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(Almost) Gone are the Days—Antoinette’s Antique Jewelry Closing

October 27, 2019 by Paige Wiren Leave a Comment

Story of Antoinette's Antique Jewelry For store owner Tanya Mahood, the idea of closing the door for the last time at Antionette’s Broadway location elicits combined feelings of enshrining the past and setting sails for the future. In December, Tanya and business colleague, Kerry Kruskop, will be redirecting their collective passion for antique and estate jewelry, and focusing … [Read more...]

Punch Bowl Social: SLC’s newest IRL social network opening at The Gateway

September 18, 2019 by Paige Wiren Leave a Comment

The Punch Bowl Social grand opening: Raise your hand if you crave bona fide cordial interaction. Now, imagine a lively, welcoming and innovative location in which you can enjoy such interaction, and eat noteworthy food, and drink ingeniously mixed beverages, and play a wide range of good-clean-fun games. This is what Punch Bowl Social delivers, and they are celebrating their … [Read more...]

The Run Down Ranch Kids Farm

August 13, 2019 by Paige Wiren Leave a Comment

The Run Down Ranch understand the value of teaching kids about animals by allowing experiential activities.

At the Run Down Ranch, All kids, young and old, are welcome It’s possible that Sparky O’Driscoll is working longer hours now that he’s retired. The jovial Oakley resident begins his day at 4 am, and doesn’t turn in until his Run Down Ranch menagerie is settled. Sparky’s life story is a continuation of Kamas Valley history. His great-great grandfather was one of the first … [Read more...]

Salted with success—Redmond Inc. blends home life with work life

August 10, 2019 by Paige Wiren Leave a Comment

By the salt of the earth To be lauded in the press as being a “family-focused” business shouldn’t make a company’s C-suite cringe, but Darryl Bosshardt says that singular perspective sometimes “sets the wrong expectations” about Redmond Inc.’s equally-as-important focus on profit margin. Darryl, Redmond’s director of marketing and business development, is the grandson of the … [Read more...]

Liberty Wells Historic District

July 24, 2019 by Paige Wiren Leave a Comment

Liberty Wells before it was Liberty Wells In 2011, two Salt Lake City neighborhoods officially merged to become the Liberty Wells Historic District, but the story of the area’s development begins in the 1800s.  Imagine it’s 1875. You have journeyed  to 900 S, the southern edge of the city. The urban blocks, the original Plat of the City of Zion, are 10-acre squares. … [Read more...]

“Are You Hallucinating?” A Visual Chat With Three Very Different Artists

May 20, 2019 by Paige Wiren Leave a Comment

Folding laundry. Buying groceries. Washing dishes. Necessary, routine life maintenance. Chores and to-dos consume our time and attention, but still, we have an innate desire for some kind of connection, some level of intimacy, to each other, to our shared human experience. Art offers the opportunity to experience connection, and the May exhibition at the Downtown Artist … [Read more...]

Sandhill Farm: Pete Rasmussen’s Clove of Garlic

April 23, 2018 by Paige Wiren Leave a Comment

Ask any old-time farmer in Ogden Valley how he decided what crop to grow. Chances are he’s not going to say that the beauty of alfalfa captured him in a moment of deep spiritual recognition. But that’s how farmer Pete Rasmussen tuned in to the living organism Allium sativum, or garlic. “I had a connection to the plant from the first moment and something sparked inside me,” Pete … [Read more...]

Caputo’s Hosts Its First Annual Goat Camp

September 12, 2017 by Paige Wiren Leave a Comment

Matt Caputo remembers his Greek grandmother by the garden she grew and tended. The varieties were unique to North America, and, as a boy, Matt sensed an importance in the difference. Matt now is the CEO of Tony Caputo’s market, and heritage preservation is a pillar of the business. As an expression of that value, Matt took a cohort of employees, chefs and wholesale reps to … [Read more...]

Trippin’ & Splorin’ Through Utah: 3 Days, 570 Miles, and Maybe a Dinosaur Bone

August 16, 2017 by Paige Wiren Leave a Comment

Okay, so maybe it isn’t a dinosaur bone. But if it is...road trip jackpot. There are essentials to a road trip: route, vehicle, cooler, music. But the road accommodates idiosyncratic interpretations of travel. I like to research and plan a destination framework, then fill in the gaps with how the spirit moves me. If you plan enough seasonal adventures, one of them will … [Read more...]

Gold Hill, Utah–A Treasure Town on the Verge of Extinction

July 18, 2017 by Paige Wiren Leave a Comment

  The Tooele County recorder said yes, indeed there are permanent residents in Gold Hill, Utah, but “they’re the kind of people that might greet you on the porch with a shotgun and ask you what you’re doing there.” Gold Hill, Utah, is tucked up against the West Desert hills near the Beehive State and the Silver State border. The unincorporated town shares the common … [Read more...]

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