Food & Drink We're drinking the flagship craft beer from every state in the Union, counting down from 50-1, to find which is home to the President of Beers. #11 Dubhe Imperial Black IPA, Uinta Brewing Co., Salt Lake City, UtahState: Utah is home to the NBA’s Jazz, but there’s little actual jazz in a state with less than 1 percent African American population—half that of Oregon. Over 60 percent are affiliated ...   More

Music Until I started touring, Utah was a land in league with Wyoming and Nebraska: A destination valuable as a piece of American frontier history but lacking any stigma for visitation. This changed, almost exclusively, because of a soft-spoken Utah based singer-songwriter by the name of David Williams. On one of our early D.I.Y. tours, we contacted David about being local support on a bill in Salt Lake ...   More

News Portland science fiction writer David Levine has never been to Mars. However he was recently in Utah – which can sometimes feel as foreign as Mars. What was he doing in Utah? Living on a simulated Mars habitat of course. For two weeks last month David spent his days collecting Mars rocks and eating re-hydrated food at the Mars Desert Research Station – all for the sake of promoting ...   More

News Utah's official announcement today that it will join Colorado in becoming the Pac-10's newest members means a lot in terms of TV money and recruiting for the league, much of which got hashed out in this piece. But one thing remains uncertain: what the new conference should be called. Let's give the league some suggestions beyond the predictable choice of the Pac-12. The Dirty Dozen? Twelve Angry ...   More