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lice Bain Toler is a local writer and visionary artist. "I've really been inspired by the richness of ornamentation that you get with the old Byzantine iconography, and I wanted to combine that with my love of birds to create something new. I work in gouache (instead of the
more traditional egg tempera) on hardwood veneer board and I apply metal leaf to create the highlights and the halos. It's a tremendously fun process." Alice also creates sculptures out of paper mache and plaster, and makes lighted 3D works incorporating LEDs. She has written for Catalyst for several years now. N
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Transit-disoriented development Legislative audit of UTA reveals serious conflicts of interest
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ne usually thinks of vast open spaces when one thinks of antelope. To my surprise, both met my eyes the first time I took TRAX to the end of the Red Line. No, not the U of U end of the line, the Daybreak station at 110th South and 51st West. There, prancing in the “brownfields” on the south bank of much-abused Bingham Creek, were half a dozen antelope. A half mile to the east, downtown Daybreak sat
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among the heavy metal-laced soils that bear testimony to one of Kennecott Copper’s failed attempts at keeping “externalities” external. Evaporation ponds for the toxic runoff from Kennecott’s open sores on the Oquirrhs left the soil so contaminated that Daybreak residents must sign an agreement not to grow vegetable gardens in it. To the west rose the Oquirrh Mountains and Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon mine, where a large cloud of dust from a mining blast rose high above the rim of the mine, giving lie to Kennecott’s claim that most of the air pollution produced in the pit stays within the pit. I’ve always wondered why the Utah Transit Authority built a TRAX line out to Daybreak, when so many other deserving destinations beckoned. The answer, I suspect, lies in the shadowy machinations of UTA’s management and board of directors. Machinations of the sort revealed in a legislative audit of the Utah Transit Authority commis-
The biggest problem with Transit Oriented Development is that it tends to attract high-end (expensive) housing and retail which, in turn, attract the very type of people who are least likely to use mass transit. sioned by Utah Senator John Valentine released in August. I have no proof that Kennecott Land got any special treatment. But why else would UTA build a light rail line to one of the most sparsely populated parts of the valley? Likely to boost the value of Kennecott Land’s way-the-hell-andgone Daybreak development. The TRAX station at Daybreak was probably the seed for UTA’s avid embrace of Transit Oriented Development. TOD is essentially a scheme to grow ridership by encouraging high-density development along TRAX lines by giving developers incentives in the form of tax breaks and sweetheart deals.
The biggest problem with Transit Oriented Development is that it tends to attract high-end (expensive) housing and retail which, in turn, attract the very type of people who are least likely to use mass transit. It’s sort of an “if you build it, you’re going to have to build even more before they come” situation. Two vast, practically empty, threestory parking structures built on the wrong side of the very busy Bangerter Highway across from metastic Jordan Landing Maul bear witness to the futility of such schemes I’m betting these parking structure won’t be fully utilized before UTA’s current management and the developers are enjoying very comfortable retirements. The audit details the exorbitant salaries granted to UTA management and the lucrative deals to developers. The highest UTA salary amounts to about 1% of UTA’s fare box collections. One developer got an advance of $10 million. That’s enough money to pay for two months of fare holiday for every UTA rider. What Transit Oriented Development rea ly means is taxpayer-funded development. The legislative audit, the third in four years, revealed serious conflicts of interest by members of the board, as well as a strangely tunnel-vision view of the future: a future full of big-ticket projects and attendant debt and maintenance burdens, but little money to pay the debt without cutting routes and service hours, or raising fares or sales taxes. Part of the problem lies in the sources of UTA’s funding for its TRAX and FrontRunner projects. Federal mass transit matching funds encouraged UTA to incur high levels of debt to build projects that may not fit the needs of Utah’s commuters – Front Runner and the Sugar House Trolley have struggled to meet expected usage levels. The federal money has dried up and a large portion of current sales tax and fare revenues are now being used to repay current debt The biggest problem with UTA is the nature of its governing body. The board of directors is made up of 15 appointees/cronies from the cities and counties along the Wasatch Front, as well as appointees/cronies appointed b the president of the Utah Senate and the Speaker of the House. No member is directly responsible to voters or taxpayers. They don’t even seem to be responsible to riders. A recent challenge by the Utah Transit Riders Union for board members to use UTA for their transportation needs for seven days resulted in only three board members’ participation. The Utah Transit Authority has no business being in the development business. Utah should let market forces drive development. N John R. deJong is production manager and associate publisher of CATALYST.
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e probably all have personal signs that tell us, yep, the season has changed. For me, fall begins when I wake up, look west out my bedroom window and see in the distance the Oquirrh Mountains. They are my joy and inspiration through all the leafless months, disappear-
this issue (Meth in a Rhinestone Dress), also painted the image that is on this month’s cover. In the photo with her is her husband Trent. Trent, an entomologist, is CATALYST’s go-to guy for the technical aspects of all things buggy (except for things like human parasites, which Diane Olson specialzes in). It’s true: CATALYST maintains a nine-year-old’s creepy fascination with oogie stuff that freaks out many grownups.)
Around the office First, congratulatioins to staff writer and my editorial right-hand woman Katherine Pioli and to Benjamin Bombard, co-producer of KUER’s RadioWest, who married last month beneath the beautifully pruned apricot tree in their own backyard, with the hens, ducks and geese cooing in the background, followed by an unbelievable feast incorporating many fruits of their own gardening labor. We’re extra proud to say they met right here in the CATALYST office, at a rowdy party of which I won’t go into the details. It was obvious from day one they were meant for each other. Happy to see they have, as their invitation stated, “mated for life.” Tesla and Bert — furry space heaters at the ready.
ing when summer encases my house in a storm of apple, apricot and box elder leaves. Hello, Oquirrhs! Today is the first day I’m seeing you.
First: corrections and additions In the calendar, on p. 18, we tell you that Brooke and Terry Tempest Williams, two people we love but do not see enough of these days, will be in town to present a book they discovered while browsing though a used bookstore in Maine. Out of print, the old volume (aptly called The Story of My Heart, by British nature writer Richard Jefferies stole their hearts. They convinced Kirsten Allen and Mark Bailey, owners of SLC-based Torrey House Press, to reprint it. The new version includes an introduction by Terry, with chapter notes by Brooke. They will share the book with all of us at a reading on Nov. 20 at Rowland Hall. Here’s where the the correction comes in: The reading is at Rowland Hall’s Larimer Auditorium, 970 E. 800 South (corner of Lincoln St.)—not on Guardsman Way, as our calendar indicates. On p. 4’s “On the Cover,” you see a photo of our beloved Alice Toler, who, in addition to writing the story on p. 19 in
We recently hired Lori Mertz as Special Projects Manager. Lori also works periodically as a production manager in the film industry; she describes this, in a nutshell, as being “the organizing force behind the circus that is a film set.” I can’t think of a better fit for our office. She takes on many of the roles carried out so well by Carol Koleman, who abandoned us for Boston over a year ago; I still miss her very much. We anticipate her return as a writer soon, as she revives her popular “Animalia” column. Sophie Silverstone is in and out of the office this fall and winter, too. You may remember the beautiful story Sophie wrote that appeared in this space in June, regarding her winter travels as a figure skater in a Mexican ice circus. She will be doing the same soon, only this time in the Midwest. The ancient boiler here at McClelland finally breathed its last gasp (to be more specific, we killed it; but it was a mercy killing) last month. It will likely be another three weeks before a new one is installed. And so we wear sweaters and thick socks, and make copious quantities of
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And now for something new Early in October John and I went to Denver for a long weekend to hang with family and friends. We visited a cannabis shop, which feels like, as John describes it, a cross between a payday loan service and a high-end jeweler, but with refrigerators. At a dinner party with guests in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s, the pipe got passed before dessert. The drapes were open. People discussed the various strains as if they were discussing wine vintages. There was still an air of “What? We’re really doing this?” Kudus to Colorado for being willing to be a pioneer, seek good solutions to inevitable roadblocks, and still, we hope, have a rewarding time along the way. We admire bravery.
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Speaking of bravery—I’ve applied for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, which is, essentially, an MBA in 16 weeks. Since I’ve been running this company since 1982 and we’re still here, can you imagine the progress if I actually learn how to do it right? Provided I get accepted, this will be one crazy-intense winter. I’m so ready for this, so wish me the best. N Greta Belanger deJong is founder, editor and publisher of CATALYST.
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Vote for your environment! Utah General Election Day is Tuesday, November 4, 2014 Illegal ATV riders charged San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman and four others have been charged with misdemeanor conspiracy and operation of off-road vehicles on public lands closed to off-road vehicles. This past May, Lyman (apparently inspired by the antics of anti-federalist welfare rancher Cliven Bundy who claims a “right” to graze cattle on public lands without paying grazing fees) organized and led a parade of armed American-flag-waving ATV riders along a closed trail in Recapture Canyon near Bluff, Utah. Recapture Canyon was closed to motorized vehicles in 2007 after members of Great Old Broads for Wilderness discovered an illegally constructed off-road vehicle trail that had been built through the middle of several archaeological sites. A U.S. District Attorney news release points out that “Recapture Canyon contains unique archaeological resources, including ancient rock art and dwellings that are culturally significant and irreplaceable,” and that there are plenty of other places for ATV recreation since “there are more than 2,800 miles of OHV trails administered by the BLM in southeast Utah that are open to public use.” Great Old Broads for Wilderness: http://greatoldbroads.org
“Bundy’s Buddies” include Utah congressmen If you would like to vote against politicians who are trying to take the “public” out of Utah’s public lands, the Center for American Progress has compiled a list of “Bundy’s Buddies,” right-wing congressmen who are voicing their support for the radical idea that states should seize or sell off public lands to the highest bidder for drilling, mining or logging. The list includes Utah congressmen Rob Bishop (R-UT-1),
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Chris Stewart (R-UT-2) and Jason Chaffetz (R-UT-3) as well as former Mayor Mia Love (R) who is running to take over the 4th district congressional seat formerly held by Jim Matheson (D). Bundy’s Buddies: WWW.AMERICANPROGRESSACTION. ORG/SERIES/BUNDYS-BUDDIES/VIEW/
Colorado River connected A new coalition of environmental groups has come together under the name Colorado River Connected in order to focus on protection of the Colorado River watersheds that supports 35 million people and thousands of other species. Water in the river system is over-allocated due to the faulty assumptions behind the 1922 Colorado River Compact, and the river is also under threat from massive water diversion projects proposed in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, dirty energy development and reduced water flows predicted by climate change. Founding members of the new group include Colorado Riverkeeper, Utah Rivers United, Sierra Club, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, Los Angeles Water keeper, Glen Canyon Institute, Save the Colorado and Waterkeeper Alliance. Colorado River Connected: HTTP://COLORADORIVERCONNECTED.ORG/
Grand bargain for High Uintas Wilderness? As part of his “Grand Bargain” for Utah wilderness, Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT1) asked Utah counties to develop their own wilderness proposals. So far only Summit County and Daggett County have obliged. Summit County proposes to expand the High Uintas Wilderenss Area into existing roadless areas in order to protect current recreational uses. Daggett County commissioners would like to make a trade. Daggett County has a tiny population of only 1,127 and nearly 90% of the land is managed by federal and state agencies. Therefore Daggett County would like to privatize U.S. Forest Service land near Flaming Gorge Reservoir in order to build a resort and maybe a ski area. In exchange, the County would support expansion of the High Uintas Wilderness Area and Wild and Scenic River designation for the Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam which is a popular float trip with a world-class trout fishery.
