CATALYST Magazine July 2015

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Fermenting

New trend, timeless tradition

Yoga moves Tap into the power of your own two feet

Pope Francis wins our respect and admiration

Marcee Blackerby It’s a beautiful day (in the ‘60s)!

Eat the invaders!

Invasivores on the rise

Community Resource Directory,

Proof for Mars/Venus minds

Ornithologist by Corinne Geertsen

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orinne Geertsen’s works are quirky visual narratives about psychological situations. She creates her work digitally and prints it herself in small editions on archival photo paper.

She works from her expanding library of over 32,000 images including her own photographs, old family photos and scans. She’s on a constant photographic scavenger hunt, looking for elements for her work. Often she paints something, photographs it and adds it in digitally.

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ON THE COVER: “ORNITHOLOGIST” Corinne Geertsen

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EAT THE INVADERS! Pax Rasmussen The rise of the invasivores.

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DON’T GET ME STARTED John deJong The pope’s encyclical.

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IF YOU REALLY WANT A LAWN Katherine Pioli Some alternatives to consider.

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EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK Greta Belanger deJong Conversation with John Gray.

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REFLECTIONS ON RUFF! Jennifer Nii Plan-B’s “tail” of two shelter dogs.

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MY OTHER CAR IS A BICYCLE Clare Boerigter Copenhagen, Amsterdam—SLC?

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COMINGS & GOINGS CATALYST staff

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ENVIRONEWS Amy Brunvand

EATING THROUGH THE SEASONS Alison Einerson July’s bounty arrives!

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER Dennis Hinkamp How to be less of a jerk.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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YOGA MOVES Charlotte Bell Tap into the power of your own two feet.

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COMMUNITY RESOURCE DIRECTORY

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METAPHORS Suzanne Wagner Effortless change (for those who are present).

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“Ornithologist”

Perhaps because her father was a psychologist, her work has a strong psychological bent.

Full of contraptions, mechanisms, personalities and plight, her pictures lean toward surrealism, as they have odd juxtapositions, non sequiturs, and an element of surprise.

She received an M.F.A. in drawing and painting from Brigham Young University. Later she studied Photoshop to restore her large collection of old family photos and began seeing ancestors as characters in dramas. She says that working digitally dovetails nicely with the way her mind works.

She lives and works in Mesa, Arizona. Her work is in the permanent collections of the City of Tempe, the City of Phoenix, Arizona State University, the i.d.e.a. Museum in Mesa, Arizona, B.Y.U. Special Collections, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Scottsdale Public Arts, Springville Museum of art and the Tempe History Museum. ◆

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Cathe’ Fish

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IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY Marcee Blackerby

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FERMENTING Nicole deVaney A hip new trend and a timeless tradition

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ADAM BATEMAN’S MORMON TRAIL Alexandra Karl Walking the fine line between fact and fiction

DON’T GET ME STARTED BY JOHN DEJONG

Pope Francis and St. Francis of Assisi

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“On the care of our common home”

ull disclosure: My last two years of high school were spent at the now-defunct St. Francis Catholic High in Provo, Utah. I found the brothers and sisters of the Franciscan order dedicated and challenging in a “you can do this” way. I remember the stark natural garden in the close of the convent that adjoined the school, a reminder of St. Francis’s encouragement to allow a bit of nature to grow wild.

On June 18, Pope Francis published an encyclical—a letter for the entire church, to which “loyal submission of the will and intellect must be given,” according to the second Vatican Council. It is a teaching that people of all religious leanings can get behind.

Pundits have made much of Pope Francis’s position on global warming, but that is only a small part of his broad indictment of what capitalism unrestrained by a strong moral compass is doing to our Mother Earth.

Mahatma Gandhi might well have said, “I like your Christ and I like your pope.”

It’s telling that Pope Francis is the first member of the Jesuit order to become pope. Jesuits are generally more interested in doing good works than in the trappings of office or playing political games. It is also telling that Pope Francis’s mentor, Stefan Czmil, was a Salesian—the order founded by Saint John Bosco in the early 19th century to help poor children during the industrial revolution.

Pope Francis on scientific myopia:

“The specialization which belongs to technology makes it difficult to see the larger picture. The fragmentation of knowledge proves helpful for concrete applications, and yet it often leads to a loss of appreciation for the whole, for the relationships between things, and for the broader horizon, which then becomes irrelevant.”

on scientific reductionism:

“Ecological culture cannot be reduced to a series of urgent and partial responses to the immediate problems of pollution, environmental decay and the depletion of natural resources.”

calling for technology to serve the interests of the common man, rather than the capitalist imperative of Return On Investment:

“Liberation from the dominant technocratic paradigm does in fact happen sometimes, for example, when cooperatives of small producers adopt less polluting means of production, and opt for a nonconsumerist model of life, recreation and community. Or when technology is directed primarily to resolving people’s concrete problems, truly helping them live with more dignity and less suffering. Or indeed when the desire to create and contemplate beauty manages to overcome reductionism through a kind of salvation which occurs in beauty and in those who behold it.

and finally, expressing a deep trust in our better natures:

“Yet all is not lost. Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also capable of rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start, despite their mental and social conditioning. We are able to take an honest look at ourselves, to acknowledge our deep dissatisfaction, and to embark on new paths to authentic freedom. No system can completely suppress our openness to what is good, true and beautiful, or our Godgiven ability to respond to his grace at work deep in our hearts. I appeal to everyone throughout the world not to forget this dignity which is ours. No one has the right to take it from us.”

Pope Francis, with his encyclical “On care for our common home” has set a standard of moral care for our environment and all other beings on the planet that religious organizations around the world need to embrace. The upcoming Parliament of the World’s Religions, held this year in Salt Lake City in October should be interesting in light of Francis’s upping the ante in the global environmental game. ◆

John deJong is associate publisher of CATALYST magazine.

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

A conversation with John Gray (We’re both, actually, from Saturn)

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n a cardboard box full of books at a Sugar House yard salt last Saturday, I noticed a copy of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, by John Gray, a best-selling book about innate differences in men and women and how they can learn to communicate better. It, or one of its many siblings, is a book commonly found at yard sales. After all, 50 million copies have been sold; I figure at some point a person either “gets it,” or gives up; either way, the book then becomes superfluous.

I asked the 40ish woman whose sale it was if she had read it, and she nodded. “I was raised with the notion that men and women were pretty much the same. Then I read that book and a lot of stuff started to make sense.

It was much closer to my actual experience.”

A few days later I asked a younger friend if she had read it. She said no, but her parents had. “It changed their lives,” she said, with a look of awe. “It was like a light bulb went off in my dad’s head. He stopped being a jerk.”

I, myself, had just started reading Venus on Fire, Mars on Ice: Hormonal Balance: The key to life, love and energy (2010) —Gray’s latest, excluding three more volumes recently published online. The book felt... popular. After a few pages, I started skimming. There was a lot of repetition. Yeah, yeah, I get the point....

But within a few days, I noticed “John Gray says...” slipping into a lot of my conversations. And “you should read this book....”

The privilege of being publisher is that I get to do cool stuff like... talk to John Gray. I phoned him at his home in California and we spoke for an hour.

Expectation: I didn’t suppose I would like him all that much.

Reality: It was like talking to a good, old friend. In fact, in a way it was like talking to myself. Turns out John Gray and I were born on the exact same day, of the same year, in the same time zone, three and a half hours apart. We’re practically twins. And—no surprise—he has excellent communication skills.

Mars/Venus, first published 22 years ago, was 10 years in the making. I asked him how he thought relationships between the sexes have changed since he began researching the book—and how his work has evolved to engage with these changes.

“Then, we were just moving into more women in the workplace. Girls were growing up to realize they were going to have more independence than previous generations.” As a result, women are facing greater challenges of balancing their work life with their home life. “That changes the dynamics between men and women and we see stress levels going up as a result. An intimate relationship can be one of the best ways to lower that stress level—or it can increase it if we don’t understand the dynamics of what men and women need under stress. My purpose, now, is to assist men in under-

BY GRETA BELANGER DEJONG standing better how to support their partners in coping with the stress of their lives; women can also help men.”

The big difference in his work is that, till recently, it was based on empirical evidence—lots of it, but still, it was story-based. In recent years, however, scientific research is bearing him out. Oxytocin’s effect on the female brain, and the effects of testosterone on the male brain, form the main point of Venus on Fire, Mars on Ice. Men and women’s brain chemistry is different. Different behaviors are required to stimulate positive responses.

Gray’s book is slim on scientific reference, but google “oxytocin” and you’ll see he’s on the right track. From Medical News Today, June 4, 2015: “Scientific research has...uncovered brain oxytocin’s specific ability to modulate social behavior, including effects on motherly care and aggression, bonding between couples, sexual behavior, social memory, and trust.” Those folks (and there are many) who criticized his work for simplifying complex behaviors may have an intellectual point, but it may not be as complicated as they think.

Gray is also clear on the importance of completing past relationships, which opens the door for the better relationship to come forth. “Understand what went wrong, with forgiveness and acceptance. As long as you have unresolved issues with a past relationship, that door will remain closed; we’ll tend to avoid involvement, or to find someone we can go through the same issues with again till we’re able to make peace with the mistakes of the past. That closes that door, and we can open a new door and find true and lasting love. Of course, it would be naive to think that true and lasting love is automatic. Every relationship has its ups and downs. The trick is to have the skills to come back into love.”

I asked what life experiences informed his career path: How did John Gray become John Gray?

“What made me successful is my spiritual relationship as a foundation for having a personal relationship,” he said, succinctly. He spent most of his 20s as a celibate Hindu monk in the service of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, practicing TM meditation sometimes as much as 16 hours a day. “I was able to come to a place of love, feeling fulfilled in myself. I stopped being a monk to help my brother who was bipolar. That’s when I went to California to study psychology. And that’s when I discovered I had this talent for counseling. When you feel fulfilled within yourself, your tendency to judge others is less.”

John Gray will be in Salt Lake City for a private dinner on July 31 and a seminar on “Intimacy and Soul Mates,” 9am-1pm at the University of Utah. Reservations for the dinner and tickets for the seminar are available at WWW.RISINGPATHWAYS.COM ◆ Greta Belanger deJong is the editor and publisher of CATALYST. GRETA@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET.

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leaning polluted urban air is no easy task. But as smog levels from Athens to Beijing to Salt Lake City increasingly pose a threat to residents’ health, some cities are taking drastic measures to quickly reduce air pollution.

Their answer, almost across the board: Get cars off the road. After 30 years of experimenting with various strategies, some cities have found more success than others.

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My other car is a bicycle Copenhagen, Minneapolis — Salt Lake City?

BY CLARE BOERIGTER

No-drive days: no luck Mexico City’s smog problems began in earnest in the 1950s as a population boom brought nearly 17 million new people to the valley, more than quadrupling the city’s population. That, combined with the city’s air-trapping geography—the metropolis is situated, at nearly 7,500 feet, in the crater of an extinct volcano that encircles the city with mountains—created some of the worst air in the world.

Sound familiar? Anyway, Mexican City officials began tackling the problem way back in 1989, implementing the Hoy No Circula “Today it Doesn’t Move” program, which banned certain cars from driving one day each week based on the last digit of their license plate. Three years later, the United Nations gave Mexico City the title of most polluted city on the planet. What went wrong?

Turns out, disgruntled drivers were circumventing restrictions by purchasing additional cars, many of them old and highly inefficient. This loophole strategy led to a 13% rise in carbon dioxide following an initial decline of 11%.

Other cities that have implemented nodrive days have witnessed similar outcomes. In Bogota, where the Pico y Placa “Peak and Plate” program limits driving during peak traffic hours two days a week, pollutant concentrations worsened as citizens began driving more during off-peak hours. In Paris, the impact of short-term driving bans during periods of high smog remains unclear although public discontent about the program is well noted.

Low-emission zones: good A more promising method for reducing vehicle emission pollutants in cities is the Low Emission Zone (LEZs). These designated areas, usually in city centers, bar inefficient vehicles while encouraging use of public transportation or upgrading to cleaner cars. Stockholm, where the first LEZ was implemented in 1996, has seen a 20% decrease in emissions of nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide, and cut particulate emissions by half. In London, the LEZ closes the city center to private vehicle traffic weekdays during busines hours.

Motorcycles, scooters and bicycles are exempt, as are those willing to pay the “congestion charge.” This dual approach has led to a 12% reduction in PM10,

nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide, and a 20% decrease in PM2.5. In addition to implementing the LEZ, Berlin requires a closed catalytic converter on all diesel and gas vehicles. Since the law passed in 2008, the city has seen a decrease of 1222% of diesel particulates, with levels of PM10 down 3%.

Low Emission Zones and driving bans are all well and good, but Copenhagen has developed a truly enviable solution to vehicle pollution: world-class bike infrastructure.

Bicycle strategies: best In Copenhagen, a “cycling superhighway” connects suburbs to the city with 200 miles of bike lanes. The newly built Cykelslangen “Cycle Snake” skyway elevates cyclists above traffic on a two-lane, first-floor level road designed solely for bike traffic. In 2011, the city’s municipal council unanimously adopted a cycling plan titled Good, Better, Best—The City of Copenhagen’s Bicycle Strategy 20112025. Through this progressive plan, Copenhagen, which has committed to carbon neutrality by 2025, hopes to reduce cyclists’ travel times while increasing commuter trips made on bikes from 35% to 50%.

In the United States, Minneapolis, recently named America’s Best Bike City

by Bicycling magazine, certainly merits attention. According to a 2008 U.S. Census, 4.3% of Minneapolis residents (8,200 people) bike to work, second only to Portland—both cities where bike commuters must endure tough weather conditions, freezing winters or endless rain.

Boasting a solid bike infrastructure, Minneapolis and its sister city St. Paul have a combined 84 miles of bike paths and 44 miles of dedicated bike lanes on roads, with plans for an additional 40 miles of lanes.

In Minneapolis, all buses and trains are equipped to carry bicycles. Offices must, by law, have bike storage, with the city funding half of every bike rack installed by a business.

