The Salt Lake Gallery Stroll continues to morph and energize the city each month. This is a photo of my bow-tie wearing drunk ass from last Fridays event at FICE, which like the other shops around the 2nd South & Broadway block were brimming with youthful energy. A wonderful sight indeed.
If your looking for something to do next week the night before Thanksgiving. Check out my friends annual WHITE PARTY at the Depot with Yoshitoshi/Harem recording artist SULTAN and a slew of locals including JLuvv, Anthony Motto, Ebenflow, Dan Dixon and Josh Max. There's a Pre-Party 'Fun-Raiser' this Sat at W. Lounge as well. Visit myspace.com/whitepartyslc
Signed & Numbered's November gallery offering is an exciting "locals only" group show. Twenty+ artists will be showing prints
they've created that are specific to places in Utah and Salt Lake City,
or simply what the term "This is the Place" means to them.
Opening Reception:
Friday November 21st, 6 - 10 PM
221 EAST BROADWAY (300 SOUTH)
located inside Slowtrain Records
Salt Lake City, Utah
801-596-2093
Participating artists include:
Amber Heaton, Andy Chase, Cameron Bentley, Catherine Mastaiz, Chadwick Tolley, Claire Taylor, Dave Boogart, Evan Carlisle, Jen Sorensen, Jethro Gillespie, Justin Diggle, Leia Bell, Marina Atherton, Olivia Rochelle Henrie, Patrick Weeks, Potter Press, Ryan Perkins, Travis Bone, Whitney Shaw, Wren Ross, and Yoshiko Hedges
Here's a closer look at the super cool Ryan Perkins peice called "The Man Child (In Gilgal)" which we now own.
Also an unrelated but equally enticing concert poster for Justice I couldn't pass on... click for larger photos.
The Peery Hotel recently got a fresh coat of paint and guess what? It wasn't beige! If they can do the same with the inside, maybe they could contend with the Monaco around the corner.
Hey People, this is serious,
The deadline for getting voters registered is FAST approaching. Mail in registration for Utah must be postmarked at the latest October 6th. We know that most people will stick with their initial party affiliation they declared the FIRST time they vote and we know that most young voters will vote for Obama. Because of that, it's important to get the young voters registered THIS week!
Info for registration at http://elections.utah.gov/voterregistrationnewwhen.html
If you don't have time for any other volunteering, please find the time to help with registering young voters before the deadline by contacting my friend Robin Ashdown or the Obama Utah HQ (see address below) if you can help with any of the things listed below:
1) Go to Robin's "Dinner, Drinks, Do and Donate" on Friday at the 'Pleasure Palace'.
2) Join or organize a Campus Outreach group to get young Obama supporters registered. They have until October 6th to do mail-in Voter Registration.
3) Get your groovy ass online at mybarackobama.com -- log in to "Neighbor to Neighbor" to get started calling Obama supporters.
4) Party For Obama -- Throw a dance party THIS WEEKEND and get your guests to register to vote. Get a stack of mail-in registration forms ready for all the kids who haven't voted before.
5) Go down to Obama HQ to volunteer (it's downstairs from the Pleasure Palace)
Obama Utah Headquarters (now open 7 days a week!)
780 E. South Temple St.
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
801-983-7370
Online calling tool: http://ut.barackobama.com/N2N
Utah Homepage: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/uthome
Danielle (Colorado trip coordinator) = (801) 574-0240, danielle.smith@barackobama.com
Press Release:
Fashion Stroll is a Spring/Fall event patterned after Salt Lake City’s wildly popular art-centric Gallery Stroll, but with a focus on fashion, live music, and independent style.
Fashion Stroll is free to the public, and will feature local style shopping at vendor booths along the sidewalks and inside the eclectic mix of shops, galleries and boutiques along East Broadway in downtown Salt Lake City (300 South between 200 East and 300 East).
Runway shows will highlight the best in new local fashions for Fall at 7, 8, and 9pm. DJs, live bands, and street artists will also be strewn along the sidewalks to round out a night of fashion, art, and entertainment, SLC style.
In addition to the night’s festivities, SLC Fashion Stroll will be doing a “Style Swap” coat drive for the city’s homeless. Attendees to the Fashion Stroll can bring in their used coats, boots, and Fall/Winter wear to donate to the cause. In return, donors will receive a coupon good for a 10% discount on any purchase at any participating Fashion Stroll vendor or boutique.
