In Episode 29 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we gather around the virtual picnic table to discuss Vida, Muerte, Justicia / Life, Death, Justice, an exhibition of twenty-four Latin American and Latinx contemporary artists whose work responds to relevant themes in relation to social and racial justice.

In Episode 28 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we sit down at the Banyan Studio picnic table to discuss Social Undistance, an interdisciplinary exhibition and contemporary dance experience at Ogden Contemporary Arts Center that explores how shared isolation and limited physical connection impacts the human experience.

In Episode 27 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we gather around the Banyan Studio picnic table to reflect on the beautiful new Ogden City Public Art murals created by fine artist and muralist Don Rimx.

In Episode 26 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we had a great night on the patio of Ogden’s Lighthouse Lounge chatting with local musicians (The Proper Way’s) Scott Rogers and Shane Osguthorpe, and SLC photographer Natalie Haws (Beehive Photography), about the upcoming Season 2 of their popular music documentary series, Ogden City Limits.

In Episode 25 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we’re joined by Venessa Castagnoli, Executive Director of Ogden Contemporary Arts. OCA creates and shares globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advanced arts programing.

In Episode 24 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we’re joined by representatives from Sasaki, Union Creative Agency, IO Landarch and Ogden City, who make up the design team for the new Nine Rails Arts Plaza, an arts-based plaza in development on the SW corner of 25th St & Ogden Ave in Ogden, Utah.

In Episode 23 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we sit down with the cast and crew of Good Company Theatre’s You Bet Your Black Ass, Broadway: Divas-Only Edition!

In Episode 22 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, we connect with designer, entrepreneur, social catalyst, and Union Creative Founder, Jake McIntire, to discuss his stakeholder-centered design agency, successful collaboration, and the origins of the Nine Rails Creative District.

In Episode 21 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, The Banyan Collective sits down with SLUG Magazine Executive Editor and Craft Lake City Executive Director, Angela Brown, to discuss the First Annual Craft Lake City Holiday Market in Ogden at The Monarch. We are also joined by Ogden City Ex-Councilwoman and Utah Foster Care Representative, Amy Wicks.

This episode includes an interview with 01 Arts Artist in Residence, Wade Kavanaugh with guest Scott Patria.

In Episode 19 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, Moscow Ballet Audition Director and Soloist, Mariia Yevdokymova, and Onstage Ogden’s Andrew Barrett Watson, join us in our new Monarch recording studio to talk about the upcoming Great Russian Nutcracker.

n Episode 18 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, Weber Arts Council’s Diane Stern and Kathryn MacKay, along with Dramaturg, Cole Stern, and Playwright, Daniel Rattner, sit down with us at The Argo House to talk about their inaugural Wasatch Playwright’s Residency program.

Join us for an uncensored session of back-and-forth questions, confessions and music in The Proper Way’s Old Post Office studio.

Episode 16 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast takes us to Mount Ogden for Utah Symphony’s Patriotic Celebration at Snowbasin Resort. Broadway superstar, Hugh Panaro, and Guest Conductor, Michael Krajewski, and more!

This episode includes an interview with Reba Nissen & Michelle Tanner of the 12th Annual Ogden Music Festival. We also an include an update from Visit Ogden’s Sara Toliver on this weekend’s Spike 150 event - including information on how to volunteer, and how to best participate in all the events.

This episode includes an interview with Russ Adams of Ogden UnCon, Ogden’s untamed and unconventional pop culture convention on June 7-9.

In this episode we have ***BREAKING NEWS*** from Mikaela Shafer, Founder & Purveyor of the independent and well-established media arts community resource that is Indie Ogden.

This episode includes an interview with Thaine Fischer, Managing Member of Fischer Reagan Enterprises and Hard Hat Tour Guide of the Monarch Building in the center of the Nine Rails Arts District in Ogden, Utah

With the connection of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, along with other rail lines that went north and south of Ogden in the following years, Ogden was designated in 1874 as the junction location of the two railroad companies, earning it the nickname “Junction City.”

This Extract from Episode 3 features Sara Meess, a Project Coordinator with Ogden’s Business Development Department, who provides a behind the scenes history of how a Creative District is born.

In honor of Episode 10 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast, our house band The Proper Way gifted us with a new opening ditty, which revealed an uncensored glimpse into 9R host Todd Oberndorfer’s childhood. This episode features a conversation with Lorie Buckley, Derek Williamson, Regina Esparza, and Joel Kitamura; representatives from Ogden City Arts, Culture & Events’ new Information Kiosk/Café, The Corner.

Episode 9 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast takes us to Salt Lake City for Utah Arts Alliance’s second annual Illuminate Light Art & Technology Festival.

Utah Symphony Guest Conductor, Randall Craig Fleischer, in our Van Sessions #TanVan mobile studio, at Snowbasin Resort for Ogden Symphony Ballet Association’s Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald concert under the stars.

Episode 8 of the Nine Rails Arts Podcast features an interview with Collin Noortmann Chandler, Mark Seawell and Chris Miller, the artists behind Eccles Community Art Center’s November exhibition, “Relative Truth.”

