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Sean P. Means

Deputy Enterprise Editor

Sean P. Means has been reporting and editing for The Salt Lake Tribune since 1991 — including 25 years as movie critic. Since 2018, he has reported on arts and culture reporter, and breaking news — and was part of The Tribune’s COVID-19 reporting team. He reviews movies for MovieCricket.net and X96’s “Radio From Hell” program.

(Brent N. Clarke | Invision/AP file photo) Mariah Carey performs in New York's Times Square for New Year's Eve on Dec. 31, 2017. Carey's holiday staple "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is one of the songs Utah radio station KLO has started playing, as of Sept. 28, 2026, making an early start to the yule season.

Christmas in October? A Utah radio station is already playing holiday music, because ‘there’s a demand’

By Sean P. Means | October 1, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(San Juan Record) The offices of the San Juan Record, a weekly newspaper that serves San Juan County. The paper announced that its Sept. 30, 2026, edition would be its last print issue.

A Utah newspaper is ending its print publication — exactly 111 years after it started

By Sean P. Means | October 1, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Matthias Schrader | AP) A hiker makes her way in front of the 'Langkofel' Dolomites mountain near Ortisei val Gardena, South Tyrol, Italy in 2021.

A federal official said an injury prevented her from working. Utah prosecutors say she was hiking mountains — and posting about it.

By Sean P. Means | September 29, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Samantha Moilanen | The Salt Lake Tribune) Smoke rises up from a three-alarm fire in Salt Lake City's Granary District on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026.

Fire in Granary District sends plume of black smoke over downtown Salt Lake City

By Sean P. Means | Samantha Moilanen | September 28, 2026, 4:25 p.m.

(Cache County Sheriff's Office) A file photo of a Cache County Sheriff's Office vehicle.

BASE jumper killed in wingsuit accident in Cache County

By Sean P. Means | September 27, 2026, 8:38 p.m.

(Odyssey Dance Theatre) Dancers don "Friday the 13th" masks in one of the numbers from Odyssey Dance Theatre's annual Halloween spectacular, "Thriller."

Haunted houses, corn mazes and more, oh my! Here’s where to find Halloween fun across Utah.

By Sean P. Means | September 28, 2026, 10:39 p.m.

(Marriott Library, University of Utah) Members of the Wasatch Mountain Club hang out at the small shelter, known as the "Tin Shack," at the top of Mount Timpanogos in August 1931.

‘Tin Shack’ atop Mount Timpanogos, where teen died in lightning storm, has long history with Utah hikers

By Sean P. Means | September 23, 2026, 4:08 p.m.

(Koury Angelo | Bravo; Nik Roberts | Disney) Bronwyn Newport, left, of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" and Whitney Leavitt from "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" have been announced as two of the 23 contestants in the sixth season of Peacock's reality competition show "The Traitors." The season will air sometime in 2027.

A ‘Real Housewives’ star and one of the ‘Mormon Wives’ will meet on a different TV show — which could end in ‘murder’

By Sean P. Means | September 19, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The exterior of the Tower Theatre on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. The Salt Lake Film Society has kicked off a capital campaign to raise $8.5 million to renovate the 98-year-old movie house in Salt Lake City's 9th and 9th neighborhood.

Got $8.5 million? Tower Theatre kicks off fund-raising campaign to renovate century-old movie house.

By Sean P. Means | September 18, 2026, 2:37 p.m.

(Koury Angelo | Bravo) Ashley Quai is the newest "friend" of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City." The Season 7 premiere is set for Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026, on Bravo.

Who is Ashley Quai? 5 things to know about the newest ‘friend’ of ‘The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’

By Sean P. Means | September 16, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Magna City) Magna Mayor Mick Sudbury.

Yelling, slurs and making employees cry: Investigation into Utah mayor found ‘unprofessional conduct’

By Sean P. Means | September 13, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Suzanne Plunkett | AP) People run from a collapsing World Trade Center tower in New York, Sept. 11, 2001. This photo ran on the front page of The Salt Lake Tribune on Sept. 12, 2001, the day after the 9/11 attacks.

‘UNTHINKABLE’: 25 years later, here’s how The Tribune covered the 9/11 attacks

By Sean P. Means | Chris Samuels | September 11, 2026, 1:40 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Country star Garth Brooks performs with his band during his Stadium Tour Friday, June 17, 2022 at Rice-Eccles Stadium.

Country superstar Garth Brooks is returning to Utah. Here’s how to get tickets.

By Sean P. Means | September 9, 2026, 2:19 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Memorials to Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem on Sept. 29, 2025, less than three weeks after he was shot and killed on campus.

Timeline: Here’s what’s happened in the year since Charlie Kirk was killed in Utah

By Sean P. Means | September 11, 2026, 3:33 p.m.

(Disney Concerts) Dara Reneé, one of the stars of Disney's "Descendants: The Rise of Red," is among the performers on Disney's "Worlds Collide" concert tour, scheduled to play Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City. It's one of dozens of concerts scheduled this fall at venues across the Wasatch Front.

Here’s a list of all the big concerts and major performances planned in Salt Lake Valley this fall

By Sean P. Means | September 4, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Rick Bowmer | Associated Press file photo) Utah County reported its first human case of West Nile virus in 2026. The virus is borne by mosquitos, so the county's mosquito abatement agency is targeting areas where the insects breed.

Utah County gets its first West Nile virus patient — and it’s a more dangerous strain

By Sean P. Means | August 31, 2026, 7:51 p.m.

(Brenna Empey | Infigo Films) Edie Arnold (Adi Madden Cabrera, left) and her best friend Frances (McKenna Tuckett) are late to class at their all-girl Catholic school, and caught by Sister Myra (Star Hermann), in the Utah-made teen comedy "Edie Arnold Is a Loser," directed by Megan Rico and Kade Atwood.

The next ‘Napoleon Dynamite’? This punk-rock teen comedy filmed in Utah is premiering in Salt Lake City.

By Sean P. Means | August 31, 2026, 5:14 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Colin Hilton, president and CEO of the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation, gives his thoughts on the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games, during a panel discussion at Soldier Hollow on March 24, 2026. Hilton died Aug. 21, 2026, at age 58.

Colin Hilton, who kept 2002 Utah Olympic venues active before a 2034 reboot, dies at 58

By Sean P. Means | August 24, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Kyle Hansen | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Harley Fire burns along Interstate 15 north of Tremonton, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. Utah Fire Info reported Sunday the fire is now 75% contained.

Wildfire update: Evacuations lifted in Box Elder County as crews work to contain Harley Fire

By Sean P. Means | August 23, 2026, 3:26 p.m.

(Randy Shropshire | Bravo) Jen Shah on Season 3 of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City," filmed before she was arrested on federal fraud charges in 2021.

‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ alumna Jen Shah will soon go free

By Sean P. Means | August 23, 2026, 12:00 p.m.