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A University of Utah alumnus, Rasmuson began writing for City Weekly in 2006. Not long after, he gave up tennis for pickleball at the behest of his knees. His résumé includes journalism, public relations and teaching in international schools in Pakistan and Venezuela. He is a technolaggard having yet to sign on with Twitter or Facebook.

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LETTERS Counting casualties

If I could, I would like to give more information on the letter about the warring of the Demublicans [Letters, “A message for everyone,” June 30, City Weekly]. Pakistan and Yemen are only two of the countries being droned. Libya, Somalia, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan suffer strikes as well. Obama’s first was on January 23, 2009, and it killed between 7-15 people including one child. Later on, another strike went back to the same area and killed three more kids and 2-5 more adults. Not to gross everybody out, but sometimes the reason an exact number can’t be given is because the body parts are strewn about and in such small pieces that they can’t be matched up to the people they originally came from. Good Kill, starring Ethan Hawke, explains this and other such

WRITE US: Salt Lake City Weekly, 248 S. Main, Salt Lake City, UT 84101. Email: comments@cityweekly.net. Fax: 801-575-6106. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity. Preference will be given to letters that are 300 words or less and sent uniquely to City Weekly. Full name, address and phone number must be included, even on emailed submissions, for verification purposes. things as it is based on real drone operators’ lives. Does it matter how children are being killed, though? Hellfire missiles and good-old-fashion shooting deaths are regular ways in which these innocents are killed. Take for example the 20 men, 32 women and 30 children killed by a bomb in Libya in August 2011. Let’s not forget the estimated 576,000 dead children in Iraq, Obama continuing Jr.’s warhawking in one way or another this whole time. Or how about the SEAL member from Ft. Lewis-McChord who busted into three civilian homes in the middle of the night and shot nine sleeping Afghan children, noncombatants and three women; who burned their bodies with chemicals then turned himself in?

Laughing out loud

I had to read Sally Golden’s manifesto [Letters, “Thank the troops for what?” June 16, City Weekly] three times because I couldn’t stop laughing. She states that “I’ll listen to myself and nobody else, thanks, though.” With all those voices in her head, she doesn’t need the company.

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“Now ’tis spring, and weeds are shallowrooted; Suffer them now and they’ll o’er grow the garden.” —William Shakespeare, Henry IV Whenever I bike the Jordan River Parkway Trail, I detour through the International Peace Gardens (IPG). A gardener’s love of gardens draws me in. However, my visits over the years have never been wholly satisfying. Too much of the 11-acre IPG is weatherworn, weedy and neglected. That said, when compared to the rose garden in Sugar House Park, the IPG looks as manicured as Temple Square. Behind the squat Garden Center Building in the northeast corner of the park, the last vestige of the city’s once-famous, municipal rose garden had all but lost the battle with weeds in late June. Hundreds of rose bushes, displaced by the expansion of Holy Cross Hospital, were moved to the Sugar House site around 1970. Nowadays, just a few survive alongside a fancy, white arbor, which has the effect of making the six, weed-choked beds even more abject. Sad to say, last year’s plantings in The Draw east of Hidden Hollow are suffering the same fate. That neglected garden violates Salt Lake City’s weed-height ordinance. The original essence of the International Peace Garden was aspirational, and to give form to an ideal like international harmony is an ambitious undertaking. It’s ironic that the upkeep hasn’t measured up. Gardening is not a plant-and-forget occupation. It requires engagement—hands-and-knees work pruning, cultivating and weeding. Unweeded beds bespeak negligence, lack of commitment, or, in the case of cityowned gardens, an insufficient budget. According to IPG’s outdated website, the genesis of the peace gardens was the Salt Lake City centennial in 1947. Gardens representing 28 countries “symbolize the true spirit of democracy and world peace, brotherly love, history, literature and cultural heritage of many lands.” The world’s landscape

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looked much different in that post-war era. There were fewer briar patches. The garden-as-symbol is a trope burnished by use. Shakespeare’s garden-as-metaphor has had many copycats. Among them countless Mormon kids at the Sunday School pulpit delivering garden-themed sermonettes in three minutes or less. Thoreau grew beans near Walden Pond “if only for the sake of tropes and expression, to serve a parablemaker one day.” Gregor Mendel had a different objective with his pea plants. Although an Augustinian friar, he dispensed with moralizing and used successive plantings to discover the laws of heredity. Most of us are like Thoreau. We invoke a garden to talk about life-cycle, maturation, weeding, aesthetics, eco-engagement or the miracle of zucchini. The tropes I associate with gardens are related to orderliness and beauty. I appreciate texture, color and design in beds of annuals and perennials. I have cultivated vegetables, season upon season. In a good year I ate snap peas off the vine in May and dug Brussels sprouts out of November snow. I love crossovers like nasturtiums in summer salads and red-leafed basil accenting a petunia bed, and I like the fact that no matter how edenic a garden might be, it can harbor a toxic plant, Black Widow spider or snake. (Red Butte Garden has rattlesnakes.) I have seen high-walled houses where bougainvillea is planted just to camouflage a perimeter barrier of barbed wire. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of the Special Operations Task Force in Iraq and Afghanistan, introduced a garden trope into the best-selling book he wrote last year. “The temptation to lead as a chess master, controlling each move of the organization, must give way to an approach as a gardener, enabling rather than directing,” McChrystal wrote in Team of Teams, a manual for organizational change and leadership. “Gardeners plant and harvest, but more than anything, they tend.”

“The gardener cannot actually ‘grow’ tomatoes, squash or beans—she can only foster an environment in which the plants do so,” he wrote. “Within our Task Force, as in a garden, the outcome was less dependent on the initial planting than on consistent maintenance. Water, weeding and protecting plants from rabbits and disease are essential for success.” As a gardener, I have battled cutworms, tomato blight, Japanese beetles, cabbage loopers, aphids, snails and corn-loving raccoons. As an employee, I have worked in organizations that were managed top-down, more like a chess game than a garden. I would rather work for a gardener. I like being tended. McChrystal is no Shakespeare, and his garden metaphor describes a decentralized organization with “eyes-on, hands off” leaders that doesn’t square with my experience in the Army. But the fact that a four-star general is promoting “transparent communication and decentralized decision-making” in a secretive, Special Operations command speaks volumes. My most recent visit to the IPG coincided with the summer solstice. Part of the China garden had been recently planted with impatiens and begonias. A two-story, log building was under construction on the Norway grounds. At the Swiss garden, orange daylilies lined the walkway to a replica of Lake Geneva, which was empty. A statue of Hebe, the goddess of youth, stood forlorn at the center of an unplanted, circular space in the Greek section. I must say that the IPG looked pretty good even as the world it symbolizes looks pretty bad. But we gardeners are optimists. We plant seeds fully expecting to reap blooms and berries before the frost. We regard the summer solstice as a time to anticipate the harvest. The process of tending the plants over the course of a growing season keeps us on an even keel. I hope there’s hope for the IPG and the community of nations it symbolizes. CW

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What’s your best (or worst) gardening experience? Mason Rodrickc: Do the flies that have colonized my dirty dishes count as gardening? Because if so, they are the best! Zero maintenance, I just eat more and more and continue to let myself go and they just keep sprouting up. Nicole Enright: I am the absolute worst at gardening. Every single thing that I touch dies. I even killed a cactus once.

Pete Saltas: The freshest of produce. Garden tomatoes are hard to beat.

Ivy Watrous: I left potatoes in my pantry for who knows how long and they ended up turning into rotten sprout trees by the time I found them. Oops.

Andrea Harvey: My first plant was a cactus named Spike, which I forgot about and eventually found shriveled in my backyard. Then the same thing happened with my mini succulent, Puff. I’m now on my third plant, another succulent, which I have not named yet because I am trying not to become attached this time.

Lindsay Larkin: “Grocery shopping” in my mother’s garden and Roger Federer, obviously.

Jeremiah Smith: Fighting with wasps is always the worst gardening experience. Their mamas never bring them up right.

Randy Harward: I was helping my neighbor plant some flowers. We’d just returned from a break and, as I went to kneel, I lost my balance and fell forward. I put my hand out to catch myself, and it fell into one of the 7-inch-deep holes we’d dug. I felt something large and squishy. It turned out that my neighbor’s 110-pound dog had relieved himself in the hole.

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Well, it looks like State School Board incumbent Leslie Castle is on her way out—that is, unless she somehow eeks enough votes to push out the secondhighest vote-getter, Shelly Teuscher in a District 7 contest with odds-on favorite Carol Lear. Why is this significant? Castle is an enthusiastic supporter of a policy to dumb down teaching in Utah. The board recently voted to allow hiring college graduates without formal teaching credentials. “We’re not getting enough out of university programs—this is another route,” Castle said in a story in the Epoch Times. The Times is a publication with ties to the Chinese Falun Gong, and you know how the Chinese revere education. So, Utah is poised to have teachers teaching non-teachers how to teach while teaching kids in the classroom. Besides being a huge slap in the face to teachers, it’s going to be interesting to see if other graduates will opt for the low pay and long hours that go with a job they didn’t aspire to.

Prison and Ecosystem

Aren’t we all just tickled that the Legislature chose Salt Lake City for its new prison site? It’s almost daily now that you hear something that will increase the cost of the prison and the dangers to the ecosystem around it. The Salt Lake Tribune ran a story about how the iconic Salt Flats have attracted thrill seekers, outdoors enthusiasts and even filmmakers to its crusty surface. But the mercurial nature of the Flats and the Great Salt Lake make for ever-changing adjustments. That’s OK if you’re talking about a race, but not so good if you’re building something.

Rebel Without a Cause

Most of the media talk these days surrounds how Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton fare with fairness. But right here at home, we have another conundrum. Its name is LaVoy Finicum. Finicum has become a de facto folk hero by virtue of all the press, “who by then had become famous for talking live on MSNBC about how he would rather end the standoff dead than in prison,” James Pogue wrote about him. Of course, he did die. There seems to be no end to coverage of a man who ran with a rogue bunch of vigilantes who took their stand at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, where his supporters still stand watch over an illegal roadside memorial, according to Oregon Public Broadcast. The Salt Lake Tribune’s expansive coverage of his family and their ranch just fueled the fires. And lucky us, there is even an unedited interview with Finicum on YouTube now. Our love of rebels, no matter how idiotic, knows no limits.

JORDAN FLOYD

Hope for Education

Kayden Troff is the lone chess grandmaster (the highest title a chess player can be given from the World Chess Federation) in the state of Utah, and he’s only 18. How did he get so good? Well, he’s almost literally been playing chess since he was born. The game has become his life, and he’s not slowing down. Troff is preparing to play in the annual United States Junior Closed Championships, which is hosted by the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis. He won the tournament in 2014 and feels his chances are pretty good this year. After all, if you’ve done it once, you can do it again, right?

How did you get into chess?

I don’t remember this, but my dad taught my two older brothers because he played in college. They tell me that I just watched them play on my dad’s lap. And one day I said, “OK, I’m ready. I’m ready to play, and I did.” I think from that moment my parents knew—more than just that I knew how to play—but that this was probably something I’d also be interested in.

Is there one specific moment where you knew chess was something you wanted to do seriously?

Probably, the biggest moment for me was in 2010 when I went to the world youth chess championships and played in the under-12 section there. That was just crazy. I had been out of the country before, but to go to this tournament where you have all sorts of people there, I think that was one of the moments when it started to become more real. Woah, this is something I’m going after and something I’m starting to get into. Even though at that time I had been playing for about nine years, that was one of the moments when I started to get more into and started along that path to maybe taking this professionally.

Do you plan to try and play professionally?

As far as current live ratings, I think I’m somewhere around top 500 in the world. For a lot of sports that would probably be considered pretty high up there for the world. But for chess you really have to be top 50 to comfortably make a living doing chess professionally. It’s a lot more difficult to be professional. But what it means to be a professional chess player is you are the top in the world—one of the top in your country for sure.

How has your life been different from a “normal” teenager’s? I’ve never really known much else. I mean, I started very young and it has always been my life. There’s definitely some sacrifices. A lot of my social experiences have been with chess players, which is great and wonderful, and I love them. But we went home afterwards, I went back to Utah and they went to their different places. That was different. In a way it could have been a big deal. There’s a lot of sacrifices that come with it, but that has to be the case. If you want to do something really well, you can’t expect everything to be perfect and not have to sacrifice something.

What has chess meant for you in your life?

It’s been huge. I think one of the biggest things I’ve gotten from chess that I otherwise wouldn’t have gotten, is getting to travel. I have traveled a lot more than most people my age have. ... You quite often sit down with someone you’ve never met before, never talked to before, and you play a game, have a good time, talk about it afterward—it’s almost just a way to have fun with someone you may have never met otherwise. That kind of connection that can come so easily from the game called chess is crazy.

