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Interesting how the Des News seems to have the scoop on an alternative universe, where people keep crashing in the lake and require the National Guard to haul them out. I was a firefighter for decades, and the area I covered included I-80 on the south end of the lake. In the time I worked out there, not once did I require help from the National Guard to help a patient. All I can figure is those Syracuse residents are getting hopped up on their dirty Diet Coke and crashing off the Antelope Island causeway and being stuck under water … wait, the water is so low they’d just land in the dirt. Never mind.

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Hispanic Heritage

National Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates the history and traditions of America’s second-fastest-growing ethnic group (after Asians). To learn more about this holiday and the nearly 400,000 Latinos in Utah, there is no better source than wellknown Utah educator and activist Archie Archuleta. Now a retired school teacher and administrator, Archuleta is a well-known Chicano Latino activist. He has served in governmental groups and committees with civil-rights teachers associations, was president of Utah Coalition of La Raza, does advocacy work with police, has discussed with the governor how to advance justice to minority groups and has been active in politics as head of the Chicano Latino Democratic Legislative Caucus. Archuleta really knows Hispanic heritage. “Hispanic Heritage Month is important in order to pass down the history of how the largest minority in the U.S. became what it is,” Archuleta says. “We celebrate Cinco de Mayo, when Mexico won independence from the French, and Sept. 16 when, in 1821, Mexico was liberated from Spain. Our heritage comes from both Mexico and Spain. Today we add South American and the Caribbean.” Originally started in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week in the U.S., in 1988, it became a month-long celebration starting on Sept. 15 to include national independence days throughout Central and South America. Archuleta traces America’s Hispanic roots to 1598 when Spaniards conquered and colonized first Florida, then New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and California. “We are Mestizos, a mixed race of Spanish and Mexicans who came north, married with Aztec, Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, Arapaho, Comanche, Apache and African slaves when they were brought here.” The Spanish heritage influences the entire U.S. West with tiled roofs, rancho-style dwell-

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ings and religion, with missions that dot our landscape with recognizable names such as Fathers Dominques and Escalante. The cattle-and-horse industry originated in Spain, and Mexican food has become a big item in the Southwest. Salsa is now the condiment of choice in America, changed from mustard, and the taco has replaced the hot dog, he says. Archuleta says Latinos, like all immigrants, seek three things: justice and prosperity, better education and to be respected for their cultural contributions to America. “So, we’re working for social justice that includes not only voting privilege, but the right to receive good-paying jobs along with a good education and to be accepted into the society of the U.S. without our culture disappearing,” he says. “We see that this is not only the land of opportunity ... and this is a land of justice that hasn’t always lived up to that.” Angela Romero, representative from House District 26, also has something to add. She notes that Hispanics lived here before this was even America. “Many people have misconceptions about history,” she says. “Following the Treaty of Guadalupe of 1848, when our ancestors were living in New Mexico and Colorado, the border crossed us—we didn’t cross the border. We have a long-standing history in what is now USA. Others are new. Others are still aspiring. That is the beauty of our community, but it comes with misconceptions. We want to be successful, just like others. We want higher education like others. We are a proud community.” Continuing on that thread, Archuleta says, “White people don’t understand the anguish the Latinos and blacks have related to police. It has gone on age after age and the history of lynchings still burn in our minds. The solution is that we need to build rapport with the police. I feel the police were not originally organized to save lives, but to protect property.” Asked what will solve the crime problem

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in the poorest parts of the Hispanic-Latino community and reduce fear in that community, Archuleta recites lyrics from the Johnny Cash song, “Out Among The Stars”: It’s midnight at a liquor store in Texas, Closing time, another day is done. When a boy walks in the door and points a pistol, He can’t find a job but, Lord, he’s found a gun. He pulls it off with no trace of confrontation, That he lets the old man run out in the street, Even though he knows they’ll come with guns ablazing. Already he can feel that great relief. Rep. Romero concludes, “The reason I am the person I am because I have been mentored by leaders like Archie Archuleta. They passed a legacy down to me and now I need to pass that legacy down to others. Cultural competency, uses of force, in the halls of city government, state government. I am proud of who I am and my ethnicity, and proud to be an American, but that includes the obligation to critique. You can be proud and still critique.” Utah Rep. Rebecca Chavez-Houck, of House District 24, adds: “We celebrate to be remindful to the majority culture that we have always been here and what our ancestors did became part of our culture today. We have to understand the role of institutional racism. I want to make sure we are not always seen as an oppressed community. We also need to celebrate our successes as a society at large. The explorers, the heroes, the academicians, the role that race and ethnicity and racism affects our lives, but also to recognize our many accomplishments and contributions. “I want people to feel that they can find joy in who they are in all of their diverse backgrounds,” she continues. “At the end of the day, I want them to be proud of their heritage within them and embrace fully the cultures they represent.” CW

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How important is diversity in a place like SLC? Lisa Dorelli: From my experiences with folks outside of Utah, there is a preconceived notion that Utah lacks diversity and consists solely of Mormons and Polygamists. I am always pleased when friends and family come visit for the first time and quickly learn that Utah is swimming in diversity! It’s important for Utah to continue breaking out of those molds and show the world we are multi-faceted, progressive and a very colorful place with a lot to offer. Tyeson Rogers: One of the most important things I would say. Salt Lake is and has been one of the fastest-growing cities and I am excited to see what is next for Utah. Paula Saltas: Very important: We need both the white Mormons and the white non-Mormons.

Jeremiah Smith: Diversity is extremely important in a city like ours. We are not quite there yet, but we are getting better. It’s time we embrace more groups and bring them out of the fringe. Pupusas are delicious and it’s time everyone else knows it. Randy Harward: I decline to answer on the chance that I might offend our pasty white overlords. Sierra Sessions: I don’t think I have enough room to answer this, but in short: Diversity keeps the world spinning! It’s necessary that we have a solid mix of cultures to learn from one another and become more accepting of things (like people, ethnicities) we are unfamiliar with. To assimilate with one another yet not lose touch of where we came from.

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

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It’s always curious when media organizations have to fight for information that should be public. That’s what happened with a draft plan for managing Utah’s water resources. The document obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune compiles comments from multiple sources, including the 38-person committee that was appointed by Gov. Gary Herbert. Sure, there are controversial remarks in the paper, but the public should be given a chance to parse through the pros and cons. But committees don’t trust the public they work for, and seem to prefer taking input from friends and conversing internally. Some groups, like the Utah Rivers Council, have tried unsuccessfully to comment. And we’re talking about proposing legislation. Robert Grow, co-chair of Envision Utah, has now invited people to contact him with concerns. Let’s just hope he makes those comments public.

Rock the Vote

It’s anyone’s guess whether Utah voters will turn out for Donald Trump as they did for Mitt Romney in 2012, at a rate of 80.15 percent. Two years later, that fell to 46.25 percent for the local legislative cycle, a blog post from Utah Director of Government Affairs Kate Bradshaw noted. Deseret News ran a New York Times story on its front page that explains why 40 percent avoid going to the polls. Well, motivation is one thing. Age and opportunity and education are others. Utah is doing a lot right with vote-by-mail and its pilot Election Day registration, which ends this year. But ultimately, it’s everyone’s right and responsibility to vote.

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Deseret News ran this national story on its local front page: “Drugmakers fought state opioid limits amid addiction crisis.” A joint investigation by the Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity discovered that drugmakers have spent millions and enlisted an army of lobbyists to kill or weaken legislative measures aimed at opioid abuse. This is a big deal in Utah where more than 4,600 people have died from drug overdoses in the past 10 years, 603 in 2014 alone. That’s a 36 percent jump over 2006, and it’s happening all over the country. This should be a warning to lawmakers taking money from pharmaceutical companies—opioids are a cousin to heroin. Utah’s Good Samaritan law needs to be updated and funded. And they might want to look more closely at medical marijuana. A University of Michigan study noted that patients using medical marijuana for chronic pain reported a 64 percent reduction in their use of opioids.

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In 2011, a police officer in Toronto, Canada, visited a nearby law school to talk about campus safety. “You know, I’ve been told not to say this,” he told the small group of students. “However, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” Fueled by outrage at these blatantly misogynistic statements, an international movement called SlutWalk began. Salt Lake City’s iteration formed just a few months later, and has since grown faster than expected. This year’s SlutWalk, called “The Walk of No Shame,” takes to the streets this Saturday, Sept. 24 at noon, starting at the Salt Lake City and County Building. Rachel Jensen, recently appointed as director, predicts the turnout to be the highest ever in Utah, and maybe even the country.

What made you want to get involved in SlutWalk?

I’ve been involved since the beginning in 2011, and everybody had been pretty outraged at the same time with what had happened with the Toronto officer’s statements. ... So what happened to me was that last summer, a friend of mine had gotten sexually assaulted by somebody who I don’t personally consider, but I guess other people consider, a ‘celebrity,’ and it kind of got everybody involved in this situation that the local comedy community joined forces to call the attacker out publicly, and it went viral in just a couple hours. The press had picked it up, Twitter had picked it up, it got all over Facebook, and we were called liars for calling this guy out as a rapist … And it kind of brought everything to the forefront. We were facing this huge attack by rape culture in general, this society that we were a part of was perpetuating this culture of victim-blaming and slut-shaming, making the problems that people are facing, that she had faced this horrific event, just absolutely worse. How can people who had already been attacked want to go to the police, want to go through the whole process of going through the legal system, if this is the kind of backlash they’re going to face, and put their friends and their family and close-knit community through this? It was absolutely horrific, and it made me want to do more and try more rather than curl up into a corner and cry. I wasn’t going to let 13-year-olds with Twitter and Instagram accounts threaten my safety and make me fear for my life, you know? I was going to fight back. So when the director position opened up, I did want to do something more, and I wanted to use my experience and use my platform as a writer and as a comedian, and my connections, and make this a bigger thing. If we can make a post about a stupid wannabe celebrity go viral in a couple of hours, then what can we do for SlutWalk?

Why do you think it’s particularly important for Salt Lakers to attend this year?

I think, especially this year, having it be an election year, it’s more important than ever. If anybody is paying attention, I think people should be aware and outraged with what’s going on with Bill Cosby, with what’s going on with Brock Turner—you know, the swimmer who spent three months in jail for raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster at a college party—with what’s going on college campuses in Utah and across the nation not helping students report attackers and not doing enough to stop rape on college campuses, and what’s going on with BYU, in our own state, in our own home turf, punishing students for reporting their own rapes as Honor Code violations. You know, we are in a position right now, especially with the election year, to change these things—even if you’re just voting out judges, even if you’re voting for new school board members, even if you want to run for school board—then you can make a difference. But we are electing a new governor this year, we are electing a president this year. We can do so much more to change the landscape we’re dealing with culturally and socially in this country.

What’s it like to participate in a walk like this? What would you say to someone who wants to go but is a bit hesitant?

It’s powerful. It’s absolutely powerful … more than anything, just being part of an experience where you get to be with, really, an army of people … marching with a group for something that you believe in, and just, between Point A and Point B, how much it really feels like you’ve changed your life. If you’re a survivor, and you’ve never come out and really stood up and walked before, and walked with a purpose, it’s really life-affirming ... and I think that our grandparents and our grandparents’ parents had experienced this all the way back through the civil rights movement, or before that, where people stood up and marched and fought for their right to vote, for their right to exist and to be part of society. We’re still doing that. We’re still fighting for our right to exist in a peaceful world where we don’t have to feel like we are to blame for our own sexual assault. And it’s absolutely moving to know that by the time we leave the city building and get to the Capitol steps, how many lives will change—with the people we’re marching with … with the people we pass on the street—and we’ve moved as a group, and done something together that is just absolutely life-changing.

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I recently read that scientists have found a correlation between certain genes and behavioral traits like risk-taking. Are these genes more common among migrants—for instance, the descendants of U.S. colonists, as compared to the population of the UK? —V-VI No doubt it’ll thrill American exceptionalists right down to their red, white and blue blood cells to learn that yes, the socalled “risk-taking gene” you reference is indeed more prevalent in the population of North America than on some other continents. But is this scientific proof that the U.S. truly is a nation of rugged individualists, that our DNA itself spurred us across the ocean to liberty? Hmm. Let’s pump the brakes here a bit, patriots, and look a little closer at the gene they call DRD4. What sounds like the name of a toy droid at a dollar store is actually shorthand for Dopamine Receptor D4. Like many genes, DRD4 comes in several alternative forms, or alleles. About 65 percent of the population has the version where a certain nucleotide sequence repeats four times, and you don’t read much about these normies in the popular-science press. Everyone’s way too busy talking instead about the less-common DRD4 variant, carried by about 20 percent of humans, that repeats seven times—which, assorted studies suggest, may predispose its bearers to seek out novelty and risk. Though experts in behavioral genetics fruitlessly caution us not to treat our DNA profile as though it’s some science-approved version of astrology, just about any non-playing-it-safe behavior you can display—substance use, gambling, general impulsiveness—has been linked to the DRD4-7R allele in a scientific study, with varying degrees of confidence, and then shouted about in the press, with varying degrees of accuracy. Thus we see a slew of stories in which DRD47R is billed variously as the “wanderlust gene” that drives you to splurge on exotic vacations, or the “slut gene” that makes you less likely to go home alone at closing time. However it might affect people’s conduct, the 7R allele isn’t scattered evenly worldwide. Back in 1999 researchers at University of California Irvine published the first study to find an association between higher incidence of the long DRD4 allele and longdistance prehistoric migration. A 2011 paper crunched the numbers finer and came up with similar results—showing, essentially, that the greater distance a population had migrated from Africa, the site of human evolution, the more common the 7R allele would be within it. (I say “essentially” because the 7R percentage in Asia is quite low—they’re still puzzling over that one.) But that doesn’t mean we know why or how 7Rs thrived in some areas more than in others. And we’ll be pretty much left guessing

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about that, unless somebody uncovers a long-buried stash of prehistoric diaries and psych evaluations. It’s not too tough to imagine how an inclination toward thrill-seeking, or other apparent 7R-associated traits (many of which we consider symptoms of ADHD) could play a role in a large-scale migration scenario, where natural selection might well favor the antsy adrenaline junkies and thin out the placid 4Rs who’d followed them into the unknown. Any such benefits may be context-dependent: among the Ariaal tribe in present-day Kenya, 7Rs who live as nomadic herders are on average better nourished than non-7R nomads, but 7Rs who’ve settled down don’t eat as well as the other villagers. So though there’s likely some relationship between migration and 7R, we can’t jump from there to saying that 7Rs’ innate adventurousness drove them to travel further than their fellows. Which means we should be careful about assuming that a 7R gene is what keeps people wandering today. Of course, you don’t need to be a geneticist to recognize an online screed headed “Why Middle Eastern Migrants in Europe Will Tend to Be Rapists and Criminals” for exactly what it is. (Yes, that’s really the title of a 7R post by some right-wing evolutionary-psychology blogger; you’d hope even the most credulous ev-psych fan would know enough to steer clear of creeps like this.) Current events should remind us that people choose to migrate for all sorts of reasons, and choose not to migrate for just as many. If we’re just talking genetic predisposition, someone prone to taking risks might well decide to stay behind in Syria and fight, for instance. The impact of genetics on behavior is too complex to be boiled down to a single “migration gene”-type mechanism, but with every new scientific discovery we go through the same rigamarole: scientists publish papers suggesting correlations; journalists and other lay writers read no further than the abstract and sensationalize what they believe to be the findings; scientists rush back in waving their arms saying, “No, you can’t quite say that.” Lather, rinse, repeat. In other words: if you’re a high school smart-ass figuring you’ll pull your history teacher’s chain by answering “Why did the Pilgrims leave England?” with a snappy “Because DNA,” know that your risky behavior is likely to result in a low exam score. What if, despite that knowledge, you can’t help yourself? Feel free to blame your genes. Everyone else does. n Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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Two seventh-grade developers discuss the rise and fall of their Trumpinspired video game. BY ALEX SPRINGER comments@cityweekly.net @CaptainSpringer

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ideo games have become more integral to the lives of modern teenagers than almost any other form of entertainment. While this might evoke images of inactive, disengaged teens who use the words “noob” and “lulz” too much, there’s an often-overlooked aspect of gaming culture— creative development. Thanks to games like Minecraft, young people have begun to adopt a more thoughtful approach to video games, using them as virtual platforms to express themselves and collaborate with others. That’s what Chris Cordova and Sam Glick, two seventh graders from Salt Lake City, loved about a website called Roblox, a free, kid-friendly social network and development platform that gave them the resources to work on a game together over the summer. On Aug. 11, they launched their final product on Roblox’s online community, it instantly took off, and, naturally, the amateur developers were ecstatic—until their game was pulled from Roblox’s servers for violating the site’s rules of conduct. Why? The pair says because the game features images of Donald Trump and the “great wall” he claims he’ll build between the United States and Mexico. “It’s like an obstacle course,” Glick, onehalf of the newly formed Curious Studios, says of the game titled Get Over Trump’s Wall. Eager to show it off in motion, the 12-yearold powers up his iMac that has been moved to the kitchen table in his parent’s Salt Lake City home. About 10 minutes into it, he has taken charge of his avatar, a blocky, threeheaded dude with a snake wrapped around his neck. It’s not long before he’s leaping

over American flags and doing parkour through Trump’s mansion on his way to the White House. Next to a climbable facsimile of Trump Tower, a gold statue of The Orange One himself stands imposingly over the landscape, waving the stars and stripes. After a swan dive into Trump’s swimming pool, Glick navigates through a few more obstacles until he makes it through the wall and into Mexico—where he is welcomed by an audience of Mexican corgis, no less. Neither Cordova nor Glick have particularly strong political opinions—they’re seventh graders, after all—but there was something about Trump’s persona that stuck with them. “He’s just everywhere,” Cordova says. “We just used him because we thought it would be funny, and he’s trending right now.” Something within that equation worked, because the game earned over 30,000 unique hits after spending only two days on Roblox’s servers. While that’s a huge win for any independent artist, the folks at Roblox weren’t too happy with Curious Studios and their representation of the Republican presidential candidate. Not long after the game’s launch, Glick received an email from a Roblox admin in which he was informed that

his game would be removed and that his account would be temporarily suspended. “It was all very surprising,” says Sam’s mother, Elaine. “There isn’t anything offensive in the game at all.” Roblox’s rules of conduct are specific about users posting adult content or material that promotes illegal activities. In the section called “What Not to Post,” it reminds users that, “If you are a member of a religious or political group, Roblox is not the place to post about your political views or religious ideals.” But that’s where things get a little murky. As someone who just had their first experience with Get Over Trump’s Wall, I can tell you that the game doesn’t have a political agenda—unless you happen to feel very strongly about obstacle courses. Still, a handful of games with some variation on the title Kill Donald Trump are still playable on Roblox. “They need more of an explanation,” says Chris’ mom Vicky, “There needs to be some more rights for users to be able to have their game. They just took all of their work away from them.” Repeated emails to Roblox representatives went unanswered. “I find it sad that companies and

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organizations continue to target, market and depend on our children for their personal growth and then censor them and stifle their creativity,” Chris’ father John Cordova says. “So many mixed messages for such a young age.” Even though Glick and Cordova’s stint didn’t have a happier ending, it’s far from game over. “I think we learned a lot because we built it so fast,” Cordova says, “but we can build more games in the future, and build them longer and make them better.” It’s also taught them to be careful with their expectations. “The games that have over a million views take years to make,” Glick adds. “Us, we just took off so fast, and that’s not what you want to do.” No hard feelings, the pair says, though a defiant message saying, “Thanks Roblox for deleting this,” now sits where Get Over Trump’s Wall once lived, which hints at the fact that the two budding game developers didn’t take the situation lying down. After all, they created something that ended up getting shut down by the powers that be. Any artist will agree—they’re doing something right. CW

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Eight ways the candidates might get out of the Sept. 26 presidential debate:

8. Hillary Clinton will produce

an “excused” note from her physician, Dr. Satan.

7. Donald Trump won’t appear unless moderators sign his “No Math, Geography or Other Very Bad Questions” agreement.

Clinton forgets to renew her auto-pay account with The Liberal Media.

5. Trump’s custom podium

construction falls behind schedule due to lack of Mexican laborers.

Clinton will stay home and send in her body double (Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon).

3. Trump refuses to go to

Hofstra University because nickname “The Pride” could be “a gay thing or whatever.”

Clinton fakes her own death and retires to Celebrity Afterlife Island® with Lemmy and Prince.

1. Trump and Clinton take a

“relaxation” break at 4:20 with Gary Johnson and just forget to show up.

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RECYCLING EVENT

Got junk? Not just any junk, but things that are hard to recycle and can’t be put in those blue recycling bins? Salt Lake City residents can get rid of these items at Utah Recycling Alliance’s upcoming event, CHaRMS, which stands for “Collection of Hard-to-Recycle Materials.” The idea is to put these used items to good use by giving them a second life. Instead of throwing them in the landfill, you can help local re-purposing, recycling and reuse industries to thrive. There are demonstrations and repair workshops, too. Vendors accept a wide array of items, from books and car-seats to tires and Styrofoam. 352 W. 900 South, 435-659-1117, Saturday, Sept. 24, 8 a.m.-noon, free, open to public, UtahRecyclingAlliance.org

CHILI AFFAIR

The Road Home, the largest homeless shelter in Utah, needs your help. That’s what The Great Salt Lake Chili Affair is all about—fundraising for the homeless. Local restaurants provide all kinds of chili, bread and desserts, while games and other activities keep your little ones busy. There is also a silent auction, which includes a trip to Chicago. Salt Palace Convention Center, Exhibit Hall 5, 100 S. West Temple, 801-819-7296, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 5:30-9 p.m., $42 per person, $300 for a table of 8, children 12 and under free, TheRoadHome.org

THE WALK OF NO SHAME

Maybe you’ve protested before—for clean air, or Medicaid expansion. This time, you can make a statement during the annual SlutWalk, a march against sexual assault, victim-blaming, slutshaming and rape culture in general. Given the angst surrounding BYU’s Honor Code, this walk to the Capitol takes on real significance to drive change. Speakers incude local comedians and slam poets, as well as Mayor Jackie Biskupski and Rep. Angela Romero, who will talk about local politics and how you can make a difference in your community this election year. “The Walk of No Shame” is Salt Lake City’s chapter of the international movement SlutWalk, which aims to strike down the stigma that survivors of sexual assault or violence somehow deserved it because of their appearance. Salt Lake City and County Building, north steps, 385-202-3538, Saturday, Sept. 24, noon-3 p.m., free, Facebook.com/SlutWalkSLC (see p. 8)

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What Goes Around, Comes Around One of the Islamic State’s first reforms in captured territory has been to require adult women to dress devoutly—including the face-covering burka robe, which, in Western democracies famously presents security dilemmas because it hinders identification. Now, after two years of Islamic State occupation in Mosul, Iraq, the security problem has come full circle on ISIS itself. Dispatches from the town reported in September that ISIS has likely banned the burka because it hinders identification of anti-ISIS insurgents who (female and male) wear burkas to sneak up on Islamic State officers.

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iting herself semi-nude for “fans” (she claims 20,000) who watch online as morbidly obese people eat. She told the celebrity news site Barcroft Media in September that her 8,000 calories a day puts her on track to weigh 1,000 pounds soon, and that her loving boyfriend, Sid, 25 and a “feeder,” is turned on by helping her. Sid, for instance, feeds Monica her special 3,500-calorie “shake”— through a funnel—and supposedly will eagerly become her caretaker when she eats herself into total immobility. (“Safe For Work” website: SSBBW Magazine)

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Recurring Themes Barbara Murphy, 64, of Roy, Utah, is the most recent “dead” person battling the federal government to prove she is still alive (but seemingly getting nowhere). She said Social Security Administration bureaucrats, citing protocols, have been tightlipped about her problem and remedies even though her bank account was frozen; Social Security was dunning her for two years worth of Medicare premiums (since her 2014 “death”); and warning letters had been sent to banks and credit agencies. Nonetheless, Murphy told the Deseret News in August that, all in all, she feels pretty good despite being dead.

n A high school girl and her parents told the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat in July that they were on the verge of filing a lawsuit demanding that the school district order the Leon High School cheerleader squad to select her (even though she had fallen twice during tryouts).

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Super-Size Me Texan Monica Riley, age 27 and weighing 700 pounds, is the most recent “super-sized” woman to claim happiness in exhib-

n Once again, Iceland’s “little people” have, when disrespected, roiled the country’s public policy. In August, a road crew had inadvertently buried a supposedly enchanted elfin rock along a highway being cleared of debris from a landslide, and immediately, all misfortunes in the area were attributed to the elves’ displeasure. According to an Agence France-Presse dispatch, crews were quickly ordered to re-set the rock. (The incident was one more in a long series in which public and private funds in Iceland are routinely diverted toward projects thought to appease the elves.)

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n The most recent perp to realize that cops use Facebook is Mack Yearwood, 42, who ignored a relative’s advice and uploaded his Citrus County, Fla., wanted poster for his Facebook profile picture, thus energizing deputies who, until then, had no leads on his whereabouts. He was caught a day later and faces a battery complaint and several open arrest warrants.

n Russian performance artist Petr Pavlensky’s most infamous moment was in 2013 when, to protest government oppression, he nailed his scrotum to the ground at Moscow’s Red Square. (He had also once sewn his lips shut and, at another time, set fire to a door at Russia’s FSB security headquarters.) In August, the Burger King company announced a series of four limited-edition sandwiches inspired by Pavlensky for the artist’s hometown of St. Petersburg. The scrotum performance, for example, will be marked by an egg “nailed” to a burger by plastic spear. A company spokesperson said Pavlensky was chosen as the inspiration because he is popular with “the masses.”

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Least Competent Criminals Boyd Wiley, 47, was arrested in August when he walked into the Putnam County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Office and, apparently in all seriousness, demanded that deputies return the 91 marijuana plants they had unearthed from a vacant lot in the town of Interlachen several days earlier. (Until that moment, deputies did not know whose plants they were.) Wiley was told that growing marijuana is illegal in Florida and was arrested.

Updates Roy Pearson, a former District of Columbia administrative law judge, might be the only person in America who believes that his 2005 $54 million unsuccessful lawsuit against his dry cleaners was not frivolous—and he has still not come to the end of his legal odyssey. In June 2016, a D.C. Bar disciplinary committee recommended that Pearson be placed on probation for two years because of ethics violations, including having made statements “unsupported” by facts when defending his contention that the cleaners’ “satisfaction guaranteed” warranty made it liable for various negative occurrences in Pearson’s life following the loss of a pair of pants at the store. Not surprisingly, Pearson, now 65, announced that he would challenge the committee recommendation.

Sounds Familiar Chris Atkins in Denver is among the most recent judicially ruled “fathers” to owe child support even though DNA tests have proven that another man’s semen produced the child. Atkins is in the middle of a contentious divorce/child custody battle in which his estranged wife wants both custody and support payments, and since Atkins did not contest his fatherhood until the child reached age 11, he has lost legal standing.

n Population grows; goods must be hauled; traffic congestion is worse; and thus trucks keep spilling their loads on the highways. The really weird ones have set the bar perhaps unattainably high for this genre of news (e.g., the truck spilling pornographic magazines; the truck hauling ham colliding with the truck hauling eggs). In September, a tractor-trailer overturned on Interstate 295 in New Castle, Del., spilling a particularly low-value load. The truck, headed for the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, was filled with 22 tons worth of increasingly shunned U.S. pennies, but these were even less useful (though perhaps, by metal content, more valuable!) because they were not-yet-engraved “blanks.”

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n Political connections in some Latin American countries have allowed convicted drug dealers and crime bosses to serve their sentences comfortably, and the most recent instance to make the news, from Agence France-Presse, was the presidential-suitetype “cell” occupied by Brazilian drug lord Jarvis Chimenes Pavao in Paraguay. When police (apparently not “politically connected”) raided the cell in July, they found a well-appointed apartment with semi-luxurious furniture settings (including a conference table for Pavao to conduct “business”), embellished wallpaper designs with built-in bookcases, a huge TV among the latest electronics—and even a handsome shoe rack holding Pavao’s footwear selection. Pavao also rented out part of the suite to other inmates for the equivalent of $5,000 plus $600 weekly rent.

No Longer Weird Police in Centralia, Wash., arrested a man (not identified in news reports) for reckless burning in August when, trying to rid his apartment of roaches, he declined ordinary aerosol bug spray in favor of making a homemade flamethrower (the aerosol spray fired up by a lighter). He fled the apartment when he realized he might have taken things too far. (Firefighters were called, but the damage was minimal.)

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Shadows Former AG Mark Shurtleff on being radioactive, deliverance and medi-pot.

he executives at Troutman Sanders were done. It was the end of May, in 2013, and the international law firm’s partners, who had hired former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff to work in their Washington, D.C., office for a starting salary of $550,000 a year and the prospect of a partnership, were tired of the negative press he was attracting. It had begun in January, the same month he was hired, with a short-lived and much-pilloried federal probe into Shurtleff and his onetime campaign manager and handpicked successor, John Swallow. By May, the Utah Lieutenant Governor’s Office had announced an investigation into irregularities in Swallow’s campaign finances—and a week later, local prosecutors said they were investigating both Swallow and Shurtleff in conjunction with the feds. “Have all your stuff out of the office by tonight,” Shurtleff says he was told. Once among the most powerful men in Utah, a perennial name in talks about future governors and senators, Shurtleff’s reputation was in ruins. Surgeries on his left knee following a brutal 2007 motorcycle accident had left him with a rolling limp and one leg an inch longer than the other. How easy it would be to fall in front of a subway train, he thought. He had insurance, after all. “Everybody knows I have screwed up legs,” he says. “I could stumble. It’s just easier to end it all—make it look like an accident.” He called his close friend, Lynne Ross, who had been named executive director of the National Association of Attorneys General the same month Shurtleff was anointed

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Utah’s top lawyer in January 2000. He came over on the metro. “He was absolutely distraught,” she recalls. “He was personally lower than I had ever seen a person.” It took a while, Ross says, but Shurtleff eventually calmed down and went back to the firm to clear out his office. Three and a half years later, 59-year-old Shurtleff believes his decision to lift himself back up on that day and begin the long fight against those who tainted his name has been validated—and that he has been vindicated. Many others believe the decision to dismiss all charges against Shurtleff, due in part to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling gutting bribery charges and accusations by his prosecutor that the feds wouldn’t provide evidence, violating Shurtleff’s constitutional rights, represents a miscarriage of justice. Either way, Shurtleff has hardly got off scot-free. The price he and his family have paid enduring a years-long massive corruption probe has left them picking up the pieces of their lives.

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Shurtleff’s numerous friends “started popping off like flies,” he says, as each new headline branded him ever deeper as someone accused of accepting gifts and political contributions from people his office was investigating. Those are accusations he steadfastly denies. Ross, however, remained resolutely loyal through the FBI searches of Shurtleff’s and Swallow’s homes, and the filing of multiple felony charges alleging pay-to-play and his arrest. “It’s a wrenching experience to go through and to watch,” says Ross, a 67-year-old beltway veteran. She says she and

many friends “were incredulous—shocked,” when he was charged. “I think we were disbelieving that somebody like Mark could have done any of the things that he was accused of doing,” she says. “It just seemed out of character.” Others were far from surprised. Local defense attorney Gregory G. Skordas, who unsuccessfully ran against Shurtleff for what would be the latter’s second term, says what happened to Shurtleff is an age-old tale. “The year I ran against Shurtleff, he probably could have run for the Senate,” Skordas says. “He was immensely popular. He was probably one of the most popular and powerful political figures in the state. He had a good gig; he just screwed it up. He played it wrong. But that’s what happens with power—it corrupts.” On July 15, 2014, Shurtleff was charged with 10 felony counts of corruption (later reduced to six felonies and a misdemeanor by Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings), described in the initial charging document as including “multiple instances of witness tampering, obstructing justice, soliciting bribes, money laundering and accepting gifts by a public officer or public employee.” Swallow, Shurtleff’s successor whom an Independent House investigative committee said had put a “for sale” sign on the AG’s office, was charged the same day with 11 felonies and two misdemeanors, including receiving or soliciting bribes, accepting gifts, evidence tampering and engaging in a pattern of unlawful conduct. Two years later, after Shurtleff’s defense team filed lengthy motions seeking dismissal of the case and

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One of the stranger elements in the corruption probe into Mark Shurtleff and John Swallow is the shifting of alliances between leading players. No more so than Davis County prosecutor Troy Rawlings siding with Shurtleff’s defense attorneys at Snow, Christensen & Martineau to ask a judge to order the U.S. Department of Justice to provide them with evidence the feds had gathered through their own investigations into the two Utah AGs.

At the heart of this fight is Rawlings’ contention that the federal government, in order to protect several senior, local and national political figures from allegations of financial chicanery, sought to withhold evidence that violated Shurtleff’s constitutional rights to a fair and speedy trial. In a two-page document composed mostly of questions that Rawlings released to the press in late July 2016, the prosecutor asked what had happened to the issues raised by then-AG Shurtleff in November 2012 when he had gone to the FBI “with respect to his friend [St. George businessman] Jeremy Johnson, and his Chief Deputy John Swallow possibly being involved in bribing, or attempting to bribe United States Senator Harry Reid? Where is the complete investigative file? What steps were taken to vet the concerns of a then sitting Attorney General?” When it comes to the dismissed charges that have hung over Shurtleff for the past two years, he denies there was any “pay-to-play” arrangement between him and Johnson, who was recently sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for providing false information to a bank. He also denies interfering in a case involving

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Though Shurtleff’s case was dismissed, the fight over evidence relating to the investigation continues.

While some former AGs remained supportive, Shurtleff was asked not to attend any Attorneys General meetings, such as one in the winter of 2014 in Salt Lake City hosted by the Conference of Western Attorneys General. He also was a member of the Society of Attorneys General Emeritus, but they also made it clear they didn’t want him involved anymore. He kept some of his clients, working for the video gaming industry to combat legislation a New Jersey senator was bringing to restrict mature-rated games. But the scandal took its toll on his ability to bring on new clients, even as it scalded off, one by one, those that remained. In early 2015, Shurtleff started his own law firm with the son in-law of his LDS bishop as a partner, with the intention of the young lawyer doing the legwork. Shurtleff

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After Troutman fired him in the midst of what’s been repeatedly billed as the biggest political scandal in Utah history, Shurtleff was stuck with a year-lease on his apartment in D.C. There were very few nights, he says, “where I didn’t wake up, my skin on fire, prickly,” caught up in a fight-or-flight anxiety attack. He wasn’t suffering alone. Annie Shurtleff, his 19-yearold daughter, says she doesn’t think she’s ever had a normal life, even before scandal touched her family. She recalls one Christmas when a group of polygamists were threatening to harm themselves in the backyard of her home so the children would find them. It had snowed hard that Christmas, M’Liss says with a rueful smile, but nevertheless Annie did not want to go out into the backyard until her father encouraged her. She stood by the door and looked out. “Nope, no dead people,” Annie said. But nothing had prepared her for what she would face as the investigation into her father continued. At high school, teenagers would ask her “How does it feel to have your dad be a crook?” She felt constantly judged and thrown out of every social group. “I had nobody. I didn’t have friends. I

was alone,” she says. “Nobody wanted to be attached to anybody whose father was going through this.” And then the FBI came. Annie was in the back bedroom when the door flew open, hitting the wall, and men screamed at her to put her hands up. A red laser dot from a rifle scope appeared on her chest as she stood there, shaking. She ran to her brother down the hall, only to be torn away from him. “They told us not to hug or touch or talk,” she says, and they warned her that if she couldn’t quiet the family’s dog, the agents would. When she walked out into the street, reporters rushed up to question her. Six weeks later, the armed men came for Shurtleff. At the Salt Lake County lock-up, he was greeted by Sheriff Jim Winder, photographed and placed in a cell. “All I’ve been about my whole life is law enforcement and public safety,” Shurtleff says. Facing the cell’s walls, he says, “was a humbling experience.”

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But he’ll never be the connected and respected man he was. And that is clearly weighing on him. “It’s hard to have your name slaughtered like that,” says Shurtleff’s wife of 35 years, M’Liss. The good he did “was never mentioned; he gave his heart and soul to the state of Utah.” While she’s sure “he’d love to have his reputation back,” if not that, M’Liss says, her husband would like to “be involved in helping whatever cause is up his sleeve, whatever is yanking his chain.” Indeed, Shurtleff never really stopped doing that—even as his life tailspinned ever faster into disgrace and the possibility of up to 30 years behind bars.

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challenging search warrant affidavits as highly questionable (see sidebar below), on July 18, 2016, Rawlings “stood down” from prosecuting Shurtleff, moving to drop all charges. News of the dismissal came via a text message from one of his attorneys. “Great news. Case dismissed. Bad news. Judge granted the state’s motion. Not ours.” That was bad news because it meant Shurtleff would not receive attorneys’ fees from the state, leaving him owing $800,000. Now he and his lawyers are in negotiations with the state over a settlement, with the possibility of a civil suit looming in the background if they don’t come to terms. Skordas was disappointed rather than surprised by the way the case fizzled out. “To me it was a case the people should have heard,” he says. “It deserved to be put before a jury and a judge, and let the evidence come out.” Shurtleff did the rounds, criticizing local media, prosecutor Sim Gill, the FBI and the Department of Public Safety, for constructing a “false narrative” that had ruined his and his family’s life. He reserved praise for what he called the “ethical” handling of the case by Rawlings. But it was hardly a victory lap. Somewhere in the back of his mind, there lurked the dying cries of Maitre Hauchecorne, the victim of a false allegation in Guy de Maupassant’s “The Piece of String.” Toward the end of the story, Maupassant writes that Hauchecorne “was dimly conscious that it was impossible to prove his innocence, his craftiness being so well known. He felt himself struck to the heart by the injustice of the suspicion.” He told all and sundry he was innocent. But the more he denied it, Maupassant wrote, “the less he was believed.” Finally he died, even in his last agonized moments crying out his truth. Shurtleff says he doesn’t want to become like Hauchecorne. “I’ve got to leave all that,” he says. “If we can hold some people accountable and get ourselves secured financially,” then, he says, that will be enough.

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posted a video offering his services as an attorney with images of the courthouse where his case was ongoing in the background. His young partner ultimately went to work for the state. “We just weren’t making it,” Shurtleff says. He signed up with a legal-referral service but the only cases he got were pro-bono, individuals in desperate legal situations with no money. His financial woes worsened as his only regular consultancy fees from a multi-level marketing business ended in 2015, after, he says, the chairman blamed their dropping stock price on Shurtleff’s presence. Since he couldn’t get clients as an attorney, he decided to take advantage of his private status and go into business. That, too, proved challenging. Long an advocate for medical marijuana after he learned firsthand how powerful opiate painkillers are in the wake of his motorcycle accident, Shurtleff tried to set up a medical marijuana business with a friend who made millions through online lending and a Utah scientist who had invented a 12-foot rotating metal circle for growing tomatoes that seemed it would be equally effective at growing medicinal weed. Shurtleff put together a multi-milliondollar deal with his friend’s backing and found a property in California’s Yucca Valley on which they made an offer. “It was perfect, a large building for an indoor grow,” Shurtleff says. Just before they were to close the deal, the town’s council voted to ban cultivation within city limits. Undeterred, Shurtleff also worked with his brother Kevin, a chemist, inventor and teacher at Utah Valley University, on developing a mist inhaler called MicroMist Now. Their first inhaler mist was QuickNIC, which delivered an instant nicotine spray, that Shurtleff says was for smokers when they couldn’t smoke or vape, but they couldn’t get the money to market it. Shurtleff and his brother attended a counter-culture convention in Las Vegas where, he says, “there must have been 5,000 different bongs.” The pair also worked on a medical marijuana inhaler and went up to Oregon for research. As soon as he walked on a grower’s property, he could smell the bud. He texted his wife, “We’re not in Utah anymore,” when he saw a giant bell jar full of bud next to the toaster in the kitchen. But Shurtleff’s brother backed out because “he didn’t feel good about it,” Shurtleff says. “Of course, I had to support him.” Shurtleff says his current business venture is the closest yet he’s got to success in the private sector. As a law student, he edited his law school’s natural resources review, and he’s maintained an interest in the environment. He hopes his expertise is going to pay dividends, as he’s one of a “handful” of attorneys in the United States who are experts in carbon emissions and carbon-offset credits. Every ton of CO2 that a company removes from the atmosphere entitles it to one carbon offset credit, which it can then sell on an international exchange. In late 2015, Shurtleff co-founded Carbon-Offset Brokers Inc., of which he owns 25 percent and for which

he serves as general counsel. COBI seeks to help businesses with the potential to earn these credits by, for example, switching to energy-saving LED lights. Once the credits are sold, COBI splits the profits with the client. It’s a highly complex, heavily regulated field involving verification processes and a registry which has to approve the sale, and can take several years before the credits are sold. To speed up the process, COBI provides financing for companies to turn to solar power or LED lighting. COBI has 25 salespeople currently, each with a cell phone that records all calls, “making sure we’re doing everything right,” Shurtleff says. The big clients he wants to land are healthcare facilities where “they are burning fluorescent lamps through that building 24/7.” For now, though, he’s focusing on methaneproducing dairies, family gaming centers and car lots.

“Here is a disgraced former attorney general, and he’s still bopping around like he could run for office tomorrow and win. It hasn’t hit him yet.” — Defense Attorney Gregory G. Skordas

PARADISE LOST

As an AG, Shurtleff built a name for himself advocating for issues a Republican Mormon might be expected to avoid, such as hate crimes legislation, supporting samesex marriage, media shield laws and pro-immigration reform. He welcomed the spotlight drawn by his maverick positions, enjoying local and national media attention. As his criminal case grinded on, though, he was reduced to working far behind the scenes. That’s what he did for State Senator Mark Madsen, who says Shurtleff reached out to him to offer help after Madsen took a public stand for legalizing medical marijuana in Utah. “I know he’s been in touch with patients subjected to the terrorism that the government practices on patients who need cannabis,” Madsen

developer Marc Sessions Jenson. Jenson has long maintained he paid for trips for Shurtleff and Swallow to a high-end California resort while he was the subject of an AG investigation, but Shurtleff says a friend told him he would pay for the two trips to Pelican Hill so he could work on his novel. But while the case may have been dismissed, questions raised by Shurtleff’s attorneys and by prosecutor Rawlings about the legality of some parts of the search warrants have yet to be addressed. Shurtleff accuses state and federal agents of perjury and misleading magistrates in order to get the search warrants. “I couldn’t believe it happened and it did,” he says. Two of the most prominent examples in the affidavits of misleading or omitted information involve an attempt to bribe Shurtleff and

says, “and for whom modern medicine offers nothing else.” Shurtleff didn’t want to “taint” Madsen’s initiative by his public presence, but rather sought to provide contacts and resources the senator could draw on if needed, Madsen says. He continues, Shurtleff “was sensitive and humble enough to stand in the back. He realized he was radioactive and didn’t want to harm an issue he cared about, so he stood on the sidelines and didn’t look for any credit.” Shurtleff’s current quixotic cause, which saw him fly to Washington, D.C., at the beginning of September, is one that was introduced to him by Jackson, Miss.-based personal injury attorney John Arthur Eaves Jr. The cause is Vieques, a tiny island just off Puerto Rico that Eaves, in his soft, lilting Southern accent calls, “paradise lost.” While it boasts a landscape of mountains and lush terrain where wild Spanish horses roam, “the beauty is deceptive,” Eaves says. He’s been suing the U.S. Navy since 1999 on behalf of 3,600 of the 9,000 inhabitants of the 134-square-mile island, which long doubled as one of the world’s busiest bombing ranges. The environmental and health consequences of 60 years of bombing “ranging from napalm and depleted uranium,” according to Eaves’ firm, has led to “abnormally high rates of serious diseases and illnesses, birth defects and many other tragic problems.” Puerto Rican figures from 2001 put the cancer rates as up 300 percent over the prior 20 years. Eaves was introduced to Shurtleff by mutual friend and four-term Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. Eaves told Shurtleff about his long-running fight with the U.S. Navy to get it to publicly recognize the harm it had done the islanders. He needed his help to make a case to Congress. Shurtleff had broken his foot, but nevertheless limped around the halls of power in D.C., meeting with members of the Utah delegation on the issue. Shurtleff dug up old documents and facts that Eaves was unaware of, notably that the Puerto Rican government had sued the U.S. Navy in 1983 and settled the case with the commitment they would give the island back to the people when they left. Instead they turned it over to the Department of the Interior. The former attorney general worked on getting a bill into the 2016 U.S. Congressional package addressing Puerto Rico’s financial crisis to include a transfer of land for Vieques, but it was taken out by Democrats after environmentalists protested, he says. Since then, he’s drafted a new bill seeking federal funds to pay off the lawsuit. “I’m outraged what we did to these people and even more outraged no one will take care of it,” Shurtleff says. Outrage, though, doesn’t pay. Not beyond expenses and the very distant possibility of a payoff somewhere down the line, at least. That’s not the point, he says. “It’s injustice and it needs to be fixed.”

his dismissal of a civil case involving Bank of America. In 2007, Shurtleff went to the FBI about an attempt to bribe him by someone working for Jenson. After the FBI coached Shurtleff on conducting a sting and put a camera in a mantle clock, he invited the man to his parents’ home. But federal prosecutors concluded that the man was too careful in his wording to allow prosecution. In the search warrant affidavit, Shurtleff says, “They have it as Mark Shurtleff soliciting a bribe. They didn’t tell the judge, ‘This was our operation, this was our sting, he was a cooperative witness, we told him what to say, we filmed the whole thing.’ So the judge is left with the impression they got this guy on videotape soliciting a bribe. I’m, like, how can this be?” Rawlings confirmed Shurtleff’s version of

events regarding the latter’s cooperation with the FBI on the sting. Another big-ticket item that featured both in the House committee’s investigation into Swallow and in an affidavit and a subsequent criminal charge was allegations that Shurtleff dismissed a case involving Bank of America to get a job with Troutman Sanders, which represents BoA. The AG’s office had joined a civil lawsuit by a local businessman who had held a fundraiser for John Swallow, making any decision by him on the case a conflict of interest. In the House investigative committee’s final report, it cites an email from Shurtleff that it characterizes as the sitting AG “politically protecting” his heir apparent. However, Shurtleff says, he had “legitimate reasons” why he dismissed it including that the attorney at the AG handling

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While Shurtleff says he was vindicated by the dismissal, the press did not take kindly to the result. The Salt Lake Tribune’s opinion page stated that Shurtleff had brought “dishonor” to his office, citing the independent House investigation of John Swallow, which had also made serious allegations about Shurtleff’s handling of a case involving Bank of America. Shurtleff says the committee got its facts wrong. All he ever wanted to do, he says, was be what his father raised him to be, a public servant who will represent the interests of the people. “To then be accused of the opposite of that is very hard to deal with,” he says. Defense attorney Skordas and Shurtleff became friends after the latter won his second term, but it ultimately turned awkward, Skordas says. The saddest thing to him, he says, is that “I don’t think he learned anything. Here is a disgraced former attorney general, and he’s still bopping around like he could run for office tomorrow and win. It hasn’t hit him yet. It’s done. It’s over.”

Shurtleff says he has no plans to return to politics, but still wants to be involved in the world of attorneys general. Post-dismissal, he renewed his membership to SAGE, the association for former attorneys general. “I’m very excited to attend the next meeting,” he says. The repercussions of being under law enforcement’s scrutiny still linger, though. Annie Shurtleff shakes when she relives the FBI serving the search warrant. “Every time I hear the doorbell ring, I’m afraid to answer,” she says. If she sees an unfamiliar car in the street, she does a double-take. “No one should have to live that way. No one should have to be afraid to live in their house and have people barging in, pointing guns at you.” Shurtleff expects the corruption probe to dog him for a long time. He talks about a business offer that was all but signed and delivered, nixed two days later by a board member of the company who Googled his name. “I think we’re a strong family,” Annie says, “and that’s what we’re going to rebuild on, faith in each other, love for each other. Other people don’t get this opportunity. I think we’re very blessed and fortunate. And we’ll go on from there.” In one of his more despondent moments, Shurtleff went to a Georgetown tattoo parlor and had the face of lady justice and the motto in Latin, “The people’s good is the highest law,” tattooed on his upper arm. He didn’t like the artist’s rendition of a blindfolded, scowling woman. “But now it rings true,” he says. “Injustice pisses me off.” CW

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For all the outsized political and legal drama that Shurtleff has lived through in the media and the courts, many of the problems he currently faces are the sorts of trials and tragedies that so many other families deal with. While he has continued to pursue business startups and working on causes that matter to him, income to support his family has long since dried up. In 2015, for the first time, he went to church for help. “I’d never thought we’d have to take welfare money from the LDS Church,” he says. With his bishop, he obtained a storehouse form to request what they needed, but when he took it home, his wife observed that there was nothing on it. He told her he didn’t want to take advantage. She sat down with the Relief Society president and by the end had enough food in the freezer to last them a month. Now they face foreclosure on their Sandy home. Shurtleff recently cashed out the last of his retirement fund. After that, he says, he has nothing left. Meanwhile, he and his wife have petitioned the Third District Court for guardianship of their 2-year-old granddaughter, River. River’s mother, their 24-year-old daughter Danielle, says she’s struggling with personal problems and her daughter “needs a stable home.” She describes herself as someone who, having been adopted, has long had “huge abandonment issues. I’d wake up as a child and be terrified my parents had gone.” While

she has gone through what she calls “my mid-life crisis,” away from her parents and siblings, so the rest of her family has gone through her father being subjected to a criminal investigation and prosecution. It adds to a sense of estrangement, she says. “We’re all somebody we used to be,” she says.

Attorneys General Shurtleff or John Swallow are false.” The FBI and DPS stand by their investigation of Shurtleff. “The FBI and DPS are as confident in the investigation of Mr. Shurtleff today as they were on July 28 when the motion to dismiss charges was made without consulting either agency. The investigation of former Attorney General Swallow continues.” Rawlings says both agencies were fully aware of his decision to dismiss prior to him doing so and isn’t surprised the feds and the state “stand behind DoJ violations of Mr. Shurtleff’s rights.” He submits a challenge to the U.S. Department of Justice to debate him on the Shurtleff investigation and issues relating to the grand jury probe of Reid. “Bring as many agents and attorneys as you want, DoJ,” he says. “The public needs to see this one.”

