POSTED // Mar 5,2013 - Cats have taken over the Internet, and now they’re taking over fine art. Shunichi Yamamoto’s Fine Feline Art exhibit, showing in the Children’s Gallery in the basement of the Salt Lake City Main Library

POSTED // Feb 27,2013 - Christina Hobbs was home recovering from surgery when she started quietly writing a smutty Twilight-inspired fanfiction. Now, more than three years and much revision later, the erotic novel Beautiful Bastard, co-written with Lauren Billings, is on the New York Times best-seller list.

POSTED // Feb 20,2013 - There are 1.5 female military veterans in the United States, but, like former Army Sgt. Sarah LeMire, many become indistinguishable from average citizens after their service is over.

POSTED // Feb 13,2013 - Michael Self is a 22-year-old race-car driver from Park City who will compete at the Daytona International Speedway in the UNOH Battle at the Beach on Feb. 18.

POSTED // Feb 6,2013 - Brenda Puchalski has been a Salt Lake Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SL SANE, SLSANE.org) for four years. The nonprofit group of about 20 nurses performs forensic work on patients who have been sexually assaulted, at no cost to the victim. Though the group is often contacted by hospitals or law enforcement, individuals who have been sexually assaulted can contact SL SANE directly to get medical care and referrals without being required to deal with police.

POSTED // Jan 30,2013 - Nick Holland is the Young Democrats of America’s southwest regional director, works for the Utah AFL-CIO and is in his final semester of earning a master’s degree in international affairs & global enterprise at the University of Utah.

POSTED // Jan 23,2013 - Melanie Morales is a presenter at the upcoming panel “My Loved One is Apostatizing ... What Do I Do?” at the Salt Lake City Main Library as part of the new SLC Post-Mormon (PostMormon.org) lecture series.

POSTED // Jan 16,2013 - Audrey Ewell and her film partner, Aaron Aites, are the director-producers of 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film, showing at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

POSTED // Jan 9,2013 - Sarah Shippobotham, associate professor and head of the University of Utah’s Actor Training Program, was a dialect coach in New Zealand on the set of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien.

POSTED // Jan 2,2013 - Kevin and Sharee Harris are co-owners of the Kamas Theater, a small movie theater built in rural Summit County in 1942.