Culture
Polygamist Prison
by Heidi Grieser Between 1300 East, 1700 East, 2100 South, and 2400 South, Brigham Young selected 80 acres to be the site of the Utah Territorial Prison in 1853. At…
April Issue of Utah Stories. Find it all over Salt Lake or Buy it now!
The April issue of Utah Stories will be distributed today! (March 31,2011). By Friday morning it will be available all over downtown Salt Lake City and Sugar House. This issue…
Got Beauty, Got Award
In their February issue, Beauty Store Business Magazine published a “crème-de-la-crème” awards list of national stores chosen in response to the question “What do you believe are the 25 most…
The Daniel Day Trio gift Salt Lake’s most famous street performer with a new cello.
The Daniel Day Trio surprises street performer Eli Potash with a new cello. Watch the video.
Couch Surfers Utah
If you have a couch, you can be an ambassador to the world.
SLC Punk
Former LDS Missionary unveils Salt Lake City’s drug trade. A local musicians’ story of Sex, Drugs and…..Mormonism? Tom Bennett isn’t exactly a punk rocker, but he carries the persona. He…
A Playwright on a Persian Rug – Salt Lake Acting Company Presents The Persian Quarter
Salt Lake City playwright Kathleen Cahill’s new play The Persian Quarter is both a political history and the story of individual women in Iran and America.
Our Love/Hate Relationship with Valentine’s Day
“Valentines Day was a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make every one feel like crap.”
Salt Lake City’s 15th & 15th
When the King’s English bookshop opened in 1977, the 15th and 15th area was a strip of half-empty storefronts and dying businesses surrounded by residential homes. Salt Lake Drug once…
Short History of Bluff, Utah
What is an undiscovered secret to most people in Utah, Bluff is home to thousands of Anasazi ruins including “Newspaper Rock” Which offers hundreds of Anasazi pictographs.
Meet SLC’s Friendly Transhumanists
Michael Ferguson is a PhD candidate in Bioengineering at the U. He leads the Utah Singularity and Transhumanism Meetup Group and organized the 2010 Transhumanism and Spirituality Conference last October.
Repairing The Boxes That Make Heroes
Video games are the new most effective mode of escapism and home entertainment. When the video game industry skyrocketed past the movie industry in sales, video game companies and their…
Why Ken Sanders is Not Afraid of The Letter “E”
The story of the declines in revenue of local independent book sellers to Amazon and Barnes and Noble has been sad to witness. But luckily, people who work around books…
How Google is Changing the World as We Know it
Google has received some media attention recently because very soon Google will be launching their own E-books platform and online retail center. They will have a huge advantage even over…
The Brave New Virtuality
Brave New World is a science fiction novel written by Aldous Huxley in 1931. The book depicts a futuristic society where people have free access to drugs and sex, and…