Like Copenhagen, Minneapolis is also home to a thriving bike culture. Cyclists regularly can join in on games of bikepolo or race the Stupor Bowl, the largest alley cat race in the country—women cyclists have their own alley cat race, Babes in Bikeland. It’s the kind of culture that has the city regularly ranking as one of the greenest cities in America.

Salt Lake City claims to have over 150 miles of bike lanes. That number, in addi-

tion to commuter roads with actual bike lanes and safety infrastructure, counts paths like the Jordan Parkway, moderatetraffic streets like 500 East and 1300 South that have no designated bikes lanes but on which cyclists can “share lanes with slower travel speeds,” and high-traffic streets such as State Street and 700 East on which no sane bike commuter (I feel, as a bike commuter, I can safely say) would travel.

Salt Lake’s downtown GREENbike program has blossomed since its 2013 inception, with 210 bikes at 25 locations now.

The charge is $5 per day (in 30-minute increments) or $75 for a year membership.

As ozone levels climb to dangerously high numbers this summer, and as we begin, in autumn, to bemoan the return of winter inversions, let’s take inspiration from Copenhagen, London, Minneapolis, even Mexico City. Consider what other people are doing to clean their air and save their lungs and ask, could we do that, too?

We can’t change the inversion-inducing geography we live in, but we can change our habits and local laws. We can do something about our pollution. ◆ Clare Borighter is a Ute Fire Tower lookout ranger at Ashley National Forest and an editor at First Class, an online literary journal. She is a former CATALYST intern.

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That’s what the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is asking as Utah politicians propose to increase the footprint the Utah Test and Training Range in the West Desert by 40%. That would impact the Newfoundland Mountains, Dugway Mountains and Fish Springs Range in the West Desert.

Worse, the bill for the Test and Training Range expansion has been loaded with a riders to designate every dirt twotrack in Box Elder, Juab and Tooele counties as a “highway.” The proliferation of non-existant roads would mean no area of the West Desert could be managed to preserve wilderness values because, by law, wilderness areas are specifically roadless areas.

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In May, a legislative audit found that Utah water conservancy districts were inflating predictions of future water needs in order to promote big, expensive and environmentally damaging water projects like the Lake Powell pipeline and water development in the Bear River. Utah water is squandered because it is heavily subsidized by taxes so that water users don’t pay directly for the amount of water they use. In fact, according to a review of publicly available financial statements, Utah water conservancy districts made more money collecting property taxes than by selling water. In June two Utah legislative committees met to examine how cheap water rates discourage water conservation. Maybe the State of Utah is finally on the way to more sensible water management in our dry, desert state.

Should taxpayers defend off-road vandals?

The ironically named Utah Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands voted to ask for taxpayer money from the Constitutional Defense Council fund in order to pay the legal fees for San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman who was found guilty of misdemeanor conspiracy and illegally driving an off-road vehicle into a closed area in Recapture Canyon. All Republicans on the committee voted in favor of giving Lyman $100,000; both Democrats voted against using public funds to promote vandalism of public lands. It should be noted that the Commission does not have any authority to allocate money. If Lyman actually gets the money, it will be decided by the Constitution Defense Council chaired

by Lt. Governor Spencer Cox.

Tar sands resistance continues Tar sands protesters have begun their summer protest vigil at PR Springs in the Book Cliffs where US Oil Sands (a misleadingly named Canadian Company) plans to expand the existing stripmine pit. Scientists say developing tar sands and oil shale raises the risk of ecological and economic damage due to climate change, slows the shift to clean energy and contaminates the landscape. ◆ Peaceful Uprising: PEACEFULUPRISING.ORG. Utah Tar Sands Resistance: TARSANDSRESIST.ORG

SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER

How to be less of a jerk

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eople often ask me where I get the ideas for columns. My stock answer is: “It’s easy—everything irritates me.” I take one thing and try to make it sound more funny than angry. The trouble is that I also irritate myself with my relentless criticism of everything.

BY DENNIS HINKAMP

Mosaic: Got some broken pottery?

Make some art!

Goat: I alter my way home several times a week just to see this cool squarepupil guy silently munching away at weeds along this fence line.

I guess it could try to write a self-help book or delve into the weird and wonderful “blogosphere” or even do a TED talk, but I am going to keep it simple.

Here’s what I’ve learned about criticism, in a list of three.

1. Use your real name. Unless you are a secret Santa, government whistle blower or in the witness protection plan, nothing good will come out of being anonymous. Your comments section name of Dr. Truth will only bring out your darker nature. While you are at it, use your real face. Mirrors are unflinchingly honest but that’s who you are every day. No need to hide behind a superhero or PhotoShop.

2. Snark is dead (or at least on life support). Pull the plug; having a wiserear response to everything is, like you, getting old. “Hey, your dad just died; at least that makes the family reunion less complicated. LOL” No, really, I have seen this and worse.

Be Kinder Than Necessary sign: This has been around the valley for several years and I still don’t know who to thank. Contact me and I will send you some money to keep this going.

Foster homes needed — MEOW!

Mini Library: Nobody reads anymore right? This sort of dogged optimism deserves an award 3. If you look for good, you will see it. This has always been an option but more recently the concept of “mindfulness” has helped me bring it into focus. I bought a package of cheap blue first-place ribbons and started carrying them around with me. It changed my life. Instead of looking for stuff that annoyed me, I started looking for “the coolest thing I saw today.”

It doesn’t work every day, but these are my top four so far. ◆ Dennis Hinkamp would like to note that being less of a jerk does not preclude still being an occasional jerk.

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REMINISCENCES OF THE SIXTIES

IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY

BY MARCEE BLACKERBY

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nd so my two hippy sisters moved in and before long three people were living in the dusty orange VW bus parked in the driveway, with four or five more curtained off in the basement. I learned one can never have too many dogs, and cats have feelings, too.

These were the beautiful people, strange and exotic in their looks and ways. I loved the men with long wavy hair, handlebar mustaches and flowered prairie shirts, looking so manly wearing

seed beads, their leather fringed stash bags jangling with silver bells. And those dreamy earth mother women, cooking up a wheat germ storm in my kitchen, their clothes a never-ending surprise of ingenuity and velvet scraps. Like ancient crones they circled, hanging all manner of pouches from their belts and around their necks, each one holding a tool of their talents, scissors in the shape of swans, packets of needles, rolling papers, matches and weed in patterned tins. In circles they gathered stitching and beading long into the nights. Unadorned and

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There was the music. Mesmerizing, blood-pounding beats, reaching deep. Like nothing I’d heard before. It was good—by Johnny Cash, and hello Mr. Bojangles. The musicians appeared like wizards and sorcerers of old, their sounds conjuring. I found the Beatles and their love love love. I became mesmerized by those lotus eaters, Cream, mind walkers every one. There were melodies of opiate visions, and time, untimed. I saw Gracie Slick, black and vamped, and I met the famed and fated Frank Zappa. I began to radiate with the philosophy of free love and I wore tinkling ankle bracelets. Had I discovered heaven on earth?

Without a glance back, I left my redneck bars and found the drug stores, their proprietors wearing velvet tails and paisley boots. I smoked pot and sipped hashish tea in fancy china cups. My hair grew wild and kinky and I made clothes from antique lace curtains. I wore black velvet for lunch and hats to breakfast. I soon became a legend in my own time and mind. I was a pacifist now, never missing a sit-in or a peace march, waving signs, Make Love. Not War. Tossing flowers, I marched alongside Country Joe and the Fish, white balloons tied to my wrists, wonderfully crushed between protesters and kerchiefed dogs, laughing children, who wouldn’t choose love?

At the heart beat: the concerts, the coup de gras of the beautiful people. They gathered, clad in dreams and other-world fantasies, clapping and spinning, stoned blind on drugs with names and the power to enslave. Women in long dresses of silk and lace, fur stoles and feather wraps. Men in top hats or buckskin, leather pants and knee-high boots. Theda Bara vamps, pale-faced and black-eyed, hooded capes and harem pants. Even natural women were beautiful, their hair loose, their legs unshaven. But under the lights of psychedelic wonder, everyone had deep space eyes.

Like a flashing light, my heart beat neon colors as I touched the hem of Buffalo Springfield’s robes.

The seductive scent of marijuana and patchouli filled the air as we made circles, following some ancient rituals, knocking on doors that suddenly appeared.

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Ferments A hip, new trend and a timeless tradition

BY NICOLE DEVANEY

F

erments seem to be the newest health craze. But the truth is they are a form of food preservation cultivated by our ancestors.

Before the invention of refrigeration, there was fermentation. This was necessary to preserve the autumn harvest and supply food over long, arduous winters. Every culture across the globe has its unique form of fermentation and most cultures continue the tradition of aging, storing and eating these sour foods.

So, are American hipsters returning to this age-old process because they really like the taste of vinegar, pickles and soured milk, or for the health benefits of fermented foods? Due to poor diets, antibiotics and overconsumption of sugar, many Americans are beginning to feel the pain of gut disorders. Inside your digestive system live thousands of bugs, some good, called probiotics, and some not so good. The key to a healthy gut is a ratio of 80% good gut bacteria to 20% bad, but for most people that percentage is flipped. The roots of the word probiotic are pro meaning “for” and biotic meaning “life.” This brings a new meaning to the word antibiotics.

Most people are now supplementing with expensive bottles of probiotics.

Although this is a start, there is a better way to restore gut health. Pill forms usually contain about 10 strains of probiotics. But over 200 different forms of probiotics reside in your intestines.

Using the same pill every day can lead to a different form of imbalance by overdosing on the same bugs day in and day out. By eating a variety of fermented foods, you receive a variety of bugs.

Your body’s wisdom will help guide you to the ones it needs most by creating cravings for certain ferments.

Your local health food store now carries ferments like kombucha, kimchi, sauerkraut and kefir. Most of these items come with a hefty price tag. Sometimes sugar has been added. Read labels!

Some research shows that homemade ferments can contain 20 times more probiotics than the store bought versions. Those of you who are kitchen

savvy and/or want to save money should consider making your own food and beverage ferments. Once I embarked on eating homemade ferments daily, I witnessed a slew of benefits. I looked younger, my acne cleared up and my energy was restored to the point that I no longer needed my morning cup of coffee!

Here’s my favorite recipe for ginger ale, the original soda pop. It’s a great starting point because it’s easy on the palate.

This natural recipe for ginger ale uses fresh ginger and a cultured ginger mixture (called a ginger bug) to create a naturally fermented and naturally fizzy ginger ale. This mixture can contain a small amount of alcohol if left to ferment at room temperature for weeks; I use the

RECIPE OF THE MOMENT Natural Ginger Ale You will need: • large pot to hold at least one gallon easily • several Groelsch-style flip-top bottles (can be found at the Beer Nut or on AMAZON.COM) • Fresh ginger root • organic sugar • filtered or spring water • strainer or fine mesh colander • 2 lemons

Part 1: Start the ginger bug This is going to be your starter or “bug,” which is reusable. The ginger bug prefers temperatures above 75 degrees F. 1. Chop 2 Tbsp. of fresh ginger,

add another tsp. of organic sugar and a tsp. of chopped ginger. Be sure to stir well each time. By the end of the week, the water will have become somewhat cloudy and you should see the little bubbles. Now you have a live bacteria start.

Part 2: Make the base 1. Into a large pot add 6-7 oz. of grated fresh ginger to 3.75 qts of non-chlorinated water (almost a gallon).

2. Add 1.5 c. organic sugar.

3. Reduce heat and let boil gently for 20-30 minutes.

4. Let mixture cool. This is important: Do not add the bug when the base is too hot or it will kill the good bacteria culture.

5. After cooling, add the juice of 2 lemons and stir.

6. Add most of the starter bug/water from Part 1, reserving a few tablespoons of the bug to be reused for your next starter.

Before the invention of refrigeration, there was fermentation.

Ginger has been used in Chinese medicine for thousands of years and is said to help:

• soothe digestive disturbances • alleviate nausea (great in early pregnancy) • reduce fever • calm coughing and respiratory troubles • stimulate the circulatory system • relieve muscle aches and pain • cure dandruff • lower cholesterol, blood pressure and cancer risk

short-brew method to create a fizzy soda without the alcohol.

Homemade ginger ale is soothing for digestive disturbances and contains probiotics and enzymes. As with any fermented product, I suggest drinking small amounts (4 ounces) and slowly increasing the dosage as all the probiotics and enzymes can cause an upset stomach for those not used to consuming fermented products.

cleaned but not peeled.

2. Add the chopped ginger to a mason jar.

3. Add 1 c. water. Do not use tap water as chlorine kills the good bacteria needed to make this work.

4. Add 1 tsp. of organic sugar and stir vigorously. Place lid on jar, cover with towel and ferment in cupboard at room temperature for 24 hours.

5. Everyday for the next 6 to 7 days,

7. Mix the bug with the base, then strain the ginger pieces out through a fine mesh strainer into a larger bowl or pot.

8. Using a funnel, bottle the ginger beer into airtight bottles and leave in a dark place to ferment and get fizzy.

Check in 5-6 days if room temperature is above 75 degrees. You can leave them longer for a more fizzy ferment; just be sure to let the gas out and check them so they don’t explode!

9. The culture is a living bacteria. I find that all of my ferments work and taste much better if I take the time to give them some sweet words of love and encouragement as I place them in the cupboard.

10. Use extreme caution when checking your bottle. Open slowly in the sink.

Ginger beer often gets quite active and can spray all over if the CO2 is not released slowly and carefully.

11. If fizzy, move to the fridge; otherwise leave out at room temp for a few more days.

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PERSONAL JOURNEY

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Adam Bateman’s Mormon Trail Walking the fine line between fact and fiction

BY ALEXANDRA KARL comes from comparing official scholarly accounts of the journey to pioneer accounts. “My mom has a book about one of her ancestors who crossed the plains. That book claims that 20,000 Mormons died on the trail,” says Bateman. “But according to scholarly research

In an age when the flight out of Nauvoo is not just re-enacted, but commercialized beyond recognition, Adam Bateman is reclaiming the narrative for himself.

