Salt Lake City Weekly

Salt Lake City Weekly, often referred to as City Weekly, is a free alternative newspaper that features tabloid-style pages and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Originally launched as the Private Eye, City Weekly is released every Thursday by Copperfield Publishing Inc., with John Saltas serving as the majority owner and president.

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Film Reviews: New Releases for June 20

1 week ago | cityweekly.net | Scott Renshaw

Posted By Scott Renshaw on June 19, 2025, 7:34 AM click to enlarge 28 Years Later *** You can tell director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have been spilling over with ideas for how to expand the world of their 2002 “rage virus”/zombie original 28 Days Later, and enough of them connect here that it makes up for the potentially unsatisfying sensation of watching a pilot for an anthology series. The principal location is an island off the Scottish coast, where a community survives in...
Utah Arts Festival 2025 Preview

1 week ago | cityweekly.net | Scott Renshaw

In August 2024, Utah Arts Festival executive director Aimee Dunsmore faced a situation no non-profit leader wants to face. After disappointing attendance at the 2024 festival resulted in a significant budget shortfall, UAF needed to figure out how to pay its bills. So Dunsmore did the only thing that made sense to her: She was honest. In a press release, UAF laid out their situation in clear terms.
Pentagon pizza index? Something’s up!

1 week ago | cityweekly.net | Christopher Smart

Hey Wilson, get this: At about 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 12, @PentagonPizzaReport on X (formerly Twitter) noted that most pizzerias in Arlington, Va. within a mile of the Pentagon were “busier than usual” on Google Maps. One hour later, bombs were raining down on Iran. Coincidence? Not exactly. Here at Smart Bomb, our crack staff is just finding out about this—but Soviet agents have been counting pizza deliveries to the Pentagon since 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait.
The writing was on the wall for former Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown

1 week ago | cityweekly.net | Christopher Smart

A decade as a metropolitan police chief is an exceptional run, one that Mike Brown can be proud of. But earlier this year, his tenure at the Salt Lake City Police Department came to an abrupt end. The plague of homelessness on Utah's capital city is metastasizing—taking a toll on businesses, neighborhoods and the unfortunate who find themselves without roofs or restrooms.
Back to Brokeback

1 week ago | cityweekly.net | Scott Renshaw

On the evening of March 5, 2006, it felt like the improbable was about to happen: My favorite movie of the year was going to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Brokeback Mountain had already won three awards—Original Score for Gustavo Santaolalla's plaintive guitar, Adapted Screenplay for Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana's work on Annie Proulx's short story and Director for Ang Lee—all of which pointed towards a Best Picture win.
Film Reviews: New Releases for June 13

2 weeks ago | cityweekly.net | Scott Renshaw

Posted By Scott Renshaw on June 12, 2025, 8:36 AM click to enlarge Echo Valley **1/2 One thing I desperately wish for the screenwriters of the world is that they would spend as much time trying to craft a compelling dramatic story as they spent trying to outsmart their viewers. You can see that sense of misplaced priorities in Brad Ingelsby’s script set on a horse farm where Kate Garretson (Julianne Moore), still mourning the recent death of her wife, most also deal with the latest crisis of...
Author interview: Kelsey Osgood on Godstruck: Seven Women's Unexpected Journeys to Religious Conversion

2 weeks ago | cityweekly.net | Scott Renshaw

In 2012, while in her late 20s, writer Kelsey Osgood began a three-year process of converting to Orthodox Judaism, after being raised in a mostly non-religious household. Her new book Godstruck features profiles of several women like herself who undertook similar transitions from an absence of organized religion into faith traditions including Roman Catholicism, Islam and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This conversation has been edited for length and for clarity.
Caught between a lovers’ spat, Mike Lee has a meltdown.

2 weeks ago | cityweekly.net | Christopher Smart

Hey Wilson, have you ever had friends who split up? It's horrible for them, of course, but it can also put their acquaintances in a precarious position. Whose side are you on? What did she say? What did he do? Too much information. Yikes! Well, since the bromance between Donald Trump and Elon Mush exploded, Utah's senior senator has been doing the two-step like only a veteran politician can. “I really like both of them,” Mike Lee said, threading the needle.
Beer reviews: Salt Flats Open Road Series Barrel-aged Grand Cru and Shades Coyote Ugli

2 weeks ago | cityweekly.net | Mike Riedel

Salt Flats - Open Road Series (Barrel-aged Grand Cru): The term "Grand Cru" in beer parlance generally refers to beers of Belgian influence (though not always) that are stronger, richer, more intense versions of an existing beer. This beer's patient maturation in freshly-emptied Bourbon whiskey barrels from Salt Flats Spirits certainly presents it as a beer of distinction.
Film review: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (2025)

2 weeks ago | cityweekly.net | Scott Renshaw

Over the ocean near a distant land, a thousand years ago, someone rides on the back of a dragon—and it's you. You dive and swoop, freefall and skitter over the surface of the water. ... Yes, you become the character riding that dragon—which is a good thing, because you're probably more interesting than the character riding that dragon.