Dog dies after toxic Utah Lake swim In October a pet dog died after swim-
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ming in Utah Lake. Testing by the Utah Division of Environmental quality found elevated levels of mycrocystins, blue-green algae that acts as a liver toxin and skin and eye irritant. Mycrocystins thrive in warm temperatures and high concentrations of phosphorous and nitorgen—a toxic combination of climate warming and agricultural pollution. DEQ: DEQUTAH.BLOGSPOT.COM/2014/10/WATER-QUALITYSAMPLING-CONFIRMS-TOXIC.HTML#.VEAXLS8YYUO
Stericycle in trouble again Stericycle, the North Salt Lake medical waste incinerator, is in trouble again. Last year the Utah Division of Environmental Quality (DEQ) fined Stericycle for clean air violations. Now Utah Governor Gary Herbert has launched three criminal investigations into alleged misconduct at Stericycle after a video appeared on the web featuring a man disguised by sunglasses and a bandana who described being asked to deliberately burn radioactive waste left over from chemotherapy as “part of his job.” Closing the Stericycle facility is a priority issue for Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment which says, “Incineration does not remove toxins and actually creates new ones by merely concentrating and redistributes existing ones.” Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment: HTTP://UPHE.ORG/PRIORITY-ISSUES/
UDoT actually considers no-build alternative Utahns for Better Transportation (UBET) is thrilled to report that the Utah Department of Transportation is giving a serious look at their proposed no-build alternative for the West Davis Corridor, a yet unbuilt 24-mile highway in Weber County. The no-build “shared solution” is a strategy to increase traffic capacity by modifying existing roads and adding mass transit. UBET says new highway construction would destroy housing, farms, businesses and points out that Utah is already in violation of the Clean Air Act so building a new highway would only make air pollution worse. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has threatened to deny permits for UDOT’s preferred plan due to destruction of globally important bird habitat in Great Salt Lake Wetlands. Utahns for Better Transportation: HTTP://UTAHNSFORBETTERTRANSPORTATION.ORG/
Get involved in longterm planning for Wasatch Mountains Mark your calendar! Wasatch Accord public Open Houses are scheduled for
Tuesday, Dec. 2 & Wednesday, Dec. 3, time and location TBA on the Mountain Accord Website. Mountain Accord is a “systems approach to planning” that aims to develop a longterm plan for the Wasatch Mountains. Mountain Accord: HTTP://MOUNTAINACCORD.COM
Help plan Utah’s future Envision Utah is seeking 50,000 Utahns to participate in a “Your Utah, Your Future” visioning project. On the Envision Utah website you can sign up to take a survey and also play with an interactive “build Your 2050 Utah” model that lets you test the outcomes of various decisions about how to meet future needs for energy, water, agriculture, transportation, housing, education and so on. Envision Utah. ENVISIONUTAH.ORG/
Tell DEQ: Clean up coal power The federal Clean Air Act requires states to cut air pollution that causes regional haze over National Parks, but the Utah Division of Air Quality (DEQ) prefers not to. DEQ announced a do-nothing plan for the aging Hunter and Huntington power plants operated by PacifiCorp/Rocky Mountain Power in Emery County. Christopher Thomas, Executive Director of HEAL Utah says, “It’s unacceptable to ignore Utah’s coal pollution problem while other states are moving forward and requiring deep pollution cuts.” A public comment period on the plan is open from November 1 to December 1, 2014 so you can tell DEQ to do the right thing and clean up Utah’s air. Division of Air Quality; AIRQUALITY.UTAH.GOV
Changes at HEAL-Utah Speaking of HEAL-Utah, changes are afoot at the organization’s headquarters. Executive Director Christopher Thomas, who joined the staff in 2006 as policy director, is stepping down at the end of this year to pursue further education. Filling the void will be HEAL’s current Policy Director Matt Pacenza with longtime Development Director Sophia Nicholas becoming the new associate director. During Thomas’s four years at the helm, HEAL has garnered the attention and respect of Utah governors and energy company CEOs and been Utah’s voice for clean air and a nuclear-free state. HEALUTAH.ORG
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In the wake of domestic abuse, concussion cover-ups, anti-trust suits, racist team names and men wearing too tight pants, the National Football League promised to keep striving to be more irresponsible in the future. This reassured ardent fans who thought the league was going to reduce violence and widen the goal posts for kickers. “We really missed an opportunity to have the Dallas Cowboys play the Washington Redskins on the Columbus Day Monday Night Football game,” apologized NFL officials. “This could have been the coolest thing since Custer’s Last Stand and those Civil War reenactment things. We’re planning a ‘show your colors for Ebola night’ for the playoffs once we decide which color best represents Ebola victims.” In other moves the league vowed to cease beer sales after the second half two-minute warning (unless it looks like overtime is a possibility). Referees will receive armed escorts when they leave each game if the home team loses. The Instant Replay Challenge will be rebranded as the Additional Commercial Break Provision.
Catholic Church announces new doctrine: “Follow your bliss” The new more liberal Pope Francis announced that from this day hence the Catholic Church's official policy on everything is “Dude, whatever.” He then sped away eschewing the traditional Pope Mobile for a red Vespa scooter escorted by Vatican guards on matching Segways. He threw candy to the children along the route and assured them that Halloween was more about marketing than demonic behavior. In response to repeated questions about exorcisms, Pope Francis just laughed maniacally and shouted “redrum” in five different languages. The new more inclusive Catholic Church welcomes gays, lesbians, thespians, Kardashians, Friday meat eaters, unwed couples and non-Latin speakers. All descendants of the Spanish Inquisition will be eligible for reparation benefits and rosaries will no longer be recognized as legal currency for sin removal. Faith and Works get equal billing and hymnals will be replaced with iPads. Sainthood will be offered to all Nobel Prize winners and Gold Medalists, but only in the Summer Games.
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Former Navy SEAL Christopher Beck gained public attention in 2013 when she came out as Kristin Beck, a transgender woman—now she has embraced the identity that she had hidden throughout her time in the service.
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One man’s inspiring journey over six years of following his multiple sclerosis diagnosis. For director Jason DaSilva, life’s most challenging and joyous moments are yet to come.
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In this witty and action-packed adventure Nono longs to be a good detective like his father, but his wild nature constantly gets him into trouble—particularly when he meets a notorious jewel thief and a seductive chanteuse.
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One of the most iconic structures ever built, Barcelona’s La Sagrada Familia is a fascinating project conceived by Antoni Gaudi in the late 19th century. More than 125 years after construction began, the basilica remains unfinished.
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Two celebrities admit to not having nude photos of selves on phones To be more accurate, those two forgot they were taking a photo with a phone and that they had their thumbs over the lens. Many celebrities were shocked to learn that you could take photos with a device that did not have cell coverage and had a front-facing lens. Confused models and sit-com actors were seen screaming into the lenses of Cannon EOS cameras when they could not get a signal. For the most part, celebrities are angered by the inequalities in the leaking process. “I pay a manager and a publicist and I couldn’t even get on the John (bleeping) Stewart Show with my full frontal. What’s it take to get some exposure in this country?” one A-list actor was heard to say. N
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From 2011-13, Talal Derki followed the journey of two friends whose had been upended by war in Syria. When their city becomes a bombed-out ghost town, the once peaceful protesters transform into rebel insurgents.
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drummer. When he’s not teaching at the University or studying for his Master’s degree, Lyman is cobbling together gigs at half a dozen venues around town – Gracie’s on Mondays, the Garage on Thursdays, the Grand America Hotel, Bodega 331, Bar X, the Bayou. Lyman, a member of the Jazz Vespers Trio, also knows that the bars aren’t the only places in Salt Lake with good music. “I’ve been a jazz lover since my teen years,” says Rev. Goldsmith. “When I was living in New York in the late ’70s I happened upon a Lutheran church on Park Avenue on a late Sunday afternoon that offered a jazz vespers program. I thought it was an interesting concept.” He transplanted the idea to Salt Lake where it flourished. Now starting its 25th year, Jazz Vespers continues to
BY KATHERINE PIOLI
the last 25 years and more been a t’s Thursday night, jazz night, at surprisingly welcome and prosperthe Garage on Beck. Despite the ous home for jazz music, jazz musibar’s location on the industrial cians and jazz audiences. One of the north side of Salt Lake next door earliest jazz pioneers in Utah, Steve to the fiery plumes of the oil Williams and KUER 90.1, brought refineries, and the fact that it’s still a America’s native art form work night, a healthy to the radio waves from gathering of people the campus of the have come out for a University of Utah with drink. The group is an evening jazz prohalf millennials and gram that is still broadhalf baby boomers, cast across the state though they’re not each night to thoureally mixing. Hugged sands of listeners. up to the bar next to Around the same time the stage, a half dozen just down the road, grey and balding Rev. Tom Goldsmith of heads nod in time to the First Unitarian the sound of jazz guiChurch was starting tarist Corey Steve Williams, KUER Jazz Vespers, keeping Christiansen. Out bodies warm with music through back on the patio, the younger the winter nights. The GAM crowd gathers around the fire pit to Foundation followed suit with a chat. For the younger patrons concert series, now starting its 20th Christiansen’s music appears inciseason at the Capitol Theater, dental, perhaps even unnoticed. bringing the best of jazz to town For a small city, where booze was with artists like Wynton Marsalis, once hard to find and nightclubs the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Herbie were a rarity, Salt Lake City has for
“When you are used to listening to highly produced music you want to hear things that are manicured. Jazz is not that. It’s personal expression linked to people. It’s not a product of computers and software,” says Bret Jackson.
Hancock, John Pizzarelli and Diana Krall. The momentum continued, spawning the Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival (helped in large part by the influence of then-mayor Rocky Anderson), groups like the Wasatch Jazz Project Big Band and the Salt Lake Alternative Jazz Orchestra. But as we conJazz Vespers Quartet, David Halliday, Courtney Smith, tinue into this new millenDenson Angulo, and Jesse the Animal! nium, and as music changes with the demands of younger give a venue to local artists and to audiences, it is unclear whether Utah’s pack the pews on Sunday evenings jazz legacy is becoming just that, a through November to Christmas. part of our past. In the last four years, mostly “People don’t think there is a jazz under the influence of the new Jazz scene in Salt Lake but I’m playing Vespers Quartet –Courtney Smith, six gigs this week alone and I’m not Steve Lyman, Denson Angulo and the only one making a living playing David Halliday – the Sunday night jazz here,” says local musician Steve services have held on to their Lyman, 32, who since 2001 has younger audience. The reason, made a living as a professional jazz Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra is the “House Band” for the SLC International Jazz Festival
thinks Goldsmith, is the group’s willingness to break new ground with jazz, melding old rhythms with more popular melodies from Led Zepplin, Michael Jackson, the Beatles and others. Carol Steffens, co-founder and artistic director of Wasatch Jazz Project Big Band, agrees that such melding of genres could be the solution to saving jazz. “Over the years jazz has developed a level of sophistication with melodies and chord progressions that goes well beyond your nice sing song-y tune,” says Steffens. In order to stay relevant, Steffens suggests, jazz must follow mainstream tastes. “Improvising with popular, recognizable tunes can satisfy an audience and the musician’s creative needs. It’s happening a lot in smaller cities where there’s not enough jazz purists to support the classic jazz sound.”
tion for excellence is even reaching some of Utah’s high school programs. The Crescent Super Band, a jazz program for high school students led by Caleb Chapman, trains young musicians to an extraordinary level – they have performed at the Telluride Jazz Festival, the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy and other festi-
“We’re the new Portland,” says Lyman. “People are moving here with certain expectations and we already have a hip, young jazz scene that’s under the radar, we just need to cultivate that.”
While attendance at jazz events in Utah may be in an awkward phase, classrooms across Utah, from elementary school to high school to college, are seeing a jazz renaissance – a phenomenon that will undoubtedly help create a new crop of jazz listeners in the near future. Longstanding jazz programs at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University are stronger than ever. At Utah State University in Logan, the USU Jazz Orchestra was recognized this summer for Outstanding Perfor mance in Downbeat Magazine’s Student Music Awards. And recogniThe Ling Trio
vals across Europe and North America. For his work as music academy director at Pioneer High School for the Performing Arts in American Fork, Chapman was nominated this summer for the Grammy Music Educator Award. The final bell at Rowland Hall, a private high school in Salt Lake, rang hours ago. A few lingering student athletes silently float around the dark and quiet building, but from behind two doors at the end of a long hallway comes the sound of music. After most of their peers have left for the day the Ling Trio is still practicing. The members of the Ling Trio – senior Ling Ritter and juniors Quincy Pinnell-Jackson and Meg Lemons – all say that jazz has long been a part of their lives, but playing it took root at school under the guidance of the school’s music director Dr. Bret Jackson. In a room filled with posters of Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker, and other signs of jazz – a trumpet, trombone and saxophone near the teacher’s podium, drums and a vibraphone off in one corner – the three
young women launch into a tune, but it’s not jazz, it’s Fiona Apple. “We don’t have a lot of friends outside of class who want to listen to our music,” explains Pinnell-Jackson. “I don’t want to say it’s an intellectual barrier but when we play our jazz tunes in class some kids don’t really understand it.” “Jazz is more of a structure,” adds Lemons. “We don’t always play strictly jazz tunes. We look for music with a lot of soul.” “Jazz is raw, unfiltered,” says Dr. Bret Jackson later, trying to put his student’s thoughts into perspective. “When you are used to listening to highly produced music you want to hear things that are manicured. Jazz is not that. It’s personal expression linked to people. It’s not a product of computers and software.” When the girls finally do launch into a jazz standard, Autumn Leaves, their sound sweeps me off my feet. Over his years of teaching, Dr. Jackson says that he has seen many students quickly grasp the concepts of jazz and learn to apply them in a creative process that brings both joy and fulfillment. “We all have a creative impulse and jazz is all about being creative with sound. My students are few, but once I get them interested they tend to stick with it.” If Dr. Jackson is right, then some day the young women from the Ling Trio, like drummer Steve Lyman, will be looking for places to share their musical language in the bars, clubs and churches of Salt Lake or beyond; and if jazz can adapt just enough; and if we can teach another generation to appreciate the energy and excitement of improvisation, there will be people who still want to listen. Steve Lyman is one who sees hope for jazz in Salt Lake. “We’re the new Portland,” says Lyman. “People are moving here with certain expectations and we already have a hip, young jazz scene that’s under the radar, we just need to cultivate that.”N Katherine Pioli is a millennial who would like to find a good old-fashioned basement bar with jazz, poetry, black coffee and booze.
