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Street Kings’ follows Ayer’s cookie cut style

By By Sam Potter • April 11, 2008

Spring just wouldn't be complete without a David Ayer movie. Responsible for histrionic displays of machismo such as "Training Day," "Dark Blue," "The Fast and the Furious" and "S.W.A.T.," Ayer has come to embody everything that is phony and superficial about cop drama.

The Word (4/10): Chronicle’s guide to the SLC music scene

By By Makena Walsh • April 11, 2008

April 12 Why? Urban Lounge (241 S. 500 East) 9 p.m. $10 Why? is composed of three visionary men who compensate for their lack of "virtuosic masturbatory shredding ability on the guitar" with the best indie-hop/psych-rock/folk-pop to ever grace the ears of this tickled Redux writer.

Red Herring: Getting hot with that low APR

By By Jarad Sampson • April 11, 2008

Don't pretend like it doesn't feel good. Yeah, you know you like it when I slide that card through the checkout line. Mmm, I bet you feel like doing it again and again, till that magnetic strip runs bare, even at the ridiculously low 5.99 percent APR. I know you act like you're better than a low APR and more conservative (or so you'd like to think).

Rock Lobster

By By Trevor Hale • April 11, 2008

"We love to eat," Enon front man and founder John Schmersal said, lounging in the back seat of his van in the middle of a 10-hour drive to Atlanta. "That's how we spend the majority of our free time on tour. This time we're all in love with crustaceans, so it was very important that we hit up a good crab shack while we were in Baltimore.

Pappas: A tainted womb

By By Nicholas Pappas • April 11, 2008

I was a handful when I was young. I hated losing at anything. I threw fits at every checkmate, intercepted ball or sunken battleship. My mother never let me win, either. She wanted me to know that in life nothing is easy and nothing is free. It was just one of the many lessons I learned from my mother.

Shattuck: Saving to stimulate the economy

By By Ryan Shattuck • April 11, 2008

What do the following three items have in common? A piggy bank made of granite and filled with a tinier piggy bank made of porcelain and filled with pennies and broken promises. A copy of Jimmy Buffett's single Margaritaville, autographed by Jesse Ventura for some reason.

Gymnastics: Fending off the injury bug

By By Jon Gilbert • April 10, 2008

Utah isn't as healthy as it would like heading into the North Central Regional Championship on Saturday. "We're more beat up here at the end of the season," Utah head coach Greg Marsden said. The biggest concern for the Red Rocks in regard to injury belongs to junior Nina Kim.

Dean Newman among those honored by Office for Diversity

By By Clayton Norlen • April 10, 2008

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Psychology students work together in honors group

By By Jonathan Ng • April 10, 2008

For this month's service activity, students in Psi Chi, a group based in the psychology department, are collecting non-perishable canned goods for the Food from Fido drive held by the Utah Veterinary Medical Association. "Every year, the veterinary association across Utah collects food at different veterinary hospitals to give to the Utah Food Bank," said Vanessa Watts, assistant director of the Psychology Advising Center and vice president of Service Activities for Psi Chi.

Will city have say in stadium development?

By By Rochelle McConkie • April 10, 2008

Community members said the city should have a say in plans for the possible "Universe Project" -- a mixed-use development in the west end of the Rice-Eccles Stadium parking lot the U hopes to include in its Campus Master Plan. The project would be built on university property, making it under the state's jurisdiction, but neighbors to the site told the Salt Lake City Planning Commission at last night's meeting that the U should consider the effects the development would have on transportation, housing and nearby businesses -- all city issues.