Fashion: Après flight

Coming back down to Earth with the U.S. Women’s Freestyle Ski team

Advice to keep the doctor away

Here, we introduce you to four of Utah’s top doctors in the fields of brain disease, cardiology, bone health and vision. And in an effort to keep the introductions strictly between you and these...

Lexie Kite

Silver, spurs & spoken word

This January, the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering will celebrate its silver anniversary in Elko, Nevada. It has grown from a $10,000 production to a $1 million event, run by the Utah- and...

Dan Nailen

You can get a drink in Utah

Yes, you can. There is so much unnatural attention placed on the act of bending an elbow in this state that we sometimes start to believe what outsiders do: Utah is a hard place to get a drink,...

Salt Lake magazine stafff

Editor's Letter — Do the bar hop

It’s a hobby among visitors and transplants to stew over Utah’s labyrinthine liquor laws. Those of us who came of age here, however, politely tolerate your outlander palaver and hoist a glass...

Jeremy Pugh

After dark

Requiem for smoking; The scene; Ask Big David

Skiers without borders

The blue sky twinkled as we exited the Mt. Allen Tram. The weather report pointed to “Yes.” The Utah Avalanche Forecast report, the line of hiking skiers and Snowbasin’s ski patrol nodded in...

Jill Adler

The inversion

It was early winter in 1991, and I had just come from a meeting with my advisor at Utah State University about my transfer from the U. I remember crunching across the quad afterward in my thin Army...

Jeremy Pugh

Ogden rising?

A good friend slid an August copy of Outside across his dining room table. It was the magazine’s annual “Best Towns” issue, and Ogden made the list.

Michael Yount

Writing the past

In 1984, Charles “Chuck” Morey got a call. The head of Pioneer Memorial Theatre was asking the young director if he was interested in becoming the theater’s artistic director job.

Matt Pacenza

One-Pot Parties

Nearly every world cuisine has at least one satisfying, special dish that's meant to be shared by a crowd-designed for gatherings.

Mary Brown Malouf