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Jan 28
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Sundance 2020: Miss Americana Red Carpet

By Film, Sundance

Taylor Swift is one of the most popular singer/songwriters around the globe. In the film Miss Americana, Swift finds herself at a crossroads, juggling her shining music career while trying to use her powerful voice for the greater good. Directed by the brilliant Lana Wilson, Miss Americana is a movie that captures the vulnerability of stardom.

Miss Americana premiered Thursday, January 23rd at Sundance. To check out our exclusive Red Carpet photo gallery, click on any of the photos below:

Director: Lana Wilson
Producers: Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers, Christine O’Malley
Editors: Paul Marchand, Greg O’Toole, Lee Rosch, Lindsay Utz, Jason Zeldes
Cinematographer: Emily Topper
Principal Cast: Taylor Swift

Company: Netflix

Photos by: Natalie Simpson of Beehive Photography

For more Sundance, click here. 

Jan 02
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From Mumbai Streets to Utah University

By Community

A few pockets of snow linger in shadowed corners of the Westminster College campus. Salman Sayyed, head covered in a borrowed ski cap, shivers. The 33-degree air is new to the Mumbai native, who has lived in Utah for less than three months.

“I have a heavy jacket in my bag,” he says, nodding to the full pack slung over his shoulder. The library is just a few hundred yards off, and gearing up simply for the short walk from the school cafeteria seems impractical.

But practicality is kind of Sayyed’s thing. It always has been. It was practical when he dropped out of school at eight to help his mother collect trash and resell recyclables to feed his family. It was practical to bundle up their belongings and family home—nothing more than a plastic tarp—and hide it among bushes to keep it from being stolen while they worked. And it was practical to dart between cars at one of Mumbai’s busiest intersections, hawking English-language bestsellers for just more than $3 a day.

Now, in Salt Lake City, Sayyed is farther away from home than he could have ever imagined, considering he first heard the word “Utah” less than two years ago. He came with lofty goals for his return. He wants to help change the system that has kept kids like himself in poverty. To that end, he started a $56,000 Master in Business Administration program at Westminster in August (the tuition alone would cover his parents’ monthly rent and bills for 52 years) and has plans to launch a non-profit focused on Mumbai street kids.

“In India, there are so many poor students who are passionate about studying, but cannot complete [school],” Sayyed says. “My goal is to start a tour company with students to create job opportunities as guides and to support their education.”

Sayyed’s story reminds Westerners of the hit movie, Slumdog Millionaire. But two women replace the role of the film’s game show. Caroline Nagar, whom Sayyed now considers a second mother, met 15-year-old Sayyed as he sold books at the crowded Haji Ali intersection and urged him to go back to school after a seven-year hiatus. Utahn Beth Colosimo helped him get to Salt Lake to earn his MBA.

Sayyed was born on the pavement near the family tent when Hindu-Muslim riots broke out across Mumbai and prevented his mother from getting to the hospital. He had no birth certificate or documented evidence he existed. He dropped out of school after second grade, teaching himself how to read English from the books he sold and the billboards lining the major thoroughfare. Several friends, also booksellers, were hit, some killed, by cars.

Nagar, then a teacher at the Akanksha Foundation, a nonprofit that educates children in urban India, had a hunch Sayyed would do well if he returned to school. She convinced him to give up bookselling. A year later Sayyed was a full-time student—in three years he’d moved through the equivalent of eight grades.

Sayyed had one year instead of the usual 10, to study for the tests necessary to move on to junior college, where he earned back-to-back accolades as Student of the Year. In 2017 he graduated from Kischunchand Chellaram College with a bachelor’s in humanities and arts; his final semester was at Houston Community College via the U.S. State Department’s EducationUSA program.

Back from Houston for two months, Sayyed met Colosimo, executive director of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, as he guided a group of Salt Lake Community College and Westminster students and staff visiting India in the summer of 2018. The two started chatting on the long bus ride from into Mumbai.

“He started unraveling this jaw-dropping story,” Colosimo recalls. “He was just super passionate about wanting to change the trajectory of his life, and that was the springboard to overcome so many obstacles without having any real family guidance.”

