Candid Cop

SLCPD cameras are watching, but police say they usually aren’t looking

Classified Killers

Besieged by politicians and media, Craigslist´s founder finds an unlikely ally: A victim’s family.

POSTED // May 13,2009 - In October 2007, Katherine Olson was looking for work. Since graduating summa cum laude from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., with a dual degree in theater and Hispanic studies...

Wasted Not

Green Issue: Utahns inch their way toward a greener life.

POSTED // May 6,2009 - Garbage day would have seemed like magic to our pioneer ancestors: Drag your overflowing garbage bin a hundred or so feet from the house, and without having to give it another thought ...

Green Issue

City Weekly's first-annual guide to a greener life.

POSTED // May 6,2009 - Climate change, ozone depletion, carbon footprints: We’re living the stuff of science fiction these days. Time is running out and greenhouse gases are winning ...

The Green 25

Green Issue: ‘Ecopreneur’ Scott Cooney gives props to local green pioneers and innovators.

POSTED // May 6,2009 - As the co-founder and former publisher of a green business directory for the greater Salt Lake area, I am grateful that green has gained so much public interest in recent years...

Ride Harder

Green Issue: The thrills and spills of riding your bike to work—every day.

POSTED // May 6,2009 - I still mentally hesitate when I wake up and see a thick torrential downpour. Then I focus and resume plans for a commute to work. Time to disregard human weakness and any and all hesitation...

Gone Baby Gone

A Mexican grandmother fights Utah’s impossible bureaucracy for custody of her nieta.

POSTED // Apr 29,2009 - Medina Garcia was brushing her teeth in a North Salt Lake apartment at 10:45 p.m. on July 18, 2007, when the lights went out. The front door crashed open and a Salt Lake City Police Department SWAT team stormed in.

Old Time Religion

Preacher France Davis’ 35 years here have given the city’s African- American community a reason to shout hallelujah.

POSTED // Apr 22,2009 - There are many ways to measure the three-and-a-half decades France Davis has spent as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Salt Lake City. At three services per week, he's delivered more than 5,000 sermons to his congregation ...

Utah's Soulful Secret: Calvary's Gospel Choir

POSTED // Apr 22,2009 - Calvary Baptist Church has experienced many changes during the 35-year tenure of Pastor France Davis. One of the most notable is the growth of its music program. When Davis took over in 1974, the music consisted of two peopleorganist Gladys Hesleph and her teenage son Brian.

Dream State

Two Bosnian youths displaced by ethnic strife find a life together in Utah.

POSTED // Apr 15,2009 - The gunshot was so close to 12-year-old Nermin Uvejzovic, he felt the sound like a slap against his cheek. He was running for his life through mountain forests near his village Godjenje in eastern Bosnia ...