Salt Lake’s top Mixologists will compete to make the BEST original cocktail based on seasonal ingredients.
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Salt Lake’s top Mixologists will compete to make the BEST original cocktail based on seasonal ingredients.
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Salt Lake’s top Mixologists will compete to make the BEST original cocktail based on seasonal ingredients.
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Salt Lake’s top Mixologists will compete to make the BEST original cocktail based on seasonal ingredients.
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Once again, Salt Lake’s top mixologists (aka: bartenders) will compete to make the best original cocktail based on seasonal ingredients.
You be the judge.
Stop by each bar, order the cocktail, drink and vote. (Click that and vote on your phone, on your computer, laptop, or any linking device.)
Then, on Sunday Oct. 9 come to our classy award party to toast the winner!
Sip, eat and dance the night away.
(For those who attended last year, we have addressed the food shortage and you will leave sated, we promise.)
6:30-9 p.m. Pierpont Place, 163 Pierpont Ave., SLC.
Get tickets at saltlakemagazine.com
$25 in advance
$35 at the door
$15 for designated drivers or non-drinkers
PARTICIPATING MIXOLOGISTS (a record-breaking number!):
Alamexo, Avenues Bistro, Avenues Proper Bodega & The Rest,
Finca, Grand America, Harbor,
Kimis Chop & Oyster House, Trio, Manoli’s, Martine Cafe, Pallet, Pierpont Place, Provisions, Red Rock Brewing, Ruin, Solitude, Spencers, Squatters, Stoneground, Takashi, Tin Angel Café, Under Current and Zest.
One of Utah’s thorniest issues is public lands. The Legislature and governor are aggressively moving to take over federal lands. A more immediate threat to their plans, of course, is the possibility that President Obama will designate the Bears Ears area as a federal wilderness.
So Utah outdoor folks of all stripes might want to stop by the Outdoor Recreation Summit in Ogden tomorrow (Thursday). Every citizen is, after all, a “stakeholder” in our wildlands—not just the extraction, cattle and rec-equipment industries.
At the summit, Gov. Gary Herbert and the mayors of Moab and Ogden will speechify about the “potential of the outdoor recreation industry in Utah” and attendees will meet in discussion sessions. You really ought to be there, if only to remind Gary and Tom Adams, director of the state Outdoor Recreation Office, that Utah can’t have an outdoor-recreation industry without pristine outdoors.
For some reason, the summit is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., when most stakeholders—other than bureaucrats and politicians and full-time activists—can’t make it. (BTW, Gary will be available for media questions at 9:15 a.m.—isn’t that about the time you take your coffee break?)
If you can grab time away from work, here’s the schedule:
8:30 a.m. – 9:45 speechifying by mayors and Gary
Noon Julia Stamps Mallon, co-founder, REI Outessa, a women’s adventure program
The rest of the day is break-out discusussion sessions.
It’s at Ogden Eccles Conference Center
2415 Washington Blvd, Ogden
As we sat on blankets at Red Butte last night my friends and I compared notes on how many times we’d seen Wilco, the night’s headliner. It was the fifth time for me, not including the Jeff Tweedy acoustic show I’d seen at Kingsbury Hall a few years ago. But at least one member of our group recalled seeing the band at the now-defunct—but never forgotten—Zephyr club. This is typical of Wilco shows. Their fans form a dedicated group, and I count myself among its members.
And so, when the band took the stage, with Tweedy in a wrinkled chambray shirt, baggy jeans and his now trademark wide-brimmed white hat, there was reverence from the crowd.
Wilco is our coming-of-age story. We might be significantly older than we were the first time we heard “Passenger Side” but, you bet your ass we still sing along, because we remember a time when the five dollars in gas money mentioned in the song was enough to actually get somewhere.
And what we, the devoted masses, got at Red Butte last night was a delightful mix of old and new tunes and, as always, beautiful and versatile musicianship.
It’s easy when you know all the words to all the songs—as everyone did last night—to forget that Wilco is no greater than the sum of its parts. And it’s parts are the God-like Nels Cline on the guitar, Glenn Kotche on drums, John Stirratt on bass, Pat Sansone on guitar and Mikael Jorgensen on guitar. And while only Tweedy and Stirratt remain from the band’s original incarnation, this may well be the best the band has ever been.
