The Angels Are Falling! This time next year we’ll all be trying to find our seats at the new Eccles Performing Arts Center on Main Street for one of a slew of Broadway touring shows. Until then, theater-goers will still patronize the Capitol Theatre on Broadway, happy to see Wicked, The Book of Mormon, or Eddie Izzard’s stand-up comedy. The Capitol was built in 1913 and was … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2015
Crawford Gates – Prolific Composer
In an exquisitely decorated home, filled with memorabilia from a long career, overlooking the Salt Lake valley, lives one of the most prolific, world-renowned composers of our time. Crawford Gates is a well educated, well spoken man who has lived many adventures including an LDS mission where he used his musical talents to reach out to people, service during World War II as a … [Read more...]
Re-Find Goods
Kristen Harrower has made the quintessential reuse of retail space on Pierpont Avenue. Re-Find Goods is Utah’s first and only store that exclusively sells recycled, upcycled and repurposed merchandise. Mindful shopping represents an aspect of shifting social attitudes. Grandma may have saved soap scraps with which to make new full-sized bars, but thrift was most likely the … [Read more...]
Local Holiday Shopping Guide
Shop local this holiday season. This booklet will give you an idea where to go to buy holiday gifts depending on location. It also features some great local artisans that produce world class products from beer, coffee, cookies to soaps and skin products. … [Read more...]
A Christmas Story: The Lamp Company
“FRAGILE (FRA-GEE-LEE) it must be Italian!” "What is it?" “It’s a Major Award!” "It's A lamp! It’s indescribably beautiful!"... The soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window." A Christmas Story is played non-stop on networks throughout the holidays. And not only has the movie become a Christmastime institution, but the leg lamp itself, has had a huge impact on Sugar … [Read more...]
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, … [Read more...]
Historic 25th Street Shopping Guide
You Are What You Eat
If we are what we eat, then in many cases we are eating the pain, suffering and trauma that animals suffered in the deplorable conditions of factory farms. If one watches the documentary film Food Inc. an idea of the conditions in which chickens, pigs and cattle are raised. Chickens are kept in small cages with their beaks cut off, so they don't self mutilate. They spend … [Read more...]