City Weekly April 29, 2021

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HOW DO YOU SPELL RELEAF? Part 2 You can now buy medical cannabis in Utah. Just don’t spark it up.

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SOAP BOX The Verdict

A tear found its way into my eye today ... pushed by the word, “Guilty.”

One tear.

As it filled my eye, it briefly clouded the number of times I’ve seen clearly the abuse and pain doled out by those who I was always told, since a child, were supposed to protect and serve me ... maybe.

It broke from my eyelid as if breaking through the barriers that stopped me from seeing true Justice.

That tear rolled down my cheek ... it dragged through years of “knowing”—taught how to look, how to dress, how to talk, how to move, how to simply “think” and “be” in order to return home safely.

You must know, or else.

As that tear touched my chin, it reminded me of all the many invisible blows it has had to take threatening to close my mouth, making my chin almost too heavy to hold up.

As that tear dropped from my face, it raced through time and space ... back through years and centuries of all the past lives which were lived in fear.

Which through time, developed into a seeming genetically ingrained, quiet, constant fear.

A fear put in place by learning the “knowing” ... from

@SLCWEEKLY chains, whips, fire, ropes, batons, bullets and a knee ... and laws that don’t protect.

Don’t serve.

As that solitary tear hit my chest, it matched the beat of my heart ... beating while knowing many others like mine were stopped forever.

Just one tear.

Hopefully the last of the thousands and thousands that have broken from my eyes over my lifetime of “knowing” ... that gets in the way of simply “being.”

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‘History Fail,’ April 22 Private Eye

City Weekly publisher, John Saltas, reflects on my Burgess Owens cartoon and the controversy that erupted. Well written and dead-on correct.

PAT BAGLEY

Via Twitter Some people these days seem to forget that America was founded as an immigrant nation In my opinion, it’s what makes us great. I just can’t understand this nationalist bullshit. Have they ever even read the inscription on the Statue of Liberty? @EXPLORERLAMONT

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—“The Legislature passes and Gov. Spencer Cox signs a handful of modest reforms, including allowing essentially all medical professionals in the state to recommend a limited number of patients receive medical cards.”

I wish my doctor would have been aware of this. When I asked him in March for a card for lower back pain, he said that only pain doctors could dispense cards.

Immigrants made this country what it is and without it, we wouldn’t be able to refresh our ideals periodically. I’ve lived in many a neighborhood with documented and undocumented immigrants. I’m a better human because of them.

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Who is your favorite or least favorite talk show host?

Chelsea Neider

Favorite Trevor Noah. Least favorite: Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen used to be my favorite until I found out about the hostile workplace she created.

Paula Saltas

Favorite is James Corden. His crosswalk musicals and carpool karaoke are hilarious. Close second is John Oliver.

Katharine Biele

I’m such a fan of Jimmy Kimmel. He’s managed to keep the jokes going after the Trump years, he makes me laugh and he makes me cry. And he’s my kind of practical joker.

Benjamin Wood

John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight is the only talk show I make a point to watch.

Alternately, the world would be a better place without Tucker Carlson in it.

Joel Smith

Plain and simple: John Oliver, because he is so bitter and angry and British about the United States of America.

Bryan Bale

Jon Stewart will always be one of my favorites. Of those who currently have shows on the air, I think my top three are John Oliver, Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah.

Carolyn Campbell

My favorite is Sally Jessy Raphael because she invited me to appear on her show when I was promoting my second book.

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Sliced and Diced I

’ve never been one to exalt when good things happen.

It’s been many years since even my youngest child was born, so I barely remember the celebration after each arrived. Since each were early-morning babies, it’s likely any celebration was short-lived and that, by afternoon, I was in the office looking for typos, mostly mine. I’m happy when the University of Utah football team wins a big game, and I jump up and down (in my mind) when a big play occurs. I’ve been sincerely happy when people at City Weekly are given accolades or otherwise called out for an accomplishment of some sort. Me and euphoric happiness, though, are not first cousins.

Today, however, I’m happy as a lark. If this year of COVID lent me any lessons, it was to remain optimistic even when I’m surrounded by senseless jerks. It taught me to be patient even when leaders of a once proud political party—the GOP—were busy kissing heinie of an obviously outclassed, dangerous and demented U.S. president at the expense of not only their fellow citizens, but also the very country that provided them the right to behave as jerks.

Party members attacked our U.S. Capitol, for God’s sake, and today try to pretend it was a case of mistaken identity. Nope, they are criminals, and I remain optimistic that their justice will come. That isn’t why I’m happy, though.

It’s because—despite all those Utah families who are abundant, fertile and obviously having lots of sex, who are doing their damnedest to keep Utah apace with the population spurts of bunny rabbits, lemmings, voles and rodents—that according to the most recent U.S. Census, Utah didn’t grow enough in population to warrant a fifth U.S. congressional seat. Not even those many newbies

B Y J O H N S A LTA S @johnsaltas

moving into Utah were enough to move the needle. Can you imagine having one more Chris Stewart or Burgess Owens representing us in Congress? That’s what it would be, you know. So, I’m happy, feeling blessed in fact, that’s not going to happen.

Utah is not the Utah of my grandparents. I know, I know—it’s not the same as your grandparents, either. But many of you readers are younger than I and are already great-grandparents. My grandparents were all born in the 1800s. They wouldn’t recognize a bit of today’s Utah, save maybe our mountain peaks. In my grandmother Vera Caldwell’s case, she could still visit the log cabin in Dry Fork, Utah, where she was born. Somehow, it still stands.

I’d like to think our growth will have a natural and positive outcome. I don’t, though. We’ve blindly engaged in a growth disaster, and we’re heading for another with every bit of our resources soon to be tested like they never have.

This is a problem, to have too many people living in a highdesert environment that doesn’t have the agricultural resources to feed them all. Nor will it have the water to sate the cattle or grow the crops that farm and range animals need. So long as the Utah economy thrives by attracting employees to tech or even MLM companies, that means Utahns born or arriving here tax our systems ever more, but they also don’t do anything to replace the systems they subtract from.

I’m sounding pessimistic about growth. I am not, however, anti-growth. The problem is basic. Utah embarked on this path on all cylinders during the past four or five decades: tourism, lifestyle and clean jobs. In nearly every year of those decades, we’ve had a Republican governor, and, since the 1970s, all Republican U.S Senators (quick— what did Orrin Hatch ever do for you?). Meanwhile, in the U.S. House, since 1980, the total years served by Utah Democrats in Washington, D.C., is less than 30 years but Re-

publicans were in office more than 120 years in that span.

There’s no point of even measuring the local Utah House and Senate where the Republicans remain a super majority, held to no standard of honest representation since they have no fear of losing in Utah’s Tetris game of keeping their gerrymandered districts.

With Republicans in charge, Utah got where it is and is heading for worse. Time will tell if newly elected Gov. Cox will bridge the needs of all Utahns, which are not nearly as uniform as, say, the residents of corn-only Iowa. As always, someone will send a letter saying I should be grateful for our great economy and mostly safe streets. Right, but I could once afford a house, and our streets were safer in my 1970s. Meanwhile, Trump’s promise of an infrastructure rebuild failed, and Utah’s Republican delegation now bleats that Biden is not doing enough—despite Biden actually taking action on it. They’d complain about wet milk.

The dogged truth is that Utah’s slicing up Utah’s Democrats so that they have no representation in Washington, D.C., is a glorious mess. Even Utah’s sane Republicans should realize that having Utah’s rural counties basically calling all the political shots in Utah is a failure. If Utah were granted another representative in Congress, you could bet your last alfalfa bale that he or she would be accorded a permanently Republican district that further cuts out Utah Democrats. Even at four districts, the new dicing will make it even harder to elect a Democrat to Congress.

So, today, I’m euphoric. If we can go another 10 years without producing just one more Fox-lie enabler like Jason Chaffetz, it will be worth it to be without representation.

Utah’s penchant for electing boneheaded, dumb, partisan, arrogant and selfish Republicans to elected office is like playing a dead slot machine in Wendover. Lots of lights flashing around, never a payoff. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net.

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BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

MISS: ALEC Knows Best

If it weren’t for QAnon and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), what would lawmakers do? How would they even think? Now stunningly they are concerned about the First Amendment and free speech. Utah Senate President Stuart Adams was lucky enough to be elected president of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a shadowy right-wing group that proposes model legislation around the country.

Adams, The Salt Lake Tribune notes, now proclaims that free speech is at risk online because all these social media companies are suppressing thought—you know, the kind he likes. Of course, he says this is a bipartisan issue—one that only Republicans see. It’s the same kind that Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, who voted against the Asian hate crimes bill.

He did it because it “might” infringe on someone’s right to free speech. What these conservatives fail to recognize is that even constitutional rights come with limits—whether it’s for speech or for guns.

MISS: Utah Is Good, Bad or Ugly?

