POSTED // Jun 4,2008 - Brandie Balken is a longtime local activist heading up this year’s Dyke March which starts at 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 7, at City Creek Park at the corner of State Street and North Temple. After a rally, participants will march down State Street...

POSTED // May 28,2008 - Local poet and Cabaret Voltage co-founder Chris Leibow will read at Ken Sanders Rare Books (268 S. 200 East, 521-3819) on Friday, May 30 at 7 p.m. He will be joined by fellow poet and longtime colleague Michael McLane. It is said you are a poet and...

POSTED // Mar 19,2008 - On Saturday, March 22, from 2 to 4 p.m., Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker will host a second open house of the Fisher Mansion (1206 W. 200 South), inviting city residents to express how they’d like the city to use the west-side Victorian property...

POSTED // Mar 12,2008 - Celtic harper, teacher and recording artist Cynthia Lynn Douglass performs with her group Celtic Harpistry on March 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Westminster College’s Vieve Gore Concert Hall (ExcellenceConcerts.org). Why were you drawn to the Celtic harp?...

POSTED // Mar 5,2008 - On Tuesday, March 25, at 7 p.m., Sam Weller’s and SLUG will launch the Hardboiled Book Club which meets monthly in the basement of Sam Weller’s at 254 S. Main. The first book to be discussed: Jess Walters’ The Zero. SLUG’s sales...

POSTED // Feb 27,2008 - Hogle Zoo’s Holly Braithwaite plans to celebrate Feb. 29, Leap Day, kissing a few frogs (YearOfTheFrog.org). Is it proven that frogs and other amphibians are going extinct? Don’t forget to include the caecilians too! The World Conservation...

POSTED // Feb 20,2008 - Holly Sizemore, executive director of No More Homeless Pets in Utah, reminds us that Tuesday, Feb. 26, is Spay Day USA.  What does Spay Day USA mean to Utahns? Hopefully it means that if someone owns an unfixed pet, they will take this opportunity...

POSTED // Feb 13,2008 - Rocket Boys/October Sky author and retired NASA engineer Homer Hickam (HomerHickam.com) will be in town to sign his latest romance/adventure novel Red Helmet on Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. at Kingsbury Hall (after the Jim Brickman Show) and on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m....

POSTED // Feb 1,2008 - Utah’s mountain resorts bring us chills and thrills every winter, but the chill they offer in the summer is the most welcome kind. Summer activities include...

POSTED // Jan 23,2008 - David Carr is a media columnist for The New York Times. He also writes the Carpetbagger blog (Carpetbagger.Blogs.NYTimes.com), reporting on all things Oscar. He is in town this week, covering all things Sundance. Why do New York Times readers care about...