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A Conversation with Ballet West Music Director Jared Oaks

Jared Oaks speaks deliberately, with long pauses between sentences, as if he’s turning over each thought carefully in his mind before articulating it. But when in the pit, as conductor of the Ballet West Orchestra, Oaks makes countless rapid-fire decisions in service of what’s likely his biggest his role as the ballet company’s music director: […]

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21 Must-Try Downtown Salt Lake City Cocktails

“Let’s meet downtown for a drink” is the opening line in an endless number of stories about friendship, business ventures, and romantic partnerships. Tonight, downtown Salt Lake City bars are alive and buzzing with people beginning their next great story. Following are some of our favorite downtown sippers and the bars and restaurants serving them. […]

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Found in THE BLOCKS

There is no snooze button for downtown Salt Lake.  A steady and exciting stream of restaurants are on the cusp of opening their doors, keeping food folks busy through the fall. Scott Evans’ impressive culinary empire expands. The savvy restaurateur put the SLC resto scene on the map in 2010 when The New York Times […]

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Street Art Goes Inside at UMOCA

Part of the thought process that Jared Steffenson, curator of exhibitions at UMOCA, engaged in when developing the museum’s current ALL WALL exhibition was considering where and how many people experience art for the first time. “I grew up in the Bay Area where I spent a lot of time skateboarding in places with graffiti […]

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Salt Lake City’s “Secrets,” Revealed

Earlier this spring, while working on a story about a cool, new downtown development, I learned the backstory about a tidy little brick building with white Victorian trim located just east of State Street at 241 S. Floral St. The so-called Cramer House was built by Christopher Cramer, a Danish immigrant who arrived in Salt […]

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