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2 months ago | 
slugmag.com | Alton Barnhart |Rio Connelly |Peter Eckhardt |Asha Pruitt
From the familiar to the more exotic, or simply for those special combinations you have to have, they have it all. Check out the full menu at freewheelerpizza.com and choose your fate! … read more
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
slugmag.com | Asha Pruitt
Poet nan seymour has lived for 50 years within what she calls the bioregion of the Great Salt Lake. When she learned that the lake was facing environmental risk, she put out a call to her writing community. The output was a collective praise poem that was recently released in a book, titled irreplaceable.
SLUG: Tell me a little about the recent release of your book irreplaceable, which you call a praise poem for the Great Salt Lake. What first inspired it?
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
slugmag.com | Asha Pruitt
Lugg is a company revolutionizing the moving industry with convenience and accessibility at the forefront of its approach. With the Lugg app, users in over 25 markets across the United States—now including Salt Lake City—have unlimited access to stress-free and efficient moving services with the tap of a button.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
slugmag.com | Asha Pruitt
Full ColorPlan-B Theatre CompanyOctober 4–November 10, 2024Under a swaying tree and through the sounds of chirping crickets, eight friends swap stories around a campfire, their tales reenacting the players and their actions that took place. But their stories, while at times humorous, are filled with hurt, anger and distress.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
slugmag.com | Asha Pruitt
On Wednesday, November 6, the Urban Lounge welcomes Metropolis Records artists The March Violets. Ahead of the show, SLUG chatted with frontwoman Rosie Garland about the band’s history and what prompts their creativity.
The March Violets are one of the original post-punk bands to come out of Leeds in the early 1980s. It was a time where new technology presented blank soundscapes to be filled with many types of sounds.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
slugmag.com | Asha Pruitt
Since its first iteration during 2003 Pride Week, the annual Utah Queer Film Festival (formerly known as Damn These Heels) has showcased international and independent films that about LGBTQ+ experiences, history and perspectives. This year’s festival includes 18 feature films and three shorts programs, hosted in-person at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center from October 25–27 and online until November 3.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
slugmag.com | Asha Pruitt
When psych-punk, retro-rock legend Shannon Shaw’s fiancé Joe Haener suddenly died in 2022, just weeks before their wedding, something monumental shifted in the universe. The Moon Is In The Wrong Place, written in the aftermath of that catastrophic loss, is Shannon & The Clams’ most raw and focused record yet. It’s a journey of mourning, loving, readjusting to a different world in Haener’s absence and finding new ways to reconnect with him in nature.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
slugmag.com | Asha Pruitt
Sitting in a coffee shop talking music with Melissa Chilinski is like opening up a box of sunshine. Chilinski is the founder of the Trash Moon Collective, a nonprofit promoting and supporting the bluegrass, old-time and roots scene in Salt Lake City. “I just want to continue to be a platform for people to stand on so musicians—at whatever level—don’t feel like their little islands are isolated,” she explains.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
slugmag.com | Asha Pruitt
It’s been almost 15 years since the band Alvvays was born, a dream taking flight as original bandmates Molly Rankin, Kerri MacLellan, Alec O’Hanley and Brian Murphy packed up their lives and left their small-town home. “We decided to move from the east coast of Canada and drive to Toronto with all our belongings in a U-haul and see if we could get jobs there and form a band,” Rankin remembers. “It [was] kind of a wild transition, but we wanted to try at least, and we put everything into it.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
slugmag.com | Asha Pruitt
The 2004 cult classic Napoleon Dynamite can be studied and analyzed as an Ancient Greek comedy, if Greece was established in spud county. Writer and Director Jared Hess spoke to a generation of young watchers, as we witnessed the small town misadventures of our titular high-school outcast protagonist. With characters depicting middle America and a setting that seems stuck between both past and present, Napoleon Dynamite is equally comforting and relatable with every watch.
