February 2009

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

Calvin Cannon, 73, has been the owner of Golden West Barber Shop for the past 50 years. The shop is only slightly bigger than a closet. It houses two barber chairs, a mirrored counter strewn with...

Kathryn Jones

Mini's box lunches; hair donation; Rotten Musicians; stories by Darren DeFrain; art by Ruby Chacon

The old mining town’s Main Street is undergoing a facelift

Dan Nailen

Requiem for smoking; The scene; Ask Big David

It took eons of rushing water and wind to sculpt the sandstone spires and slot canyons of Zion National Park.

Erin Bean

Every year, the Sundance Film Festival hype slaps Utah right across the kisser, whether we are actually interested or not. It consumes local media outlets and national entertainment programming,...

Dan Nailen

Just as quickly as it sneaks up on you, Valentine’s Day is over—so why not make it last a little longer? This year, indulge your loved one with gifts to enjoy now and later; it’s the perfect...

Ashleigh Anderson May

Letters

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

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

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

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

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

The Salt Lake Acting Company is known for a lot more than its annual Saturday's Voyeur satires; in particular, it's known for delivering unflinching contemporary theater. Carlos Murillo's...

Dan Nailen

There are a few reasons to dig singer/songwriter Marcia Ball, starting with the name of her latest album: Peace, Love & BBQ.

Dan Nailen

There are so-called ìhot clubsî dedicated to preserving the memory and style of guitar wizard Django Reinhardt from Tokyo to Oslo and everywhere in between.

Dan Nailen

Six-woman a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock takes its name from a Bible passage that describes a land so rich, when rocks were cracked, honey flowed from them.

Dan Nailen

Pioneer's new production sounds delicious, and that might be because playwright Charles Morey, the theater's artistic director and author of The Yellow Leaf, had history on his side when...

Dan Nailen

Anyone who knows me knows I hate karaoke. And I hate the band Journey even more.

Dan Nailen

The Plan-B Theatre gang boldly tapped resident playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett to provide their entire season, and with the winter production of Block 8, Bennett evokes one of America's,...

Dan Nailen

Vocalist Stacey Kent did not find her way to jazz superstardom by scouring gritty clubs.

Dan Nailen

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company has a long-running relationship with the works of choreographer Alwin Nikolais, and kid-friendly The Crystal and the Sphere just might be its most popular.

Dan Nailen

It would be natural to think Latin jazz bandleader Poncho Sanchez has been playing his congas all his life, given the extraordinary skill he displays every time he takes a stage.

Dan Nailen

For some, the freakishly realistic but two-dimensional dinosaurs of Jurassic Park and the BBC mini-series Walking with Dinosaurs aren't enough. For them, there is Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live...

Dan Nailen

Puccini's Madame Butterfly has been adapted in myriad ways.

Dan Nailen

There's something freaky going on with Ain't Misbehavin' and the number 30.

Dan Nailen

Time was that a picnic was your best bet for eating well in a national park. But Zion Lodge—although Salisbury steak still lingers on the menu—has a more contemporary approach to food than I...

Mary Brown Malouf

A wall of beer cans serves as decor. A choice of pizza, burgers or tacos serves as the menu.

Mary Brown Malouf

Buttermilk-rich and cocoa-laden, the Red Velvet cake is a Southern classic gone nationwide.

Greg Thilmont

Z’Tejas was born in Austin; there are 10 of them in the Southwest. But chef Todd Gardiner has made Salt Lake’s Z’Tejas his own.

Mary Brown Malouf

Salt Lake Roasting Company cooks more than coffee.

Mary Brown Malouf

No region does fast food better than the Middle East—shawarma, gyros, falafel, souvlaki—all are healthier for you, easier to eat on the run and, face it, usually tastier than America’s...

Mary Brown Malouf

Winder Dairy, which has been delivering milk to Utah doorsteps for 128 years, now delivers a lot more.

Mary Brown Malouf

Back to the future on a bun

I was always a moody kid, a contrarian. I especially liked to vent my frustrations on my dad, who would look me straight in the eye and say: “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who...

John Shuff

The National Gelande Tournament was the hallmark of springtime at Alta. Hot-shot skiers soared off a snow-covered knob of mine tailings, wowing spectators in the 1960s and ’70s nationwide via...

Harriet Wallis