Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City is the state capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Utah.

Culture

Arts

Museums in Salt Lake City include:

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• Utah Museum of Fine Arts
• Utah Museum of Natural History
• Utah State Historical Society
• Daughters of Utah Pioneer Memorial Museum
• Fort Douglas Military Museum
• Museum of Church History and Art
• Social Hall Heritage Museum

Salt Lake City provides many venues for both professional and amateur theatre. The city attracts many traveling Broadway and off-Broadway performances. Local acting companies include the Salt Lake Acting Company, Plan-B Theatre Company and the Off-Broadway Theatre.

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Theatre - Broadway - Off-Broadway - Salt Lake Acting Company

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Salt Lake City is the home to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir as well as the Utah Symphony Orchestra, which was founded in 1940 by Maurice Abravanel and has become widely renowned. It also has a typical music scene featuring local blues, rock, and punk groups. There are also many clubs which offer musical venues.

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Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Utah Symphony Orchestra - 1940 - Maurice Abravanel - Blues - Rock - Punk

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As evidence of Utah's burgeoning club music scene, over 200 bands submitted tracks for a 2004 compilation by a local music zine, SLUG ("Salt Lake Underground"). The 15-year-old free monthly zine trimmed the submissions to 59 selections featuring diverse music types such as hip-hop, jazz, jazz-rock, punk, and a healthy variety of rock and roll.

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2004 - Zine - Hip-hop - Jazz - Jazz-rock - Punk - Rock and roll

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The University of Utah is home to two of the best dance deparments in the country, the Ballet Department and the Department of Modern Dance. Professional dance companies in Salt Lake City include Ballet West, Rire Woodbury, and Repratory Dance Theatre.

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Events

Although the city is often stereotyped as a strict entirely Mormon city, it is in fact culturally and religiously diverse. The city is the location of many cultural activities, Mormon and otherwise. Some popular annual cultural celebrations include:

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• First Night – New Year celebration
• Days of '47 – Salt Lake City's largest parade. Occurs every July 24th on Pioneer Day, a Utah state holiday commemorating the Mormon pioneers' entry into Salt Lake Valley
• Greek Festival – Weekend festival in September celebrating Utah's Greek heritage
• Portions of the Sundance Film Festival
• Utah Pride Festival – Salt Lake City's second largest parade (after Days of '47) which occurs every June, celebrating the city's diversity and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community.

Media

See also: List of Salt Lake City media, Salt Lake City in film

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List of Salt Lake City media - Salt Lake City in film

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As the capital and largest city in Utah, Salt Lake City has many diverse media outlets. Most of the major television and radio stations are based in or near the city.

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Media - Television - Radio

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Print media include newspapers, such as the one-time rivals The Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret Morning News (both major daily newspapers) as well as the relatively new alternative weekly, the Salt Lake City Weekly. Other more specialized publications include Nuestro Mundo of the Spanish speaking community and Salt Lake Metro of the LBGT community. There are many local magazines, such as Salt Lake Magazine, a bimonthly lifestyle magazine, and SLUG, "Salt Lake UnderGround", an alternative underground music magazine.

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Newspaper - The Salt Lake Tribune - Deseret Morning News - Alternative weekly - Salt Lake City Weekly - Nuestro Mundo - Salt Lake Metro - LBGT community - Magazine - Salt Lake Magazine - SLUG

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Salt Lake City is ranked as the 31st largest radiohttp://www.arbitron.com/radio_stations/mm001050.asp and 36th largest televisionhttp://www.nielsenmedia.com/DMAs.html market in the United States.

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KSL-TV, channel 5 is one of Utah's oldest television stations. KSL has downtown studios at "Broadcast House" in the Triad Center office complex. Most other television stations had, until recently moved out of the downtown core and relocated in the suburbs. However, KUTV was recently given a Redevelopment Agency (RDA) grant, and moved its studios to Main Street. Its newsdesk overlooks the street, with a large window behind the anchor desk.