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tleff’s investigation is whether the local FBI office was ordered to stop investigating him after the U.S. Department of Justice announced in 2014 it would not prosecute Shurtleff and Swallow following a high profile, if short-lived and muchcriticized investigation by D.C. agents. Rawlings says he learned that was indeed the case from local federal prosecutors and informed Shurtleff’s attorneys. Rawlings made multiple, unsuccessful requests for a letter local prosecutors told him contained the order to “stand down” and says the local FBI office denies any such letter existed. In a joint statement from the FBI special agent in charge, Eric Barnhart, and Utah’s Department of Public Safety director Keith D. Squires, they said the two agencies were committed to “holding accountable those who breach the public trust. “Recent assertions that the FBI Salt Lake City Field Office was recused from the investigation of former

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the lawsuit had a personal conflict: He was himself being foreclosed on by BoA. Much as with the FBI sting, Shurtleff found his actions and motives mischaracterized in a search warrant affidavit. Indeed, according to his defense attorney’s motion, it “attempted to create a misleading inference that the Attorney General’s office abandoned the interests of thousands of Utah citizens.” Rawlings describes the “flaws” in the affidavit relating to Bank of America, as “particularly egregious.” He continues, “When the truth is known about the Bank of America dismissal by Mark Shurtleff it’s clear he made the right call. For the same factual and legal reasons that Shurtleff made the decision to get Utah out of that case, I would have done the exact same thing if I was AG of Utah and probably even faster than he did.” One of the murkier questions surrounding Shur-

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A sense of humor is a very individual thing, and jokes can be pitched to pretty much any demographic. While most comedians aim for a wide range of material, many touring acts have found success in niche audiences. And considering the frequent absurdities of motherhood, it’s not surprising that The Pump and Dump is one of them. The show was created by Shayna Ferm and Tracey Tee—lifelong friends and mothers whose kids were born three weeks apart. After many play dates (and more children), the two formed an act to explore the “joys” of motherhood and the “fucked up and hilarious” aspects of parenting. It’s an opportunity for hardworking moms of any age to take an evening off for once and enjoy the humorous side of cesarean-section scars, getting kids to eat their food, and the debate of whether or not the placenta is a delicacy. The performance combines stand-up comedy, musical numbers, games with prizes and giveaways, open conversation and a chance to bond and commiserate. Where else are you going to find an acoustic musical number devoted to the medical procedure commonly referred to as the “husband stitch,” or the pure bliss of having a hotel room to yourself? Topics that some people might be afraid to talk about—especially those of us without kids—roll out easily for Ferm and Tee, as they gleefully hack away at a lifelong job with few breaks, and even fewer moments of sanity. (Gavin Sheehan) The Pump and Dump @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., $25 regular, $75 VIP. ThePumpAndDumpShow.com, WiseguysComedy.com

Hollywood—and box office results—keep telling us that young people only want the simplest, glossiest entertainment from their movies. But every year, the Utah Film Center dedicates itself to the crazy notion that kids can handle stories from other countries, in other languages, about other worlds. The sixth annual Tumbleweeds Film Festival once again showcases an international lineup of features and shorts, with adventures, dramas and comedies appropriate for a range of audiences from pre-school to middle school. Among the highlights: the delightful 2015 CGI-animated adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince (pictured), featuring the voices of Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams and Paul Rudd in the tale of a young girl pursuing the magical prince from the story. Other features bring narratives from South Korea (How to Steal a Dog), Germany (Help, I Shrunk My Teacher), Israel (Abulele), Australia (Blinky Bill: The Movie) and Estonia (Secret Society of Souptown). And in a centerpiece selection nod to the recent passing of actor Gene Wilder, there’s a special 35-mm screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, including a themed goody-bag for attendees. For those young folks who want to take their interest in film to the next level, Tumbleweeds also features workshops focusing on screenwriting, short filmmaking and even film criticism. A cinemaliterate next generation: It’s the best insurance policy for a next generation of movies that are worth getting excited about. (Scott Renshaw) Tumbleweeds Film Festival @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Sept. 23-25, $6 individual screenings, $40 for 10-film pass, full schedule at UtahFilmCenter.org/Twds2016

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It might not be possible to say it often enough, or strenuously enough: April Fossen is an absolute treasure of Salt Lake City theater. She’s only one part of a triptych of alternating monologues in Troy Deutsch’s world-premiere play set around—and sometimes on the way to— the North Carolina oceanfront. Fossen’s Connie is a recent widow who impetuously takes a Winnebago on the trip she never got to take with her husband; Tanya (Cassandra Stokes-Wylie) is a one-time high-school alpha-female returning to her hometown after attempting a modeling career; and Jeffie (Stefan Espinosa) is a native of that same town returning to recapture a moment from his own youth. Deutsch weaves a compelling story of people trying to return to simpler, less-frightening moments in their lives, even as real terrors lie ahead of them. Sandra Shotwell’s simple firstact staging—the characters initially isolated on platforms that become part of a pier for the second act, never interacting—allows for intense focus on the individual characters and the performances. And, in a way, it’s unfair that the play sets up Stokes-Wylie and Espinosa for comparison to Fossen in those isolated performances. While each actor creates a haunting portrait of a damaged, angry soul, Fossen tears into her role with a ferocity that bares all of Connie’s emotional wounds. As the three protagonists step into a potentially dangerous ocean at the story’s climax, it’s Fossen who makes it easiest to believe that she’s leaving her blood in the water. (SR) Bull Shark Attack @ Salt Lake Acting Co., 801-363-7522, through Oct. 16, WednesdaySaturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m. & 6 p.m., $15-$42. SaltLakeActingCompany.org

Reduced Shakespeare Co. is proving that it’s not just today’s politics and culture that can be ridiculous with their latest production, A Complete History of America (Abridged). Using three actors, song and sketch comedy, the 90-minute show covers around 600 years of American wars, exploration and politics. This fast-paced, vaudeville-like performance finds and creates humor in everything from the European discovery of the continent to the trenches of World War I. Sheri Jardine, spokesperson for UtahPresents, says the organization wanted the performance to coincide with the election season but avoid anything too serious and divisive. “I think it’s important to have some comedy in our season, because sometimes we all need a reminder that it’s OK to laugh and take things a little less seriously,” she says. “Live performances have the power to unite us, regardless of topic or tone, but I think laughing together in a room of people is a good way to feel more united in our community, especially when the political dialogue is so divisive in tone.” A Complete History of America (Abridged) is the latest from the company, which has been touring since 1981. The group has performed everywhere from the Off Broadway to the White House, and has similarly skewered the history of Hollywood, the Bible and, of course, Shakespeare. This performance is the only comedy-focused act of UtahPresents’ season until the Upright Citizens close it out in April. (Kylee Ehmann) Reduced Shakespeare Co.: A Complete History of America (Abridged) @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. President’s Circle, 801581-7100, Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m., $5-$29. ReducedShakespeare.com, UtahPresents.org

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Ruthless People

On the 20th anniversary of Tupac’s death, an important new book takes a gritty look at Los Angeles hip-hop. BY CHRIS FARAONE comments@cityweekly.net @Fara1

ne could argue, with the ease of claiming B.I.G. and Tupac’s eternal rap game dominance, that music fans want every speck of background on their favorite hotshots. How else could one explain the everlasting cycle of celebrity worship and tabloids, or the slut-shaming and buzz around the selfie hacks of private panty shots snapped by the starlet du jour? On the other hand, it’s clear that many pop-culture fanatics prefer that the legacies of their heroes be scrubbed and romanticized. For proof, you needn’t look much further than most biopics and TV shows about the entertainment business, in which character flaws may occasionally factor in, but are typically eclipsed by brilliance. Cultural consumers of the latter revisionist mind who wish to learn about the rise of California rap should view Straight Outta Compton, the candy-coated 2015 big-screen dramatization of the saga behind N.W.A., hip-hop’s first explosive Los Angeles export. Those who crave the dirty details, however—no matter how horrendous, despite how some characterizations might impact one’s feelings for beloved classics—will prefer to digest Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap. Authored and intensely researched by former LA Weekly music editor Ben Westhoff, the volume is as eloquently written as it is immensely raw in content. To borrow one from Ice Cube, it’s a “no Vaseline” sort of affair. In a recent chat about his latest effort, Westhoff couldn’t recall the precise nature of his original pitch to publishers. He knew that he was rolling into familiar and even well-charted territory, but he also knew that while contributions like Have Gun Will Travel, Ronin Ro’s 1999 book subtitled The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records, as well as a few other select works, spelunk various cracks in the ofteninaccurate popular narrative, there was still a mess of information buried in participants of varying significance. Add in the extraordinary social unrest and the crack epidemic from which West Coast hip-hop was in large part born, plus the unwieldy conspiracy theories that cloud almost any discussion of the subgenre—especially around the deaths of Eazy-E and Tupac—

and Westhoff saw an opportunity to weave together puzzle pieces and fill gaps left by the legions who have mined similar spaces and begun to trim some of the taller tales. Of course, reality is crazier than fiction, and it’s impossible to turn more than a couple pages in Original Gangstas without shaking one’s head in amazement at the insanity of daily life at N.W.A.’s Ruthless Records—from the number of children and artists Eazy and Dre fathered, to the Nation of Islam’s bizarre attempt to cure the former’s AIDS before his death in 1995 (a happening reported here in detail for the first time). While Westhoff started researching before he had a focus, eventually the through-line became obvious: Dr. Dre, born Andre Young, whose career as a party-rocking teenage DJ—and then later as the leading architect behind an evolving West Coast sound and the region’s chief rap impresario—transformed countless heavyweight careers. With a guiding light on Dre, Westhoff says that his approach was notably different from the one he took with Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented HipHop. Whereas that book reads more like a travelogue than, say, Brian Coleman’s comprehensive Check the Technique series, which lets the artists do most of the talking directly, Original Gangstas reads like classic investigative magazine journalism and stands alongside Check the Technique, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop by Jeff Chang and The Big Payback by Dan Charnas as a standard-bearer sure to age like a Dre track. With the responsibility of turning an investigative eye on Ruthless Records and Death Row—the latter the comparably infamous imprint of iconic criminal boss Suge Knight that fostered the careers of Snoop Dogg and Tupac—came the duty of attending to a series of unfortunate domestic assaults that took place throughout the halcyon years. It’s not a stretch to say that beating women is an especially major plotline in any story involving Dre; such behavior was so normalized among N.W.A. members, in fact, that one is left to question the intentions of Straight Outta Compton’s screenwriters, or any other biographer who masks these black eyes. One account by Westhoff, of a beating Dre gave then-TV host Dee Barnes at a club in West Hollywood, stands out among the most despicable: “‘He grabbed me by my hair, picked me up and started slamming me into a brick wall,’ said Barnes, who is nearly a foot shorter than Dre and weighed about half as much. Dre’s bodyguard held back the crowd, she added in a statement. According to eyewitness accounts, Dre began kicking her and tried to push her down a flight of stairs. She fled to the bathroom, but Dre followed her in and

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Award-winning journalist Ben Westhoff is the author of Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap. began beating her more. [N.W.A. promoter] Doug Young said the room full of spectators watched and did nothing.” In these respects, Original Gangstas is a grueling read, even for those who might be vaguely familiar with the domestic side of this story, and especially for anyone who grew up hanging pictures of these guys on their walls—an experience that I personally share with Westhoff (and that the Minnesota-bred author notes in brief throughout the book, using his own impressions as a way to show the far-reaching impact of Compton rap). But while atrocious acts against women— their victims were almost always women, as N.W.A.’s security handled the male threats—turn up on page after page, Westhoff doesn’t let those acts hijack the narrative. And why should they? This is, after all, the dirty version. Extensive scars

considered, Dre himself should probably be happy with the book, since it proves him to be among the realest MCs ever, at least in that he apparently meant in earnest and delivered on the threats he issued against women on record. As a critical addition to existing accounts of these episodes, Original Gangstas is a reliable and accessible historical document, including Westhoff’s diligence in finding sources who were difficult to track down. Though N.W.A.’s former business manager, the recently deceased Jerry Heller, was subsequently ambushed by the paparazzi likes of TMZ, Westhoff believes theirs was Heller’s last substantial interview; as he writes, in their short time together in October 2014, the mogul was “alternatively calm and heated,” oscillating “between saying he doesn’t care what anyone says about him, and vehemently denying various allegations.”

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eos from peripheral players like DJ David Faustino (yes, Bud from Married with Children) to rappers who emerged as household names outside the Ruthless fold—like Everlast, whose former girlfriend, white female MC Tairrie B, Dre once punched in the face “the way a guy would hit another guy,” according to one witness. Westhoff, who began working on Original Gangstas before Straight Outta Compton was announced, says that he and his publisher debated pushing up their drop date to align with the biopic. In the end, it wasn’t feasible—or, as the author now acknowledges, anywhere close to necessary. A proper published biographical account claws much closer to the core of any topic than could any feature film, and in this case the difference isn’t simply in the errors and omissions of the N.W.A. flick, like having the group visit the White House (in reality, Eazy attended a George H.W. Bush fundraiser at a DC hotel), or showing them being arrested for performing “Fuck tha Police” in Detroit (they weren’t). Rather, in his intricate profile of these seminal gang-related performers, we are treated to the ugly truth. Considering that California gangsta rap, before all of the hype, was commonly called “reality rap” by its originators, there should be no higher aspiration for those attempting to document the backstory. CW Original Gangstas is HachetteBookGroup.com.

