Tighter liquor laws didn’t put a damper on Salt Lake City Weekly’s second annual Utah Beer Festival Saturday outside the City-County Building. City Weekly Publisher Jim Rizzi says nearly 1,500 more tickets were sold this year than last, leading it to eventually sell out. He says the success came as a nice surprise after changes had to be made due to new regulations passed by the Utah Legislature.
Growing costs have prompted the Salt Lake City Arts Council to seek text message donations to help pay for the annual Twilight Concert Series, which kicks off next week.
For professional football players, the summer months generally bring mini-camps and free-agent negotiations. However, with the National Football League involved in collective bargaining agreement negotiations with the players union, the league’s players have been locked out from participating in team activities. But that’s not stopping one player with ties to Salt Lake City from keeping busy this summer.
The discussion on cap and trade began long before Congress considered measures to reduce greenhouse gases. In fact, Fred Krupp, President of Environmental Defense Fund, helped get an emissions trading mechanism put into the Clean Air Act of 1990. Tomorrow night, Krupp will deliver the keynote lecture of the 2011 Nature of Things Lecture Series, presented by the Utah Museum of Natural History.
A new program that debuts tonight on KCPW is a fusion of high art, pop culture, politics, entertainment, and more. Q debuted in Canada in 2007, diving into provocative and compelling cultural trends. And starting this evening, you can hear it each weeknight at six on KCPW. We speak with the host of the program, Jian Gomeshi, a longtime musician himself.
Jeff Muhs, director of Utah State University’s Energy Dynamics Laboratory opened this year’s Nature of Things Lecture Series on February 16 at the Salt Lake City Library.
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