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City Cast SLC all-star team from left to right: Ali Vallarta, Ivana Martinez, Emily Means, and Terina Ria. Photo by Natalie Simpson, Beehive Photography.<\/p>\n
We at Salt Lake<\/em> magazine need no convincing of Utah\u2019s bestness. We\u2019ve made it our business to celebrate the people, places, flavors, and local color that have made it one of the top places to live in the nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n So, while preparing this year\u2019s Best of the Beehive issue, we thought it high time to volley the question back to the people who know Utah best \u2014 you, the readers. Over the course of several months, voters nominated their favorite, well, everything: French fries to pet groomers, concert venues to donuts, thrift shops to wine bars. The thousands of nominations reaffirmed our long-held belief that there is no better place to call home than Utah. Read on for all winners and finalists from the Arts & Entertainment category.<\/p>\n 1st Utah Arts Festival<\/strong> Finalists:<\/strong> Living Traditions, Park Silly, Craft Lake City DIY Festival<\/p>\n 1st Gallery MAR<\/strong> Finalists:<\/strong> Modern West Fine Art, Urban Arts Gallery<\/p>\n 1st: Lagoon<\/strong> Finalists:<\/strong> Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, Hogle Zoo, Natural History Museum, Butterfly Biosphere<\/p>\n 1st Plan-B<\/strong> Finalists:<\/strong> Hale Center, Pioneer Theatre<\/p>\n 1st Days of \u201847 Festival<\/strong> Finalists:<\/strong> Avenues Street Fair, Utah Pride Festival, Living Traditions<\/p>\n 1st Red Butte Garden and Arboretum<\/strong> Finalists:<\/strong> The Depot, Kilby Court<\/p>\n 1st Broadway Centre Cinemas<\/strong> 1st UMOCA<\/strong> Finalists:<\/strong> Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Southern Utah Museum of Art<\/p>\n 1st Kilby Block Party<\/strong> Finalists:<\/strong> Ogden Music Festival, Red Butte Garden Outdoor Concert Series<\/p>\n 1st City Cast Salt Lake<\/strong> Finalists:<\/strong> Small Lake City Podcast, Aloreing Podcast<\/p>\n Find all of this year\u2019s Best of the Beehive<\/strong><\/a> coverage, and more \u201cBests\u201d from past issues. And while you\u2019re here, subscribe<\/strong><\/a> and get six issues of Salt Lake magazine<\/strong><\/a>, your curated guide to the best of life in Utah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source saltlakemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City Cast SLC all-star team from left to right: Ali Vallarta, Ivana Martinez, Emily Means, and Terina Ria. Photo by Natalie Simpson, Beehive Photography. We at Salt Lake magazine need no convincing of Utah\u2019s bestness. We\u2019ve made it our business to celebrate the people, places, flavors, and local color that have made it one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2482823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Best-of-the-Beehive-Art-Entertainment-\u2022-Salt-Lake.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482824,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482822\/revisions\/2482824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2482823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Art Festival<\/h2>\n
uaf.org<\/a><\/p>\nArt Gallery<\/h2>\n
gallerymar.com<\/a><\/p>\nAttractions<\/h2>\n
lagoonpark.com<\/a><\/p>\nCommunity Theatre<\/h2>\n
planbtheatre.org<\/a><\/p>\nCommunity Event<\/h2>\n
daysof47.com<\/a><\/p>\nConcert Venue<\/h2>\n
redbuttegarden.org<\/a><\/p>\nMovie Theatre<\/h2>\n
slf.org<\/a><\/p>\nMuseum<\/h2>\n
utahmoca.org<\/a><\/p>\nMusic Festival<\/h2>\n
kilbyblockparty.com<\/a><\/p>\nPodcast<\/h2>\n
saltlake.citycast.fm<\/a><\/p>\n
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