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Others were more amenable, like J-Dee of Da Lench Mob, who is currently serving a sentence for murder in California. Westhoff says that coverage from Vibe magazine was particularly thorough, though he made sure to note that the publication, for reasons satisfactory or otherwise, drew criticism from some corners for fueling the violence that erupted between warring rap factions. Even with these many living documents to pluck from and fact-check, Westhoff managed to produce a seriously compelling pageturner. Never too far from his early music critic roots, the author clearly knows his shit, which is more than can be said for most people writing about rap for national audiences. Here’s his description of the frenzy over the 1988 release of Straight Outta Compton: “The album’s most memorable songs feature an assault of abrasive textures, marching drums, sample fragments, and break beats mined from Roadium swap meets. Straight Outta Compton’s bombastic sound matches its rhetoric. To hear it as a child of poverty was to nod in affirmation; to hear it as a person of privilege was to gasp in horror.” On an important side note, underground-heads should be happy to know that Westhoff, who has covered many facets of the genre, appropriately notes intersections between rap honchos and the subterranean element around them—from the involvement of Cube’s cousin Del tha Funkee Homosapien (his preferred spelling back then) with Da Lench Mob, to the parallel rise of the Good Life Cafe and an alternative rhyme scene in Greater Los Angeles. That’s in addition to a range of cam-

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Bring It On: The Musical Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, through Sept. 25, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinees, 2 p.m., Theatre.Utah.edu Bull Shark Attack Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, through Oct. 16, Tuesday-Sunday, varying times, SaltLakeActingCompany.org (see p.20) Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Hale Center Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, through Oct. 1, MondayFriday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 12:30 p.m., 4 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., HCT.org Drack-Man vs. Superiorman Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Sept. 23-Oct. 31, Friday-Saturday & Monday, TheOBT.org Ghostblasters Desert Star Theatre, 4681 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, through Nov. 5, varying days and times, DesertStar.biz Hunchback of Notre Dame Tuacahn Amphitheater, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 800-746-9882, through Oct. 15, varying days and times, Tuacahn.org The Last Ship Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, through Oct. 1, MondayThursday, 7 p.m.; Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., PioneerTheatre.org Nunsense The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787, through Oct. 1, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m., TheZiegfeldTheater.com Reduced Shakespeare Co.: A Complete History of America (Abridged) Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. President’s Circle, 801-581-7100, Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m., $5-$29, UtahPresents.org (see p. 20) See How They Run Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, through Sept. 24, Monday-Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 3 & 7:30 p.m., HaleTheater.org Tarzan Tuacahn Amphitheatre, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 800-746-9882, through Oct. 12, Monday-Saturday, 8:45 p.m., Tuacahn.org The Last Ship Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, through Oct. 1, MondayThursday, 7 p.m.; Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, 2

p.m. & 7:30 p.m., PioneerTheatre.org Utah Shakespeare Festival Randall L. Jones Theatre, 351 W. Center St., Cedar City, 435-5867878, through Oct. 22, varying days and times, Bard.org

DANCE

House of the Apocalypse: NOW-ID Dance gala Addictive Behavior Motor Works, 454 S. 500 West, Sept. 24, 6:30 p.m., NOW-ID.com Mundi Live: Porridge for Goldilocks Sorensen Unity Center Black Box, 1383 S. 900 West, Sept. 23, 7 p.m., MundiProject.org

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Utah Symphony: Salute to Youth Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Sept. 27, 7 p.m., UtahSymphony.org Songs from the British Isles Westminster College Gore Concert Hall, 1840 S. 1300 East, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., WestminsterCollege.edu/Events Utah Chamber Artists: Journeys of the Heart Cathedral of the Madeleine, 331 E. South Temple, Sept. 26, 8 p.m., UtahChamberArtists.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Aaron Orlovitz Sandy Station, 8925 S. Harrison St., Sandy, 801-255-2078, Sept. 23, 8:30 p.m., SandyStation.com Andrew Rivers Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, Sept. 23-24, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Greg Behrendt Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, Sept. 23-24, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com Improv Broadway Brigham Larson Pianos, 1497 S. State, Orem, 909-260-2509, Saturdays, 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, Salt Lake City, 801355-4628, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., LaughingStock.us Open Mic Night Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, every Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com

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LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Alex Caldiero: Who Is the Dancer, What Is the Dance Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East, 801-521-3819, Sept. 27, 7 p.m., KenSandersBooks.com Heidi Schulz: Giraffes Ruin Everything The King’s English Bookshop, 1151 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100, Sept. 24, 11 a.m., KingsEnglish.com Katherine January Corinne and Jack Sweet Library, 455 F St., Sept. 22, 7 p.m., SLCPL.org Loren Long: Otis and the Kittens The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100, Sept. 25, 2 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Matthew J. Kirby: A Taste for Monsters Provo Library, 550 N. University Ave., Provo, 801-8527685, Sept. 27, 7 p.m., ProvoLibrary.com

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Andrew Alba: Rainbow Variance Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Ste. 700, through Oct. 14, Facebook.com/MestizoArts Andrew Rice: (Re)structured Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, through Oct. 8, UtahMOCA.org Art2Go and Stephanie Hock Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, 801-328-0703, through Oct. 14, AccessArt.org Artists of Utah 35x35 Exhibition Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, through Sept. 23, SaltLakeArts.org Berna Reale: Singing in the Rain Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801328-4201, through Nov. 5, UtahMOCA.org Cara Krebs: Sehnsucht Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, through Oct. 14, UtahMOCA.org Desarae Lee: Expressions in Ink Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Oct. 9, SLCPL.lib.ut.us DesignArts ‘16 Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through Oct. 21, Monday-Friday, ArtsandMuseums.Utah.gov Dick Jemison: Limelight Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, through Oct. 12, ModernWestFineArt.com Discover Zaqistan: The Art of Adventure CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Oct. 14, CUArtCenter.org Iterations: Sue Martin and Nancy Vorm Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through Nov. 11, Monday-Friday, VisualArts.Utah.gov J. Calhoun: High Places Make Me High Corinne and Jack Sweet Library, 455 F St., 801594-8651, through Oct. 22, SLCPL.lib.ut.us Jim Williams: 265 I...Home as Self-Portrait Utah Musuem of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Sept. 24, UtahMOCA.org Jennifer Seely: Supporting Elements Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Sept. 24, UtahMOCA.org Object[ed]: Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, through Dec. 17, UtahMOCA.org Ryoichi Suzuki “A” Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, 801583-4800, through Sept. 30, AGalleryOnline.com Sibylle Szaggars Redford: Summer Rainfall Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435649-8882, through Sept. 25, KimballArtCenter.org Stephanie Hock: Savor the Small Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, Ste. 125, through Oct. 7, AccessArt.org (see p. 26) Sue Martin and Nancy Vorm: Iterations Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through Nov. 11, Monday-Friday, VisualArts.Utah.gov Willamarie Huelskamp: A Peaceful Place Salt Lake City Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, 801-594-8623, through Oct. 27, SLCPL.lib.ut.us Zion Art Exhibition Anthony’s Fine Art, 401 E. 200 South, 801-369-8894, Sept. 24-Oct. 15, ZionArtSociety.org

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Tumbleweeds Film Festival Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Sept. 23-25, $6-$40, UtahFilmCenter.org/Twds2016 (see p. 20)

VISUAL ART

30th Annual Festival of India Krishna Temple, 8628 S. State, Spanish Fork, Sept. 24, 5-8:30 p.m., UtahKrishnas.org Escalante Canyons Arts Festival 200 S. Main, Escalante, through Sept. 25, free, EscalanteCanyonsArtsFestival.com (see p. 39) Made in Utah Festival The Gateway Mall, 131 S. Rio Grande St., Sept. 24, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., free Provo River Watershed Festival Wasatch Mountain State Park, 1281 S. Warm Springs Road, Midway, Sept. 24, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., ProvoRiverWatershed.org Sandy Oktoberfest Sandy Station, 8925 Harrison St., Sandy, 801-255-2078, Sept. 24-25, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., SandyStation.com

Art Talk with Mark Reed Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-649-8882, Sept. 23, 6 p.m., KimballArtCenter.org

A unique, live music event. Vituosic piano duets & solos accompanied by The Utah Philharmonic Orchestra. Transporting you back to timeless classics such as La Vie en Rose, Besame Mucho and My Way.

9th West Farmers Market International Peace Gardens, 1000 S. 900 West, Salt Lake City, Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., through Oct. 31, 9thWestFarmersMarket.org Harvest Market Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, Tuesdays, 4-8:30 p.m., through Oct. 18, SLCFarmersMarket.org Park City Farmers Market The Canyons Resort, 1951 Canyons Resort Drive, Park City, Wednesdays, noon-6 p.m., through Oct. 26, ParkCityFarmersMarket.com Sugar House Farmers Market Fairmont Park, 1040 E. Sugarmont Ave., Salt Lake City, through Oct. 26, Wednesdays, 5-8 p.m., SugarHouseFarmersMarket.org Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 300 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City, through Oct. 22, Saturdays, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., SLCFarmersMarket.org

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“appetizer” of carne asada fries ($10). The foundation of the dish is waffle-cut fries that are topped with gooey melted cheese, crispy nuggets of flame-broiled skirt steak, with pico de gallo, sour cream and fresh guacamole. Bring an army if you have your sights set on actually finishing this dish. We also enjoyed the contrasting spicysweet flavors of blackened shrimp tostadas ($8.50), featuring small Cajun-spiced shrimp atop two crispy tortillas, with fresh pineapple salsa and avocado slices. My wife sipped a “Sabor-Rita” ($6.50). It’s one of eight different types of margaritas, ranging from the classic to a jalapeño-cilantro version and a “Bear Lake margarita” with raspberries, Lunazul Blanco tequila, sweet and sour mix and Chambord. There’s even drinkable wine available. As at most Mexican-American eateries, Cafe Sabor offers combination plates with a choice of one, two or three entrées for $6.50, $8.50 and $10.50, respectively. Combos come, also predictably, with rice and beans, or guests can substitute a house salad or cup of soup for $2 extra. Knowing that the combination platters are among the restaurant’s most popular menu items, I opted for a taco, enchilada and tamal combo. Now, some of you know that in my opinion, what distinguishes mediocre— or just good—from great in Mexican restaurants is the rice and beans. And I have to admit, both the Mexican-style rice and the creamy refried beans were above average here. That got my attention. But so did the shredded beef taco. This is not a street-style taco, but it isn’t a crispy, crunchy Del Taco-type either. The large,

Cafe Sabor’s chicken mole soft, corn tortilla was brimming with juicy, tender, shredded beef that was tastier than anything I’ve put in my mouth in quite some time. The tamal, too, was delicious: masa stuffed with perfectly seasoned beef picadillo. The chicken enchilada (choices also include cheese, ground beef, shredded beef and sweet pork) I selected to round out my combo was also very satisfying. Normally, camarones a la diabla is a devilishly spicy dish of shrimp bathed in a fiery chile sauce. At this restaurant, it’s not. However, the un-traditional shrimp and mushrooms simmered in a creamy, fairly mild mojo de ajo sauce was quite delectable. It’s just not what I expected it to be. A more authentic-tasting dish is the chicken mole ($12), which is grilled boneless chicken in a sweet-and-spicy peanut and chocolate sauce that comes with rice, beans and grilled plantains on the side. I’d gone here initially expecting to encounter Chili’s-like atmosphere and food. But I was pleasantly surprised by the nice (if loud) ambiance, and the photos and art on the walls, and even more surprised by the excellent service. If the food dished up at Cafe Sabor sounds appealing to you, it’s easy enough to hop the FrontRunner and disembark at Layton Station for a delicious Mexican-American meal. CW

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The James Beard Foundation’s “Celebrity Chef Tour” returns this weekend to Park City’s Riverhorse on Main (540 Main, 435-649-3536, RiverhorseParkCity.com). During the evening of Saturday, Sept. 24, six award-winning chefs—including a Top Chef TV fan favorite—serve a multi-course meal priced at $225 per person, with proceeds benefiting the James Beard Foundation (JamesBeard.org). Taking over Riverhorse’s kitchen is Top Chef ’s Tiffany Derry; La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club executive chef Bernard Guillas; Shabu co-owner and executive chef Robert Valaika; Deer Valley Resort director of food and beverage Jodie Rogers; Eva and Eva’s Bakery owner Charlie Perry; and Riverhorse co-owner and executive chef Seth Adams. Just like dining at the historic James Beard House in New York City, guests have the opportunity to mix, mingle and interact with the chefs. “This is going to be a night you and your taste buds won’t want to miss,” Adams says in a press release. “Each of these chefs is a rock star, and it’s going to be a blast having them in the kitchen—and for a good cause, too.” To purchase tickets, call Riverhorse on Main or visit JamesBeard.org/Events.

