SLUG PANGEA SPEED and the Salt Flat Social Dead to Me Fresh Celebrates Two Years Frosty Darling’s Cupcake Social July 2011 Vol.22 Issue 271 SLUGMag.com Always Free SaltLakeUnderGround 1 2 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 3 SaltLakeUnderGround • Vol. 22• Issue # 271 • July 2011 • slugmag.com Publisher: Eighteen Percent Gray Sales Coordinator: Shauna Brennan Editor: Angela H. Brown Marketing Coordinator: Managing Editor: Bethany Fischer Jeanette D. Moses Marketing: Ischa Buchanan, Jeanette Contributing Editor: Ricky Vigil D. Moses, Hailee Jacobson, Stephanie Editorial Assistant: Esther Meroño Buschardt, Giselle Vickery, Veg Vollum, Office Coordinator: Gavin Sheehan Emily Burkhart, Rachel Roller, Jeremy Riley, Sabrina Costello, Taylor Hunsa- Copy Editing Team: Jeanette D. ker, Tom Espinoza, Grayson Roylance, Moses, Rebecca Vernon, Ricky Vigil, Josie Lee, Karamea Puriri, Kristina Esther Meroño, Liz Phillips, Katie Pan- Sandi, Kyla Grant, Brooklyn Ottens zer, Rio Connelly, Alexander Ortega, Mary Enge, NWFP, Cody Kirkland, Social Networking Coordinator: Hannah Christian Hailee Jacobson Distribution Manager: Eric Granato Cover Design: Joshua Joye Distro: Eric Granato, Tommy Dolph, Cover Photo: David Newkirk Tony Bassett, Joe Jewkes, Jesse Hawl- Issue Design: Joshua Joye ish, Nancy Burkhart, Joyce Bennett, Design Interns: Eric Sapp, Jeremy Adam Okeefe, Ryan Worwood, Tom Riley, Chris Swainston Espinoza, Jennifer Quintana Ad Designers: Todd Powelson, Kent Farrington, Sumerset Bivens, Senior Staff Writers: Mike Brown, Christian Broadbent, Kelli Tompkins, Mariah Mann-Mellus, James Orme, Maggie Poulton, Eric Sapp, Brad Lance Saunders, Jeanette D. 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We are a carrier for the voice of the people and it is not our fault if you don’t like people. Content is property of SLUG Magazine. Please do not use without permission, or we will hunt you down and make you pay for your sins. Now, that’s a promise. Contributor Limelight Gavin Sheehan—Office Coordinator A recent addition to the SLUG team, Office Coordinator Gavin Sheehan is by no means new to the Salt Lake City scene. In 2008, Sheehan started an interview- based weekly blog hosted on the 2News website, Gavin’s Underground, covering local music, film, art, theatre, writers, comic books and more until 2009 when it moved to its current spot on cityweekly.net. Sheehan started at SLUG as our film festival intern, posting up-to-the-minute Sundance, Slamdance and X-Dance coverage. He has recently been put to work in our SLUG HQ as the coordinator of our latest project, Soundwaves From The Underground, SLUG’s new weekly podcast. Keep an ear out on the net waves for the podcast dropping July 11, and help us give a shout out to one of our best hiring decisions ever … next to the office sexbot, of course. 4 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 5 Dear SLUG; Dear Beer Issue, Why is it over the past several years I’m all for the consumption of tasty, you’ve given little to no coverage alcoholic beverages, but a whole of the local MMA and cage fighting fucking issue dedicated to beer? Ok circuit? You give time to skiing, you ok I get it, SLUG is trying to be edgy give time to skateboarding, you even and beer drinking and brewing is a give the fucking derby girls press stick-it-to-The-Man thing to do here in every four months. But nothing on Utah, but don’t you think that printing us! Its totally cool if you’re pussies 80 pages on it EVERY year is a bit and are afraid that if you write a bad much? There’s hardly enough going review about us (which you seem to on in the beer scene here to make be good at), we’d come to your office the content fresh and interesting. I and beat the shit out of you. But we got bored 10 pages in. The only thing won’t. We’re not all muscle headed, I really enjoyed about it was Travis roid-raging, truck-nutz driving ass- Bones’ cover, which was fucking rad. holes. We’re doing some awesome Oh, and the Blue Boutique ad, of work getting people out to events, course. The last couple of those have scoring TV deals on cable, and a lot been spank bank worthy. Speaking of Utah fighters are starting to make of sexy ladies, the photos in the beer their mark on national promotions. issue are pretty much void of visual Send us JP, we’ll train him up and he stimulation as it seems that most can go head to head with a regular brewers adhere to a strict uniform: fighter… In the women’s division! BEERded, bloated and boooring. I Just kidding. Anyway, show us some love SLUG because it’s got articles love! about awesome stuff and the photos are always interesting, but the beer —Peace; J. Luke issue…well, it took a couple of beers to get through. Dear J. Luke, Cheers, As you pointed out, MMA gets Beer-ed Out tons of coverage by the local and national mainstream media. Dear Beer-ed Out, The world does not need another Sorry you find our beer issue story about pussy-ass, dirty-fight- so boring. Stay tuned next year ing MMAers. It’s a stupid fad sport for the heroin issue, which we (at least here in America anyway), promise will be a much bigger if you can even call it a sport. Plus downer. If you’re lucky, maybe MMA fighters are just glorified some of SLUG’s most dedicated thugs who need an excuse to wordsmiths will die in the process roll around in the ring with other of “researching” and writing our dudes instead of disciplining grittiest issue yet! themselves enough to learn a Cheers always, REAL sport like boxing. SLUG Thanks for your offer to train a FAX, SNAIL MAIL OR EMAIL SLUG writer and to put them in US YOUR LETTERS! the ring— I’m sure our resident Fax: 801.487.1359 tranny, Princess Kennedy, would love to show your boys the cor- Mailing Address: rect way to pin down another man. SLUG Magazine’s “women’s Dear Dickheads division” ain’t nothing to fuck c/o SLUG Mag with. Sticks and stones may break 351 Pierpont Ave. Ste. 4B SLC, bones, but pens can fucking stab UT 84101 you. or [email protected] Love, SLUG 6 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 7 get to meet new people every day and the season’s trends and has learned really find out what they want and build to listen to customers’ needs, putting a relationship. I think when someone them above their own personal tastes walks into a local store, they want to at times. “This store is definitely our see the owners there, not some high store, but we’re not shopping for Put On Your Birthday Suit: school kid behind the desk that doesn’t ourselves, we’re shopping for everyone care about you,” she says. in Salt Lake, and that’s the hardest thing, to separate yourself and learn,” This openness and attention to detail says Helen. “Each season, I feel like has also allowed them to slowly evolve we do a better job, but there’s always their inventory, bringing in fresh brands some stuff that was a miss. We open and developing a unique, Salt Lake the box, and we’re like, ‘Oops, why City style for their new and returning did we order this?’ And then there are customers. “When we opened, we were some things that are like, ‘Yes, I’m so a little safer, and now we take a few glad I ordered this.’” more risks here and there,” says Ian. As young professionals themselves— Their buying process is also something Helen an avid snowboarder and soon- to be commended. Each brand that to-be mom, Ian a diligent student and comes into the store is researched skier—the pair keeps a close eye on thoroughly by the Fresh team, a Turns two fact that sets them apart from many corporate and local boutiques alike. “There’s a back story to every brand that’s in the store. You can ask us about any piece, and we can tell you about the brand and where they’re from,” says Ian.