NiteLite is already 1 year old, can you believe it!? Get deep down & funky with us on Sept 20th with special guest JAY TRIPWIRE direct from Vancouver, Canada. With over 100 worldwide magazine features, write-ups and record reviews to date, Jay Tripwire has moved from a cornerstone in the West Coast warehouse scene of the early 90's, to performing in over 200 cities around the globe. His signature fusion of Detroit textures and intricate rhythms with a classic house touch has pushed him "ahead of everyone else," according to MUZIK.
While his personal arsenal of re-edits and comfort in arranging extended DJ sets lasting eight hours or more keeps him consistently booking tour dates, it's his over 250,000 vinyl records sold with 100+ releases and remixes on some of the finest underground house labels that he's perhaps most known for. His productions have been called "a DJ's dream packed with the finest tools from the trade" by URB, and that he's "responsible for some of the most exciting underground house music to come out of North America in recent years" by DJ Magazine.
His music has been featured on numerous commercially released mix CD's from Cocoon, Fabric, Renaissance, Journeys by DJ, Ultra & Bedrock by many major artists, and has been supported by a diverse spectrum of dance culture from DJs such as John Digweed and Laurent Garnier to Kerri Chandler and Mark Farina. He even has bass patches on numerous synths named after him, making Jay Tripwire a true legend in the music industry.
Listen to recent Jay Tripwire mixes:
> Live In Brazil
> Now, Always & Forever
> Fortress Live
> Sunday Deep
Visit his MySpace: myspace.com/jaytripwire ...and read a recent interview at FWD Magazine.
Mini's Cupcakes has been calling my name for months now. I always seem to cruise past it on my bike when it's not open but the other day however I made a special trip to discover their delightful cupcake concoctions. Mini's 'cuppies' are just the right size, contain the best ingredients, no fillers, preservatives or additives and their frostings are made with real butter and cream cheese. My favorites were the popular 'Breakfast at Tiffany's', the 'Orangesicle' and the 'Margaritaville' - made with real tequila!
Mini's
800 South 14 East (Between Main and State Street)
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
(801) 363-0608
Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 6:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Closed Sundays
All this talk of bike safety at CityWeekly and I'm guilty as the rest of them! I really DO want to change. I definitely need better role models (ahem!). Speaking of helmets, if you're looking for something different than speeding bullet, fish head styles check out the Bern Baker or Watts (shown above), Giro Flak or Catlike 360 - all will make you look like a bad dirt bike deud while simulusly (I made that up) protecting your light bulb.
Cake Boutique opened just over a week ago in the Redstone Shopping Center at Kimball Junction in Park City and has been incredibly well-received. With an interior designed and remodeled by Patch Davis (L'astelier Cafe/Piler) how could they go wrong? Cake carries such brands as Mike&Chris, Nudie Jeans, Rag&Bone, Corpus, b.son, J Brand jeans and Citizens of Humanity, as well as the popular local brand, Zuriick. They stock denim, casual apparel, shoes and accessories for men and women in an atmosphere that is modern yet comfortable.
Cake is open 7 days a week. For store news and updates, visit their website, www.shopcakeboutique.com and sign up for email notifications. (click photos for larger view)
Local Filthy Gorgeous fashion designer Keith Bryce is the next in a long line of Utah reality show participants. I met Keith when I mixed music for two of his fashion shows at the Utah Arts Festival in years past. We wish him the best of luck on Project Runway 5 which premiers this Wednesday on Bravo.
Ok, so just two days after The Roots kick off the Twilight Summer Concert Series, I'll be playing with an all-star lineup at RISE! ...the first dance music event of it's kind in SLC on July 12th at Gallivan Center. RISE! is going to be a fantastic day of music, fun, dancing and debauch. The organizers behind it have brought together not only an energetic music lineup, but have incorporated many layers into the event design and through community and nightclub involvement. It's seriously going to be spectacle not to be missed. My set time will be earlier in the day, so come early and enjoy the festivities with NewCityMovement in the house. Plus with two stages, myself, DJ DC (Trapp Door) and others may be playing again later in the evening.
Get your tickets before the day of the event! Tickets are $30 the day of the event so I recommend getting them EARLY for only $20 (+surcharge) from RiseMusicFest.com OR for a flat $20 at Lunatic Fringe locations, Mechanized or the RISE! kiosk on the patio at Trapp Door this Thursday night. I'll be playing a special Summertime DJ set there (patio) after 10pm so come say hello and play after the Roots or whatever.
Here's the Official RISE! DANCE MUSIC FESTIVAL Press Release:
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