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I’m curious why tabloids haven’t been sued out of existence. I do recall Carol Burnett getting a bit of remuneration for the heartache they caused her some years back, but surely there can’t be so much apathy that celebrities will permit almost anything to be said about their lives. Maybe it’s a subtle form of blackmail: “At least if they say I’m in rehab, they aren’t exposing my extramarital affairs.” —Baldur Bear

There are good reasons celebrities encounter difficulty getting a libel case against the press to stick, but let’s note at the outset that currently the real action is in privacy violation. Silicon Valley, as we’ve recently discovered, is innovating the hell out of this arena. You probably saw the news that the media organization Gawker declared bankruptcy after fighting a series of lawsuits secretly funded by Peter Thiel, a tech gazillionaire with a grudge, his goal no less than to put Gawker out of business. After the knockout punch, a privacy suit over a Hulk Hogan sex tape resulting in a $140-million judgement, observers fretted that Thiel had single-handedly opened up a new front against the free press: If you’ve got enough money, you don’t need to prove libel or privacy violation in your own case (Thiel objected to being quasi-outed as gay in a 2007 Gawker piece). You just have to spend eight or nine years burying your nemesis in other people’s cases until you find one with enough merit to put ’em out of their misery. OK, so this might be a little breathless. Who knows? Maybe all the public opprobrium will shame these billionaires into behaving. (Ha ha.) But Thiel’s covert tactics reflect the robust good health of pressprotection laws in the United States. Thiel might not have won a privacy case, since his sexual orientation was already an open secret, and he couldn’t have won a libel case because Gawker would’ve argued the piece they published was true. But even if it hadn’t been, that hardly would’ve mattered. Thiel’s a “public figure”—part of a special, less-protected class as far as libel law is concerned. Put plainly, if you’re the editor of the National Enquirer, you can print significantly nastier stuff about somebody famous than you can about, say, the schoolteacher next door. Public figures are still at an advantage relative to “public officials”—i.e., elected representatives— but not as likely to succeed in a libel case as “limited-purpose public figures,” folks who’ve been thrust temporarily into the public eye—witnesses to a high-profile murder, for instance. In order to win a libel suit against a news organization, public figures have to demonstrate that the offending party acted with “actual malice,” which is not a Tom Clancy novel but rather a standard set by the Supreme Court’s 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan: They must show that the defendant knew for sure that the offending information was false, and published

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it anyway. Mind-reading being notoriously difficult, this sets a pretty high bar. Not that there haven’t been conspicuous celebrity wins. As you mention, in 1976, Carol Burnett went after the Enquirer for implying she’d been obstreperously drunk in public, despite sources’ reports to the contrary. (A distinction to keep in mind: we’re talking here about tabloids that traffic in salacious gossip, rather than those that print obviously absurd “Miranda Lambert Impregnated by Aliens!”-type material; any celebrity who’d sue over that stuff needs their head examined.) Drawing upon her considerable resolve and resources, Burnett prevailed in court and finally settled. Her success launched what the Atlantic calls the “modern era of tabloid litigation,” wherein other slighted celebs were emboldened to fight back. In response the tabs lawyered up to the nines. House counsel now put their eyes on everything at the major tabloids; one former Enquirer staffer has said that two attorneys there look at each piece, and not in some toothless advisory capacity—if they say kill it, it gets killed. These aren’t strip-mall sleazebags, either. For instance, it was David Kendall, one of Bill Clinton’s lawyers during various ’90s scandals, who had earlier green-lighted an Enquirer story headlined “Liberace’s Secret Battle with AIDS.” (I guess I’m not making a particularly strong case here that the guy’s not a sleazebag. He is, however, a very well-regarded one.) If an article that makes it to print does ruffle any serious feathers, the tabs’ significant legal manpower gives them the option of dragging a case out forever; and by suing, celebrities expose themselves to the discovery process, during which—as you correctly suggest—they might be required to cough up personal information they’d really rather not. Altogether, such factors make it both tedious and legally difficult for celebrities to win a media libel case. The Sullivan standard, by the way, means the U.S. is pretty much sui generis when it comes to libel law, at least until President Trump takes office. “I’m going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money,” promised the Donald. It seems like the short-finger jokes are really starting to get to him. n Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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“The central theme of the attack on John Swallow has always been the allegation of quid pro quo while he was in office.” —Scott Williams

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A Supreme Court decision casts a shadow over the prosecution of political corruption in Utah. BY STEPHEN DARK sdark@cityweekly.net @stephenpdark

tah legislators like to look down their noses at federal mandates, but if any politician on Capitol Hill was concerned that taking gifts in exchange for arranging meetings or sending emails might result in a corruption probe, a new ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States will put their mind to rest. Thanks to the High Court’s ruling, your legislator can now take as much money as he or she wants from interested parties—they just can’t then sign legislation or commit funding, or other overtly explicit political acts, that directly benefits the giver. While the Supreme Court’s decision has been compared by some legal observers to the Citizen United ruling that determined corporations and unions could spend as much as they want on convincing people who to vote for, as long as they didn’t give directly to condidates, for Utah’s citizenry the United States v. Robert McDonnell has a far more visceral implication for the state’s highest profile corruption scandal. “It’s a legal game changer for alleged bribery and gift counts,” says Scott Williams, criminal defense lawyer. And no more so than for his client, former Attorney General John Swallow and the man who was his predecessor in the position of Utah’s “top cop,” Mark Shurtleff. For those who have been impatiently waiting for the former attorney generals to have their day in court and answer multiple charges of political corruption, the McDonnell ruling looms large. So much so that Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings, whose office is prosecuting Shurtleff, expresses concern that it may have “a significant impact” on his case, and could lead to dismissals of at least some of the counts. “It very well may alter the trajectory of that case as we consider the facts and evidence in light of the new legal standard announced by the Supreme Court,” he says. The Supreme Court decision overturned the 2014 conviction of the former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell and his wife for taking bribes from Virginia businessman Jonnie Williams. Williams was keen to get their help with securing federal approval of a nutritional supplement his company had developed. To do

SCOTUS ruling opens the door to paying for access to politicians. that, Williams needed Virginia’s public universities to undertake studies—a hurdle that federal prosecutors said the governer was helping with. The unanimous decision, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, details how McDonnell and his wife received gifts and loans totaling $175,000, which included designer clothes and Rolexes, along with the use of Williams’ plane and vacation home. Federal prosecutors alleged that McDonnell had committed “official acts” in the form of phone calls, emails, arranging meetings with government officials and hosting events to support Williams’ business agenda. When McDonnell’s attorneys took his bribery conviction to the Supreme Court, the eight justices agreed that the definition of “official acts” was unconstitutional because it was too wide, and narrowed it down to the point where, Roberts wrote, “setting up a meeting, calling another public official, or hosting an event does not, standing alone, qualify as an ‘official act.’” The Utah bribery statute is very similar to the federal one McDonnell was prosecuted under, and indeed, is perhaps even vaguer in its definition of “official acts,” according to attorney Williams, than the prior federal statute. While the new standard applies to federal court, Rawlings says it undoubtedly impacts his state case. He now has to assess whether the evidence his office has against the former AG, while prosecutable under Utah’s statute against accepting gifts—until now used largely against low-level, low-profile city bureaucrats—will be overturned on appeal because of the federal ruling. He doesn’t want to waste taxpayers’ money, he says, on a prosecution that can’t meet the standards set by the Supreme Court. For Shurtleff, the McDonnell decision must have seemed bittersweet, given that only three days before it was published, his attorney filed a 400-page motion to

dismiss all counts against him, arguing that investigators had failed to produce all the evidence they had which might help Shurtleff defend himself. The Supreme Court’s decision has opened the door for Rawlings himself to dismiss at least some of the charges. Shurtleff’s attorney, Rick Van Wagoner, declined to comment on the McDonnell decision, given his client’s case was still pending. While only three of the current seven charges Shurtleff faces relate to the Utah statute against politicians receiving gifts, all seven charges, Rawlings says, relate to “a similar type of generalized theme or conduct, which is improperly using the power of the AG’s office in a way that benefits others.” While noting that Shurtleff is presumed innocent and may in fact be innocent, Rawlings stated “in essence, while it may be called different names, the allegations all tend to get to the same conduct of public corruption.” That’s what has been facing Swallow, too. “The central theme of the attack on John Swallow has always been the allegation of quid pro quo while he was in office,” Williams says. “I think it’s patently inaccurate, but the extent that these themes in McDonnell resonates with that, then it’s an important case to keep in mind.” Williams says that as far as his client is concerned, the decision impacts five or possibly six counts. Asked about the likelihood that he would have to dismiss the charges against Shurtleff, Rawlings says that it would depend on his office’s review of the evidence and facts in light of the decision. “If we feel we can’t prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt, then the likelihood of dismissal is 100 percent. If, after reviewing the evidence, we feel we can still prove the case legitimately, we will move forward on whatever charges we feel ethically and appropriately survive the analysis of the decision.”

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, however, takes a markedly distinct position from his fellow prosecutor. While noting he cannot discuss the Swallow case in light of McDonnell, he highlights how the decision relates to federal prosecutions and jury instructions. He is cautious, to say the least, as to the possible implications the decision has for prosecuting political corruption. “To say that because of this decision the door is shut on holding official misconduct accountable, I’d say was premature. And to say it shuts the door on future prosecutions and investigations of such misconduct is an overreach.” Whether or not the Supreme Court decision ultimately results in the former AGs walking away from their cases as free men, the larger question of how the ruling will impact political culture across the United States will linger long after the fate of the two men has been decided. Minority leader Rep. Brian S. King (D-Salt Lake City) is an attorney and fears that prosecutors already concerned by problems of evidence and politics will now be even more deterred by the ruling to pursue elected officials for bribery or political corruption. Gov. Gary Herbert’s recent comments to lobbyists of being ready to meet with any lobbyist willing to cut his campaign a check, “reinforces the perception that getting access to elected officials is tied to what kind of political contributions a person or group is willing to make,” King writes in an email. The McDonnell ruling, he continues, makes it clear that a candidate cannot be prosecuted if he or she seeks a campaign contribution in exchange for access. After all, McDonnell was prosecuted, Williams says, in essence, for what politicians do every day, namely “put people in touch with people. In his testimony, the things he was being said to have done he did a thousand times a day.” CW

Venerable downtown eatery closes its doors after 35 years. BY ANDREA HARVEY aharvey@cityweekly.net @andrearharvey

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nder the watchful gaze coming from a portrait of the late founder Chris Priskos, downtown’s Royal Eatery shut its doors on Saturday, June 2. Situated on the corner of 400 South and Main Street, the diner buzzed with laughter and familiar faces just as it had for 35 years, as sizzling burgers were flipped on large metal grills behind the counter. Save for a remodel in 1990 when the rooms at the above New Grand Hotel were converted to apartments, the place hasn’t changed much since its opening, which has lent a hand to its success and popularity among locals and tourists alike. But a sign above the menu served as a reminder of the end of an era: “The Royal Eatery is proud to announce that we will be merging with the Apollo Burger restaurants. Our last business day will be July 2nd before we close for remodel. From our family to yours, thank you for all the wonderful years and we will see you again when we return as Apollo Burger.” The diner was a family affair in every sense of the word. Chris and his family immigrated to the U.S. from Greece in 1966. He and his brother started the business in 1981. Chris’ brother moved to California soon after, however, leaving it to Chris and his wife, Tula. After working there nearly full-time since he was 12, their son Deno bought the business from his father in 1998. He’s been a daily presence there ever since, which ultimately led to his decision to close. Deno’s last day was business as usual. He woke up at 4:45 a.m., and arrived around 5:30 to prep and fire up the grills for the locale’s 6 a.m. opening. Longtime customers filled the tables, ordered their usuals and hung back for a while to bid their goodbyes. The overwhelming reaction has been “disappointment, but also understanding why we’re doing it,” Deno says. “A lot of them are OK with it, they’re just sad to see me not be here every day.” Sitting at a front table long after finishing their meals, regulars Taylor Defa and Kayla Maioriello spoke to that. “It’s one of the only small-town-diner-feeling places that is left,” Defa says. Maioriello agrees, adding that it reminds her of her home back in Maine. “I’m proud of their accomplishments and I’m proud of where they’re going, but it’s almost like you’re losing a family.” Jason Mathis, executive director of the Downtown Alliance, echoes the loss. “It’s one of those places Deno Priskos mans Royal Eatery’s grill prior to the that helps make SLC unique,” he

