Photographer: John Barkiple
Paisley Rekdal: Mapping Literary Utah
Paisley Rekdal, creator of Mapping SLC and Utah’s current Poet Laureate, is in many ways a gatekeeper between literature and gripping relics of time. … read more
RJ Walker: Helping the Youth Find Their Voice
RJ Walker says that bringing slam poets to schools helps to actively engage kids’ interests—especially when introducing street-level poets, whom they can identify with. … read more
An Open Letter in a Flat Magazine to Flat-Earthers
Dear flat-earthers, I appreciate a good conspiracy. Rarely do I actually believe a conspiracy, but I do love hearing about alternative reasons to weird shit. … read more
Dumpster Dive: Salt Lake Cinema Trash Night Keeps It Classick
For one year straight, Grossl has commandeered the first Wednesday of the month for Cinema Trash Night, his big-screen love letter to films that are so terrible that they’re actually brilliant. … read more
Salt Lake Story Tours: I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost
Utah Ghost Tours provide bus tours and walking tours to some of the most haunted spots and graveyards in SLC and Ogden. I opted for the Whiskey Street tour. … read more
Jeff Carlisle: Crafting the Macabre
Local creature of the night and goth-scene veteran Jeff Carlisle is an expert when it comes to materializing the things that go “bump” in the night. … read more
Cultivating Resilience: Wasatch Community Garden’s GREEN TEAM Farm
The mission of the GREEN TEAM was threefold: to support permanent housing and work for homeless women, to provide produce to Head Start—a program to give quality food to local schools—and to cultivate a shared community space that would thrive in an oft ignored area of the city. … read more
trashpaca: CLC Vintage Vendor
A self-proclaimed trashy romantic, Abraham von Waffles describes his vintage finds this way: “My aesthetic is somewhere between Coraline, Miyazaki and Wes Anderson, with a heavy helping of Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite). … read more
Ellita: CLC Artisan
A self-taught illustrator, Mendoza brings their work to life with bold strokes and bright color. “The themes of my work are liberation and representation,” they say. “I want to make the art that I wish I had growing up.” … read more
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Ashikat Kitchen: CLC Craft Food
Middle Eastern pastries and desserts are of a different breed than the beloved sugar bombs that Western diners have come to enjoy—texture often takes precedent over sweetness. Hassan’s menu is based on bringing both worlds together to create something original. … read more