Want to know what the Democrats think about redistricting—commonly known as gerrymandering? The Women’s Democratic Club of Utah will host Noah Rosenberg of Better Boundaries, the group that led the nonpartisan citizens initiative Proposition 4. The state has formed an Independent Redistricting Commission to suggest how voting districts should be drawn, but the highly Republican Legislature will still have the final say. Do Democrats have any hope of better representation? Rosenberg will explain the process and how average citizens can get involved at Redistricting & What’s All the Buzz About? Newly elected Rep. Ashlee Matthews will also talk about her passion for bees and this year’s new bee related legislation. Virtual, Saturday, May 1, 11:30 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3tLTEXz

May Day Is Workers Day

May 1 is about more than dancing around a maypole. It’s International Workers Day when people around the world commemorate the contributions of workers and the historic labor movement. In Utah, a right-to-work state, workers rights are often sublimated to those of the employer. Make the Rich Pay! People’s Agenda Now! includes speeches from labor aorganizers and activists and demands for economic relief for all workers including an extension of unemployment benefits, the passage of the PRO Act and raising the minimum wage. There will be a call for legalization for all immigrants that would include creating a path to citizenship for the undocumented, abolishing ICE and closing concentration camps. You will also hear about community control of the police and how to stop Asian hate and white supremacist violence. Sego Lily Pavilion at Sugar House Park, 1330 E. 2100 South, Saturday, May 1, 2 p.m., free/ fundraiser. https://bit.ly/32UMULz

Water and Native Americans

If it’s time to get outside again, then this guided tour of the Sego Canyon rock art site may be for you. Learn the importance of water to the native peoples of the region. Space limited, and masks and social distancing required.

This event is part of Think Water Utah, a statewide collaboration and conversation on the critical topic of water presented by Utah Humanities and its partners. The Rock Art Field Trip with the Utah Rock Art Research Association will show you rock art that is similar to that found in Nine Mile Canyon and contains art from three different Native American cultures, along with a well-preserved ghost town.

John Wesley Powell River History Museum, 1765 E. Main, Green River, Saturday, May 1, 9 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3vl15pn

Who Ya Gonna Call?

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Graffiti Busters. Yes, there’s a volunteer group called the Wasatch Graffiti Busters, and they’re determined to keep natural and historic places free of vandalism and other damage. The rock art of yesteryear may have been the graffiti of the time, but they are now artistic icons that beg to be preserved and should not be painted over by taggers. At Graffiti Bustin’, members will discuss their efforts to keep Little Cottonwood and the Black Rock clean of graffiti, with a broad overview of their efforts. Virtual, Wednesday, May 5, noon.

Free/register at https://bit.ly/3eoEDVn

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Salt Lake City is now one of 13 Utah municipalities to try out ranked choice voting in this next election. Councilman James Rogers doesn’t like it, spitting a “Hell, no!” as the only dissenting vote cast against a voting method that has been gaining acceptance and praise around the country. It’s being considered in 29 states and some municipalities, according to the PEW Research Center, but some politicians are fearful of a new system that’s more about the voter than it is about the candidate. A curious argument is about how confusing it is, but if you can simply count and rank your choices from best to worst, you can figure it out. New York with its 5.6 million voters, will give it a try. The best news is that it will eliminate the need for a primary, and voters should be ecstatic that they won’t have to endure that cycle of hyper-partisan campaigning.

Who Cares About Redistricting?

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Salt Lake City is one of the best state capitals to call home. Two Utah cities are the least diverse in the nation. Utah ranks third for the cheapest energy bills, and the Salt Lake area is now in the top 10 percent with the most expensive housing in the nation. Makes you wonder: Which is it? The news is filled with interesting if contradictory information as the Kem Gardner Institute, WalletHub, Rent.com and Finder.com compete for headlines. Want to know what Utah is known for? “Mormons, monoliths, and now add modestly priced energy to what Utah is known for, as it is the third cheapest state for energy with an average monthly cost of just $107 a month or an annual cost of $1,285,” the Standard-Examiner quotes the Finder study. Rent.com’s study (“Salt Lake City is the best capital to call home”) looked at business, income, commuting but curiously not at density and pollution.

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ow that Utah has a medical cannabis program (for its rollicking timeline, see City Weekly’s “Get on the Canna-bus,” published April 22), it should be easy for anyone to sign up and start smoking, right? Wrong.

There are plenty more steps and hoops to jump through before you’re able to even visit a pharmacy.

As many City Weekly readers likely know, two of our neighboring states—Colorado and Nevada—have had recreational cannabis programs running for years (on top of their decades-old medical cannabis systems), almost certainly capturing millions of tax dollars from Utahns and residents of other restrictive nearby states.

Soon, Colorado and Nevada will be joined by most of the rest of our neighbors: Arizona voters approved a referendum creating a recreational system in November 2020 and were able to start making purchases this January, and the New Mexico Legislature passed a law in March 2021 creating a recreational program scheduled to be up-and-running within the next year.

Of course, by the letter of the law, this availability currently means little for most Utahns, as it’s still a state and federal crime to transport cannabis across state lines.

Despite this, Utah medical cardholders can use a loophole approved by the Legislature extending their ability to travel to neighboring states and bring back cannabis—either around 4 ounces of flower, or other products with no more than 20 grams of THC (total, not each)—without worrying about legal ramifications from the state until June 1, when it expires for good. (Cardholders utilizing the loophole are limited to once every 28 days.)

On the legalization front, Wyoming could be next; Republicans in two state House committees voted to send bills that would have legalized recreational cannabis to the full House of Representatives, but legislative leaders eventually let the bills die without coming to a full vote.

Idaho, one of the 14 states with no medical program whatsoever, seems to be on shakier ground. There, in direct response to a voter referendum for a medical program that activists are hoping to place on the state’s 2022 ballot, Republican lawmakers recently nearly passed a bill that would have created a constitutional amendment forever outlawing cannabis—recreational or medical—in the state. (A separate bill still working its way through the Legislature would create a medical program.)

At this juncture, access to medicinal and recreational weed remains up to the states, and because you, dear reader, have chosen to reside in Utah, you already know that elected officials here are nervous about implementation and just can’t resist making it complicated for those who are already suffering.

Thus, like buying booze in Utah, there will be odd requirements and untested regulations just waiting to trip us all up. But breathe easy. City Weekly’s “Releaf” guide should make accessing the Utah’s forbidden medicine slightly less fraught.

You can now buy medical cannabis in Utah. Just don’t spark it up.

Cannabis for beginners

If you’re a little late to game on this whole weed thing— maybe for religious or cultural reasons, or maybe it just hasn’t been your thing—not to worry. Cannabis is a plant that has been used by societies around the world for centuries, the flowers of which can be dried and smoked, or made into a variety of other substances.

There are two main categories of cannabis: sativa and indica. Generally, the rule of thumb is that sativa strains produce lighter and more energetic effects, while indica strains are calming—though this isn’t a hard-and-fast rule, and there are plenty of strains that are hybrids between the two. There are other parts of the flower—organic compounds called terpenes or terpenoids (which are terpenes in their dried form)—that produce the flavor and smell associated with cannabis.

How much should I take?

If you’re participating in the medical cannabis program, you should have access to a medical professional and a cannabis pharmacist that you can talk through your specific needs with; as with any substance, the effects of cannabis can vary widely by product and by person. However, the biggest rule to follow for anyone new to cannabis is to start slow. Take a little at a time and give it some time to work, as opposed to wolfing an entire brownie down if the first few bites don’t do anything in the first 10 minutes.

Different products will also produce different effects.

Cannabis flower that is vaped or smoked, or cannabis oil or concentrates that are vaped, will produce almost instant effects—though, depending on strain, those effects may be different. Products that have to be ingested, such as edibles or tinctures, can take anywhere from 30 minutes to a couple hours to kick in, depending on your weight and metabolism, how much you’ve had to eat that day, and the dosage and strain you’re taking. And topicals generally only work where they are applied on the body, and don’t produce (many) psychoactive effects.

Where can I buy medical cannabis?

There are 14 pharmacies (the state’s term for dispensaries) that have received licenses from the Department of Health, but just eight of those have opened their doors as of press time. (Two more are scheduled to open within the next week, according to the state.) To purchase at any of these pharmacies, you have to first register with each individual business and go through a short consultation with one of their pharmacists (even if you’ve already registered with another pharmacy). Then, finally, you are able to walk through pharmacy doors, or put in a delivery order.

Offerings vary by pharmacy, but generally, patients are able to purchase flower (the green buds most commonly associate with cannabis and are meant to be vaped—smoking it is technically against the law), cannabis oil cartridges or other concentrates, capsules, gummies, topicals (like balms or lotions), or tinctures (liquid drops). Prices also vary, but an eighth of an ounce of flower—the amount that most pharmacies typically offer in a single container—can range from $30 to over $60.

