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Restaurant review: Japanese pub fare separates Ichiban from its competitors

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:48:53 MDT

Restaurant review: Japanese pub fare separates Ichiban from its competitors

by Stuart Melling Special To The Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 08:48PM MDT

Salt Lake City’s love affair with all things sushi and sake means there’s now a Japanese restaurant of every conception and style across the valley — from refined fine dining to all-you-can-eat. But what of the old guard — those restaurants that paved the way? Ichiban Sushi is one of Salt Lake City’s more venerable Japanese eateries and there have been changes of late. In the kitchen, Thomas Ontko recently joined the team as executive chef, bringing with him an impressive resume that includes s...

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Food briefs: Herb growing class, art brunch

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:51:03 MDT

Food briefs: Herb growing class, art brunch

by Heather May The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 07:51PM MDT

Preserve herbs Learn how to grow, cook and preserve herbs at the Utah State University Botanical Center’s class “Having the Thyme of Your Life.” Participants will go home with an herb-filled planter and herb-infused oil. When • Thursday, June 27, 6-8:30 p.m. Where • USU Botanical Center, 725 S. 50 West, Kaysville Cost • $29 for USU garden members and $37 for public. Register • USUBotanicalCenter.org or call 801-593-8969 Eat Local Learn how to find local farmers, bakers, ranchers, beek...

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Utahn follows natural path of winemaking

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:51:03 MDT

Utahn follows natural path of winemaking

by Heather May The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 07:51PM MDT

The story of how 30-year-old Evan Lewandowski began making wine in Utah starts with a guy walking into a bar. Lewandowski, who moved to Utah for the snow — and college — in 2001 had his first inkling that wine was his calling after he tried a Robert Mondavi sauvignon blanc while busing tables at the defunct L’Avenue restaurant. It was a far cry from the swill in a box he drank at college parties. That led him to work as a server at a wine bar in Park City, where a man from Communicating for Agri...

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Shishito peppers: From hipster menus to your grill

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:51:03 MDT

Shishito peppers: From hipster menus to your grill

by J.m. Hirsch The Associated Press

Published Jun 18, 2013 07:51PM MDT

Never had shishito peppers? You need to track them down. Right now. Shishito peppers are small, thin Japanese peppers. They are a bit longer and thinner than a jalapeno. But the flavor is quite different. While jalapenos have thick flesh and an assertive heat, shishitos are thin skinned and generally sweeter than they are hot. Except when they are not. For reasons that are debated online, one out of every dozen or so shishito peppers packs a punch. Nothing that will leave you gasping for air, bu...

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Change your workout with a new grip

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:51:03 MDT

Change your workout with a new grip

by Lya Wodraska The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 07:51PM MDT

Changing your exercise routine is a great way to keep workouts fresh and challenge the body. Not allowing yourself to get comfortable helps you find “new” muscles to work or provides new mental and balance challenges. One change that’s easy to make — but is often overlooked — is the grip you use when lifting. By simply changing the way you hold weights or bars, you can change your workout. Another option is to substitute cable handles for those with different shapes or for ropes. By doing this...

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Miss Utah USA’s botched answer makes her a star

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:23:17 MDT

Miss Utah USA’s botched answer makes her a star

by Scott D. Pierce The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 07:23PM MDT

Marissa Powell didn’t win the title of Miss USA on Sunday, but she did make quite an impression en route to being named third runner-up. Not necessarily a good impression, but certainly one that is unforgettable. When asked what it says about society that women continue to earn less than men, the Salt Laker stumbled and bumbled her way through an answer that went viral on the Internet: “I think we can relate this back to education and how we are continuing to try to strive to figure out how to...

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Discovering England, and tips for doing it cheaply

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:03:39 MDT

Discovering England, and tips for doing it cheaply

by Jim Dalrymple Ii The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 07:03PM MDT

Why do we suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous travel experiences? It’s a question running over and over in my mind as I sit crammed into a tiny airplane seat, drinking a tiny can of coke and trying not to inadvertently touch the not-so-tiny guy in the next seat. Travel is a pleasure, of course, but it comes with a series of only sometimes-tiny pains. I’m heading to London on this flight. After arriving, I’ll spend a few days in the city, head into the Welsh countryside and finally finish ...

