Erin Alberty
@erinalberty
Utah news reporter for Axios. Gardener, word puzzler, skier, haunter, Pulitzer-winner, mom. Happiest in the mountains.
I didn't actually realize "The Odyssey" was a Barbenheimer-level thing. This is a 35mm screening at the artsy movie theater.
Car died in Idaho Falls, and I gotta say: This town is thoroughly exceeding my expectations. Everyone I've met, from the tow guy on, has been thoughtful & interesting. We figured Sunday night would be dead, but the restaurants are bumping, the scene is diverse, & it's all more Seurat than Hopper.
Ah, the election night quest for a mood-appropriate Blake Moore photo on Getty after he wins a primary ...
OH MY GOD DO THEY NOT REALIZE THAT EVERY PERSON IN THE VICINITY OF SUGAR HOUSE IS LIKE ONE TRAFFIC CONE AWAY FROM BECOMING A TERRORIST
God clearly intended for this cherubic little boy soprano to be featured during this lyric in a YouTube video of the hymn "Abide With Me."
Flounder with paparazzi and fans after closing night of the Little Mermaid play at Dragon's school.
Sadly I didn't capture Ursula's harness-swoop to full terror, but you can see her in "Menacing Giant" form here:
Wait, your school's stage production of "The Little Mermaid" DIDN'T have silks aerialists?
Ariel's legs rip from her tailfin as she floats to humanity 'neath a laser light show.
So apparently this is what happens nowadays at the junior high school play. From my kid's seemingly-normal middle school:
This was the Olympic event whose result I was most excited for as a Utahn. HOLY SMOKES!
lol mixed snowboard cross doesnt even list the women in the rankings
As far as I can tell, Dems there have bent over backward to be pretty moderate & hometowny. People still see only blue haired antifa radicals, even when this is what they're looking at:
Students have walked out of SLC's Clayton Middle School & plan to march two miles to Liberty Park.
My friends hit a deer last night en route to our overnight mountain staycation in Midway. 😢 Someone left well-wishes overnight.
"The move came after officials at Roosevelt High School said armed U.S. Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
This was the conversation I had with my kid on the day of the Uvalde shooting.
Someone really made an effort to spoof the big Festival of Trees on Facebook.
My husband and I planted cacti on this brutally hot, shadeless roundabout so drivers would actually see the hazard and stop speeding. Hubs got the pots & watered them for two summers. Last night some bros on scooters crashed into this one, cackled with laughter and ran away.