City Cast Salt Lake

SLC poet RJ Walker contrasts Salt Lake’s manicured streets with Salt Lake below.Our daily newsletter is poetry. Sign up for it here.

It’s Friday, which means we’re looking back on the week with fun and thoughtful Salt Lakers. To do so, Ali is joined by birth-worker and activist Ashley Finley and HEAL Utah’s Policy Associate Alex Veilleux.Want to look forward to the week ahead? Subscribe to our daily, morning newsletter.

Under mounting pressure from state and local governments to legislate race out of their curriculum, how are Salt Lake’s teachers supposed to teach and celebrate Black History Month in peace?Ali connects with Michelle Love-Day, founder of RISE, a virtual academy that teaches Black History to students around the state.City Cast Salt Lake is more than a podcast; it's a daily newsletter, too. Sign up here.

It’s a uniquely Utah phenomenon: Democrats switching their voter affiliation in order to participate in Republican primary elections. Ali talks with lawyer and Strangerville podcast host Eli McCann about why making the switch is growing in popularity.Subscribe to our daily newsletter here.

Salt Lake art critic, curator, and lawyer Scotti Hill joins to discuss the bizarre beauty of Gilgal Sculpture Garden. Looking for more of Salt Lake's lesser known gems? Subscribe to our daily newsletter.

We’re breaking down the stories we can’t let go of this week. Political Commentator Shireen Ghorbani and KUTV’s Education Reporter Chris Jones are here.There's a lot going on in the SLC. Sign up for our daily newsletter to stay on top of it.

Bree Davies and Paul Karolyi of City Cast Denver join Ali to discuss whether or not the Olympics are a good idea for Salt Lake and why they were rejected by Denver.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. 

We’re talking about Salt Lake’s favorite brag: the 2002 Winter Olympics. It’s amazing how much about our city today is the result of the Olympics being held here. It’s also amazing how well our collective memory of ’02 includes more of the grand and less of the scandal.At the time, Salt Lake was able to rehash the absurdity of each year through the annual tradition of Saturday’s Voyeur: a satirical play that gave Utahns the space to laugh and bemoan our political circus. And as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, it’s important to remember that it was perhaps our greatest political circus to date. Nancy Borgenicht and Allen Nevins, the former writers and show-runners of Saturday’s Voyeur, join Ali to take us on a satirical, musical journey of the Olympics we’ve already had.Go for the Gold. Sign up for our daily newsletter.

Something strange is brewing at the capitol. A resolution was passed last week that would limit press access to legislators. I called up Bryan Schott for the scoop, as one does.And don’t worry, at the end of the show, we’re gonna let a little light in with a poem from Katherine Indermaur, editor of the Sugar House Review,Start your day with a ray of sunshine. Sign up for our daily newsletter!

Mysticism and magic are integral pieces of Salt Lake’s history – though often overlooked. Ali and RJ Walker, SLC poet and host of Mancy, discuss Salt Lake’s unique relationship with magic.Our daily newsletters are magical. Sign up here, if you haven't already.