Sayyed shared his plans to go to graduate school in the United States, and Colosimo left India with a promise to keep in touch about school in Utah. “A lot of people come and say a lot of things,” Sayyed says. “So I was just like, ‘let’s see.’”

They did stay in touch, and Colosimo started planning to bring Sayyed to Utah. “I was sending him information about the University of Utah and Westminster and we just started ticking off all the things that needed to happen,” says Colosimo—all the basic college application requirements plus English language exams, student visas and financial documents. By May 2019, Westminster accepted Sayyed.

Colosimo signed on as Sayyed’s sponsor—she makes sure his tuition is covered, he lives in the Colosimo’s basement apartment and he’s quickly becoming a part of the family. He works the maximum 20 hours a week at two on-campus jobs and to offset expenses, Colosimo has set up “Salman Education Fund” fundraisers at Mountain America Credit Union and on Go Fund Me.

For Colosimo, the reason she committed to bringing a virtual stranger across an ocean and into her home has become increasingly obvious.

“He is not prideful about how he’s overcome circumstance, and he’s super happy to be giving back,” she says. “I think he’ll carry that forward in his career and the social impact he wants to see in his country. He wants to see kids get educated and he wants to help change the course of India. He can be a real role model.”

For more information about Salman, check out his Youtube channel here.

Jan 02
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Explore the Canadian Rockies from a Luxury Train

By Adventures, Outdoors, Travel

“Bear on the left!” a spotter calls out. The guests aboard the train scramble to the left, their eyes to the glass and cameras and cell phones in hand. Those down below on the landing between passenger cars stick their heads out, the wind whipping through their hair as they look for the elusive beast.

“There he is!”

It’s a black bear, sunning himself where the forest meets the railroad tracks, either unaware or uncaring of the 83-ton train passing him. We add him to our list: bighorn sheep, elk, eagles, osprey, and I’m certain I spotted a female moose meandering along the trees.

They’re all breathtaking sights for the passengers aboard the Rocky Mountaineer train, moving eastward 35 miles per hour along the Canadian Pacific Railway. The railways cut through mountain and cross over rivers on the train’s First Passage to the West route, a journey from bustling Vancouver to Kamloops, then finally Banff and Lake Louise.

You’ve probably seen the world by plane, by car. But what about a good old-fashioned iron horse?

All Aboard

Our adventure begins in the luxe Fairmont Vancouver, just steps away from the Vancouver Art Gallery and an easy walk to the waterfront. With an early train departure, we’re greeted at the Rocky Mountaineer station with coffee and a live pianist. As staff, dressed in navy blue vests and slacks, gently ushers us toward the train to board, a bagpiper sends us off into the wilderness.

The first floor is the dining room, where guests take turns indulging in cuisine that Chef Jean Pierre Guerin calls “elevated comfort food” for breakfast and lunch. Until your seating, have no fear: Servers load your tray with drinks, pastries and fruit.

But we’re not here for the food. We’re here for the views. On the Gold Leaf cars, riders have a 180-degree dome window overhead, where tree branches caress the glass like wayward curtains. The mountains crash into the clouds, sprinkled with trees and sugary snow. We pass logging towns, cross the Fraser River, spy strawberries, corn and blackberry bushes thriving in the meadows.

Standing in the open-air landing between cars, you can smell the earthy underforest, green leaves still drenched in morning dew, the thick wall of ponderosa pines. I can’t say how the sun and the wind have a smell, but from that landing, you could breathe it in.

The white heads of osprey and eagles dot the sky, decorating their treetop nests with orange fishing nets. You can spot the emerald flashes of ducks swimming. On the river, the beavers are the engineers, jamming up the waterways with their logs. We pass a bighorn sheep, nature’s Spider-Man, as it looks down at us while clinging precariously to the sides of jagged rock. Each time, spotters call out their discoveries. 

“It’s a fun job,” Train Manager Peter Masejo tells me. “Every trip is so different…even a week ago it wasn’t as green, and the river is lower.”

With our feet propped up, watching Canada pass, one of the last sights before we arrive in Kamloops is the eerie Tranquille Sanatorium. It was originally built in 1907 to treat patients with tuberculosis, then converted into an “insane asylum” in 1959. It’s no wonder that this secluded white building, paint peeling, is rumored to be haunted.