The pharmacies that are now open are concentrated in northern Utah along the Interstate 15 corridor, which has caused access issues for patients who live outside of the state’s population centers. Some pharmacies now offer delivery to most parts of the state, for additional delivery fees. Some patient advocates have criticized the relatively low amount of pharmacy licenses issued, placement of the existing pharmacies and delayed timelines for pharmacies outside of the I-15 corridor as being critical bars to access for many would-be participants in the system.

The state now says that the rest of its six licensees—including two in Southern Utah—will be open by summer, and the Legislature passed a bill requiring a 15th license to be issued to a pharmacy in an unspecified rural location.

Rich Oborn, director of the state’s Center for Medical Cannabis, told KUTV Channel 2 earlier this month he hopes to issue the license, with the help of an outside expert, by the middle of the year.

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One of the two pharmacies set to open in coming days, Pure UT, was originally licensed to open in Vernal—at population 10,000, the largest municipality in rural northeastern Utah—but sought and received approval from the Department of Health to relocate to the fast-growing Utah County community of Payson, where it will be one of four pharmacies in quick succession along I-15 in that county.

Jordan Lams, founder and CEO of Pure UT’s parent company Moxie, wrote in an email that Pure is “pleased that, after much consideration, the DOH agreed with our suggestion that the location in Payson would be able to ultimately provide a greater public health benefit.”

Oborn told City Weekly that the pharmacy showed it could serve more patients in Payson, which was the main consideration the state made. The fact that, unlike cultivators, the law allows the state to issue additional pharmacy licenses on top of the initial 14 was also a factor—because there was nothing preventing the state from issuing a new one if data showed it needed to—as was the lower count of cardholders in rural areas. He also said that some Native tribes in the state had expressed interest in opening pharmacies on tribal land, which the law allows them to do through an easier process than other companies are subjected to, which may have helped solve the rural access issue, but no tribes have announced any plans to move forward with their own medical cannabis operations.

How do I get a medical card?

It’s a considerably more complicated process in Utah than in many other states with medical programs, though the Legislature made some efforts to improve certain aspects of that in this year’s session. Here are the steps you need to take:

Be sick in the ‘right’ way

The first requirement you must meet is having the misfortune of being diagnosed with one of the qualifying conditions laid out in the state law: HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s, ALS, cancer, cachexia (also known as Wasting Syndrome), “persistent” nausea, Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, epilepsy or debilitating seizures, MS or persistent muscle spasms, PTSD, autism, a terminal illness, a condition requiring hospice care, rare diseases that meet specific requirements and can’t be managed with conventional medicine, or chronic pain that can’t be managed with conventional medicine.

If you don’t have one of these conditions—or if you’re under 21, or the parent/guardian of someone under 21— you can still apply for a medical card through the Com-

passionate Use Board, a body within the Utah Department of Health created solely to process such applications. The CUB has denied just three of the 215 applications it’s received since the program launched last year, according to a report published by the state last month.

There is a separate body that exists to, among other things, make recommendations about new conditions to add to the law—the Cannabinoid Product Board—but it has yet to do so. A bill that would have added opioid use disorder as a qualifying condition, which the CPB opposed, went nowhere during this year’s legislative session.

Find a ‘qualified’ provider

Then, you need to determine which medical provider to see. Broadly, you have two options: a Qualified Medical Provider (QMP) or most other medical professionals.

QMPs are doctors, physicians assistants and nurses registered with the state medical cannabis program who are required to undergo extra training and have the ability to write between 275 and 600 recommendations. As of March 2021, Utah had 628 active QMPs. The Utah Department of Health’s Center for Medical Cannabis provides a list of most of the registered QMPs on its website.

The Legislature created your other option in the most recent legislative session, when it passed a bill allowing essentially any licensed medical provider in the state to write up to 15 recommendations for medical cards without registering as a QMP. This option allows you to potentially use your general physician or another provider you already know and feel comfortable with—the visits for whom may be covered by insurance, which does not cover most QMP visits (see insurance section).

(Both of the largest medical providers in the state, Intermountain Healthcare and University of Utah Health, allow their medical professionals to write recommendations and/or become QMPs, if they so choose.)

So, to see either a QMP or your regular doctor is a question that requires some research on your end. Does your general physician support you taking medical cannabis, or the concept of medical cannabis at all? If they do, and they aren’t a QMP, have they hit their 15-patient cap? If they are a QMP, have they hit their patient cap?

(These patient caps, for both QMPs and other medical providers, are not common among other state medical cannabis systems and are opposed by some patient advocates. The QMP system has also been criticized by advocates and medical professionals for encouraging some QMPs to act as “card mills,” charging patients high rates not covered by insurance while providing little actual medical information, according to a January report by the Utah Investigative Journalism Project and Park Record.)

Apply with the state and register with a pharmacy

Once your medical professional ascertains that you do indeed have the qualifying condition, they issue a recommendation to the state through its Electronic Verification System, which you also have to create an account with. You also have to pay the $15 application fee. The state will respond to all applicants who don’t have to undergo further review (see below) within 15 days.

Once you’ve been approved, you can begin the process of registering with pharmacies so you can actually buy cannabis products.

Get tested for adverse effects

However, you’re not out of the woods yet. The state requires you to get some basic tests done within 90 days of issuing your card and have your QMP analyze the results to make sure you’re not having any adverse effects. If you are, your card will most likely not be renewed. If you’re not, you still need to go through a renewal process, which comes with a $5 fee. Six months later, and every six months after that, you’ll be due for another renewal, the fee for which goes back up to $15.

What does the product cost, and will insurance cover it?

That depends entirely on you, your needs and your tolerance.

If you just need the occasional hit from a vape pen for temporary pain, you probably don’t need to buy much. If you’re a daily vaper (or secret smoker) of flower, $30 to $60 an eighth adds up pretty quickly. You should consult with your medical provider and the pharmacist on staff at the pharmacy you purchase from before making your first purchase, or if you have any questions after that point.

And no, health insurers will not cover your direct costs.

A representative for SelectHealth, Intermountain Healthcare’s insurance provider, said, “We continually evaluate our benefits to ensure that our members can access cost effective and safe treatment options across the spectrum of health-care needs. At this time, we do not offer coverage for medical cannabis. We only cover FDA-approved prescription drugs, and our coverage excludes herbal medications, most over-the counter medications, and most vitamins or supplements. The FDA has not approved medical cannabis to treat any disease or condition and classifies it

In Loving Memory Lee Bishop • July 12, 1965 to April 9, 2021 Surrounded and held by those he loved most, Lee Myonghun Bishop, age 55, passed away on April 9, 2021, after a short and courageous battle with cancer. Lee’s loving heart leaves behind a beacon of light for his community that will never fade.

Born in Seoul, South Korea on July 12, 1965, he was raised by his loving grandmother Mun Ye Ho and his parents Waynun and Robert Bishop in Ely, Nevada.

Lee was a graduate of White Pine High School and became the first in his family to ceive a college degree. He graduated in Psychology from the University of Utah.

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Lee began his career in social work, where he consistently demonstrated his love for others and the community through his service to his clientele and their families.

Lee exemplified honesty and selflessness, and always put friends and family above himself. This was most evident in the devoted and loving relationships he had with his son Alec and his partner April. Lee was a proud and dedicated father to Alec and he taught by living his values and demonstrating the importance of spending time together. He enjoyed barbeques and social gatherings because he appreciated the value of true fellowship and loved building lasting memories with family and friends.

Lee was preceded in death by his beloved grandmother Mun Ye Ho.

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Lee was an avid outdoorsman. He enjoyed sharing his love of nature with others and would often take time to go hunting and fishing with friends. It was another way for him to connect with people whom he loved. He would always say, “It’s not really about catching fish”... “It’s about the conversations and stories shared when you are on the river.”

He lived life to the fullest, and he will be deeply missed by many.

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After 20 years in community mental health, he started his own construction business, Urban Construction. Lee was an architect of relationships and he quickly put that to use in his construction business. He gained a reputation for honesty, integrity and quality craftsmanship but what truly mattered most to Lee were the friendships he created along the way.

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as a Schedule 1 drug. In addition, some of the government-sponsored plans we administer, including Medicare and Medicaid, do not allow medical cannabis to be covered.”

The vast majority of, if not all, major insurance providers take a similar stance.

Officials in some states, like Florida and New York, have proposed requiring insurers to cover at least some costs, and at least one insurer in Canada offers robust coverage, but no plan in Utah currently offers any coverage. The high prices are preventing many patients and even some advocates who pushed for medical legalization from using the program, said Christine Stenquist, the founder of Together for Responsible Use and Cannabis Education (TRUCE). “At the end of the day, I need to know that patients can get quality medication at an affordable price,” she said. “And that is not what this program is. It is designed for the elite. It is not designed for me, I can’t afford this program.”

