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SLC Film Center presents Super Amigos, Mexico City’s real life ’social wrestlers’

0 Comments Published by Professor Les July 31st, 2008 in Film, Salt Lake City, Mexico, Community Dialogue, Hispanic heritage, Current Events.

Super Amigos is a rare treat for the SLC Film Center’s Spanish Language Film Series. This 82-minute Mexico City documentary features five larger-than-life social wrestlers in the Lucha Libre style, dealing with problems such as tenants facing eviction, victims of sexual discrimination, neglected children, bullfighting and blood sports, and pollution.
The 2007 film is the highlight […]

Utah philanthropist, LDS sci-fi author on opposing ends of same-sex marriage battle

0 Comments Published by Professor Les July 30th, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Community Dialogue, Politics, Current Events, Religion.

Those following my Twitter feed noticed yesterday’s tweet about Utah philanthropist Bruce Bastian’s announcement this past weekend in San Francisco of his $1 million contribution for the campaign against California’s Proposition 8, which, if passed, would nullify the state’s recent move to legitimize same-sex marriage. Speaking at the Human Rights Campaign dinner, Bastian said, “One […]

SLC lags well behind other metro markets for grocery coupon usage

0 Comments Published by Professor Les July 24th, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Current Events, Business News.

Salt Lake City lags considerably behind other metropolitan markets when it comes to clipping grocery coupons, according to a recent Scarborough Research study.
While 40 percent of Milwaukee households and 38 percent of Rochester, New York households use grocery coupons at least once a week, only 17 percent of SLC households reported doing the same. Other […]

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Utah’s ‘psychological recession’: Despite housing construction downturn, state continues to add jobs ---
The severe nationwide downturn in housing construction is now wreaking its damage on Utah’s employment picture as the state’s job growth rate is now just 0.6 percent.
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