City Cast Salt Lake
City Cast
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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Mar 9, 2022 • 17min
Coming Soon: Saborrrr!
Writer and director Gianfranco Fernandez Ruiz talks with Ali about his new film Saborrrr!, food traditions, and careful casting.Subscribe to our daily newsletter here.
Mar 8, 2022 • 16min
Supporting Salt Lake’s Trans Community
Sue Robbins, a member of Equality Utah's Transgender Advisory Council is here to reflect on the passage and subsequent veto of HB 11, a ban on transgender kids participation in sports, and the lessons we take forward with us. At the end of the show, Ali recommends supporting Gender Bands, Restoring Ancestral Winds, and Project Rainbow Utah. Have you signed up for our daily newsletter?
Mar 7, 2022 • 15min
Ground Rules for a More Inclusive Climbing Gym
Newsletter Editor Madeline McGill talks with Amelia Howe, a Senior Policy Associate at the American Alpine Club and Cody Kaemmerlin, a Board Member for the Salt Lake Climbers Alliance about how to make Salt Lake’s climbing gyms more inclusive spaces.Climb higher with our daily newsletter. Sign up here.
Mar 4, 2022 • 25min
20 is Plenty, Drivers Licenses, and Education Bills
It’s Friday, which means we’re looking back on the week with fun and thoughtful Salt Lakers. This week, Ali is joined by Utah Education Association president Heidi Matthews and Building Salt Lake Editor Taylor Anderson.Now that we've looked back on the week, let's look forward to the week ahead. Subscribe to our daily newsletter for all the comings and goings around town.
Mar 3, 2022 • 18min
A Land Back Project on the Bear River
If you follow the Bear River north from the Great Salt Lake up to Preston, Idaho you will reach the site of the Bear River Massacre of Shoshone people of 1863. In 2018, the Shoshone Nation bought the land back and it’s now a site of restorative healing – both ecological and historical. Darren Parry, the former Chairman of Shoshone Nation, joins Ali to tell the story of this project.Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter here.
Mar 2, 2022 • 17min
Music is a Cure for the Pandemic Blues
Folk singer Alicia Stockman talks to Ali about writing a pandemic album and the re-opening of Salt Lake music venues.Check out Alicia's new album, These Four Walls.Subscribe to our daily newsletter here.
Mar 1, 2022 • 14min
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. Ali talks about lessons learned with Connor Dunstan and Alex Fielder, students at the U who host The Red Line Transit Podcast.All Aboard! Sign up for our daily newsletter here.
Feb 28, 2022 • 14min
Quiet Streets, 3rd Space, and Salt Lake Below
SLC poet RJ Walker contrasts Salt Lake’s manicured streets with Salt Lake below.Our daily newsletter is poetry. Sign up for it here.
Feb 25, 2022 • 19min
COVID Testing, Clean Air Bills, and the DABC
It’s Friday, which means we’re looking back on the week with fun and thoughtful Salt Lakers. To do so, Ali is joined by birth-worker and activist Ashley Finley and HEAL Utah’s Policy Associate Alex Veilleux.Want to look forward to the week ahead? Subscribe to our daily, morning newsletter.
Feb 24, 2022 • 13min
Let Teachers Teach
Under mounting pressure from state and local governments to legislate race out of their curriculum, how are Salt Lake’s teachers supposed to teach and celebrate Black History Month in peace?Ali connects with Michelle Love-Day, founder of RISE, a virtual academy that teaches Black History to students around the state.City Cast Salt Lake is more than a podcast; it's a daily newsletter, too. Sign up here.