Ultimately, “the only thing that would really move the needle on pricing is rescheduling cannabis,” according to Narith Panh, the chief strategy officer of Dragonfly Wellness— something that Oborn echoed. Dragonfly is one of Utah’s three “vertically integrated” cannabis companies, meaning it holds both cultivation and pharmacy licenses. “Rescheduling” refers to removing cannabis from Schedule I of the federal Controlled Substances Act, which classifies cannabis along with heroin as being addictive with no medical value.

But there may be some help for those in financial need. At the recent Utah Canna Fest, the Utah Patients Coalition launched an initiative to help low-income patients cover some of the costs, according to a Fox 13 report. UPC—a political action committee borne out of one of the organizations that supported the original Prop 2 referendum and then worked with legislative and LDS leaders on the “compromise bill” that eventually passed—will provide subsidies to patients who are able to demonstrate their financial need. Applications are accepted on its website.

Can Latter-day Saints be prescribed medical MJ? Yes. In July 2020, the church issued a new section in its General Handbook for members on medical cannabis, which laid out its position: it’s in support of medical use, and against recreational use. Regardless of whether or not they can use medical cannabis, they certainly are: LDS stronghold Utah County, which rejected Proposition 2 in 2018, is now home to both the most cardholders and most pharmacy licensees. (Whether that’s because Latter-day Saints really like weed more or, as patient advocate Stenquist surmises, most Salt Lake County residents have a “traditional source” that’s significantly cheaper than the medical program is up to you to decide.)

Is cannabis being tested for other uses?

Despite barriers such as still being listed as a Schedule I controlled substance by the DEA, studies on different potential medical uses for cannabis are being conducted at universities and private labs around the world, with new research being published every month.

Locally, psychiatric researchers at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City have been using brain imaging to learn how cannabinoids affect the brain, while agricultural researchers at Utah State University in Logan have been studying how to get optimal growth out of hemp plants using hydroponics.

Why buy Utah medical cannabis if it’s easier/ How likely is it that cannabis will be rescheduled? cheaper to purchase in nearby states?

Being categorized as a Schedule I or II drug subjects cannabis businesses to a provision of the U.S. tax code that prevents businesses that “traffic” in these substances from deducting business expenses from gross income, as essentially all other businesses can.

(The Reagen-era provision was originally intended for actual drug traffickers.) This can leave some businesses with effective income tax rates as high as 70 percent. After taxes and expenses, Panh wrote in an email, “As a business, you are forced to choose between charging the patient more to make up for your taxes, or if you are Dragonfly, you make the conscious decision to only make a 5% margin on your business.”

An array of powerful legislative leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, have voiced support for full recreational legalization. During a recent press conference, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that President Joe Biden supports rescheduling cannabis to Schedule II, which would relax most of the prohibitions around its medical use and research, and federally legalize medical—but not recreational—cannabis. However, Schedule II drugs are still subject to many of the same banking and tax restrictions that Schedule I drugs are. Additionally, some in the cannabis industry have voiced concerns around being categorized as Schedule II, which would open the industry up to FDA regulation. The Drug Policy Alliance’s official position is in support of descheduling cannabis entirely.

Ultimately, between easy access in neighboring states, a complicated application process and high prices for products, a potential Utah medical cannabis cardholder could be forgiven for asking why it’s worth it to participate in Utah’s program at all. That’s a fair question, Oborn, director of the state’s Center for Medical Cannabis, said, but it doesn’t take into consideration the patient protections built into Utah’s program. The testing that the state’s products undergo at independent lab facilities is far beyond what most other states require, he said—recreational or medical. “There’s some additional cost involved in sending products to independent labs,” he said, “but a higher degree of trust in the products you can buy.” Because of the testing procedures, “If you compare our products to one in Nevada, it’s like apples and oranges.” The benefit of having trained and licensed pharmacists at each pharmacy is also something not offered in most other states, he said.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON UTAH’S MEDICAL CANNABIS PROGRAM, VISIT THESE WEBSITES:

medicalcannabis.utah.gov | utahpatients.org | truceutah.org | utahmarijuana.org

Sam Stecklow is a journalist and editor based in Salt Lake City.

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“It is a paradigm to think about the universe as more a system of processes than as a collection of point particles and fields and energies,” self-described “futurist,” engineer and author Justin Harnish writes on his blog.

“Where a material universe has to separate brains from mind, a computational universe offers a means by which consciousness could be another parallel process–one just not yet understood and so not yet describable by humans.”

This notion fuels Harnish’s book Meaning in the Multiverse: A Skeptic’s Guide to a Loving Cosmos. In part, it’s an attempt to banish the oppositional notions of understanding the universe scientifically, and seeking transcendent meaning, as well as

eliminating the sense that being a tiny speck in an unimaginably vast cosmos renders you insignificant. Through the notion of “all-natural meaning,” Harnish attempts to offer a sense of individual value and significance as part of a grand computational system, replacing mythbased explanations for existence with something curiously profound—the multiverse as a vast computer process. “We have been looking in all of the wrong places to find a universal meaning for our lives,” Harnish writes. “We have asked the question all wrong. Instead of searching for meaning in the heavens, we need to first ask ourselves, ‘what sort of universe would allow for all-natural universal meaning?’”

Harnish will participate in a virtual author event and live Q&A session Thursday, April 29 at 7 p.m. via the Weller Book Works YouTube channel (youtube.com/channel/UCcQqlhbPwo_ YfzIBsh9lleA). The event is free and open to the public. (Scott Renshaw)

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Utah Symphony @ Abravanel Hall All of us who were stuck without in-person arts for the better part of a year—in other words, all of us—were deeply appreciative of the creative ways that organizations found to present their work in virtual formats. That said, there’s nothing quite like the glorious acoustics of Abravanel Hall, and it marked a special moment when the Utah Symphony began scheduling live concerts again, even as they continue to offer virtual performances for those who are not yet comfortable or not yet fully vaccinated.

This weekend, Maestro Thierry Fischer (pictured) leads the Utah Symphony at Abravanel Hall (123 W. South Temple, saltlakecountyarts. org) in a program featuring works spanning more than 350 years. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins—the composer’s only

such work—features a fascinating interplay between the two violin soloists. Contemporary composer/musician Wynton Marsalis’s A Fiddler’s Tale presents a musical response to Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Story, incorporating a variety of jazz styles into a narrative about an aspiring musician tricked by the devil; this performance features selections from Marsalis’s musical suite. Elliott Carter folds brass instruments into chamber music for his Double Trio.

And Wagner demonstrates an uncharacteristic restraint for the intimacy of Siegfried Idyllis.

Performances for this program run April 29, April 30 and May 1, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $17.50 - $72 for the approximately 60-minute performance, and venue capacity is still limited, so grab tickets while you can at my.arttix.org. At press time, face coverings are still required for the duration of performances. (SR)

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Eddie Griffin @ Wiseguys Jordan Landing As legend has it, Eddie Griffin’s comedy career started on a dare. As a 21-year-old in 1989, a friend bet him that he wouldn’t go up on stage during an L.A.-area comedy club’s open mic night. The ensuing set was supposed to be three minutes, but turned into a 45-minute exploration of Griffin’s family stories that earned him a standing ovation. And the rest, as they say, is history.

That history, over the course of Griffin’s 30-year professional career, has included his popular four-year run on the Fox sitcom Malcolm & Eddie, multiple movie roles including the 2002 film Undercover Brother, and an ongoing successful run as a stand-up comic, with showcases like the 2003 theatrical performance documen-

tary Dysfunktional Family. In his most recent recorded set, the 2019 Showtime special E-Niggma, he recalls how little was expected of him as a class clown growing up in Kansas City, Missouri. “I had a principal, told me I wasn’t gonna be shit,” Griffin says. “Show you how God works, I become famous, I go back home to Kansas City to do a concert …

I spotted this m-----f----n’ principal in line to get a ticket. I told my limo driver, ‘Slow down.’

Rolled the window down, yelled, “N---a, you ain’t never gonna be shit. … Onward, Charles, onward.’”

Griffin stops in to the Wiseguys Jordan Landing location (3763 W. Center Park Dr., West Jordan, wiseguyscomedy.com) for four shows April 30-May 1, with tickets at $45.

Visit the website for tickets and for ongoing COVID-19 protocol information. (SR)

It’s the most absurd kind of holiday imaginable: one based entirely on a pun. May 4 doesn’t mark a relevant anniversary in the history of Star Wars—the original film was released later in May 1977—or even a birthday for anybody associated with the saga.

It’s simply a gag built around “may The Force be with you,” and now “May the Fourth be with you” becomes an opportunity for places to create fun events celebrating the 40-plus year legacy of the beloved fantasy universe.

One such event is an annual tradition at Urban Arts Gallery (116 S. Rio Grande St., urbanartsgallery.org): the Star Wars Heroes and Villains show.

