been my go-to comfort food. Everyone I asked had exactly the same answer: a basement restaurant that had long been the favorite of U of U students and staff—The Pie Pizzeria. … read more