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INTERVIEW
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Anodea Judith
Author and teacher brings the chakras down to Earth
BY JODI MARDESICH SMITH
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ntil the 1970s, the chakras were little discussed, mostly mysterious wheels of energy ascribed to ancient yogic traditions. Since first learning about them in the 1970s, Anodea Judith has made teaching them her life’s work. Her book Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide To The Chakra System (1987, revised 1999:
physical and spiritual planes that humans can harness to manifest the lives we want to live. Judith is also the author of eight other books including, most recently, Creating on Purpose: The Spiritual Technology of Manifesting Through the Chakras, with Lion Goodman (2012: Sounds True). Judith will be in town this month, signing books at Golden Braid Books November 14, speaking at The Shop in Park City that evening, and teaching a workshop at Louland Falls (formerly the Rose Sachs Garden) November 15-16. We recently spoke with her via Skype. Tell us a bit about your background. I mostly grew up in Connecticut. I was always fascinated with psychology; when I was in high school in the ’60s I was taking psychology classes at night at the junior college. Then I went to Clark College. But I
Balancing chakras from the bottom up is the liberating current; from the top down is the manifesting current. Llewellyn Worldwide) sold more than 250,000 copies. She calls them portals between the
was disillusioned with what they were teaching in psychology there, so I headed west to California. I’ve had a long, checkered journey studying consciousness and yoga, going back to school, making my living as an artist—lots of things. You’ve said you discovered the chakras through reading Ram Dass’ The Only Dance There Is (1974, Doubleday Anchor) about the chakras and having this “zing” of awakening. So what happened there? That was when I first discovered the word. I was already reading a bunch of books on consciousness. I’d started Transcendental Meditation in 1972—that preceded the discovery of yoga in 1975—and when I saw the word chakra, it was just like a bolt of energy went through me. I knew on some level I had found my life’s work. It was a precognition. And it did become my life’s work. I think sometimes
when something is going to be very powerful to us in the future, we recognize it. People have that sense when they meet their life partner. They have an immediate sense of recognition, even though they’ve never met that person before, and it turns out it’s recognition from the future. What happened next? I was reading about chakras, and was having a sense of familiarity with it already. The idea as it was being put out then was that the lower chakras were nasty and bad, and you had to close them down to get to the upper chakras. And right from the get go, there was some-
thing in me that said that’s not right. Why do we have seven chakras if we’re not supposed to use all seven? That’s kind of a silly system. So I began doing research and realized that’s just a slant, the slant that comes from patriarchal religions in general that say the body and the Earth are bad, and only the spirit is real. It’s not really what the old texts say at all. They are from the tantric tradition from yoga philosophy, which is all about the weaving of dualities, so it’s mind and body, heaven and earth, spirit and matter, masculine and feminine—it’s all about weaving those together that is the chakra system. How did you go from having something that resonated with you to really making that the focus of your work and turning a vision into books and art and all the things you’re doing? It happened slowly. It just sort of
became what I was doing, the lens I was looking through. I had this burning desire to write my first book, Wheels of Life. It took me quite a long time because I was learning to write. Once the book came out, that just opened doors. In terms of how do I take an idea into manifestation, that’s what my more recent book, Creating on Purpose, is about. It’s about manifesting through the chakras. That’s the top-down journey, where you begin in your highest consciousness, your will, your energy, your passion, and bring it down to manifested form. So I actually followed that path and manifested quite a bit in my life. That’s interesting. Most approaches focus on starting at the root chakra, and going up in order, supposedly because you can’t balance a chakra if the ones below haven’t been balanced or are not awakened. I think there are arguments for both ways. Balancing chakras from the bottom up is the liberating current; from the top down is the manifesting current. You go from fixed form to freer and freer forms on the way up— earth, water, fire, air, sound, light and consciousness. Each one is freer and more abstract as you go up, so that is liberating. In the ancient texts they called it mukti, which means liberation or freedom.The downward current in the ancient texts they call bukti, which actually means enjoyment. But I take it all the way down and call it manifestation as we go from idea to then an image to then a word, to then a relationship, an action. So it gets denser: consciousness to light to sound to air to water, fire and earth. The old texts even described the chakras as condensing chambers—for condensing energy into the different levels of manifestation. It all depends on what you’re doing: Are you liberating or do you want to manifest? And believe me, you don’t have to have perfectly balanced chakras in order to manifest. You have been writing and teaching about the chakras for decades, now. How has your teaching changed over the years? Good question. The yoga has always been a part of my teaching. The manifestation has been part of
it only for the last 14 or 15 years. I teach trainings for therapists as well. If anything has changed, it’s more emphasis on the core, coming into your vertical channel of energy between crown and base. The core is really where it’s at. What do you mean by the core? I don’t mean the Pilates core. Sometimes they call the pranic tube, the shushumna, the channel between the crown chakra and base. It’s a vertical channel down the center of you. So if you put your roots down and stretch your crown up you’re actually lengthening that internal channel. I have people put a string down the center of their yoga mat so they can align their core with the strings at the center of the mat, so we get more conscious of breathing out from our core, breathing into our core, running energy up and down the core. And then the chakras are like stations and chambers along the core. Besides the seven main chakras, Aren’t there other chakras as well? The old texts talk about sub chakras that are part of the other chakras. I talk about chakras in the hands and feet. I don’t talk about ones above the head or below the body; how do you prove they’re there, how do you access them if they’re not in your body? I stick
basically to the seven main ones, but I do have a simple exercise to work with the hand chakras. It shows people what energy feels like. In your exploration of the chakras as you were learning about them, what did you do to get to understand them better?
The core is really where it’s at— the pranic tube, the channel between the crown chakra and base. If you put your roots down and stretch your crown up you’re actually lengthening that internal channel. The chakras are like stations and chambers along the core. I would say I spent significant parts of my life dwelling on each one. In the first chakra, which is element earth, I gave up everything I had and went and lived on the land, did that off-the-grid community. In the second chakra, I’d say that was when I was pregnant with my son. Third chakra, I was president of a large international organization, a spiritual organization. Fourth chakra was probably my family and community phase: I married into three additional children. Fifth chakra has been my speaking out in the world, my books. Sixth chakra, my visionary part, and of course my seventh chakras has been there all along informing it. It’s such a complicated subject. What can you teach in a weekend? I can give people an understanding of the chakra system, I can give them an experience of the vital energy in their own body, so they know where it is, something about what their issues are. I wouldn’t say it solves all their issues, but it gives them a map for understanding their issues. I talk about the childhood development in each chakra, and the wounds, and that way people have a kind of diagnosis of their own energy system. That diagnosis is not pathological. It doesn’t say there’s something wrong with you, it just
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Travesty Mountain and the Colossus at Lehi
BY ALEXANDRA KARL
what, if anything, this object commemorates, besides the 45 outlet shops hovering in its wake? The only possible answer, the one found precisely in its name, is Traverse Mountain itself. For, near where the signs stands is a large, gaping wound which once was a mountain. Gradually excavated and killed by another Utah titan, Geneva Rock, the area is now reduced and diminished. This fact adds insult to injury, and transforms the sign into an enormous gravestone, marking the slow and gradual death of the only true colossus: Traverse Mountain—the geological formation. As such, the LED window of the sign would more appropriately read:
RIP Traverse Mountain 12 Million BC – 2014 AD.
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hroughout the State of Utah, monuments from Temple Square to Delicate Arch remind us of Utah’s grandeur and dominion. Now, thanks to a fruitful collaboration between Traverse Mountain Outlets and the Yesco Sign Company, we have one more icon to celebrate. Standing over 100 feet tall and signaling the entrance to (brace yourself) Utah County’s first outlet mall, is a sign so large, it dwarfs even the Colossus at Rhodes. Literally: by two feet.
zas.” Appropriately, the sign was sufficiently newsworthy to warrant its own press release, which a local news source (KSL) graciously accommodated. The Colossus at Rhodes featured a giant “colossal” statue of Helios, the Greek god of the sun. It is Helios that drove a chariot of the sun across the sky each day. Similarly, the sign at Lehi contains 1.7 million LED bulbs, and emits enough light to rival the sun itself and illuminate the surrounding area. This includes
Containing 1.7 million LED bulbs, the largest sign in the country stands guard over a commercial emporium of 45 outlet shops that promise unpre cedented savings and “shopping extravaganzas.” The Colossus at Rhodes was a figurative statue made of bronze and marble that commemorated the victory of Rhodes over a Cypriot attack. Standing 98 feet above the city’s port, it functioned as protectorate to the small costal community below. The sign at Lehi stands guard over another empire entirely: a commercial emporium of 45 outlet shops that promise unprecedented savings and “shopping extravagan-
the award-winning Adobe building, designed by WRNS Architects. In contrast to the Traverse Mountain eyesore, the Adobe building exhibits some of the most sophisticated and elegant architecture in the region and demonstrates exactly how to build in harmony with nature. Also in the sign’s shadow (what isn’t?) are thousands of family homes forced (by building codes) to endure some of the most understated paint jobs
imaginable, lest their palettes appear too garish against the nearby hills. According to the ancient Greeks, the Colossus of Rhodes was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. According to the KSL press release, the sign at Lehi is the largest sign in the country. Surely the size alone makes it a monument that rivals even Delicate Arch or Temple Square. As such, shouldn’t we ask
Like other Utah landmarks such as the Kennecott Copper Mine or the Spiral Jetty, the sign at Lehi can probably also be seen from space. In fact, the Mars Rover may have already detected it. As the country’s biggest, tallest, brightest and most bombastic sign, it heralds the triumphal message from on high: “Run, Don’t Walk to the Glorious State of Utah!! Where We Have Built the New Jerusalem!! Home of the Largest LED Sign in the United States!! And Utah County’s First Outlet Mall!!” As for any other local attractions in the area, such as the natural scenery or architecture? Well, maybe someone will think to make a billboard for that. N
ANODEA JUDITH Continued from page 13 says something is out of balance, and this is the direction you need to go to bring balance. How does your approach differ from what you’ve called “airy fairy” practices? Approaches where you think about something and expect it to fall in your lap are airy fairy, and I think that’s upper chakra-oriented. I’ll start with that in the manifestation process; you have to think of something before you create it, and you have to imagine it. But those are just a couple of steps, and then you have to do the work to bring it into being. Anyone can manifest. There’s a lot of action and planning and tasks, but what I have done is map it out through the chakras so it becomes very systematic, very practical, and that, I think, is less of the airy fairy and a bonafide map for manifestation. Can you give an example of a practice you’d use in the manifestation process? A lot of people have negative
voices in their head when they go to do something. The voice that sits there and says “you’re a terrible writer,” “nobody is going to read this,” “you don’t know what you’re doing,” “you’re too old,” or “you’re too fat,” or “nobody’s going to want you.” “There are no good men out there,” voices that are doubtful or derogatory. A lot of people get stuck by that. So we have practice for clearing out those voices, letting them have their say, and separating from them, so you’ll understand they are just voices, not truth, and balancing them with positive voices. Where do those voices come from? They’re all internalized from outside. They are protective voices in some way. They might be internalized from a critical parent. They might be that you’re scared, so if you don’t try, you’re safe. But you’re not safe, because then you are living in passive whatever the world gave you instead of getting what you want. So it’s an illusion of safety. We clear through resistances,
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fears, blockages, voices, negative beliefs, doubts, even external blockages, reframing how you see them. A lot of people will spend a lot of time reaffirming their reality: “I don’t have the money, I don’t have the time, I don’t have the education,” blah blah blah, instead of putting that energy into what they actually want to create. Do you feel you have manifested your vision? What are you working on now? I’ve manifested my personal vision in terms of career, home, all the basic things. My bigger manifestation dream is that humans wake up to the evolutionary imperative that is upon us now, and realize our job is to create heaven on Earth, wake up to that as potential or change right now. Getting that idea out there is a bigger project. So we don’t need to die to go to heaven?
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My friend Neal Rogin said it so well: “We don’t need to raise hell, we just need to lower heaven.” And I think that’s the truth. Heaven can be right here, right now. We can create it in our everyday life in our relationships, in our food, in our children, in our environment, and that’s what we are here to do.N Jodi Mardesich is a yogini, artist and tech writer living in Salt Lake City.
