POSTED // Aug 29,2007 - When The Leonardo’s executive director Mary Tull went on vacation at the beginning of August, the museum’s PR consultant, Lisa Davis James, told Tull to pack her cell phone. She knew there was work still to be done. On Aug. 14, the Salt Lake...

POSTED // Jul 6,2007 - When Argentine band Vilma Palma kicks into “La Pachanga” this Friday at Club Karamba, expect a frenzied reception from the Latino crowd. nn“La Pachanga” was Vilma Palma’s first and greatest hit, launching them from obscurity...

POSTED // Jun 18,2007 - Mary Canzater and her son Chris Hutcherson sit in a corridor of the Huntsman Cancer Institute one Friday in mid-May, waiting for him to be called in for a CAT-scan.nn“It’s probably still the same,” Canzater says, rubbing her bare arm...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - It takes a special breed,” says Utah’s “Mr. Water,” LeRoy W. Hooton Jr., “to work in the sewers.” nnThe director of Salt Lake City’s Department of Public Utilities isn’t kidding. nnThe untold story of the...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - When composer Ricky Ian Gordon was asked nine years ago to create an opera based on John Steinbeck’s classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, his first thought was that if he accepted the challenge, “you’re setting yourself up to be killed.â€�nnBut...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The time to take up Argentine tango, said Wasatch Tango Club former president Mark Christensen, is when “your daughters are married off, and you’re sitting alone with your wife in the house.â€�nnThat perspective, argues local tango teacher...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - When Shanna Francis talks about the graffiti that’s recently scarred buildings in Eden, Utah, tears roll down her cheeks.nn“Radios blast so loud,” she says. “The sounds of the valley have so much value. It’s almost like it’s...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - “The Democratic Party is an easier venue to find listening ears,” Dr. Joseph Jarvis says. Indeed his position paper expounding his theories on universal health care can be found on the Utah Democratic Progressive Caucus’ Website. nn“Not...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Utah’s Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is not, and never has been, a practicing polygamist. But he knows quite a few of them. Like many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, polygamists rest in his ancestral closet. Among...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The Utah Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Christmas Gala, 2005. Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. is walking around in a circle. He has a svelte Miss Latino on his arm, a rather gaudy Mexican poncho slung over one shoulder, while before him a child walks strewing petals...