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Salty Songs About SLC

December 18, 2017 by Arvid Keeson Leave a Comment

Salty Songs About SLC

"I left my heart in..." We all know how that song lyric goes. But Salt Lake City crooners can take heart—there are songs that celebrate SLC as well. Songwriter Doug Wintch added to the list when he wrote Salt Lake City in 2013. Wintch said he based his song on “a guy who used to sit at the bar down at D.B. Cooper’s and cry into his beer over a long lost high school sweet … [Read more...]

How Smoking Tobacco Can Enrich Your Life

October 19, 2017 by Arvid Keeson Leave a Comment

How Smoking Tobacco Can Enrich Your Life

Tobacco can kill you. So can red meat, refined sugar, iodized salt, modern highways, corporate jobs, prescribed medicines, falling trees, and stray bullets. Hell, drink too much water and you can die of poisoning. Fact is, one day you will die. And unless you’re one of those rare humans who has the temerity to off yourself, you don’t know when or how your day will come. So, unt … [Read more...]

Making the Most of Mixed-Use Space in Sugar House

January 27, 2016 by Arvid Keeson Leave a Comment

Making the Most of Mixed-Use Space in Sugar House

It’s all a matter of perspective. When my my two-pound Chihuahua stands on the rocks in my garden, she feels like a giant. When Sugar House developers set out to make the best use of available space, they made things more convenient for shoppers and residents, but not drivers. Sugar House is home to the Vue and Liberty Heights, apartment complexes that are built to be a … [Read more...]

Broadway Changes

December 11, 2015 by Arvid Keeson Leave a Comment

Broadway Changes

Before the malls, before the ZCMI Center, Gateway and City Creek, downtown SLC provided destination shopping for Salt Lake Valley residents. A trip downtown was a special treat. Local institutions such as Auerbach’s, The Paris Company, Lerners, the Yardstick,  the Kress  five and dime store and Woolworths made window shopping an event. Buildings, beyond box-like high rises, suc … [Read more...]

Utah’s Coffee Roasters – Introduction to Utah Stories Roasters Issue

May 11, 2015 by Arvid Keeson Leave a Comment

Utah’s Coffee Roasters – Introduction to Utah Stories Roasters Issue

It’s been said America runs on coffee. Today 34 percent of Americans drink a cup of coffee every morning. And a greater percentage of younger adults use caffeine to "enhance" their ability to study for exams and complete assignments before deadlines. I write this just after having my morning cup of coffee, feeling instantly more focused and alert. I can thank my Eastern E … [Read more...]

Bird in the Trees

December 9, 2014 by Arvid Keeson Leave a Comment

Bird in the Trees

For the quartet Bird in the Trees, no one member is sitting on a higher branch. Collaboration is the key for the group that consists of female vocalist Taryn Willis, singer/guitar player Larry Moreland, singer/banjo player Vernon Twede, and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Hansen. What style of music do they collaborate on? That depends on which band member you ask. Vernon … [Read more...]

Every Drip is a Drop in the Bucket

September 12, 2014 by Arvid Keeson 1 Comment

Every Drip is a Drop in the Bucket

For the first time in 15 years of gardening I’ve installed drip irrigation. And perhaps I’m a johnny-come-lately to this technology that many people have already discovered, but even at that, it’s worth sharing the experience I’ve had converting my vegetable garden into a high-performance farm. It would never have happened had I not stumbled upon a farmer who preaches as gospel … [Read more...]

Utah’s Oldest Business – Shooting Star Saloon

August 20, 2014 by Arvid Keeson 9 Comments

Utah’s Oldest Business – Shooting Star Saloon

Many have laid claim to being Utah’s oldest business, and many more also claim in being Utah’s oldest bar. But none say they are both and can prove it. The Shooting Star Saloon in Huntsville, Utah is perhaps both. We didn’t see their proof but we will take their word for it. The building, which houses the Shooting Star saloon, was erected in the 1850s in Huntsville as a merca … [Read more...]

Damning Evidence That Young Living and DoTERRA’s Essential Oils are Adulterated

August 15, 2014 by Arvid Keeson 241 Comments

Damning Evidence That Young Living and DoTERRA’s Essential Oils are Adulterated

A deposition in Utah court by Dr. Robert Pappas, shows that Young Living Essential Oils under the leadership of D. Gary Young passed off synthetic oils as authentic for jasmine and birch oils, which were conclusively found to be synthetic oils. Dr. Pappas says that he first learned of Young Living Essential Oils when he was giving a lecture at Purdue University working for Le … [Read more...]

Deseret News Conspires to Expedite Demise of Salt Lake Tribune

May 27, 2014 by Arvid Keeson 3 Comments

Deseret News Conspires to Expedite Demise of Salt Lake Tribune

Every day, newspapers run the obituaries of people who have died in the community. But will The Salt Lake Tribune soon be running an obituary about itself? That’s the fear many people have since the newspaper entered into a troubling and, until recently, secret agreement with its competitor, the Deseret News, which is owned by the LDS Church. The agreement slashes the S … [Read more...]

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