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Rapid-fire recs from a food writer
October 3, 2023
Good morning! It’s haunting season. Do you have a favorite haunted house? I like that they’re one of the only socially acceptable places you can scream at the top of your lungs as an adult.
What's CITY Talking About?
Best Haunted House
Salt Lake City’s Nightmare on 13th ranked in the top three haunted houses in the nation, according to America Haunts. It was recognized for consistently raising the fear bar year after year. Nightmare on 13th, which was originally called The Institute of Terror Haunted House, opened in 1990. [ABC 4]
Free Video Streaming
The Salt Lake City Library has a free streaming service called Kanopy where you can access over 30,000 TV shows and movies (five views a month are ad-free) with your library card. I’d recommend watching “Minari” and “The Worst Person on Earth.” What are you watching? [Instagram]
- Related: What can’t the library do? [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]
School Closures
Student enrollment in the Salt Lake City School District has dropped nearly 30% in the past decade. And the district thinks it will have to close some elementary schools as a result, but which ones? So far this process has a lot of us reeling. Spreadsheets are already circulating, parents are pissed, and theories are being traded. But, whose opinion matters most? [City Cast Salt Lake 🎧]
What To Do
CatVideoFest 😺 Tuesday | 7 p.m.
Watch the ultimate compilation of cat videos at the Broadway Centre Cinemas to help raise money for local cats in need. [$12, Downtown SLC]
Glass Mosaics 🎨 Wednesday | 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Learn to make glass mosaics at South Salt Lake Community Center. The course is every Wednesday for four weeks (Oct. 4-Oct. 25). [$20 resident/$60 non-resident, South Salt Lake]
Latinx in the Field 💼 Thursday | 4-6 p.m.
Salt Lake Community College and the Jordan River Nature Center are hosting an interdisciplinary panel discussion with Latinx professionals in the fields of city government, medicine, biology, and cultural anthropology. Afterward, take a tour by the Jordan River. [Free, South Salt Lake]
Today on City Cast
SLC School District Answers Our Questions About School Closures
The Salt Lake City School District is looking at closing a handful of elementary schools and changing boundaries for the remainder as it faces nearly a decade of declining enrollment. As Salt Lake reels over this decision making process, host Ali Vallarta asks SLC Schools Communications Director Yándary Chatwin some of our most burning questions. Like, whose opinion matters most in this process?
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