City Cast Salt Lake

Lead producer Emily Means joins Ali to round up this week’s news.Call or text the City Cast hotline anytime at (801) 203-0137. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

Craft Lake City is not just for knitters! Founder Angela H. Brown shares how Salt Lake’s formative makers market brings together punk DIY-ers and suburban crafters alike.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSaltLake and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

Have you ever woken up one morning (or afternoon), and thought to yourself, “Man, I could really use a breakfast burrito”? It’s an essential part of the human experience. On today’s show, Ali talks with breakfast burrito enthusiast Shireen Ghorbani about her quest to find The Best (TM) breakfast burrito in Salt Lake — and her pick for number one.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSaltLake and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

The Salt Lake Tribune’s Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen explains why the Jazz would want to trade 25-year-old rockstar player Donovan Mitchell, and how we might have more fun letting go of title talk. Plus, Ali is excited the Jazz are playing their first pre-season game in Canada.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSaltLake and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

Is it tough to be a virgin in today’s society? That’s what members of the Brigham Young Virginity Club seem to think. It’s an Instagram page that claims to be a “Utah-based club dedicated to preserving and promoting Virginity on college campuses.” And they’re very clear that they have “no affiliation with BYU.”What’s not clear is whether the page is serious or satire. Ali and two former BYU students, Cassie Bingham and Shelby Hintze, break down who the page is for, if it’s a productive way of discussing purity culture, and whether everyone is in on the joke.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSaltLake and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

Lead producer Emily Means joins Ali to round up this week’s news. Wanna catch a ball game this weekend? Find Bees tickets here.Call or text the City Cast hotline at (801) 203-0137. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here. You can find us on Instagram @CityCastSaltLake and Twitter @CityCastSLC.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

Is bad air quality in the valley sneaking into our homes? We ask Dr. Kerry Kelly, associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Utah.A few of Dr. Kelly’s recommendations: How to make a DIY box air filter; PurpleAir Quality Sensors (a Salt Lake company!); and Tellus Air Quality Sensors from the U.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

Salt Lake County Health Department Spokesperson Nicholas Rupp answers some of our most pressing questions about monkeypox. Get up-to-date information on monkeypox in Salt Lake and vaccine appointment availability atslco.org/health.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

Ali talks to Addison Jenkins, a Salt Laker who is dealing with monkeypox and has some experiences to share with all of us. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.

If you’ve been camping in neighboring states this summer, you might have noticed that gas prices are higher in Utah! Nazneen Ahmad, an economics professor at Weber State University, explains how we got here and if relief is in sight.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise.