SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's internationally-acclaimed ski resorts are the main reason people visit Salt Lake City in the winter, but there are plenty of fun, free and interesting things to do in Salt Lake City while in the area and other times of year. Here's a sampling:

SALT LAKE CITY  — The renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir has marked a broadcasting milestone — 80 straight years of music and religious messages on radio and television.

Only a few of the thousands of kids in junior high and high school marching bands in Arizona are going to become professional musicians and odds are long on any becoming the next Louie Armstrong or Benny Goodman. But Cliff Bentley is living proof that the marching time and music study can pay off with something really rewarding.

Selling out a performance at the world-famous Tabernacle at Temple Square in Salt Lake City is an accommplishment in itself, but doing it in 20 minutes is extraordinary. Yet that’s what the East Valley Mormon Choral Organization has done, in just its second year of operation.

Athletes stretch before competing.

SALT LAKE CITY - Mormon church president Thomas S. Monson said Saturday the church has plans to build five new temples worldwide, three abroad and two in the United States.

SALT LAKE CITY - No one expects politics to be on the agenda when The Church of Jesus Chris of Latter-day Saints holds its semiannual General Conference this weekend.

Stan Way, a Latter-day Saint from Jasper, Ala., had just finished dinner out with some Mormon missionaries when he noticed a car slowing as it approached.

So it appears an NBA mascot shift is in the offing. New Orleans owner Tom Benson, who has been itching to change the name of his team since buying the struggling franchise, wants to rename the ill-titled Hornets – and call his team the New Orleans Pelicans.

Valley Mormons will gather today in stake centers or in front of TVs at homes for satellite and cable TV coverage of the 11 a.m. funeral services of their beloved president and prophet, Gordon B. Hinckley.

Joseph Smith, a Vermont farm boy who translated gold plates he found on a New York hilltop into the Book of Mormon, then birthed a worldwide church, was born 200 years ago Friday.

Joseph Smith, a Vermont farm boy who translated gold plates he found on a New York hilltop into the Book of Mormon, then birthed a worldwide church, was born 200 years ago Friday.

Lyric soprano Angela Johnson went about as far as she could go professionally with her voice in more than a quarter century of performing.

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