It’s Friday night and Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani is due to attend a fundraiser at a private home in Salt Lake City. The house is gorgeous, up on a hill. There’s a long driveway leading up to the home.…
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It’s Friday night and Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani is due to attend a fundraiser at a private home in Salt Lake City. The house is gorgeous, up on a hill. There’s a long driveway leading up to the home.…
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This week’s trip to Short Creek was another thrilling adventure. Some of it I can’t write about until the stories start to hit print, so I apologize for teasing. One of the biggest obstacles to good coverage of Utah polygamy…
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From Juxtapoz: Bigfoot’s solo show, Survival In The Modern World, opened last Saturday, March 24th, at Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City/LA, CA. This collection includes a wide range of styles addressing the singular theme of the man and myth…
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WFMU’s Beware the Blog: This week’s favorite find is Teezar. Who are Teezar? Well, if you take Joe Stumble’s word for it, they are the best hard rock band you never heard of, a pair of trailer-living nerds from Missouri…
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All too often newspaper photographers just vanish. As the witnesses of history we are rarely written into it. And we often like it that way. We want to be invisible. Photographer Don McPhee passed away after a long career with…
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There’s nothing to clear your mind like a long solo drive down to Southern Utah. So to prevent that from happening, I always keep a lot of distractions close at hand. Who wants a clear mind? I’ve got XM Radio,…
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Salt Lake City – Utah’s Jessica Duke competes on the bars at University of Utah vs. Arizona State NCAA Women’s gymnastics at the Huntsman Center. This post first appeared here.
The Onion: Former stripper turned Playboy Playmate turned reality-TV star Anna Nicole Smith has overcome her longtime struggle with obesity, at last reaching her target weight of 125 pounds, sources said Monday. “Anna’s been through a lot,” said Florida Circuit…
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Guardian-Observer: Foreigners think we’re nuts coming back to a doomed city on a damned continent,’ Rian Malan once wrote about Johannesburg, ‘but there is something you don’t understand: it’s boring where you are.’ When I go to meet Malan, South…
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From Jim’s myspace blog: Let me start off by saying that my Dad always thought Trent Nelson was a bad influence on me. I am not sure why. He was really the only person I hung out with that did…
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Nothing like the end of a championship game for emotion. For the end of the Provo win, I’m following their star player, Chris Collinsworth. He charges down the court past his bench, making a nice moment. After that he runs…
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Mercury News: Calvert DeForest, the white-haired, bespectacled nebbish who gained cult status as the oddball Larry “Bud” Melman on David Letterman’s late night television shows, has died after a long illness. Mr. DeForest, who was 85, died Monday at a…
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Salt Lake Tribune: More than eight years have passed since Colin Reesor fatally stabbed an unconscious boy during a Halloween night riot between Straight Edge gang members and others, but Reesor still doesn’t understand his actions. “I’m a coward, I…
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Emotion makes for great photographs. And you get a lot of emotion when schools are competing for a state championship. During these tight games, it’s important to take your eye off the ball and look around, especially off the court.…
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adfreak: More total genius from Ricky Gervais. This mock PSA is from Friday’s Comic Relief 2007 in the U.K. As Stephen Merchant says, “The real money is in adverts!” Via Spare Room. Here.
Rob Galbraith: Camera Bits has released a public beta of Photo Mechanic 4.5 for Windows and Mac. The next version of the pro photo browser introduces a smorgasbord of user-requested changes big and small, including such welcome features as five-star…
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Action photos are a dime a dozen. So a great action photograph is one that stands out from the crowd. And when you’re sitting on the baseline with several other photographers, all using virtually the same equipment, it takes some…
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I’m now closing out my coverage of the Utah High School State Basketball Championships with a series of four posts. We start with the pre-game activities, where above, Granger’s Tre Musgrow leads the pre-game huddle. I just jammed my wide…
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LA Weekly: The opening reception for Mark Ryden’s new exhibition, “The Tree Show” at Michael Kohn Gallery, was six hours long. If you glanced at the invitation beforehand, you might have thought this was a misprint. Six hours? Two is…
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LA Weekly: Two days after Pierce and the others showered engineer Arrigoni with ketchup — an incident never before reported publicly — the Station 5 crew decided to grab an early-morning volleyball game at nearby Dockweiler State Beach. Pierce began…
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