Kamloops

Our first overnight stop is the “cow town” of Kamloops. Three men on horseback greet the Rocky Mountaineer into the station, waving and tipping their cowboy hats.

Chef Guerin invites our group to join him for dinner in town. I ask him, “Is it hard to cook on a train, with the cars rocking back and forth without mercy?” Non. A former airline chef aboard first-class flights, he says you can do so much more on a train.

A guide tells guests about the mountain range before them

“You can’t sauté and flambé in the air,” he explains.

A glass of red wine in hand, Guerin tells us about the ranch he owns an hour outside of town. He’s seen Kamloops, where the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways meet, grow from a supply town into a city of 90,000 people. At this busy hub—the city’s name is derived from the Shuswap First Nation word for “meeting of the waters”—people are on their way east to Banff or Jasper, or to the big city of Vancouver.

As indicated by the restaurants, there’s a large Japanese population in town, their ancestors were forcibly moved from Vancouver into internment camps nearby during World War II (not unlike what was happening across the border).

The next day is another trip on the rails. A few hours into the leg, we pass a source of pride for the railroad: Craigellachie, the memorial where the last spike was driven into the tracks, much like Utah’s famed Golden Spike. Take a second to look down, and there’s a story behind the scenery: the sweat, blood and dynamite that built the Canadian Pacific Railway.

After Canada became independent in 1867, the nation’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, was determined to not let the western territories join the United States. He hatched a plan to connect the land from coast to coast, a huge feat requiring that his men survey millions of acres of Canadian wilderness.

Once a pass was found in 1881, the next four and a half years were a race to the Pacific. Railway workers battled blizzards, raging rivers, cliffs, rockslides, mishandled dynamite, hunger and disease. More than 10,000 Chinese men were brought in from California, earning less than half what their white colleagues were making.

In 1885, the Last Spike was smashed into the railroad, completing Canada’s first transcontinental railroad—six years ahead of schedule.

Banff & Lake Louise

On the second night of the trip, we arrive in the burgeoning tourist hub of Banff, a snowy playground where visitors ski, hike and escape to the hot springs. Here, the lakes are frozen over and the mountains are truly snow-capped.

A view of the Cascade Mountain over Banff

After checking into the hotel, I wander the mountainside town and pop into local shops—I buy a wedge of bourbon chocolate at Mountain Chocolate, organic soaps and lotions at Rocky Mountain Soap Company, and a wooden bear ornament at The Spirit of Christmas. For dinner, we dine at Grizzly House, a wacky fondue restaurant serving up shark, alligator, rattlesnake, buffalo, venison and more. We follow dinner with a tour of Park Distillery and a tasting of its vodka and gin—be sure to try the spirits infused with espresso and vanilla.

But a trip to Banff without stopping at Lake Louise is a travesty. En route to the lake we make a stop on the side of the road to take in the grandeur of the Castle Mountains, named for their flat-topped peaks. While taking photos, a long, rumbling freight train goes by. I see trains differently now.

To access Lake Louise, we stop at the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, an elegant hotel with floor-to-ceiling picture windows framing a postcard view of the lake set against the mountains. I learn it’s named for Princess Louise, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, and I also learn it’s not an exaggeration to call the waters Tiffany blue. After taking a romp around the lake, grab a drink or lunch at the hotel’s picturesque Fairview restaurant or Lakeview Lounge.

Alas, my journey across the Canadian Rockies had to come to an end. Getting up before the sun rose, I took an airport van to Calgary, where I flew back to the United States and sunny South Florida.

An Elk spots tourists rafting on the Athabasca River in Jasper

After spending days on a locomotive, being rocked back and forth as I took in the sights and smells of the wild, I said goodbye to the mighty mountains. 

Nov 13
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13 Restaurants Serving Thanksgiving Meals

By Eat & Drink

Turkey-time is just around the corner, which means buying, preparing, and serving the food, plus clean up. This year, instead of taking all that time away from family to prepare the meal, try out one of these 13 locations across Utah that will serve Thanksgiving favorites without the hassle. More time with family = more memories of Thanksgiving 2019. Did we mention no family-sized mess to clean up afterward? That’s a win-win in our book.

Read our updated list for 2021.

For 2019, we’ve aggregated a blend of turkey dinners, as well as places steering clear from tradition.

