Salt Lake City Weekly

1 day ago | cityweekly.net | Benjamin Wood

click to enlarge LIBERTY WELLS—Burying Salt Lake City's heavy rail in a train box and restoring passenger service to the historic Rio Grande Depot is estimated to cost between 3 and 5 billion dollars.

1 day ago | cityweekly.net | Bill Frost

Raise your hand if you've ever used KSL Classifieds to buy or sell something. Now put your hand down, because I can't see you or your lightly-used beige sectional with six cupholders. The Classifieds page at KSL.com is the only useful part of the KSL Borg that includes a TV station, a radio station and daily glossed-over "news" takes about whatever region of Trumpy the Clown's plentiful ass Gov. Spencer Cox is smooching at the moment.

3 days ago | cityweekly.net | Benjamin Wood

click to enlarge Downtown Salt Lake City will shed thousands of pounds of cold steel in June, with the return of Open Streets swapping noisy, pollution-spewing car traffic for four blocks of music, art, dining and shopping on Main Street. The city announced Monday that Fridays and Saturdays in June will see Main Street closed to car traffic from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. between 400 South and South Temple.

3 days ago | cityweekly.net | Peter Holslin

In commemoration of City Weekly's 40th anniversary, we are digging into our archives to celebrate. Each week, we FLASHBACK to a story or column from our past in honor of four decades of local alt-journalism. Whether the names and issues are familiar or new, we are grateful to have this unique newspaper to contain them all. Title: We Predict a RiotAuthor: Peter HolslinDate: July 4, 2019Reposted from the original It was like a scene out of a Hitchcock end-of-the-world thriller.

1 week ago | cityweekly.net | Scott Renshaw

Posted By Scott Renshaw on April 17, 2025, 6:49 PM click to enlarge One to One: John & Yoko *** I completely understand the idea that, after 50-plus years, we really don’t need another documentary about any of the Beatles—and if this one works, it’s because director Kevin Macdonald kind of understands that, too. Because this is less a documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono than it is about the world that shaped them at a particular moment in their lives: approximately 18 months between...