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Utah Arts Festival preview: Swift turns landmarks into art

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:34:40 MDT

Utah Arts Festival preview: Swift turns landmarks into art

by Sean P. Means The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 04:34PM MDT

The first time that Salt Lake City photographer and graphic designer Stephanie Swift applied to display her work at the Utah Arts Festival, it wasn’t for the usual reasons of artistic expression and ambition. “My sister hounded me to apply to the festival, and I did it to get her off my back,” Swift said in a recent phone interview. Now Swift’s digitally enhanced photo prints of Utah neon landmarks, bearing her brand Pretty Little Pixel, are a regular feature at the festival. This year, Swift i...

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9 new food trucks roll into Salt Lake

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:34:40 MDT

9 new food trucks roll into Salt Lake

the Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 04:34PM MDT

Food trucks are no fad. More restaurants on wheels continue to pop up around the Salt Lake Valley, hoping to emulate the success of the Chow Truck, which made its first appearance in 2010. SuAn Chow’s Asian fusion truck is so successful, she’s looking into a brick and mortar spot. This new generation of food trucks aren’t always as mobile, as their predecessors. Some have found regular spots to park from the University of Utah to Wasatch Boulevard. While some food truck owners have been success...

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The pleasures of southern Wales

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:34:40 MDT

The pleasures of southern Wales

by Jim Dalrymple Ii The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 04:34PM MDT

“Do you need directions?” an elderly woman asked from the porch of her flower-dappled cottage. We had been standing on a street corner in her village — really just a cluster of several houses and a pub beside the Wye River in Wales — for no more than five minutes. But our map wasn’t helping and we couldn’t decide the if we should take the grassy footpath or head into the labyrinthine country lanes than led up the hill. Almost as soon as we began telling the woman that we hoped to hike to the nex...

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Justin Bieber behind wheel as car hits man in Hollywood

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:34:40 MDT

Justin Bieber behind wheel as car hits man in Hollywood

the Associated Press

Published Jun 18, 2013 04:34PM MDT

LOS ANGELES • Los Angeles police say Justin Bieber struck a pedestrian with his car in Hollywood, but there was no crime and the injuries aren’t life-threatening. Lt. Craig Valenzuela says Bieber’s car collided with someone — possibly a photographer — at 11:45 p.m. Monday in the 8800 block of Sunset Boulevard. Valenzuela says nobody was cited or arrested and officers determined no crime was committed. He says investigators are trying to determine whether the pedestrian was in the roadway. A vide...

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Big Band music under the stars at the Gallivan Center

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:34:40 MDT

Big Band music under the stars at the Gallivan Center

by Rebecca Howard Special To The Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 04:34PM MDT

So you think you can dance? Maybe you do — and maybe you don’t. It doesn’t matter on Tuesday nights in downtown Salt Lake City. Older couples, young families, ballroom-dance novices and college-age swing dancers have all been spotted cutting a rug at this year’s newest summer dance party. The Wasatch Jazz Project, a 19-piece big band, has partnered with Excellence in the Community concerts and the Gallivan Center to play Big Band dance music. And it comes with free dance instruction. The evening...

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Black Mormon panelists: LDS Church must face its racial history

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:51:29 MDT

Black Mormon panelists: LDS Church must face its racial history

by Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 03:51PM MDT

Thirty-five years after the LDS Church lifted its ban on blacks being ordained to its all-male priesthood, African-American Mormons still experience subtle discrimination, exclusion and self-doubt, said three panelists on Tuesday’s hourlong Trib Talk. The trio — black Latter-day Saints Marvin Perkins, of Los Angeles; Paulette Payne, of Atlanta; and Darron Smith of Memphis, Tenn. — agreed that part of the problem was a lack of discussion of the controversial ban, the perpetuation of false ideas a...

