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Poet Jai Hamid Bashir is here and talks to Ali about her poetry, this place, and bees. Plus, she reads a poem for us! Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. 

Writer and director Gianfranco Fernandez Ruiz talks with Ali about his new film Saborrrr!, food traditions, and careful casting. Subscribe to our daily newsletter here.

Sue Robbins, a member of Equality Utah's Transgender Advisory Council is here to reflect on the passage and subsequent veto of HB 11, a ban on transgender kids participation in sports, and the lessons we take forward with us. At the end of the show, Ali recommends supporting Gender Bands, Restoring Ancestral Winds, and Project Rainbow Utah.  Have you signed up for our daily newsletter?

Newsletter Editor Madeline McGill talks with Amelia Howe, a Senior Policy Associate at the American Alpine Club and Cody Kaemmerlin, a Board Member for the Salt Lake Climbers Alliance about how to make Salt Lake’s climbing gyms more inclusive spaces. Climb higher with our daily newsletter. Sign up here.

It’s Friday, which means we’re looking back on the week with fun and thoughtful Salt Lakers. This week, Ali is joined by Utah Education Association president Heidi Matthews and Building Salt Lake Editor Taylor Anderson. Now that we've looked back on the week, let's look forward to the week ahead. Subscribe to our daily newsletter for all the comings and goings around town.

If you follow the Bear River north from the Great Salt Lake up to Preston, Idaho you will reach the site of the Bear River Massacre of Shoshone people of 1863. In 2018, the Shoshone Nation bought the land back and it’s now a site of restorative healing – both ecological and historical. Darren Parry, the former Chairman of Shoshone Nation, joins Ali to tell the story of this project. Subscribe to o...

Folk singer Alicia Stockman talks to Ali about writing a pandemic album and the re-opening of Salt Lake music venues. Check out Alicia's new album, These Four Walls. Subscribe to our daily newsletter here.

It’s the end of Free Fare February, but it doesn’t have to be the end of your frontrunner weekends. Ali talks about lessons learned with Connor Dunstan and Alex Fielder, students at the U who host The Red Line Transit Podcast. All Aboard! Sign up for our daily newsletter here.

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 u...

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 satiric...

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.

From the symphony, to dive bars, to walks in the park, SLC is a city for love. The City Cast Salt Lake team share our perfect Salt Lake date nights + read your love letters. Do you love Salt Lake? Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter.

Rebecca Chavez-Houck and Shireen Ghorbani join Ali to make sense of the Secure Vote Utah ballot initiative – a frightening new cause that would erase vote-by-mail in Utah. Want to stay a vocal local? Sign up for our daily newsletter.

At age 61, U of U professor Gerda Saunders was diagnosed with early-onset dementia, and she has spent the last decade documenting her battle with the essence of memory. The latest installment in Gerda’s story is a documentary filmed over 6-years, “The Gerda That Remains.” Ali talks to Gerda and filmmaker Kelsie Moore about the film and Gerda’s legacy. Subscribe to the newsletter here.

Ali talks to Emily Means of KUER about what action state officials are taking to save the Great Salt Lake. Madeline is reporting Salt Lake Love Stories in the newsletter this week. Submit your story of falling in love with a place, an idea, or a person in SLC at saltlake@citycast.fm and subscribe to the newsletter here.

Ali went out to the High Star Ranch in Kamas for the 5th Annual Ski Joring Utah competition to chat with the hosts, competitors and spectators of the perfect Utah sport. Quit horsing around: Sign up for our daily newsletter.

Dr. Len Necefer, an A+ meme-maker and the founder of NativesOutdoors is here to reflect on the emerging tradition of land acknowledgements. The Natives Outdoors reading list for the outdoor industry is on their website, nativesoutdoors.com, we’ve also put the link in our newsletter. Send your worst, most hilarious, or most awkward stories of dating in SLC to saltlake@citycast.fm or text us at 801-...

One in four Utah teens can’t afford period products and Emily Bell McCormick of The Period Project is trying to do something about it. Send us your Salt Lake love stories at saltlake@citycast.fm or by calling or texting them to: (801) 203-0137. Want to learn more about Salt Lake's Vocal Locals? Sign up for our daily newsletter.