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says. “Obviously, we’re sad about the closing. It’s been a great institution for years.” On Saturday, the Priskos clan, including aunts, uncles, cousins, grandchildren and more, filled the back quarter of the restaurant for several hours, ordering one of everything, taking photos, laughing and reminiscing on memories of the many birthday parties and Christmas gatherings held there. “I’m sad,” Vivian McCarthy, Deno’s brother’s mother in-law, says. “I’m very, very sad because this is like the end of the Royal legacy.” Lucas, Deno’s son and an employee, agrees. “Grandpa started it, and it’s kind of like the biggest part of him that was still around,” he says, “But it’s good that he gets to move on to something else finally.” The reason for closing is “to get me out of the trenches,” Deno says with a laugh. “It’s time to do something different and have some weekends and enjoy myself a little bit.” He’ll be taking a much-needed vacation in Alaska for a few weeks before the reopening, which is expected early September. Though the menu will soon sport the Apollo Burger logo, Royal Eatery’s loyal patrons can take comfort in the fact that the food won’t change much. “About 95 percent of our items are almost the same, so there’s not a big difference there,” Deno says. The Apollo Burger, for example, is a near-replica of the Royal Burger—both topped with pastrami and both under $6. Additionally, a few of the staff members will continue working there, including Deno on occasion. “I’ll be dropping in, but I won’t be at one location,” he says, “I’ll be helping them with all [13] locations. … working on growth and operations, whatever needs to be done.” To longtime customers, Deno extends “a big thank you,” and hopes to see them again from time to time in the new restaurant. “It’s sad, but, you know, just a new chapter in life,” he says. “I think we’ve made [my father] very proud with what we’ve accomplished.” CW

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Longtime Recurring Theme Peaks In May, an apparently devout woman named Katy Vasquez of Winter Park, Fla., posted a sincerely written entry on Facebook (and told Huffington Post in an interview) that she had just seen a “sign from God”—a cross—as a smudge in her infant’s soiled diaper. “I prayed to God for a sign that everything would be OK,” she gushed to the reporter. “It might not be the prettiest sign, but he put it where he knew I’d see it.” (Hence, News of the Weird retires the recurring theme begun in the 1980s with Jesus in a rust stain on an abandoned refrigerator.)

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n Six months ago, Lisa Alamia of Rosenberg, Texas, awoke from surgery inexplicably speaking in a British accent (particularly confusing her family and friends since she previously spoke not so much “English” as “Texan”). Medical experts cited by CBS News reported that fewer than 100 people worldwide have ever been diagnosed with foreign-accent syndrome.

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Fine Points of the Law To their great surprise, Sophie Scafidi and friends, on an outing in Hampton Beach, N.H., in June, learned that a man spying on and photographing them through a camera lens hidden in a Gatorade bottle painted black was not violating any law. Although the lens was rigged to the man’s phone, which contained beach photos, including some of children, police informed Scafidi that even surreptitious photography in sleazy circumstances, as long as done on public property, was legal—and that the only law broken in the incident was by the person who snatched the “camera” to show police. n A court in Canberra, Australia, found Wesley King not guilty of a 2014 burglary despite his DNA’s having been found at the crime scene—on underpants containing his fresh feces. Wrote Chief Justice Helen Murrell in June: There is a “reasonable possibility” that the burglar was someone else who was wearing unwashed underwear that had previously been worn by the accused. (Thus, she found King not guilty of all charges.) n In June, a federal appeals court revived Adrian King’s lawsuit against the Huttonsville Correctional Center in West Virginia for emotional distress and invasion of privacy in forcing him into surgery to remove the marbles he had implanted in his penis before going behind bars in 2008. King did not allege that he misses the marbles but only that he had chosen body-modification and that the surgery was against his will, causing pain upon touch (or whenever it gets cold, or rains or snows). Prison officials initially ordered the surgery because it was unclear that the objects were not contraband.

Weird Science Medical Daily, in a May review of recent cases, noted progress in dealing with Cotard’s syndrome—a disorder that leads patients to believe they have no blood or vital body parts—or feeling as if they are dead (or may as well be). Studies show one in about 200 psychiatric patients exhibit the symptoms, and one doctor, describing a brain scan of his patient, said brain activity resembled that of a person in a coma or under anesthesia. Cotard’s, also known as walking corpse syndrome, leads patients to thus avoid eating or bathing (asking themselves, why bother?). Awwwww The Sacramento Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals put out a call for help in April after stray kittens were found dumped in a yard, with only two still alive but nearly blind with eye infections and needing animal blood for a serum that might save the eyes. The call was “answered” by the rescue dog Jemmie. After Jemmie’s blood “donation” (not a transfusion, since the blood went only to make the serum), vets reported saving one eye of one of the kittens, earning Jemmie a “special” reward. Said vet Sarah Varanini, “There’s nothing in life [Jemmie] likes more than kittens.” Recurring Themes Even though extraordinarily rare, two people recently reported foreign-accent syndrome after their brain traumas apparently caused crossing of cranial “wires.” 1. “J.C.,” 50, was described in the journal Cortex as an energetic Italian who, after a brain injury, inexplicably speaks constantly in “emphatic, errorprone French.”

Redneck Chronicles At the monthly pro wrestling show in Ringgold, Ga., in June, Patricia Crowe, 59, apparently having had enough of “bad guy” Paul Lee, reportedly jumped into the ring to rescue “good guy” Iron Mann, whom Lee had “tied up” and been beating with a chair. First, she cut Mann loose with her knife and then pulled a loaded handgun on Lee (and was eventually arrested by sheriff’s deputies). Crowe admitted that Lee’s earlier “mean” banter with ringside patrons had unnerved her, especially when he told Crowe to sit her “toothless self back down.” Compelling Explanations A former Malaysian legislator (Mr. S. Manikavasagam), who was charged in June with taking a bribe worth about $7,300 from a contractor, claimed innocence—that somehow a package of money was thrown into his car as he drove down a city street. n A woman in Goldsboro, N.C., acquired a freezer from her neighbor several months ago but said she hadn’t looked inside until May, when she discovered parts of a dead body (and called authorities). She said the neighbor had discouraged her from opening the freezer because “a church” was using it as a “time capsule.”

Government in Action The Illinois secretary of state stopped mailing reminders about license-plate renewal deadlines in October because his office said the state could no longer afford the $450,000-a-month mailing cost (thus saving taxpayers $3.6 million so far). The Belleville News-Democrat (Illinois) and the Associated Press reported in June that the state has collected (not surprisingly!) $5.24 million more in the resultant “late fees” people had to pay on their license-plate renewals than it had collected the year before the reminders stopped. (A proposal for a 30-day grace period for expired plates failed in the just-concluded legislative session.) Drugs—Is There Anything They Can’t Do? University of Georgia student Benjamin Abele, 22, was finally subdued by four police officers on May 29 after he had run naked down an Athens street and leaped into the gooey, malodorous back end of a garbage truck, wallowing in the slimy liquid that pools under the gunk (hindering arrest), and then attempting to burrow further into the filthiness to somehow “escape.” Two Taser shots had no effect, and he was identified as high on PCP. Meanwhile, Overseas Voters in June in the village of Draguseni, Romania, elected Vasile Cepoi mayor—no, not the Vasile Cepoi who lost, or the other Vasile Cepoi who lost. The winner was the incumbent mayor, Vasile Cepoi. (There was also a fourth candidate, who was not named Vasile Cepoi.) n In June, an “artificial intelligence” robot (“IR77”) being taught to “avoid obstacles” while moving around the Promobot lab in Perm, Russia, apparently “learned” how to walk out the door undetected, causing a downtown traffic jam when its batteries died. Handlers modified the computer script, but IR77 “escaped” again several days later, and engineers said they may have to dismantle the program and start over.

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a signature of either the chair or vice chair of the Unified Fire Service Area Board—a position that rotates among elected officials whose jurisdictions utilize fire services through the UFA. By only having to secure a single signature to receive the extra money, the incentives had, until August 2015, gone unnoticed by several UFA board members, including the mayors of Cottonwood Heights and Holladay. Revelation of the incentives has created a ripple effect of changes in how top UFA brass may collect any additional pay, and has also led some UFA board members to question how their fire chief, who oversees a firefighting operation of 683 employees, had time to work a $34,000 job on the side in 2015. Firefighters and the union that represents them say the extra pay also has eroded employee morale. “I feel that the fire chief and the assistant fire chief’s sole responsibility is management of UFA and there shouldn’t be any side deals that allow them to receive extra pay,” says Holladay Mayor Robert Dahle. “It basically is an indication that [the UFA chief] is a part-time job; you’ve got time to go do this other stuff and get paid seperately. We don’t see it that way.” The incentives, which in 2015 totaled $136,000 between the four UFA officials, are the symptom of

hey began as a trickle, $1,000 here and $1,000 there, for extra work that the bosses insisted they deserved extra pay for. But with each passing year, the numbers grew from a few thousand bucks in 2011 to more than $30,000 in 2015. It could be called a bonus, but in governmental parlance, and according to the top officials at the Unified Fire Authority who, combined, have received $411,500 in extra pay over the past five years, it’s called an “incentive.” In 2015, Michael Jensen, chief of the Unified Fire Authority (UFA), which provides fire protection services to the unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County and also contracts with several townships and cities, received $34,000 in incentive pay—a big pad to the $260,488 in total compensation he already received to be the chief. Along with Jensen, UFA Deputy Chief Gaylord Scott also received a $34,000 check; so, too, did Karl Hendrickson, UFA’s legal counsel. Shirley Perkins, the former chief financial officer at UFA, also received $34,000. Since 2011, all four of these individuals raked in more than $100,000 apiece in incentives. And according to documents obtained from UFA through an open-records request, all four of these officials used identical reasons to justify the additional pay, which each of them has been receiving in varying amounts since 2007. On the bottom of each payment sheet is the signature of Jensen, and in the case of his incentive payments,

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a complicated government structure that involves multiple cities, townships and Salt Lake County. All of these jurisdictions buy into the UFA for fire and other emergency services, but a key distinction lies in how each entity pays the bills. While the cities of Cottonwood Heights, Holladay, Draper and Alta are members of the UFA and are billed each year, Eagle Mountain, Herriman, Midvale, Riverton, Taylorsville and all other unincorporated pockets of Salt Lake County comprise what’s known as the Unified Fire Service Area (UFSA). Members of the UFSA pay for fire services through property tax levies. For all intents and purposes, there is no distinction between the various towns: They are all members of the UFA, and receive UFA-quality emergency services. But Jensen says critical differences have emerged between the management of the UFA versus the UFSA, which have warranted the incentive pay for he and his colleagues. Not only has Jensen and other UFA officials earned their keep, Jensen says, his services are a bargain. Just over a decade ago, Jensen says, the county handled the management of the UFSA and, in the final year of this arrangement, billed the UFSA more than $565,000 in administrative fees. For years now, Jensen says the UFSA board has benefited from his expertise as fire chief, and has saved money by employing he and Scott as the primary managers of the UFSA. “The amount of money the district would pay by going to hire their own outside people, they would pay a lot more money than what they’ve done by doing the incentive route,” Jensen says. “And they get the subject matter experts who understand and know fire and firerelated issues.”

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A Growing Baby

Over the past decade, the UFSA has steadily grown, adding Riverton, Herriman, Midvale and Taylorsville to its rolls. While Holladay, Cottonwood Heights, Alta and Draper own their own fire stations and have city staff to perform management functions, Jensen says he, Scott, lawyer Hendrickson and the current UFA CFO Tony Hill, must carry out management of the UFSA. These jobs, Jensen says, include lobbying the Legislature on behalf of the UFSA, securing bonds to build new stations and buy land, overseeing the construction of these stations and performing myriad tasks associated with taxes. “What the district board has said is, ‘We want you guys to do those [jobs],’” Jensen says. “I don’t do those, though, for the other four members.” But on paper, those other four UFA members don’t appear too much different than the UFSA, which, although it is comprised of its own list of entities, is a member of the UFA. Dahle and Cottonwood Heights Mayor Kelvyn Cullimore say that if the UFA chief’s job is being consumed by tasks specific to the UFSA, and Jensen has worked out a way to be paid for this work on top of what he’s already being given as chief, it is a violation of his employment contract, which specifies that the chief must disclose any other work-related contracts outside of his job as chief. Indeed, on Dec. 15, 2015, Cullimore says an outside legal opinion was given to the board, saying that the undisclosed work, and payments, being conducted by Jensen and Scott on behalf of the UFSA violated their employment contracts.