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Nov. 6: Panel discussion: Perspectives on the Work of Fazal Sheikh. 5p. University of Utah scholars examine the content and context of Fazal Sheikh's photographs through a variety of perspectives. Panelists are Christine Everaert, assistant professor of languages and literature; Haimanti Bhattacharya, assistant professor of economics; Ewa Wasilewska, associate professor of anthropology and adjunct associate professor in the Middle East Center; and Luke Kelly, UMFA associate curator of antiquities. Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 301 Wakara Way. Free. UMFA.UTAH.EDU Nov. 6: Bird docent orientation. 5:30p. Become a bird docent volunteer for HawkWatch International and experience the wonder of raptors, first hand. Hawkwatch International Headquarters, 2240 S 900 E. Free. HAWKWATCH.ORG Nov. 6: Rumi Poetry Club. 7p. Poetry as a form of meditation. Readings from and contemplations on Rumi’s poetry. FoothillAnderson Library, 1135 S. 2100 E. Free. RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM
Nov. 7-9: Adopt-aNative-Elder presents Honoring Our Weavers. (Fri. 6-10p, Sat & Sun 10a6p.) Inspired by a group of Dine (Navajo) women she met at a Park City rug show in the 1980s, Utah-based artist Linda Myers began donating food, clothing and basic medicine supplies to the Dine community. Since then, Myers’ work has developed into the Adopt-ANative-Elder Program, which works to support native elders and preserve
their traditional arts. This year, Adopt-ANative-Elder hosts its 25th annual rug show in Park City. For this special show,
each hand woven rug will be a self-portrait of the artist. All proceeds from the sale of the rugs goes directly to the weavers. Snow Park Lodge, Deer Valley (Park City Fri admission $30, rug preview and live auction; Sat admission $5 or canned food donation, rug and jewelry sale and Navajo Grandparent Idol contest; Sun admission $5 or canned food donation, final day of sale and closing pow-wow. ANELDER.ORG
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Nov. 3: Cheese and Yogurt Making. 68p. This workshop is a primer for the beginning dairy enthusiast. Learn about easy-tomake soft cheeses. Make a quick mozzarella, ricotta, and yogurt products. Harmons City Creek, 135 E 100 S. $25. WASATCHGARDENS.ORG
Nov. 5: Secrets of the Past. 6:30-8:30p. Jerry Spangler, a recognized expert on the prehistoric peoples of the northern Colorado Plateau, will provide a glimpse into the cultural history of Greater Canyonlands and its 12,000 years of human history. Light refreshments. Jewish Community Center, 2 North Medical Dr. Free. SUWA.ORG
Nov. 3: Lady Valor. 7p. Former Navy SEAL Christopher Beck gained public attention in 2013 by coming out as Kristin Beck, a transgender woman, embracing the identity she had hidden throughout her time in service. Sorenson Unity Center, 1383 S 900 W. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Nov. 5 Beats Antique. 6:30p. With Emancipator and Shpongle (Simon Posford
NOV. 5: When I Walk. 7p. One man's inspiring journey over six years of following his multiple sclerosis diagnosis. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W Broadway. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Nov. 6: Full Moon
Nov. 7 (Runs through Dec. 19): Glass Art Show. 9a-5p. Meet the Artists Reception on Sat., Nov. 15, 2-5. The Glass Art Guild of Utah returns to Red Butte Garden for another stunning show of kiln work and blown glass. Large and small pieces including garden art, decorative boxes, sculptural works, and jewelry pieces will display the brilliant colors of this delightful medium. Items displayed will be available for sale. Red Butte Garden Visitor Center Gallery, 300 Wakara Way. $10. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG
ings. $20 (additional beer purchases available). Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S West Temple. UMOCA.ORG Nov. 7: Jung Society lecture: O My Prophetic Soul! Dreams, Visions, Revelations. 7-9p. Come early for coffee and cookies; stay late for music. Jungian analyst Michael Adams will present famous cases of altered states of consciousness and lead an interactive discussion about the importance of contemporary epiphanies. City Library, auditorium. 210 E. 400 S. Free. On Saturday, Adams will present The Imagination of Dreams: An Intensive Workshop. 9a-1p. U of U Student Union Building. 200 S. Central Campus Drive. $49. JUNGUTAH.COM Nov. 8 Remedy Wave One Day Workshop. 10:30a-5:30p. With Shannon Simonelli, Ph.D., ATR. SugarSpace, 616 E Wilmington. REMEDYWAVE.ORG Nov. 8-9 Freedom From Anxiety Camp. Noon-5p (each day). With Kristen Ulmer, evolutionary mindset facilitator and former world-class athlete excelling in extreme sports. Noon-5 each day. $190. Call or email for location. 801.733.5003. MAKEFRIENDSWITHFEAR.COM Nov. 8: Vegan Thanksgiving Dinner. 5p (doors) dinner starts at 7p. A vegan feast for the whole family with seitan and gravy donated by Vertical Diner/Sage's Cafe/Cali's
Nov 7: World Vasectomy Day Celebration. 6p reception, 7:15p film screening (discussion following). The Vasectomist; 8:15 discussion. Presented by the Utah Population and Environment Coalition in cooperation with Planned Parenthood and cooperating physicians. Leonardo, 209 E. 500 So. Free. THELEONARDO.ORG Nov 7: Rock Garden Society lecture. 6:30-9p. Pre-lecture social, light hors d’oeuvres at 6:30p. Learn about cutting-edge "rain-powered" landscapes, crevice gardens, bare-root planting and more. Lecture given by rock garden and unirrigated landscape expert, Kenton J. Seth, of Paintbrush Gardens in Grand Junction, CO. Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way. Free. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG (Preregister: 801-581-8454) Nov. 7: Fluid Art: Bringing Together Art & Ales. 7:30-9:30p. Utah Brewers Guild brewers choose art from UMOCA’s galleries and brew a beer to match that object’s qualities. Drink the beer, contemplate the art. Admission, light appetizers, beer tast-
Nov. 8: Cantu’s Culinary Creations Annual Fall Open Kitchen. 6-9p. Plenty of both meat and veggie options. This guy knows how to cook! Suggested contribution $15-20. 2163 S. Richards St. CANTUSCATERING.COM
CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET 17 Nov. 12: Fixed. 7p. The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement. From botox to bionic limbs, the human body is more "upgradeable" than ever. But how much of it can we alter and still be human? This film explores the social impact of human augmentation. Sponsored by Utah Film Center. Main City Library, 210 E. 400 S. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG.
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Nov. 12: WorlDance 2014. 7-9p. Musicians and dancers celebrate cultural music and dance. Featuring the internationally recognized Turkish musician Mr. Latif Bolat and Persian ney player Mr. Amir Mohammadi along with dancers from Brigham Young University, Utah Valley University, Character Dance Ensemble U of U, Salt Lake City Ballet and more. Kingsbury Hall, 7-9pm. $10/$5 students & seniors. EASTERNARTISTS.COM Natural Foods! Side dishes prepared by volunteers and donated by Sprouts, Whole Foods, Kodiak Produce, Western Nut, Sam's Club, Sugarhouse Coffee and Great Harvest. Desserts are provided by the Frisk family. Gluten free available. Silent auction contains only vegan items or services. Guest speaker is animal rights lawyer, activist and documentary director Shannon Keith. This event is a fundraiser for the Ching Farm Rescue and Sanctuary; all proceeds provide for winter hay and grain supply. Wasatch Presbyterian Church, 1626 S. 1700 E. $30. BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM, CHINGSANCTUARY.ORG
Nov. 8: Winter Market. 10a-2p. Farm-fresh produce, eggs, meat, specialty foods and fresh-baked goods. Every other Saturday. Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St. Free. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG Nov. 10: Healing the Warrior’s Heart. 9p. New documentary explores Native American healing traditions for veterans with PTSD. Narrated by Peter Coyote. Produced by the Western Folklife Center in collaboration with Tribal Eye Productions and KUED. Airs on KUED Channel 7. KUED.ORG Nov. 11 Not My Life: The Human Costs and Rights, Consequences of Trafficking (film & lecture). 7p. This program will begin with a short film Not My Life—the first film to depict the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale. Following the screening, Professor George will present an overview of the human rights consequences of trafficking and the high costs to children when protections are not in place and show how US legal reforms, global business initiatives, and consumer choices can eradicate the exploitation of children and contribute to change. Vieve Gore Concert Hall in the Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory, Westminster College, 1840 S 1300 E. Free. UTAHDIPLOMACY.ORG Nov. 12: New Narratives: Recent Work by University of Utah Art Faculty. 4-8p (open house). Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Dr. Free. UMFA.UTAH.EDU
Nov. 13: Winter Raptor Survey orientation. 5:30-7p. Citizen science volunteers are needed to help collect data on wintering raptor behaviors and habitat use. HawkWatch International, 2240 S. 900 E. Free. HAWKWATCH.ORG Nov. 13: HEAL Utah’s fall party: Subvert the Inversion. 6-9p. Live music by the Lab Dogs, tasty treats from Finca, cash bar. Also you’ll get the inside scoop behind the politics of air quality, and what HEAL is doing. $100/50/25. State Room, 638 S. State St. 21+. HEALUTAH.ORG
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Nov. 14: Book signing with Anodea Judith. 4p. See interview, this issue. Golden Braid Books, 151 S 500 E. Free. GOLDENBRAIDBOOKS.COM Nov. 13 Gaelic Storm. 7:30p. Gaelic Storm has swept the Celtic music world with their exciting brand of energetic musicianship. Combining both classic originals and new arrangements of Celtic music, Gaelic Storm plays indie-folk with world grooves and infuses the show with their own spunky Irish wit for a wildly entertaining experience. Kingsbury Hall, 1395 President’s Circle. $10-$37.50. KINGSBURYHALL.UTAH.EDU
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obstacle course so able-bodied individuals can experience a glimpse into the everyday life of a person with prosthetic limbs. Free. Leonardo, 209 E. 500 S. THELEONARDO.ORG Nov. 21-22: The Mitch Show. 7:30p. An interactive one-man show by choreographer, performing artist and film-maker Mitchell Rose. The Mitch Show appeals to fans of film, theater, dance, and comedy. Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 S. $10. RDTUtah.org Nov. 22 Winter Market. 10a-2p. Farmfresh produce, eggs, meat, specialty foods and fresh-baked goods. Every other Saturday Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St. Free. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG Nov. 22 New Moon
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Nov. 20: Anatomy Sketch Night. 5-8p. During his life, Leonardo da Vinci sketched 100's of anatomical drawings of humans and animals. So, in the spirit of the man, The Leondardo has invited artists to BODY WORLDS & The Cycle of Life to sketch our featured specimens after hours. Open to all ages. Supplies not included. Master Class for the first hour taught by Eric Erikson. Free with admission to BODY WORLDS & The Cycle of Life Learn more about Eric at WWW.MAFAERIC.BLOGSPOT.COM. The Leondardo, 210 E 500 S. THELEONARDO.ORG
Nov. 15-16 Energy Centers (Chakra), Vital Energy & Transformation with Anodea Judith. Two-day workshop with renowned author, yoga teacher and therapist for all levels of practice. Discover and deepen your understanding of how to work with and balance energy in all aspects of your life. Louland Falls Event Center in SLC, off exit 131 on I-80 one mile east of the I215 going up Parley’s Pass. $325. George Garvin, 801.674.7162. RISINGPATHWAYS.COM;
Nov. 21: Our Bionic Future. 7p. Can you live without a pulse? Could you see without any eyes? Next-generation bionics go beyond prosthetics, allowing us to not only run, jump, and dance like never before, but to experience life in a completely new way. Take part in a discussion reviewing the massive launches made in bionic innovations, look at how science fiction has influenced our technologies, then get a sneak peek into the future of bionics. There will even be an
Nov. 18: Sagrada.7p. One of the most iconic structures ever built, Barcelona's La Sagrada Familia is a fascinating project conceived by Antoni Gaudi in the late 19th century. More than 125 years after construction began, the basilica remains unfinished. Sponsored by Utah Film Center. Main City Library, 210 E. 400 S. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Nov. 15: Yoga and Active Wellness Conference. 12-4p. BODY WORLDS presents a celebration of the human form, featuring teachers from Centered City Yoga. Experience yoga workshops, anatomical sketching classes, running analysis, handson injury prevention, sports science videos, exercise’s effect on the brain, and more. $15 (includes Cycle of Life purchase). Leonardo, 209 E. 500 S. THELEONARDO.ORG Nov. 15: Third Saturday Contra Dance. 7-10:30p. Music by Wild Potatoes. All dances taught and called. Come alone or with a partner. First-time dancers welcome. Montessori Community School, 2416 E. 1700 S. $8. Info, photos and video at WATCHCONTRAS.ORG.
