The past few weeks have been difficult for a lot of us. I know that I can’t go more than five minutes without seeing the escalating turmoil caused by COVID-19, and with so many of us stuck at home, reading harrowing pandemic updates, stewing in our stress, and dealing with isolation, I think we can […]
Eleven poetry boxes are placed throughout the University of Utah’s Red Butte Garden. This month and next, they contain the winning poems of Red Butte Garden’s annual Poetry Month contest. Alas, you cannot see them because the Garden is closed. But here’s one. You can also view all the winning poems at www.redbuttegarden.org/garden-poetry-walk. We’ll also […]
New energy arrives at the Salt Lake City Arts Council, with Sarah Hobin taking the place of Kandace Steadman, who retired last fall to pursue her own art career. Hobin relocated to SLC last year after living in the Bay Area for 11 years. Most recently in San Francisco she had been working as an […]
Freak explosion destroys infrastructure at the Green Team Farm Late Sunday night on March 24, the Wasatch Community Gardens’ Green Team Farm in downtown Salt Lake City suffered a catastrophic explosion and fire to the heart of their operation. The core of the farm was made up of two 40-ft. shipping containers which had been […]
On March 13 and 14, Hindu chaplain and statesman Rajan Zed will open Utah’s congressional sessions with Hindu prayer in the House and Senate, respectively. Both original Sanskrit and English translations of the prayer will be recited. The Sanskrit language is one of the world’s most ancient and is considered sacred among Hindus. Included in […]
In his book Palaces for the People, sociologist Eric Klinenberg describes how a group of planners met to discuss ways to restore resiliency to 21st century cities. Someone proposed a compelling idea for a “resilience center”—a place that would be a community gathering place, open every day, welcoming to everyone, staffed by trained professionals, with […]
The CATALYST Clean Air Solutions Fair, January 19, was one of the most engaging yet.
Bike Utah is on a mission to integrate bicycling into everday culture.
Memories of a Salt Lake City neighborhood built on, and then lost to, industry.
Librarian-activist-essayist Chip Ward can write fiction, too
Big Brothers Big Sisters needs you
The Artesian Well Park has a past – and a future
The sun is completing its daily routine outside the window of Cedars of Lebanon, tucked in the middle of downtown Salt Lake. May 30 (the 14th day of the month-long celebration of Ramadan), at 8:51 pm, the official time of sunset, glasses of water and hefty plates with food of every color of the rainbow […]
Imagine if you were burdened with this news: Your entire country will be completely uninhabitable within this century due to rising sea levels. All your countrymen must find new homes and new livelihoods in foreign lands. Your culture, history, and your spiritual connection to the land will become echoes of the life you once knew. […]
Last month at the Society of Professional Journalists awards banquet, CATALYST took home 12 honors for stories we published in 2016. We competed against nondaily papers throughout Utah. We received four first place awards, three second place awards, three third place awards and two honorable mentions. Note that we garnered all awards in the Medical/Science […]