Our first bilingual podcast! We spoke with Maria Salgado with WSU Ballet Folklorico and Leon Araujo, owner of local cafe Coffee Links to chat about the upcoming Mexican Holiday, Dia De Los Muertos, along with Irimelva Reyes, director of Tutulli Ballet Folklorico.

Interview with Ogden City Arts Coordinator, Lorie Buckley. Why a community should focus on the arts, Mayor's Awards in the Arts, First Friday Art Stroll, Ogden Twilight, and the new Nine Rails Arts District.

This episode includes an interview with James Argo of Industrial Art & Design and Jake McIntire of Union Creative Agency. We also spoke with Philadelphia-based BalletX Associate Artistic Director, Tara Keating, along with Dancer, Richard Villaverde.

Nine Rails Arts #Podcast Ep 5, w/Ink Dwell's WSU Hurst Artist-in-Residence, Jane Kim, & adventure journalist, Thayer Walker, WSU Dean of Arts & Humanities Scott Sprenger, & Matthew Choberka, Chair, Department of Visual Art & Design. Plus a LITerally reading, and a duet from NEXT Ensemble.

In Ep. 4, we are joined by the founders of Ink Dwell studio, science illustrator & muralist Jane Kim and adventure journalist Thayer Walker, as well as painter assistants, Laura Macias, Ash Ferlito and Fiorella Ikeue, to discuss Ink Dwell’s Migrating Mural campaign.

In Episode 3, we we chat with Ogden City Business Development Project Coordinator, Sara Meess for a behind-the-scenes look into the making of a Creative District. We also party on the porch with The Proper Way!

Ep. 89 - The Story Behind 25 Years of The Ogden Marathon

Ep. 88 - From Hockey to Restaurant Owner, Kevin Labatt joins us to chat Red Rock Taco! 🌮

Ep. 87 - Ogden Craft Beer with Roosters & Talisman

Ep. 86 - The Rose Club

Ep. 85 - Freeride World Tour Athlete & Ogden Local, Wynter McBride

Ep. 84 - The Book of Stoke!

Ep. 83 - Craft Lake City & Utah Rivers

Ep. 82 - Ogden’s Own Distillery

Ep. 81 - Horror Night & The Utah Book Festival

Ep. 80 - WSU Snowboard Club Presents Snowboard Movie Night

Ep. 79 - Mitten Durch Rock Experience & The NUT, Arts & Adventure on the Trails!

Ep. 78 - Wasatch Yoga Fest Comes to The Monarch, Ogden

Ep. 77 - Big Things Happening at The Ogden Dinosaur Park

Ep. 76 - Seak Peak at This Year’s Ogden Music Festival

Ep. 75 - The BIGGEST Event in Ogden Returns!

Ep. 74 - The Return of The Ogden Arts Festival and Why it Matters

Ep. 73 - 18 Years of Celebrating Climbing in Ogden

Ep. 72 - Travel & Film: Cycle Touring Thailand, Cambodia & Viet Nam with Abigail Hohmann

Ep. 71 - ARTISAN: Hand Crafted with Dylan Totaro &Happy Hippy Skis - Caleb & Liz

Ep. 70 - Good Snow Hunting | Troy Price, Snowbasin Sports Education Foundation Executive Director

Ep. 69 - Women of the Wasatch, Good Girl, and Doomscrolling // Ogden Arts & Adventure

Ep. 68 - 2024 Recap, Guest Love, & New Show Announcement

Ogden Arts and Adventure Show 67 - Sketchy Studios, Running Up For Air & Completing the Rocky Mtn. Slam!

Ogden Arts and Adventure Show 66 - 16th Generation Silver Smith & How to Save The Great Salt Lake!

Ogden Arts and Adventure Show 65 - Backcountry Education for Women & Stunning Metal Printing

Ogden Arts and Adventure Show 64 - Traditional Mexican Masks and Ogden Avalanche Backcountry Bash

Ogden Arts and Adventure Show 63 - Utah Arts Festival Update + A Photography & Snowboarding Love Story

Ogden Arts & Adventure Show 62 - Qigong & The Eco Location

Ogden Arts & Adventure Show 61 - Utah’s Best Ski Museum & Onstage Ogden Turns 75!

Ogden Arts & Adventure Show 60 - Literary Death Match 2024!

Bonneville on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Deb Fotheringham on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Runaway Fire on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Chris Williams & The Wild Hearts Band on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Fur Foxen Returns on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Modern Speed on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Ar Lewi on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Don’t Apologize on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Sunny Daze on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Kip Congo on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Kublaii on Van Sessions at The Monarch

The Boy In Blue on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Riley Rawlings Band on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Mel Soul & The Heartbeat on Van Sessions at The Monarch

J.Ezra on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Sammy Brue on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Lord Vox on Van Sessions at The Monarch

The Glitter Bombs on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Cannibal Queen on Van Sessions at The Monarch

The Last Wild Buffalo on Van Sessions, Backstage at The Ogden Music Festival

Herban Empire on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Karlie McKinnon on Van Sessions at The Monarch - 2025

Baja Baptism, an Imagine Music Rock Academy Band on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Car Alarm, an Imagine Music Rock Academy Band on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Rats, an Imagine Music Rock Academy Band on Van Sessions at The Monarch

YUDI on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Resonomics with SA Lopez and Smash Boogie are Th3 Recipe on Van Sessions!