Nov. 24 Avalanche Awareness – Know Before You Go. 7-8:30p. Multi-media talk includes a 15-minute video on avalanche safety basics followed by a half-hour PowerPoint on how to stay alive in avalanche terrain. Subjects include avalanche rescue, how avalanches work, reading avalanche terrain, obvious clues to instability, avalanche weather, safe travel practices and essential equipment. Presented by a representative of the Utah Avalanche Center. Ages 12 and older. SLC REI, 3285 E. 3300 S. Free but you need to register. REI.COM/SALTLAKECITY or call 801-486-2100. Nov. 26: Tarot & divination exchange meet-up. 6-7p. Bring your cards, pendulum and other tools to learn, explore and experience the Taro and divination with others in the community. Elemental Inspirations, 2152 S. Highland Dr. Free. ELEMENTAL-INSPIRATIONS.COM Nov. 28: HypnoBirthing information meeting. 7p. Jolene Shields Hypnotherapy, 1151 E. 3900 S. 7p. Free. HYPNOBIRTHING.COM
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Meth in a rhinestone dress Remembering when the cocaine trade came and the island went to hell
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he woman was screaming. I was nine years old, and it was about 2:30 in the morning. I had never been up at that hour before, and I had never heard a human being make sounds like this woman was making. We went out onto our back patio, which looked up onto an apartment block behind our house. A woman in a third floor apartment had the window open, and her leg was slung out over the ledge. She was screaming and crying in utter panic she was saying things, but her words made no sense. Someone inside the apartment was trying to get her to come back inside, but she teetered and swayed on the ledge, clearly unconvinced. My parents called the police. This being the Bahamas in 1983, it took a while for the police to arrive. In the interim, the woman screamed and cried some more, and my mother told me to get back in my bed. I listened to the noises from outside, and peeked out the window to keep an eye on what was happening, anxiety chewing my stomach to shreds. Eventually the woman went back inside the apartment, and the window was closed. The police came and left. Another neighbor from down the road went into the apartment building, got the woman, and took her back to her house. Mum came back inside. I asked her what on earth had been happening? She shook her head and said, “Cocaine.” People don’t usually associate hallucinations and paranoia with cocaine, but if you’ve been taking a lot of it, you’ll get what’s called “stimulant psychosis.” This is what had happened to our neighbor. It was the the Miami Vice years in the Bahamas, and cocaine was flowing freely through the country on its way to the main market in the
United States. Along its path, it unleashed a wave of crime and violence stimulant psychosis on a cultural level. This wave has never receded. Within the space of half a decade, bars on house windows became standard, and if you were out driving after dark, you didn’t stop for red lights any more. A family was kidnapped in broad daylight from our church parking lot, driven to their house, and forced to let their assailants in to ransack the place. People we knew were robbed, raped and killed. As I got older, it only got worse. A guy I had gone to elementary school with was walking his girlfriend home one night when a man with a gun came out of the
across the street had been held at gunpoint, and the night afterward, the same thing had happened to the guy next door. All this violence spilled out of the coke trade, driven by ruthless sociopaths who had cut their teeth in guerrilla warfare and graduated to create the cartels. Years later, I watched the movie Blow in a theater in the Bahamas. With almost every scene, you could hear people murmuring, “yep…” It’s a small nation, and everyone knows everyone, everyone is related to everyone, and everyone is affected. The coke trade came through like a Category 5 hurricane, and just destroyed everything in its path. If you pissed off the cartels, you were lucky to get a bullet in the head. If
Coke doesn’t last nearly as long as meth does, but it can ruin your dopamine receptors in exactly the same way, and all the bad behavior we associate with meth addicts can come out of a coke addiction too. bushes. He made my friend lie down on the ground, and raped his girlfriend right on top of him. My cousin went to his canning factory one Sunday to put some beans in to soak for cooking the next morning, and disturbed a robbery in progress. He was stabbed 17 times and died, leaving behind a wife pregnant with their first child. When I was 18, I was followed home from a club but by then, my constant state of hypervigilant paranoia was dialed all the way up, and I figured out what was happening while I was still driving my car and was able to get away. We found out later that the night before, our neighbor
you were unlucky, they’d slit your throat and pull your tongue out through the hole and let you strangle slowly. If you were really unlucky, they’d kill your family in front of you before they killed you. Unsurprisingly, I grew up with a pretty poor opinion of cocaine. I talked to an older family member in the Bahamas about it, though, to get a better idea of what it was like to be an adult at the beginning of those years, and why coke was so compelling. “Well, it was glamorous,” he told me. “It was Hollywood. In the late ’70s, cocaine was just this amazingly fun thing to do. I remember the first
time I tried it, it was the best feeling I’d ever had! We used to get it in solid little crystal blocks, and you’d have to take an old safety razor blade and shave it to powder before you snorted it. It was very pure back then.” The drug war hadn’t really taken off, and the violence was yet to come. “They used to land little planes out on the highway,” he told me. “Two men with pickup trucks would block off about a mile of the road in the middle of the night, and put their high beams on to delineate a runway. A little plane would land, they’d refuel it, and they’d receive a bundle of cash and a couple of kilos for their trouble. If anyone happened along the way, they’d also get paid off.” This happened a lot, and a lot of money came with it. Whole towns that used to be only shanty shacks got rebuilt into sturdy concrete block houses during this era. The coke trade giveth…but the coke trade taketh away. We paid for that prosperity in corruption and death. Soon, local dealers learned how to cook cocaine into crack, and whole communities got hooked. The psychosis inherent in the drug spread far and wide. When I lived in the Bahamas in the late 90s and early 2000s, I got to see the effect it had on individual people I knew. A friend would turn into an asshole someone formerly compassionate would suddenly be making cutting remarks and jokes at other people’s expense, and generally just turn into a drag to be around. “What happened to that guy?" "Oh, he got back on coke.” People who had a real habit or who went on binges would graduate from “asshole” to “psychotic.” I knew a woman with a coke problem who had a reputation for domestic
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violence, who at one point tried to blow up my father-in-law’s generator shack by throwing lit matches down the exhaust pipe. She was always on the phone to the police, complaining that there were “Haitians” in the trees in her garden, spying on her and planning to rape her. When I talked to a friend who’s a police officer in Boise, he said that this was almost identical to what he’d seen dozens of times with local meth-heads there: “They literally see ninjas everywhere, men in black stalking around in the shadows, coming to get them!” This brings us to another point. What, exactly, is the difference between cocaine and methamphetamine? The answer is, not a whole lot. They are both what’s known as dopamine reuptake inhibitors, which flood the brain with the euphoria-producing neurotransmitter. Coke doesn’t last nearly as long as meth does, but it can ruin your dopamine receptors in exactly the same way, and all the bad behavior we associate with meth addicts can come out of a coke addiction too. “It never gets as good as that first line,” my family member told me. Another friend who is from Columbia had a really striking experience with cocaine addiction. “I was living in the USA and I was a club kid. By the time I was 19, I was hooked on cocaine, dealing it to a small group of friends. I weighed 90 pounds, and was just doing coke all the time. My father figured out what was going on, and he said ‘You’re going to Columbia!’ I just laughed at him. Really, Dad, you’re going to
send a cocaine addict to Columbia?” But her father knew what he was doing. “Cocaine is a glamorous drug in the USA…but it’s like meth down in Columbia. Homeless people do coke. And I got to see a lot of really brokendown people who were hooked on it,” she said. She also got to experience firsthand the associated human cost in lawlessness and violence. “I went to a little shop where I’d found out I could get some cocaine, and when the owner
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he number one reason that coke retains its Vegas glamor is that it’s expensive. Cocaine in the Bahamas is $100 a gram. Cocaine in the USA is similarly pricey. “Cocaine in Columbia was $5 a gram,” my friend told me. “It was like dirt. You think of it differently when it’s cheap like that.” Cocaine, at its core, is meth in a rhinestone dress. It’s like a designer label it’s expensive because people will pay a lot of money for it, for the image of it, for the glamor. It’s expensive because of
Coke doesn’t last nearly as long as meth does, but it can ruin your dopamine receptors in exactly the same way, and all the bad behavior we associate with meth addicts can come out of a coke addiction, too. let me into the back room it was full of guns and stacks of money. It was shocking! The guy saw I was scared, and he laughed at me.” She was staying with her uncle, whose next door neighbor was a mercenary. “This guy liked my uncle, so he’d tell him if there was going to be some trouble in the city that day, not to go into this or that area. And then we’d hear later about the murders. We’d hear gunshots throughout the day, almost every day, and everyone would just keep their heads down and hope it wasn’t someone they knew.” She quit coke when she realized the extent of the human cost.
the ongoing cat-and-mouse game of the failed War on Drugs. It’s expensive because of the blood spilled during its production and transshipment. It’s not expensive because it’s worth the expense. Additionally, the producers are now cutting some 73%-90% of it at the source with a kind of veterinary wormer called Levamisole, which increases the rush and the addicting aspect of the drug, but can cause a nasty death-inducing immune reaction called agranulocytosis in chronic users. Mystery white powder. Will you take it?
And the human cost goes on. The latest rumor I’ve heard from my homeland is that some cartels are now operating out of Haiti, packing cocaine and guns onto rickety boats filled with refugees. Human trafficking completes a trifecta of misery. It doesn’t matter if one boat sinks there are plenty more behind it, and some will get through. With marijuana legalization on the books in Colorado, it’s possible to get even organic cannabis these days, grown legally and with a recorded provenance. There is, however, no such thing as "fair trade" cocaine. Psychosis is inherent in the drug, and violence is inherent in its production. I think about that lady, hanging her leg out the third-floor window ,and threatening to jump, and I’m so glad she didn’t. I hope she found a safe place to be, and got off cocaine just like my friend and my family member did. I hope someone took care of her, and that she came out the other side of her psychotic break with more wisdom. I hope that, some day, my home country can put a brake on the wheel of violence. I hope that some day we can end the drug war, and that people can see cocaine for what it really is, stripped of all its glamor and bling and make appropriate choices about it. In the meantime, put your arms around your friends and family, love each other, and keep each other safe. And honestly, please, don’t do coke. N Alice Toler is a Bahamian-British citizen writing, painting and sculpting in Salt Lake City.
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Oasis Cafe DA 801.322.0404.151 South 500 East. Oasis Cafe provids a refreshing retreat for the senses with a beautiful patio, private covered breezeway and casual dining room. Chef Efren Nicholas’ American cafe-style cuisine is handcrafted from the freshest ingredients available, rejuvenating and fairly priced. WWW.OASISCAFESLC.COM Omar’s Rawtopia DA 2148 S.Highland Dr. 801.486.0332. Raw, organic, vegan & scrumptious. From Chocolate Goji Berry smoothies to Vegan Hummus Pizza, every dish is made with highest quality ingredients and prepared with love. Nutrient dense and delectable are Rawtopia’s theme words. We are an oasis of gourmet health, creating peace through food. M-Th 12-8p, F-Sat. 12-9p.
HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE Keith Stevens Acupuncture 1/15 Dr. Keith Stevens, OMD, 8728 S 120 E in old Sandy. 801 255.7016. 209.617.7379 (cell). Specializing in chronic pain treatment, stressrelated insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports medicine, traumatic injury and post-operative recovery. Board-certified for hep-c treatment. National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of addiction. Women’s health, menopausal syndromes. STEVENSACUCLINIC.COM
Pago DA 878 S. 900 E. 801.532.0777. Featuring seasonal cuisine from local producers & 20 artisan wines by the glass, complemented by an intimate eco-chic setting. Best Lunch—SL Mag, Best Brunch—City Weekly, Best Wine List— City Weekly & SL Mag, Best New American— Best of State. Lunch: M-F 11a-3p. Dinner: MSun 5p-10p. Brunch: Sat & Sun 10a-2:30p. PAGOSLC.COM
SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 12/14 177 E. 900 S. Ste 101, 801.521.3337. Affordable Acupuncture! Sliding scale rates ($15-40). Open weekends. Grab a recliner and relax in a safe, comfortable, and healing space. We help with pain, fertility, digestion, allergies, arthritis, sleep and stress disorders, cardiac/respiratory conditions, metabolism, and more. WWW.SLCQI.COM
Sage’s (and The Jade Room)DA 234 W. 900 S. 801.322.3790. Experience great vegetarian cuisine, drinks and friendships at Sage’s. Daily specials, seasonal small plates and a full cocktail menu. Open daily for breakfast/lunch/dinner with late night weekend dining and a weekend brunch menu. SAGESCAFE.COM
801.942.5876. Learn how Ayurveda can help you harmonize your lifestyle and well being. Primordial Sound meditation,Perfect Health & Wellness counseling. Georgia Clark, Certified Deepak Chopra Center Vedic Master, has trained in the US with Dr. Chopra, Dr. V.D. Lad, Jai Dev Singh, David Crow & in India with Dr. A.P. Deshpande. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET
Stoneground Kitchen DA 249 E. 400 S. 801.364.1368. Overlooking the city, Stoneground offers rustic Italian cuisine with an intimate setting. Thin-crust pizzas, pastas and breads are always fresh and homemade. Try the juicy pork tenderloin, calamari or lasagna. Enjoy a slice of the mouthwatering tiramisu! M-W 11a-10p, Th-Sat 11a-11p, Sun 11a-3p, 5p-9p. STONEGROUNDSLC.COM
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CHIROPRACTIC Salt Lake Chiropractic 12/14 801.907.1894. Dr. Suzanne Cronin. 1088 S 11th E, SLC. Have you heard that Salt Lake Chiropractic is the least invasive way to increase your quality of life? Our gentle, efficient, and affordable care can reduce pain and improve your body’s functionality. Call to schedule an appointment. WWW.CHIROSALTLAKE.COM
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FELDENKRAIS Open Hand Bodywork. Dan Schmidt, GCFP, LMT. 244 W. 700 S. 801.694.4086 WWW.OPENHANDSLC.COM DA Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801.671.4533. Somatic education and bodywork. Erin Geesaman Rabke Somatic Educator. 801.898.0478. BODYHAPPY.COM MASSAGE Healing Mountain Massage School DA 801.355.6300. 363 S. 500 East, Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 East). HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM MD PHYSICIANS Web of Life Wellness Center FOG Todd Mangum, MD. 801.531.8340. 508 E. So. Temple, #102. Dr. Mangum is a family practice physician who uses acupuncture, massage, herbs & nutrition to treat a wide range of conditions including chronic fatigue, HIV infection, allergies, digestive disturbances and fibromyalgia. He also designs programs to maintain health & wellness. WWW.WEBOFLIFEWC.COM Better Balance Healing 385.232.2213. Jill McBride, MD. 7105 Highland Dr., #202. Trained in Family Practice, NAET Acupressure and complementary/alternative medicine, Dr. McBride guides patients to tune in to their inner healer. Quarterly group sessions allow a broader forum to hear and share journeys of individuals on parallel paths. ALTERNATIVEONE.WIX.COM/BETTERBALANCEHEALING MISC. HEALTH Boundless Sky – Integrative Health and Wellness 7/15 Donna Dinsdale, Integrative Health and Wellness Practitioner. 801.979.0111. 336 E 900 S. Bringing Ease and possibilities forward for better health and optimal wellness, moment by moment, step by step. Offering integrative health coaching (Duke Integrative Medicine), meditation for wellness classes, and free group activities to support one's well-being. WWW.BOUNDLESSSKYHEALTH.COM
Ann Larsen Residential Design Experienced, reasonable, references CONSULTATION AND DESIGN OF Remodeling • Additions • New Homes Decks and outdoor Structures Specializing in historically sensitive design solutions and adding charm to the ordinary houseworks4@yahoo.com
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NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS Cameron Wellness Center 10/15 801.486.4226. Dr. Todd Cameron, Naturopathic Physician. 1945 S. 1100 E. #100. When you visit the Cameron Wellness Center, you’ll have new allies in your health care efforts. You’ll know you’ve been heard. You’ll have a clear, individual plan for gaining health and wellness. Our practitioners will be with you through your journey to feeling good again—and staying well. CAMERONWELLNESSCENTER.NET
Eastside Natural Health Clinic 3/15 Uli Knorr, ND 801.474.3684; 2188 S. Highland Dr. #207. Dr. Knorr will create a Natural Medicine plan for you to optimize your health and live more vibrantly. He likes to educate his patients and offers comprehensive medical testing options. He focuses on hormonal balancing, including thyroid, adrenal, women’s hormones, blood sugar regulation, gastrointestinal disorders and food allergies. EASTSIDENATURALHEALTH.COM 2/14 PHYSICAL THERAPY Precision Physical Therapy 3/15 801.557.6733. Jane Glaser-Gormally, MS, PT. 3098 S Highland Dr. Ste. 371. (Also Park City and Heber.) Specializing in holistic integrated manual therapy (IMT). Safe, gentle, effective techniques for pain and tissue dysfunction. This unique form of therapy identifies sources of pain and assists the body with self-corrective mechanisms to alleviate pain and restore
mobility and function. UofU provider. WWW.PRECISIONPHYSICALTHERAPYUT.COM
ABHES accredited. Financial aid available for those who qualify. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.EDU
REFLEXOLOGY Paula Powell, ARCB, Nationally Certified Reflexologist. 2/15 828.707.8547. 1399 S. 700 E. #14F Paula integrates Eastern, Western, and European techniques for deeply effective and relaxing sessions. Reflexology is an excellent choice of self-care to help strengthen body systems and enhance total wellness. Immediate and long lasting stress relief. WWW.FEETFORPEACE.COM
TRAVEL Machu Picchu, PERU 6/15 Group spiritual journeys or private/Shaman JdD KUCHO/accomodations/Nick Stark 801.721.2779.
