Can Utah bounce back from its latest public lands debacle?
by Dylan Woolf Harris and John Dougherty
Rejoice, our annual A-Z Cocktail Guide is here!
by Darby Doyle
Small Northern Utah zoo sets sights on survival.
by Thomas Sorenson
17 years into its run as a public park, Gilgal Garden is starting to show its age.
Observers will notice a crack marring the main structure, running through the sphinx's mouth and continuing across his cheek like a vile knife gash. Another chunk of stone has been crumbling from his shirt collar.
By Dylan Woolf Harris
July 5, 2017
In the fight over the future of the downtown homeless, the Pioneer Park Coalition looms large.
On a Friday morning in early June in front of Salt Lake City's downtown homeless shelter, a tractor lowers its gaping bucket-jaw and scoops up a small mountain of soiled clothing piled in the gutter.
By Stephen Dark
June 28, 2017
Meet the energetic Jazz employee who refuses to hang up his headset in the offseason.
David Locke doesn't sit still very well.
By Dylan Woolf Harris
June 21, 2017
So. Many. Shows. Here are City Weekly’s top picks you gotta see.
Stock up on earplugs and bust out the Keens; music festival season is here, baby!
By Randy Harward
June 14, 2017
A Maori Mormon wants the church held accountable for erasing his New Zealand heritage.
Ra Puriri packed his suitcase and flew 9,000 miles from the coastal community of Raglan, New Zealand, to Salt Lake City—all to perform an act of dissent.
By Stephen Dark
June 7, 2017
Why a former left-leaning ex-oil exec. wants you and all your friends to join the Republican party.
As a long line queues up to get inside West High School on an early Friday evening, people shift their weight from one leg to the next.
By Dylan Woolf Harris
May 10, 2017
New technology allows scientists to see the forces behind the flames.
Aircraft N2UW has flown through all kinds of weather.
By Douglas Fox
May 3, 2017
My life as a former drug dealer, new father and future inspiration.
Gabriel Estrada Zamora was released from jail on Feb. 7, 2015, after serving five months for drug possession and paraphernalia charges.
By Stephen Dark
April 26, 2017
How Donald Trump has increased interest in the lives and tactics of longtime tax resisters.
Rod Nippert grew up on a farm with 40,000 turkeys in the Appalachian Mountains in southeastern Ohio. He wanted to escape the life of a farm boy as quickly as he could.
By Mary Finn
April 12, 2017
Long burdened by ill health and poverty, a westside community strives to turn the page.
Once a week, C.J. Withers—owner of We Witches 3, a spiritual supply store on Main Street in downtown Magna—casts a spell for prosperity.
By Stephen Dark
April 5, 2017
As media interest fizzles, the battle at Standing Rock continues.
>Militarized police destroyed the encampments in North Dakota late last month, but judging by the momentum that lingers, the movement born at Standing Rock is just getting started. The peaceful fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is still playing out in court, and campaigns against similar pipelines are growing in Washington state, Iowa, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Texas, South Dakota, North Dakota, Louisiana, Georgia and Florida.
By Max Mogren
March 29, 2017
How an elderly, dementia-stricken man ended up owing Salt Lake County $36,063.
Knowing her father as nothing if not a law-abiding, careful man, Tiffany Janzen was nonplussed to learn last May that investigators were snooping on family property. That month, the West Jordan resident phoned a Salt Lake County District Attorney agent, Lt. Alex Huggard, who had been tipped off to an illegal operation on a 24-acre parcel of land along 2100 South.
By Dylan Woolf Harris
March 22, 2017
Wherein we recognize the year's worst in government transparency.
A thick fog is rolling in over Sunshine Week (March 12-18), the annual event when government transparency advocates raise awareness about the importance of access to public records.
By Aaron Mackey, Dave Maass and Kate Tummarello
March 15, 2017
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