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Jensen says he sought legal advice from the UFA’s former lawyer in 2007, when he was deputy chief, about whether he needed to disclose the payments that were then only a couple of thousand dollars from the UFSA. The answer, he says, was no. “I’ll just say I followed the advice of my attorney, UFA’s attorney, at the time,” Jensen says. Current UFA legal counsel, Hendrickson, who is also legal counsel for UFSA, did not respond to requests for comment. In December, the board voted on a resolution which stated, in effect, that although Jensen and Scott had violated their employment contract, the violation did not warrant any disciplinary action. The vote was 10-3, with Cullimore, Dahle and Taylorsville mayor Larry Johnson dissenting. “Under the contracts, they can’t be paid more than what the contract says without the approval of the board or the compensation committee,” Cullimore says. “Either they were overpaid under the contract, which they claim was not the case, or they were paid for doing jobs for another entity which also violated the contract.” Cullimore and Dahle say that as they’ve learned more about the incentive payment program, they have wondered how overseeing fire station construction and maintenance, planning, organizing and auditing the budget and lobbying the Legislature on matters like Medicaid and fire codes for the UFSA is above and beyond the job description of the fire chief. “UFA is the umbrella organization,” Dahle says. “UFSA is a piece of UFA. It’s managed under the umbrella of UFA just like Cottonwood Heights. It’s just assumed that part of your management responsibility is oversight over all of your agencies.”

“Either they were overpaid under the contract, which they claim was not the case, or they were paid for doing jobs for another entity which also violated the contract.” —Cottonwood Heights Mayor Kelvyn Cullimore

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MICHAEL JENSEN: 2011: $4,000 2012: $16,000 2013: $19,000 2014: $28,000 2015: $34,000 TOTAL: $101,000

KARL HENDRICKSON 2011: $3,500 2012: $21,000 2013: $19,000 2014: $28,000 2015: $34,000 TOTAL: $102,500

GAYLORD SCOTT 2011: $4,500 2012: $17,000 2013: $19,000 2014: $28,000 2015: $34,000 TOTAL: $105,500

SHIRLEY PERKINS 2011: $4,500 2012: $17,000 2013: $19,000 2014: $28,000 2015: $34,000 TOTAL: $102,500

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Dahle caught wind of the incentive payments in August 2015. The more he asked about them, the less he discovered, since he says no UFA board members knew they were taking place. The incentive structure, Jensen says, was put into place in 2004 to compensate UFA’s CFO and legal counsel for work they had done on behalf of UFSA. Part of this arrangement required approval by the chair, or vice chair, of the UFSA board. In any given year, as the incentive packages spiraled upward, knowledge of it eluded even Cullimore, who had long been chair of the UFA’s finance committee. What began as a creative way to deliver pay to those who were being asked to perform additional work as the UFSA grew, morphed into a lucrative bonus package for the chief and the deputy chief. And even as more than $400,000 in incentive pay has flowed to UFA’s topfour employees over the past five years alone, few knew what was taking place. This is what prompted Dahle, in August, to notify the rest of the board. “I get where it all started, but the problem is the way it has escalated over time and the fact that the board was not fully aware that these incentive programs were in place and how much they were,” he says. After the board discovered the incentive program, a freeze was placed on payments. Then, in December, Dahle and Cullimore established what they’d suspected: that the bonuses violated the chief and deputy chief’s employment contracts. Cullimore also put a motion before the board that proposed to sever managerial ties between UFA and UFSA to avoid conflicts of interest. The effort failed on a 2-10 vote. But the board did end up voting to study the managerial nexus between UFA and UFSA. The board’s solution to the incentive payments and management questions arrived during the March 2016 board meeting in the form of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), which outlines the details “for the

sharing of services and resources between the UFA and the Service Area to assist the Service Area in the management of its operations.” The MOU clearly establishes what has long been taking place: Jensen and deputy chief Scott are allowed to perform managerial duties for the UFSA in addition to their positions as chiefs at the UFA. Cullimore and Dahle both objected in the open meeting to the MOU, saying that it did little to address their concerns that the chief was working out “side deals,” as Dahle described them, on top of his UFA salary. “I want a clear line of responsibility from the top down,” Dahle says in the March meeting. “I don’t want all these side-ways that we have to manage things that we have to figure out after the fact. That’s my problem.” Jensen, who, since 2000, has been a member of the Salt Lake County Council and receives $51,000 in total compensation from that position, acknowledges that the MOU was necessary in order to “draw a bright line” showing that the UFA and the UFSA are “two distinct organizations.” The MOU also states that future incentive payments be approved by the UFSA board, which adds a wrinkle to the single signature that was required before. Current UFSA board chair JoAnn Seghini, whose signature appears at the bottom of the most recent incentive payments to Jensen and Scott, says that while some clarification about the payments was needed, they are appropriate. “It’s much better controlled than it was,” Seghini says of the incentive program under the new MOU. Seghini says it was important to initiate the MOU and preserve Jensen and Scott’s ability to manage, and be compensated for managing, the UFSA. “It’s not only a better deal, but it’s easier for us to defend when you call, when other communities want to know why, and when we look at the services we’re getting that are specific to our needs as we grow,” she says. In additional to full board approval, Seghini says the chief will now have to submit the number of hours he works on tasks for the UFSA, which she says is growing while some areas of the UFA are not. While board members and Jensen attempt to decouple the UFA and UFSA into two distinct organizations when it comes to incentive pay, UFA firefighters do not have the same luxury. They are not paid extra for going on

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calls in UFSA areas; the UFSA, like Holladay and Cottonwood Heights, are members of the UFA, period. “It’s seamless,” says one firefighter who, citing fear of reprisals from upper management, was granted anonymity. “We’ll work at one station that’s in a UFA contract city and it could be in the same shift, we could go cover an area that’s in the [UFSA]. That’s one organization and that’s how it’s established. There’s no increased work. That’s a smokescreen. It’s the same job, there’s no different anything.” As Seghini explains the UFSA incentive payments, she touches upon a nerve that, Dahle says, has the potential to end up splintering the UFA. Members of the UFSA, she says, pay more for fire services, and according to Jensen, UFSA members receive better service as a result of that money. From a pure economic standpoint, Seghini says UFSA is saving money by having Jensen and Scott get the job done. According to Jensen, the UFSA’s tax base accounts for more than 80 percent of the UFA budget, and 22 of the 28 fire stations are within UFSA boundaries. And it is within the UFSA areas where future growth is the brightest. To this end, Jensen says that a few years ago, he built seven new stations and bought property for five more. And he says he pores over community master plans to plot locations for future stations. “The actuality is that it requires those of us who need more right now to pay a little bit more so we can have the things that we need,” Seghini says, noting that to simply raise Jensen’s UFA salary wouldn’t be fair to the communities that aren’t growing as rapidly. Dahle and Cullimore, though, aren’t impressed by any of this. If the UFA chief doesn’t have enough money, he should ask for more during the public budgeting process. And if the chief and deputy chief—bona fide full-time positions— have time to perform extra work on the side for the UFSA, which, in the context of incentive pay, seems to distance itself from

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The incentive payments have roiled more than just Dahle and Cullimore. According to a half-dozen firefighters City Weekly interviewed, morale at the fire department has suffered as revelation of the incentives, and their secretive nature, surfaced. Jeremy Robertson, president of the IAFF Local 1696 union, which represents 90 percent of UFA firefighters, says the union has not been involved in any contracts between the UFA board and Jensen and Scott. “The issue of incentive awards compensation is a contentious topic that has eroded morale among firefighters of Unified Fire Authority,” Robertson wrote in a prepared

laundry, in house. Like Dahle and Cullimore, these firefighters, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals, question the validity of Jensen’s justification for the raises. While Jensen insists he and his top lieutenants are doing robust work for the UFSA, some see it as little more than the chief doing his job. For example, it’s not as though when Jensen asked for $5,000 a piece for himself, Scott, Hendrickson and Perkins for a land purchase in Taylorsville, and construction and maintenance of the new station, that any of them were installing the plumbing and ensuring that the roof wasn’t leaking. “I can just tell you that perception is reality in the fire service and the perception is that they’re getting paid to do things that is an assumed responsibility by the rank and file,” one firefighter says. “And then when you try to hide it, and I’ll be blunt, they tried to hide it and it got out, that just makes it even smell worse.” Jensen points out that he has the support of his board. With the exception of Dahle and Cullimore, the board has voted against reprimanding the chief for violating his UFA employment contract and, through the MOU, has carved out a path to continue receiving incentive payments. The board, Jensen also says, voted favorably—10-2—to allow him to seek his fifth four-year term on the county council—a job that has, in previous years, drawn fire from some of his Democratic opponents who say that Jensen’s elected role and firefighting job runs afoul of the Hatch Act, which prevents individuals who manage federal funds from serving in elected office at the same time. These attempts to swat Jensen down have been unsuccessful. But Jensen’s many hats, and his lucrative compensation, makes Dahle wonder if his full-time fire chief is actually doing the work of a full-time fire chief. “When you say that you’re doing all of this separate work and you should be paid extra, who’s watching the shop then while you’re doing all of this extra work?” CW

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statement. “The Chief and Deputy Chief have separate contracts from our rank-and-file firefighters.” Dahle, too, says that revelation of the incentive bonuses has been tough on rank-and-file firefighters, who, he says, would have foregone a 1-percent longevity bonus in 2015 if not for the discovery of the chief’s incentive package. As chair of the compensation and benefits committee, Dahle recalls that the longevity bonus, given to UFA firefighters who have been with the department for more than 12 years and who have topped out on their respective pay scales, was denied in 2015 for lack of funds. But then Dahle found out that UFA’s four highestranking employees were set to give themselves a bonus of about the same amount that would have covered the entirety of the longevity bonuses. “It’s very hard on morale in organizations like this when you tell them you can’t afford to pay a longevity this year because we don’t have the money in the budget, but we can afford almost the exact same amount in an incentive package to the top four individuals in your organization,” Dahle says. “That’s just not right.” As a result of the incentives to the chief and top staff, Dahle says the topic of longevity bonuses was reopened and they were ultimately granted. Jensen says that the incentive pay he receives through UFSA is based on work that he actually performed, as opposed to a bonus. As a result, he says any animosity surrounding the lack of longevity bonuses in the face of his $34,000 incentive is “a matter of perspective. It’s a matter of education.” As for crumbling morale at the fire department, Jensen says his firefighters are known to be opinionated, and that he’s not surprised he’s not loved by everyone. “I get it, there’s different perspectives. Some people are going to like me, some people aren’t going to like me,” Jensen says. “There are people who will stand by you no matter what, there are people who will be negative no matter the reason. I think I do a good job. Look at the UFA’s success. I would like to think I’ve had at least a small part in that growth and success over the years.” Multiple firefighters that City Weekly spoke with said that speaking out against abuses in their own department was a decision they arrived at with reluctance. Firefighters, they say, are extremely loyal and are known for handling conflict, and keeping dirty

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the other members of the UFA, then maybe these are just part-time jobs and should be compensated as such. “Every minute he spends doing work for UFSA is not time he’s spending doing work for UFA, and yet we’re paying him to work full-time for UFA,” Cullimore says. “I find it interesting that he can justify a full-time salary as fire chief, a salary for UFSA and a salary for county council.” Dahle says that as members of the UFSA grow in numbers on the board, it is hard to ignore the fact that the voices of non-UFSA communities become diminished. As this occurs, Dahle says it’s not unreasonable to consider the possibility of breaking with the UFA and going it alone on fire services. “Will members want to consider options to go out on their own because they feel like they’ve lost their voice in the process and they’re really not participating on an equal level to the UFSA?” Dahle asks. “I think that is a valid argument and a valid point to make.” As for the MOU, Dahle says that it does little more than cover some messy tracks that, once revealed to the public, didn’t pass the “smell test.” “They basically took something that was really stinky and basically made it legal through the MOU,” he says.

