City Weekly Salt Blog: Archives January 2007-February 2009

[Big News] Salt Lake City Weekly has launched an all-new website at CityWeekly .net , replete with its own blog section. The Salt Blog as...

In case anybody is curious about those wingers who brought their Proposition 8 placards to Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s office last week—and ...

[Book signing] It seemed auspicious to attend "ecopreneur" Scott Cooney's Feb. 17 book signing at Sam Weller's Books on t...

(Legislature) Angry angers and kayakers are slated to take over the Capitol rotunda tomorrow to protest a bill that would limit which river ...

[ Late Night Snack ]  Following last night's Salt Lake Magazine  Dining Awards, where once again I was snubbed, we trooped over to Cafe ...

[Anthropology] I can see why somebody might want to be a homophobe. It's probably fun to have a whole group at your disposal to sneer a...

[Finally, Benefits] Today, the Salt Lake County Council approved benefits for domestic partners of Salt Lake County employees. The plan wil...

From the Trib Website Tuesday afternoon. Hey, teacher! Leave them (dead) kids alone! (Brandon Burt)

(Bill Frost)

(Bill Frost)

(Bill Frost)

[Utah Sports Go Big] Props to Wina Sturgeon, veteran Utah sports writer and dynamite masters-level ski racer. The New York Times published ...

[Legislature] Utah's first standing Ethics Committee met today amid modest fanfare to talk about their new task of cleaning house. The...

[Locals on Reality TV] Survivor: Toncantins premiered on CBS last night, and guess what? The Utah guy isn't the most annoying contesta...

[Legislature] The worst fears of anglers are coming true on Capitol Hill in the form of a just-filed bill that purports to take away river a...

[Feb. 12] Two hundred years ago today, both Abe Lincoln and Charlie Darwin were born, Lincoln to hard-shell Baptists in a log cabin near Ho...

[Locals on Reality TV] Due to the presence of Utahn Chet (who last week found out he couldn't be the next host of TRL , 'cause it w...

[Free Community Forum] Bestselling author Alice Sebold ("The Lovely Bones") was raped in May 1981. She was just ending her freshm...

[V-Day Dine O' Round] Please, no more calls or emails asking where to take your beloved, betrothed, sweetie, honey, ball-and-chain to d...