Zach Bryan fills Rice-Eccles tonight, Newsies opens in West Valley, and an $85 Sicilian tasting menu lands in Central Ninth

The With Heaven On Tour reaches Salt Lake City tonight for a stadium show at Rice-Eccles, doors into an open bowl on a 102-degree Friday with the music starting at 7. Two support acts play ahead of him, so Bryan himself is a while off from the first note. The heat is the whole planning problem. The sun does not drop behind the west rim of the stadium until around 8:30, which means the first ninety minutes of this show happen in full evening sun on concrete. Anyone in the upper bowl on the east side gets shade first, and anyone who walks in at 6:45 with no water is going to have a rough hour. Parking is the other thing people get wrong. The stadium sells parking in advance through Ticketmaster rather than at a gate, so showing up hoping to buy a spot on the way in is not a plan. The TRAX Red Line drops off directly in front of the stadium, and the trains hold on the platform after the show ends rather than running off empty, which is the single best argument for leaving the car at home tonight.

The Cypress Fire started Thursday on private land just south of SR-201 in Magna and burned 21.6 acres of grass, brush, and thick Russian olive before crews stopped its forward progress. Residents of the Colony Farms townhomes were told to evacuate and the order was later lifted, though people could not get back in while road closures held. Fire hydrants along 7200 South were not working when crews arrived, which is why those roads shut down in the first place; they have since been repaired. Most of the heavy smoke that people across the valley saw Thursday came from a junk pile burning on the northwest side of the fire.

Two separate apartment complexes cleared a real procedural step this week when developers filed demolition permits, the move that clears the sites and puts a shovel date within reach. Together the two buildings would add more than 200 income-restricted units, one in Fairpark on the west side and one in the Ballpark neighborhood south of downtown. Both are the kind of project that spends years in drawings and review, so a demo permit is the first thing a neighbor actually sees. The two neighborhoods have been the focus of most of the city's affordable pipeline for the past few years, and this pushes that pipeline closer to real buildings.

West Jordan's First Friday concert lands tonight with Wildwood Duo playing country pop outside at Veterans Memorial Park, next to the Viridian Event Center. Lawn games start at 6:30 and the music goes at 8. No tickets, no registration, nothing to reserve.

Parker Theatre has Edmond Rostand's Cyrano running on State Street, the swordsman with the nose and the ghostwritten love letters. Adults are $32 and anyone 17 and under is $23.

Real Salt Lake opened the Leagues Cup at home Tuesday against Tigres UANL and went to a shootout after a 1-1 draw, where five RSL takers converted before Zach Booth hit the post. Tigres made all six. The draw is still worth a point in the group table, and the next one comes Saturday night in Sandy.

Oklahoma City opened this six-game series with a 10-6 win at The Ballpark and kept going from there, running the Bees' losing streak to nine by midweek. Salt Lake sat at 49-59 overall and 10-24 in the second half after that opener. The series runs through Sunday.

Utah football started camp Monday at the Eccles Football Center, the first one Scalley runs as the head man after years as the defensive coordinator. Rebuilding the offensive line is the storyline everyone is watching. The Utes get four weeks before anybody keeps score.

Leonardo Li Mura grew up cooking in Catania and now runs a Sicilian kitchen on 900 South, and he has just put on a five-course tasting menu at $85 a head. It opens with a 48-hour focaccia under blood orange butter and moves through citrus-cured amberjack, gemellini with Sicilian pistachio and speck, and rolled swordfish with caponata before an olive oil cake with olive oil gelato. Wine pairings start at $50, and the reserve pairing built on Etna bottles runs $100.

Fourteen miles up Big Cottonwood Canyon, across from the Brighton store, a one-mile loop runs around an alpine lake on a boardwalk flat enough for a stroller or a wheelchair. Interpretive signs line the route, the fishing is legal off the deck, and moose turn up along the willows often enough that people stop expecting it to be special. The boardwalk is open May through October.

Saturday noon to 10 and Sunday noon to 6 at the Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City, with Kid Row open Saturday only.

Saturday night at City Hall Park in Holladay, the Will Baxter Band, free.

Friday and Saturday in downtown Salt Lake City, two shows a night at 6:30 and 9.

A King Air 350 has started twice-daily runs over the valley this month, spiraling between 200 and 4,000 feet above the ground and dropping as low as 200 feet over the lake itself. Instruments on board measure the volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides that cook into summer ozone. Researchers from the University of Wyoming, Montana, Colorado State, NASA, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the state Division of Air Quality are all on the project, and one line of the work looks at what wildfire smoke does to ozone formation, which is a question this summer keeps asking. The point of collecting it is to shape state air quality policy.

UTA started construction this summer on the first extension the Sugar House streetcar has ever had. The line currently stops at McClelland Street just north of Fairmont Park, and the new track pushes it a quarter mile east across Highland Drive to a station near Simpson Avenue, closer to the actual business district and the university health center there. New traffic signals go in at McClelland, 1100 East, and Highland Drive. A slice of Sugarmont between McClelland and Highland closes to cars, with the Parley's Trail connection kept open. Service on the extension is targeted for 2027 after testing.

A developer filed plans this week for The Hank, a four-story building with 21 for-sale condominiums at 662 S. West Temple in south downtown. Small for-sale projects have been the rare thing in Salt Lake City through the apartment boom, since condos carry construction defect risk that rentals do not and financing has favored the landlord side of the ledger. Three separate condo proposals have now surfaced downtown inside of about two weeks, which starts to look like a shift in what pencils out.