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Planned Parenthood of Utah 5/14 1.800.230.PLAN, 801.532.1586. Planned Parenthood provides affordable and confidential healthcare for men, women and teens. Services include birth control, emergency contraception (EC/PlanB/ morning after pill), testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infection including HIV, vaccines including the HPV vaccine, pregnancy testing and referrals, condoms, education programs and more. PPAU.ORG ROLFING/STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801.671.4533. Somatic education and bodywork. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM
MISCELLANEOUS ENTERTAINMENT The State Room 801.878.0530. 638 S. State St. WWW.THESTATEROOM.COM Utah Film Center/Salt Lake Film Center 801.746.7000. 122 Main St. WWW.UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG LEGAL ASSISTANCE Just Law. 801.467.1512. JUSTLAWUTAH.COM
Schumann Law. 801.631.7811, ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM DA FB MEDIA Catalyst Magazine 801.363.1505. 140 McClelland St. WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET KRCL 90.9FM DA 801.363.1818. 1971 North Temple. WWW.KRCL.ORG MUSICIANS FOR HIRE Idlewild 10/15 801.268.4789, WWW.IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM. David and Carol Sharp. Duo up to six-piece ensemble. Celtic, European, World and Old Time American music. A variety of instruments. Storytelling and dance caller. CDs and downloads, traditional and original. IDLEWILD@IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM NON-PROFIT Local First DA 801.456.1456. WWW.LOCALFIRST.ORG PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School DA SLC campus: 363 South 500 East, ste 210, 801.355.6300. Cedar City campus: 297 N. Cove Dr., 435.586.8222. Morning and evening programs. Four start dates per year, 8-14 students to a class. Mentor w/seasoned professionals. Practice w/license therapists in a live day spa setting. Graduate in as little as 8 months.
WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services 11/14 801.673.1294; 801.871.0840 office. Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor. Client-centered wealth management, retirement planning, IRA rollovers, ROTH IRA’s, 401(k) plans & investing, life insurance. Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC. 8899 S. 700 E. Ste. 225, Sandy, UT 84070. ROBERT.HARRINGTON@ LPL.COM; WWW.HARRINGTONWEALTHSERVICES.COM
MOVEMENT, MEDITATION DANCE RDT Community School. DA 801.534.1000. 138 W. Broadway. RDTUTAH.ORG MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 8/15 740 S 300 W, SLC, UT, 84101. 801.355.6375. Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditional-style training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and Qigong exercises). Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET MEDITATION PRACTICES Rumi Teachings 6/15 Good poetry enriches our culture and nourishes our soul. Rumi Poetry Club (founded in 2007) celebrates spiritual poetry of Rumi and other masters as a form of meditation. Free meetings first Tuesday (7 pm) of month at AndersonFoothill Library, 1135 S 2100 E. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM PILATES YOLO Pilates…Building Beautiful, Balanced Bodies 10/14 1615 Foothill Drive. 385.321.0190 Dedicated to educate, inspire and transform bodies by integrating strength and flexibility, freedom of movement, resilience to injury and core stamina for improved overall health. Offering private sessions, reformer and mat classes by certified instructors. We love working with beginners & seasoned athletes alike. WWW.YOLOPILATES.COM YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 801.355.2617. E-RYT-500 & Iyengar certified. Cultivate strength, vitality, serenity, wisdom and grace. Combining clear, well-informed instruction with ample quiet time, these classes encourage each student to discover his/her own yoga. Classes include meditation, pranayama (breath awareness) and yoga nidra (yogic sleep) as well as physical practice of asana. Public & private classes, workshops in a supportive, noncompetitive environment since 1986. WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COMNOT IN SYSTEM YOGA STUDIOS Avenues Yoga 12/14 68 K Street, SLC. 801.872.YOGA (9642). Avenues Yoga is a friendly, down-to-earth place where all are welcome. Our knowledgeable,
experienced teachers offer classes for all body types and ability levels from Restorative to Power, Yoga Basics to Hot Vinyasa to Yin and Para. First class is free for Utah residents. Introductory Special $39 one month unlimited. WWW.AVENUESYOGA.COM Mountain Yoga—Sandy 801.501.YOGA [9642]. 9343 S 1300 E. Offering hot yoga classes to the Salt Lake Valley for the past 10 years. We now also offer Vinyasa, Restorative, Pre/Post-Natal, Kids Yoga and Mat/Barre Pilates Classes in our NEW studio room. Whether you like it hot and intense, calm and restorative, or somewhere in-between, Mountain Yoga Sandy has a class for you. WWW.MOUNTAINYOGASANDY.COM 3/15
Centered City Yoga 9/15 801.521.YOGA (9642). 926 E. 900 S. 926 E. 900 S., SLC, and NOW ALSO AT 955 W. Promontory Road at Station Park, Farmington, 801.451.5443. City Centered Yoga offers more than 100 classes a week, 1,000 hour-teacher trainings, monthly retreats and workshops to keep Salt Lake City CENTERED and SANE. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM
PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ANGEL READINGS Lisa Rasmussen, ATPŽ 11/14 951.234.4422. Angel Therapy PractitionerŽ certified by Doreen Virtue, Ph D. Offering intuitive counseling and energy work to assist you in clearing life challenges with loving guidance from your angels, guides and loved ones. Over 20 years experiences. Sessions can be done in person or via Skype. LISA_RAS1@YAHOO.COM ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FB Ralfee Finn. 800.915.5584. Catalyst’s astrology columnist for 10 years! Visit her website at WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM or e-mail her at RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM
Vedic Harmony—Jyotish Astrology 801.942.5876. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET
ENERGY HEALING EmilySpirit, Transformational and Holistic Therapist 11/14 801.512.5319. Intuitive sessions illuminate and empower your individual soul language. Chakra Drawings interpret your unique blueprint. Vocal toning and energy work brings internal harmony, allowing healing and soul awareness. Learn your soul-body language, soul purpose or how to incorporate the enlightened 5th dimension into your everyday life. Readings, guidance, metaphysical teachings, workshops, classes. WWW.EMILYSPIRIT.COM Kristen Dalzen, LMT 8/15 (Turiya’s) 801.661.3896. 1569 So. 1100 East. IGNITE YOUR DIVINE SPARK! Traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher practicing in Salt Lake since 1996. Offering a dynamic array of healing services and classes designed to create a balanced, expansive and vivacious life. WWW.TURIYAS.COM Shari Philpott-Marsh 9/15 Energy Medicine / Shamanic Healer 801.599.8222. Overwhelmed? Stuck? Pushed and pulled by forces that interfere with your peace of mind? Shamanic healing cuts to the root of the problem. I intuitively unwind the core issues, recalibrate your energy body, and bring you to a place of strength and clarity. Core emotional clearing; mental reprogramming; soul retrieval; past life reconciliation; spirit guide activation; elimination of dark forces / inter-
dimensional interference. I also love mentoring healers. WWW.RADIANCEYOGA.ORG
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PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Crone’s Hollow 11/15 801.906.0470. 2470 S. Main St. Have life questions? We offer intuitive and personal psychic consultations: Tarot, Pendulum, Palmistry, Shamanic Balancing and other oracles. $25 for 20 minutes. Afternoon and evening appointments - Walk ins welcome. We also make custom conjur/spell candles! CRONESHOLLOW.COM
Penniann J. Schumann, J.D., LL.M.
Excellence and Understanding Wills • Trusts • Administration • Elder Law • Mediation
Intuitive/Psychic Readings/Classes 4/15 Vickie Parker. 801.560.3761. Offering Psychic, Shaman, Medium, Tarot, Lenormand and Oracle Cards, Pendulum, Past Life, Divination, and Psychic classes. For a complete list of readings and what we offer, visit our website. Get the answers you are seeking. WINDSWEPTCENTER.NET/ WINDSWEPTREADERS.HTM. VPARKER@XMISSION.COM
penni.schumann@comcast.net Tel: 801-631-7811 2150 S. 1300 E., Ste 500, Salt Lake City, Ut 84106
Michael Ingleby 11/14 801.864.7870. Divination through Tarot, Runes, Palmistry, Pendulum, and Oracle cards. Spiritual forecasts provide direction and insight to allow preparation for events yet to happen. 1st level Reiki Master, Certified Hypnotherapist, Akashic Channeler, Shamanic and Energy Medium. By appointment. MICH_ING13@YAHOO.COM
Bringing ease and possibilities forward for better health and optimal wellness, moment by moment, step by step.