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THURSDAY 7.7

It’s another new season of amazing theater in Southern Utah, but this one has more of a spark of the new than many others. For 2016, the Utah Shakespeare Festival christens its brand-new home, the $35-million Beverly Taylor Sorensen Center for the Arts. The familiar outdoor venue of the Adams Theatre now gives way to the Englestad Shakespeare Theatre, in a location that will also house production facilities and Southern Utah University’s Museum of Art. You can join in the gala debut of the new venue this grand opening weekend, kicking off at 10 a.m. on July 7. Enjoy live performances, food, tours of the facility, music and more as Utah Shakespeare begins the next phase of its amazing 50-plus-year history. The facilities, of course, are only as exciting as the productions you’ll see there. The 2016 Utah Shakespeare season again features a mix of the Bard’s timeless stories and beloved Broadway favorites. The Shakespeare plays include the romantic comedy of Much Ado About Nothing, the history of young Prince Hal coming into his own power in Henry V (pictured), and the Roman tragedy of Julius Caesar; they’re joined by a production of The Three Musketeers in the Englestad Theatre. Meanwhile, the Randall L. Jones Theatre hosts the farcical comedy of The Marx Brothers in The Cocoanuts, along with the popular Cameron Mackintosh staging of Disney’s Mary Poppins. You’ll want to be part of the fun. (Scott Renshaw) Utah Shakespeare Festival @ Beverly Taylor Sorensen Center for the Arts, 195 W. Center St., Cedar City, 800-752-9849, June 27-Sept. 10, see website for individual production dates and times, $20-$73. Bard.org

There’s nothing more glorious than a magician who knows he’s great, yet acts like everything he’s doing is a total blow-off. Penn & Teller and The Amazing Johnathan have perfected the art of the smartass magician who can amaze you while acting like it’s no big deal, and the latest student of the game is Piff the Magic Dragon. The London-born comedian started out as one of the youngest performers to join Britain’s The Magic Circle, and after a few years honing his craft on stage, he created the Dragon persona— performing on stage in a trademark green dragon costume—in 2008. His two big moments of acclaim came in America when he first impressed Penn & Teller on their show Fool Us in 2011, and then in 2015 as he practically stole the show on America’s Got Talent, making it to the final round before being eliminated. Since then, he’s been touring North America and the U.K. in his familiar attire, selling out shows at Radio City Music Hall, the O2 Arena and the Sydney Opera House, as well as being a regular performer at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. Along with his sidekick Mr. Piffles (a chihuahua in a tiny dragon outfit), Piff shows off his sleight-of-hand with cards and objects taken from the audience, all with quick-witted comedy splashed throughout his show. He’ll be in SLC for four days, performing two shows a night, with a single performance on June 10 before he flies away to another magical gig. (Gavin Sheehan) Piff The Magic Dragon @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, July 7-10, 7 & 9:30 p.m., 21+, $25. PiffTheMagicDragon.com, WiseguysComedy.com

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FRIDAY 7.8

Bboy Federation: They Reminisce The Bboy Federation has done an amazing job at bringing old-school street dance to the forefront of local culture. Since their incarnation seven years ago, the group has been featured at dozens of local events (you may have seen them ruling The Round stage at Utah Arts Fest in June), held competitions across the state, created a league of performers and hosted their own showcases. One of their biggest annual performances, They Reminisce, commands the Rose Wagner for two days with some of SLC’s most impressive dancers. They Reminisce is a history lesson and a megaperformance compilation wrapped into one evening. The show takes audiences on an exploration of hip-hop from its roots until today, exploring every aspect of the genre and its dance so that you have a better idea of where the culture came from and how it has evolved. Everyone who participates in the show takes on multiple disciplines from multiple decades, providing as accurate a historical depiction as they can without throwing in any modern adaptations. This year, the Federation changes the story but keeps the spirit, telling the journey of a dance crew through a 20-year period during the ‘80s and ‘90s. The story helps the audience experience a golden age of hip hop, the media’s near abandonment of the medium except its music, and the underground resurgence and revitalization, showing off the shifts in fashion and musical trends that happened along the way. It’s definitely a must-attend for those who want to learn more, or simply love hip hop as a genre. (GS) They Reminisce 2016 @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, July 8-9, 7:30 p.m., $22. BboyFed.com

FRIDAY 7.8 Aerialympics

The ability to transform the body, something we experience every day on an entirely routine basis, into a medium of art is a spectacular thing. Taking that one step further, and moving the performance to the heights, only adds to the spectacle. On July 8 and 9 in the Wagner Black Box Theatre, the third annual Aerialympics promises to accomplish both. More than 70 competitors of varying skill and experience levels will be performing their routines—making use of poles and aerial silks, hammocks and hoops, among others—to showcase their above-the-ground talents. The competition is the largest of its kind in the Mountain West, and nothing can rival it anywhere else in Utah. Friday night, since it marks the beginning of the competition, is priced the highest at $30 per person. Luckily, as long as you’re willing to wake up a little earlier than you might normally on a Saturday, tickets to the 10 a.m. July 9 performances cost only $16.50 per person, almost half the Friday price. Since competitors come from various backgrounds and skill levels, there should be enough entertainment for everyone to stay engaged. Plus, the aerial component of circuses is usually the best part anyway. With Aerialympics you can watch that segment for the entire duration without having to sit through any other typical circus acts. (Casey Koldewyn) Aerialympics @ Rose Wagner Black Box Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, July 8, 7 p.m.; July 9, 10 a.m., $16.50-$30. ArtSaltLake.org

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Jordanellle Reservoir offers a unique summer escape for cooling off. BY KATHERINE PIOLI comments@cityweekly.net

here’s only one logical thing to do when the daytime temperature is predicted to peak at 101 degrees: Find some water. I don’t mean a pool. That’s for moms with their babies in the shallow end, teenagers flirting in line at the snack window, old ladies doing aqua aerobics or mid-lifers doing laps. I mean, find a nice open body of water. Sure, you may think Utah has nothing to offer in that arena. Certainly there’s no way we can stack up to Idaho with its Potlatch, Clearwater, Salmon, Snake, Owyhee Payette and Wildhorse rivers. We don’t have the swimming holes of the southern states, or Vermont and New Hampshire. There’s no ocean, obviously, and the Great Salt Lake is, well, an acquired taste. But Utah does have water. You probably drive by it all the time. Around here, the best summer water is found in reservoirs. From Morgan to Fillmore to Vernal, reservoirs abound in this state. And while their primary purpose is to hold reserve water for residential use and irrigation, many have also been turned into State Parks (Jordanelle, East Canyon, Deer Creek, Palisades, Millsite, Red Fleet, Rockport, Starvation, Steinaker, Yuba) with recreational facilities like boat ramps, hiking trails and campgrounds. The Rock Cliff access point for Jordanelle Reservoir is only a 40-minute drive from Salt Lake City (a few miles before entering Heber City turn from U.S. 40 onto Utah 32 and travel 7.5 miles to the Rock Cliff Road). And, on a hot day, this section of the reservoir—with its lush river-bottom vegetation, cottonwood trees, grasses and reeds, fed by the ever-flowing waters of the Provo River—is an inviting sight.

A&E It took eight years to make the Jordanelle Reservoir. Construction on the dam lasted from 1987 until 1993, after which it still took more than two years for the reservoir to fill to capacity. The Jordanelle State Park opened on June 29, 1995. On a hot June day, Rock Cliff becomes my point of departure. In the 21 years since the park opened and the waters of the Provo took their new shape, this place has become a small transition area of wetland where the river meets the dammed lake. Situated in at the end of a narrow finger of water, it is a quiet, wakeless zone with little motorized water traffic. With my standup paddleboard floating at my side, I walk off the Rock Cliff boat ramp and wade waistdeep into the perfectly cool water. Setting off aboard my paddleboard, I point toward the wetland delta. I can make out a thick carpet of green algae a foot, maybe two feet, beneath the board. Periodically, denuded branches of submerged shrubs and tree limbs puncture the surface of the water. I approach the ripples where river meets reservoir as a blue heron rises lazily from its hiding place in the tall grass and makes a slow, low loop to land in a safer place farther away. Gaggles of Canada geese and their fuzzy grey young swim in and out of the reeds. Four vultures, their red heads baking in the sun, sit hunched on perches of dried wood. From the inlet, I turn west and follow the land, which changes quickly from river bottom wetland into steeply eroded walls of red sand and rock more characteristic of the rest of the shoreline and Rock Cliff’s obvious namesake. The waters quickly become inky black. At full capacity, the surface of the reservoir—according to the Utah Department of Water Quality—sits at 6,182 feet and covers 3,300 acres in area, storing a total of 360,500 acre-feet of water. Its average depth is 109 feet, and its deepest point reaches 292 feet below the surface. Somewhere, down on the bottom, rest the remains of two small towns, Hailstone and Keetley, inundated long ago by the rising waters. Sunken ghost towns are not the kind of thing I want to think about while out on the open water and, pushing the thought from my mind, I slip off the side of my board and tread water. This is decidedly the best place to be on a hot summer day. CW

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Arsenic and Old Lace Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 West Center St., Logan, 435-797-8022, through Aug. 5, varying days, 7:30 p.m., CCA.USU.edu Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 West Center St., Logan, 435797-8022, through Aug. 6, varying days and times, CCA.USU.edu The Cocoanuts Randall L. Jones Theatre, 351 W. Center St., Cedar City, 435-586-7878, through Aug. 26, varying days and times, Bard.org Footloose SCERA Outdoor Theater, 699 S. State, Orem, 801-225-2787, through July 16, varying days, 8 p.m., SCERA.org Greenshow Greenshow Stage, 195 W. Center St., Cedar City, 435-586-7878, through Sept. 10, Monday-Saturday, 7:10 p.m., Bard.org Hairspray Midvale Performing Arts Center, 695 Center St., Midvale, 801-294-1242, July 7-18, Monday & Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; additional 2 p.m. matinee July 9, SugarFactoryPlayhouse.com Hank Williams: Lost Highway Heritage Center Theatre, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, 435-2670194, July 11-Aug. 12, varying days and times, SimonFest.org Henry V Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre, 299 W. Center St., Cedar City, 435-586-7878, through Sept. 10, varying days, 8 p.m., Bard.org Mary Poppins Randall L. Jones Theatre, 351 Center St., Cedar City, 435-586-7878, through Aug. 23, varying days and times, Bard.org Much Ado About Nothing Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre, 299 W. Center St., Cedar City, 435-586-7878, through Sept. 8, Mondays & Thursdays, 8 p.m.; July 8, 8 p.m., Bard.org The Music Man Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787, July 8-Aug. 13, Mondays & Fridays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 & 7:30 p.m., TheZiegfeldTheater.com Neil Simon Festival Heritage Center Theatre, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, 435-267-0194, through Aug. 8, various days and times, SimonFest.org Neil Simon’s London Suite Heritage Center Theatre, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, 435-2670194, July 12-Aug. 12, varying days and times,

SimonFest.org On Golden Pond Heritage Center Theatre, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, 435-267-0194, July 13-Aug. 13, varying days and times, SimonFest.org Perfect Pitch Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, through Aug. 20, varying days and times Monday-Friday, DesertStar.biz Peter Pan Hale Center Theatre Orem, 225 W. 400 North, 801-226-8600, through Aug. 6, Monday-Saturday 7:30 P.M., Saturday matinee 3 p.m., HaleTheatre.org Peter Pan Utah Theatre, 18 W. Center St., Logan, 801-355-2787, through Aug. 4, varying days and times, ArtSaltLake.org Pirates of Penzance The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, through July 23, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m., TheOBT.org Porgy & Bess Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main St., Logan, 801-355-2787, July 7-Aug. 6, varying days and times, ArtSaltLake.org Puccini’s Trilogy Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan, 801-355-2787, through July 28, varying days, 7:30 p.m.; July 30 & Aug. 5, 1 p.m., ArtSaltLake.org Ragtime Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan, 801-355-2787, July 9-Aug. 6, varying days and times, ArtSaltLake.org Rock of Ages Egyptian Theatre, 328 S. Main, Park City, 435-649-9371, through July 24, Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m., EgyptianTheatreCompany.org Saturday’s Voyeur Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, through Aug. 28, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 & 6 p.m., SaltLakeActingCompany.org Show Boat Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main St., Logan, 801-355-2787, July 8-Aug. 5, varying days and times, ArtSaltLake.org Shrek the Musical Beverly’s Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Ogden, 801-3930070, through July 30, Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., TerracePlayhouse.com Singin’ in the Rain Caine Lyric Theatre, 28 W. Center St., Logan, through Aug. 6, varying days and times, CCA.USU.edu Tarzan Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant, 1075 N. Hill Field Road, Layton, 801-262-5083, July 13 & 20, 7:30 p.m., SaltyDinnerTheater.com The Three Musketeers Engelsted Shakespeare