Local artists are invited each year to celebrate pop culture not just with Star Wars characters, but those from other famous fantasy, science-fiction, super-hero and other franchises. The show opens on May the 4th, and runs through May 30, with a Gallery Stroll reception scheduled for May 21, 6-9 p.m. Admission is free, and open to the public.

Meanwhile, the Heber Valley Railroad (450 S. 600 West, Heber City, hebervalleyrr.org) gets in on the fun with a special Star Wars Fan Train. Guests are encouraged to show up in their own costumes, with plenty

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Inside the (Virtual) Actor’s Studio At the University of Utah Actor Training Program, pandemic instruction necessitated radical readjustment.

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ver the past year-plus, teachers of all kinds have faced the unexpected challenge of learning how to provide instruction in their subject while everyone is physically separate. But how do you use virtual tools to teach the craft of acting, the very nature of which involves being present with another person?

Robert Scott Smith—co-director of the University of Utah’s Actor Training Program, and director of the Department of Theatre’s upcoming production of Molière’s Tartuffe—has wrestled with this question, along with theater instruction professionals all over the world. Yet while the pandemic raged, classes continued, requiring adjustments in everything from what focus the instruction would have, to how productions would look in a virtual world.

Early on, Smith recalls, it seemed that there might be a simple enough shift to online instruction for a period of time that initially seemed like it might be much shorter.

“I think immediately, what I was looking at was that we were moving to a format with a camera, so acting for the camera would be the easiest shift,” he says. “Early on, we didn’t think this would last into the following year, so we thought, ‘How do we pivot online to fulfill our learning outcomes?’ It

seemed clear we could use the technology, ‘oh we’re actors, we can work for the camera.’ Those things seemed like easy fixes.”

As the pandemic stretched on, however, the challenges facing the process of teaching acting became more evident. “Once we realized this would be long-term,” Smith says, “we grappled with, ‘well, how do we focus on working with students in a space where often we’re asking them to live in the moment, and apply what their scene partner is giving them?’ Unfortunately, Zoom has delays and lags; you had to allow for the glitches to affect in-the-moment reactions.

So how do we navigate that?”

Like many people working in the arts, Smith says that he took advantage of a large network of people around the country and around the world who were facing similar challenges, and took advantage of that collaborative effort. Among the opportunities Smith says that this new form of teaching afforded was a chance to dig deeper into character development. “We’ve been focusing on getting into the actual script, so we’ve been able to approach this in an intellectual way and inform ourselves, so we can then embody another character,” Smith says. “Often actors are ready to just get up and improv, free-form a character.

Because of Zoom, we were able to really get into the language and the text and the intellectual side.”

Additionally, Smith feels that the Zoom instruction has been a benefit to students for when they’ll have the opportunity to actually act for a camera rather than on a stage. “Usually, when an actor is thrown in front of a camera, they panic a little bit,” he says. “I think they will probably reap the benefits when they’re on-set. … The focus it took to communicate through the camera actually gave them great skills.”

In recent weeks, the Acting Program has been able to conduct some in-person classes as guidelines shifted. This week, the Theatre Department’s production of

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Molière’s Tartuffe will represent a show that was created with unmasked actors working together, with strict testing and quarantining practices, which was then filmed in individual acts and edited together for a virtual presentation. “We didn’t really do any close-ups,” Smith says of the production; “the camera distance felt like they still had to use their theatrical muscles, so they had to perform like the audience was still at a distance. I had to really remind them that they were still acting for an audience.”

Smith believes that the success of this Tartuffe production—like almost everything the program has faced over the past year—is testament to the ability of both students and faculty to adapt, and to communicate about what was and wasn’t working. “We’re not here to have a pass-or-fail kind of situation,” he says. “And we’ve had students who realized this situation wasn’t going to work for them, and decided to take a leave of absence. As much as we try to show up and get them to buy in, at the end

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of the day, I had moments where I didn’t want to buy in.

“What’s been really comforting is the students who have stayed with us have really been appreciative of the faculty doing the best we can, and really reinventing what we can do. That’s been great that we can have that support. We’ve also heard their asks where things haven’t been working for them—in terms of accessibility, in terms of being overwhelmed. I teach a few classes, but the students I teach are taking four or five other classes. I have to remember, everyone else is also asking the same of them.”

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he summer months are rapidly approaching, and if you haven’t outlined a solid liquid-refreshment plan, complete with a supplemental chilled dessert addendum, it’s time to get cracking. I came up with mine back in January, and it’s quite comprehensive. Though I’m not sure I can get into the deep minutiae of said refreshment plan, I think it’s safe to reveal the crux of the whole thing. Based on my preliminary visits, the cosmic bubble tea blends and monolithic taiyaki waffles at Space Tea (1085 S. State Street, 385-5280141, spaceteaslc.com) will make it a sort of beverage hub for me come summer.

I first encountered Space Tea via my Instagram feed—their charming space otter logo and lineup of colorful caffeinated brews provided a nice pop of brightness to my timeline, so I took note. Any time I see boba drinks that have accoutrements like aloe jelly, pureed peaches and soft serve, I tend to reconsider my existing biases against this trendy drink. It’s locallyowned and operated by the Ly family, and I had a chance to speak with Don Ly about this new addition to Salt Lake after snagging some boba tea during a recent visit.

While managing Space Tea, Ly is also studying at the University of Utah to be an elementary educator. Between his studies and managing a café in the middle of a pandemic, Ly’s got quite a bit on his plate.

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The surprise of my visit was the Pluto’s Peach ($5.85), a peach-infused green tea blend served with honey boba. Space Tea’s peachy green tea balances its flavor combo nicely, and the crushed peaches-and-cream midsection is a nice textural interlude.

It’s a safe bet that you’ll find something tasty with which to wet your whistle at Space Tea, but the real safety net for getting through Utah’s smoldering summer temperatures will be the taiyaki ($6.45), a Japanese dessert that is almost too beautiful to eat. It starts with a waffle baked in the shape of a fish, filled with red bean, Nutella or biscoff and topped with soft serve. Space Tea always has vanilla on tap, but their second flavor tends to change with the seasonal menu. Taiyaki is one of the most grandiose yet approachable desserts you’ll lay eyes on, and I look forward to enjoying many of these as I sweat out another summer on the Wasatch Front.

On top of fashioning a creative and colorful menu of beverages, Space Tea has been active in various local fundraisers.

Most recently, they donated a portion of their proceeds to OCA Utah and Red Canary Song in solidarity with the AsianAmerican community that has faced so much adversity as of late. “I really wanted Space Tea to be a community-based business, and we have been more than happy to help out,” Ly says.

While Utah’s persistent winter chill continues to haunt our spring mornings, that arid summer heat will be here before you know it. May the cosmology of Space Tea lead you and your taste buds through the heat unscathed. CW

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challenging,” Ly says. “We’re still on a strict no dine-in policy, which can impact the customer experience.”

Luckily, Space Tea’s signature drinks and desserts are easy for the grab-and-go diner craving cool drinks bedazzled with a multitude of slippery textures. “I think bubble tea is starting to become more popular,” Ly says. “I wanted to branch out and offer a more unique experience for bubble tea in Salt Lake.” That unique experience is on display with Space Tea’s later hours, rotating mix of seasonal drinks and astronomy-inspired concepts.

My first foray into the menu’s multicolored madness was the Milky Way ($5.85), which takes a traditional milk tea, loads it up with black sugar boba, cream and bits of crushed Oreo cookies. It sounds a bit bonkers on paper, but once you jab that industrial-sized straw through the seal on top of this sugary delight and commence slurping, it’ll all make sense. The Milky Way captures the nostalgic flavor combination of Oreos and milk while spiking the whole experience with notes of smoky black tea, adding a dash of sophistication to the palate. For something a bit less extreme but just as energizing, the Otter Space ($5.85) packs the same caffeinated punch and milk tea goodness with some soft serve and black sugar boba.

My favorite fruit-filled drinks at Space Tea tend to be on the green side—must be a holdover from all that lime Kool Aid that got me through pre-adolescence. The Martian ($5.85), made from honeydew lemonade, aloe jelly, crystal boba and an assorted fruit cocktail, gets my vote for the ultimate summer refresher. I’ve developed a fondness for aloe beverages after burning my mouth one too many times on spicy Thai or Korean dishes, so adding that soothing element to a cool blend of honeydew lemonade—more sweet than tart—and throwing in some crushed fruit helps extinguish

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Hopkins Brewing Co. 1048 E. 2100 South, SLC HopkinsBrewingCompany.com On Tap: NAIPA Hoppers Grill and Brewing 890 E. Fort Union Blvd, Midvale HoppersBrewPub.com

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Shades Brewing 154 W. Utopia Ave, South SLC ShadesBrewing.beer On Tap: Blue Berry Blast Beer Slushie

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Overall: Accurate though they are, descriptions of truffles, coffee and cream make this offering sound like a bit more of a treat than it actually is. But while lacking in some of the nuanced, denser qualities we’ve come to expect from stouts, nonetheless this 5 percent stout is a really pleasant offering that I’d enjoy again.