Margaret Ruth FOG 801.575.7103. My psychic and tarot readings are a conversation with your guides. Enjoy MR’s blog at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET & send me your ideas and suggestions. WWW.MARGARETRUTH.COM Nick Stark 6/15 801.721.2779. Ogden Canyon. Shamanic energy healings / clearings / readings / offerings / transformative work. Over 20 years experience. Suzanne Wagner. 707.354.1019. WWW.SUZWAGNER.COM. FOG
PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH HYPNOSIS Holly Stokes, The Brain Trainer 6/15 801.810.9406. 1111 E. Brickyard Rd, Suite 109. Mind Body Weight Loss with Hypnosis 6-7:30 pm every 2nd Thursday. Cost $10. Private Hypnosis sessions for weight loss, cravings, anxiety, depression, motivation, stress, confidence, and self sabotage. Find your health, happiness, and success. WWW.BRAINTRAINERCOACH.COM, HOLLY@BRAINTRAINERCOACH.COM THERAPY/COUNSELING ABC-Advanced Behavioral Counseling 12/14 801.268.1199. 997 E. 3900 South/rear. We are a treatment agency for mental health, relationships, anxiety, depression, addictions, substance abuse, grief/loss, divorce, domestic violence, for adults and children. Individual and men’s, women’s and mixed groups, some insurances accepted, Several counselors available. Sliding fee scale available. WWW.ABCSLC.COM Healing Pathways Therapy Center 3/15 435.248.2089. Clinical Director: Kristan Warnick, CMHC. 1174 E. Graystone Way (2760 S.), Ste. 8, Sugarhouse. Integrated counseling and medical services for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship, life adjustment issues. Focusing on clients’ innate capacity to heal and resolve past and current obstacles, rather than just cope. Modalities include EMDR, EFT, Mindfulness, Feminist/Multicultural. Individuals, Couples, Families. WWW.HEALINGPATHWAYSTHERAPY.COM
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Do you want healing, not just surviving? HEALING PATHWAYS THERAPY CENTER Mental Health Counseling and Medication Management Services for Individuals, Couples and Families dealing with; Depression • Anxiety • Phobias • Trauma • Mood Disorders Addictive Behaviors • Life Transitions • Relationship Issues 1174 E. Graystone Way (2760 S), Ste 8, Sugarhouse Counseling: 435-248-2089 Medical: 435-287-4099 info@pathwaysutah.com www.healingpathwaystherapy.com
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Jill B. Jones, PhD, LCSW 10/14 775.848.356. Areas of practice include eating disorders; identity, relationship, grief-related adjustment issues; and sexual abuse and trauma. Also provides support for life-course development and aging issues. Works with adults and adolescents in a private home office near Sugar House. Marianne Felt, CMHC, MT-BC 12/14 801.524.0560, ext. 3. 150 S. 600 E. Ste. 7C. Certified Mental Health Counselor, Board certified music therapist, certified Gestalt therapist, Mountain Lotus Counseling. Transpersonal psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, EMDR. Open gateways to change through experience of authentic contact. Integrate body, mind and spirit through creative exploration of losses, conflicts and relationships that challenge and inspire our lives. MOUNTAINLOTUSCOUNSELING.COM
UTAH WORKSHOPS Tarot Class - Pleasant Grove................................................................Jan 31-Feb 2 Numerology Class - Pleasant Grove............................................................Feb 7-8 Relationships Workshop - Pleasant Grove..............................................Feb 14-15 Women’s Embodiment Practice - Zermat Resort, Midway ..................Feb 21-22 Beginning Channeling Workshop - Pleasant Grove.................................April 4-5 Wild Women Symposium - Zermat Resort in Midway........................May 29-31 Young Wild Women Symposium Walden School of Liberal Arts, Provo ...........................................June 13-14
Suzanne will be in Utah for appointments, 2015: Jan 28- Feb 20 • April 1-15 • May 22-June 151-hour reading $100 • Visit www.suzwagner.com for details
Psychic Phone Consultations • Call 707-354-1019 www.suzwagner.com
Jan Magdalen, LCSW 3/15 801.582.2705, 2071 Ashton Circle, SLC. Offering a transpersonal approach to the experiences and challenges of our life cycles, including: individuation-identity, sexuality and sexual orientation, partnership, work, parenting, divorce, aging, illness, death and other loss, meaning and spiritual awareness. Individuals, couples and groups. Clinical consultation and supervision. Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/15 801.631.8426. Sanctuary for Healing and Integration, 860 E. 4500 S., Ste. 302. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy and meditation with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in creative treatment of identity crises and bipolar disorders. STEVE@KARMASHRINK.COM. Blog: WWW.KARMASHRINK .COM Salt Lake Wellness Center, Michelle Murphy, LCSW 2/15 4190 So. Highland Dr., #226. 801.680.7842. Salt Lake Wellness Center provides therapeutic services to individuals. We maintain a holistic approach. We are an Amen Method Provider. We provide traditional therapeutic interventions and education in vitamin and nutrition therapy to create a state of wellness. SHAMANIC PRACTICE Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW, Shamanic Practitioner 3/15 801.531.8051. Shamanic Counseling. Shamanic Healing, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth. Mentoring for people called to the Shaman’s Path. Explore health or mental health issues using the ways of the shaman. Sarah’s extensive training includes shamanic extraction healing, soul retrieval healing, psychopomp work for death and dying, shamanic counseling and shamanic divination. Sarah has studied with Celtic, Brazilian, Tuvan, Mongolian, Tibetan and Nepali Shamans. Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW 801.209.1095. 508 E. So. Temple, #102. Psychotherapy and Shamanic practice. Holistic practice integrates traditional and nontraditional approaches to health, healing, and balance or “ayni.” Access new perceptual lenses as you reanimate your relationship with nature. Shamanic practice in the Inka tradition. NAOMI@EARTHLINK.NET
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Inner Light Center Spiritual Community 10/15 801.462.1800. 4408 S. 500 E., SLC. An interspiritual sanctuary that goes beyond religion into mystical realms. Access inner wisdom, deepen divine connection, enjoy an accepting, friendly community. Events & classes. Sunday Celebration: 10 a.m.; WWW.INNERLIGHTCENTER.NET
Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple 8/15 DA
801.328.4629. 740 S. 300 W. Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa offers an open environment for the study, contemplation, and practice of Tibetan Buddhist teachings. The community is welcome to our Sunday service (puja), group practices, meditation classes and introductory courses. WWW.URGYENSAMTENLING.ORG INSTRUCTION
Two Arrows Zen Center (formerly Boulder Mountain Zendo). 230 S. 500 W., #155, SLC. 801.532.4975. WWW.BOULDERMOUNTAINZENDO.ORG 12/14 DA
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The Earth has a soul The Utah Ecopsychology Project’s conference
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t’s easy these days to give in to despair when you let yourself consider the future of our species on planet Earth. All the extra carbon that Gaia so carefully locked away deep in her crust as life was evolving is being extracted and flung into the atmosphere willy nilly, to wreak havoc on our climate and biosphere for generations to come. We have lost touch with our ancestral selves; our children think that food is something that comes wrapped in plastic, not something you pick off a plant or raise in a henhouse. Yet, wilderness is still incredibly important to us— both as a place to restore ourselves from the dislocation and overwork of modern life, and as a reference and a resource to give us direction away from our self-destructive path. On October 10 this year, a
Adrienne Cachelin, whose research is centered on education for sustainability, developed this concept further. “Knowledge does not necessarily equal action,” she says. “How do we empower people to act?” Partially, it’s in the way we use our words. “Consider the difference between taxes as a ‘burden’ and taxes as a ‘membership fee’ for the privilege of being part of our amazing nation!” she says. We discuss nature as if we are separate from it. Wilderness needs to be “managed,” “controlled” or “exploited” or used as a “service.” If, instead, we speak and write about nature as a system within which we are embedded, we get a way better fundamental understanding of our situation. The first day of the conference ended with a dialogue led by representatives from local American Indian tribes. The conceptual split between ourselves and nature doesn’t exist in these native cultures. The second day of the conference featured ecologist Nalini Nadkarni, a twotime TED speaker who told of her experience bringing a moss-regeneration project to prison inmates, and the subsequent decrease in reported violence among those inmates, just from that bit of contact with someStudents explain the results of their investigation into how different virtual thing living. Biophilia in environments affect human subjects' vital signs and blood chemistry action! Experimental psychologist Oakley Gordon group of professionals, students and academics talked about the native wisdom of Andean cultures, gathered at the Utah Natural History Museum for a where the sensation of loving the Earth is a twoconference on ecopsychology to ask this question: way conscious connection. We love the Earth, and How do we let the wilderness back into our the Earth loves us back. Dr. David Strayer, a cognisouls? tive researcher, discussed the psychological effects Sponsored by Paula and Sumner Swaner of the that advancing technology is having on our ability to Swaner Foundation, the conference began with local communicate with and understand one another. photographer Stephen Trimble’s presentation of the Digital natives in the younger generations don’t Utah Wilderness 50 photography exhibition, which pick up on facial cues that signify emotions as was juried this year in honor of the 50th anniversary well as older people do. We shouldn’t throw away of the Wilderness Act of 1964. Selected from over our iPads, but we should be aware of how we are 1,400 entries, the 50 winners are on display on the using them! top floor of UMNH. “Wherever we live in Utah, we Dr. Hasbach had conference attendees do an exerare lucky,” Trimble said, “wilderness lives just over cise where they considered the future under climate the backyard fence.” change. A large part of the problem we have as a Practicing ecotherapist Patricia Hasbach spoke species in engaging this issue is that we have been about biophilia—a fundamental, genetically raised to be short-term thinkers. We consider the based human need and propensity to affiliate effect of our actions during the next three months or with life and its processes. Animal therapy, where couple of years, not the next 80 years or two cenpeople learn from and are comforted by interactions turies. Thinking these thoughts is unsettling. But with domestic animals, is a subset of ecotherapy, looking around the room at all the intelligent, comand is an example of human biophilia. She also passionate, hardworking, focused people gathered to talked about “rewilding,” the process of re-engagfind ways to heal our relationship with the wider ing our relationship with the rest of Earth’s living systems of the planet, it seems like we really do biosphere. It is particularly important, Dr. Hasbach have a reason to hope for better. says, to develop the words to describe these very —Sophie Silverstone, important experiences and concepts. “If we don’t Alice Toler, Naomi Silverstone have a language for nature, it’s ignored in decision and policy making.”
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Spicing up your season(h)ing! Cook and heal with asafoetida (aka hing), a little-known Asian herb BY DEVYANI BORADE
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evil’s Dung. Not exactly the most flattering description for something that is eaten with such relish in parts of the world. Stinking Gum? Not much better. Food of the Gods. Ah, now that’s more like it. My finger runs down the definition in the guide. Asafoetida i.e. Ferula assafoetida, family Apiaceae, it says, is a species of Ferula native to Iran. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to two metres in height, with stout, hollow, somewhat succulent stems—the plant taxonomy continues at length. Dazed, I firmly shut the book, raise my head and sniff. An exciting pungent aroma wafts through from the kitchen. It tickles my nostrils and I take a deeper breath, marveling at how the English and the Indians can use exactly the same ingredients and yet come up with a distinctly different taste in their respective dishes. It is the Asafoetida, of course. There is something about this herb that turns the plainest pabulum into a delectable pleasure to the palate. Its power lies in the fact that just a few grains blended in at the right time can turn a culinary catastrophe into a gastronomic delight by adding a touch of the exotic and uncommon. My first acquaintance with this herb was at mother’s knee. I was three and had a rollicking tummy ache that made a joke of a marching band doing a 30-gun salute. My insides felt like a rugby playfield during the last few frenzied minutes of an exciting match. When all manner of comic faces by Dad failed to distract me from the pain, Mum gently applied a moist cotton bud to my navel and asked me to lie down ramrod-straight on the bed. A heady smell drifted up from my belly button and within a few minutes the perpetrator, namely too much gas, was fleeing from my
body with much song and fanfare. Unknown to myself, I was by then already consuming this wonder of nature in my meals. Mum obviously used it generously in all possible curries and soups. No doubt that contributed to my lifelong partiality to eating food. But it took a sudden and utterly unaccountable interest in cooking during my teenage years to actually bring the herb to the forefront of my consciousness and enthusiasm. Called hing (pronounced heeing) in Hindi, the powder of the asafoetida is one of the first ingredients to go into the cooking pot after oil. As soon as the oil is hot enough, a pinch of hing is sprinkled in. It immediately sizzles, turns a deep brown and discharges the fragrance that is the hallmark of all dishes Indian. Following this, cumin seeds (jeera) enhance the scent as well as the flavour and the main vegetable is then added to this concoction, along with red chilli powder (laal mirch), turmeric powder (haldi) and salt (namak) to taste. Voila! Bon appétit. Having read that in ancient times, asafoetida was considered to improve singers’ voices, I was eager to sample whether this spicy morsel of news was indeed true and so went about the house after lunch hollering at the top of my lungs. Lamentably, my husband, a king among men but unable to appreciate the finer nuances of music, immediately forbade me to ever carry anything other than a tray, much less a tune. I have therefore never gotten around to ascertaining if this tidbit is fact or fiction. In addition to being a potent antidote for flatulence, in India Asafoetida is prescribed by Ayurvedic doctors for respiratory conditions like asthma, bronchitis and whooping cough. It is even said to cure hysteria.
Although it is generally recommended for use in minute quantities, at times I find myself getting greedy and adding a couple of heaping teaspoonfuls. This doesn’t take away from anything, save for depleting my own reserves of the herb. Asafoetida was earlier almost impossible to come by in England. However, most general supermarkets now stock it in plenty owing to their growing Asian clientele. Ostensibly the herb should be stored in airtight containers to avoid contaminating other spices with its strong odor. However, it is my belief that this has less to do with contamination and more to do with preservation. Most herbs and spices lose their fragrance over time. Common sense therefore dictates that they should not be exposed to the air.
Blended in at the right time, hing can turn a culinary catastrophe into a gastronomic delight by adding a touch of the exotic and uncommon. Known to attract wolves (I wonder how they found that one out), catfish and pikes; and to deter germs, addictions and chefs, asafoetida is gradually making its appearance in more and more multicultural cuisine and being recognised for its many medicinal as well as epicurean qualities. As the plant continues to tease the olfactory senses of the world, I’d better get back to rehearsing my do re mi’ s. I have a point to prove. N Devyani Borade is a Brit currently living, cooking and writing in Germany. We enjoy her blog, “Verbolatry.”
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hen you go looking for this culinary spice, don’t call it asafoetida. Ask for hing. Found locally in many Indian and Pakistani markets, it is understandably known by its Hindi name – asafoetida is the English name derived from asa or aza, a Farsi word meaning “resin,” and foetidus, a Latin word meaning “smelling.” Derived from the sap of the perennial herb Ferula, it’s often found kitchen-ready in a compounded powder form. Before it hits the pan, the smell of hing can make a cook think twice about adding it to a dish, but chefs liken the spice to using soy sauce. It’s the kind of flavor that unites and harmonizes other elements in a dish. Once it’s cooked, the smell mellows into something more reminiscent of leeks. Hing complements most Indian-style dishes. Consider using it in dal curry or with vegetable ingredients like potatoes, onions, cauliflower and peas. Add it to hot oil or ghee. Let it cook for about 15 seconds prior to adding any other spices or aromatics. It pairs well with cumin, mustard seeds, curry leaves and ginger. Tomato Hing Gravy, from SERIOUSEATS.COM (adapted from a recipe from MANJULASKITCHEN.COM). Often served with potatoes and cauliflower. Ingredients: 3 tomatoes or one 15-oz can ½ piece of ginger, peeled and roughly chopped 1 jalapeno, roughly chopped and seeded 2 tbs oil 1 or 2 pinches of hing 2 tsp cumin seeds 1 tbs flour 1 tbs coriander, toasted and ground ¼ to 1 c milk/cream/coconut milk (added incrementally to taste) sugar to taste, if you like Blend tomatoes, ginger and jalapeno until smooth. In a high-sided pan, heat oil to med-high. You’ll know the oil’s hot enough when a cumin seed crackles instantly. Add hing and, after a few seconds, the cumin. When the crackling dies down, add flour and stir until thickened. Pour in tomato puree and stir in coriander. Turn heat to low. Pour in about a cup of water and let it cook down for a few minutes. Add salt and sugar to taste. Add milk/coconut milk a little at a time until you’re happy with the texture and flavor. Toss in some fresh cilantro
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corsets incorporated ivory and whalebone. Eighteenth and 19th century corsets took on an inverted conical shape that restricted mobility at the waist but did not significantly compress the waist. Tightlacing and the hourglass figure took off in the Victorian era. By the end of the century corsets began to lose favor— mostly among med-
Finca, the Spanish-themed restaurant that has held down the northeast corner of 11th East at 13th South, along with Liberty Heights Fresh and Kyoto, is moving downtown.