Intermezzo Chamber Music Series: Concert II Vieve Gore Concert Hall, 1840 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City, July 11, 7:30 p.m., Eventbrite.com Murray Symphony Pops Murray Amphitheater, 495 E. 5300 South, Murray, 801-264-2614, July 9, 8 p.m., Murray.Utah.gov Utah Symphony: Handel’s Water Music St. Mary’s Church, 1505 White Pine Canyon Road, Park City, 801-355-2787, July 13, 8 p.m., ArtSaltLake.org Utah Symphony: Rock On! Hits from the ‘70s & ‘80s Deer Valley Resort Snow Park Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive, Park City, 801-355-2787, July 8, 7:30 p.m, ArtTix.ArtSaltLake.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Comedy Night feat. Aaron Orlovitz, Amerah Ames, Sam Poulter, Abigail Harrison, Tanner Nicholson, Natasha Mower Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court, Salt Lake City, 801-364-3538, Sunday, July 10, 7 p.m., $6, KilbyCourt.com The He & She Show Sandy Station, 8925 S. Harrison St., Sandy, July 8, 8:30 p.m., SandyStation.com Improv Broadway Brigham Larson Pianos, 1497 S. State, Orem, 909-260-2509, every Friday, 8 p.m., ImprovBroadway.com Improv Comedy Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 435-327-8273, every Saturday, 9:30 p.m., OgdenComedyLoft.com Laughing Stock Improv The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., LaughingStock.us Off the Wall Comedy Improv Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, 801-572-4144, every Saturday, 10:30 p.m., DraperTheatre.org Open Mic Night Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, every Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Piff the Magic Dragon Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, July 7, 7:30 p.m.; July 8-9, 7 & 9:30 p.m.; July 10, 7 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com (see p. 22) Pyramid Scheme Comedy Loft, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 435-327-8273, every second Saturday, 9:30 p.m., OgdenComedyLoft.com Quick Wits Improv Summer League Midvale Performing Arts Center, 695 W. Center St., Midvale, 801-824-0523, through July 30, Saturdays, 10 p.m., QWComedy.com Sasquatch Cowboy Comedy Loft, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 435-327-8273, July 9, 10 p.m., OgdenComedyLoft.com Shawn Paulsen feat. Live Hilarious Comedy Hypnosis Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., 801-622-5588, July 8-9, 8 p.m., $12, WiseguysComedy.com

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Eileen Hallet Stone Presents Historic Tales of Utah Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801328-2586, July 9, 7 p.m., WellerBookWorks.com Gerald Smith: Schooling the Prophet—How the Book of Mormon Influenced Joseph Smith and the Early Restoration The King’s English Book Shop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, July 9, 7 p.m., free, KingsEnglish.com Scott Graham: Yellowstone Standoff The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801484-9100, July 7, 7 p.m., free, KingsEnglish.com Victoria Schwab: This Savage Song The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801485-9100, July 8, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com

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Aaron Memmott: In the City Gallery MAR, 436 Main St., Park City, 435-649-3001, July 8, 6 p.m., GalleryMAR.com Absence. Presence. CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through July 8, CUArtCenter.org The Abstracts of Brad Lloyd Teare Marmalade Branch, 280 W. 500 North, 801-594-8680, through Aug. 3, SLCPL.org (see p. 26) Colleen Ann Wooten: HeArt to Recover Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801594-8611, through Aug. 12, SLCPL.org Colour Maisch and Gary Vlasic: Albedo Nigredo Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Aug. 5, SaltLakeArts.org Dave Newman Modern West Fine Art Gallery, 177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, through July 9, ModernWestFineArt.com David Sharp: Primitive Spirit Salt Lake City Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, 801-5948623, through Aug. 25, SLCPL.org Denise Duong: New Work JGO Gallery, 408 Main St., Park City, 435-649-1006, through July 22, JGOGallery.com Don Weller: Another Cowboy Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-6498882, through July 24, KimballArtCenter.org Eric Peterson: Wildlife Photography Red Butte Garden, 300 S. Wakara Way, 801-585-

Landscape paintings by Oscar Da Silva are on view at Charlie Hafen Gallery, 1409 S. 900 East, 801-521-7711, through July 8.

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ho doesn’t love a good read during lazy days of summer spent at the beach, on the patio, by the pool or just lounging on the couch? I like to use some of my downtime to catch up on the stacks of cookbooks, food fiction, wine writing and the like that are piled around my desk. For this summer, I’ve assembled a collection of culinary- and libation-oriented publications— some new, some classics—to enjoy as the temperatures soar. Mexican-st yle “street” tacos have, along with Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches, become the darlings of the culinary world. Fancy restaurants that wouldn’t serve customers wearing flipflops now proudly boast duck confit and kale tacos on their menus. Think you know tacos? So did I. That is, until I got my hands on Tacopedia by Déborah Holtz and Juan Carlos Mena. This wonderful book leaves no tortilla unturned. Part cookbook, part geography lesson, part reference guide and part restaurant guide, Tacopedia is the definitive resource for all things taco. Spread out among the in-depth history of regional Mexican tacos and recipes to recreate hundreds of them, are guides to the best taquerías in Mexico and the U.S., broken out into taco types: best cochinita pibil tacos, best seafood/fish tacos, best stewed tacos and so on. There are even poems, such as “La Taquiza: The lovely girl who ate and ate.” My wife recently mentioned that she’d like to learn more about wine in order to become better at her restaurant job. Well, there are hundreds—probably thousands—of books to help with this. One of the more useful ones—and a nottoo-technical book that’s easy to read—is This Calls for a Drink! The Best Wines & Beers to Pair with Every Situation by

certified sommelier Diane McMartin. At first, I thought this would be another boring compilation of lists: what to pair with game, what to pair with pastas and, of course, what to pair with the always-tricky salad, artichoke or asparagus. But it isn’t. Both extremely useful and informative, it’s also entertaining to read. The book is organized by events and the types of foods that are likely to need wine or beer matching, such as predictable ones like weddings, birthdays and anniversaries, as well as less common occasions like blind dates, breakups and one-night stands. And there are surprises. McMartin's out-of-the-box suggestion for a bachelorette party is Belgian saison, and she recommends something “tense and nervy” like New Zealand sauvignon blanc for binge-watching a series like Battlestar Galactica. And for those one-night stands? A frothy, fruity and fizzy “less mature version of Champagne,” like France’s Clairette de Die. For a breezy peak at our own town, take a look at 100 Things to Do in Salt Lake City Before You Die by local writer and editor Jeremy Pugh. This light-hearted (but actually useful to newcomers) collection covers entertainment, the outdoors, sports, culture, history, shopping and—my favorite section—food and drink. From the oldest bar in Utah (Shooting Star Saloon) and the funeral potatoes served up at the Garage on Beck, to celebrating peaches on Utah’s “Fruit Way” and a GREENBikes pub crawl, Pugh points tourists and locals alike in some delicious directions. Foodies are very familiar with restaurant kitchen exposés like Tony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and Heat: An Amateur Cook in a Professional Kitchen by Bill Buford. Well, here’s a slightly different perspective on restaurant work: a novel based on author Stephanie Danier’s experiences working in high-octane restaurant atmospheres such as NYC’s Union Square

Café. In SweetBitter, Danier completely captures how “punishing” the restaurant world and work can be, and does it in a way that makes you actually care about the drug-addled chefs, naughty bartenders and sometimes-sleazy servers who inhabit that world. Excellent beach reading. Susan Branch fans will be thrilled to learn of the just-released 30th anniversary edition of her New York Times bestseller Heart of the Home: Notes From a Vineyard Kitchen . This revised and expanded edition from the Martha’s Vineyard resident includes all the classic recipes from the original version, plus some newer ones. I don’t recall beef carpaccio, for example, being in the 1986 volume. As with everything Susan Branch does, Heart of the Home is beautifully illustrated, and most recipes are accompanied by warm, homey sentiments befitting a cookbook that belongs in its place next to the hearth. And hey, when was the last time you saw a cookbook with recipes as comforting as chipped beef on toast, classic banana cream pie or rainbow Jell-O? Finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t shout out one of America’s finest under-the-rada r food writers: John Thorne. He publishes an occasional newsletter that you can subscribe to and have it delivered via old-fashioned snail mail, called Simple Cooking , which is also the name of one of his excellent books, along with Outlaw Cook, Serious Pig: An American Cook in Search of His Roots, Pot on the Fire: Further Exploits of a Renegade Cook and Mouth Wide Open: A Cook and His Appetite. Thorne considers himself to be an amateur cook, and to my knowledge he never worked in a restaurant. But man, oh man, does he make food come alive. His writing is as mouth-watering as his recipes— many of which have become staples in my kitchen. Not just for summer, reading John Thorne is an anytime treat. CW

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f you enjoy wine regularly, then you probably already know that there are bargains to be found at wine stores in the South American wine section— especially those from Chile and Argentina. But just like wines from other parts of the world, they vary greatly in quality. One of my favorite South American producers is Chile’s Viña Montes. Since the adoption of the country’s first appellation control system in 1985, wine quality has steadily improved. And this winery has been at the forefront of the movement toward dependable, high quality Chilean wines since its founding by industry veterans Aurelio Montes Sr. and the late

Douglas Murray, in 1987. The following year, partners Alfredo Vidaurre and Pedro Grand brought their expertise to the enterprise. Since that time, Viña Montes has grown tremendously, and the brand can now be found in more than 100 countries worldwide. Starting with the creation of Viña Montes Alpha Cabernet Sauvignon ($22.95), the winery expanded its production to include a wide array of wines through the years. They range from carmenère and malbec to pinot noir, merlot, syrah, chardonnay, sauvignon blanc, late harvest wines, rosé, sparkling wines and beyond. The winery’s lineup starts with its Classic series—wines that are considered to be Montes “true ambassadors” by the winemakers. They are good values that are ripe and ready for everyday drinking, sourced from vineyards with larger yields than those used to produce their higher level Montes Alpha series. A step up from the Alpha wines is the Icons series: wines of exceptional character and age-worthy, such as Montes Alpha M ($100), Montes Folly ($70) and a wine I love but don’t get to drink often enough: Purple Angel ($78), a big and bold super-carmenère. If you’re really flush, you might want to try Montes Taita, which sells for around $300 per bottle, depending upon the vintage.

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DRINK This is Montes’ super-premium Bordeaux-style blend. In a 2013 review, The Daily Meal’s wine writer Roger Morris said, “To taste the 2007 Taita is like pulling the cork on an elegant, yet assertive, cru classé Médoc, perhaps even a first growth from Pauillac or St-Éstephe.” That’s quite some praise. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t know, since my wine budget doesn’t often allow me to sip such expensive varieties. There’s good news, though. You don’t have to spend $300—or even $30— to try a well-crafted bottle from this winery. Montes Classic Sauvignon Blanc ($12.95) is a deliciously ripe, fresh and crisp summer wine brimming with tropical fruit and grassy/grapefruit notes. I also enjoy Montes Classic Chardonnay ($12.95), which is fermented in both oak and stainless steel barrels, half of which undergoes malolactic fermentation. For a few more bucks, however, you can step up into a wine that I sip on a

regular basis, in part because it’s such a great value: Montes Alpha Chardonnay ($20.94). Full-bodied and creamy, and aged in French oak, the 1998 vintage was selected as “World Champion Chardonnay” by Slow Food Italy. I’ve tricked friends into thinking they were drinking French white burgundy when I’ve poured blind tastes in the past. I recently sampled early releases of what Viña Montes calls their “Spring Trinity” wines. Montes Cherub 2016 ($16) is a fun, nearly neon pink rosé made of syrah (83 percent) and grenache (17 percent). It’s a terrific picnic wine, versatile enough to pair with foods ranging from sushi to paella. Montes Twins 2014 ($16) is a red blend combining cabernet sauvignon, tempranillo, syrah and carmenère that would fit in well with any backyard barbecue and pair well with grilled meats and poultry. So if the summer heat’s got you down, turn to Chile! CW

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Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, Adam Devine and Zac Efron in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates posing at conventionality makes for much better material than the underdeveloped tension between the Stangle boys over Mike holding Dave back from his potential. But the bigger issue is that this is yet another R-rated comedy with a mission statement of pushing more envelopes than a postal worker at Christmastime. So we get the Stangles’ cousin Terry (Alice Wetterlund), an omnivorously horny bisexual; we get the obligatory gay panic as a guy in drag replies to the brothers’ ad; we get a wild bush of pubic hair as a punch line, and an increasingly shrill exchange about whether or not there’s a deviant sexual behavior known as the “push-pop.” There are some really big laughs mixed into all of this—Kumail Nanjiani, after this movie and Central Intelligence, has become the summer’s cameo scene-stealer—but the desperation to go for “Did we just do that? Oh, hell yes we did!” starts to overwhelm it. Somewhere in the vast, unexplored territory between PG-13 and NC-17, there’s a place where comedy can be for adults without seeming quite so childish about it. CW

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reason for the ad is based on the siblings’ seemingly infinite capacity to screw up family gatherings, and the demand by their parents and sister, Jeanie (Sugar Lyn Beard), that they bring nice girls to keep them in line. But the ladies who cleverly work that angle— best friends Alice (Anna Kendrick) and Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza)—aren’t exactly the stable, serious pair they pretend to be, and their own love of partying could prove just as disastrous. That’s actually a pretty terrific premise for a slow-build comedy: Four people at an occasion where they all need to suppress their immature volatility, but every one of them is a short fuse and a match waiting to light the other’s. The script by Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O’Brien (Neighbors) does get some good material out of the early stages of this untenable relationship: Alice’s inability to lie without spiraling into ever-more-implausible stories; the brothers’ obvious delight at being with someone who finally meets with their frustrated parents’ approval. There’s also a basic structural problem with that dynamic of four co-leads: The story is supposed to be equally about all of them, but the women are far funnier and more interesting than the men. Kendrick’s immense talents have often been applied to the “good girl” character, so it’s terrific to watch her stretch in a part where she can be a goofy physical comedian. Plaza similarly nails her manipulative teasing of Mike, turning on a dime from prim fake teacher to party animal. Their Romy and Micheleesque chemistry as gleeful underachievers