Toasted Barrel - Double IPA: It poured a slightly hazy burnt orange color that took on more of an amber red tinge when held to the light, with a little over two fingers worth of tan head that died down to a thin ring.

The aroma starts off with a slightly higher amount of medium sweetness, with the hops being the first to show up; they impart a mixture of citrus rind, light tropical fruit and floral hops aromas, with the citrus rind hops seeming to stick out the most. Up next there’s a little bit of yeast that leads into the malts, which impart a sweet malt, caramel malt and some slightly doughy aromas.

The taste seems to be similar to the aroma, and it starts off with a slightly higher amount of medium sweetness. The hops are still the first to show up, and they impart the same nice hop mixture that they did in the aroma, with the citrus rind hops still sticking out the most. That’s followed by a slight alcohol flavor that goes right into the malts, with the sweet and caramel malts seeming to stick out the most with just a little bit of doughy flavor showing up in the background. On the finish, there’s a medium amount of bitterness that doesn’t linger too long, with a citrus rind hop aftertaste.

Overall: I thought this was a good example of the style, even though the bitterness was on the lower side; the hops showed up nicely, with some good fruity flavors and aromas. This beer had nice drinkability— smooth and a little crisp, with the alcohol well-hidden.

Toasted Barrel’s Double IPA can be enjoyed in house or to go at home, and you’ll find the Coffee & Cream on draft at Hopkins in Sugar House. As always, cheers! CW

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Hopkins - Coffee & Cream: Coffee & Cream Stout looks entirely black; this beer sheds not a single drop of color, regardless of the angle. The head that forms is pretty dark too, like white cake. Anyone who celebrates the holidays is familiar with that notorious box of chocolates, the one usually given by a distant relative or as an unimaginative hostess gift. This smells like that.

It’s a nice aroma, but not one that requires overthinking—coffee, milk chocolate shell and creamy truffle center are direct and on display.

The taste, however, is all coffee—well, coffee and cream. And I’m not talking instant coffee and skim milk; I mean heavy medium-roast and full-fat cream. As rich as that profile sounds, however, the beer is surprisingly light-bodied. Lactose imparts vanilla in the aftertaste, but otherwise, there’s little else. Flavors are well-focused, but not put under a microscope. Put another way, it has character, but not complexity, which makes it a stout equally suited to a social evening with friends or a quiet night in. It’s also worthy of serving with dessert, though it’s more easy-drinking than typical stout.

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After getting delayed last year due to COVID-19, the first annual Empanada Fest (empanadafestslc.com) will be taking place on May 1. Event organizers have created a virtual festival that allows empanada lovers to preorder boxes of the delightfully savory stuffed pastries from several local businesses. As empanadas are a universal food, this year’s festival has samples from Argentina’s Best Empanadas, Delicius Family Bakery, Jamaica’s Kitchen and Namash Swahili Cuisine. You’ve still got a bit of time to preorder your empanada samplers online—the cut off day is April 29. Once you’ve placed your order, you can select a pickup location that works best for you. May your weekend be filled with a plethora of delicious local empanadas.

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“Business owners, people of all ages want a beautiful, lively downtown. Our answer is great Utah musicians, put them where people can find them and let every sector of the economy contribute.”

And like a downtown sector, the internet is also a place where things are easily found, where access expands—so they’re going to keep the live-stream aspect when Excellence hopefully returns to the Gallivan Center stage in July, for in-real-life shows. But Whitely isn’t satisfied to stop there. He also hopes that with the reputation Excellence has built for Utah’s music scene, they can do more outreach programming in rural Utah communities, bringing music there and providing pathways for musicians in those areas to perform in Salt Lake City.

He shares a story of taking a Celtic group to a Duchesne high school auditorium, where after the performance concluded to a standing ovation, he realized the man next to him had tears in his eyes. Taken aback, Whitely said something lighthearted about how the show hadn’t gone that badly. But the man responded seriously, saying, “I’ve never heard a harp before.”

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Dee Dee Darby Duffin Performing at Excellence Concert Series a Celtic harp, Whitely, said “Oh yes, you don’t see Celtic harp often.” The man shook his head, “No, I’ve never heard any harp before.” While driving home from that performance, Whitely thought to himself, “I’ve got to work harder.”

Since then, Excellence has managed to put on performances in Price, Gunnison, Brigham City, Grantsville and, of course, smaller cities outside SLC like Provo and Ogden. “The idea is that maybe all of this talent could be used to make life more interesting or more lively for many cities.

Certainly we can do this, we can help people hear harps before they die,” he says. It was, after all, at Whitely’s own junior high school auditorium where he heard his first electric guitar, which sparked a passion for music that led him where he is today.

While Excellence is still hoping to find funding for the rural outreach effort, they’re going ahead with their online streams, and with plans to pick back up downtown in July, if everything keeps trending safely. Keep up with them and find their archive of past streams at facebook.com/excellenceinthecommunity and at excellenceconcerts.org. CW

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Whitely’s appreciation for Utah’s artists came from experiences as a musician himself, playing on the streets of Paris in his younger years, where he and friends received not only pedestrian attention, but invitations to big festivals like the Montreaux Jazz Festival. “The French were very interested in quality, even when they stumbled across it,” he explains. “Does America have kind of … too much of an obsession with celebrity, to the point that people need the media to point them to quality?

I’ve had people here in Salt Lake City say, ‘I don’t buy your argument, if the musicians [here] were as good as you say they are, they’d go to New York and get famous and then we’d be interested.’”

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f someone told you a local live stream series had gained 8.5 million views worldwide over the past year, who would you guess they were talking about? This has been a strange year for some to prove themselves and others to go quiet—and on the “proving themselves” side, there’s Excellence Concert Series. Just as they have been adapting to and spotlighting jazz, folk, big band, soul and basically every other foundational genre for the past 15 years, they quickly adapted to a new presentation format online in 2020, one that’s garnered virtual recognition from all over the world.

A Salt Lake City institution since 2005 and a free one since 2012, the Excellence Concert Series has long enriched the downtown area, while also providing opportunities to local artists in a cultural landscape that doesn’t always value their achievements. “It was immediately obvious the musicians were in great need of hope, payment, employment, a chance to exercise their artistry,” says Excellence founder Jeff Whitely of the early days of the pandemic. “It was also immediately obvious that the public was traumatized and in need of healing.”

Though Excellence is non-profit with a staff of just 10 people, Whitely says the “scrappy, resilient, nimble” group found quick support in their collaborators—including the Gallivan Center, Taylor Audio and Daynes Music—as well as from the Salt Lake City Council, Mayor Erin Mendenhall and the Redevelopment Agency. The result has been a bi-weekly series of live streams up on the Excellence in the Community Facebook page, in place of the usual free, live downtown gatherings.

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Utah County’s Fork Fest was one of the only Utah festivals to go on as planned last year, though they did, of course, adjust for social distancing and other COVID precautions.

And as for 2021, the Harrington Center- and Velour-presented event is back this year on June 19 at Art Dye Park, and they’ve already got a lot worth looking forward to. For starters, iDKHOW (short for I Don’t Know How But They Found Me) will headline.

The local band features the notable, SLCfamous artist Dallon Weekes, who before joining Panic! At The Disco’s lineup for a few years, was at the center of the popular local band The Brobecks. The rest of the lineup dropped April 20, and includes tons of other beloved locals, especially those from the Utah County scene. Bands like Sego seem to be coming out of what felt like a hiatus of sorts, as well as big acts like Fictionist, Book on Tape Worm and the legendary Mindy Gledhill. Lizzy O’Very, recently of American Idol fame, will make an appearance, too. The long list of locals then goes on as such: Joshy (FKA Joshy Soul), Libbie Linton (of Mideau), Lantern by the Sea, The Solarists, Goldmyth, OFI, Mia Grace, Mia Hicken (of Drusky), Kin Lodge, 19 Miles Per Hour, Indigo Waves, Sunfish, Rally, Texture Love, Iris, Joseph Moore, Nicole McMahan, Mt. Everett, Beeson, Seth Brown and Utah COPA. Two things are for certain: These locals rock, and Fork Fest might be the single most locals-packed day of the year in Utah. Tickets range from GA for $25, $10 for kids, $45 for VIP tickets. Visit forkfest. org for tickets and info.

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A low-key Salt Lake concert series is kicking off this Thursday, April 29, just in time to welcome in spring. The Brown Bag Concert Series celebrates local artists, planting them in interesting locales around the city to add vibrancy to Salt Lake City, while giving artists paid opportunities to perform. The first performance kicks off with music from local indie rock project The Gontiks, who will also demonstrate the new virtual hybrid model the Brown Bag Concert Series is employing during COVID. That means IRL sets will be happening still in cool spots around the city, but they’ll also be streamed online, all for free.