Salt Lake City

1. Oasis

Oasis will once again open for Thanksgiving Brunch on Thursday, Nov. 28 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Mirroring the creative daily menu filled with local organic vegetables, sustainably ranched meats and freshest seafood, brunch at Oasis Café’s brunch menu is a favorite with locals. It’s loaded with traditional breakfast dishes, soups, salads and sandwiches. Guest favorites include the German buttermilk pancake with blueberry compote or the eggs Benedict Florentine, Chef Efren’s breakfast burrito; the toasted Brie sandwich or a traditional Reuben sandwich.

“Once the turkey is in the oven, families can pop over for a leisurely brunch before returning to their kitchens,” said Will Keesen, general manager. “Honestly, this is really self-serving – I just need a place to eat that morning,” he laughs.

Reservations recommended: 151 S. 500 East, SLC, 801-322-0404, www.oasiscafeslc.com

2. Cafe Niche

Cafe Niche on 300 South will be hosting a special Thanksgiving Day dinner buffet featuring Executive Chef Andy Morrison’s creative take on traditional holiday fare. The celebration goes on from 12 p.m. – 7 p.m. and costs $45 per person and $25 for children ages 12 and under, not including tax or gratuity. General Manager/Partner Caprice Ossana has specially selected wines that perfectly complement the menu.

“While we offer a Thanksgiving carving station with roast turkey and prime rib, we have a lot of really fun options too, from funeral potato casserole to sweet potato and jalapeño soup to a delicious kale Caesar,” said Andy Morrison, executive chef. “We are excited to welcome our guests back to celebrate the bounty.”

Reservations recommended: 801-433-3380, www.caffeniche.com.

3. Bambara

Bambara will offer a classic Thanksgiving Buffet 11:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. including a carving station with turkey, whole New York strip, oysters, shrimp, salads and soup. An array of desserts and pastries will also be offered. Reservations are $63 for adults, $55 for seniors, Kids (5-12) are $25 and kids (4 and under) are free.

“Thanksgiving is such a warm, wonderful holiday for people to come together, but it can be so stressful to host, too. Leave the kitchen and preparation and the dishes behind, and bring your friends and family, and join us for a really special dinner this holiday,” said Nathan Powers, executive chef of Bambara.

Visit bambara-slc.com for more information.

4. Hub & Spoke Diner

If you’re planning on prepping a home-cooked holiday dinner, consider getting brunch with the family before the big meal. It gets everyone out in the world for a bit before falling into a post-feast turkey-coma.

Stop in with the family for Thanksgiving Day breakfast or brunch before the big meal. Make Hub & Spoke Diner your main event for an easy and casual Thanksgiving this year.  Serving a selection of their menu favorites plus specials. Thursday, Nov. 28th from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Reservations recommended: 801-487-0698, or visit www.hubandspokediner.com

5. Tuscany

Tuscany is another option for fine dining in Salt Lake City. They’ll be offering a special holiday menu. The holiday menu includes traditional flavors such as turkey, sweet potatoes, and gravy. Don’t forget about classic Thanksgiving dessert, Tuscany is offering a wide variety of homemade pies. 

Pricing is $50 for adults, $27 for children ages 12 and under. Serving between 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Reservations recommended: 801-277-9919, or visit tuscanyslc.com 

6. Log Haven

For the vegetarians out there, Log Haven is for you. This was one location that advertised a vegetarian option, while also offering traditional and nontraditional plates. Another location for the blended-palate families out there.

Includes soup or salad, choice of turkey, salmon, steak or vegetarian entree and dessert. Adults will be priced at  $58.95, with children 3-12 being $31.95. (Again, 3 and under eat free!) Serving a four-course lunch from 1 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Reservations recommended:  801-272-8255 or visit www.log-haven.com

7. Spencer’s for Steaks and Chops

Spencer’s is another great option for throwing in the Thanksgiving towel this year. They have everything you could possibly want for dinner and more. Spencer’s for Steaks and Chops will take all of the pressure off you with their mouth watering menu which consists of garlic mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, homemade sausage and sage stuffing, green beans, maple sweet potato puree and cranberry sauce. For dessert there will be the option of pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and apple pie á la mode.

