Reading Time: < 1 minute Co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation to speak. Leading atheist author and activist Dan Barker is coming to Utah to lecture and sign books this Saturday. In an event organized by the University of Utah’s club SHIFT, or Secular Humanism, Inquiry and Freethought, Barker will speak about freedom from faith. Barker was an evangelist […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes A Biker’s plea for help proves humanity of online communities. On Oct. 23, Nick Moore learned that he was going blind. Moore’s face does not look like a blind man’s face. He looks young, trendy and invulnerable at first glance. There is no sign of old age, no drooping lids. Nonetheless, the 24-year-old graphic designer […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello my darlings, Nov. 2 brings us the opportunity to shake up local politics. Midterm elections can be boring, and seem really pointless. But your vote counts more in these elections than it does in a national election by far. Also, the lines at polling stations will be much shorter than they were in 2008. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello my darlings, Halloween is so awkward. While I’m all for dressing my cat as my daughter and my daughter as my cat for a day, the social and moral implications behind this holiday are worth concern. For some, Halloween is to real violence as “heck” is to “hell.” Instead of doing something forbidden by […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes First Family Acceptance Regional Conference held this weekend In an attempt to illuminate risks to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and queer youth and provide strategies for keeping families united, the Utah Pride Center is hosting its first Family Acceptance Regional Conference this weekend. “For more than a decade, the Utah Pride Center has worked […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello my darlings, The struggle for LGBTQ rights is once again gaining attention as a matter of life and death. On one hand, Republican senators have blocked the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” keeping openly gay soldiers from risking their lives for their country. On the other, closeted New Jersey student Tyler Clementi committed […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Salt Lake Acting Company is staging part one of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning epic play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on American Themes. This mind-blowing, intimate piece of theater focuses on Americans from various socio-economic backgrounds who face a myriad of conflicts. The characters are based in Salt Lake […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute [monoslideshow id=9] So here’s the thing: Knitting is really awesome. There’s nothing quite like taking a skein of yarn that’s so beautiful you want to eat it and slowly transforming it into something of use. Something handmade. Something with a history. Blazing Needles, a yarn shop and community gathering place in Salt Lake, is a […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Hello my darlings, Mere hours after The V’s article on sexual harassment was edited, we learned that Michael Pratt, former principal of the seminary at Lone Peak High School, was sentenced to five years to life for forcible sexual abuse, forcible sodomy, and object rape of a 16-year-old student. There is no doubt that Pratt’s […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Winterizing” is a term generally only associated only with middle-aged homeowners with responsibilities, foresight and plumbing expenses. But even the most transient and delinquent of college students can benefit from a good thoughtful winterizing. 1. Cover the basics: Take care of your car and your home. Check your antifreeze, the treads of your tires and […]