Fry Sauce: Club Verse shutters

🍸 Club Verse, an LGBTQ+ bar on State Street, has closed after opening in 2022. Ownership cited its closure to personal health and financial issues in a social media post. (Salt Lake Tribune)

🏛️ Senator-elect John Curtis was named among a group of four senators opposed to nominating Trump's previous attorney general pick Matt Gaetz. (New York Times)

• Gaetz withdrew his bid last week amid increasing pressure for the release of a House Ethics Committee report into sexual misconduct allegations against him. Gaetz has vehemently denied the claims.

📖 The new "Folklore Bookshop" in Midway has opened and aims to be a community space. It features a laptop bar and will eventually add a hot drink station. (Deseret News)