Adults will be priced at $52.00 and children at $22.00.

Reservations recommended: 801-238-4748

Ogden

8. Hearth on 25th

Don’t want to cook Thanksgiving dinner, but also don’t want to go out to eat? Hearth on 25th has you covered. For $126 they are offering a Thanksgiving Turkey Feast ‘To-Go’. The Turkey feast (which serves 6) consists of slow-cooked and wood oven-roasted turkey breasts, legs and thighs, pan gravy from the overnight turkey drippings, Italian sausage and focaccia stuffing made with turkey stock, whipped Yukon Gold Potatoes, light and fluffy, ready for some gravy, wood, oven-roasted vegetables with applewood smoked bacon, cranberry, ginger and orange chutney, soft dinner rolls perfect for dinner or leftovers and roasted sweet potatoes with a maple reduction and candied pecans. All food is made from scratch using locally sourced ingredients.

In addition to the main feast, Hearth on 25th is offering desserts that will allow you to tailor this Thanksgiving to your personal needs.

Call 801-399-0088 and place your orders by Saturday, Nov. 23rd. Pick-up times will be scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 27th

Park City

9. The Brass Tag at Deer Valley Resort

Perhaps you are more of an apple pie person? The Brass Tag’s two dessert choices offer that traditional taste, as well as a pumpkin cheesecake for the pumpkin people. Here, you get options while the price remains the same. It looks The Brass Tag is the place for your turkey day this year.

The award-winning brick-oven restaurant is serving a three-course prix fixe sure to please: Enjoy a choice of roasted butternut squash soup or baby greens and arugula salad, followed a choice of by maple glazed brick oven roasted turkey or oven roasted prime rib. Dessert is pumpkin cheesecake or classic apple pie. Prix Fixe, $49/$20 for children 12 and under.

Visit www.deervalley.com for more information.

10. Butcher’s Chop House

Butcher’s Chop House is another place offering their full menu (we hear the people who aren’t fans of traditional thanksgiving fare!) while also offering a turkey dinner. Bring your traditional and non-traditional friends here for a memorable T-day meal.

Fill up your plate with this two-course “Full Platter” prix fixe. Dig into turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, garlic green beans and candied yams, followed by a choice of pumpkin or pecan pie for dessert. Something to note: the restaurant will not be offering its fall 2-for-1 special Thanksgiving Day. The “Full Platter” will be prix fixe, $35 for adults, $18 for children.

Visit www.butcherschophouse.com for more information.

11. Grand Summit Hotel

There’s something for everyone – and it’s all delicious – at the Grand Summit Hotel’s Thanksgiving Buffet at the Canyons Village. From classics like brown sugar and molasses brined turkey, High West whiskey and maple glazed ham, herb and garlic “emberred” prime rib, and cedar plank roasted king salmon, to no shortage of starters, soups, salads, pastas and all your favorite Thanksgiving sides, plus desserts, you and your loved ones are sure to have a meal to remember.

Pricing is $74 for adults, $63 for seniors, $39 for kids ages 6 to 14, children under 5 eat free.

12. The Eating Establishment

The Eating Establishment is offering a three course dinner that includes a mixed green or wedge salad with choice of dressing, slow roasted turkey with homemade stuffing, green beans, classic cranberry sauce, savory mashed potatoes and squash with brown sugar. Dessert includes a choice of beer bar bread pudding or Patricia’s famous pumpkin cheesecake.

Perhaps for the late diners out there, you could take a stroll by for a meal before the big meal. As they say, if delicious comfort food is your thing, the Eating Establishment will be open Thanksgiving Day serving its longtime locals-favorite menu.

Reservations recommended: 435-649-8284 or visit www.theeatingestablishment.net

Southern Utah

13. Ruby’s Inn – The Canyon Diner

While enjoying a large Thanksgiving meal with friends and family is typically the highlight of the weekend; Ruby’s Inn allows guests to enjoy it without hassle. Ruby’s Thanksgiving Day feast includes the buffet as well as menu items for those who prefer a good ribeye steak. This year in addition to assorted homemade pies, Ruby’s is also offering a special Dutch Apple Pie Cheesecake. Ruby’s Inn will be open from 11 a.m. – 9 p.m., and the prices will be $23 for adults, $13 for children, and $7 for small children. 