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Wesley Bell choir celebrates 50 years of ringing true

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:51:02 MDT

Wesley Bell choir celebrates 50 years of ringing true

by Leann Burke The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 03:51PM MDT

Lights glinted off the brass bells in Christ United Methodist Church as music filled the sanctuary. The bells — more than 50 of them — melded seamlessly into a single song. It’s these young musicians’ time to shine and chime (and fix even the tiniest of glitches) as they rehearse for the final time before embarking on yet another summer concert tour. But this trip promises to be different. This journey to the nation’s Rust Belt and New England will mark the 50th anniversary of the Wesley Bell Ri...

Like Father, like sons — Utah priest’s boys follow him into the priesthood

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:14:36 MDT

Like Father, like sons — Utah priest’s boys follow him into the priesthood

by Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 02:14PM MDT

Following a centuries-old tradition, the young future deacon from Salt Lake City enters the Greek Orthodox sanctuary in Denver. The bishop blesses him in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Christopher Gilbert then is led by the priest three times around the altar, just as a groom leads his wife in an Orthodox wedding ceremony. Christopher, who has now become Deacon Chrysostomos, is marrying the church, and the priest who leads him is his dad, Father Matthew Gilbert, of Utah’s Holy Tri...

Grace Potter overheats hot Red Butte crowd

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:29:33 MDT

Grace Potter overheats hot Red Butte crowd

by Taylor W. Anderson The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jun 18, 2013 12:29PM MDT

Either through irony or accident, Grace Potter’s four-man backup crew, the Nocturnals, looked very much awake as they filed on stage at Red Butte Garden Sunday to play instrumentals in “Hot Summer Night.” Potter somehow made the amphitheater mercury head north as she began the set from the crowd and voluntarily lost her shawl into the front row after she hit the stage, unveiling a healthy bit of skin along with a sprawling vocal scale. The band kept its best-known tunes (like “Paris” and “Medic...

Kirby: Broccoli? I’d rather eat squid

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:16:03 MDT

Kirby: Broccoli? I’d rather eat squid

by Robert Kirby Tribune Columnist

Published Jun 18, 2013 08:16AM MDT

My first taste of squid resulted in an experience even the most sophisticated of gourmands refer to as “hurling.” I was 10. Ever the prankster, my father waited until I ate it before telling me what it was. The squid came right back up along with some of my toes. The reaction was a surprise considering that in our military family, I had previously eaten without ill effect cultural delicacies such as whale, kangaroo, alligator, snails, beetles, snake, assorted rodents and even hot dogs. It was p...

Compassion key to dealing with Mom

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:01:03 MDT

Compassion key to dealing with Mom

Published Jun 18, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Dear Carolyn • Our 24-year-old daughter, “Mary,” is getting married this August. My mother is 84, a hard-core feminist and atheist. She views religion as an oppressor of females, and hates anything to do with church. My two daughters are somewhat religious, and the groom and his family are Protestants. When I told my mother that Mary’s wedding would have a pastor reading some Bible passages, she said she would walk out of the ceremony in protest. I got angry and told her, “Then leave.” She hasn’...

Miss USA video: Miss Utah fumbles pageant answer, goes viral

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:28:25 MDT

Miss USA video: Miss Utah fumbles pageant answer, goes viral

by Hannah Dreier The Associated Press

Published Jun 17, 2013 03:28PM MDT

Las Vegas • A 25-year-old accountant from Connecticut with a secret glamorous side is the new Miss USA. Erin Brady of South Glastonbury, Conn., won the beauty pageant at the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino Sunday night after strutting in a white sparkly gown and answering a question about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding widespread DNA tests. Asked if she agreed with the decision to swab the cheeks of arrestees, Brady said she did, since they had committed crimes after all. Brady, who s...

Commentary: Speculation about Mandela’s fate seen as cultural taboo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:04:35 MDT

Commentary: Speculation about Mandela’s fate seen as cultural taboo

by Zaheer Cassim And Catherine Featherston Usa Today

Published Jun 17, 2013 02:04PM MDT

Johannesburg • Will native son and national hero Nelson Mandela survive his latest bout with illness? That is the single question dominating headlines, speeches, Twitter and conversation throughout South Africa. It’s an unusual situation in a country where death is an off-limits topic due to local culture. But as locals brace themselves, anxious and hopeful, they remain stoic and protective, insisting on Mandela’s privacy as he battles a lung infection. And they say he has a right to be left al...