Entertainment in Utah
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Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
Many of SLC Arts Council's dramatic and musical theater performances are staged here.
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Club Try-Angles
Salt Lake City has Utah’s only gay scene, however limited. Pick up the free Salt Lake Metro for listings. The town’s gay-ish neighborhood is 9th and 9th (900 South and 900 East). Play pool and drink beer at Club Try-Angles
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Trapp
Salt Lake City has Utah’s only gay scene, however limited. Pick up the free Salt Lake Metro for listings. The town’s gay-ish neighborhood is 9th and 9th (900 South and 900 East). Play pool and drink beer at the Trapp.
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Capitol Theater
The Salt Lake City Arts Council (www.slcgov.com/arts) has a complete cultural-events calendar, which lists theater, dance, opera, symphony and free outdoor concerts. Primary venues include the historic Capitol Theater.
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Paper Moon
Nightclub boasting a big tube of lipstick and stripper poles; had a lesbian orientation, now attracts a mixed community.
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Abravanel Hall
The Salt Lake City Arts Council has a complete cultural-events calendar, which lists theater, dance, opera, symphony and free outdoor concerts. Primary venues include the acoustically rich Abravanel Hall.
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Porcupine Pub & Grill
Microbreweries are big in Utah. Porcupine Pub & Grill doesn’t brew its own but it has the state’s best on tap. Besides, cute skiers of both genders hang out here on their way back from mountain resorts.
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Area 51
Pay your respects to the alien just inside this two-story dance warehouse. DJs spin a mix of gothic-industrial, techno, rap and hip-hop on two dance floors, with a good straight and gay crowd and a section for clubgoers over 18.
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Bar-M Chuckwagon
Reserve ahead for a night of unapologetic tourist fun, 7 miles north of Moab. The evening starts with a gunfight in a faux Western town, followed by a cowboy Dutch-oven dinner and Western music show.
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No Name Saloon & Grill
There's a motorcycle hanging from the ceiling and Johnny Cash's 'Jackson' playing on the stereo at this memorabilia-filled bar.
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Cup of Joe
A modern urban coffee house, Joe’s serves some of the city’s best beans. Take a book from the exchange shelf or come for Friday night acoustic music or Saturday evening poetry.
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Red Door
Stir, sip and repeat at this slick industrial martini bar enveloped by deep-red walls. DJs take up residence on Friday and a three-piece jazz band wows the house on Saturday night.
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E Center
The International Hockey League's Utah Grizzlies play 8.5 miles outside of town.
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Canyonlands by Night & Day
Start with dinner riverside, then take an after-dark boat ride on the Colorado with an old-fashioned light show complete with historical narration.
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Spur
What an upscale Western bar should be: rustic walls, leather couches, roaring fire. Good grub, too. Live-music weekends.
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Bayou
Known almost as much for its Cajun specialties and pub grub as for its vast selection of beer; by day office workers dine, by night they party. Live music weekends.
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O'Shucks
The floor crunches with peanut shells at this hard-drinkin' bar for snowboarders and skiers. Tuesdays see $3 schooners (32 ounces) of beer.
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Café Marmalade
The upbeat coffee shop inside the Utah Pride Center has open mike nights, weekend BBQs and concerts, and the largest GLBT library in the state.
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Energy Solutions Arena
Utah Jazz, the men's professional basketball team, play downtown.
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Alchemy Coffee
Eclectic neighborhood café with overstuffed sofas and lots of noncaffeinated options. Saturday nights it brings in singer-songwriters.
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Trapp Door
SLC's largest gay dance club shakes its stuff five nights a week, with a highlight being the super-steamy Latin grooves on Sunday.
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Franklin Covey Field
Franklin Covey Field hosts the Salt Lake Bees baseball team, the AAA minor-league affiliate of the Anaheim Angels.
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Moab Arts & Recreation Center
The rec center hosts everything from yoga classes to contra dance parties and poetry gatherings.
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Tavernacle Social Club
Dueling pianos or karaoke nightly.
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Cisero's
Cisero's basement nightspot is happening seven days a week, with live music, karaoke and a dancefloor tricked out with lasers.
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