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t’s not easy to pinpoint when it happened, but at some moment in the not-too-distant cinematic past—maybe on the journey from American Pie to The Hangover—the Rrated studio comedy became a pose. That perhaps makes it little different from anything else related to the MPAA ratings process and Hollywood releases—every PG for an animated film is a desperate plea not to be ignored by tweens, and every PG-13 summer blockbuster is a “we’re cool, but not too edgy” cash grab—but this particular phenomenon has evolved in its own unique way. Once released from the constraints of a PG-13, filmmakers start to assume that their audience won’t settle for anything less than the most outrageous gags. Every red-band trailer and outtake designed specifically for the unrated DVD version begins to reek of calculation: They want viewers to believe they’re on the razor’s edge of multiplex-approved naughtiness. Why bother with anything just that side of the PG-13 border, when you can suggest that you’re just this side of NC-17? But how does this serve a comedy’s ostensible goal of being, you know, funny? It’s hard to watch something like Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates and not wonder if there were times when the funniest joke was sacrificed on the altar of the wildest joke. When it gets busy and frantic, the strengths that make for its biggest laughs get lost. The premise is based on the lives of reallife brothers Mike (Adam Devine) and Dave Stangle (Zac Efron), who became viral sensations when they posted a Craigslist ad offering a trip to Hawaii to two women who would accompany them to their sister’s wedding. In the film incarnation, the

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Director Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom) takes on a task for his latest music documentary similar to the one faced by celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma: blending multiple perspectives into something that might ultimately be harmonious. He’s mostly successful in this profile of the musical project formed by Ma, with participants bringing the instruments and traditions of their various cultural backgrounds. Those artists—including Syrian born clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, Galician bagpiper Cristina Pato, Iranian kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor and Chinese pipa player Wu Man—have individually fascinating stories, and Neville juggles them capably while exploring both their commitment to their cultural heritages and the melting-pot work of the Silk Road Ensemble. There’s just a ton of stuff going on here, including heady questions like the extent to which art matters in places faced with political violence or repression. The musical interludes themselves are reason enough to watch Neville’s lovely travelogue, even when the profiles occasionally turn this into a case of not being able to hear these many components cohere into a symphony. Opens July 8 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)—Scott Renshaw THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS BB.5 When first teasers for this animated feature appeared, I chuckled and thought, “Oh, it’s Toy Story but with animals.” And it turns out I was wrong: It’s actually all the Toy Story movies, but with animals. In a New York City apartment, a lovable mutt named Max (Louis C.K.) has a special relationship with his owner, Katie (Ellie Kemper). But what happens when she gets another dog, Duke (Eric Stonestreet), and a rivalry develops? Before you can sing “You’ve Got a Man’s Best Friend in Me,” the two pooches are

loose in the city, forced to work together to get back home. Then there’s the group of pet friends who head out together to rescue Max and Duke, and even a montage flashback in which Duke wistfully remembers a previous owner. The Despicable Me team of director Chris Renaud and writers Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul keep the action moving, and there are plenty of individually amusing jokes based on the domesticated critters’ when-nobody’swatching behavior. The emotional center, however, is so entirely second-hand that there’s no reason to care—except maybe to wonder if Pixar is readying a lawsuit. Opens July 8 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—SR

THE WAILING BBB.5 Full disclosure: Na Hong-jin’s confounding, unsettling horror tale is the kind of movie that could, upon reflection, turn out to be either much better or much worse than first impressions dictate. In a small South Korean village, local police officer Jonggu (Kwak Do-Won) investigates a series of murders in which residents appear to be going suddenly, homicidally mad—and it all appears connected to the recent arrival of a Japanese stranger (Jun Kunimura). At 156 minutes, The Wailing has plenty of time for multiple often-disorienting tonal diversions, from broad comedy to actual zombie attacks. But Na is also wrestling with some genuinely thorny ideas—including xenophobia and multiple Biblical references in its exploration of faith and evil—built around the plot device of a possibly possessed young girl, with all the accompanying Exorcist-esque discomfort. By the time the third act reaches its crescendo—cross-cutting between at least four settings, each one with its own tension-filled sense of consequence—The Wailing has become the kind of unsettling drama that might be profound, or might be sacrilegious, or might be all of the above in one freaky package. Opens July 8 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—SR

WIENER-DOG BBB Todd Solondz’s caustic view of the world hasn’t changed much in the 20 years since Welcome to the Dollhouse, but sometimes he can deliver just enough pitch-black humor to sweeten the despair. Here, he follows a forlorn-looking dachshund through several owners: a boy (Keaton Nigel Cooke) recently recovered from illness; a film-studies professor (Danny DeVito) whose own writing career is going nowhere; an elderly woman (Ellen Burstyn); and

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THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR BB.5 During America’s annual night of sanctioned anything-goes mayhem, a badass security chief (Frank Grillo) must protect an idealistic Presidential candidate (Elizabeth Mitchell) until dawn. Also, murderous schoolgirls with blinged-out power tools roam the streets. It’s all pretty silly, particularly when writer/director James DeMonaco slows things down to a crawl in order to expand the scope of the premise, or emphasize an already-obvious point. When in motion, however, the same B-movie current that drove the superior The Purge: Anarchy still packs an undeniable scuzzy charge. As in Anarchy, Grillo is the main reason to watch, slamming his way through any and all obstacles in his path with a no-nonsense presence that recalls Bronson and Eastwood in their primes. Whenever the movie stops trying to be clever and just lets him get to work, the complaints tend to fade. (R)—Andrew Wright

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to England, erstwhile Tarzan John Clayton (Alexander Skarsgård) is invited back to the Congo, part of a plot to exploit the area’s diamond wealth; flashbacks fill in the story of the shipwrecked, orphaned boy raised by gorillas. Director David Yates does a solid job with the obligatory action moments, and pokes around at interesting subtext about colonialism and conquest. But nobody involved seems to know quite what to do with Clayton navigating the mythology surrounding him—and Skarsgård, chiseled of abdomen though he may be, doesn’t dig very deeply into the character. It’s left to Margot Robbie’s lively Jane and Christoph Waltz’s cultured villainy to give some personality to something that otherwise becomes just another summer franchise wannabe. (PG-13)—SR

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Series Debut: One review has already beaten me to the punch in tagging HBO’s new crime miniseries The Night Of “The longest, bleakest Law & Order episode ever,” but I’ll press on. Novelist/screenwriter Richard Price (Clockers, The Wire) and writer/filmmaker Steven Zaillian (A Civil Action) spend eight episodes chronicling eight bad, bad days in the life of Nasir Khan (Riz Ahmed), a New York City college student who thinks he’s lucked into Manhattan party of the year—until he wakes up covered in blood next to a girl who’s been stabbed to death. Much tense and ssslllooowww drama unfolds from there, with none-toosubtle callouts to an overtaxed justice system, the constant state of surveillance we live in, racial profiling and, of course, The Wire (Michael Kenneth Williams!). More so than True Detective, The Night Of is an intricately produced downer of an art flick for crime nerds, but it still Law & Orders so hard that you half-expect Ice-T and Richard Belzer to cross in the background.

Running Wild With Bear Grylls Monday, July 11 (NBC)

Season Premiere: The biggest surprise about Season 3 of “famed adventurer” Bear Grylls’ (not to be confused with “famed insurance adjuster” Bear Grylls) celebrities-inwilderness-peril-but-not-really reality show? Actual celebrities: Courteney Cox! Vanessa Hudgens! Nick Jonas! Lindsey Vonn! That’s more bona-fide stars than have been featured on 45 seasons of Dancing With the “Stars,” if not the Sharknado franchise. First up on tonight’s season premiere is Julianne Hough, a perfectly lovely dancer/singer who nonetheless deserves to be thrown off African cliffs and waterfalls, and threatened by elephants and snakes, because of the painful “acting” she’s inflicted upon the ’Merican public. (Ever seen Rock of Ages? Safe Haven? Grease: Live? She’s getting off easy here).

Enter Save Delete Maya & Marty Tuesday, July 12 (NBC)

Season Finale: When Maya & Marty first premiered, I told you that the stars and the setup instilled “more confidence than the network’s previous variety-show attempt, Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris.” If I strangled your toddler to death and then used the corpse to beat your grandmother into a coma while blasting some Florida Georgia Line jams from my Confederate-flag-and-TruckNutz-adorned Dodge Ram, I’d still feel more obligated to apologize for kindarecommending Maya & Marty. Whereas Best Time Ever at least tried some new tricks (“new” meaning “stolen from James Corden and Jimmy Fallon”), M&M is just an undead collection of rejected Saturday Night Live sketches for Maya Rudolph and Martin Short to shamble though like The Walking Dead gang smeared in zombie guts, desperately trying to avoid attention. Again, sorry (to you too, NPH).

Difficult People Tuesday, July 12 (Hulu)

Season Premiere: It defies all logic that Billy Eichner would be tolerable in larger “acting” doses than he was in brief Parks and Recreation bursts (his Billy on the Street series doesn’t count—he’s meant to be insufferable there), but Difficult People works, hilariously. Along with co-star Julie Klausner, Eichner makes the daily kinda-grind of being self-absorbed New Yorkers who hate everyone but each other sing like an off-Broadway musical about frustration, contempt and loathing that their characters would

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love to see, but getting to that part of town would be too much of a bother—because who cares, anyway? Eichner and Klausner are great here, but it’s James Urbaniak (The Venture Bros.) who steals the show. Don’t miss another season of Difficult People.

Mr. Robot Wednesday, July 13 (USA)

Season Premiere: So that was a hell of a first season few expected from USA and Mr. Robot, a show I initially dismissed as just “Fight Club meets The Matrix in a Dilbert strip.” As Mr. Robot progressed over last summer, it became clear that this was game-changer for not only a previously sleepy network, but basic-cable-as-prestige-TV as a whole (and it’s also the first Christian Slater series to not be canceled on arrival, so that’s something). Elliot (Rami Malek) and hacker group fsociety finally brought down E(vil) Corp at conclusion of Season 1, but did it solve anything? Is the 99 Percent any better off? (No.) Is Elliot still nuts? (Yes.) Could Season 2 actually be darker than the first? (Going by the initial episodes, oh, hell yes.) Mr. Robot is also getting its own live after-show, Hacking Robot—not hosted by Chris Hardwick, BTW. CW

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“It was a departure from the ’60s and ’70s,” Jones says. “We had videos to use, so visuals were important. Style and fashion were incorporated much more into the whole thing. And there were a lot of different genres coexisting. There was heavy rock, there was indie rock, there was electronic, there was pop. It was all happening at the same time, and to be dismissive of that music is to be dismissive of a whole generation of people.” My generation, actually. And those coexisting genres are all represented in my music collection to this day. I’m sure there’s even some Howard Jones in there somewhere. That first time I saw him at Park West was my first concert in Utah, and I’d go on to see more great shows there—from the Ramones to Sting to Love and Rockets—before it closed. I can look back at that night, and my biggest regret is most likely whatever atrocious fashion I was wearing at the time (there was probably a mullet involved). Jones doesn’t share my hesitation, telling me there’s not a song, haircut or fashion choice he dismisses from back in the day. “Honestly, and I really mean this, I don’t, because it’s what I believed in at the time,” Jones says. “I took risks. I didn’t back off from taking risks. Obviously, I’m looking at myself as a younger man, but I’m proud of the history. I know a lot of people are not, but I’m totally cool with it. Maybe I’m just weird.” Aren’t we all? CW

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ountaintop pilgrimages to listen to charismatic male figures invoking quasi-spiritual feel-goodisms are pretty common in some circles. But for me, it was new, the result of my giving in to the zealous peer pressure of some Ogden friends who promised a weekend of fun and frivolity if I only joined them on their journey. I can’t say I became a full-blown convert that summer, but the unseasonably frigid show in the mid-’80s, at the long-defunct Park West ski resort in Park City, opened my eyes to the Church of HoJo and its multitudes of Utah adherents. HoJo refers to Howard Jones, but you already knew that. The diminutive British synth-pop pioneer has been visiting Zion virtually non-stop ever since he arrived in 1983 with a monster-sized hit in “New Song,” a multi-platinum album (in England at least) in Human’s Lib, and a strange bald man in chains dancing around his videos and his concert stage. Besides the MoTab, The Osmonds and Kurt Bestor, it’s hard to think of a more distinctly “Utah” music act than Jones (although 311 has been doing their damnedest). That show was epic in my development as a Utah music fan. And it was huge for Jones, too, he says during a phone call from his current tour with Barenaked Ladies and OMD. The response he got from the audiences here pushed him to greater heights elsewhere; Jones tallied 15 Top 40 hits during his heyday, selling nearly 10 million albums in the process and earning a global audience. But those Park City shows still stand out. “From those very early shows I did at Park West when it was a venue, it’s a connection I made with people then,” Jones tells City Weekly. “It’s historical, really.” As a teenaged punk rocker, the Jones show opened my eyes to another world. I was familiar with the man’s cavalcade of MTV hits that followed “New Song,” tunes like “Pearl in the Shell,” “Life in One Day” and “Things Can Only Get Better.” But watching a guy perform behind banks of keyboards, essentially solo (save for that bald mime), and seeing the rabid reaction of 10,000 or more people clued me in that there was life outside my beloved guitar-bassdrums bands like Black Flag or The Replacements. If Jones was a bit saccharine for me, his Park West show was a worthy gateway to bands I still listen to now, more than two decades later, that I never would have given the time of day: New Order, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears. Jones has continued making new music—all of it piano and keyboard-based, naturally—but he’s not a slave to the hits. He’s managed to parlay his dedicated fan base into an army of folks willing to go hear him play an all-acoustic show, or take part in multimedia explorations like last year’s Engage DVD/CD and tour. At the same time, he embraces his catalog, and is always game to play one of Britain’s huge ’80s festivals, knock out 40 minutes of non-stop hits as he’s opening the Barenaked Ladies tour, or float on a retro-themed cruise. Generally dismissive of most modern pop he hears on the radio, he says, “It feels quite generic at the moment.” He’s proud of the sounds prominent in the Reagan years.