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round the end of April, local artist Adam Bateman – also curator of Salt Lake’s quirkily named CUAC (formerly the Central Utah Art Center, now called simply “quack”) drove to Council Bluffs, Iowa. From there, began walking back along the Mormon Trail to Salt Lake City, following in the footsteps of his ancestors (over 60 of them) who undertook the 1850s Mormon Exodus.

Walking the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, part of the U.S. National Trails System, is nothing new.

Many Mormons, from Wyoming to Australia, undertake “treks,” handcart pulls stretching from three miles to hundreds that re-enact the voyage westward complete with pioneer clothing, frontier songs and rented handcarts. But Bateman’s trek seeks more than ancestral pathways.

Following in the footsteps of performance artists such as Richard Long, Francis Alys and Hamish Fulton, whose work shifted the act of walking from pedestrian to performance, Bateman’s trek is investigating travel as a ritual re-enactment of manifest destiny and a fundamental way Americans experience “The American West,” both the physical place and the mythical one.

As Bateman walks across the country, in Utah preparations are underway for Pioneer Day (July 24), a state holiday in which locals honor their ancestry by symbolically reentering the city pushing handcarts and wearing pioneer costumes. The annual Days of ’47 festival, which includes a beauty pageant emphasizing congeniality and modesty, is organized by the eponymous committee that strives to “keep the Pioneer spirit alive”.

Bateman, while not entirely critical of such celebrations, questions the ways in which the past gets repackaged and distorted for popular use. Using his own trek as a platform, Bateman is delving deeper into the Mormon Exodus to separate fact from fiction that is scarcely critically examined. Part of this repackaging

more like recognizing how language functions in society.

And so, in a way, demythologizing anything is also remythologizing it. It’s adding a new truth.”

Using a Walkmeter to track his daily progress by satellite – while also plotting it onto Google Maps, posting to Facebook, and tweeting it to #amtwalk – Bateman is slowly adding his own truth of the Mormon handcart experience to the mix of rhetoric and

done by BYU professors, it was more like 1,200. And that’s a great example of the way the myth has grown. I mean, 1,200 people is still a lot to have died. But it’s 3-4% of the population, [which is] very different than 15% of the population.”

Other complexities are found in the ways in which the legacies of smaller groups are spun. For example, a third of the Willie and Martin Handcart Company perished, due largely to bureaucratic failings by the church and Brigham Young.

“Their circumstances were so dire, yet they became icons to demonstrate how the faithful faced their problems,” says Bateman.

However, Bateman points out, the legend conveniently ignores the ending of the story. A third of the Willie and Martin Handcart Company left the church after arrival.

“The idealization of past landscape travel and mythologies are built up from the nostalgia surrounding these heroic feats,” reflects Bateman. “In my mind, demythologizing something isn’t proving it false; it’s

research. His photographs, posted to Instagram, capture moments of astonishing beauty – traces of Bateman’s eye for Formalism – and speak to a country fallen into disrepair. Abandoned tractors, disconnected phone booths, golden arches and roadside trash betray a land sorely neglected. Mile markers are buried in overgrown grass. Weathered signposts and faded wagons bear witness to a Mormon past. The dilapidated nature of these scenes begs the question: Is this the stuff of religious legend, the legacy which Mormons so revere and mythologize?

In an age when the flight out of Nauvoo is not just re-enacted, but commercialized beyond recognition, Adam Bateman is reclaiming the narrative for himself: one step at a time. “[I’m gaining] this testimony of how hard it is and how hard the pioneers had it, which is a reinforcement of the mythology. They say, ‘Look how hard 20 miles is. Now try 1,100!’ It’s the daunting nature of that story that led me to want to walk the trail for myself.” Two months into the trek, Bateman is hitting his stride. He now averages about 20 miles a day and will probably arrive back in Salt Lake City early, long before the Pioneer Day parade. ◆ Alexandra Karl is an educator, art historian and essayist. She lives in Salt Lake City.

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s Homer Simpson once said about alcohol, one could ostensibly argue that our mouths are the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems. How many wars could have been avoided if an angry man had just kept his mouth shut? How many loose lips have sunk ships? How many marriages brought to an end by words spoken in anger? And what proportion of climate change, habitat loss, the extinction of species and drought is directly related to the rise of industrial agriculture and meat production—in short, the generation of all the things we put in our mouths?

Conversely, most wars are ended through the skills of negotiators, many troubled marriages saved by the words of counselors. With that in mind, is it possible for our mouths to get us out of some of our ecological worries?

I’ve been thinking about the idea of eating invasive species for a couple of years now, ever since I heard a story on NPR about addressing the growing problem of Asian carp by the simple method of eating them. Last year, when living in Albuquerque, I heard that feral hogs— out of control in many of the Southern states—had started to become a problem in eastern and southern New Mexico. I seriously toyed with the idea of trying my hand at hog hunting, since even a general hunting license isn’t required to take them.

The idea isn’t limited to fish and pigs.

A quick Google search of the term invasivore will turn up quite a few interesting pages. For example, at EATTHEINVADERS.ORG, folks are sharing recipes for knotweed

We love the idea of a pristine nature, free of our meddling. But the truth is, we are part of the landscape, and we change it in many ways. salsa verde (knotweed, apparently, tastes much like tomatillo), stinging nettle frittatas and soups seasoned with pepperweed. At INVASIVORE.ORG you’ll find another fairly decent collection of recipes, along with an interactive user-generated map (which isn’t very robust yet, but it’s a great idea).

All this thinking really does beg the question: Is eating the invaders —plant, animal or insect—a solution on any level to the problem of invasive species?

The answer to that question is actually

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Eat the invaders!

Is this a solution to the problem of invasive species?

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pretty complicated. To start to answer it requires an answer to an even more fundamental question: What is an invasive species?

We all have a pretty good idea about the basic concept, and the famous case of rabbits in Australia is a decent example: A species introduced to a place where it fits in surprisingly well, outcompeting the local, native species. Englishman and general dweeb Thomas Austin, upon arriving in Australia, noticed there weren’t any rabbits. Austin liked rabbit hunting, so he asked his nephew in England to send him some. In 1859, Austin released 24 rabbits on his property. The mild Australian winters allowed the rabbits to breed all year long, and the extensive agricultural area in which they were released provided the perfect habitat: land cleared of brush and woodlands, with the local predators already conveniently exterminated.

Within 10 years, the rabbit population had exploded to the point where two million were being trapped or shot each year, with no noticeable effect on their population. The rabbits caused widespread ecological damage, denuding the landscape and leading to massive erosion problems.

A number of measures were used to try to control the problem (including hunting/trapping programs, a huge fence, and lots and lots of poison). In the 1950s, release of the myxoma virus brought the rabbit population down to about 100 million (from 600 million). Rabbits are still a problem in Australia, and probably will be for the foreseeable future.

While not as glamorous as rabbits we’ve seen something similar happen here in Utah, with cheatgrass (bromus tectorum) and tamarisk (50-60 species in the Tamaricaceae family). Tamarisk, like rabbits in Australia, was introduced in the

19th century, for ornamental reasons and to create windbreaks and stabilize streambeds. Cheatgrass came to the U.S. around the same time, but accidentally, through contaminated grain seed, straw packing material, and in the soil ballast in ships. Both plants spread quickly across the landscape.

According to Dr. David Bowling, an ecosystem ecologist at the University of Utah, there are now no major waterways in the U.S. free of tamarisk. Likewise, there are almost no areas in the country free of cheatgrass. Both species found an ecological void and filled it. Cheatgrass is such a problem for western rangelands – it is poor livestock forage and increases wildfire risk – that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been looking for an economically viable, edible use for the plant and may have found it. Cheatgrass seeds apparently serve as an acceptable substitute for barley in commercial beer making.

There are some Utah invasives, however, that are unlikely to find wide, popular culinary use. Careless boaters are spreading quagga mussels throughout Utah— boats pick up the mussels in Lake Powell and spread them when they go elsewhere.

If they’re paying attention, boaters can remove the mussels and not spread the species around. Left unchecked, these mussels reproduce and spread dramatically, choking out other species as well as causing infrastructure problems such as clogging pipes in dams. Unfortunately, while quagga mussels are technically edible, they don’t taste very good, and tend to concentrate pollutants in their bodies.

For other more delicious Utah invasives, like the Eurasian collared dove, other problems make a growing market demand unlikely. Introduced in the

Bahamas in the 1970s, the collared dove spread to Florida by the early ’80s and is now found throughout most of the Americas. They displace rock dove and mourning dove populations, as they are bigger and more aggressive, competing better for food and territory. They are displacing migratory birds that are integral parts of local ecosystems. The chances of someone setting up a collared dove breeding operation for the purposes of selling them for food are slim to nil.

And though hunting Eurasian collared doves is legal year-round in Utah – with no bag limit or license needed – it is illegal to discharge a firearm, even a BB gun, within most city and residential areas where most of the birds are found.

Creating a culinary demand for invasives is not a silver bullet. In fact, sometimes it can create a whole new problem.

Back in Texas, efforts to control the invasive feral pig through gustatory means have spawned intense hunting and harvesting efforts. Dozens of companies offer guided hog hunts, and many landowners trap and eat hogs that come onto their property. The numbers of pigs is going down. That’s a win for the invasivore argument. On the other hand, feral hog hunting has become a business and deliberate hog releases are now spreading the problem northward into New England.

Perhaps one of the most troubling issues with the concept of “invasive” species is the idea that there’s now no such a thing as a natural, or non-human, landscape. “It doesn’t really matter if cheatgrass is native or non-native,” Dr. Bowling says, “it’s here, and it’s part of the landscape.” We love the idea of a pristine nature, free of our meddling. But the truth is, we are part of the landscape, and we change it in many ways, not the least of which is the introduction of new species that are likely here to stay.

Growing trend or not, it’s unlikely that we’re going make much of a difference by eating invasive species. As a meat-eater, though, I’d feel better about chowing down some barbeque ribs from a feral hog I killed myself than a factory farmproduced chop bought from Walmart.

Ethics might not come into play much regarding vegetables, but many of the invasive plant species found in Utah are quite a bit more nutritious than the standard grocery-store veggie fare. Purslane and dandelion, probably growing in your garden right now, have omega-3 fatty acids vitamin A, vitamins B and C, potassium, calcium, iron, and more, which is a pretty good reason to eat your weeds.

The bottom line? The invasivore movement may not save the world, but it sure can’t hurt, either. ◆ Pax Rasmussen is CATALYST’s tech meister, contributing writer and former associate editor.

BOOK REVIEW

Weed workers

Timothy Lee Scott challenges our preconceptions about non-native plants Invasive Plant Medicine

by Timothy Lee Scott (2010: Healing Arts Press) WWW.HEALINGARTSPRESS.COM ISBN 978-1-59477-305-1

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ardeners know all about weeds; there isn’t a one of us with a cultivated bit of soil who hasn’t spent hours ripping vigorous but unwanted plants out by the roots.

In Invasive Plant Medicine, Timothy Lee Scott proposes a revolutionary rethinking of this combative relationship with plant invaders. Invasives, he says, are here for a reason: They offer us, and the planet, sorely needed medicine. Some invasive weeds “protect the land after improper clearing and use, some renew degraded soils, some cleans the waters, and some break down and clean up toxins and pollutants in the soil and air.” There is, according to Scott, no such thing as a weed—just a plant, as Emerson said, “whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Some good things about tamarisk Tamarisk, for example, was brought to the United States from Europe in the early 1800s, but populations did not explode along Southwestern waterways until the great dam-building era of the 1900s.

Reservoirs have allowed humans to build cities in arid country, but damming rivers profoundly changes the nature of the habitat along them. Swift-running water carries salt away, but slow-running or still water allows it to build up in the soil during the process of evaporation here in our hot, dry climate. Native riparian plants are not as well-evolved to be as salt tolerant as the tamarisk, and so the tamarisk out-competes them as the soil gets saltier and more alkaline.

Tamarisk also has the ability to concentrate salt in its leaves, so as the plant grows and sheds leaves, the surface of the ground underneath it becomes even saltier.

Eradication proponents see this behavior as noxious and monopolizing; Scott believes that it represents the underlying ecology attempting to put itself back into balance after human disturbance, and that disturbing the environment even further by attempting to forcibly control these plants will just result in never-ending escalation and further degradation of the biome. Left

REVIEWED BY ALICE TOLER alone, he notes, the ecology will invariably re-balance itself, although the adjustment may take decades.

Does this mean you should turn over your yard to the dandelions? As the primary engine of the ecology in your garden, by all means you have the right to control which plants grow in it.

Perhaps, though, after reading Scott’s book you may feel a little more respect.

There is a whole lawncare industry dedicated to poisoning dandelions. What a shame! The roots, leaves, and flowers of this plant are an excellent tonic and stimulator to the liver and kidneys, and the young greens are very tasty in salads. It is most important to bees in the early spring, providing them with food during a lean time before many other flowers have bloomed.

For each plant Scott covers, he provides historical information, a description, collection and habitat, medicinal uses, plant chemistry, pharmacological actions, scientific studies, and ecological importance.

Even the tamarisk has uses: In addition to salt it also concentrates and removes lead, cadmium, copper, arsenic, sodium and perchlorate from the soil. It has been used to create a natural pink or purple dye, and it also has antimicrobial properties.

Some extracts can be used as a liver tonic. Carl Jung noted, “What you resist, persists.” This is, perhaps, the essence of Scott’s philosophy. By hating weeds and fighting them, we are only creating more of the same disturbed habitat that allowed them to invade in the first place. By accepting them and showing a little respect, perhaps we can help the ecology heal itself into a new diverse equilibrium.

The urban gardener’s scourge, bindweed, also has uses. The roots of this morning glory relative can be 16 feet or longer. New plants come up from every bit of cut root left in the soil, and the hardcoated seeds have been shown to remain viable for up to 60 years. Bindweed has a reputation as a purgative and a brain tonic in herbal medicine. The aboveground portions of the plant can be harvested in the summer, the roots in autumn, and both can be prepared either fresh or dried. The Ayurvedic dose is 3 to 6 grams of the powdered dried plant.

