SLUG Magazine

April 2024

Water From The Wasatch Front: The Most Important Ingredient For Utah Distilleries

The Wasatch Front is a land of contrasts: towering mountains and wide valleys, bitter cold and scorching heat, “The Greatest Snow on Earth” and some of the worst drought conditions in the nation. These geographic variations are not only scenic; they also play a vital role in the state’s distilling industry … However, water is one of the most important geographic ingredients for Dented Brick Distillery and Ogden’s Own Distillery.

VISIT SALT LAKE

December 2021

Four Salt Lake Businesses that Help You Hit the Slopes

‘The Greatest Snow On Earth®’ has been on Utah’s license plate since 1985 for a reason. Learn more about four Salt Lake businesses that will help you experience Utah’s world-class resorts the right way.

Slug Magazine

October 2021

With Accessibility at its Heart, SLAC “Builds Back and Builds Better

Salt Lake Acting Company’s (SLAC) theater is housed in a 130-year-old former Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ward house, which both adds character and creates limitations in accessibility. Although making the building more accessible by installing an elevator to the Upstairs Theatre was a dream, the building’s age “always seemed like an excuse not to,” says Cynthia Fleming, SLAC’s Executive Artistic Director. However, through its partnerships with ASSIST Inc Community Design Center and cityhomeCOLLECTIVE, they used the pandemic-related shutdowns to “build back and build better” and make these dreams come true, Fleming says.

Slug Magazine

June 2021

Less Than One Mile Across the Arizona Border Sits Utah’s “Adopted” Edge Of The World Brewery

The twin cities of Colorado City (Arizona) and Hildale (Utah) have been known as the home for The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) and other fundamental-practicing Mormons for over a century. Even though their reputation is changing, this notoriety means many people may be shocked to learn that this area—dubbed “Short Creek”—is also home to a self-proclaimed “adopted Utah brewery” less than one mile across the Arizona border.

Relief Web

August 2019

How do you help break the cycle of poverty in Nepal’s poorest region?

Despite staggering rates of malnutrition in Jumla, one of Nepal’s poorest and most remote districts, international aid organizations are struggling to solve it. However, one Nepali NGO is committed to taking on the task.

Relief Web

March 2019

One brick at a time: Rebuilding Giranchaur

The 7.8-magnitude earthquake in 2015 destroyed Nepal — killing nearly 9,000 people, injuring 22,000 and displacing 450,000. The nation was in rubble, and the homes of Tamang and Giranchaur’s 350 villagers were destroyed.

Forbes Asia

October 2018

CG: Taking Wai Wai to the World

After noticing people carrying boxes of pre- cooked noodles at Kathmandu’s interna- tional airport, Binod Chaudhary, chairman of the group, came up with the idea of Wai Wai instant noodles.

WC Forum Media

Co-authored with Taylor Stevens

December 2017

Former Westminster College student says Title IX system “failed” her, led her to transfer

Madison Mansfield thought the night her ex-boyfriend shattered her nose and attempted to strangle her would be the one of the worst experiences of her life. 

But, she said, the ensuing months-long Title IX investigation at Westminster College — which fell far outside guidelines for resolving complaints from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) — may have come close.

WC Forum Media

Co-authored with Berin Klawiter

August 2017

“If it’s not from Bucaramanga, it’s crap.”

It was inevitable that Deyanira Ariza-Velasco, an associate professor of Spanish at Westminster College, would become an educated, powerful and successful woman.

She was her mother’s daughter after all, she said.

WC Forum Media

December 2017

Students start sex work to pay tuition at Westminster College

One October day, Kaylee dressed in high-waisted short shorts and a homemade striped crop top to meet Jay at a local coffee shop. They agreed to meet over coffee before Kaylee gave him the advertised $150 “fuck of his life.”

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