The other day I sat down to watch some DVDs, old horror movies, to write up in this column before Halloween. The missus is gone in her role ...

Nick Redfern’s 2012 book, The Pyramids and the Pentagon , is enormously entertaining. Redfern is a reporter who writes about subjects like U...

Recently I watched all five seasons of HBO’s excellent series, The Wire , on DVD. I binge-watched, six episodes per day until I had finished...

Last night I could not remember the word “artichoke.” Such a simple thing, yet I could not remember. When I have moments like this (also cal...

In 1946 a killer murdered five people in Texarkana, the town that straddles both Texas and Arkansas. Four of the victims were young people p...

Despite living in the Mormon Mecca of Utah, I had not heard this about my fellow citizens until this past Friday: Some Mormons, called “pr...

Ladies and gentlemen...grinning his Satanic grin, The Donald! I am a Democrat, yet fascinated by Donald Trump. Not as a fan, but as som...

In the middle of August we are in what is the silly season for news. Or it is what would traditionally be the silly season, but that was m...

For a couple of days this past week a video of a large cop and a 3 1/2-foot-tall elementary school boy handcuffed at his biceps made the new...

Cover illustration by Derek Carlisle for Salt Lake City Weekly . Copyright © 2015 Salt Lake City Weekly .  Rachel Nunes is a prolific a...

I was discharged from the U.S. Army in November, 1968, after spending two years as a draftee, serving in Germany. I did not have it so tough...