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SUBURBAN LIFE

If you really want a lawn Some alternatives to consider

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hen we think of the American lawn, we think of 1950s suburban America and the manicured single family dwelling, but the obsession is actually much older than that. Consider that the push mower was marketed to the masses as early as 1870.

The first great surge towards the suburban landscape as we know it came around the time of the Civil War when East Coast cities began rapidly expanding and when city planners placed great emphasis on public parks. But, even before that,

Americans’ idea of the lawn (a symbol of status and civilization) took inspiration from the green expanses around English manor homes of the 18th century – though those lawns actually served a purpose, to feed grazing livestock.

Today, lawns have replaced southern marshes, northern woods and western deserts. They have given rise to riding lawn mowers, rubber hoses, chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, even municipal water systems. Yet, in this time of drought, the American lawn may finally be working its way towards the annals of history.

My own yard is in the process of conversion – both due to action and inactivity. While most of my Kentucky bluegrass is reentering dormancy and turning brown from lack of water, my front strip is slowly suffocating under black plastic awaiting an autumn makeover with a native plant xeriscape.

We ask that you consider lawn alternatives, or creating less lawn if you don’t “use” it. Berry bushes, fruit trees, flowers, a vegetable garden or a more xeric look may work for you. But if you are not inclined to go there, here are a few lawncentric options. Fall is a good time to

BY KATHERINE PIOLI tackle landscaping, and now is the time to consider alternatives. Here’s a CATALYST rundown of some options.

Traditional sod Sod gets a bad rap from most Earthloving environmentalists. But some of sod’s problems are due to our own poor lawn management. Utah State University scientists say most turfgrass (often Kentucky bluegrass) is seriously overwatered, even though it won’t show stress from over-irrigation as quickly as it shows stress from drought.

Benefits: Traditional turf is the only landscape plant that can withstand heavy traffic – athletics, dogs, kids – and mowing. It reduces surface water runoff and reduces environmental pollutants by trapping dust and pollen. It moderates temperature levels.

How much to water?

Check this weekly guide: WWW.CONSERVEWATER.UTAH.GOV Drawbacks: Keeping turf green and soft throughout the hot summer is water intensive, even when watered correctly.

reel mower. If you use herbicides and fertilizers, choose organic. “Stressing” the lawn by watering less frequently will stimulate roots to grow deeper. Water at night and early morning. to limit evaporation. How much to water? Check this weekly guide: WWW.CONSERVEWATER.UTAH.GOV.

Nontraditional sod For a traditional looking yard but without the heavy water needs. Utah State University recommends a few cultivars for our climate. They include buffalograsses – a Great Plains native that’s soft to the touch but has a longer spring and fall dormancy period; fescue – heat-, shade- and drought-tolerant; and perennial ryegrass.

Garden exhibits at the Conservation Garden Park in West Jordan model alternative and water-conserving landscaping.

Their Traditional with a Twist Garden uses a mix of buffalograss, tall fescue, blue grama and crested wheat grass.

For readymade sod, look to local companies like BioGrass sod farms, based in Sandy, which grows and sells waterwise sod varieties such as BioNative, made from a Mountain West grass seed mix.

Benefits: Lower watering needs once established. Looks like a traditional lawn.

Drawbacks: Not always as resilient to high traffic and heavy activity. Harder to find. Some grasses grow in clumpy patterns and don’t create the same mat effect. Cultivars are vibrant or dormant at various times.

Artificial turf Performs poorly in moderate to heavy shade. Requires mowing. (The EPA says a gas-powered mower emits as much hourly pollution as 11 cars; a riding mower, 34 cars.)

Lawn care: Mow to height of 2.5 to 3 inches to encourage deeper rooting and improve heat and drought tolerance.

Leave grass clippings while mowing to reduce evaporation from soil surface.

Consider investing in an electric or push

First created by Monsanto in the 1970s, artificial turf has long been used on athletic fields and is starting to replace traditional sod lawns. Improved technology gives modern turf a much more natural look, but this alternative still raises a number of concerns.

Unlike grass, which cools the environment around it, artificial turf heats up surface and surrounding air temperatures, potentially contributing to urban heat

island effects. When encountering bare skin, hot turf has been known to cause burns and blisters.

Benefits: Low maintenance. No watering (with a catch, see Drawbacks). No weeding, fertilizing, mowing. Looks green all year round. Stands up to high traffic in all seasons. Non-toxic products available that are safer for pet and children. Good drainage.

Drawbacks: Color will fade. High upfront cost. Rubber cushion may need replacing. Not easy to clean up after pets (to address hygienic problems, most turf has antimicrobial components that are safe for humans, but can be very toxic in aquatic environments). Does not cool like natural grass (to cool turf, companies recommend applying water). Perhaps worst: It is dead and uninhabitable; birds, butterflies, insects and worms and other soil life will die or go elsewhere.

Hardy groundcovers This lawn alternative is a balance between traditional and xeriscape. These ground covers are low-rowing mat plants capable of limited foot traffic. Some actually develop better root structure when stressed by low impact activity. They spread well and can be efficiently used to cover small lawn spaces. Many of these plants are aromatic and flowering, giving them a pleasing quality that not even grass fulfills.

A handful of companies are developing lawn alternative ground covers including Stepables, found in Utah gardening stores. Here’s a list of some ground covers better adapted to Utah yards:

Thyme – Solid mat, low growing, drought tolerant, summer blossoms on many varieties, sun loving, vigorous, good with foot traffic. Shallow rooted, dies easily in direct summer sun. Requires constant moisture when taking root. Wooly thyme most comfortable on feet.

Micro Clover – Low growing, few flowers, shades soil, reduces evaporation, outcompetes weeds, stands up to pet urine and occasional mowing.

Benefits: Pleasing aesthetic, aromatic, drought tolerant depending on variety, total lawn-like ground coverage. No mowing – very useful in small yards.

Drawbacks: znot suitable for high traffic areas or large lawns, expensive (a single plant plug can run about $2).

Katherine Pioli raises ducks in her downtown Salt Lake yard—talk about organic fertilizer. She is CATALYST’s associate editor.

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Plan-B’s “tail” of two shelter dogs

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former journalist and concert pianist, playwright and dog trainer Jenifer Nii has premiered her plays Wallace (co-written with Debora Threedy), The Scarlet Letter and Suffrage at Plan-B Theatre Company. The latter two were nominated for the American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg Award for Best New American Play Produced Outside New York.

Her latest play, Ruff!, created specifically for grades K-3, is a metaphorical “tail” of two shelter dogs: Axel, a shelter regular and Buddy, a shelter novice. Together they discover what’s possible when dogs (and their people) learn to see past stereotypes and summon the courage to be the best they can be.

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’m one of those people comedienne Amy Schumer makes fun of in her sketch about rescue dogs. Each of my dogs (currently there are eight in my pack) has a “story” that makes them special—exceptional, really. And I am freakishly proud of each of them.

But actual human children? Not for me. So when Plan-B Theatre asked if I’d be interested in being part of its Free Elementary School Tour bringing live theatre to Utah school kids, a part of me balked. Of course I’d be honored to participate. But what could I possibly have to say to kids in grades K-3? I don’t have them, won’t, and am okay with that. I have my dogs.

By day, I’m a professional dog trainer.

I’m also active in the dog rescue community, and serve as a foster “mom” when I can. I know dogs, and rescue dogs in particular. They’re my passion. It’s tremendously fulfilling, but it’s a world filled with harsh realities. For example: Every year, millions of dogs are euthanized at animal shelters across the United States. They die because there are too many, because they are too old, too big, too rowdy, too shy, the wrong breed, the wrong color. In some places,

BY JENIFER NII they die within days of intake.

The lucky ones are typically smaller, younger, not black. They have no discernible health issues. They seem calm but not withdrawn, friendly but not frantic.

Even for the lucky ones, the life of rescue dog is rough. Something separated them from their home. They survived for some period of time on their own in the elements. And they made it through shelter life which, even under the best circumstances, can be overwhelming.

And this is where my playwright’s mind said there’s a play here for kids.

Kids who are just embarking on life outside the home, away from their pack.

Kids who will—if they have not already —encounter insecurity, disorientation, judgment and fear. Kids who may be asked for the first time to stand up for themselves in the face of harshness and prejudice; to find their unique beauty, strength and incomparable worth. Kids who are maybe for the first time meeting people who are different from them —who may seem scary but who, if given the chance, could become dear friends.

Pack, even.

These are things I have learned from my own dogs, and from the dogs I’ve been fortunate to help train. They show me every day what can be done: experience, overcome, accept, appreciate and bond.

This is what I have to share with the kids. I hope they like RUFF!. I hope it maybe prompts them to say “hello” to a new classmate, to believe in their own specialness and, where appropriate, to visit their local shelter. ◆ Plan-B Theatre’s world premiere of Jenifer Nii’s Ruff! plays six free public performances August 6-9 at the Sprague Library as part of the inaugural Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival before embarking on the Free Elementary School Tour in Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, Utah and Juab Counties. Details at PLANBTHEATRE.ORG.

Follows Sunday Celebration Eggs, sausage & bacon, turkey sausage and bacon, hash browns, pancakes, belgian waffles, juices, fruit, etc. $5.00 donation requested

August 7 - “Sizzlin’ Summer Sounds”

With “The Neighbors” Rock band Hamburgers,Veggie Burgers, Hot Dogs, pot-luck dishes and salads.

Prize drawings.

Arts and Crafts displays $15/adult; $5/child (12-18)

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Salt Lake Acoustic Space Vocal coach Jacki Chilton has found her passion working with adults and children in singing, acting and public speaking and recently created an elegant space in which to do it. With a capacity of up to 95 guests, Salt Lake Acoustic Space is beautifully crafted for special events, parties, weddings, performances, rehearsals, classes and auditions. It features a hand-crafted alder performance stage, advanced audio system and good acoustics.

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ull Circle Yoga & Therapy (FCYT) owner and founder Steve Jones, LCSW, and his team walk a new path in their approach to mental and physical health. Drawing from his personal experience with Type 1 diabetes and addiction, Jones realized the mental health benefits of yoga during his own treatment. This inspired him to become a yoga and meditation teacher.

FCYT is a community hub for physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing and healing, a place to feel safe from shame.

The National Survey of Children’s Health shows that nearly half of all U.S. children, newborns to 17 years old, have experienced at least Steve Jones one serious childhood trauma. Trauma is the #1 cause of death for Americans ages one to 46 years old.

Yet for many, seeking treatment for mental health still has a shroud of shame around it.

Jones’ experience working in the field, counseling individuals struggling with ADHD, high-functioning autism, addic-

tion, domestic violence and sexual trauma/abuse led him to see how yoga could benefit a broad spectrum of mental health issues. Specializing in programs for Type 1/Type 2 diabetes and trauma including PTSD, FYCT is an approachable, welcoming place for all – at an affordable price.

FCYT offers classes such as Yoga for Anxiety, Silver Foxes (for seniors), and Yoga for Resilience (women only). A weekly event called Sunday Funday is a quick all-levels flow followed by a bike ride to lunch at a nearby restaurant.

FCYT also offers counseling with their team of therapists, who are certified yoga instructors as well and who integrate yoga into their sessions.

Full Circle Yoga opened in late March in a building behind Batter’s Up Sports Bar on Main St. Don’t let the neighborhood give you the wrong impression, though; the studio is a two-story, beautifully remodeled building set back from the street with the yoga studio downstairs and private practice offices upstairs. Jones aims to create an

stylish grand re-opening June 6. The transformation was like stepping out of LePray’s own closet and into a mini Beverly Hills Hotel: iconic stripes and fuchsia and jungle leaf print walls flanked with photos from a fashionable (but creepy) poolside shoot.

You’ll find clean, simple pieces as well as unique, funky clothes and jewelry by local artists. LePray’s got a bright, daring style – hinting of her time spent living and going to school in San Francisco. “I don’t like mass-produced clothes,” she says. “I want quality, I want to be fashion forward, and I want to offer a good price.”

About half of the store is vintage, and the other side is new clothing, all currently priced under $50. She hopes to offer more men’s clothing as well as teach classes for youth and adults on upcycling and re-working clothing.

New parking app Dancing Cats Boutique in Sugar House one year ago. Now, in the former location of Tempest Couture (which moved online last month), LePray celebrated a

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PARKSLC allows you to pay for your parking spot on your smartphone. Not

Sagehill Cohousing: a new vision of aging

ongevity research confirms that being well connected to a supportive and caring community is the key to a long and healthy life economically, emotionally, physically and environmentally. To that end, Cindy Turnquist is creating a new model for what she calls “aging in place” in Salt Lake City.

Turnquist became interested in this concept after spending over two years as a caregiver for a relative in a home that wasn’t well equipped. She went back to school and got degrees in architectural technologies and construction management, then studied under Chuck Durrett, whom she calls the “father of senior cohousing.”

She envisions this project as a community of small, privately owned houses built around a shared common house with facilities conducive to a cooperative atmosphere.

It includes resident involvement in the planning process, collaborative community management and a physical layout that provides privacy while encouraging interaction.

Senior cohousing creates physical and social environments in which individuals and couples can flourish as they get older.

Right now they are looking for land in the Murray area. The ideal would be a land owner (three to five acres) who would like to be a partner in the project.

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Get your summer smog alerts here!

Summer smog may look less creepy than the winter kind, but it’s every bit as bad for breathing bodies.

Utah’s Division of Air Quality provides an air quality alert system that consists of Action Alerts: three

symbols to indicate unrestricted, voluntary and mandatory actions for ozone pollution; and Health Guidance: EPA’s national standard Air Quality Index divided into six color-coded categories that correspond to levels of pollution and related guidance for people with health concerns. Ground-level ozone (smog) can lead to shortness of breath, chest pains and lung inflammation. Visit www.travelwise.utah.gov and www.ucair.org for more ideas on how to reduce emissions.

