“Say that I starved;
that I was lost and weary:
That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun;
Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseased;
Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream!”
Everett Ruess – Wilderness Song
As a high school sophomore, Debora Threedy took her first acting class to overcome her fear of speaking […]

John-Paul Jespersen, 25, a Salt Lake City photographer whose work is gaining attention not just locally but also in the world’s community of artists and professionals, is among the winners of the second annual World in Focus: The Ultimate Travel Photography Contest sponsored by PDN magazine and the National Geographic Traveler.
His beautiful photo of a […]

The just completed fall version of Dine O’Round, sponsored by the Salt Lake Downtown Alliance, brought positive feedback across the board for the 33 restaurants which participated in the two-week promotional effort, according to Andrew Wallace, marketing and development director.
Among the most spectacular showings were Bambara, the first-rate restaurant at the downtown Hotel Monaco, which […]

Unless developers of the new City Creek Center downtown project reconsider design principles that already are being discredited in a growing number of American cities, the project will represent merely a city rebuilt ineffectually, not a thriving reborn central business district, according to a New York award-winning journalist and urban critic who spoke Sept. 28 […]

A handful of notes about Utah’s business scene …
Hotel Monaco in downtown Salt Lake City was named one of the world’s best business hotels in the annual Travel and Leisure magazine’s global survey. Among hotels in the United States and Canada, the Monaco notched a survey score of 87.00, the fourth highest and just behind […]

I was pleasantly surprised to see Utah’s special mention in David Owen’s excellent piece in the August 20 issue of The New Yorker concerning light pollution and the efforts of the International Dark-Sky Association to promote a greater understanding and appreciation of the nighttime sky. Owen described the spectacular nighttime view at Utah’s Natural Bridges […]