POSTED // Aug 16,2012 - Acclaimed Utah author Shannon Hale blogs. A lot. And her blogs often aren't about her upcoming tour dates or how hard it was to write that day or what she's wearing.

POSTED // Aug 13,2012 - Shannon Hale always planned to write a sequel to her Newbery Honor-winning 2005 book Princess Academy. But the characters of another book were more insistent that their stories be told.

POSTED // Aug 8,2012 - Friends of Animals Utah recently expanded the Purple Paw Project, which provides shelter to the pets of victims entering domestic-violence shelters.

POSTED // Aug 1,2012 - Six months ago, Dede Fluette was named the executive director of Rocky Mountain Care, an organization that provides charitable health care for low-income citizens.

POSTED // Jul 25,2012 - John K. Williams will be on a panel at this week's Sunstone Symposium, discussing the topic “Who gets to say what former Mormons are like?” and presenting a paper on “Sins of Omission: Spinning the Missionary Experience.”

POSTED // Jul 18,2012 - Benny Raskin bartends at Keys on Main and writes about his experiences at BennyRaskin.com and via @BennyRaskin.

POSTED // Jul 10,2012 - Writer/comedian John Moyer, who wrote the screenplays of popular LDS films The Singles Ward and The R.M., recently produced Disjointed Custody, a four-minute dark comedy inspired by Utah’s mandatory divorce class for couples who have children.

POSTED // Jul 3,2012 - Kaveh Safavi works for Accenture, a global company that provides management, technology and outsourcing consultation and services.

POSTED // Jun 22,2012 - Seme Anoka, secretary of Salt Lake City’s Christ for Nations Church, has collected stories of Southern Sudanese refugees living in Salt Lake City.

POSTED // Jun 20,2012 - Elva Villarreal, who works at Utah’s only Hooters restaurant, in Midvale, is in Miami this week in preparation for the 16th-annual Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant (Saturday, June 23, 8 p.m., FX).