 “This could be the Thanksgiving where people can actually go home and relax for the rest of the weekend before heading back to work on Monday,” said Lance Syrett, general manager of Ruby’s Inn and a mashed potato aficionado.

Visit www.rubysinn.com/thanksgiving-buffet for Turkey day details.

Oct 31
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#Loveutah: Peace House

By Community

Leaders of Peace House, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending domestic abuse and family violence hosted a public ribbon cutting at their new Community Campus.

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Hannah Vaughn, Reihaneh Noori, Soon Ju Kwon

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Doug Clyde, Melissa Caffey

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Representative Tim Quinn, Representative Angela Romero, Lieutenant Governor Spencer Cox, Retired Senator Kevin Van Tassell

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Sharon and Bob Mardula

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Representative Tim Quinn, Jim Smith, Kendra Wyckoff, Tami Whisker, Morgan Busch, Lori Weston,
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Diego Zegarra, Lori Weston

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Jane Patten

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Sharon Mardula, Doug Clyde

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John Davis, Lonnie Smith, Mary Gootjes, Tim Savage, Sally Tauber, Nathan Rafferty, Roger Armstrong, Chelsea Benetz, Jane Patten

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Kendra Wyckoff, Karen Marriott

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Liza Springmeyer, Patti Wells

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Jeff and Sue Proctor, Jane Patten

September 21, 2019, Park City, Photos by Kyle Jenkins

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Oct 31
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5 Holiday Ways to Rock The Little Black Dress

By Lifestyle

The LBD has always been your best friend. The Little Black Dress is such a staple in a woman’s wardrobe it’s almost become a cliche. Except that’s the whole point: It can’t. The right LBD is so versatile it can take you anywhere from the office to the dance floor. Dress it up, dress it down, pair it with your diamond-soled shoes or your biker boots, your grandma’s necklace or your glitziest costume statement. The Little Black Dress can handle it all. Just to be sure, we test-drove the concept.

Situation No. 1 – You’re going to a Holiday party at Hotel Monaco.

You’re going to meet your date in the chic lobby of the boutique hotel and you want to make a first impression that lasts all night. Start with the LBD.

Little Black Dress

Kenzo Faux Fur Coat, Bastille ($995); Valentino Clutch, Nordstrom ($2145); Pomellato 18K Rose Gold Earrings ($3,960) and Bracelet, O.C. Tanner Jewelers ($13,200); Fred Leighton White Topaz Necklace, O.C. Tanner Jewelers ($8,800); Picchiotti 4.54 Carat Expandable Diamond Ring, O.C. Tanner Jewelers ($12,800); Sheer Tights, Target ($10); Sam Edelman Silver Pumps, Nordstrom ($99)

Situation No. 2 – You’re meeting an old friend for dinner at HSL.

You’re going straight from work but you don’t want to look like a West Wing extra—this is not a buttoned-up occasion. And you’re not that kind of girl, anyway. A chunky boot and a belted glen plaid jacket, over the LBD.

Little Black Dress

Olivaceous Blazer, Katie Waltman ($60); Bravo Leather Belt, Habit ($110); Chanel Navy Handbag, The Lady Bag ($2295); BC Footwear Shoes, Flight ($80); Natalie Wynn Earrings, Natalie Wynn Design ($68); Katie Waltman Choker, Katie Waltman ($98); Picchiotti 4.54 Carat Expandable Diamond Ring, O.C. Tanner Jewelers ($12,800)

Situation No. 3 – You are shopping for some high-end bling at O.C. Tanner jewelers.

The boots are made for shopping and layers keep you feeling warm and looking chill as you peruse the sparklies you’re going to buy and wish you could. The LBD takes you through the store and out to lunch.

Little Black Dress

By Together Shearling Coat, Habit ($138); Chanel Vintage Velvet Handbag, The Lady Bag ($2795); Dries Van Noten Sweater, Nordstrom ($970); Sam Edelman Boots, Nordstrom ($200); Pomellato 18K Rose Gold Concentric Circle Earrings ($3,540), Collar Necklace with Diamonds ($5,800), Nudo Ring Stack; Pavé Diamond ($5,700) Citrine ($2,350) Lemon Quartz ($1,750) O.C. Tanner Jewelers

Situation No. 4 – This is Theater season, you’re taking in a show at the Eccles.