—Utah Department of Environmental Quality

your home, you have two minutes to escape, according to the American Red Cross. Having a working smoke alarm reduces the risk of death from a home fire by 50%.

Call them to set up an appointment,

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When it comes to staying cool, little things mean a lot A few years ago, Yes! magazine worked up a great list of tricks for keeping cool in the summer without using energy-reliant appliances – or at least minimizing use. Instead of controlling our environment, these tips get us to change our habits in little ways that really help. Here are a few cooling techniques that you can try – for free! – today.

Capture night air. Passive cooling is pretty basic. At night, open windows to let in cooler air.

In the morning, close them again to keep warm air out. Drapes over windows during the hottest part of the day will also help keep a house cool.

Turn on a fan. A ventilated space is often 10 degrees cooler than outdoors and your body will sense less heat with a little air movement.

Move against the sun. In the morning, take advantage of your west-facing rooms and yard, away from the sun. Rooms on the north side are often cooler in the late afternoon. And in the evening, migrate east again.

Set up in the basement. Geothermal cooling keeps temperatures much lower below ground.

Make no-cook meals. Oven and stovetop activities heat up a kitchen pretty fast. Think of some raw food meals you might make to avoid turning on these heat sources. Or use a pressure cooker (fast, energyefficient).

Plan your workouts.

Maybe you should get up an hour earlier for yoga while it’s still cool, or wait to run till the sun is almost down. Conversely, research does show that regular exercise in heat increases the body’s tolerance.

Get wet. Running through sprinklers isn’t just for kids. Nothing cools the body down like a good rinse. (At the CATALYST office, we have been known to employ spray bottles.)

—www.yesmagazine.org

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Fact: It’s actually not the chlorine that causes that odor; its chloramines, according to Rick Ledbetter, swimming pool supervisor with Salt Lake County Health Department.

Chloramines form when chlorine disinfectants react with contaminants – perspiration, urine, body oils and cosmetics that are brought into pools by swimmers; chloramines deplete the bacteria-fighting chlorine.

“Preventing the irritation isn’t rocket science,” says Ledbetter, “it’s common courtesy: Swimmers should use the pool to swim, the restroom to pee and the showers to wash up before getting in the pool. It's that simple.”

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ummer is here and farmers market season has us dancing in the streets! Many fresh vegetables are coming on now and in-season eating is the rule of the day. As a testament to the unpredictable nature of our region’s growing season, you’ll be hard-pressed to find apricots. Our unusually warm spring brought an early bloom for many of the region’s apricot trees, which was followed by an unfortunate late frost. So if you see apricots, snatch them up! They’ll be in short supply. Luckily, it looks like we’ll have an early cherry harvest and an abundant peach season. So don’t despair. Plenty of delicious tree fruits are or will be available. They are one of Utah’s great bounties.

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July’s bounty arrives Eat well and stock up!

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What’s local now Apricots (if you can find them) Cherries Strawberries Arugula Beets Broccoli Carrots Chard Corn Cucumbers Fennel Garlic Green beans Green onions Kale Lettuce and greens (many varieties) Peas Rhubarb Radishes Summer squash and zucchini Spinach Turnips

Preparing and storing sweet corn The joys of July include the region’s first sweet corn, a simple and perfect sign of summer. Grilled corn is one of my favorites.

To grill: Peel back the husk to the handle.

Remove as much of the corn silk as you can, then soak in lightly salted water for 15 minutes or so. Drain and squeeze out excess water and replace the husk. Grill on medium for five minutes, then turn and grill for another five to 10 minutes or until the kernels are just tender and brightly yellow. Pair with an herbed butter (recipe below) and a sprinkle of salt and pepper.

If you find yourself with an

abundance of corn, it’s excellent for freezing. You’ll want to start by blanching your corn, which stops any active growing enzymes in the corn and helps preserve its texture and flavor.

To freeze: Put a large pot of salted water on to boil. Remove husks and silk and cut off an inch or so of each cob end. Once water is at a full boil, place a few ears of corn in the water at a time. Boil for one minute, then remove and place in a large bowl of ice water; this “shocks” the corn and stops the cooking process. Using a sharp knife, cut the kernels off the cob and place in zip-top freezer bags or seal in a vacuum sealer. It will keep in the freezer for six months.

Herbed butter for sweet corn: Finely mince about 1 tablespoon of your

favorite herbs (parsley, dill, basil, or cilantro all work well). Stir into a stick of room temperature butter (use unsalted if you like, just don’t forget to add a good pinch of salt).

Add about a tablespoon of chopped scallion or chive and black pepper to taste. Mix well.

Cover and refrigerate until ready to use. It’s great for just about any vegetable and also as a finishing touch to grilled steak!

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July 7: Wetland Pond Walk. 6-8pm. Come take a short wetland walk out to the frog ponds where the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is reintroducing the Columbia Spotted Frog! Swaner EcoCenter staff will give attendees a tour of the project site and speak about the importance of wetland ecosystems as native wildlife habitat. We will meet at the Swaner EcoCenter and then carpool to the Preserve entrance. Swaner Preserve & EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City. $5/members free. SWANERECOCENTER.ORG July 7: Rumi Poetry Club. 7pm. Rumi Poetry Club (founded in 2007) celebrates spiritual poetry for our life and community.

Good poetry is meditation—nourishing our soul and mind. Rumi Poetry Club holds monthly meetings (usually the first day of month) for reciting and discussing Rumi’s poems and parables. Participants are welcome to read their favorite poems from Rumi or other spiritual poets from around the world.

Anderson-Foothill Library 1135 S. 2100 E. Free. RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM July 7: Wasatch Jazz Project: Big Band Swing Dance Tuesdays @ The Gallivan.

Free dance lessons 7pm, music 7:30-9:30pm.

The Wasatch Jazz Project Big Band is Utah's premier big band, playing swing favorites and jazz greats. Big Band Tuesdays are on most Tuesdays through the end of Sept.

Bring a picnic! Gallivan Center 239 South Main St. Free. WASATCHJAZZPROJECT.COM

July 18 and 19: Sound Bath Experience. 1 & 5pm on the 18th; 1pm on the 19th.

Himalayan metal bowls, crystal singing bowls, flutes, drums, rattles, gongs, didgeridoo, chimes, tingshas and other surprises produce sounds which invoke deep relaxation and assist in meditation, stress reduction and holistic healing. With Chad Davis and Curtis

July 2, 6:30pm-July 5, 2pm: Prayers for Compassion @ Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa. Generating continuous compassionate prayers (day and night) for the people of Nepal and collecting earthquake rebuilding funds for our teacher in Kathmandu. Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple 740 S. 300 W. URGYENSAMTENLING.ORG July 3; also July 4 & 5: “Fare Thee Well” Grateful Dead simulcast. 6pm-midnight.

Celebrate the 50th anniersay of Grateful Dead with the four remaining original members as they reunite for their final five concerts ever.

The State Room, 638 State St. $1 or a donation for the Utah Food Bank. THESTATEROOM.COM July 4: Salt Lake Astronomical Society Solar Party. 9am-noon. Look at the sun through a solar telescope. Learn about solar flares, sun spots and more. Winchester Park (1200 W. Winchester St.), Murray. Free.

MEDIA@SLAS.US July 4: Downtown Farmers Market, 8a2pm. Cooking demo: Celebrate the 4th with Homemade Pie Baking. Pioneer Park, 300 S. 200 W. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG July 5: NHMU architecture tour. 1:30pm.

Natural History Museum of Utah. Explore the Rio Tinto Center's unique design, materials, green features and public art on a guided 45minute architecture tour. Included in museum admission. NHMU.UTAH.EDU.

July 5 (weekly through summer): 9th West Farmers Market. 10am-3pm. Jordan Park, 1000 S. 900 W. 9THWESTFARMERSMARKET.ORG July 5: Sunday Meditation with Charlotte Bell and Marlena Lambert. 7-8:30pm. Mindful Yoga Collective, 223 So. 700 E. Free or donations welcome. MINDFULYOGACOLLECTIVE.COM July 6 (continues July 7): Workshop ~ A Bit of Kitsch. 9am-3pm. Image-transfer furniture. They provide the metal folding chair, “special super sauce,” stencils, fabric, paint; you provide the creativity. Art Access, 230 S. 500 W., #125. $75. ELISE@ACCESSART.ORG July 6: Monday Family Night @ Red Butte Gardens - Samba Fogo. 6-8pm. Highenergy Afro-Brazilianmusic and dance performance. Bring a picnic and blanket. 300 Wakara Way, University of Utah, behind the Visitor Center in the Courtyard. Regular garden admission/members free.

July 7 (continues the 14th & 21st): Smart Dating, “How to Avoid Falling for a Jerk/ Jerkette.” 6-8:30pm. 3-day course. Learn how to follow your heart without losing your mind in this fun-filled class. 18+ only. Free, includes dinner. Registration required. (Funded by USU, Workforce Services and the US Administration for Children & Families.)

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July 8: Ukulele Social Hour. 7pm. Bring your ukulele and join other ukulele players once a month to share tips, practice, perform, and chat. All levels of experience are welcome. City Library, Glendale branch.

1375 S. Concord (1240 W.).

July 9 (also July 2, 16 & 23): Jazz Jam Session at Sugar House Coffee. 7pm. 1100 E. 2011 S. (by Best Friends). SUGARHOUSECOFFEE.COM JULY 9-12: Creating on Purpose Retreat with Anodea Judith, Solitude Mountain Resort. Learn a step-by-step method for making your dreams come true. Anodea is best known for the chakra classic, Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System (Llewellyn, 1987, revised 1999). $495 (includes tuition & lunches; lodging extra). RISINGPATHWAYS.COM July 10: Friday Night Flicks. 8:30-11:30pm.

Family-friendly movies are shown on a large inflatable screen. Free popcorn while it lasts.

ior and evolution with Dr. Leslie Knapp, U of U. City Library, 210 E. 400 S. Free.

July 10: UMOCA opening reception & dance performance. See Sean Morello's Constellations & Supersymmetries (curated by CUAC Contemporary) and Kyle Jorgensen's Parastroke. UMOCA also presents a partnership with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company for Invisible Gaze, a durational movement installation inspired by Panopticon. 20 So. West Temple. $5. UTAHMOCA.ORG July 10 (weekly thru Oct. 16): Sugar House Farmers Market. 4-8pm. Local farmers, live

music, kids’ activities. 2232 S. Highland Dr., Sugarmont Plaza.

July 10: Carolyn’s Garden Concert benefitting VA Rec therapy 7pm. In support of The James P. Huber Veterans Foundation, which provides funding for the VA Recreational Therapy program, singer songwriters Bob Bland and Bill Klinger perform on Friday, July 10, 7-9:00pm. Rec Therapy benefits disabled Veterans with activities ranging from art to outdoor sports. Suggested donation $10.

Bring snack to share, no alcohol, please. 1443 E. Kensington Ave. EMERITUS1.ORG July 11: Downtown Farmers Market, 8a2pm. Cooking demo: Tour the market with certified holistic nutritionist Anne Dorsey, AADP. Pioneer Park, 300 S. 200 W. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG July 11: Japanese Obon Festival. 1-9pm. food, Taiko drumming, dancing and temple tours. Salt Lake Buddhist Temple, 211 W. 100 S. SLBUDDHIST.ORG July 11-18: The Monks are Coming!

Sacred Arts of Tibet Tour. Here to share their culture, practices and paths to inner peace and compassion. Visit website for schedule of events. SACREDARTSOFTIBETTOUR.ORG July 12: Urban Flea Market. 9am-5pm. 80 vendors offering unique vintage finds. Handcrafted and upcycled vintage items. Animal rescue adoptions. Music by KRCL. Food trucks. 600 S. Main St. July 13: What’s Up With My Garden?

Problems and Solutions. 10am. Free class with Marvin Potter at Traces. 1432 S. 1100 E.

Bring blankets, chairs. Community booths open at 8pm; movie begins around 9:15pm.

This week: McFarland, USA. Fairmont Park, 2361 S. 900 E. Free.GALLIVANEVENTS@SLCGOV.COM July 10: Science Movie Night, King Kong (1933). 7pm. This classic American fantasy monster/adventure film is distinguished for its stop-motion animation and in 1991 it was deemed “culturally, historically and aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress.

Followed by conversation on primate behav-

July 13: Yappy Hour and Cruise Night in Pioneer Park. 5-8pm. Offleash area at north side of park; vintage hot rods on south end.

Live music. Food and alcohol available for purchase. 350 S. 300 W. July 13-19: Food for Fines. All day. Got some unpaid library fines? Reduce your total this week by donating nonperishable food items (cans of soup, stew, tuna, meat, chili, vegetables or fruits; jars of peanut butter; packages of rice, cereal, oatmeal, pasta) to the City Library. Receive $1 off your overdue fines for each item donated. All locations.

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July 13: Monday Family Night @ Red Butte Gardens - Municipal Ballet Co. & Holy Water Buffalo. Oh Yeah!, a rock ‘n’ roll ballet featuring Salt Lake City’s Municipal Ballet Co. and Heber-based rock band Holy Water Buffalo. 6-8pm. 300 Wakara Way, University of Utah, behind the Visitor Center in the Courtyard. Regular garden admission/ members free.

July 14: Local Author Showcase. 7pm.

This quarterly event focuses on Utah writers with first books or new books and to recognize their talent and hard work. This showcase will feature: Jack Lauber, Enoch's Children; Doug Mottonen, If Barns Could Talk; George Peters, Face of our Fathers; and Julie Colton-Webster, Dreams. The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 E. KINGSENGLISH.COM July 14: Creation (documentary) with postfilm discussion. The extraordinary story of Charles Darwin and how his masterwork, The Origin of the Species came to light. City Library, 210 E. 400 S. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG July 16: Twilight Concert Series—Death Cab for Cutie & tUnE-yArDs. Gates @ 5pm, music @ 7pm. Death Cab for Cutie is an American alternative rock band noted for its use of unconventional instrumentation, dis-

July17-19: Seasons of Womanhood Retreat with Giuliana Serena and Andrea Bernstein.

