Draper's old dairy barn fills with art Friday, The Head and the Heart plays Sandy, and the airport rebuild reaches its last gates

Art in the Barn puts roughly fifty Utah artists inside and around a hundred-year-old dairy barn for two days, with paintings, sculpture, pottery and photography, all of it hung to be bought. Walking in costs nothing. There are food trucks, musicians playing through the day, and a kids' craft table, which is the difference between a show you visit for twenty minutes and a show you spend an afternoon at. The Draper Visual Arts Foundation has run some version of this for about a decade and settled on this name and this building in 2018. The building is the story. Elias John and his sons put the barn up on the Day dairy farm in the early 1920s, nearly lost the place in the Depression, and kept going long enough to be named Utah's Holstein Breeder of the Year in 1987. When the farm finally went, members of Draper's historic preservation commission bought the barn at auction for $900. In May 2010 crews lifted it off its foundation and rolled it up city streets to the park on Pioneer Road, where it sits on a new foundation with 2,087 square feet of floor inside. Here is the part that changes how you walk it. The show outgrew the barn years ago, so half the artists are now under tents on the lawn. Booth space inside the barn costs an artist $75 and a tent outside costs $50, which means the lawn is where the newer names are and where the prices start lower. The committee that picks the roster leans toward local people who are not full-time professionals, so this is not gallery pricing either way. Friday runs to 8 and Saturday closes at 7, and with storms possible Saturday afternoon, Friday evening is the visit to plan on.

The final phase of the new airport is sixteen gates built out along the east end of Concourse B. Five of them opened in the fall of 2025, four more came online in July, and the last seven open October 27 along with about a dozen new shops and restaurants. That closes the book on a rebuild that has been adding pieces to a terminal since it opened in 2020, and it takes the finished airport to 94 gates for a project that ran roughly $5 billion.

869 wildfires have burned 537,358 acres across the state this season, a record for woodland and forest burned in Utah, and suppression on the ten largest fires alone has run $216.9 million across all the agencies involved. Most of the fires were human-caused. The valley has spent a good share of July and August looking at the result rather than the fire itself, the days when the Oquirrhs go flat and gray by mid-afternoon. The encouraging number in the same report is that 91 percent of this year's fires were held to ten acres or less. The handful that got away did nearly all of it, and the worst of them, down in Beaver County, destroyed more than 200 properties including a ski resort.

The Seattle band brings its Saturday show to the bench in Sandy with Noah Rinker and Little Moon on the bill ahead of them. Gates and the first set run early, at 6:30, and tickets have been starting around $70.

Ronstadt Live plays the Holladay summer series at City Hall Park, an 8 p.m. start on the lawn with no ticket, no gate and no seating. Bring a blanket or a chair and whatever you want to eat.

Salt Lake gets FC Dallas at America First Field at 7:30 tonight, the last match of a three-game home run. They have not lost in five across all competitions and they have not won in MLS since May 16, which is the same team described two different ways.

Salt Lake was down going to the eighth on Tuesday, loaded the bases, and came out of the inning with a 6-5 lead it did not hand back. This is the second-to-last homestand of the year and it runs through Sunday in Daybreak.

Anny Sooksri opened this room on 5th Avenue in Murray in 2006, cooking the food she learned helping her grandmother and aunts, and she has since built several restaurants around the valley off the back of it. Order the Massaman curry. The pad Thai and the tom yum are what regulars get without reading the menu, and the fresh spring rolls are worth adding. The thing to know before you order anything is the heat scale, which runs one to ten and is not decorative: Sooksri says flatly that this is the hottest Thai food in Utah and tells first-timers to order mild.

Copperton sits at the mouth of Bingham Canyon, about seventeen miles southwest of downtown, and it is the only community still standing near the mine. The Utah Copper Company laid it out in 1926 as housing for mine families and, at the same time, as a sales floor. Copper roofs, copper rain gutters, copper window frames, even a few prefabricated copper houses, all of it built so visiting buyers could be driven out and shown the metal doing something other than sitting in a wire. Eighteen houses went up the first year, 204 by 1941. A five-room company house rented for $27.50 a month with the upkeep included. The company got out of the housing business in 1956 and sold the houses to the people living in them, the district went on the National Register in 1986, and the tree-lined grid and the park are still there.

Friday through Sunday in South Salt Lake, and Saturday and Sunday cost nothing at the gate.

Friday evening at the amphitheater in West Valley City, doors early.

Playing through the weekend in Taylorsville.

Crews are repaving the stretch between 13400 South in Riverton and Porter Rockwell Boulevard in Herriman, and every night from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. short sections narrow to one lane in each direction. That schedule runs through September. The asphalt coming out is the original 2012 surface, the first ever laid on that part of the corridor, and pulling it now is the setup for the far bigger job behind it: starting in 2027 this segment gets rebuilt as an actual freeway, grade-separated, two lanes each direction. For anyone commuting out of the southwest valley, the nights are the inconvenience and 2027 is the real one.

The store at 5561 W. 7800 South now has permanent signage installed, which is usually the last thing that happens before a date gets announced. West Jordan confirmed the store in May and has said it opens this year, once the final phases of the surrounding development finish. A second Utah store is planned for Daybreak, which would take the southwest corner of the county from none to two inside a fairly short window.

Ida M. Cotten Park at 1815 S. 300 East shut its gates Monday and does not fully reopen until spring 2027, in for a new playground, rebuilt walkways, fresh plantings and irrigation, and lighting. Miller Bird Refuge and Nature Park at 1540 S. Bonneview Drive in Yalecrest closes August 24 and comes back in December, getting historic masonry repairs, extended concrete steps, stabilized trails and vegetation work meant to cut the fire risk in the gully. They join Donner Trail Park and Pioneer Park, both already deep in phases of the same wave of work, and Madsen, Jordan and Poplar are lined up behind them.