No one dresses up to be part of an audience anymore, even on opening night at the opera. But showtime is a special occasion and it’s no fun to make it drab. Slip on some sexy stockings and your highest heels (remember, you’ll be sitting) and you’re the subtle star in the middle of the orchestra section. To get you there from here: a cashmere coat over your LBD.

Little Black Dress

JUST Female Camel Coat, Mary Jane’s ($335); Gucci Vintage Handbag, The Lady Bag ($2495); Jeffrey Campbell Satin Pump, Nordstrom ($120); Polka Dot Sheer Tights, Target ($10); Ole Lynngaard Copenhagen 18K White Gold Leaf Pendant with Pavé Diamond, Grey & White Moonstone Charm Necklace ($5,000), Rutile Quartz Pendant with Pavé Diamond Charm Necklace ($7,950), Leather Bracelet with Moonstone Charm ($1,715) Roberto Coin 18K Yellow Gold Ring with Diamonds ($2,400) O.C. Tanner Jewelers

Situation No. 5 – Solo Cocktail at Post Office Place (it’s totally cool)

The hat says it all—it takes certainty for a woman to don a man’s hat. Just a slight angle to the brim and you’re totally cool in your snakeskin boots and moto jacket over your LBD.

Little Black Dress

BlankNYC Faux Leather Jacket, Flight ($138); Lack of Color Fedora, Habit ($99); Saint Laurent Pyramid Minaudière, Nordstrom ($1450); Paige Snakeskin Boots, Nordstrom ($350); John Hardy Sterling Silver Spear Cuff ($1,295), Lahar Cuff with Grey Diamonds ($2,695), Twisted Chain Bracelet with Pavé Diamonds ($1,795) Classic Chain Coil Ring with Black Sapphires ($895), Asli Classic Chain Ring ($495) O.C. Tanner Jewelers

  • Art Direction: Jeanine Miller
  • Photography: Adam Finkle
  • Styling by Farasha: Vanessa Di Palma Wright
  • Assistant Stylists: Kyler Thompson & Harly Richards
  • Hair and Makeup: Tricia Snow
  • Model: Cardin McKinney, NIYA Models

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Oct 31
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Lost Lake City?

By City Watch

On any given Saturday, you can walk into Ken Sanders Rare Bookstore and find its owner, bibliophile and polymath Ken Sanders, holding court. Sanders, as much as his shop, is a source of information, referring to random bits of Utah history and counterculture lore. 

This is Salt Lake’s Living Room. And we’re about to say good-bye to it. The bulldozers are stirring.

Like so many memorable, even iconic, places in Salt Lake City Ken Sanders Rare Books and the block anchored by the Green Ant furniture store will be razed by a developer, in this case, Ivory Homes. In its place? Yet another “multi-use” mid-rise building.

“There is tremendous pressure for businesses downtown to produce more dollars per square foot,” says Downtown Alliance Director Dee Brewer. “Residential rates, office rates—they’re all skyrocketing and small businesses are moved out of the way.”

In this year’s 2019 State of Downtown event, Jerry and Kestrel Liedtke, owners of The Tin Angel, were presented with a Downtown Achievement Award for their bold move in 2007 to open their restaurant in the blighted area across from Pioneer Park. They created a second location in the Eccles Theater last summer. But in September, disputes with a landlord who, according to Kestrel, has plans to develop the property, led to the Liedtke’s leaving the original award-garnering site.

Is Salt Lake City ‘Great?’

In 2016, urban planner Alex Garvin wrote a book titled What Makes a Great City; in it, he lists the essentials—and Salt Lake City fails to measure up to most of them.

According to Garvin, a great city should be open to anyone. Yet Salt Lake City’s core has always been Temple Square, a “public space” that’s walled all around, centered by a building whose doors are closed to most and with strict rules about what you can wear and how you’re supposed to behave. Temple Square includes a chunk of what used to be a public Main Street, excising what was a vital block in downtown from the rest.

In 2003, a new Salt Lake City Library was opened and in a sense, the building has become the secular center of the city, where many of the city’s multi-cultural celebrations and discussions take place. And between those two anchors, the rest of the city, the business district, is where money and culture are clashing.

