Your Friends & Neighbors
Michael Furguson talks about the marriage between Man and Machine Michael Ferguson and I are about to have a conversation, despite the fact that he’s up in Salt Lake City…
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The 5 Browns’ father pleads guilty to child sex abuse
Keith Scott Brown, father of the famous classical piano quintet The 5 Browns, pled guilty to one count of first-degree felony sodomy of a child and two counts of second-degree…
Hide and go sex: The V’s handy guide to public lewdness
“Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.” –The…
Barely Legal: Phillip Taylor’s Inappropriate Fight for the Second Amendment
Phillip Taylor does not believe he was creating a disturbance or being disorderly. The 51-year old Orem resident, who was seen carrying an assault rifle and a handgun in the…
Jennete Killpack Up for Parole Review
In January of 2006, Jennete Killpack was sentenced to up to fifteen years in prison, for child abuse-homicide. On June 9th, 2002, Killpack tied her four-year-old daughter’s hands behind her…
No sleep til Ephraim
Even in the middle of the day, downtown Ephraim looks fast asleep. Despite being the home of Snow College, the main drag’s highlights include a Maverik, a one-screen movie theater…
The best laid plans of pipes & men
Mapleton’s recent drug bust is no isolated incident. Pop quiz, hot shot: You’re running an illegal weed growing operation out of your home. You get a tip that the dreaded…
The Pappy, His Boy, and that there Holy Ghost
Cowboy church in Payson. Marion Manwill is not wearing a ten-gallon hat or spurs. His buckle is of a normal size, proportionate to the rest of his belt. Yet, despite…
celebrates five years of surviving small business hell
Small businesses are typically the weakest in the economic landscape, like gimpy mice with no cover from a sky of merciless owls. The Provo-Orem area has seen the demise of…
You were just going to waste your November anyway
Infinite Jest took about five years to complete. Cervantes spent a good fifteen years writing, rewriting, pulling out his hair and pacing around his room smoking cigarettes until Don Quixote…
Artists vs. Athletes
Budgetary showdown in Springville pits sports against art Remember Revenge of the Nerds? It was a timeless story of Jock versus Nerd—a struggle as crimson and primeval as cat against…
Utah House of Representatives
Local-level politics are boring as hell – but suck it up, citizens There’s a race on for Utah House District 60. What’s so important about District 60, you ask? Well,…
Hold the sex add extra violence, please
Musings on Utah’s unlikely love of all things bloody There is no sex allowed in Zion, unless it be between a man and his wife. Drugs are a big no-no…
Wiesel and the Nobel Laureates speak live in Orem
Well, sort of The Elie Wiesel Foundation will be hosting the Conference of Nobel Laureates Oct. 5 and 6 at Manhattan’s Ninety-second Street Y. Presiding over the conference will be…
Red Butte oil spill forum to be held Wednesday
Apparently, 2010 is the year that people forgot just how much oil and water don’t mix. For those readers too caught up in the disastrous BP quagmire to notice environmental…
