Meet Salt & Smoke Artisan Meats

Salt & Smoke Artisan Meats' owner and butcher Frody Volgger

“Frody will be breaking down a pig on Friday,” Cassie Little, sales manager of Salt & Smoke Artisan Meats, tells me. It’s my first chance to go behind the scenes of Frody Volgger’s newest venture — a butcher shop focusing on heritage pigs, European-style sausages and specialty meats. I’m to meet a photographer from The … Read more

Mark your calendars for Park City’s 2015 food and wine events

Park City Food & Wine Classic: Meats, Sweets and Whiskey Geeks 2014

Tickets are now on sale for two of Park City’s most popular events. Savor The Summit returns to Main Street on Saturday, June 20 while the Park City Food & Wine Classic runs July 9-12. Tickets for both events will sell out so don’t delay. Savor The Summit Park City’s favorite outdoor dinner party will … Read more

SALT Contemporary Dance poised to hit milestone in upcoming ‘Surge’ concert

Utah’s bench for professional dance, for a performing arts community of its size, is deep in talent and experience. However, not all dancers can commit to the practical demands required of many professional companies with year-long seasons or annual contracts running 40 weeks or longer. The world of dance is a tightly knit community where … Read more

Wasatch Academy of Wine’s French Wine Scholar dinner

French Wine Scholar dinner wines

The spring French Wine Scholar class drew to a close after a series of ten weeks of classes with 13 students sitting for the post nominal test. Congratulations to Coy, Andrea, Lansin, Marianne, Rebecca and Neal for becoming Utah’s newest French Wine Scholars! Following the test, students and their families and invited guests enjoyed a … Read more

Teen coordinators help craft vision for TiltShift Festival, Utah’s first for teen media arts students, filmmakers

A team of nine teenagers played a large role in crafting the vision for what will be the Intermountain West’s first media arts and film festival exclusively for teens. The TiltShift Festival highlights a slate of five feature-length films selected by nine teen coordinators, along with nearly 40 short films submitted by students between the … Read more

‘Reunion’ concert at the threshold of Repertory Dance Theatre’s 50th anniversary

In the midst of an exceptional season for Salt Lake City’s dance and ballet companies, this week’s forthcoming ‘Reunion’ concert (April 23-25) by the Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) will remind the community of why dance enjoys an amazingly diverse and nationally recognized presence in the Utah arts scene. In 1966, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater … Read more

Plan-B Theatre’s ‘Pilot Program’ impressively executed statement of silence, understatement on faith, polygamy

“It doesn’t make sense, I know it doesn’t. Forty-five minutes later, I’m tied in knots. I’m angry and confused and all over the place. But the moment that he asked, in that second, that breath hanging in the air between him and me— There was a blossom of warmth. A burst of— I don’t know. … Read more

The Last Southern Gentlemen and all that jazz

Soothing…the first word that comes to mind when describing the sights and sounds of The Last Southern Gentlemen, who performed at the Capitol Theatre on Monday, April 13. When those four men took their positions on stage, I had a feeling I was in for a musical treat. With their southern swagger and Delfeayo Marsalis’ … Read more

Torrey House Press gains momentum as a literary test lab for new American West voices

More than two decades after Wallace Stegner, the dean of Western writers, died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a new generation of writers has emerged to empower the voices of activism and advocacy in conservation and preservation, especially through the intellectual and cultural forces of literary fiction. However, these new authors also take on equally … Read more

Dance elevated with Ballet West’s Almost Tango

Almost Tango by Ballet West

Ballet West continues to surprise and delight its audiences this year with a triple-bill performance celebrating diversity in dance—paying tribute to tango, square dancing and the techno dance club scene. “I choose to put these three works together because in subtle and unique ways they are all explorations into the melding of classical ballet and … Read more