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'Bad' Bath

The 'Bad' Bath by Smaq.

It's For The Children

Rianbow Valley at Aventura Mall Indoor Playground by FriendsWithYou. Our first ever dream playground come to life. Rianbow Valley is the enchanting story of a miniature mountain who loses his family and goes on a search for other small mountains to play with. This adventure is filled with rainbow blasts, magic, and earth moving moments!

Visit the FriendsWithYou Gallery  > Latest to see more and see the Skywalkers Documentary while you're there.

Mars-1

Mars-1 is the coolest.

Get your funky house on with this recent Olivier Desmet promo mix.

Take Me Out To The Wood Shed

We'll see if the new owners of the space previously occupied by The Bar & Grill, Club Blue and the worst incarnation yet HALO can turn this once great bar into a place worth visiting again. Anyone with more information please comment.

Jesse Walker at ONE In Phoenix August 31st

Dis be a flyer for my upcoming gig in Phoenix on August 31st. If you're in that area, come check it out and get down at ONE with resident Joe DiPadova and Rani 'G'.

NCM Recommended New Music - June/July

Here are some July music recommendations, Google your way to more information:

Maps: We Can Create (Mute U.S.)   
Justice: † (The Cross) (Vice Records)
Pepe Deluxe: Spare Time Machine (Cat Skills)
Waldeck: Ballroom Stories (Soulfood Music)
The White Stripes: Icky Thump (Warner Bros)
Mudd: Claremont 56 (Mudd)
Neil Landstrumm: Restaurant Of Assassins (Planet Mu)
Scott Matthews: Passing Stranger (Universal/San Remo)
Robert Glasper: In My Element  (Blue Note)
Panda Bear: Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
Battles: Mirrored (Warp)
   
VA: Body Language Vol. 4 Compiled And Mixed By DJ Dixon (Get Physical)
VA: Buzzin' Fly Volume 4 by Ben Watt (Buzzin' Fly)
VA: This is Rong Music (Non-Stop Mix by DJ Spun) (Rong)
VA: Sunkissed Mixed by G-Ha and Olanskii (Small Town Supersound)
VA: Small Town Underground 4 by Kevin Yost (I Records)
VA: Coast2Coast (Mixed By Ron Trent) (NRK)
VA: Radio Slave Misch Masch (Four Music)

Two classical records to try:
Benjamin Frith: MENDELSSOHN - Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 / Capriccio Brillan (Naxos)
Alfred Brendel: Mozart - Concerto For Two Pianos In E Flat, No.10, K.365 (Naxos)

Illustrations by Brandi K. Milne. [Via Coudal]

Airstream Basecamp

These new Airstream Basecamp trailers are pretty groovy (if you like to go outside). They've got to be a lot easier than driving a giant living room down the freeway. More pictures here.

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." --Richard Dawkins [Thanks Dee]

The Billy Wilder Theater at UCLA’s Hammer Museum [Via Tokion]

Rest in Peace Tammy Faye Messner (Baker).

Made By Hanna

Hanna Werning works as an independent designer across various disciplines; communication design, visual arts, illustration, product design, exhibitions, self-initiated and commissioned work. Since 2004 she is running her own company Spring Street Studio in Stockholm, Sweden.

Hanna has specialty on making patterns for textile and wallpapers. She has been designing prints for Boråstapeter, Borås Cotton, IKEA, Rörstrand, Eastpak and fashion labels including; Boxfresh, Stüssy, and Dagmar. She is also the designer and manufacture of her own product AnimalFlowers wallpaper-posters. [Via: Tokion]

If you get a chance you should check out blackle. It's like google, but with a black screen. Black screens use less energy, and since you're not famous you have to do your part for the environment in a far less public and self-congratulatory way. You have fun with that. [Woolfphase]

I Heart Play

Comme des Garçons has a delightful new unisex fragrance called Play which features notes of bitter orange, black pepper, lime, saffron, thyme, sage, sea notes, oak moss, patchouli and musk. "The concept of the Comme des Garcons PLAY line is design by not designing. It is a collection of basic items based on original forms or prototypes. PLAY items are characterised by the iconic red heart logo designed by Filip Pagowski, a New York-based artist from Poland. [Via slamhype > Via NowSmellThis]. The accompanying "Play Box" store are quite interesting as well. Buy it at LuckyScent today.

Also on the CDG front, a collaboration with Speedo.

Yo La Twilight, Tonight

The seasoned alt-rockers Yo La Tengo will be playing tonight with The Fiery Furnaces at the Gallivan Center thanks to the Twilight Concert Series put on by the City. It will probably be huge so get there early and prepare for chaos. Music at the Yo La MySpace.

The series continues Thursday evenings at 7:00pm. July 5 - August 23 at the Gallivan Center, Downtown Salt Lake City. FREE ADMISSION

Citing precedent, perhaps illegal immigrants deserve forgiveness if they ask for it.

NCM supporter and activist Troy Williams of the late Now Queer This and Radio Active on KRCL has an article offering a lesson about Homophobia through the prism of "Mormonphobia" in the Salt Lake Tribune today. Read it here.

Jethro Haynes [Via: Stewf]

Niche Is Now

By far, one of the best new additions to the very upper East side of 'Broadway East' is Caffé Niche at 779 East 300 South. Business partners Tara Southard, who owns the connecting salon and self-taught chef Amanda Lundahl talked about renting the space that once housed Grunts & Postures if it ever became available. Well it did come up for lease, although much sooner than they speculated. Southard and Lundahl decided to go for it anyways and began the arduous year-long process of designing and building the distinctively chic Niche.

What I adore about Caffé Niche is the fact that everything is done almost perfectly. No, really. It's love at first sight from the attention each customer gets with a smile (important!), to the splendid design aesthetic, to the asymmetrical floor plan. All leading up to your moment with a slice of their luxuriant flossy quiche, a plate of the Italian scrambled eggs or breakfast strata and coffee (Ibis Fair Trade organic).

Many items are vegetarian and all are reasonably priced. Expect European portions however. If you're looking for a buffet head one block South to Chuck-a-Rama where you can binge to your hearts content with transfats, fake plants and wagon wheels staring you down.

I'm yet to visit after the brunch hour but Tara tells me some of the more popular lunch items are their P.L.T. (pancetta, lettuce and roasted tomato) and Grilled Turkey with blue cheese mayonnaise. They've also recently added a light Dinner menu from 5-9pm on Friday and Saturday's featuring salads, pasta and tartines which are a fancy open-faced sandwich on imported baguette. Still, prices for dinner remain extremely affordable ($7-$8 plates) including a well selected wine menu with glasses set at $6 and bottles at $25 such as the refreshing Riff Pino Grigio and a rarely offered Louis Latour Chardonnay and Pino Noir. All this plus a clean spacious patio should be reason enough to visit the neighborhood haut spot early and often.

Caffé Niche
779 East 300 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
801.433.3380

More info and sample menu at www.caffeniche.com.