Reading Time: 5 minutes 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 right now and I’m at my desk on campus at UVU, all thanks to the telephone. After that conversation, I’m going to remember every single […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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 felony sexual abuse of a child on Thursday, Feb. 17, in Provo. Brown, 55, who managed his children until 2008, was formally charged on Feb. […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes “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 Marquis De Sade We had hoped to find a suitable epigraph from a more respectable source, such as Voltaire, or perhaps The Bard. Anyone, really, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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 parking lot of University Mall on the morning of January 15th is being formerly charged with disorderly conduct. Taylor told ABC 4 News that he […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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 back and forced her to drink a gallon of water as a punishment for sneaking sips of Kool-Aid. The child, Cassandra, died of water intoxication, […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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 and a liquor store that doesn’t seem open at night and looks suspiciously like someone’s garage. But on the second Friday of every month, art […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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 fuzz is on their way to put the proverbial kibosh on your little farm. You’re not going have the time to carefully move your beloved […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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 lacking the more obvious accoutrements of Western wear, something about Manwill reminds you of a battle-worn preacher from an old spaghetti Western. His gaunt, weathered […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes 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 numerous eateries, coffee houses, galleries and venues. Before they’ve set up camp completely, their dream business is just another abandoned unit doubling as a makeout […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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 was finally finished. In Search of Lost Time is a seven-volume tale that ate 20 years of Marcel Proust’s life, like pellets down Ms. Pac-man’s […]