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efore mid-November, Finca is moving to 327 W. 200 South. “Our lease was almost up and we were looking for a building to purchase,” says Scott Evans. They were able to purchase the main floor and basement of the Warehouse Condo building, formerly the home of Lemon Grass Thai Cuisine. “The space was in bad shape but had previously been a restaurant, so most of our changes are cosmetic. It has been a major overhaul to the look, though: all-new floors, all-new lighting, custom furniture, and we added a bar.” However, the structure is beautiful and, with the help of CityHome Collective, they are matching the natural charm and character of the 100-year-old building. The main floor is about 5,500 square feet—double the current space. About a 10th of that space has been leased to Charming Beard coffee for their first retail coffee shop, La Barba by Charming Beard. Evans, whose first restaurant was Pago, in the 9th and 9th neighborhood, has an interesting approach to developing his restaurants. “Sometimes, I look at the neighborhood and
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ical professionals who blamed the garment for indigestion and hysteria and considered it unhealthy for pregnant women, and among religious leaders who considered it a sign of vanity. Today, true corsets contain their wearers with strong layers of fabric, reinforced stitching and steel boning that keeps the fabric straight without wrinkling or puckering. Meant for body modification, designed to keep the spine from curving and to hold the abdomen in, modern corsets are considered “the most effective form of body enhancement not involving surgery,” says Amanda Meyers, writing about corsets for Blue Boutique. Devoted wearers looking for comfort and function can spend thousands of dollars on a high-end corset. Corset fitting, typically sized four inches below a person’s natural waistline measurement, begins with bending the steel ribs to mirror the individual’s body shape. The garment is then tightened slowly over time to prevent bruising of hip bones and chest. Within only a few weeks of wearing a corset, the wearer’s fat cells begin to compress from a round shape into an oval shape effectively reducing the waistline by its first inch. Further wearing of the gar-
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ment begins to redefine musculature in the abdomen and after years can even reshape the soft lower ribs, which are made of cartilage. The most extreme example of such body modification came from Ethel Granger who in 1959 earned fame as the world record holder for the smallest waist, 13 inches, a feat which resulted in the shifting of her organs down between her hip bones – she still lived a long healthy life into her late 80s. Jennifer McGrew, corset designer and owner of McGrew Studios in Salt Lake, makes custom-fitted pieces and is witnessing first hand the growing interest in corsets here in Utah—mostly, she says, among the steam punk and cosplayer communities. “Wonder Woman’s famous look is built on the corseted bodice,” says McGrew, who insists that even a super hero couldn’t keep a strapless top like that on without some tight lacing. “A corset is the iconic, archetypal container for the body,” she says. “It’s the classical silhouette that will never go away and will always remain controversial.” N — Katherine Pioli BLUEBOUTIQUE.COM; MCGREWSTUDIOS.COM
COMINGS & GOINGS IN THE CATALYST COMMUNITY imagine what is missing and develop a concept around that. Other times, I have a concept first and seek a home for that concept. Finca was developed first—I love Spain and believe it’s not represented well in the US nor, of course, Utah. A developer contacted me about the 11th East location and I went with it. Although I love the neighborhood, I had always thought Finca was always
The 327 W. 200 South location will be ready for the new Finca Restaurant by mid-November. New hours: 11am-midnight, daily.
a better fit downtown. It is an urban concept with a big focus on craft cocktails and, obviously, tapas. In other markets, the late-night scene at tapas restaurants is thriving, I think being downtown will allow us to offer that.”
Also Evans points out that Finca has put a lot of love into its bar program and the current space does not allow them to provide the type of cocktail experience they’d like offer. He’s designed the new bar to allow bartenders to directly communicate with guests and offer a normal “bar” experience. There’s a generous lounge area with casual seating for about 30 people. Finca hosts many private dining and catering events. 11th East location has a private room for 20 people. The new space has two private rooms with capacity for 24 and 32 diners. Evans has already increased his staff. For starters, the opening menu will be the same plus an increase of pintxo (smaller plate) offerings, and a bigger focus on lunch with a traditional pintxo bar lunch experience as well as a full menu. Several pay parking lots surround the new Finca, with about 50 public pay spots on 200 South between 300 and 400 West. and free parking on 300 and 400 West as well. A large basement with a full bakery and catering kitchen will allow his staff to produce desserts, housemade sausages and bread for all of their restaurants. Yes, there are more restaurants coming soon. In a few months, Evans will reopen the 11th East location as Hub and Spoke. “I considered some of the limitations of that space—primarily parking—and also the folks in the neighborhood. There are a lot of families and strollers walking up and down the streets daily. I had hoped we would
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get a larger percentage of folks walking to the restaurant. Yet most of our guests drive, making it hard to park there, especially in the evenings. As a result, I looked around the neighborhood and although there are some good breakfast spots not too far away, my vision was to offer breakfast, lunch and dinner from 7am to 9pm daily and offer our take on that meal period. There are some great BLD (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner) places around the country and I feel like there is room and need for a different version of an all-day restaurant than what exists here now. Consistent with our other restaurants, we will focus on local products and housemade items, including fresh sausages, housecured bacon, fresh baked pastries and also gluten-free options as well. The menu will offer classics, new discoveries and some lighter fare in addition to heartier dishes. We’ll also offer a kids menu all day.” Evans says that at the core of this concept is an homage to his father, who grew up working in his pwm father’s Diner, called The HUB, in Minneapolis. “He played a big part in my appreciation for great food and this is a nod to him in both name and concept.” Evans’ team is also rapidly approaching its opening date for a tavern—the East Liberty Tap House, on the corner of Windsor and 9th South, just around the corner from Pago. “This is another vision I’ve had for the neighborhood. 9th & 9th has needed a watering hole for ages and I can’t wait to share East Liberty Tap House with them.” the pub will offer a selection of local and bottled beers, a small menu of updated tavern fare, bar snacks and a patio. Look for it a couple weeks after the Finca opening, mid- to late November. The East Liberty Tap House has been a major challenge in regard to licensing and zoning. It will be the first neighborhood bar since the City Council amended zoning regulations for this neighborhood. “The good news is we finally jumped over all the hurdles. However, there is currently a two-year wait list for a club license (what most people know as a bar), so we draft beer only are for about 15 people where you are not required to purchase food. The remaining 40 seats have a restaurant license, where you can order any type of beverage, yet you must purchase food as well.” —Greta Belanger deJong
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Hugging the ground Urdva Mukha Prasarita Padottanasana BY CHARLOTTE BELL
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relationship between stability and ’d like to propose an inevitability expansion. At 14 syllables, it is also to accompany death and taxes: in the running for the longest Sangravity. In fact it’s arguable that skrit asana name. Here’s how the gravity is more consistently Sanskrit translates: urdva=upward, inevitable than taxes, because mukha=facing, prasarita=spread there are ways to get around paying apart, pad=toes, ot=intense, taxes if you can afford it. None of us tan=stretch. escapes gravity. I usually teach this pose Gravity is responsible for toward the end of a prackeeping us from floating tice, when I want to off the surface of the ground my students’ Earth. It is also energy to prepare responsible for them to return to Earth’s orbit the outside around the sun world. This is and the especially moon’s orbit important if around us. It we have pracis partly ticed poses responsible that stimulate for the tides. the upper Yes, there are body (such as some who inversions), or get to play poses that around in bring energy to anti-gravity the surface environments, (such as backand there are bends). UMPP yogis who reportsimultaneously edly levitate. But photo by Roz Newmark engages the core, these numbers are grounds energy, revitalsmall. For most of us, izes the body/mind, and gravity is a given. stabilizes and steadies balance. Despite gravity’s inevitabiliYou don’t need props to practice ty, we often seem to invest a lot of UMPP, but it feels nicer if there is energy into struggling against it. I something between your sit bones see it a lot in yoga classes—musand the floor. You can use a yoga cles hugging bones, chests and mat and/or a folded blanket. I don’t shoulders heaving upward, all in recommend folding a blanket too order to raise ourselves up away thick—no more than an inch or so, from the ground. This is incredibly because a thick blanket can interinefficient, and in my experience, fere with your balance. it wastes a tremendous amount Start in Baddha Konasana of energy. (September’s pose, aka Butterfly). Asanas express both stability and Sit on your blanket or mat. Bend expansion. Most of us seem to find both knees and place the soles of the expansive aspects of our poses your feet together, allowing your much more interesting than the stalegs to release out to the sides. Feel bilizing aspects. For example, if you your sit bones resting on the floor, look at the photo that accompanies along with the contact points this article, what do you notice first? between your feet and the floor and Most people will answer that they your feet with each other. Settle notice the extension of the legs. Few your weight into your base. Hold will note the settling of the pelvis onto the outsides of your feet with into the ground. And yet, it’s that your hands. settling into gravity that makes Lean back on your buttocks so expansion possible. that your feet and legs lift off the Urdva Mukha Prasarita Padottanfloor. Don’t try to stay on the forasana (UMPP) is one of the easiest ward edge of your sit bones. This is of all poses to experiment with the
The key, again, is remembering to give your body to gravity.
not efficient for balancing. Rather, settle back enough so that you feel the back edges of your sit bones on the floor as you rest on the fleshy part of your buttocks. Now actively root your rear into the floor. You may feel an upward rebound in your torso. This is the natural result of grounding your base: Your body expands upward. If you find that balancing is challenging in this position, you may want to practice here and not attempt to straighten your legs just yet. If you feel stable, continue grounding your base and begin to unfurl your legs. If hamstring tightness won’t allow you to extend your legs all the way, bend your knees and hold onto the backs of your knees. Keep your knees bent in a 90-degree angle and balance here. Otherwise, continue extending your legs until they are straight. If your legs are fully extended and your balance feels shaky, reground your pelvis. If you still feel shaky after regrounding, bend your knees to 90 degrees and hold behind your knees. Bending your knees shortens the levers of your legs, making your energy settle into your pelvis more easily. Continue rooting your pelvis, allowing your torso and legs to expand skyward. Take five to 10 deep, satisfying breaths. Bend your knees as you rock forward to settle again into Baddha Konasana. If that pose is not comfortable for you, you can bend your knees and place your feet on the floor in front of you and relax your torso over your legs. Because Urdva Mukha Prasarita Padottanasana challenges your balance, it also develops your ability to balance. The key, again, is remembering to give your body to gravity. Propping your body away from the ground in this, or any pose, just creates tension and restricts your breathing. Struggling against gravity is a waste of effort. So, root yourself into the Earth, in your yoga practice and in your life. That’s where ease and expansion come from.N Charlotte Bell is a yoga teacher at Mindful Yoga Collective, an author of two books, and plays oboe with the Salt Lake Symphony and Red Rock Rondo. She lives in Salt Lake City.
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the more balanced reality that is calling you to wakefulness. There is a joy that happens when you reject the voices that have been limiting you and allow your spirit to find a new place of center and balance. From the place of knowing your autonomy, you can discover the hidden resources that are right there waiting for you to pick them up. In this month you can step beyond the illusion of your old self and into a more whole and unified awareness. As Osho would say, “The distinction between the dream and the real is that the reality allows you to doubt and the dream does not allow you to doubt.” This month, let go of the doubt and allow the dream within you to gain momentum. As it gains speed and energy you will learn to trust a force that is the dream manifesting in your life. Doubt keeps us small. Dreams show us the limitlessness that is the possibility. Yes, you might need to work at manifesting the dream but never doubt the dream. The dream that I had as a child is finally manifesting in a clear and concise way now that I am 54. The bigger the dream, the more time it can take to manifest. But in the overall scheme of things that dream has always remained resolute. It has been modified and shifted to accommodate the physical world because, after all, we are learning how to manifest things in this dimension. But the core expression of that dream has always remained the same. Keep it simple. Feel into what you wanted as a child. Feel into that dream and allow it to have some air and energy. Allow it to evolve. You cannot manifest something if you are not passionate about it. Your younger self was less afraid and more connected to your authentic heart and that heart’s expression. Look at how your life has been a quest to uncover and discover what that dream self wanted to manifest. You have always been doing that dream. You have never stopped seeking it. That is beautiful. Thank your inner child for that. Deep in you is a wisdom that has never let you go, never forgotten its higher intended mission, and has not gotten distracted from the dream. N
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HAPPENING @ THE LEO N O W O P E N | L I MI T E D E N G A G E M E N T
YOGA AND ACTIVE WELLNESS CONFERENCE N O V 1 5 t h | 12 - 4 P . M. | $ 1 0 - $ 1 5
ANATOMY SKETCH NIGHT
N O V 2 0 t h | 5 - 8 P . M. | F R E E with Body Worlds Admission
LIBATIONS AT THE LEO Harvest Festival of Beaujolais N O V 2 0 t h | 7 - 9 P . M. | $ 3 5
OUR BIONIC FUTURE
N O V 2 1st | 7 - 9 P . M. | F R E E
LIBATIONS AT THE LEO Bubbles D E C 4t h | 7 - 9 P . M. | $ 55
SAVORY SCIENCE All You Need Is Chocolate D E C 18 t h | 6: 30 - 8 :30 P. M . | $ 4 5
WWW.THELEONARDO.ORG | 209 E 500 S, SLC, UT 84111
UTAH’S CENTER FOR EXPLOR ATI ON
Give thanks for a new love $10 cat and $50 kitten adoptions throughout November
Each adoption includes an adoption starter kit. All pets are microchipped, spayed or neutered, vaccinated and ready to go home. Best Friends Pet Adoption Center 2005 South 1100 East • Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 Monday – Saturday 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. • Sunday 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
utah.bestfriends.org
Together, we can Save Them All. ®