“There is a tension between these three parts of downtown,” says Brewer.

Developers, he says, haven’t demonstrated understanding of how essential character is to a city. The old, the unique, the quirky actually add value to property, attracts leaseholders and population.

Lost Among Giants

Amid the two countervailing poles of Temple Square and The Library, tucked into the crevices between the banks and big businesses, the little places that grew up as stubborn, cheeky and rebellious counterpoints to a homogeneous culture, are struggling to stay afloat. But although new buildings are required to have a streetside presence, it’s hard for a municipality, to always affect what developers do with their property, Brewer says.

“It has to be the ethos of the property owners. They have to see the net potential, that if they preserve interest and charm it will be an economic win for them.”

Sanders is less-than sanguine about it all. A lover of old things, and a keeper of weird Utah lore, Sanders, built his second-hand and rare book shop out of the remains of Cosmic Aeroplane, a head shop that was more than just bongs. It was a counter-cultural gathering space. Now after 23 years at his own shop, he feels fortunate to have had such a long run but still a sense of inequality rankles.

“We gave Amazon a $5.6 million tax break to build a warehouse,” Sanders says. “Gov. Herbert, where’s my $5,600 dollars?”

True, Sanders’ fiscal contribution to the local economy is minimal but his cranky place on 300 East and 300 South is an anchor for local authors, poets, and musicians. He works to shine a spotlight on literary figures from Utah’s past like Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey and Everett Ruess and he works to find and uncover a different story of Utah than we hear on Pioneer Day.

Isn’t that worth something?

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Field Guide: Gear for the Modern Mountain Family

By Adventures, Outdoors

Mountain Family

The foothills and canyons of the Central Wasatch Range are interwined with life here. We take a quick run on the Bonneville Shoreline after work. We wake up early on Saturdays to bag a peak in the Cottonwoods or to take fido up to Dog Lake in Millcreek. And as much as mountain life is part of what it means to be a Utahn, so is obsessing about gear. We outfitted Zack Petersen, Ashleigh Soedel and young Ethan Miller and pup Tugg with the basic kit. 

Mountain Family

Photo by Adam Finkle / Salt Lake Magazine

Mountain Mama

Over The Top

Obsessive gear, need it or not, for the gear-obsessed.

Mountain Family

CAMP BARISTA The Wanderlust Camp Kit ($95) Pink Elephant Coffee Roasters, Park City

Mountain Family

GREEN POWER Goal Zero Nomad 7 Plus Solar Panel ($100) goal zero.com

Mountain Family

SMOKELESS FIRE (REALLY) Solo Stove Bonfire Fire Pit ($300) rei.com

Mountain Family

CAMP DJ Skull Candy Barricade Wireless Speaker ($80) skull candy.com

Hallie hat ($62) Gigi Pip, SLC; Nano Puff vest ($149) Patagonia Outlet, SLC; Tour De Earth shirt ($99) Title Nine, SLC; Clamber skort ($74) Title Nine, SLC; Trail running sneaker ($70) New Balance Union Park, Midvale.

Mountain Dad

Pacaya insulated jacket ($200) Cotopaxi, SLC; Monanock shirt ($65) Scheels, Sandy; Renegade pant ($89) Scheels, Sandy; Trail walking shoe ($155) New Balance Union Park, Midvale.

Mountain Kid

Light and variable hoody ($59) Patagonia Outlet, SLC; Better sweater ($79) Patagonia Outlet, SLC; Youth pants ($40) Scheels, Sandy; Kids trail running Shoes ($75) Scheels, Sandy.

Mountain Dog

PledgeAllegiance dog leash ($25) & dog collar ($20) Wolfgang Man & Beast, SLC.
All-in-one cast iron grill ($128) Barebones Living, SLC; Forest Lantern ($60) Barebones Living, SLC; Tarak Del Día backpack ($100) Cotopaxi, SLC; Arbor classic pack ($99) Patagonia Outlet, SLC; Maxfield 4 tent ($500) Klymit, klymit.com; KSB Double ($350) & KSB 35 ($170) sleeping bags Klymit, klymit.com; Moon Dog Bed– Large ($100) Klymit, klymit.com.

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