Olympic athletes getting prepared to compete for the Summer games in Tokyo are required to put their bodies through the most intense rigorous exercises to achieve top performance. But what happens when bodies just don't recover? When tendons and ligaments aren't attaining to the performance levels that allow top athletes to compete? Should they just give up and … [Read more...]
John W. Williams: Moab’s Wild West Doctor
In 1896, Moab was a small town of 400 or 500 people, mostly ranchers, farmers, and miners, with no doctor. Grand County Commissioners at the time created a new position of County Health Officer for a salary of $150 a year, which was accepted by a man named John W. Williams, later known locally as “Doc” Williams. Williams served the community for more than 20 years, … [Read more...]
KLOS Guitars: The Art of Making Indestructible Instruments
KLOS Guitars, Utah’s only large-scale guitar manufacturing facility, is internationally distributed, but reflects the rugged adventure found from the mountains to the deserts of our Utah landscape. For those who want to marry the adventure to the art within themselves, there are really two instruments that stand out as mascots for life out in the world ― the guitar and the … [Read more...]
New World Distillery in Eden Restarting their Distillery Tours
After 23 years as a public school teacher, Ashley Cross was burned out. She told her husband, Chris, “I don’t want to go back for year 24. I want a new world.” He suggested they start a distillery, playing into their love of agave and other base products in spirits, using New World sourced ingredients. And that’s how New World Distillery was born. When they … [Read more...]
Wallace Stegner’s Lasting Legacy at the University of Utah
This year, Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Angle of Repose turns 50 years old, thrusting him once again into the spotlight as one of the American West's greatest writers. His nomadic childhood led him to form a deep bond with Salt Lake City, as he spent much of his adolescence here hawking hot dogs at Saltair resort, adventuring in the wilderness with his LDS … [Read more...]
Utah Cycling: Back in the Saddle Again
I turned 62 in April of this year, and I climbed back on a bike for the first time in more than 10 years. My butt didn’t touch a bike saddle for the entire decade of my 50s, and I make that confession with a great deal of embarrassment and regret. I loved riding my bike as a kid. I don’t remember the bike I first learned to ride on, but the first bike I could call my own … [Read more...]
Did You Know that the Computer Graphics Revolution Began in Utah?
Two men who stand out as the foremost Tech Pioneers in Utah are without a doubt David Evans and Ivan Sutherland. This dynamic duo used their math, physics and electrical engineering skills to revolutionize computer graphic imaging technology. They literally built the first computer graphics simulation engines, and they and their students pioneered the field of CGI (Computer … [Read more...]
X96 Radio From Hell Show: Still Hell After All These Years
Radio From Hell on X-96 continues to find success in "Sticking it to the Man." Outposts of 1980s counterculture in the Salt Lake Valley like Cosmic Aeroplane Records, Bandaloops Café, The Speedway Café, and dance clubs like the Palladium and Ritz, have all disappeared over the decades like so much clove cigarette smoke. But, while the places are gone and the patrons … [Read more...]
Renovated Sprague Library Retains its Historic Charm
Four years after a flash flood filled the Sprague Library’s basement with more than five feet of water and caused extensive damage, the branch is better than ever thanks to a $4.5 million renovation. The library, at 2131 South 1100 East, which is considered by many to be the heart of Sugar House, reopened May 3. The design and remodel of Sprague Branch was done by … [Read more...]
Six Award-Worthy Artisan Food Makers
One of the perks of being a food writer — aside from frequently being able to dine in terrific restaurants — is to enjoy the products of some of our amazing local food artisans, from salsa makers and pastry chefs, to chocolates and gourmet tostadas. Here are a few of my favorite local food producers that are award-worthy. The Happy Dumpling Delivery Service is owned and … [Read more...]