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etween Jenn Wasner’s evocative vocals and Andy Stack’s vivid musical backdrops, there’s something about Wye Oak’s unique blend of indie folk and dreamlike synth-pop that feels effortless. This typically means that they’re working their asses off. Unlike so many other bands that are so entrenched in their niche they forget how to innovate, Wye Oak has demonstrated that it is not only possible to evolve while remaining true to one’s artistic roots, but that it’s crucial to staying alive. “Settling into habitual playing or thinking is death to creativity and progress,” Wasner says. Wasner and Stack have been collaborating since they were in high school, and they released their first album, If Children, with Merge Records in 2008. It’s right at home with albums by contemporary indie-folk outfits like Beach House and Fleet Foxes, but rather than fixate on creating a straightforward record of catchy tunes and linear narratives, Wye Oak debuted by pushing the limits of what a guitar, drums and the occasional keyboard can do. “We’ve always been inspired by limitations,” Wasner says. Inspiration through limitations is perhaps the best way to define the style that the band pioneered with this record, and it’s a thread that has continued through each subsequent album. The two continued to refine this process with 2009’s The Knot and 2010’s My Neighbor/My Creator, but it was 2011’s widely revered Civilian that turned the band into alt-folk darlings. Their growing popularity led to an intense touring schedule that was an extremely trying process for both Stack and Wasner. When the band released Shriek in 2014, there was a pronounced difference in their musical direction. Wasner swapped her electric guitar for a bass, and Stack expanded his repertoire with a heavier emphasis on synthesizers. Regardless of these

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Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs: Who could see such a singer-songwriter supergroup coming, or imagine how they’d sound? Case exists in the alt-country/rock realm, lang dwells in her own country-jazz-pop limbo, and Veirs inhabits the stable of an indie-folk dark horse, captive in the awareness of hipster music journos. While there is sufficient common ground between the friends’ music, it’s tough to conceptualize the sum of their sounds. Would the album be a three-way split of songs written and sung by one of the women while the other two back her up? They’re all established artists in their own right, and headliners—so that would seem likely. But it’s not the case (eeeeeeewwww—unintentional). case/lang/veirs (Anti-) is the work of a band. The chemistry of

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these friends is so immediate, and their respect for each other so clear, as they work together on each other’s songs, creating sublime harmonies and trading vocal turns on songs that blend their respective styles of each without a hint of ego. As with their solo work, the songs are intimate and easy to connect to—maybe even moreso, with their individual and collective powers at work. Their debut LP is easily one of the best albums of 2016. Since Red Butte shows tend to sell out so fast, it’s a wonder tickets are still available for this one. Chamber-pop band Loch Lomond opens. (RH) Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, 7:30 p.m., $54-$59, RedButteGarden.org

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When she broke out in 2007 with her Kemado Records debut, Songs III: Bird on the Water (her third album overall), Massachusettsbred Marissa Nadler bewitched the world with her hauntingly mellifluous vocals and cerebral, intoxicating songs. Over her next four albums (and a mess of EPs, demo and covers collections), Nadler proved to be what she sounds like: a splice of Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell. Her newest album, Strangers (Sacred Bones/Bella Union, 2016) is no less

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As in the ‘80s and ‘90s, KBER’s Bear Fest remains a gathering of hirsute men cheering for other hairy dudes—and many women demonstrating their appreciation of the same group in mammary flashes. Well, things are different now. The hair farmers have harvested their last crops, either because they’re older and wiser or because their follicular landscape was poisoned by excessive Aqua Net crop-dustings (or genetics). In 2016, we have computers in our pockets and Poison singer Bret Michaels has hair plugs, a butcher-than-Poison backing band and an ostensible desire to be a country artist. Ratt is a band of scabs—including a baby-faced new singer—surrounding original drummer Bobby Blotzer. Dokken is missing its guitar hero George Lynch (who’s working with local producer Joe Haze on a new band, Uni-Mog) and another key member in Jeff Pilson. Warrant is all original except for longtime replacement vocalist Robert Mason, who’s a good but not great substitute for late original singer Jani Lane. The good news is that Lita Ford is still Lita Ford—and the songs these bands made famous in their heyday sound as good as ever—nay, awesome—after quaffing enough $10 tall cans of domestic pisswater. Plus, tonight’s not about the future, anyway. (RH) Usana Amphitheatre, 5150 S. 6055 West, 4 p.m., $30-$66, Usana-Amp.com

The Bad Kids Collective: One-Year Anniversary of Weirdo

For the past year, the Bad Kids Collective has staged a monthly event that aims to reclaim the word “weirdo” for everyone who’s ever felt like an outcast—the LGBTQ crowd, in particular. “At Weirdo,” the collective says on its Facebook page, “we celebrate the beautiful oddities in life through vibrant self-expression with performances, dance music and a colorful queer crowd … welcoming all walks of life and unifying those who choose to partake in the shenanigans!” Tonight, they celebrate the endurance of their inclusive dance party with music by DJDC, drag performances by members of their troupe, art installations and—IhopeIhopeIhope—the cyclopean cupcakes pictured on the fliers. RSVP on Facebook to get free admission before 10:30 p.m. (Randy Harward) Area 51, 451 S. 400 West, 10 p.m., $5 (21+), $7 (18+), Facebook.com/BadKidsSLC

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SUNDAY 7.10 LIVE MUSIC

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U.K. extreme metal merchants Dragged Into Sunlight eschew light—especially the spotlight—so much that they often play with their backs to the crowd, and with minimal stage lighting. This—and the candles on stage—adds a sinister edge to their music, which variously ventures from doom/sludge into black/death metal and detours into crust. The latter is also the domain of local openers Cult Leader, who are sandwiched between DiS and selfdescribed “death-sludge/funeral punk” band Primitive Man, out of Denver. Locals Portal to the God Damn Blood Dimension and Moon of Delirium also appear. (RH) Metro Bar, 615 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $12, JRCSLC.com

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WEDNESDAY 7.13 LIVE MUSIC

Barenaked Ladies + OMD + Howard Jones (Red Butte Amphitheatre) see p. 39 Corb Lund + Dan Fletcher (Urban Lounge) Crook & the Bluff + Red Dog Revival + Candy’s River House (Metro Bar) Dylan Roe (The Hog Wallow) Gemini Syndrome + 9Electric + Natas Lived + Poon Hammer + ImAlive (Club X) Kelsea Ballerini (Sandy Amphitheater)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Events in the coming week may trick your mind and tweak your heart. They might mess with your messiah complex and wreak havoc on your habits. But I bet they will also energize your muses and add melodic magic to your mysteries. They will slow you down in such a way as to speed up your evolution, and spin you in circles with such lyrical grace that you may become delightfully clearheaded. Will you howl and moan? Probably, but more likely out of poignant joy, not from angst and anguish. Might you be knocked off course? Perhaps, but by a good influence, not a bad one.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In the book A Survival Guide to the Stress of Organizational Change, the authors tell you how to raise your stress levels. Assume that others are responsible for lowering your stress levels, they say. Resolve not to change anything about yourself. Hold on to everything in your life that’s expendable. Fear the future. Get embroiled in trivial battles. Try to win new games as you play by old rules. Luckily, the authors also offer suggestions on how to reduce your stress. Get good sleep, they advise. Exercise regularly. Don’t drink too much caffeine. Feel lots of gratitude. Clearly define a few strong personal goals, and let go of lesser wishes. Practice forgiveness and optimism. Talk to yourself with kindness. Got all that, Taurus? It’s an excellent place to start as you formulate your strategy for the second half of 2016.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In high school I was a good athlete with a promising future as a baseball player. But my aspirations were aborted in my sophomore year when the coach banished me from the team. My haircut and wardrobe were too weird, he said. I may have been a skillful shortstop, but my edgy politics made him nervous and mad. At the time, I was devastated by his expulsion. Playing baseball was my passion. But in retrospect, I was grateful. The coach effectively ended my career as a jock, steering me toward my true callings: poetry, music and astrology. I invite you to identify a comparable twist in your own destiny, Scorpio. What unexpected blessings came your way through a seeming adversary? The time is ripe to lift those blessings to the next level.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I love writing horoscopes for you. Your interest in my insights spurs my creativity and makes me smarter. As I search for the inspiration you need next, I have to continually reinvent my approach to finding the truth. The theories I had about your destiny last month may not be applicable this month. My devotion to following your ever-shifting story keeps me enjoyably off-balance, propelling me free of habit and predictability. I’m grateful for your influence on me! Now I suggest that you compose a few thank-you notes similar to the one I’ve written here. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “You can only go halfway into the darkest forest,” says a Address them to the people in your life who move you and feed Chinese proverb. “Then you are coming out the other side.” You you and transform you the best. will soon reach that midpoint, Leo. You may not recognize how far you have already come, so it’s a good thing I’m here to give AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) you a heads-up. Keep the faith! Now here’s another clue: As you After an Illinois man’s wife whacked him in the neck with a have wandered through the dark forest, you’ve been learning hatchet, he didn’t hold a grudge. Just the opposite. Speaking practical lessons that will come in handy during the phase of your from a hospital room while recovering from his life-threatening wound, Thomas Deas testified that he still loved his attacker, journey that will begin after your birthday. and hoped they could reconcile. Is this admirable or pathetic? I’ll go with pathetic. Forgiving one’s allies and loved ones for their VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) My devoted contingent of private detectives, intelligence agents, mistakes is wise, but allowing and enabling their maliciousness and psychic sleuths is constantly wandering the globe gathering and abuse should be taboo. Keep that standard in mind during data for me to use in creating your horoscopes. In recent days, the coming weeks, Aquarius. People close to you may engage in they have reported that many of you Virgos are seeking expansive behavior that lacks full integrity. Be compassionate but toughvisions and mulling long-term decisions. Your tribe seems unusu- minded in your response. ally relaxed about the future, and is eager to be emancipated from shrunken possibilities. Crucial in this wonderful development has PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) been an inclination to stop obsessing on small details and avoid Can water run uphill? Not usually. But there’s an eccentric being distracted by transitory concerns. Hallelujah! Keep up the magic circulating in your vicinity, and it could generate phenomena that are comparable to water running uphill. I wouldn’t good work. Think big, bigger, biggest! be surprised, either, to see the equivalent of stars coming out in the daytime. Or a mountain moving out of your way. Or the LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) After years of painstaking research, the psychic surgeons at the trees whispering an oracle exactly when you need it. Be alert Beauty and Truth Lab have finally perfected the art and science of for anomalous blessings, Pisces. They may be so different from Zodiac Makeovers. Using a patented technique known as Mythic what you think is possible that they could be hard to recognize.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Do you remember that turning point when you came to a fork in the road of your destiny at a moment when your personal power wasn’t strong? And do you recall how you couldn’t muster the potency to make the most courageous choice, but instead headed in the direction that seemed easier? Well, here’s some intriguing news: Your journey has delivered you, via a convoluted route, to a place not too far from that original fork in the road. It’s possible you could return there and revisit the options—which are now more mature and meaningful—with greater authority. Trust your exuberance.

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