Big Cottonwood Canyon. $425.

MOONTIMERISING.COM. July 18: Urban Arts Festival 2015. 11am10pm. Featuring art, music on 3 stages (hiphop, rock, funk and jazz), urban dance, urban gardening, skateboarding and demonstrations from Utah’s top mural and street artists with a community wall for everyone to paint on. The Gateway, 18 N. Rio Grande St. Free.

URBANARTSFEST.ORG July 18: Downtown Farmers Market, 8a2pm. Cooking demo: Seasonal Cooking with Nathan Power of Bambara. Pioneer Park, 300 S. 200 W. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG July 18: Alt Press Fest. 10am-6pm. The City Library’s 7th annual Alt Press Fest celebrates zines, all forms of alternative press, and the awesome people who create it in Salt Lake City. Some of Salt Lake’s finest artists will host workshops to show you the tricks of their trades and dozens of artists and writers will exhibit their wares in the Main Library’s grand Urban Room. Visit: HTTP://BIT.LY/1FVA6OP

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July 18: Yarn; Triggers & Slips at Garage on Beck. 8pm. Yarn: music that seekers of the unique see as the soundtrack to their lives; this generation’s digital native. Triggers & Slips: implement a healthy dose of honky tonk, sprinkled with rock, folk, bluegrass & elements of psychedelia. Limited tickets available. $13 in advance/$15 at the door. GARAGEONBECK.COM

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July 18: Hippie Glow Run 5K—Salt Lake.

8:30pm. Like no other fun run! Participants receive a swag bag with a glow-in-the dark shirt, tattoos, batons & more! Run through a non-stop black light and neon course. Music and party from start to finish. Liberty Park, 600 E. 900S. $35-55. HIPPIERUN.COM tinctive vocals and unique lyrical style. Pioneer Park, 300 S. 300 W. $5 in adv-ance/$10 at the gate. TWILIGHTCONCERTSERIES.COM July 16 Twilight after party series at Red Door. HTTP://ON.FB.ME/1LOIQFX July 17-18: Salt City Steamfest 2015.

Sheraton, 150 W. 500 S., SLC. A Steampunk experience convention mixing immersion and live action role-play, with creative workshops and a DIY community. "Adventure is Here!" $45-50. SALTCITYSTEAMFEST.COM

July 19 (every Sat. & Sun.): UMFA Highlights of the Collection Tour. 1:302pm. No preregistration necessary. Utah Museum of Fine Art, U of U campus. UMFA.EDU July 20 (weekly): Film Buff Night at Brewvies. 10pm. A different film every Monday. Free. (See website for what’s playing this week.) BREWVIES.COM

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July 23: Twilight Concert Series ~ Father John Misty and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Gates @ 5pm, music at 7pm. J. Tillman, aka Father John Misty, is an American folk singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer.

July 17: Friday Night Flicks. 8:30-11:30pm.

Family-friendly movies are shown on a large inflatable screen. Free popcorn while it lasts.

Bring blankets, chairs. Community booths open at 8pm; movie begins around 9:15pm.

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July 17: Red Butte Garden Tour. 78:30pm. Sunset tour with a guide. Wear comfortable soothes and walking shoes. Meet in the Visitor Center Couryard. Registration required. Regular garden admission/members free. 801.581.8454 or REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG July 17: Salt Lake Gallery Stroll, 6-9pm.

Check out the show at Finch Lane Gallery (54 Finch Lane, Reservoir Park, SALTLAKEARTS.ORG): Namon Bills creates an installation that honors earth, air, fire and rain. Brian Lindley takes traditional auto body paint, airbrushes aluminum panels and creates red rock wonders; and Eleanor Scholtz uses wood burning on panels and motifs from Islamic design.

Participating galleries: GALLERYSTROLL.ORG.

His latest album, I Love You, Honeybear contains songs that are a narration of his experience falling in love. Pioneer Park, 300 S. 300 W. $5 in advance/$10 at the gate.

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July 25: Stansbury Park Observatory Star Party. 9-11pm. Explore the Universe through the observatory’s giant telescopes. Directions and details: SLAS.us July 25: Downtown Farmers Market, 8am2pm. Cooking demo: Preserve the Season with Certified Master Food Preservers. Pioneer Park, 300 S. 200 W. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG July 25-26: Shades of Intimacy: Reignite the Fire in your Love Life. 10am-6pm. With CATALYST columnist Suzanne Wagner, Jason Smith and Jennifer Stanchfield. Homestead Resort, 700 Homestead Drive, Midway. $250.

JASONFSMITH.COM/SHADES-OF-INTIMACY July 27: Movies @ the Gallivan: The Fifth Element, starring Bruce Willis and Milla

Jovovich. 8:45pm. Gallivan Plaza, 239 S. Main St. Free. Trailer: UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG/EVENT/THE-FIFTH-ELEMENT July 28: We Can Pickle That! 6-9pm. Based on the week’s market harvest, learn to preserve using a water bath technique and a variety of pickling brines, herbs & spices.

Harmons City Creek 135 E. 100 S., 2nd fl. $25.

WASATCHGARDENS.ORG/WORKSHOPS/SUMMER-JAR/PICKLE July 28: SLC Mayoral Debate, 6-8:30pm.

Meet the candidates: 6pm. Debate: 7:15pm.

Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Westminster College.

July 29: SusTech 2015—Technologies for Sustainability. 6pm. Explore the development and application of science, engineering and technology to promote sustainability. Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 E. 400 S. Free.

SITES.IEEE.ORG/UTAH July 31: Massively SMALL @ J GO Gallery.

6-9pm. Opening reception of J GO’s 5th annual barrage of the small—walls will be a dense grid of 12” x 12” pieces featuring work by J GO Gallery artists & a select group of invited artists. J-GO Gallery, 408 Main St., Park City.

Free. JGOGALLERY.COM July 31: Talia Keys CD release party at The State Room. 9pm. State Room, 638 S. State. $15. THESTATEROOM.COM Aug. 1: Intimacy & Soulmates with John Gray. 9am-1pm. University of Utah, Film & Media Arts Auditorium, 370 S. 1530 E. A seminar at with John Gray, author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus at University of Utah, Film & Media Arts Auditorium for singles and couples, dealing with how to find everything you want in a loving relationship through a better understanding of the differences between men and women, including how your hormones and your health affect your relationship. $25-100.

WWW.RISINGPATHWAYS.COM AUG. 1: Tarot Class with Suzanne Wagner. 10am-6pm. 533 West Center St., Ste. 203 (downstairs space), Pleasant Grove. $200.

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Tap into the power of your own two feet

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BY CHARLOTTE BELL

’ve been blessed with many longtime yoga students. Many have attended my classes for more than 10 years, some for more than 20. It’s a privilege to move through life’s inevitable ups and downs with such a solid core of wise and wonderful humans.

I met one of these students—I’ll call her Patricia—in the late ’80s, when she was in her 50s. She came to classes regularly for more than 20 years, participating fully into her late 70s. Balancing on one leg was her one nemesis. For decades she propped herself against the wall as she practiced such staples as Tree Pose.

Eight years ago, Washington DCbased teacher Jenny Otto taught a workshop in

Not long after Jenny Otto introduced me to foot massage, an article in The New Yorker (“The Way We Age Now,” April 30, 2007) described how leading geriatrician Dr. Juergen Bludau spent most of a new patient’s initial exam looking at her feet. He claimed that the condition of a person’s feet tells an important story about her general health. According to the article, the greatest overall risk for most of us as we age is falling.

Author Atul Gawande writes, “Each year, about 350,000 Americans fall and break a hip. Of those, 40% end up in a nursing home, and 20% are never able to walk again. The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications and muscle weakness. Elderly people without these risk factors have a 12% chance of falling in a year. Those with all three risk factors have almost a 100% chance.” I find these numbers staggering —so to We rely on our feet speak.

My old friend Mark all day long, way more Bouckoms, a yoga teacher from New Zealand, talks about the than we realize or importance of the feet in traditional yoga practice. Our feet appreciate. Take five are our most powerful energy minutes each day to source, he says. They contain a plethora of marma points, gategive them some TLC. Salt ways to the connective tissue, Lake. and nadis, the subtle lines Your feet will return She channeling energy to every cell began each in the body. The 72,000 nadis the favor by keeping class with a and their 108 marma points five-minute are Ayurveda’s answer to the you stable, upright foot massage Chinese meridian system. that included (Ayurveda is an ancient Indian and walking spreading the toes; natural health system.) In my massaging the toes, classes, we always begin each with ease. balls, arches and class by rolling massage peanuts heels; and rolling a under our feet to stimulate the tennis ball under each connective tissue via marma foot. She preached the points. Most people feel marked importance of tending to our differences in the two sides of their bodfeet every day as we age—a process that is ies after doing this for about 30 seconds. happening to all of us no matter when we Take a few minutes each day, starting were born. now, to care for your feet. You’ll soon see The next week, I brought Jenny’s foot the results — in your yoga practice, and massage to my classes. My students loved in the rest of your life. ◆ it and we practiced it regularly. Six Charlotte Bell is a yoga teacher at Mindful Yoga months later, Patricia was balancing on Collective, an author of two books, and plays oboe one leg—without the wall—for the first with the Salt Lake Symphony and Red Rock Rondo. time in her 20-plus years of practice.

She lives in Salt Lake City.

Caring for your feet 1. Walk barefoot. Direct contact, especially with uneven surfaces, stimulates your foot’s connection to 11 stretch-sensing muscles and your brain.

2. Avoid high heels. I’m well aware that heels are de rigueur for many special occasions. (I recently read about some women who were denied red carpet access at a swanky awards show because they wore flats!) And some people just enjoy wearing them. But there are many ways in which heels can cause major damage to your feet, knees, hips, back and everything above, but that’s another article. If you want to wear them, do so sparingly.

3. Flip-flops are not great ,either.

I hate to say this because they are a summer favorite for so many. Your toes have to work hard to keep them from falling off; this creates a whole lot of tension in your feet and toes.

It’s fine to wear them for running errands and for short walks, but stick with more substantial sandals or shoes for extensive walking.

4. Massage your feet: a. Sit on the floor, legs extended.

Bend your right knee and place your ankle across your left thigh. Thread the fingers of your left hand between your toes. b. With your fingers between your toes, circle your ankles about 10 times each direction. Then flex and extend the balls of your feet 10 times and twist them 10 times. c. Remove your fingers and massage the balls of your feet and toes for 15-30 seconds or more. Find your “bubbling spring” point (Kidney 1 in Chinese medicine), a pronounced depression located between the first and second metatarsals just below the ball of your foot. It’s easy to find.

It’s a power point that, when stimulated, is said to send a spiral of power through your body. Spend some time—30-60 seconds—massaging it. d. Massage your arches. One of my students, a body worker who knows reflexology, says this stimulates and calms your “guts,” the vital organs. e. Straighten out your leg and let it settle. Repeat on your left foot. f. Stand up and roll a tennis ball under each foot for 30-60 seconds.

After your first foot, take a moment to feel any differences between the two sides of your body, all the way up to your neck and shoulders.

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Cucina Deli 6/16 801.322.3055, 1026 2nd Ave., SLC. Cucina is known for its excellent, homemade food and the best coffee in Salt Lake City! Starting with only the freshest ingredients, Chef Penny Murphy creates an unforgettable array of delicious foods, providing an exciting culinary experience! Fresh bread, desserts and pastries daily.

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HOUSING The Green Loft: A Co-Op for Sustainable Living6/16 801.599.5363, 2834 Highland Dr., SLC. The Green Loft is a network of real estate professionals and renovation experts who specialize in finding homes with sustainable energy designs. Call for a free tour of our showroom, or visit every 2nd Friday for new art as part of the Sugar House Art Walk. MATT.STOUT@GOGREENLOFT.COM, WWW.GOGREENLOFT.COM

Finca DA 801.487.0699, 327 W. 200 S., SLC. Tapas, asador, cocktails. From the creators of Pago. Derived from the Spanish word for vineyard and farm, Finca features contemporary Spanish cuisine. Finca purchases local pork, lamb, beef, eggs, flour, cheese and seasonal produce to craft artisan tapas and main courses.

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WWW.PAGOSLC.COM Sage’s (and The Jade Room) DA 801.322.3790, 234 W. 900 S., SLC. 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.

WWW.SAGESCAFE.COM Tea Zaanti 2/16 801.906.8132, 1324 S. 1100 E., SLC. Offers responsibly grown tea and homemade and local pastries in a peaceful environment. A nonintimidating place to explore tea; our TeaZer wall allows customers to interact with each tea variety. By donating a percentage of every sale to charity, we’re promoting peace one cup at a time.

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HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE East West Health, Regan Archibald, LAc, Dipl OM 801.582.2011. SLC, WVC & Ogden. Our purpose: Provide high-level care by creating lifestyle programs that enhance health through mentor training. To correct underlying causes of health conditions we "test, not guess" using saliva, hormonal, nutritional and food testing. Our goal is to help you get healthy and pain free naturally. WWW.ACUEASTWEST.COM 5/16 Keith Stevens Acupuncture 3/16 801 255.7016, 209.617.7379 (c). Dr. Keith Stevens, OMD, 8728 S. 120 E. in old Sandy. Specializing in chronic pain treatment, stress-related insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports medicine, traumatic injury and postoperative recovery. Board-certified for hep-c treatment.

National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of addiction. Women’s health, menopausal syndromes. www.STEVENSACUCLINIC.COM

CATALYST community SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 12/15 801.521.3337, 177 E. 900 S., Ste. 101, SLC. 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 CHIROPRACTIC Salt Lake Chiropractic 03/16 801.907.1894, Dr. Suzanne Cronin, 1088 S. 1100 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 & improve your body’s functionality. Call to schedule an appointment. WWW.CHIROSALTLAKE.COM ENERGY HEALING Kristen Dalzen, LMT 8/15 801.661.3896, Turiya’s, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. IGNITE YOUR DIVINE SPARK! Traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher practicing in SLC since 1996. Offering a dynamic array of healing services and classes designed to create a balanced, expansive and vivacious life.

