Local news enthusiast Shireen Ghorbani joins Ali to round-up the news you might have missed this week. Call or text the City Cast hotline anytime at (801) 203-0137. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Open Streets is officially Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this year! Ali asks Urban Affairs Director Jessica Thesing what it would take to make Main St. pedestrian-only forever. Later, we get takes from Main St. locals on the program. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Eva Lopez, LGBTQ liaison for the SLC Mayor’s Office, joins Ali to talk about the evolution of Salt Lake pride. Later, Ali mentions this reporting. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Meg Walter, editor-in-chief of The Beehive, breaks down Utah’s MomTok scandal. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ruff Haven is a local organization that takes care of people’s pets while they are experiencing crisis. This could mean housing insecurity, rehab or hospitalization, or seeking temporary refuge in a place where you can’t take them with you. The goal is to ensure that on the other side of crisis, people can be reunited with their dog, cat, or other support creature. City Cast is sponsoring a punk rock show to support this fine organization. Today, Ali connects with Dr. Rennie Putnam, one of Ruff ...
Lead Producer Nick Steffens and Producer Diane Maggipinto have been reporting on mass shootings in this country for a decade. When will it lead to action? Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s summer movie season! Ashley Cleveland, who heads up Salt Lake’s Outdoor Afro chapter, and Russell Roots, Community Outreach Manager at the Utah Film Center join Ali to talk about the Wild and Scenic Fest at Liberty Park, and anti-racism in outdoor spaces. Email Ali your debate questions at ali.vallarta@citycast.fm. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads atcitycast.fm/advertise. Learn m...
Ali donates blood. And it was easy! And it didn't hurt! Blood donations are down across our state, especially this time of year. Ali chats with Mike Findlay of ARUP Laboratories about the current blood shortage. Later, she connects with Ahmer Afroz, executive director of the Utah Aids Foundation, to discuss why gay and bi men still can't donate. City Cast Salt Lake is more than a podcast. We have a daily newsletter, too. Sign up for it here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...
The DABC (Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control) wrote a strategic plan! Fox 13 Reporter Ben Winslow joins Ali to break it down. Read Ben’s pipeline reporting here. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Local news enthusiast Shireen Ghorbani joins Ali to talk about this week’s various housing and development proposals. Later, Ali talks with Elizabeth Totterer who wrote this letter in the Salt Lake Tribune. Call or text the City Cast Salt Lake hotline any time at (801) 203-0137. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads atcitycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...
The lost history of the Saltair! Ian Christensen is writing a book about the lost history of the Saltair Bathing Palace, where Salt Lakers used to cool off in the summer. Now, we jump the fence at our friends’ gated pool. Later, Ali mentions this reporting. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads atcitycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This weekend is the Living Traditions Festival! Haviar Tuitama Hafoka, creative director of Malialole Cultural Ensemble, joins Ali to talk about the importance of storytelling through Polynesian song and dance. Find all Living Traditions Festival info here. Later, Ali mentions this Building Salt Lake reporting. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads atcitycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about...
Alex Veilleux, policy associate with the Healthy Environmental Alliance of Utah (HEAL) breaks down the roses and thorns of the Governor’s new ‘Energy Plan’ and what it forecasts for climate action in our state. Find HEAL Utah’s community advocacy circle here. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads atcitycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dr. Angela Dunn, the Executive Director of the Salt Lake County Health Department, answers questions about Covid-19 submitted by 6th grade students at Meadowlark Elementary. See the Utah Tech rebrand here. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads atcitycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ali is joined by Amie Schaeffer, a recent Salt Lake Community College grad, and Kurt McLaughlin, Judge Memorial High School’s salutatorian. Congratulations graduates! Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Call or text the City Cast Salt Lake hotline any time at (801) 203-0137. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If you scored tickets to the Kilby Block Party this weekend, congratulations. They sold like hot cakes! The Block Party won’t actually be at Kilby Court, but the iconic Salt Lake venue is where it all began. Let’s get nostalgic together. You, me, and KRCL’s own Eugenie Hero Jaffe. Apply for the Sweet Streets board here. And while you're at it, subscribe to our daily newsletter. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advert...
Why is ‘fry sauce’ our one true love? And who invented it? The Beehive Editor-In-Chief, Meg Walter, is on the case.Later, Ali mentions this court case. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads atcitycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Multi-stall, all-gender public restrooms are the future. Salt Lake Community College students have been protesting in an effort to get one on campus. And the University of Utah is about to unveil one. Law professor emeritus Terry Kogan is the co-founder of Stalled!, a design project to make going to the bathroom safer and more inclusive in public spaces. Later, Ali mentions this pet safety event. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check o...
Western states like Utah, Idaho and Arizona face looming abortion bans that might have their cities turning to Nevada, where abortion rights are far more protected — they've been codified in state law since 1990. Ali gathers with City Cast hosts from Boise and Las Vegas, Frankie Barnhill and Dayvid Figler, to discuss what this means across state lines, and for the upcoming elections. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our option...
Palak Jayswal, Culture Reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune, joins Ali to round out the week’s news. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Call or text the City Cast Salt Lake hotline any time at (801) 203-0137. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Last week Utah got news it will receive a half a billion dollars from the federal government to generate hydrogen in the west desert and pump it into underground salt caverns. To which we said…’what?’ Brian Maffly, Salt Lake Tribune environmental reporter, is here to explain why it’s exciting. Later, Ali mentions Restoring Ancestral Winds. Looking for more City Cast Salt Lake? Sign up for our daily newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast an...
Ali visits with one of Utah’s few abortion providers, obstetrician/gynecologist Dr. David Turok, about the Supreme Court memo foreshadowing the overturn of Roe v. Wade and the likely enactment of Utah’s dormant abortion ban. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
At 9pm Monday night, Politico reported that the Supreme Court has taken a preliminary vote to overturn the right to an abortion. Community health advocate Shireen Ghorbani and VP for External Affairs at Planned Parenthood of Utah, Annabel Sheinberg join to process what this means for Utahns. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. V...
Reflecting on this year’s snow and ski season with the man behind @wasatchsnow, meteorologist and skier Evan Thayer. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Local news enthusiast and disability advocate Shelby Hintze joins Ali to round up the week’s news from Asthma to jaZZ via listener calls. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Call or text the City Cast Salt Lake hotline any time at (801) 203-0137. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads atcitycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You can now stream the first two episodes of Under the Banner of Heaven on Hulu. The 7-episode drama is a brand new adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s book by the same name – which tells the story of one of Utah’s most infamous and horrific crimes. The story coming to life again on a national scale has created a lot of hype in Utah – for better or for worse. So Ali called up Dr. Cristina Rosetti to ask her what we should all keep in mind as we tune in to this show. Did you know City Cast Salt Lake is ...
Meg Walter, Editor-in-Chief of the Beehive, argues that maybe instead of mocking Utah’s name culture, we should credit moms for being imaginative. Read Meg’s piece on Utah baby names in the Deseret News. Later, Ali mentions this reporting. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Cities across the valley are in budget season, and Natalie Pinkney, Vice Chair of the South Salt Lake City Council, is on a mission to make budget conversations more engaging for residents. South Salt Lake residents can sign-up for FlashVote here, and everyone can download the 2022 MuralFest map here. Wanna host a mural? Email npinkney@sslc.com. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at cit...
Why did Salt Lake City put a moratorium on new homeless shelters, and where do we go from here? KUER government and politics reporter Emily Means explains. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Local news enthusiast and community health director Shireen Ghorbani joins Ali to round up the week’s news via listener calls. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Call the City Cast Salt Lake hotline any time at (801) 203-0137. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
