Week 13: BYU vs. Oregon State It’s been a long while since that game against Utah, but looking back on that victory is just as sweet now as it was when I rushed the field on that cold November night. On a personal level, this was a game to remember. As a lifelong Cougar fan, [...]

The PB&J Report returns with a special holiday edition just for all you lucky people still stranded in airports all over the country on your way home. Jake Welch, Ben Wagner and Preston Johnson dole out their picks for the big upcoming bowl games, including BYU-Oregon St. in the MAACO Bowl Las Vegas (or whatever [...]

Christmas calls for kitsch. Whether it’s cheap tinsel, plastic yard snowmen, or fake trees, the holidays are never quite complete without piles of normally tacky ephemera. Surprisingly, perhaps, this aspect of the holiday season also has a lot in common with ’80s music videos. At that time, the music video format was in its infancy [...]

The Cougars came into last week with just one loss on the season, to in-state foe Utah State. The Aggies were able to do a good job exposing the team’s weaknesses on offense, forcing Jonathan Tavernari to shoot just 1 for 11 and holding Jimmer Fredette to an Iversonian 5 of 15. The team came [...]

Last Sunday, the Deseret News published an opinion piece on Mormon liberalism written by Eric Samuelson, a professor of theater and arts at BYU. It was an articulate and thoughtful piece, but the initial premise — “I’m a liberal because I’m a Christian” — troubled me. It seems to imply that Republicans aren’t genuine Christians. [...]

Yet another year has come and gone and the time has come to pay tribute to 2009 in the only way we know how — the first annual Rhombus Readers’ Choice Awards! This is your opportunity to vote for the best local music, food and culture of 2009, so don’t miss out — make your [...]

It seems fitting last year’s monumental presidential election gave way to such monumentally heated debates regarding the direction of our country. No president has inherited an economy in such disarray since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 and, while President Barack Obama won the election solidly, supposedly with a mandate for change from the American people, [...]

In a more perfect world, I would see every movie I even slightly care to see several days before it’s released and then write a review about it as soon as I left the theater. Unfortunately, this world is far from perfect. And so the local dollar theater gets my frequent patronage, and you get [...]

The PB&J Report returns for another week as Jake Welch, Ben Wagner and Preston Johnson dishe on (even more) college football, the status of LaVell Edwards’ legacy, the maddening recent exploits of BYU’s increasingly Fredette-centered basketball team and much more. Enjoy! You can stream the podcast by simply clicking on the link below, or you [...]

In the wake of the 2008 elections, this year has seen the explosion of an angry, faux-populist conservative movement that, according to Fox News, is taking the country by storm. If the big question last year was what the Republican Party would do next, this year seems to have given us our answer: get really [...]