So, The Gontiks will kick things off and set up at the Capitol Theatre on April 29 at 7 p.m.

Following that, on May 6, The State Room will play host—which in itself is special for a venue that’s remained very quiet throughout the pandemic—opening up their stage to duo Mary & Will at 7 p.m. Then it’s grunge and blues-rock fusion Ark Animalz on May 12 at 7 p.m. on the Kilby Court stage, then jazzy soul-pop from Fonteyn on May 20 at 7 p.m., streamed from the Jeanne Wagner Theatre.

For classical lovers, there’s the Meadowlark String Band on May 27 at 6:30 p.m., out in the open streets at Exchange Place, followed on the same evening with sets by the Mel Soul at 7:30 p.m. and Branson Anderson at 8:30 p.m. This series is a collaboration involving Salt Lake Community College, The Blocks, S&S Presents, The State Room and KUAA, the latter of which will play the sets on the radio the following Thursday at noon at 9.99FM. Find the livestream links at SaltLakeArts.org/BrownBagConcertSeries.

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Alicia Silverstone’s Cher from Clueless? Or does Britney Spears immediately come to mind?

It’s the latter for me, and what I immediately thought of when hearing the song “Live 4ever” by contemporary pop duo Magdalena Bay. Lead singer Mica Tenenbaum channels the vocal-fried, sexy baby-speak that Spears made popular in pop in the ’90s, and it’s half the reason why this song is so fun to listen to. Magdalena Bay’s releases over the years have shifted from breezy beach pop to glossier bops (the A Little Rhythm and a Wicket Feeling EP), but on their 2020 EP Mini Mix, Vol. 2, they shift gears into hyperpop territory, and it’s good. The ultra-sultry opening track sounds thematically like one of Charli XCX’s sexy, slightly high songs, and the shimmering, ethereal synths keep things soft even as they quickly explode into big atmospheric moments filled with bass thumps. But the best part of the song is Tenenbaum’s delicate, fried vocals cooing, “Can we go faster? Let’s go,” before her infectious demand to “go, go, go” seduces and thrills, sending the song into warp speed.

Ending abruptly with a nod to dubstep, the song feels sent from the same gods who gave us Britney, but with an ambitious, modern energy that goes far beyond any pop that came out of the 2000s. It’s a treat, and you can stream it wherever you stream.

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SLC’s most bona fide biker bar has been keeping up with their musical goods throughout the pandemic, but now that it’s safer for most all of us to go out again, you’d better swing by to catch their talent. The Garage on Beck barely discriminates against any kind of music, so a variety of Utah musicians have made appearances at the rough ‘n’ tumble spot on Salt Lake’s most refinery-filled stretch of pavement.

Shows can be found at the bar throughout the week, and there are a few notables on the horizon. On Friday, April 30, Spirit Machines visit, hopefully with some of the new tunes they’ve been alluding to on social media. The door cost for that show is $10, and the show starts late, at 9 p.m. Can’t make it to that weekend kick-

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A few months before the pandemic began, the nerdy-but-cool underground bar Quarters (which, for older Salt Lakers, is where the old Manhattan Club used to live) had started booking small shows in a little backroom, cordoned off from the rest of the noisy, neon-lit bar by a wall of dead pinball machines. Or so I remember. I stumbled into one show there before the pandemic began, at a time where it felt like more bars were starting to get into the “hosting live music” thing, a time-worn bar tradition that feels a bit absent from some of our popular downtown bars. But bars like Quarters were going ahead with plans to do music nights, with a whole part of the building dedicated to it—before the obvious happened. But hooray!

They’ve just announced that they’re starting to book shows for the space once again, as the prospect of going into a less-than-ideally ventilated bar space becomes more appealing and safer for more patrons. After a little test run of a show back in March, The DLC (what this acronym means is a mystery to me, but it’s likely game- or nerd culture-related) is opening back up for real, and is looking to book shows. If you’re a musician reading this and are interested in playing in a modest room underground in an arcade bar, inquire at thedlc@quartersslc.com.

Shows will kick off in June, and will only take place on Thursdays and Sundays—no weekends, since weekends bring the zanies out.

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Over the course of 20 years, Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson has remained committed to his stylistic gimmick—master-shot tableaux of simple situations, often building to absurdist punch lines—to the point where it’s not clear what more he might have to say within this framework. Once again, his episodic scenes aren’t really connected to any overarching narrative, though a couple of characters—including a minister despairing over his loss of faith—do recur at various points.

Mostly, however, we have moments in the lives of everyday people, here supplemented with the voice of an omniscient narrator (Jessica Louthander) whose observations at times step on whatever simple emotion might have been found in a bit like a father pausing during a downpour to tie his young daughter’s shoes, or a woman arriving at a train station to find no one waiting for her. At their best, Andersson’s meticulously constructed shots can hit their blackhumored marks, or capture something painterly in a scene of people transfixed by falling snow. At their worst, those shots can start to feel like someone doing a parody of a Roy Andersson movie. Available April 30 via SLFSatHome.org. (NR)

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Addiction stories are, unfortunately, all too common both in real life and in movies; this one finds enough spiky complexity to undercut the more obvious rhythms of family melodrama. Writer/director Rodrigo García casts his Albert Nobbs star Glenn Close as Deb, whose 31-yearold daughter Molly (Mila Kunis) is on the latest of many attempts to kick a decadeplus-long opioid addiction. The narrative focuses on a week-long span as Molly tries to clear her system of drugs to be eligible for an opioid-blocking medication, and García effectively captures how the years of Molly’s addiction have left Deb unable to trust her at all, and practically wishing she could stop caring about her troubled daughter. Yet rather than making Deb a saintly mom, Close’s performance adds a dynamic of guilt over the choices Deb made during Molly’s childhood. García chooses perhaps the most prosaic manner possible to reveal that history, and you can almost predict where the final shot will take place as soon as a specific prop is introduced. There’s still a lot of humanity here in two people figuring out if it’s ever too late to give one another one more chance. Available April 30 in theaters. (R)

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It’s not easy to combine deadpan humor and earnestness when dealing with a hot-button issue, and writer/director Ben Sharrock teeters awkwardly back and forth across that line.

On a fictional island off the coast of Scotland, several immigrant asylum-seekers—including Syrian-born Omar (Amir El-Masry) and his Afghan roommate Farhad (Vikash Bhai)—wait for resolution of their status, unable to work or travel anywhere else. Most of the narrative is built around Omar’s complex feelings about being separated from his parents currently living in Istanbul, while an older brother continues fighting in the Syrian civil war. But El-Masry’s often-impassive performance frequently doesn’t work with the more serious material, while providing a perfect counterpoint to the more humorous scenes like the ongoing classes in Western cultural norms taught by a well-meaning local couple. There’s a lot of material to unpack in the struggles of immigrants to assimilate in places that don’t always want them, while still worrying about those they left behind. And it’s not easy for that material to coexist peacefully with punch lines about what an unwelcome sexual advance looks like, or getting so caught up in watching Friends DVDs that you start arguing about whether or not Ross and Rachel really were on a break. Available April 30 in theaters. (R)

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Credit to co-writers/co-directors Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe for putting in the effort to give their lively CGI animated adventure a visual sensibility that doesn’t feel copied-and-pasted from the work of their animation brethren. On the eve of her longawaited departure for college, teenager Katie Mitchell (Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson) ends up on a cross-country road trip with her family—dad Rick (Danny McBride), mom Linda (Maya Rudolph) and younger brother Aaron (co-writer/co-director Rianda)—just as a tech company’s new AI robots are preparing to conquer humanity. The narrative through-line is a nice effort at real emotional content, built around the conflict between quirky and creative Katie and her frequently non-supportive dad, though it never quite finds its tear-jerking climax moment like top-tier Pixar. Still, the chuckles come fairly consistently, while Rianda and Rowe build the look of their action scenes in particular around Katie’s own amateur filmmaker aesthetic, full of hand-drawn hearts and rainbows. In a story about someone longing for her own individuality to be appreciated, it matters a lot that The Mitchells vs. the Machines tries for its own individuality. Available April 30 via Netflix. (PG)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Poet Allen Ginsberg despairingly noted that many people want more more more life, but they go awry because they allow their desire for more more more life to fixate on material things— machines, possessions, gizmos and status symbols. Ginsberg revered different kinds of longings: for good feelings, meaningful experiences, soulful breakthroughs, deep awareness and all kinds of love. In accordance with astrological potentials, Aries, I’m giving you the go-ahead in the coming weeks to be extra greedy for the stuff in the second category.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In her poem “Mirror,” Taurus poet Halina Poświatowska wrote, “I am dazed by the beauty of my body.” I applaud her brazen admiration and love for her most valuable possession. I wish more of us could genuinely feel that same adoration for our own bodies. And in accordance with current astrological omens, I recommend that you do indeed find a way to do just that right now. It’s time to upgrade your excitement about being in such a magnificent vessel. Even if it’s not in perfect health, it performs amazing marvels every minute of every day. I hope you will boost your appreciation for its miraculous capacities and increase your commitment to treating it as the treasure that it is.

