Ben Raskin

Category: Salt Lake City

  • City Weekly Whiffs with Best of Utah

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    How did you numb-nuts fuck this up? All you had to do was enter Raskin’s Rhetoric in the City Weekly Best of Utah 2012 poll for best Utah blog and I would be proudly showing off a piece of hardware recognizing the hours I have spent in the basement ranting and raving about bartending here…

  • On The Road To Las Vegas

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    We were driving full boar to SLC Airport with nothing but a couple of backpacks and days off from work. We were heading down to Las Vegas to visit my brother, Patrick. It was a joint mission. Erin was going to see Ani DiFranco on Friday night and I was going to help my brother…

  • SLC PubCast

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    She was statuesque to say the least. Her knee-high boots wrapped around her long legs meeting up at a short black mini skirt. She had long blond hair that wrapped around a pretty face and perfectly white teeth. If Dashiell Hammett wrote her into a story, she would clearly be the femme fatale.  She was…

  • Mea Culpa

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    Something people don’t know about walk-in beer coolers: they smell like marijuana. I don’t know if it is the spilt beer that gets sprayed on the walls, the humidity coming off the compressors or the stench from the cardboard boxes that hold the cases of bottled beer but walk-ins smell like pot. I remember once…

  • Leap Year Blues

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    Four years ago I was screaming into a telephone like a madman. I had been planning a leap year party at The Woodshed for over a month when at the last minute the promoter backed out. We were organizing a once-in-four-year event with a night of gospel and blues music that was going to feature…