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Jenny Poplar
Jenny Poplar is both a dancer and a frequent City Weekly contributor.
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- News, November 24, 2021
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Code Red
Utah's medical community urgently requests blood donations.
- Over the summer, Utah's critical blood shortage made headlines on more than one occasion.
- News, Opinion September 15, 2021
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Break on Through
- As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, there's been a lot of talk about breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated individuals.
- News, Opinion July 7, 2021
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The Midnight Sun
- Every summer, a still from a vintage Twilight Zone episode called "The Midnight Sun" makes the rounds on my Facebook timeline.
- News, Opinion May 5, 2021
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Done With Guns
Salt Lake itself went on to make the list of cities with a mass shooting.
- Another April gone. Every year when "the cruelest month" rolls around, I find myself reflecting on a tragic event from more than two decades ago that shaped my teen years.
- News, Opinion March 17, 2021
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Blue Plate Blues
- Restaurant closures have become commonplace lately, especially during COVID, but it was a gut-punch to learn that Salt Lake City's iconic Blue Plate Diner will permanently close its doors in May.
- News, Opinion February 24, 2021
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Only the Lonely
- One of her first jobs was working as a nurse's aide at a rest home in rural Alabama where she remembers wiping brown streams of chewing tobacco-tinged drool from the faces of old women who were too weak or disoriented to clean their own faces.
- News, Cover Story February 10, 2021
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Who Ya Gonna Call?
How to make sure your next mental-health crisis doesn't become a death sentence.
- On Sept. 4, 2020, Utah became another not-so-shining example of American policing gone wrong.
- Culture, Entertainment Picks December 2, 2009
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Ballet West’s The Nutcracker
Dec. 4–31 @ Capitol Theater & Dec. 27-28 @ McKay Events Center
- I know, I know. It’s so easy to despise The Nutcracker...
- Culture, Entertainment Picks October 21, 2009
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Bow and Sparrow: NeverAfter
Oct. 22-24
- Many performance-art aficionados will eagerly tell you that aerial-dance companies such as San Francisco-based Bow and Sparrow are the wave of the future.
- Culture, Entertainment Picks April 8, 2009
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Salt Lake City Ballet’s Alice in Wonderland
April 10-11
- Are you looking to journey down an enchanted rabbit hole in Ogden this weekend? If you answered yes, you don't have to endanger your health and sanity by eating mystery mushrooms.
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