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On the road

By By Trevor Hale • September 6, 2007

Bands these days have no heart. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it's true. Back in the day, the only way to make it was to tour relentlessly and hit any city referred to as "the armpit of America" at least twice. Nowadays, all you need is a MySpace page and the right friends.

The Drop: Don’t go to the music store without it

September 6, 2007

Liars Liars Mute Records Four out of five stars It's always nice to hear a band push the boundaries of rock 'n' roll without exorcising the spirit that is rock 'n' roll. Velvet Underground allusions sometime seem unavoidable when describing modern artists who craft droning avant-rock soundscapes beneath minimalist poetics.

Fall movie preview

September 6, 2007

"Into the Wild" (Sept. 21) Directed by Sean Penn Taking Jon Krakauer's best selling novel of the same name, director Sean Penn leads us on the spiritual, Kerouac-ian journey of a young man as he traverses the vast open of the U.S., hitchhiking his way to Alaska.

NFC West preview

By By Jason Peterson • September 6, 2007

Seattle Seahawks (11-5) Shaun Alexander is back! And he's going to take entire defenses out behind the tool shed for a severe beating. When healthy, the Seahawks are scary good. Small children in the stadium start crying. LB Julian Peterson and off-season acquisition Patrick Kerney will go WWE and tag-team against opposing linemen with clotheslines and metal chairs.

Ruling with an iron shish kabob

By By Adam Fifield • September 6, 2007

Members of the Salt Lake Greek community have no problem shoving their culture down your throat -- or at least allowing you to shove it in yourself. This might be aiding and abetting, but the truth is that the fastest way to Salt Lake City's heart is through its residents' stomachs, and moderation, for once, is not a virtue.

NFC South preview

By By Jason Peterson • September 6, 2007

New Orleans Saints (12-4) The Saints are better than yo mama and just about every other team except those listed on a three-fingered hand. Think they won't win 12 games? With the NFL's 7th-easiest schedule and a certain Mr. Bush who also likes to go to war, let's just say the Saints are God's favorite team this year.

The Word: Chrony’s guide to the SLC music scene

By By Makena Walsh • September 6, 2007

September 6 Snoop Dogg The Depot (400 W. South Temple) 8 p.m. $61 As the individual responsible for a one-man assault on popular vernacular with his 'izzle' idioms (a torch now passed to the 'thizz' lingo of the Bay Area's Hyphy renaissance), Snoop Doggy Dog, it would seem, has already entered that arbitrary medium between man and myth.

And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped’

By By Christie Franke • September 6, 2007

"Who goes there?" "It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons, sovereign of all England!" "Pull the other one!" So begins "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" -- likely the best-known work by the Monty Python comedy troupe, whose infamous brand of humor revolutionized the comedy world as drastically as the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper revolutionized rock music.

Horoscopes

By By The Guru • September 6, 2007

Aries (21 March to 20 April) Have you ever had one of those nights when you just want to put on that oversized T-shirt you got free from the chiropractor's clinic and eat an entire pint of ice cream... with waffles? I suggest you take a cue from Gilbert Grape's mother and shut yourself in for the better part of early September.

Take five and go get some culture

By By Danny Letz • September 6, 2007

Thurs., Sept. 6 to Sun., Sept. 16 -- Ken Sanders 10th Anniversary Festivities -- 7 p.m. -- Free -- Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East Ken Sanders 10th anniversary trucks on through this week with presentations from authors and poets Stephen Trimble (Sept.