S L U G Jim Jarmusch MAG SUNDANCE VOL. 24 • ISSUE 301 • JANUARY 2014 • slugmag.com • ALWAYS FREE SLAMDANCE UTAH WOMEN IN FILM slugmag.com 1 2 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 3 SaltLakeUnderGround • Vol. 24 • Issue #301 • January 2014 • slugmag.com @SLUGMag youtube.com/user/SLUGMagazine Publisher: Eighteen Percent Gray Action Sports Sponsorship Sales: Editor: Angela H. Brown Jake Vivori, Tim Kronenberg Managing Editor: Esther Meroño Marketing Manager: Editorial Assistant: Alexander Ortega Karamea Puriri Office Coordinator:Gavin Sheehan Marketing Team: Ischa B., Sabrina Costello, Digital Content Coordinator: Cody Kirkland Kristina Sandi, Brooklyn Ottens, Angella Copy Editing Team: Esther Meroño, Alexan- Lucisano, Nicole Roccanova, Raffi Shahinian, der Ortega, Mary E. 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Hopefully, Acheson knows how highly we think of him, too! 4 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 5 Dear Dickheads, Arctic Circle (who are locally-based, by the way). If BP or Walmart opened a corporate What’s up with all these 5k runs for office in Salt Lake, would you cover them diseases? I’m looking at the November as well? I mean, I know that if Apple issue of SlugMag and I see this atrocious established a branch here you sheeply “Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis.” Am I the only hipsters would be all over that shit, but EA one that thinks they’re throwing it in the doesn’t exactly have the same cred among faces of those with arthritis? Hey, look at self-hating young people. If you’re gonna us run, with ease, through the streets while write about EA, then you might as well write your deprecated body can’t even wipe an article heralding the arrival of Dunkin’ its own ass without searing pain. Don’t Donuts into the Salt Lake Valley. 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