Current Features
City Weekly tends to be geared toward a younger, more urban, and more liberal audience than the area's other papers. Some of its more prominent features include its reviews of art films (Scott Renshaw), restaurants (Ted Scheffler), local music groups (Portia Early), scheduled art shows and events, and television (Bill Frost). Founder Saltas writes a stream-of-thought column called "Private Eye". Ted McDonough writes an opinion-briefs feature called "Hits & Misses". The paper has a satire column called "Deep End" written by D.P. Sorensen who, among other things, jokingly claims to have been Mitt Romney's missionary companion. It also carries syndicated columns such as "News Quirks" by Roland Sweet, and "¡Ask a Mexican!" by Gustavo Arellano. Other syndicated features often seen in free alternative weeklies include the Straight Dope, by Chicago-based Cecil Adams, Free Will Astrology and comics such as Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World, and Keith Knight's K Chronicles. The paper has also expanded its online content in recent years, providing video features from actress/writer Deena Marie Manzanares and interview segment "Who The Hell". "Zionized: Local People Doing Local Stuff", is a weekly video web series produced by staff videographer, Marty Foy and airs every Wednesday on the website www.cityweekly.net. As well as adding material to their popular Salt Blog which includes topical postings from staff writers and editors, plus featured blogs from Tom Barberi and Gavin Sheehan.
City Weekly publishes a number of special issues each year, including the Best of Utah guide and the City Weekly Music Awards (formerly SLAMMys) issue (see also Music of Utah).
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