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Best Of UV 2012

This year’s Best of Utah Valley Contest is one for the books — and our magazine pages.

Piece on earth

Growing up outside Boise, Eric Dowdle became a colorful BYU Cougar fan. As he religiously followed the football team, images of Provo were painted in his mind. Everyone looked cool, happy, confident, funny, smart — and LDS. His idyllic imagery of the college town drew him to the area as an adult.

Friday Freebie: And the winner is … Wendy!

Congratulations Wendy. You are the lucky winner of our Hale Center Theater giveaway! Stay tuned for more awesome giveaways on the blog.  

Celebrity Look-alikes

Colby Acree, Rachel Prestwich, Riley Galt, Andrea Newmeyer, Brandon Haslam, Keri Meservy, Olivia Love McCord, David J. Griffiths, Dave Krout, Chandler J. Oborn,

Lady First

Jeanette Herbert keeps one foot in Orem and the other in the governor’s mansion

Almost Famous

Hey, has anyone ever told you that you look like Gary LeVox from Rascal Flatts? Spencer Measom (above) from Spanish Fork sure has. What about Jennifer Aniston? Sarah Palin? Lance Armstrong? If you have, you’re in luck. We’re hosting our annual Celebrity Lookalike Contest! And you, my friend, need to send in pics on the [...]

Father And Law

Vern Law pitched in the 1960 World Series and took home the Cy Young Award the same year. But his favorite stats are about his six children, 31 grandchildren and nearly 24 great-grandchildren. The posterity he sees most often is Vance Law, his third oldest son and the head baseball coach at BYU. The two [...]

We Got Jimmered!

Jimmer Fredette may be the favorite son of Glens Falls, New York, but he has a second family in Utah Valley that sacrifices vocal chords to support him every Wednesday and Saturday.

Utah County has a serious case of Jimmer fever. The condition spreads at work, church and PTA meetings. Even grandmas and girls aren’t immune. Jimmer Fredette is a condition known around the nation, but Utah Valley is tightly attached to our headliner. Utah Valley Magazine banked a few hard-to-come-by minutes with The Jimmer.

The Bee’s Nies

One of the first questions Stephanie Nielson asked when she woke up from a 10-week medically-induced coma was, “Will I be able to have more children?”

The doctors were focused on healing the burns covering 80 percent of her body and managing the narcotics needed for nerve pain after the plane crash in August 2008.

They told her having more children probably wasn’t in the cards for her.

She wouldn’t accept the answer she’d been dealt, so she did what any frail 27-year-old wife and mother of four who nearly died in a plane crash would do: she bought her own “card table” with sturdy seating for eight.

“I’m going to fill up this table,” Stephanie says. “It is possible for us to have more children, and I’ve been working on getting off my medications so my body can be ready.”

Mr. McLean’s Christmas

 When Michael McLean produced “Mr. Krueger’s Christmas” 30 years ago, he was practically a little drummer boy. In his late 20s, Michael had no business working with the legendary Jimmy Stewart to produce a holiday film featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. But he’s never forgotten what he learned from the class act who also starred in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” In fact, Michael’s memories of creating the LDS holiday favorite film inspire him as he leads a Christmas tour reminding audiences of the true meaning of Christmas.
 Now in its 19th year, “The Forgotten Carols” has become a holiday tradition as it tours the West in November and December. From the humming, strumming “Homeless” to “The Innkeeper” pleading with us to let Him in, the story adds a jingle, a jangle and a juxtaposition to the Christmas story and its application to modern-day.