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Gluten-Free Expo

The nation’s largest Gluten-Free Expo makes a stop in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Oct. 8, at the South Towne Exposition Center in Sandy (9575 S. State), from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Hundreds of vendors offer product samples and coupons, and the expo also features cooking demos, medical lectures, a kids’ cupcake wars contest, a massage lounge, a kids silly-acts center and much more to appeal to those living a gluten-free lifestyle. To purchase tickets, visit GlutenFreeExpo.com. Quote of the week: “My mouth is a happy place.” —Pat Conroy Food Matters 411: tscheffler@cityweekly.

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Vincent D’Onofrio, Martin Sensmeier, Manuel García-Rulfo, Ethan Hawke, Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Byung-hun Lee in The Magnificent Seven embraces this iconography. As a director of action, he’s a meat-and-potatoes guy, which helps a lot when nearly the entire final hour is dedicated to the climactic siege on the town. But he also understands how effective it can be to have the final conflict come down to two men facing off at opposite ends of a dusty street, with their hands on their guns. This is a story not just about Good Guys vs. Bad Guys, as it plays out, but about people willing to stand up for what is right. It might be tempting to attach the now-familiar “revisionist Western” label to this film because of the ethnic diversity of the heroes, and there are satisfying tidbits in the script about how these men who could easily be enemies instead choose mutual respect and a battle against a bigger threat. Maybe that’s the part of this tale that needs telling in this world. As Elmer Bernstein’s rousing, legendary Magnificent Seven theme plays over the closing credits, it doesn’t feel like a reminder of the movie you’re not seeing; it’s a reminder of the kind of stories, about proud people fighting for justice instead of personal gain, that we wish didn’t seem so old-fashioned. CW

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That’s something of a shift from the alpha-male casting of the 1960 version, which is closer in modern equivalence to The Expendables. The script—perhaps not-coincidentally co-credited to The Expendables 2 screenwriter Richard Wenk, along with True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto— tosses out a few bits of back-story for our reluctant heroes, including hints at Chisolm’s own history with Bogue, and Civil War PTSD shaking Robichaux’s confidence. There’s still some charisma in individual performances, particularly Pratt’s devilin-his-eye Faraday and Sarsgaard’s oily conviction as the villainous Bogue. In general, though, this Magnificent Seven doesn’t seem particularly interested in plumbing psychological depths, which is a bit of a problem when scenes where characters’ lives hang in the balance don’t seem to have earned our concern over who will live and who will die. Yet there’s a throwback vibe to everything that goes on in The Magnificent Seven that somehow makes even superficiality feel like part of a plan. This is the kind of movie that introduces its cowboy protagonist riding in silhouette against the sun, and has him walk into the town saloon with a presence that hushes the rowdy patrons and silences the tinkling of the piano keys. A scene like that—complete with Pratt checking out the cards of his fellow poker players after they flee the premises—might have played as a ridiculous Western cliché, but Fuqua

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here’s a school of thought that remakes are a plague upon filmmaking, part of a desperate fear of risktaking that encourages recycling proven concepts. And there is a smaller school of thought that tempers such justifiable criticism with the caveat that a remake might be acceptable if it does something radical and daring with the original premise. But allow me to make the case with The Magnificent Seven that there might be another defense: What if a remake simply served to give us back a kind of movie we’ve forgotten how to appreciate? It’s fair enough to note, of course, that director Antoine Fuqua’s new version of The Magnificent Seven isn’t even remaking something that was original itself, since John Sturges’ 1960 film was an American re-telling of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Seven Samurai. But the 1960 Seven represents a brand of classic cinematic Western that has more modern resonance than we might realize. Whatever it may leave on the table in re-visiting this story, maybe this version tells us something we need to hear. The basics of the story have changed very little. There’s still a town under siege from a ruthless bigshot—in this case, mining boss Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard)—and his personal army of enforcers. There’s still a seemingly hopeless mission by the townspeople—represented by widowed Emma Cullen (Haley Bennett)—to hire men willing to accept the likely suicidal job of protecting them. And once one man—bounty hunter Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington)—agrees to assist, there’s a gathering of an additional six: gambler Joshua Faraday (Chris Pratt); sharpshooter Goodnight Robichaux (Ethan Hawke); knife expert Billy Rocks (Byunghun Lee); wanted criminal Vasquez (Manuel García-Rulfo); tracker Jack Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio); and Comanche warrior Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier).

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Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY BBBB Like so many great documentaries, Jeff Feuerzig’s Author is fascinating in the surface story it reveals, and perhaps even more fascinating in what it reveals beneath that surface. The subject is the literary sensation that was author JT Leroy—a transgender survivor of sexual abuse, addiction and a prostitute single mother—who was eventually revealed to be middle-aged mother Laura Albert, with her sister-in-law posing as JT for years. Albert herself narrates most of the story, often punctuated by recorded phone conversations with “JT’s” many celebrity friends and confidants (like Billy Corgan, Courtney Love and Deadwood creator David Milch), revealing the preposterous logistics of keeping up the ruse for so long. But this narrative also picks at fetishizing of squalid survival narratives, while managing the neat trick of exploring the real-life pain of Laura’s life without completely letting her off the hook. Milch at one point tries to assure Laura that “it’s the quality of the work” that matters, but Author shows how much of what we come to accept as great art genius—whether reality or fiction—involves the stories behind those stories. Opens Sept. 23 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R) —Scott Renshaw

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THE HOLLARS BB Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: It’s a Sundance dramedy about a mope who returns from the big city to his hometown to deal with family issues, and finds both hometown and family issues unchanged (depressingly so), yet somehow alien to him now. Directed by John Krasinski (who also stars), it’s as generic as it sounds, right down to the indie-folk soundtrack full of “hey-ho” guitar songs. When Sally Hollar (Margo Martindale) is diagnosed with a tumor, son John (Krasinski) rushes home to Ohio, soon followed by his pregnant girlfriend (Anna Kendrick) for support. The clichés pile up. John’s dad (Richard Jenkins) has money problems; his trainwreck brother (Sharlto Copley) can’t let

his ex-wife go; there’s contrived wackiness around John’s old girlfriend (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) still having the hots for him. As written by James C. Strouse (whose first Sundance script, Lonesome Jim, was similar), the humor is often broad—a slap-fight here, someone assuming an Asian doctor knows martial arts there—while the drama is rudimentary and weightless, demanding emotions without earning them. Martindale and Jenkins give endearing performances that this by-the-numbers film doesn’t deserve. Opens Sept. 23 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider GOAT BB In an early scene, an assault victim reports a campus crime to the police, a bit belatedly, causing the investigating cop to question the victim’s pre-assault actions as complicity. It’s a teenage boy (Ben Schnetzer), beaten up for his ATM card by two hoods he had given a ride to, just to be a cool bro. In a later scene, a recent graduate (James Franco) walks past his old fraternity house, where he had been a legendary “wild man,” and he hangs around “just for one beer … I got a wife and a kid now.” An evening montage later, he’s passed out on the couch. Those two scenes manage to be insightful about fraternity culture and such broader matters as shame and Peter Pan-ism. The rest is a screed about killer weed/ frats that’s too well-wrapped in its cloak of righteousness to see that it’s just a one-note Reefer Madness-level jeremiad. Schnetzer overcompensates by joining the fraternity of his big biological bro and well-known Jonas Bro, Nick. Sins are committed, someone sees the light and repents. Hallelujah! Tell your children: Just say no to frats. Opens Sept. 23 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—Victor Morton THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN BBB See review p. 35. Opens Sept. 23 at theaters valleywide. STORKS BBB Whatever its flaws, Storks certainly demonstrates how much more satisfying an animated film can be when it sets out to be a comedy, rather than that weird mutt genre of “family-friendly CGI movie.” It posits a world where storks have given up their traditional role as baby-deliverers, until a stork named Junior (Andy Samberg)

and orphaned human Tulip (Katie Crown) reluctantly team up on a mission to fulfill the request of lonely only child Nate (Anton Starkman). The subplot involving Nate’s workaholic parents (Ty Burrell and Jennifer Aniston) has a perfunctory Very Important Lesson feel, and as well-intentioned as the messages about expanded definitions of “family” may be, they often feel tackedon. But the script by Nicholas Stoller is often flat-out hilarious, with great concepts like a wolfpack (led by Alpha and Beta wolves Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele) taking unique shapes, or a big action set-piece that has to keep quiet to avoid waking the baby. It’s OK if the makers of an animated film decide it has nothing to teach us except how inventive visuals mixed with well-crafted jokes can entertain viewers of all ages. Opens Sept. 23 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—SR

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BLAIR WITCH B Director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett don’t make their own movies so much as remake everyone else’s. So who better to give us something which isn’t merely a superfluous attempt to recapture the magic of The Blair Witch Project, but also a remake masquerading as a sequel. James (James Allen McCune) heads into the Maryland woods with pals to find out what happened to his sister, Heather, the filmmaker from the original movie. Expanding the found-footage conceit with aerial drones and ear-fitted cameras only breaks the tone; this looks a lot like a traditionally edited narrative. Much worse: After familiar horror-flick scares and ultimately deadend hints that the fabric of the physical world is broken, Blair Witch ends in the same place the first film ended. It goes nowhere, and says nothing we hadn’t already heard 17 years ago. (R)—MAJ

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SULLY BBB Director Clint Eastwood explores the story of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks)—the airline pilot who executed a miraculously successful emergency landing on the Hudson River in January 2009. Screenwriter Todd Komarnicki gets risky with his structure weaving back and forth in time, only getting to the events of the fateful day itself after around the 30-minute mark. It’s a narrative that occasionally spends time with peripheral characters in a way that often comes off as padding. But Hanks navigates Sully’s struggles with post-traumatic stress, media celebrity and trying to defend himself against suggestions that his decisions were risky, all in a way that retains humanity rather than turning him into a statue. The taut procedural approach to the crash itself and Hanks’ gift for making earnestness compelling provide the foundation for a solid profile in just-doing-my-job heroism. (PG-13)—SR

SNOWDEN BB.5 Oliver Stone returns to governmental corruption and conspiracy, but lacking the buzzy intensity of his most iconic films. Framed by 2013 interviews with documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald the story follows Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) through his years as a computer prodigy working for the CIA and NSA, until he begins to question the legitimacy of mass surveillance. Stone places much of the narrative focus on Snowden’s relationship with his girlfriend (Shailene Woodley), and it’s important emphasize how much Snowden stands to lose personally and professionally. But Gordon-Levitt’s performance feels too bogged down in mimicking Snowden, while the biopic rhythms offer too few moments of visceral satisfaction. One great scene—Snowden talking to a former CIA supervisor on a massive screen—offers a too-rare glimpse at the threat this story needed to make real. (R)—SR

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BRIDGET JONES’S BABY BB Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) might have aged a decade, but the movie feels almost proudly stuck in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Still-single 40-something Bridget finds herself pregnant, with two possible dads for her baby: millionaire Jack (Patrick Dempsey), or on-again/off-again flame Mark (Colin Firth). Hugh Grant’s naughty spark from the first two films is much-missed here, as Dempsey and Firth play two basically decent guys bumping awkwardly against one another. In general, this movie is far less interested in offering new jokes than breaking out a tired greatest-hits collection of stuff audiences might have once adored about the series. Zellweger still knows how to give the character an earthy appeal, but her life and problems belong in another era. We need more stories about women past the age of 40, but it helps if those stories don’t already feel obsolete. (R)—SR

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Series Debut: A really, really, really ridiculously goodlooking lawyer (Daniel Sunjata) and a really, really, really ridiculously good-looking news producer (Piper Perabo) delve into “the unique, sexy and dangerous interplay of criminal law and the media” in a beyond-stoopid mashup of The Newsroom and Law & Order with vanilla title (as with their other useless new legal drama, Conviction, it’s like ABC isn’t even trying). Notorious is based on a real-life behind-the-scenes media/law relationship that existed on ye olde Larry King Live, upping the “Who Gives a Shit?” quotient by 10. Don’t worry; Scandal will be back before anyone notices.

Pitch Thursday, Sept. 22 (Fox)

Series Debut: Female pitcher Ginny Baker (Kylie Bunbury) is called up to play Major League Baseball for the San Diego Padres because shut up you sexist troll it could totally happen and why do you hate stories about strong women making their way in a man’s world? Pure intentions and Bunbury’s impressive performance aside, Pitch isn’t the statement-making pinnacle of the fall season Fox wants it to be, and definitely not the 10-season journey that cocreator Dan Fogelman envisions: It’s an overanxious, overacted mess that will probably annoy feminists and baseball fans alike—common ground for disparate camps! Mission accomplished?

MacGyver Friday, Sept. 23 (CBS)

Series Debut: Despite a few done-to-death spy-ops clichés (bickering about old missions gone wrong, hiring quirkyhot criminal hackers, playing dress-up at the gala, etc.), CBS’ reboot of 1985-92 series MacGyver delivers a surprisingly fast and fun pilot episode—one down, 12 to go. It’s also inconsequential covert fluff that makes 2010’s Mac-

Gruber takeoff look like The Bourne Identity but, c’mon, it’s Friday night. Lucas Till might look too young to be this accomplished at, well, MacGyvering, but he’s charming as hell, and co-star George Eads provides unexpected comic relief after all those years of CSI grimacing. Speaking of CSI, is it necessary to apply slick graphics and labels to every object MacGyver 2.0 manipulates? We can recognize a paperclip without a freeze-frame.

