Pop-culture artist Robin Banks’ timeless interpretations

In Salt Lake City, there are many venues for finding Robin Banks’ fresh, bright and playful pop art and culture illustrations that have a timeless imprint upon retro and classic interpretations of cartoon and comic figures. In just six years, Banks (who prefers the singular generic pronoun “they”) has compiled a diverse professional portfolio including … Read more

Utah Opera’s Madame Butterfly

Yunah Lee and Eric Fennell at rehearsal for Utah Opera's Madame Butterfly.

It is a colorful tale of cultures clashing, of love and sacrifice, and most of all, of stunningly beautiful music. Madame Butterfly is one of the most-performed operas of all time, touching audiences for more than a century with the semi-true story of Butterfly, the young Japanese geisha who marries an American naval officer only … Read more

R&R BBQ Dinner Fall Giveaway

Who wants some MEAT?! That’s right, the guys at R&R BBQ are giving away a dinner for four people this month to a lucky reader and three hungry friends. If you read our story about the award-winning smoked goodness coming from R&R BBQ, you’ll be licking your fingers for this giveaway. From ribs to chicken … Read more

Plan-B Theatre’s newest Radio Hour production will spin ‘ze right version’ of three Grimm fairy tales

“If the Brothers Grimm were not trying to tell charming bedtime stories, what were they trying to do? Why are the original versions of their stories so often violent and disturbing? The first answer to these questions is that the Brothers Grimm were simply being true to the stories as they existed in the early … Read more

Plan-B Theatre’s 24th season’s seven new plays explores vast territory of family values

NOTE: This is the first installment in a two-part series about Plan-B Theatre’s 24th season and a preview of Matthew Ivan Bennett’s ‘Radio Hour Episode Nine: Grimm.’ In certainly its most ambitious season during its 24-year history, Plan-B Theatre has programmed seven new plays by Utah playwrights that explore a vast territory of family values. … Read more

Utah Film Center’s October documentary screenings

The Utah Film Center consistently offers a first-class slate of independent films for its monthly free, public screenings and two recently released outstanding documentaries – one from the Oscar-winning director of ‘The March of the Penguins’ (‘Once Upon A Forest’) and the other about the founder of Arhoolie Records who has preserved some of the … Read more

Torrey House Press releases rich harvest of American West novels on themes to recover, reclaim and redeem

Sometime after the composer John Luther Adams moved to Alaska, as he has described it, to “get away from the world” and “to help save the wilderness,” he realized that his art of music matters as much as any familiar forms of activism. He wrote, “Art is slow. And it often begins in solitude. In … Read more

A Guide to Food at the University of Utah Football Games

Rice Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

The breeze has a bit of a crispness to it, the sun sets a little sooner each day, and the farmers’ markets are brimming with fresh produce.  Yep, it’s officially fall.  And that means one thing and one thing only: it’s football season! For those of us dwelling in Salt Lake City, our closest contact … Read more

Fall Getaway at Solitude Mountain Resort

It’s that time of year where the smell of fall is in the air—dancing around the outer edges of summer’s last days. Hints of color are starting to dot the mountains that surround Salt Lake. Brisk mountain mornings become warm late-summer afternoons which lead to chilly evenings made ideal by a fire. Fall in the … Read more

Uintas: Comfort and Wilderness

sunrise in the Uintas

I’ve always thought of our local mountains, the Wasatch Range, as an extension of Salt Lake City. A city park, if you will. Group picnics, campgrounds and seven ski resorts take up a fair amount of real estate. Not to say you can’t get lost and have a wilderness experience a few short miles from … Read more