WWW.TURIYAS.COM Effortless Harmony 12/15 801.230.9199. Discover the effortless harmony of your energy cycles through the gentle touch and ancient wisdom of Jin Shin Jyutsu, a Japanese healing art that brings tranquility to the many levels of your being.

Contact Shelly in Sugar House to schedule a harmonizing hour. $75/hour, 2nd session free.

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Quarterly group sessions allow a broader forum to hear and share journeys of individuals on parallel paths.

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CEREMONIALISTS Universal Heart Ministry 4/16 801.577.0542. We are a full service non-denominational ministry providing customized services honoring your uniquely spiritual, religious/non-religious beliefs: weddings, funerals, baby & pet blessings, pet funerals, end of life celebrations, funeral planning, home/business blessings, Super Hero Series, Wonderful Woman Workshops, whole life coaching & more. Welcoming all, with-out exception. WWW.UNIVERSALHEARTMINISTRY.COM, UNIVERSALHEARTMINISTRY@GMAIL.COM

PERSONAL SERVICES Abyss Body Piercing 11/30/15 801.810.9247, 245 E. 300 S., SLC. Abyss is more than just a piercing studio. Abyss is about keeping piercings sacred. Being more of a holistic healing spa, Abyss also offers massage, Reiki and card reading, on top of the obvious: piercing, high quality body jewelry & locally made accessories. WWW.ABYSSPIERCING.COM, COURTNEY.PIERCING@GMAIL.COM

EDUCATION Salt Lake Arts Academy 10/15 801.531.1173, 844 S. 200 E., SLC. NEW Summer @ SLArts Program, for ages 9-16, is open to the community: Urban Adventuring, Musical Theatre, Photography and more! Weekly morning and/or afternoon classes are taught by our faculty and community professionals. To see classes and download registration forms visit HTTP://SLARTS.ORG/OUR-PROGRAMS/SUMMER-ATSLARTS or email KATHLEEN@SLARTS.ORG

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School DA SLC campus: 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. Cedar City campus: 435.586.8222, 297 N. Cove Dr., Cedar City. Morning & evening programs. Four start dates per year, 8-14 students to a class. Mentor with seasoned professionals. Practice with licensed therapists in a live day spa setting. Graduate in as little as 8 months. ABHES accredited. Financial aid available for those who qualify. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.EDU

ENTERTAINMENT The State Room DA 801.878.0530, 638 S. State Street, SLC. WWW.THESTATEROOM.COM

RETREAT CENTER Montana Ranch Retreats 11/30/15 406.682.4853. Our beautiful and stunning corner in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem hosts individual and group retreats with nourishing food, picturesque log cabins, healing horses, labryinth, swimming (salt water pool), jacuzzi, FIR sauna, fishing and hiking. Book your retreat or join one of ours.

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Utah Film Center/Salt Lake Film Center DA 801.746.7000, 122 Main Street, SLC. WWW.UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG LEGAL ASSISTANCE DA The Law Office of Jonathan G. Jemming DA 5/16 801.755.3903. Integrity. Experience. Compassion.

Utah DUI and Human Rights attorney.

J.JEMMING@GMAIL.COM Just Law 801.467.1512. WWW.JUSTLAWUTAH.COM Schumann Law DA 801.631.7811. WWW.ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM MEDIA Catalyst Magazine 801.363.1505, 140 McClelland St., SLC. WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET KRCL 90.9FM DA 801.363.1818, 1971 N. Temple, SLC. WWW.KRCL.ORG MUSICIANS FOR HIRE Idlewild 10/15 801.268.4789. David and Carol Sharp. Duo up to sixpiece ensemble. Celtic, European, World and Old Time American music. A variety of instruments. Storytelling and dance caller. CDs and downloads, traditional and

SPACE FOR RENT Space available at Center for Transpersonal Therapy1/16 801.596.0147 x41, 5801 S. Fashion Blvd., Ste. 250, Murray.

Two large plush spaces available for rent by the hour, day or for weekend use. Pillows, yoga chairs, regular chairs and kichenette area included. Size: 395 sq. ft./530 sq. ft. WWW.CTTSLC.COM, THECENTER@CTTSLC.COM TRAVEL Machu Picchu, Peru 801.721.2779. Group or individual spiritual journeys or tours with Shaman KUCHO. Accomodations available.

Contact: Nick Stark, NICHOLASSTARK@COMCAST.NET, WWW.MACHUPICCHUTRAVELCENTER.COM WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services DA 11/15 801.871.0840 (O), 801.673.1294, 8899 S. 700 E., Ste. 225, Sandy, UT 84070. Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor. Client-centered retirement planning, wealth management, IRA rollovers, ROTH IRA’s, 401(k) plans,

When you’re tired of putting on a happy face because you hate where you live, call me?

30 years of experience helping buyers and sellers smile.

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investing & life insurance. Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC. ROBERT.HARRINGTON@LPL.COM; WWW.HARRINGTONWEALTHSERVICES.COM

MOVEMENT, MEDITATION DANCE RDT Dance Center Community School DA 801.534.1000, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway, SLC. RDT’s Dance Center on Broadway offers a wide range of classes for adults (ages 16+) on evenings and weekends. Classes are “drop-in,” so no long-term commitment is required. Hip Hop, Modern, Ballet & Prime Movement (specifically designed for ages 40+). WWW.RDTUTAH.ORG RemedyWave: Dance your own dance, Shannon Simonelli, Ph.D., ATR 5/31/16 385.202.6477, 616 E. Wilmington, SLC. Tu 7-9p. Unlock your expression, empty stress, awaken passion & joy.

Remember your heartful, responsive, embodied Self…

Come dance! Workshops & special classes.

WWW.REMEDYWAVE.ORG MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 8/15 801.355.6375, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. 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 6/16 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 Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 E., SLC. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM TAI CHI TAI CHI/QIGONG/YOGA 6/30/15 801.556.5964. The Art of Nurturing, Restoring, Balancing & Regenerating. The Science of Power, Inner Strength, Energy & Mobility. Private lessons and Classes. Also available: Health Coaching, Weight Loss Programs, Stress Management, Fitness Training, Therapeutic Stretching, Corrective Exercise, Nutrition Consulting and Chi Hikes.

WWW.TAICHIUTAH.COM YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 12/15 801.355.2617. 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, non-competitive environment since 1986.

WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM YOGA STUDIOS Centered City Yoga 9/15 801.521.YOGA (9642), 926 E. 900 S., SLC and 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

Golden Braid Books Staff Recommends for July All the Light We Cannot See

By Anthony Doerr A National Book Award Finalist —this compelling read combines an intense, allegorical tale with brilliant prose. Follow Marie-Laure as she navigates Paris, the War, her role in the French Resistance movement, and a chance meeting with a vulnerable young man recruited by the Hitler Youth Party.

—Anne

The Laramie Project By Moises Kaufman & members of Tectonic Theatre Project A play about the tragic murder of Matthew Shepard and its aftermath, based on interviews with inhabitants of the Wyoming town, as it attempts to reconstruct itself after the brutal event. This play changed my life because of the raw and honest way it captured the emotions of the townspeople. It is unapologetic, courageous and a unique read.

—Latoya

Return to Life By JIim Tucker, M.D. What if you heard your child relay in great detail stories of a previous life? Dr.Tucker travels the world to investigate and determine whether or not specific children’s memories of such previous lives are valid.

A perspective changing read..

—Lindsay

Jane Eyre’s Sisters By Jody Gentian Bower Are heroines just heroes in dresses? Jody GenetianBower argues that the heroine’s journey is not the same as the hero’s journey. Bower is an observer of the ways in which the roles of women in popular culture are evolving. If you loved Women Who Run with Wolves, you will love this book.

—Pamela

retreats and workshops to keep Salt Lake City CENTERED & SANE. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM Mountain Yoga—Sandy 3/16 801.501.YOGA [9642], 9343 S. 1300 E., SLC. Offering hot yoga classes to the Salt Lake Valley for the past 12 years. We now also offer Hot Vinyasa, Vinyasa Flow, Restorative yoga (classic and yin), Barre-Pilates, Hot Pilates, Qigong & Kids Yoga. Whether you like it hot and intense, calm and restorative, or somewhere inbetween, Mountain Yoga Sandy has a class for you.

WWW.MOUNTAINYOGASANDY.COM Mudita Yoga—Be Joy Yoga 3/16 801.699.3627, 1550 E. 3300 S., SLC. Our studio is warm and spacious – a place for you to come home and experience yourself! Varied classes will have you move and sweat, open and lengthen, or chill and relax. Come just as you are, ease into your body and reconnect to your true essence. WWW.BEJOYYOGA.COM

PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FOG 212.222.3232. Ralfee Finn. Catalyst’s astrology columnist for 10 years! Visit her website at WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM or e-mail her at RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS

Crone’s Hollow 11/15 801.906.0470, 2470 S. Main St., SLC. Have life questions? We offer intuitive and personal psychic consultations: Tarot, Pendulum, Palmistry, Shamanic Balancing and other oracles. $25/20 minutes. Afternoon and evening appointments. Walk-ins welcome. We also make custom conjure/spell candles!

WWW.CRONESHOLLOW.COM Vickie Parker, Intuitive Psychic Reader FOG 801.560.3761. I offer in person and long distance readings. My readings are in depth and to the point.

Get the answers you are seeking. Readings are by appointment only. To schedule, please call or email WINDSWEPT@XMISSION.COM. For more information, please visit WWW.WINDSWEPTCENTER.NET. Margaret Ruth FOG 801.575.7103. My psychic and tarot readings are a conversation with your guides. Enjoy my blog at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET & send me your ideas and suggestions.

WWW.MARGARETRUTH.COM Jeannette Smith, Psychic & Evidential Medium 435.513.7862. Bringing Heaven to Earth. Reconnect with your loved ones in Spirit. Psychic Readings. 30-minute, 60-minute, in-person, phone & small group readings available. Psychic & Evidential Mediumship classes. Located in Park City. For more info. please visit WWW.PARKCITYPSYCHICMEDIUM.COM 2/16 Nick Stark 6/16 801.721.2779. Ogden Canyon. Shamanic energy healings/ clearings/readings/offerings/transformative work. Over 20 years experience. NICHOLASSTARK@COMCAST.NET Suzanne Wagner DA 12/15 707.354.1019. WWW.SUZWAGNER.COM FOG

THE BEE TRUE STORIES FROM THE HIVE

LOST & FOUND Lovingly competitive storytelling.

Bring your friends. Have a drink.

Laugh. Cry. Bee entertained.

Wednesday, August 12th @ Urban Lounge.

Doors at 7pm. Stories at 8pm. $7 ADV / $10 DOS.

Learn more, get tickets, & put your name in the hat at thebeeslc.org

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PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH COACHING Annette Shaw, Say YES Breakthrough 11/15 801.473.2976. Intuitive coaching supports you in getting unstuck, finding clarity and embracing the courage to act from that clarity. I integrate coaching, intuitive development practices and energy healing modalities, working with the body, mind & spirit, helping you step into the flow of life. WWW.SAYYESBREAKTHROUGH.COM, ANNETTERSHAW@GMAIL.COM Linda Radford, Clarity Catalyst 11/15 801.369.5406. Do you know and trust your inner guidance? Can you feel your purpose and personal power?

Linda’s unique approach is the catalyst that guides you back to center, where clarity, truth and peace of mind are found. WWW.LINDARADFORD.COM,LINDA@LINDARADFORD.COM HYPNOSIS Holly Stokes, The Brain Trainer 6/16 801.810.9406, 1111 E. Brickyard Rd., Ste. 109, SLC. Do you struggle with mental blocks, weight, cravings, fears, lack of motivation, unhappiness or self sabotage? Find your motivation, confidence and focus for living with purpose and passion. First time clients $45. Call now.

Get Instant Motivation Free when you sign up at: WWW.THEBRAINTRAINERLLC.COM, HOLLY@THEBRAINTRAINERLLC.COM Randy Shaw, CHt., Advanced Hypnotherapy of Utah 8/15 801.671.5270. Much more valuable than just being hypnotized, Advanced Hypnotherapy is designed to attain holistic healing improvements. Release the baggage of the past, resolve problems at the roots so they don't grow back. Professional, caring, productive sessions. For info. and testimonials visit: WWW.HYPNOTHERAPY-UTAH.COM RECOVERY LifeRing Utah 2/16 LifeRing Utah meetings offer abstinence-based, peerto-peer support for individuals seeking to live in recovery from addiction to alcohol or other drugs.

Conversational meeting style with focus on personal growth and continued learning. Info.: WWW.L IFE R ING . ORG . Local meetings, please visit: WWW.L IFE R ING U TAH . ORG THERAPY/COUNSELING Cynthia Kimberlin-Flanders, LPC 10/15 801.231.5916, 1399 S. 700 E., Ste. 15, SLC. Feeling out of sorts? Tell your story in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Seventeen years specializing in depression, anxiety, life-transitions, anger management, relationships and "middle-aged crazy." Most insurances, sliding scale and medication management referrals. If you've been waiting to talk to someone, wait no more.

Healing Pathways Therapy Center 3/16 435.248.2089. 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

COMMUNITY

Integrative Psychology Shannon Simonelli, Ph.D., ATR 5/31/16 385.474.4141, Holladay. New Client Specials. Address your anxiety, trauma, life transitions, parenting/teen issues, ADD/ADHD. Experiential therapy using imagination, art, embodied awareness/movement, whole-brain shifting and dialogue for well-being, skill building, healing. WWW.ONLINEINTEGRATIVEPSYCHOLOGY.COM, WWW .N EURO I MAGINAL I NSTITUTE . COM Jan Magdalen, LCSW 3/16 801.582.2705, 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.

Marianne Felt, CMHC, MT-BC 12/16 801.524.0560, ext. 2, 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C, SLC. 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.

