City Cast Salt Lake

City Cast Salt Lake is SLC’s daily news podcast. Join host Ali Vallarta and a bevy of smart and entertaining locals for conversations about the issues that matter most. City Cast Salt Lake will celebrate the city’s triumphs, explore its history, (try to) solve its mysteries, and it’ll help you feel more connected to the Wasatch Front – whether you’ve lived here for six months or six generations. Learn more and subscribe to our daily newsletter at saltlake.citycast.fm.

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Daily News
Society & Culture
1051
An Introvert’s Salt Lake
Happy National Introvert’s Week!
18 min
1052
Listen to This Before You Sign Your Lease
23 min
1053
What’s It Take to Unionize in Salt Lake?
What's the landscape of labor unions now?
14 min
1054
A Beginners Guide to Birding Salt Lake
16 min
1055
How the UT Leg Responded to our Housing Crisis
Did the Leg. do enough to address our housing crisis?
18 min
1056
2 Year Quake-aversary
It’s the 2-year anniversary of the 6.7 magnitude earthquake.
21 min
1057
We’ve Got Answers on the Wolverine!
What was a wolverine up to in Utah?
15 min
1058
Writers supporting Writers: Navigating SLC’s Cr...
Writing, vulnerability, and the importance of creative community
13 min
1059
Clean Slate Utah
A new law could clear the criminal records of thousands of Utahns.
10 min
1060
Sci Fi Meets Spiritual Traditions at UMFA
Contemplating those we’ve lost through art
15 min
1061
Mental Health, Climate Anxiety, and Rent
It's Friday, so we're looking back at the week that was.
21 min
1062
Democratizing Poetry in SLC (and everywhere)
Poetry should be accessible to everyone.
18 min
1063
Coming Soon: Saborrrr!
Food traditions. Careful casting. And the film Saborrr!
17 min
1064
Supporting Salt Lake’s Trans Community
Lessons from the passage and subsequent veto of a bill that would a ban on transgender kids participation in sports.
15 min
1065
Ground Rules for a More Inclusive Climbing Gym
How can we make Salt Lake’s climbing gyms more inclusive spaces.
15 min
1066
20 is Plenty, Drivers Licenses, and Education B...
It’s Friday, which means we’re looking back on the week with fun and thoughtful Salt Lakers.
24 min
1067
A Land Back Project on the Bear River
In 2018, the Shoshone Nation bought land back, and it’s now a site of restorative healing.
18 min
1068
Music is a Cure for the Pandemic Blues
Folk singer Alicia Stockman on her new album and getting back on the road.
16 min
1069
What We Learned From Free Fare Feb
It’s the end of Free Fare February, but it doesn’t have to be the end of your frontrunner weekends.
13 min
1070
Quiet Streets, 3rd Space, and Salt Lake Below
SLC poet RJ Walker contrasts Salt Lake’s manicured streets with Salt Lake below.
13 min
1071
COVID Testing, Clean Air Bills, and the DABC
We’re looking back on the week with fun and thoughtful Salt Lakers.
18 min
1072
Let Teachers Teach
Under mounting scrutiny, how are Salt Lake’s teachers supposed to celebrate Black History Month?
13 min
1073
The Elephant in the Room
It’s a uniquely Utah phenomenon: Democrats switching their affiliation to vote in Republican primary elections
15 min
1074
Salt Lake’s Secret Garden
Salt Lake art critic, curator, and lawyer Scotti Hill joins to discuss the bizarre beauty of Gilgal Sculpture Garden.
14 min
1075
Anti-trans Bills, Education Bills, and the Hous...
We’re breaking down the stories we can’t let go of this week.
16 min