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KSL-TV - Television - Triad Center - KUTV

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Because television and radio stations serve a larger area (usually the entire state of Utah, as well as parts of western Wyoming, southern Idaho and eastern Nevada) ratings returns tend to be higher than those in similar-sized cities. Some Salt Lake radio stations are carried on broadcast translator networks throughout the state.

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Wyoming - Idaho - Nevada - Broadcast translator

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Salt Lake City has become a case of market saturation on the FM dial; one cannot go through more than about two frequencies on an FM radio tuner before encountering another station broadcasting. A variety of companies, most notably Millcreek Broadcasting and Simmons Media, have constructed broadcast towers on Humpy Peak. These towers allow frequencies allocated to nearby mountain communities to be boosted by smaller, low-powered FM transmitters along the Wasatch Front. This practice has also occurred throughout major western U.S. population centers, mostly in areas where no large markets exist nearby. Other examples include Las Vegas, Phoenix and Denver.

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Market saturation - FM - Radio tuner - Millcreek Broadcasting - Simmons Media - Broadcast towers - Frequencies - Las Vegas - Phoenix - Denver

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Sites of interest

Main article: Buildings and sites of Salt Lake City

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Salt Lake City's downtown core houses an impressive collection of old and new structures with several twenty-plus story steel and glass towers adjacent to late nineteenth century brick and mortar. The tallest building in the city is the Wells Fargo Center, at 24 stories and 422 ft, although the LDS Church Office Building has more stories, at 28, and actually appears higher as it stands on slightly higher ground. The Wells Fargo is sometimes referred to as the American Stores Tower, but American Stores, a grocery chain, never moved in as it merged with Albertsons in 1999, and the building was subsequently sold to Wells Fargo. The third highest Salt Lake skyscraper is One Utah Center, adjacent to the Wells Fargo Center.

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Wells Fargo Center - LDS Church Office Building - American Stores - Albertsons - 1999 - Wells Fargo - One Utah Center

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As the headquarters for the LDS Church, several top tourists draws exist in and around the church's Temple Square campus downtown including the Salt Lake Temple, the historic Tabernacle, and the newer LDS Conference Center which seats about 20,000. The LDS Genealogical Library, just west of Temple Square, ranks among Utah's most popular tourist destinations (along with Temple Square and Zion National Park).

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LDS Church - Temple Square - Salt Lake Temple - Tabernacle - LDS Conference Center - LDS Genealogical Library - Zion National Park

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Another popular attraction is the architecturally unique Salt Lake City Public Library, also currently one of Utah's top attractions. The Utah Jazz play at the Delta Center in western downtown near Abravanel Hall, home of the Utah Symphony Orchestra.

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Salt Lake City Public Library - Utah Jazz - Delta Center - Abravanel Hall - Utah Symphony Orchestra

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Future plans for Salt Lake include the Living Earth Aquarium (which is already running on a limited scale at the Gateway Mall) and the Leonardo, which will be a multi-faceted art, culture, and science center. The Leonardo will be housed in the old Salt Lake City main library building. http://www.theleonardo.org/ At the east end of town the University of Utah contains the Utah Museum of Natural History and the Red Butte Garden and Arboretum at the mouth of Red Butte Canyon.

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Living Earth Aquarium - Gateway Mall - Leonardo - Art - Culture - Science - University of Utah - Utah Museum of Natural History - Red Butte Garden and Arboretum - Red Butte Canyon

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At the mouth of Emigration Canyon at the east end of town lies This Is The Place Heritage Park, a park that re-creates typical 19th century Mormon pioneer life. It is located at the point where Brigham Young stated "This is the right palce" when he looked out over the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Just across from This is the Place Heritage Park lies Hogle Zoo, which has recently bought empty land next to This is The Place for future expansion.

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Emigration Canyon - This Is The Place Heritage Park - 19th century - Mormon - Brigham Young - Salt Lake Valley - 1847 - Hogle Zoo

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