WWW.MOUNTAINLOTUSCOUNSELING.COM Mountain Lotus Counseling 4/16 801.524.0560. Theresa Holleran, LCSW, Marianne Felt, CMHC, Mike Sheffield, Ph.D., & Sean Patrick McPeak, CSW. Learn yourself. Transform. Depth psychotherapy and transformational services for individuals, relationships, groups and communities.

WWW.MOUNTAINLOTUSCOUNSELING.COM Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/15 801.631.8426. Sanctuary for Healing and Integration, 860 E. 4500 S., Ste. 302, SLC. 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. Blog: WWW.KARMASHRINK.COM. STEVE@KARMASHRINK.COM Sunny Strasburg, MA, LMFT 2/16 Web of Life Medical Offices, 508 E. So. Temple, Suite 102, SLC. Sunny Strasburg, MA, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in Jungian psychotherapy. Sunny has completed training in Gottman Method Couple’s Therapy. Sunny meets clients in person at her office in Salt Lake City. She also has a national and international clientele via video Skype.

WWW.SUNNYSTRASBURGTHERAPY.COM, SUNNYS@JPS.NET Salt Lake Wellness Center, Michelle Murphy, LCSW 801.680.7842, 4190 S. Highland Dr., #226, SLC. 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.

WWW.SALTLAKEWELLNESSCENTER.COM 8/15 DA SHAMANIC PRACTICE Shari Philpott-Marsh 9/15 Energy Medicine/Shamanic Healer

RESOURCE DIRECTORY

801.599.8222. Overwhelmed? Stuck in a rut? Reclaim your clarity. Energy medicine/shamanic healing liberates you from old mental/emotional patterns. Learn to master your own energy and stand in your strength.

When you are ready to embrace change, contact me.

FREE phone consultation. WWW.RADIANCEYOGA.ORG

Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW, Shamanic Practitioner 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. 3/16 Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW FOG 801.209.1095, 508 E. So. Temple, #102, SLC. 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.

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RETAIL line goes here APPAREL, GIFTS & TREASURES Blue Boutique10/15 DA 801.487.1807, 1383 S. 2100 E., SLC. WWW.BLUEBOUTIQUE.COM Dancing Cranes DA 801.486.1129, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. WWW.DANCINGCRANESIMPORTS.COM Golden Braid Books DA 801.322.1162, 151 S. 500 E., SLC. A true sanctuary for conscious living in the city. Offerings include gifts and books to feed mind, body, spirit, soul and heart; luscious health care products to refresh and revive; and a Lifestyles department to lift the spirit. www.GOLDENBRAIDBOOKS.COM Healing Mountain Crystal Co. DA 800.811.0468, 363 S. 500 E., #210, SLC. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.ORG iconoCLAD—We Sell Your 2/16 Previously Rocked Stuff & You Keep 50% 801.833.2272. 414 E. 300 S., SLC. New and previously rocked (aka, consigned) men’s and women’s fashion, summer festival gear and locally made jewelry, clothing, crafts and decor. M-Sat 11a-9p, Sun 1p-6p. Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter @iconoCLAD to see new inventory before someone beats you to it!

WWW.ICONOCLAD Lotus DA 801.333.3777. 12896 Pony Express Rd., #200, Draper.

For rocks and crystals. Everything from Angels to Zen. WWW.ILOVELOTUS.COM Turiya’s Gifts 2/16 DA 801.531.7823, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. M-F 11a-7p, Sat 11a6p, Sun 12-5p. Turiya’s is a metaphysical gift and crystal store. We have an exquisite array of crystals and miner-

als, jewelry, drums, sage and sweet grass, angels, fairies, greeting cards and meditation tools. Come in and let us help you create your sanctuary.

WWW.TURIYAS.COM FARMERS MARKETS Downtown Alliance Farmers Market DA 5/16 Pioneer Park. Saturdays, 8a-2p, 6/13-10/24. The Downtown Alliance Farmers Market mission is to support sustainable, regional agriculture; build community; increase access to nutritious, local foods in urban areas; and educate consumers about shopping local. Vendors from over 100 farms and ranches. Also, handmade, locally-produced food and beverages, plus the Downtown Art and Craft Market. WWW.SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG GROCERIES, SPECIALTY FOODS, KITCHEN SUPPLIES Cali’s Natural Foods DA 801.483.2254, 389 W. 1700 S., SLC. www.CALISNATURALFOODS.COM Liberty Heights Fresh 11/30/15 801.583.7374, 1290 S. 1100 E., SLC. We are good food grocers offering food that makes you smile. Certified organically grown and local fruits & vegetables, humanely raised meats, farmstead cheeses, hand-crafted charcuterie, traditional & innovative groceries, prepared specialties, soups, sandwiches, baked goodies & fresh flowers. M-Sat 8:30a-8p, Sun 10a-7p. www.LIBERTYHEIGHTSFRESH.COM HEALTH & WELLNESS Dave’s Health & Nutrition DA SLC: 801.268.3000, 880 E. 3900 S. West Jordan: 801.824.7624, 1817 W. 9000 S. WWW.DAVESHEALTH.COM

SPIRITUAL PRACTICE line goes here ORGANIZATIONS

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: 10a; WWW.INNERLIGHTCENTER.NET

Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple 8/15 DA

801.328.4629, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. 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

Utah Eckankar 11/30/15

801.542.8070, 8105 S. 700 E., Sandy. Eckankar is ancient wisdom for today. Explore past lives, dreams, and soul travel to see how to lead a happy, balanced and productive life, and put daily concerns into loving perspective. Worship Service and classes on Sundays at 10:30a. WWW.ECKANKAR-UTAH.ORG INSTRUCTION

Two Arrows Zen Center 3/16 DA

801.532.4975, 230 S. 500 W., #155, SLC. WWW.BOULDERMOUNTAINZENDO.ORG

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he first few weeks of July are beautiful if you want to be in love. With Venus conjunct Jupiter, feelings of warmth and good times are infectious.

So if you want to be bold and ask that special someone out, this is the time.

The Full Moon in Capricorn will allow you to take even your old relationships to a new level. A July 25September 5 Venus retrograde in Leo may produce a few wrinkles in your plans. But play your cards right and look beyond your own needs. Timing may feel a bit off but be patient. Don’t force your will. Just move consciously and consistently from the place of love.

You might use this energy to break up or to change the standing of your relationships, or to reshape them into something new.

Regardless, there is a complex spider’s web of energy being woven to bring you to the next level. The Antelope card indicates that you will have to move promptly when asked to do so. Try to not get lost in the illusions of the past because from this moment on, the old way is not “the” way.

Great abundance happens when you see everything in your life through the lens of the archetype of Eb (Mayan Oracle), the Cosmic Cornucopia. You will see the flow of divine abundance that is this world when you awaken to notice what is flowering right in front of you.

We have two big transformation cards this month, Transformation and The Tower. You are being asked to step out of your comfort zone and compro-

Prayers for Compassion CREATI

for those who are present Osho Zen Tarot: Traveling, Transformation, Compromise Medicine Cards: Antelope, Spider, Dragonfly Mayan Oracle: Eb, Unity Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Queen of Disks, Three of Swords, Judgment Aleister Crowley Deck: Lovers, Swiftness, Luxury Healing Earth Tarot: Three of Rainbows, Tower, Eight of Pipes Words of Truth: Abuse, Form, Primal

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July 2nd through July 5th

Generating prayers for the people of Nepal and collecting earthquake rebuilding funds for our teacher in Kathmandu.

From the time of the Buddha to this present day, communities have made offerings to support prayers for compassion.

mise. It is also time to take a look at the form you have constructed your reality around and decide if it is serving you.

Are you pushing when you should be enjoying?

There are also two travelrelated cards. It’s advisable to get yourself out of the house and your old routine and go on a journey. All journeys have a spiritual quality when you allow yourself to open and be fully present in the moment. When you travel, it is much more difficult to control your reality as you are in situations that may be foreign or not within your normal parameters of life. And that just might be a very good thing.

Beginning Thursday evening at 6:30pm, we invite you to come— day or night—through Sunday 2pm, to contribute in the recitation of the mantra of compassion for the benefit of others and self.

All journeys have a spiritual quality when you allow yourself to open and be fully present in the moment.

All and all, this month is designed to be a joyful sharing which produces happiness and abundance. But for that to happen, you will have to bring your confidence, enthusiasm, kindness and feelings of wellbeing together with your passion, communication, creativity, insight and intuition. That might sound like I’m asking a lot, but in the greater flow of good will, change can happen effortlessly and produce great healing.

This month has the potential to be a joyful dance where your soul can find its fullest expression. ◆ Suzanne Wagner is the author of numerous books and CDs on the tarot and creator of the Wild Women app. She now lives in California, but visits Utah for classes and readings frequently.

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740 South 300 West, Salt Lake City » 801.328.4629

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Advertiser Directory Atlantic Cafe ...........................................23 Best Friends......................................9 & 29 Blue Boutique ...........................................6 Café Solstice ...........................................21 Center for Transpersonal Therapy.........11 Centered City Yoga.................................27 Clark’s Auto Care....................................11 Coffee Garden ................................19 & 21 Craft Lake City DIY Festival ....................15 Dancing Cranes ........................................3 Dave’s Health & Nutrition.........................4 Don St. John Personal & Life Coaching 18 Downtown Alliance Farmer’s Market ....31 Elaine Bell ...............................................20 Finca........................................................20 Full Circle Integrative Health Care .........30 Golden Braid Books/Oasis...............2 & 27 Harrington Wealth Services ...................21 Healing Mountain Massage .....................5 Inner Light Center...................................17 Jonathan Jemming - Law Office ...........23 Just Law PLLC ..........................................8 Life Ring ..................................................30 Local First................................................18 Loma Manna Permaculture Class ............4 Lotus - Rocks & Crystals .......................20 Mindful Yoga...........................................30 Mountain Lotus Counseling...................23 Omar’s Rawtopia....................................21 Open Hand Bodywork............................21 People’s Market ......................................21 Red Lotus/Urgyen Samten Ling ............29 Residential Design..................................20 Rising Pathways - John Gray.................19 SageHill Villages - Cohousing .............. 30 Schumann Law.......................................23 State Room .............................................11 Sugarhouse Farmer’s Market ................26 The Bee: Tales from the Hive ................27 The Green Loft Coop housing .................9 Turiya’s ....................................................31 Twilight Concert Series ..........................32 Two Arrows Zen Center .........................23 Underfoot Floors ....................................15 Urban Utah Homes & Estates ................26 Utah Film Center.......................................6 Utah Herbalist .........................................20 Wagner, Suzanne....................................31 Wasatch Farmer’s Market ......................17

LifeRingUtah For individuals wishing to live in recovery from addiction to alcohol or other drugs and who are looking for a different kind of peer-to-peer support group We now offer five sober, secular, and self-directed meetings weekly in SLC. For info and meeting schedules, visit

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Cohousing Communi!es in Utah | HOME · COMMUNITY · PLANET SageHill Villages · 55+ Cohousing

Sustainable Community Living

Wasatch Commons Est. 1997 | Mul!-genera!onal

An environmentally sensi!ve community promo!ng neighborliness, consensus and diversity. Balance privacy needs with community living.

Utah’s 1st

Homes for Sale

Tours available upon request

801 908 0388

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Utah’s Next

NEW COMMUNITY FORMING – Looking for Land!

We are looking for a likeminded partner with property to build on; a landowner who shares in our vision of 24-30 small homes clustered around a common house and flowing common spaces that support sustainable living.

55+ cohousing promotes independence, strong community connec!ons, personal growth, and living life to its fullest as we age.

If you are interested in being a part of this new model for aging in America please contact Cindy Turnquist at cindy@sagehillcohousing.com

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385.236.3356

Suzanne Wagner Psychic, Author, Speaker, Teacher 30 years psychic experience Author of “Integral Tarot” and “Integral Numerology” Columnist for Catalyst magazine since 1990 25 years teaching: Tarot, Numerology, Palmistry & Channeling

SALT UTAH WORKSHOPS SHADES OF INTIMACY—TWO DAY CO-ED PRIVATE INTENSIVE July 25-26 Facilitators: Jason Smith, Suzanne Wagner, Jennifer Stanchfield TAROT • Aug 1-2

ELEMENTAL FEMININE 2-1/2 day Intensive with Suzanne Wagner & Jennifer Stanchfield Aug 28-30, 2015 NUMEROLOGY • Sept 12-13

Men's Modern Warrior Symposium with Jason Smith Oct 16-18, 2014

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SUZANNE WILL BE IN UTAH FOR APPOINTMENTS: July 22-Aug 4 • Aug 28-Sept 14 1-hour reading $120/1/2-hour $60 Visit www.suzannewagner.com for details

Psychic Phone Consultations • Call 707-354-1019 www.suzannewagner.com

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Learn to select, store, prepare and preserve the harvest from local chefs and master preservers

JULY 4TH: Celebrate the 4th with Homemade Pie Baking JULY 11TH: Tour the Market with Certified Holistic Nutritionist Anne Dorsey, AADP JULY 18TH: Seasonal Cooking with Nathan Powers of Bambara JULY 25TH: Preserve the Season with Certified Master Food Preservers

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T H E S A LT L A K E C I T Y A R T S C O U N C I L P R E S E N T S

THURSDAYS @ PIONEER PARK // GATES @ 5PM // MUSIC @7PM DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE w/special guest TUNE-YARDS

///JULY 16

THE KILLS

w/special guest METZ

///AUGUST 6

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB

FATHER JOHN MISTY ///JULY 23 @ 7PM

///JULY 23 @ 8:30PM

THE WORD

w/special guest LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS

///AUGUST 13

FLYING LOTUS

///AUGUST 20 @8:30PM

W W W.T WI LI G HTCO N C E R T S E R I E S .CO M

PRHYME

with ADRIAN YOUNGE

w/special guest BISHOP NEHRU

///JULY 30

RUN THE JEWELS

///AUGUST 20 @7PM

ST. VINCENT

///AUGUST 27

FO L LOW U S FO R N E WS & U P DAT E S