Fairpark’s Culture Coffee offers a unique blend of coffee and community
Local chef Miles Ellis recommends Fairpark’s Culture Coffee for the food, drinks, and community — and the music and arcade games aren’t bad, either.
Rose Park community festival and interfaith roundtable foster unity
A community festival and interfaith roundtable aim to foster unity and build connections between Rose Park neighbors.
SLC Public Lands reviewing input on future of Glendale’s Peace Labyrinth
Salt Lake City’s Department of Public Lands is seeking input from Westside residents on the future of the Peace Labyrinth Open Space.
Love Your Block provides mini grants to Westside residents for community improvement projects
Love Your Block mini grants give Westside residents funds to complete community improvement projects. The next application period opens in January.
Roses in the Garden mural installation features women with lasting Westside legacies
A mural series in Rose Park celebrates women whose legacies are contributions to Salt Lake’s Westside. Meet each one of them here.
Public art project scheduled in the Fairpark neighborhood
A new art project to beautify traffic infrastructure has received funding in Fairpark. The only thing missing is the artwork’s topic, which community input will determine.
City seeks Westside input on project to create “iconic public art”
Salt Lake City seeks input to help design and place a new public art piece that celebrates the Westside’s cultural impact on the city.
Local glass art to tour world, promote eco-consciousness
Two Salt Lake City glass artists are sending their pieces on a world tour. The pieces, depicting elaborate scenes of honey bees and ocean life, raise awareness for eco-consciousness, and will be permanently housed in a new facility at Thanksgiving Point after the world tour.
Jordan River murals to honor Westside women
Local non-profit Better Days and artist Bill Louis will unveil four murals of historically significant Utah women in the Rose Park Community Garden this June.
Riley Elementary creates a public memorial for a beloved teacher
A new public mural dedicated to the memory of Jessica Schroeder, a loved and dearly missed educator at Riley Elementary School who passed away in 2021, has found its home at the school.
$15k commission on offer for public mural project
The Seven Canyons Trust is soliciting proposals for a public mural to be painted next to the Folsom Trail at 25 South 1000 West.
A spotlight on queer dance, hosted at the Spy Hop Rooftop
LoveDANCEmore explores the culture of the Utahn human experience through an unexpected medium.
We all need great parks: 3 reasons to support parks bond
This November, Salt Lakers have a great opportunity to show their love for the city’s parks. An $85 million bond is on the ballot to improve existing parks and build some new ones.
Developments combine affordable housing with art celebrating community figures, heritage
The Guadalupe neighborhood has been around since the mid-1800s and has grown from agricultural plots with small adobe houses to railroad-based commercial warehouses to the current residential neighborhood we see today.
Utahns ‘bear witness’ to the shrinking of Great Salt Lake
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Volunteers paint the new logo on the kiosk in the Og-Woi People’s Orchard in mid-March.
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"Change is coming": My experience with the Black Lives Matter movement
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Youth radio program encourages teens to make their voices heard – ‘Loud and Clear’
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Holiday magic year ‘round with real-life neighbor connection: the Buy Nothing project
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Utah Development Academy: not your average soccer club
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