The Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps of Salt Lake City will host their first practice/open house of the year. Logan Brueck, director of the award-winning group reminds us “no experience is needed to join."

My lesbian friends, Chelle and Donna, recently acquired a cute-ass dachshund puppy; they named her Frankie (lesbians are so incredibly creative). Frankie is around 13 weeks old now, and she has a great personality and healthy stool — hey, that’s important for pups!

The Wanted, a five-member British boy band, are in concert Thursday, Feb. 2, 7 p.m., at In The Venue at Club Sound. QSaltLake held a ticket giveaway on Facebook for several pairs of tickets to the show. The winners are listed below and their tickets will be held at the venue under their names the day of the show. Congratulations t0 our winners, enjoy the show!!

Christmas 2011 was a bit more unusual than what is typical. You see, my parents were getting new family-room furniture for Christmas and apparently it was to be delivered before Christmas so they proactively had the old furniture removed and chose not to put up the Christmas tree.

About boy bands: They come and go like a good night’s sleep, leaving a dull fogginess of whether you actually liked them or if you were just infatuated with them for a short period of time. After a surge, in the ’80s and ’90s, of sweet-faced boys banding together in matching outfits, singing about unrequited love and broken hearts, and dancing synchronized routines — N’SYNC and The Backstreet Boys most notably — boy bands pretty much disappeared, breaking hearts of millions of teenage girls and a comparable amount of gay guys.