Barrage à Trois on Van Sessions at The Monarch

Standards & Substandards on Van Sessions at The Monarch 2025

The Proper Way on Van Sessions at The Monarch 2025!

LITerally Ep. 61 - Kathryn Wilder, Desert Chrome: Water, A Woman, And Wild Horses In The West

LITerally Ep. 60 - High Plains Book Award WINNER, Craig Lancaster on BEING a WRITER

Bourbon, Beer & Books - Slaughterhouse Five

We talked with Adrian Stumpp about his book The Chemical Marriage. He told us his inspiration for this book was dull; it was anything but dull. It was awesome. You'll have to listen to understand.

We talked about a lot more than writing in this episode with author Taylor Garcia. We jumped into everything writers think about when writing that readers probably never know! Writing isn’t just putting words on paper. It’s a life. We delve into all of this.

Heather Mateus Sappenfield joins us on LITerally to talk about the challenge behind switching genres, voice changes, and viewing the world through the eyes of a child. It's a good one!

Marvel Comics author Ben Percy on Bourbon, Beer and Books

A breakdown of Fuller and fam.

Teresa Dovalpage, friend and author, joined us again. If she’d join us, we’d have her every week. Luckily enough, she just keeps publishing, giving us an excuse to have her on!

Essayist and poet Rob Carney on the podcast to talk about his new essay collection and his new poetry collection. We had fun in the Banyan one!

It was really, really awesome to talk to Larry Feign about his new novel that took years to research and to write. It’s an absolutely beautiful book, inside and out.

Amanda Kabak, author of the newly released novel titled UPENDED, joined us to talk about the book. It was great to talk about the evolution of this book, the characters, and their motivations.

David Gessner joined us to talk all things Henry David Thoreau, thoroughly, while talking about the craft of writing nonfiction and writing a book during the pandemic. Such a great conversation!

This month we discuss NNedi Okorafor's Remote Control, described on her website as, "science fiction of the Africanfuturist strain that knows aliens exist, quietly shows how technology is influenced by culture, features a powerful yet deeply-pained female protagonist, and wonders about the role of corporations in rural Africa."

Kase's pick, Rendezvous with Rama, is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Set in the 2130s, astronauts explore a cylindrical alien starship. How does this 1973 classic hold up?

Full of welcoming metaphors and more depth than anticipated, JAWS, the book, surprised us in a few ways. As Leigh noted, "Even when it's problematic...it's still trying to do stuff.”

Sometimes, it's just best to sit back, listen, and learn. Going into my interview with Paisley Rekdal, that was my plan, and I'm happy I stuck (mostly) to it because there's no reason to mess up a good hour of great, researched insight with my fumbling. So fortunate to have Utah's Poet Laureate and author of APPROPRIATE

Bourbon, Beer & Books Ep. 2 - The Sun Also Rises, gender fluidity, impotence, bull fighting, and whiskey Where does that type of trophy-hunting/prove-your-masculinity fit in today's literary scene?

From across the globe and from 12 hours in the future, Bradford Phelan joined us on the LITerally Podcast. Let's just say that I enjoyed the 'heck' out his book When the Color Started. Grab it.

LITerally podcast host Kase Johnstun along with co-hosts Leigh Camacho Rourks, Sean Davis, and Tia Brown discuss the phenomenon that was Twilight.

Today we spoke with Valerie Miner, author of numerous fiction, nonfiction, and poetry collections.

Think of this interview with Michael Kasdan, sports and special projects editor at The Good Men Project, like a time capsule from pre-election, pre-vaccine interview.

Authors M. Ellen Dash and Ali Meeks talked with the LITerally Podcast about their new book Conquer Your Fear of the Triathlon Swim.

Adrienne Christian shared poetry from her new book with us on the LITerally Podcast.

Sian Griffiths, writer and sometimes co-host of the literally podcast, joined us in the time of Covid, only a few miles from her house, via Zoom to talk about her new novel, Scrapple.

It's been a long time coming, but has time really passed over the last few months? Has it really? Here is our fun Literary Death Match Podcast from last year's event.

Sharon Harrigan joined us for the second time for her debut novel Half. It was our first time recording since we last saw each other before shutting it down for Covid. This was a great way for LITerally to jump back in!

Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Adirondack Review, Sugar House Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and other journals and anthologies. She is the author of The Marriage of the Moon and the Field (Black Lawrence Press 2019), and her poem “Rodeo” won New Ohio Review’s inaugural NORward Poetry Prize.

Poet and friend Laura Stott joined us in the Banyan Studio to read and talk about poems from her new book The Blue Nudes. It’s a great conversation about inspiration and verse and parenting and teaching!

Heather Sappenfield joined us via radio network. She bounced off satellites to join us. Well, she didn't, but I love that we got to talk to her from long distance. We chatted about writing, about the YA business, and about imagining worlds.