Guardian angels and ancestral spirits would be good to call on, as well. How might they be of assistance and inspiration to you?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session,” notes Libran aphorist Yahia Lababidi. On the other hand, he observes, “To prolong pain is to miss the next lesson.” If he’s correct, the goal is to dwell with your pain for just the right amount of time—until you’ve learned its lessons and figured out how not to experience it again in the future—but no longer than that. I suspect that such a turning point will soon be arriving for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In her poem “Every Day,” Scorpio poet Denise Levertov wrote, “Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.” I think that captures the expansive truth of your life in the coming weeks. You’ve entered a phase when the sheer abundance of interesting input may at times be overwhelming, though enriching. You’ll hear—and hopefully be receptive to— lots of provocative stories, dynamic revelations and unexpected truths. Be grateful for this bounty! Use it to transform whatever might be stuck, whatever needs a catalytic nudge.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Someone in me is suffering and struggling toward freedom,” wrote Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis. To that melodramatic announcement, I reply, good for him! I’m glad he was willing to put himself through misery and despair in order to escape misery and despair. But it’s important to note there are other viable approaches to the quest for liberation. For example, having lavish fun and enjoying oneself profoundly can be tremendously effective in that holy work. I suspect that in the coming weeks, Leo, the latter will accomplish far more for you than the former.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “One is always at home in one’s past,” wrote author Vladimir Nabokov. I agree. Sometimes, that’s not a good thing, though.

It may lead us to flee from the challenges of the present moment and go hide and cower and wallow in nostalgia. But on other occasions, the fact that we are always at home in the past might generate brilliant healing strategies. It might rouse in us a wise determination to refresh our spirit by basking in the deep solace of feeling utterly at home. I think the latter case is likely to be true for you in the coming weeks, Aquarius.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Virgo novelist Agatha Christie sold hundreds of millions of books and is history’s most-translated author. While growing up, she had few other kids to associate with, so she created a host of imaginary friends to fill the void. They eventually became key players in her work as an author, helping her dream up stories. More than that: She simply loved having those invisible characters around to keep her company. Even in her old age, she still consorted with them. I bring this to your attention, Virgo, because now is a great time to acquire new imaginary friends or resurrect old ones.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting,” writes author Emery Allen. “Not everyone is going to stay forever.” Her message is a good one for you to keep in mind right now. You’re in a phase when transitory boosts and temporary help may be exactly what you need most.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) We can safely say that Anais Nin was a connoisseur of eros and sensuality. The evidence includes her three collections of erotic writing, Delta of Venus, Little Birds and Auletris. Here’s one of her definitive statements on the subject: “Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, stories, dreams, fantasies, music.” In response to Nin’s litany, I’m inclined to say, “Damn, that’s a lot of ambiance and scaffolding to have in place. Must it always be so complicated?” According to my reading of upcoming cosmic rhythms, you won’t need such a big array of stuff in your quest for soulful orgasms—at least not in the coming weeks. Your instinct for rapture will be finely tuned.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) No educator had ever offered a class in psychology until trailblazing philosopher William James did so in 1875. He knew a lot about human behavior. “Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being,” he wrote. “They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a person who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using only his little finger.”

I’m going to make an extravagant prediction here: I expect that in the coming months you will be better primed than ever before to expand your access to your consciousness, your resources and your potentials. How might you begin such an adventure? The first thing to do is to set a vivid intention to do just that.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Gemini poet Buddy Wakefield writes that after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004, “the only structure still standing in the wiped-out village of Malacca [in Malaysia] was a statue of Mahatma Gandhi. I wanna be able to stand like that.” I expect you will indeed enjoy that kind of stability and stamina in the coming weeks, my dear. You won’t have to endure a metaphorical tsunami, thank Goddess, but you may have to stand strong through a blustery brouhaha or swirling turbulence. Here’s a tip: The best approach is not to be stiff and unmoving like a statue, but rather flexible and willing to sway.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) I hope you’re not too stressed these days. There has been pressure on you to adjust more than maybe you’d like to adjust, and I hope you’ve managed to find some relaxing slack amidst the heaviness. But even if the inconvenience levels are deeper than you like, I have good news: It’s all in a good cause. Read the wise words of author Dan Millman, who describes the process you’re midway through: “Every positive change, every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness, involves a rite of passage. Each time we ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.”

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volunteered on the Salt Lake City Planning Commission for eight years as a way to give back to the community. In my time as a commissioner and chair, we heard hundreds of cases. I will always remember when the Salt Palace Convention Center and Salt Lake County wanted to expand the convention space downtown with an addition that would wipe out almost all that remained of what is known as “Japantown” or “J-Town.” The expansion was needed to keep those coming for the Outdoor Retailer convention happy due to their increasing needs for display space. (They now have moved their shows to Denver.)

Many American cities have pockets of ethnic peoples who entered the country as immigrants and settled together for housing and employment opportunities, and to be with those who spoke the same language and shared similar traditions. Utah’s Japanese came to work on the railroad, in mines and on farms. It wasn’t long before Japanese businesses, churches and festivals popped up.

And yes, the Greeks, Chinese, LatinX and Italians were doing the same thing. Greektown was located on the south side of what’s now The Gateway, stretching to the Holy Trinity Cathedral. The area now has a Trax stop named Greektown.

Japantown, or J-Town, was on 100 South between 200 West and 300 West—just behind the Salt Palace. In its day, it had noodle houses, laundries, fish and tofu shops, a pool hall and the Church of Christ and a Buddhist temple.

Sadly, much of JTown was demolished when the Salt Palace was built in the 1960s, and all that remained were the two churches. The most recent expansion request from Salt Lake County sought not only more space for exhibits but also for a semi-truck staging area and loading docks.

The elder Japanese who had memories of JTown and its churches lobbied the planning commission to at least preserve some space and honor the history of the neighborhood.

We were able to put in a small park as a buffer, one that was landscaped with Japanese plants and artistic fencing.

Now, a decade later, Salt Lake City has announced it will be giving more attention to the micro area, with a design that includes a street lined with cherry blossoms and ethnic art. The proposed upgrades will come with a cost, and Salt Lake City is hoping to partner with public and private backers to bring this project to completion. Given the anti-Asian crimes happening in this country, it seems fitting that positive planning and beautification of this historic area are long overdue to celebrate the peoples who helped build and populate this state. Currently, there is massive construction going up all around the old J-Town, including two 11-story buildings (one a hotel, another luxury apartments) and the 700-room Hyatt Regency convention hotel going in at the south end of the convention center.

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An anonymous New York resident seeking to marry their adult child filed suit in federal court in Manhattan on April 1 asking that laws barring incestuous marriage be overturned, Fox News reported. In court papers, the petitioner claims such a marriage is a matter of “individual autonomy” and asks to remain unnamed because “a large segment of society views (the request) as morally, socially and biologically repugnant.” The petitioner is a parent of an adult child, but court documents do not reveal the couple’s genders, ages, hometown or relationship. The filing does detail that the “proposed spouses are unable to procreate together.” Manhattan family and matrimonial law attorney Eric Wrubel predicted, “It’s never gonna fly.”

Repeat Offender Heather Poplasky, 32, of Plainfield, Connecticut, was arrested four times in 24 hours over the course of April 10 and 11, according to police. The first arrest came when police were called to her home, where they say she threatened to cut herself with a large kitchen knife and blame it on her boyfriend, WFSB-TV reported. Police charged her with reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct and took her to a hospital for evaluation, where Putnam police issued her a summons following an incident with a member of the staff. On April 11, Poplasky violated the terms of her release from the hospital by returning to her home, where Plainfield police say they again arrested her, adding more

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Vintage Weird Brian Robson of Cardiff, Wales, was 19 years old in 1964, when he accepted a job on the Victorian Railways in Australia. He almost immediately regretted his decision and started scheming about how to get back home, but he didn’t have enough money for the return trip. That’s when he had an idea: With the help of two Irish friends, Robson squeezed himself into a 30-by-26by-38-inch wooden crate and shipped himself home in the cargo area of a Qantas flight. “The first 10 minutes was fine,” he told CNN. “But your knees start to cramp up when they’re stuck up to your chest.” When the crate arrived in Sydney, it landed on the tarmac upside down. “So now I’m sitting on my neck and my head,” he explained, “and I was there for 22 hours upside down,” until arriving next in Los Angeles, where two airport workers discovered him. He spent six days recovering in a hospital as word of his story got out, and Pan Am airlines sent Robson home to London in a first-class seat. Robson lost touch with the friends who helped him but now hopes to find them and reconnect. He’s never been back to Australia.

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