salt lake city: gilgaling all the day

hey all you hundreds of slc-ers out there what's going on. thread for news music and stuff.

Tomorrow is the Gallery Stroll. And this is happening at the Art Center:

http://www.centralpt.com/customer/image_gallery/201/2010Exhibitions/WEB-BANNER2.JPG

lol @ covered junk

I wonder if that is a ref to the Rodin controversy of years back.

man i haven't strolled teh galleries in years. FARMERS MARKET started last week. it's starting to get hot! my neighbor had an idea for a krcl fundraiser -- gay car wash / water fight called SUDS AND BUDS -- y/n

Rode around on my bike downtown for an extended amount of time today. Good town for it imo. Not Portland good or anything, but good.

Yeah, downtown SLC is good for walking/biking around.

i've never biked around here! haven't had one for a few years. it does seem bigger than ever and lots of people say it's a great place to do it. most of my time outdoors these days is spent on a gardening / re-landscaping project, and i like to run up in the avenues in the morning.

hope this shit gets waylaid into oblivion. it's such a shitty trend. if i wanted to live in sandy, i'd live in sandy! west of main to the freeway's now completely uninhabitable, then the sugarhouse fiasco, and god knows what's going on at ninth and ninth. and then every time something like red light books tries to happen it gets spat upon by the shallow circle jerk that is the local arts intelligentsia. and now that third south is "happening" it's too expensive anyway. don't get me started on the local music scene, etc etc

i may be a hater and who am i to talk etc but i've so rarely seen a local band / arts / culture thing that was worth my time i just don't go out anymore. i don't know many scenesters and i'm not doing it myself so i don't feel the need to kiss their asses.

on food: maybe we can we all agree that ted scheffler can go to hell?

haha end rant.

oops, meant to link to this.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/ut/UTSALgilgal_9909.jpg

thread title refers to this, yes or no?

Can you expand on or post some links about this stuff? I'm new and know barely anything about the local politics, but it looks like I'll be here at least a Minute, so I'd really like to know of which you speak.

sarahel: yes.

en i see kay: i don't really either, most of my bitching's about new city developments / gentrification. sugarhouse used to be a haven for low-overhead local shops until the city council let a big part of it be torn down in the name of "owner's rights," with condos/mixed-use/urban retail sparkling in their eyes. then the crash hit, and now there's a 10-acre hole in the ground. ninth and ninth is going a similar route and right now ninth south is a mess in preparation for the inevitable cafe rios. (i exaggerate but that's the gist of it.) then of course there's the gateway.

red light was a book / record store and really cool space catering to weirder tastes that got up-rented out of its place on third south. people like ken sanders and slowtrain were bitches about it. (nb: this may be skewed cuz i'm friends with the people who ran it.)

ted scheffler is a terrible food critic for the city weekly, an increasingly terrible magazine.

as for local music, "not worth my time" is a bad way to phrase what i mean and actually i like a few local bands. it just feels kinda stagnant.

anyway, back to cool stuff: randy's is having its dollar warehouse sale on friday and saturday this weekend and the next. i spent five hours there last saturday and got through like 1/4 of what they have. IT IS AMAZING.

the city weekly, an increasingly terrible magazine

Quintron & Miss Pussycat at Urban Lounge next Friday!