But about those songs. Alt-country trailblazing Wilco showed up with songs from A.M. and Being There and experimental prog-rock Wilco showed up with tunes from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost is Born. And new Wilco showed up, too, with the live debut of “Someone to Lose” from their soon-to-be-released Wilco Schmilco album, and a few from last year’s Star Wars.
And they’ve still got it—from the sonic sounds in “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” to the wistful lilting tone of “Hummingbird,” these boys can still play. One thing that was lacking, to my dismay, was cranky Jeff Tweedy banter with the crowd. I’ve been at shows where his banter was akin to storytelling and I’ve been at shows where he’s (rightly) scolded audience members for being on their cell phones. But last night we got, “Hey Salt Lake City. We love it here.”
And, as was the case at last year’s Red Butte show, the real treat came with the band’s second encore—an acoustic set complete with a banjo and lots of old favorites, including “We’ve Been Had,” an Uncle Tupelo cover—just for those of us who have been with the band since before it existed, or you know, everyone in the crowd. Because that was all of us last night.
“Try to remember the days of September” takes on new meaning with the Salt Lake magazine Cocktail Contest!
During the month of September, you can be part of the biggest-ever cocktail contest in the galaxy (we’re still waiting confirmation from the Voyager space craft).
Salt Lake’s top mixologists (aka: bartenders) will compete to make the best original cocktail based on seasonal ingredients.
Here’s the challenge to the People of Earth (and hominids attending Comic Con):
Stop by each bar, order the cocktail, drink and vote, then stop, drop and roll (just kidding about the last three. But please, vote!)
Then, on Sunday Oct. 9 come to our classy award party to toast the winner!
6:30-9 p.m. Pierpont Place, 163 Pierpont Ave., SLC.
Get tickets at saltlakemagazine.com
$25 in advance
$35 at the door
$15 for designated drivers or non-drinkers
PARTICIPATING MIXOLOGISTS (a record-breaking number!):
Alamexo, Avenues Bistro, Avenues Proper Bodega & The Rest,
Finca, Grand America, Harbor,
Kimis Chop & Oyster House, Trio, Manoli’s, Martine Cafe, Pallet, Pierpont Place, Provisions, Red Rock Brewing, Ruin, Solitude, Spencers, Squatters, Stoneground, Takashi, Tin Angel Café, Under Current and Zest.
Mark September 16th as the perfect day to visit Alamexo for a day ripe with avocado-inspired dishes. Not only is it Mexican Independence Day, but also National Guacamole Day. Alamexo’s chef, Matthew Lake, named Food & Wine magazine’s Best New Chef in 1996, offers four tableside-made guacamoles for the occasion. Enjoy Alamexo’s house guacamole with chips and salsa or guacamole con fruitas (with mango, grapes and stone fruits), guacamole y chicharron con verde (with salsa verde and pork chicharrones) or guacamole y langosta (with over one pound of lobster). Here are Chef Lake’s four easy steps to perfect guacamole.
“I’m so excited to offer some new, creative guacamoles for the occasion,” said Lake. “Guacamole has been part of traditional Mexican cuisine since the time of the Aztecs.”
In addition to the nightly dinner menu, entrée specials and a specialty cocktail made for the occasion will be offered as well. General Manager Susan Bouldin concocted “Up in Smoke,” a cocktail that pairs together Mezcal, lime and hoja santa simple syrup with a chile molido rim. “Hoja santa is a dinner-plate sized herb often called the ‘root beer plant.’ With its pleasant herbal and flinty undertones of pepper and anise, it’s easy to like and it makes a fantastic pairing with Mezcal,” Bouldin said.
With a menu made with the finest organic, natural, and locally-sourced ingredients, Alamexo promises a guided tour through regional Mexican cuisine. Dine on classic offerings of tostadas, ceviche, tacos, tamales, quesadillas and ensalada in this approachable, yet refined dining experience.
Alamexo Mexican Kitchen is located at 268 So. State Street in downtown Salt Lake City. Visit their website at http://www.alamexo.com/Reservations for reservations.
-Brieanna Olds
IJS: Crunchy green beans, roasted corn, brown rice, chicken chunks, shredded carrots, chopped peanuts, super sauce (a combination of green curry sauce and chile lemongrass sauce) topped with sprig of fresh cilantro: three out of four food groups, including a green and yellow vegetable, for under $8.00: Zao Asian Cafe, Salt lake City, Lehi, Murray, Sandy, Ft. Union. 
