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Hundreds of youth hockey players gathered at the Signature Aviation Airport in Salt Lake City to welcome players and Utah’s new NHL team to town, April 24, 2024
Sean Higgins
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KUER
It’s official: Utah is getting a professional ice hockey team. But is this a hockey place?
There’s a treasure trove of hard-to-find literature housed in the last place you’d expect. Interested in seeing a 16th century edition of Shakespeare’s plays? Look no further than Moon’s Rare Books—at a strip mall in Provo, Utah.
  • Last weekend, Gov. Spencer Cox was booed at the 2024 Republican Nominating Convention. This was nothing new. Yet, somehow this time, it felt different — more contentious.
  • Even if you aren’t afflicted by it, you probably know about obsessive compulsive disorder. But even if you have it, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of scrupulosity.
  • For the acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, there are no hard lines between life, art and the natural world.
  • In 1888, the daily Salt Lake Herald-Republican reprinted a story from a Canadian paper. The headline? That a family of whales was flourishing in the Great Salt Lake.
  • If you live in the Salt Lake Valley, you know a thing or two about air pollution. There are days when you can see it. But if you live on the west side it’s even worse.
  • If you got a poet, a neuroscientist and a theoretical physicist together to talk about beauty, what would they possibly have to say to each other?
  • Hotshots are the hardened individuals who fight wildfires. Gabriel Mann’s new film gets viewers as close to the fire line as you can be without becoming a hotshot yourself.
  • The oceanographer Helen Czerski wants you to think of the ocean as a vast, planet-spanning engine. And what it drives is no less than life itself.
  • Ahead of the Salt Lake Film Society’s screening of the 1992 Clint Eastwood classic “Unforgiven,” we sit down to talk about this great Western.
  • A recent post on the LDS Church’s official Instagram page has racked up thousands of comments, many from women who see a vast gulf between how empowered the church says they are, and how empowered they actually feel.
Last weekend, Gov. Spencer Cox was booed at the 2024 Republican Nominating Convention. This was nothing new. Yet, somehow this time, it felt different — more contentious.
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