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Food & Drink: Hotels and restaurants sell alcoholic beverages and wine. The centre of Salt Lake City offers a variety of ethnic restaurants, with inexpensive eateries on the outer fringe. The main shopping malls, Crossroads Mall and ZCMI Mall on Main Street, have food courts.

Theatres & Concerts: In 1899, the third Legislature authorised the nation’s first publicly funded arts council. It supports the Utah Symphony, the Ballet West, the Utah Opera Company and Repertory Dance Theatre, among others. The State has many theatres and art galleries. Cedar City hosts the nationally acclaimed Shakespearean Festival, and Salt Lake City boasts two professional theatre companies. In Logan, the Festival Opera Company performs in a restored theatre. Utah is also home to the Sundance Film Festival, the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Sport: Skiing is a popular sport in Utah. The 2002 Olympic Winter Games took place in Utah during February and the public can enjoy most of these winter facilities. The State has 14 ski resorts, seven of which are less than an hour’s drive from Salt Lake City. These include Alta Ski Resort, Beaver Mountain, Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, Park City, The Canyons Ski Area and Deer Valley Resort. Seven snowmobile complexes are located across the State, linking hundreds of miles of trails systems. Several ski resorts now offer summer chairlifts and mountain biking.
Boating is also a popular sport in Utah – the State offers the sixth-largest area of navigable water in the USA. Colorado, Green and San Juan Rivers are renowned for their rapids and the possibility of whitewater rafting. Utah’s golf courses are famous for their scenery, conditions and variety.

Special Events: The following is a selection of special events occurring in Utah in 2005:
Jan 20-30 Sundance Film Festival, Park City. Feb 17-19 Crescent Jazz Festival, Orem. Apr 7-9 Baby Animal Days, Wellsville. May 28-29 Annual Moab Arts Festival. Jun 9-11 Great American West Rodeo, Logan. Jun 16-18/21-26 Mormon Miracle Pageant (Utah’s biggest outdoor pageant), Manti. Jun 18 Pony Express Day, Clarkston. Jun 23-25 Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City. Jul 1-4 American Freedom Festival, Provo. Jul 14-16 Annual Ute Stampede, Nephi. Jul 16-24 Ogden Pioneer Days. Jul 24 Days of '47 Pioneer Day Celebration, Salt Lake City. Jul 29-Aug 6 Utah Festival of the American West, Logan. Aug 26-27 Trout & Berry Days, Paradise. Sep 2-17 Moab Music Festival. Sep 17 Top of Utah Marathon, Blacksmith Fork Canyon to Merlin Olsen park. Sep 25 Fall Harvest Festival, Wellsville. Oct 30 Pumpkin Day, Wellsville. Nov 25-Jan 2 2006 Christmas Lighting of Temple Square, Salt Lake City.