April 2009

Things tight? How’s your 401(k)? Did GM deserve the bailout? These queries float across rooms and dominate small talk at dinner tables, water coolers and, yikes, unemployment lines. A nervousness...

Jeremy Pugh

Indeed, April is the cruelest month. One day the snow is melting, the inversion’s lifting and starlings are singing on the telephone wires; the next, the state gets plastered in 6 inches of snow....

Buy, Eat, Wear, Explore

It’s hard to believe that little ol’ Salt Lake City now boasts enough of a local scene to warrant a “fashion stroll.”

Dan Nailen

Meet the man behind Hogle Zoo’s dynamic elephant duo

Dan Nailen

Nightlife on the wasatch front and back

When late-winter’s inversion has a stranglehold on northern Utah, it’s time to break out and head for the closest bright opening in the sky—the San Rafael Swell. Known as Little Grand Canyon,...

Jill Adler

By the time the first snow fell in 1847, Mormon settlers had plowed and planted 2,000 acres in the Great Salt Lake Valley. The winter was a mild one, and by spring, the fields were greening with...

John Rasmuson

Heather Hemingway-Hales told her husband he should go find someone else to be his wife, someone else to be the mother of their two children. She gathered some pills from the medicine cabinet, drove...

Heather Simonsen

Step inside Salt Lake’s Cathedral of the Madeleine and you are bound to be bedazzled: the church’s interior is about as far from the dimly lit, slightly spooky Gothic cliché as you could...

Mary Brown Malouf

If you have a young reader in your home, you’ve likely heard of the fantastic realm of Fablehaven. Maybe you’ve even been there, this wildlife refuge of a different kind, where a mild-mannered...

Jeremy Pugh

Crisp-skinned, golden and affordable—this is the comfort food for the season. And the day after.

Mary Brown Malouf

Advocates for a new downtown theater in Salt Lake City often point out that the facilities currently open in the city aren’t big enough for the likes of The Lion King or Wicked...

Dan Nailen

John Scofield is considered by many to be one of the “big three” jazz guitarists working today, along with Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell.

Dan Nailen

Sarah Vowell is a regular contributor to NPR’s This American Life as one of the program’s many “social commentators.”

Dan Nailen

Some of the longest nights of my life involved attending Britney Spears concerts for various jobs, and I was none too happy about it.

Dan Nailen

You never know where a phenomenon is going to start. In the case of the monstrously successful touring show The Art of Bellydance, it started with 
a rock and roll legend.

Dan Nailen

Considering she spent her early career touring and recording with the likes of Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach, you wouldn’t blame Dee Dee Bridgewater for nestling in for a long jazz...

Dan Nailen

A lot of groups can lay claim to the title of America’s Best Bar Band, but 
unless they are better than Brooklyn-based The Hold Steady, they are mere pretenders to the boozy throne.

Dan Nailen

It can’t be easy to be the eldest son of an American icon, but Woody Guthrie’s boy Arlo has done pretty well for himself.

Dan Nailen

When is a hanger just a hanger? Never, in the work of Washington, D.C., artist Dan Steinhilber.

Dan Nailen

Such is life in 21st-century America, where adults have witnessed every aspect of life commodified, and kids grow up not knowing anything different than a Nike-swooshed, Coca Cola-waved,...

Dan Nailen

Dan Nailen

Dan Nailen

To me, spring has always meant it’s time to start obsessing about a few of my favorite things.

Dan Nailen

The Mariposa has the required ski resort chalet atmosphere, with cozy fireplaces, soaring wood-beamed ceilings and a Bavarian balcony, but states its fine dining intentions clearly with crisp...

Mary Brown Malouf

A whole new crop of we-are-not-fast-food-joints has sprung up, serving burgers on steroids.

Mary Brown Malouf

My first take on this newcomer in the former Avenues Bakery space, a blog entry about a lunch, ignited a flare of online responses—“wonderful!” “Fantastic!” “Charming!”

Mary Brown Malouf

Now—finally—the real “Rico,” Jorge Fierro, has opened Rico Café, an eat-in café where you can enjoy his terrific foods straight off the stove.

Mary Brown Malouf

A Certified Executive Chef whose dining room happens to be EnergySolutions Arena, Tom Satterfield is responsible for feeding 15 to 17 thousand people each home Jazz game.

Mary Brown Malouf

Deer Valley’s Seafood Buffet is a good experience, if an odd idea.

Mary Brown Malouf

It’s a setting that makes you want to sing along with Julie Andrews—alpenhorns on the wall, Black Forest chairs, stag heads and cove ceilings are reminiscent of the original Goldener Hirsch Inn...

Mary Brown Malouf

Zucca Trattoria opened in South Ogden with a menu founded—like SLC’s Settebello and Orem’s Pizzeria 712—on the universal appeal of pizza, but using that familiar dish as a booster to more...

Mary Brown Malouf

It’s official: the tube steak is back in vogue.

Mary Brown Malouf

Springdale, outside of Zion National Park, draws an international crowd.

Mary Brown Malouf

Soroptomist International's silent auction and fashion show on April 4 raised funds for the organization's community and global efforts to improve the lives of women and girls.

Not a Mormon, not a lifetime Utah resident nor a native son, Wallace Stegner nevertheless belongs to Utah.

Mary Brown Malouf