Making a new year’s resolution to shrink your carbon footprint in 2023? According to two people who’ve kept track of their contributions to greenhouse gases, you can make it smaller without spending more money.
It’s estimated Americans will throw out more than 200 million pounds of perfectly good turkey meat this year, most of it after Thanksgiving. One woman is trying to do something with that food waste.
Reid Moon is a treasure hunter of sorts. He figures he’s traveled the equivalent of more than one hundred times around the Earth in search of one-of-a-kind items, some, he said, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The pandemic has changed life in many ways – it's changed where we work, how we socialize and communicate. It's also partly responsible for turning a tailgating mainstay into a professional sport.
This summer, some kids are going to camp to paddle canoes and explore the outdoors. 15-year-old Saerichai Baker-Rajsavong, who also goes by the names Jedi and Arson, is learning how to rock a bass line.
Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital is used to celebrating kids’ birthdays, but this year the staff there is saying ‘happy birthday’ to the hospital itself.
Every day, thousands of people from across the globe turn to two Utahns for a laugh, but they’re not comedians — one is a yoga instructor and the other is a middle school teacher. They make people laugh by laughing themselves.
You can’t hear the carbon dioxide that quietly collects in our atmosphere and heats up the earth, but if you could, it might, University of Utah assistant music professor Elisabeth Curbelo said, sound like an oboe.
Southern Utah University art student Lauryn Batista wants to talk about scribbles. That’s how she visualizes the anxiety and depression she’s dealt with for the past few years.
Not long ago, if you wanted to donate a kidney to a loved one, the odds were usually against you. You likely weren’t the right match. Now, thanks to the power of large numbers and algorithms and the National Kidney Registry, that doesn’t matter anymore.
The pandemic is no laughing matter, unless your job is to make it one. But even comics are sick and tired and say they're done with pandemic humor. Except that they're not.
Musicians have slowly started making their way back to the stage after live music in clubs and at concerts and festivals stopped more than a year ago because of the coronavirus pandemic.
For Jason "Singer" Smith, the 21st century started off pretty rough. He couldn't cope with his emotional and physical trauma, and for several years, he just disappeared. He then returned to Utah with a story of friendship that has a tendency to turn heads when he's on the road.
Love inspires, no matter who you are or how old you are. At his job as a security guard last year, Saxon Porter made a discovery — a new poet with a lot to say about love. The writer was 88-year-old Richard Ledbetter, the guard who worked the overnight shift.
These have been lonely times for the elderly, many of whom are in nursing homes, locked away from family and friends. That's why a group of Utah musicians that usually tours those facilities, but can't because of the pandemic, hasn't stopped reaching out with a song.
In good times and bad, even during a pandemic, music has been a constant in the LeBaron family. Two years ago, a living room rendition of “One Day More” from the musical Les Misérables — a mother’s day request — went viral and put the Utah family center stage.
When the seriousness of the pandemic became apparent and the Utah Symphony stopped playing in March, violinist Barbara Scowcroft stopped listening to music. But after a six-month hiatus, she's returning to work with a new appreciation of her art.
Musicians all over the world have continued to make music together during the pandemic. Chances are, few of those performances, though, have been as meaningful as a series of duets with two members of the Utah Symphony and a group of young musicians in Haiti.
It may seem hard these days to find something in the news to laugh at, but Tim “Tork” Torkildson does. He even finds something poetic in stories about COVID-19.