I think we can all agree that this past summer was a bit, well, aggressive. We love you summer, but as Shakespeare wrote, “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” Emphasis on […]

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In 1963, Tommy Jacobs won the PGA Tour’s 1963 Utah Open Invitational at the Salt Lake Country Club. It wasn’t pretty. Despite a stellar round, Jacobs stumbled on the final […]

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In 1966, two 18-year-old gas station attendants were kidnapped in Kearns and stabbed to death. The bodies of Steven Shea and Michael Holtz were discovered stripped of their clothing in […]

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You may arrive at this year’s 24th of July parade at what you assume to be right on time, lawn chairs in tow, ready for the grand marshal’s whistle and […]

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It was 40 years ago, I was at the Sandcastle Theater, in Woods Cross, marveling at the film Footloose. It wasn’t that the movie itself was a marvel. I was […]

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People will come, Ray. They’ll come for reasons they can’t even fathom…And they’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. People will come, […]

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For this issue, we looked at the state of travel on the Wasatch Front—without a car. Our story “Alternate Routes” examines the ways pedestrians, bikers, scooters, skaters and anyone not […]

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No project was too large, no task too small, for Brigham to believe he was destined to take it on and make it better. Including the alphabet.

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I am admittedly a Salt Lake snob, generally adhering to the principle that anything south of 33rd is “the country.” But I was drawn out of my usual stomping grounds […]

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The Post District is an ambitious experiment in urban planning to invigorate and, as planners say, "activate," a forgotten part of our city.

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