Welcome to the Culture Vulture blog - a daily extension of the venerable (or at least it was before I got my hands on it) column that will continue to run every Tuesday in the newly revamped The Mix section of The Salt Lake Tribune.

The print column has been around since 1997, but the blog is brand spankin' new - so I'm keeping the name, even though there's now a review website called culturevulture.net and New York magazine's quite funny entertainment blog, Vulture.

The goal here is to take what my print predecessors, Brandon Griggs (now working for CNN.com) and Dan Nailen (who left us for Salt Lake magazine), did with the column - to comment on the offbeat and unusual in Utah popular culture - and do it on a daily basis.

To do that, and do it well, I'm going to need some help. That's where you come in. If you have any hot tips - interesting art exhibits, weird experiences at the theater, unusual billboards, sightings of “High School Musical” stars at Crown Burgers, whatever - send them along to me at vulture@sltrib.com.

(Photo by me, taken while in line at the Safari Trek ride at Legoland California.)