The Exorcist Friday, Sept. 23 (Fox)

Series Debut: Remember A&E’s quickly failed Damien series? Neither does Fox. The Exorcist, of course, is based on the iconic 1973 horror film that managed to wrap up a hellacious case of demonic possession in about two hours; Fox has 13 to fill. When young, skeptical Father Ortega (Alfonso Herrera) and haggard, consumed Father Keane (Ben Daniels) convene/collide in Chicago to investigate an evil household presence (keep your mother-in-law jokes to yourself). The result is spooky, atmospheric and … not much else. Kind of a letdown, considering that this is THE EXORCIST and all. Cue up Cinemax’s satanically superior Outcast, instead.

Van Helsing Friday, Sept. 23 (Syfy)

Series Debut: You might have caught the first episode of Van Helsing when Syfy snuck in a surprise preview of the new action-drama after Sharknado 4 in July—or not, because, Sharknado. This vampire hunter is a woman (Vanessa Van Helsing, played by Kelly Overton), but that’s not the only

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twist: Vamps in this universe age, they can be turned back to human by being bitten by Helsing(!), and VH’s showrunner is divisive film director Neil LaBute. It all works; Van Helsing is Syfy’s best-yet entry in its comeback line of scifi dramas led by ass-kicking females, improving on recent winners like Wynonna Earp, Killjoys, Dark Matter and The Magicians. Now let’s take a moment to forget that Hugh Jackman movie …

Channel Zero, Aftermath Tuesday, Sept. 27 (Syfy)

Series Debut: If the current season of American Horror Story isn’t creepy enough for you, here’s Channel Zero, a new anthology series based on tales of creepypasta (internet urban legends); first up is “Candle Cove,” wherein a man digs up increasingly disturbing memories of a kiddie TV show from his childhood. How bad could it be? How about a flesh-eating skeleton puppet and a child made entirely of teeth? Channel Zero’s implied terror and imagery is more effective than its dramatic execution, and the same goes for its Tuesday-night companion, Aftermath, which is yet another supernatural-apocalypse series—but this time, it’s about family! Mom is Anne Heche, so just bring on The End, already.

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working that day job, pouring pints, teaching scales or stocking shelves, wondering when—if ever—you’ll get to move forward, to see if, somewhere down the road, you’ll get to go on another adventure. One where you’ve somehow bamboozled fate into letting you do what you want to do, not what you must. Texting with Dath a couple of days later, City Weekly asks the significance of the band’s name. Is crook to bluff what criminal is to con? Or is it like in westerns, where an outlaw stands at the precipice, with a choice between the hangman and dying free? “You pick,” he says. A text to Schultz asks if he’s traveling for business or pleasure. “Technically business,” he writes. “I’m on a short Arizona tour with [local folkie] Charles Ellsworth. It’s certainly enjoyable, though.” When Schultz returns, the band will play a welcome-back show with a fill-in drummer, and continue to write new material. Dath says that, unlike Styx, where he wrote nearly everything, all members now have “equal input.” They’re in a transitional period, he explains. They don’t want to write albums, but rather performance pieces that incorporate the visuals, “like Crook and the Bluff Present … whatever.” But first, they’re heading south to headline the Escalante Canyons Art Festival. So begins another journey. CW

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ight days back from tour, Crook and the Bluff bassist Kevin Schultz and guitarist Ryan Arnold are perched on barstools at Junior’s Tavern, while singerguitarist Kirk Dath pours draft beers for customers. Schultz’ eyes roll upward as he tries to recall how many shows they played: “… 16 in 19 days, I think.” The road-weary band is a cliché, and a fact of musical life. After a week-plus at home, they still look tired—and Schultz is leaving town again tomorrow. But even when it’s for some humdrum occasion, like a family reunion or job interview, the road brings adventure. Halting daily grinds (Schultz teaches music, Arnold works at Jade Market) to load the car and light out, exploring the limitless potential ahead, is a reprieve and a rebirth. When your journey involves playing music for strangers in strange towns, the anticipatory magic multiplies. Sometimes—perhaps always—the fantasy trumps reality. Nothing ever goes as planned, Styx sang. Given the title and tone of the band’s album, Down to the Styx, that seems especially apt. The “psychedelic western blues rock” is their own Charon, the ferryman, paying their own fares for a dicey trip. Only they’re not dead sods; they’re musicians. That’s where the pipe dream can break down: “Jump in the boat/ to Hell I go,” Dath intones in the title track, leading into a burning, fuzzy, 16-bar guitar solo. “You pretty much work your day-job to go on tour,” Arnold says. Dath, sauntering over between pours, adds, “I work here to support my gear habits, and to make a tour work.” He can make $250 at Junior’s on a Friday night, or perform for free (or, ironically, for beer). If they’re lucky, they might make $200 as a band. “But that rarely happens,” he says. Touring is a necessary—and expensive—evil. “If you feel like you have something that’s worth getting out there, you do it,” Dath says. “In order to get promoters and venues and other bands to buy into you, you’ve got to buy into yourself,” Schultz adds, “to show them that you’ve deemed that your music is worth your blood, sweat and tears, so it’s worth [their efforts], too.” The group went into their third tour with realistic expectations. Any independent band, Schultz says, operates in the red for a while before the ink, hopefully, blackens; “Our biggest goal was to break even.” This time, Dath says they returned “significantly in the black.” The sentimental ink is likewise dark; they’re richer in experience, exposure and supporters who enjoyed seeing a band play great songs accompanied by an analog lionid light show by Lance Gordon of the San Francisco-based Mad Alchemy. They also added stories to Bluff lore, like when police separated and interrogated them for two hours after a misadventure on the Golden Gate Bridge. It wasn’t fun, but it’s a nice memory of their last hurrah with drummer Sarah Anne DeGraw, who they knew would leave after the tour to focus on her singer-songwriter career. Crook and the Bluff’s somnambulant, tortured songs make sublime traveling music. They occupy—and score—that dark-gray space between asleep and awake, fantasy and reality, lies and truth. It’s like when you’re driving with nothing to look at and everything to think about, and your mind’s eye is keenest, registering more than your physical rods and cones. Or when you’re

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enerally dwelling in the post-rock genre, the music of Icelandic trio Sigur Rós is unique even in the genre: impressionistic, glacial and abstract, with falsetto vocals in the group’s native Icelandic or an invented, wordless language called “hopelandic” (vonlenska in Icelandic). That might suggest music too esoteric for most ears, but the band’s consistently multiplying fan-base knows the truth: It’s an aural panacea for the soul. It took some time, though, for Sigur Rós to build that reputation. Formed in Reykjavik in the mid-’90s, the group released their first album, 1997’s Von, on Smekklesya (Bad Taste), a local record label owned by The Sugarcubes, the alternative rock band featuring Björk. The album was a critical success but a commercial flop, selling just over 300 copies. Von nonetheless established the band’s distinctive sound: washes of ambient instrumentation, with gentle and ethereal vocals that serve as a lead instrument more than a means of delivering decipherable lyrics. This strange, beautiful music made them the consummate hipster cult band. The arrangements on the group’s second album, Ágætis Byrjun (FatCat/Smekklesya), displayed a subtle shift—but not for money. Already, singer/multi-instrumentalist Jón Þór “Jónsi” Birgisson’s resolute determination not to sing in English set them apart from nearly all of their contemporaries. With Ágætis, Sigur Rós doubled-down, and went weirder, with Jónsi playing guitar with a violin bow. The embellishments persisted in 2002 on the band’s third album, an officially untitled album of officially untitled songs known as ( ), which ascended to No. 1 on the Icelandic chart, and reached the Top 50 in seven other countries. In the United States, it hit No. 51—a solid showing for an Icelandic group (beating The Sugarcubes’ 1988 debut Life’s Too Good, which hit No. 54).

Left to right: Georg “Goggi” Hólm, Jón þór “Jónsi” Birgisson and Orri Páll Dýrason of Sigur Rós

Ágætis and ( ) went gold and platinum, respectively, in Iceland, and the commercial and critical success vindicated the band’s decision not to make concessions in a quest for album sales. When the fourth track from ( ) was featured in Cameron Crowe’s 2001 motion picture Vanilla Sky, it brought Sigur Rós’ music to an even wider international audience. In 2004, the U.K. label One Little Indian reissued Von, which eventually achieved platinum status—all while the group maintained its fierce determination to be themselves. Since Takk…, each new Sigur Rós studio album has charted in 12 countries, with greater success in the States. Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (EMI/XL, 2008) charted at No. 15, with Valtari (2012, Parlophone) hitting No. 7 and Kveikur (XL, 2013) landing at No. 14. Their 2011 live album Inni was a sales and critical success as well, cracking the chart at No. 73. Somewhat unusually—or perhaps not, considering the source—the band’s upcoming 20-stop North American tour isn’t supporting a new album. Their only new music since Kveikur is the dreamy, electronica-flavored single “Oveður,” which came out in June. They’re even being mysterious about the contents of the upcoming shows, aside from the fact that the core trio of Jónsi (who also plays keyboards and harmonica), Georg “Goggi” Hólm (bass guitar, vocals and assorted instruments) and Orri Páll Dýrason (drums, vocals, various instruments) performs two sets with no opening act. An excerpt from their official statement hints as to what concertgoers can expect: “All we can say right now is it’s going to be different, with new unreleased songs, a new show and maybe some other new things. Beyond that, we can only ask you to trust us on this one.” They’ve earned that much. CW

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Salt Lakers have already gone native, since Los Angeles band Local Natives played the Twilight Concert Series two years ago. In fact, it was on that stage that they laid bare their plans for their third and most recent full-length album, Sunlit Youth (Loma Vista, 2016). Originally from Orange County, they meld a polyglot of a sonic palette (Sunlit Youth was recorded in multiple continents)—and their polycultural percussion and infectious melodic sense has been as much a reaction to the conservativism in the area as was the surf rock of the ‘60s. It’s also rather polished, as so much indie rock is these days: cured and curated, more pop than indie or rock. But the good and the bad net out to a refined sonic celebration. (Brian Staker) The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $24.50 in advance, $26.50 day of show ($1 from each ticket goes to support gender-based violence intervention and prevention programs; each ticket comes with an album download), DepotSLC.com

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It’s about that time. You know, when poppunk bands from the ‘90s start replacing key members because of irreconcilable musical differences, or some such euphemism for being sick of each other’s shit. When that band is a trio, and two of those members wrote and sang in the band, it can get weird. Will the new guy (Matt Skiba, frontdude of Alkaline Trio) be OK singing the old dude’s (Tom DeLonge) songs? Yeah, he is—and while he tries to emulate certain traits of DeLonge’s vocal style, Skiba isn’t trying to be a sound-alike. The net result, live and on the original

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FRIDAY 9.23

Oh Wonder, Kevin Garrett

My list of musical petty grievances is growing—but isn’t the knee-jerk reaction a critic’s asset? The ability to fall instantly in love or hate with music alone certainly isn’t. I hated some of my now-favorite music when I first heard it. So those insta-freakouts, the good and the bad, are passion—that’s where it’s a benefit. But you also have to revisit the music that evoked such spontaneous emotional combustion, and make sure your first reaction is true. You know, in case your assessment of the music wasn’t based on, say, the music. I hated Oh Wonder after seeing a single poster. “Oh” in a band name rings

Local Natives breathless and precious; “wonder” makes it worse. Ditto a Zooey Deschanel lookalike, right down to the wide-brimmed hat and (kinda cute) bug eyes and even—I’d discover when I actually listened to the music—her cutesy, breathy vocals. Half an hour ago, I thought this London duo was gonna be another quaint retro-rustic indiefolk band. (And really, people, that shit has to stop. Put down the banjo, shave the beard, leave the barbershop, delete your Decemberists folder and try something else.) Alas, by Shakespeare’s skullet, I was wrong about Oh Wonder. The name sucks, but the more I listen to these just smart-ish, spacey love songs, the more I’m enamored of Josephine Vander Gucht— and their gazillion YouTube views and sold-out shows make sense. Oh, Christ. I actually like them. (RH) The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $16 in advance, $18 day of show ($2 surcharge for under 21), DepotSLC.com

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When punk rock landed on the beaches of Southern California in the late ‘70s, it was only natural that the high-energy bastard offspring of rock ‘n’ roll would mix well with the surf rock indigenous to the area. In the politically conservative Orange County of the Reagan era, their very name—recalling the ravages of the Vietnam War—must have caused local leaders some consternation. Times change, and Agent Orange, not unlike other punk bands that didn’t simply disintegrate at some point, reoriented their rebellious energies into different arenas, like the world of extreme sports, riding the musical wave of movies, video games and even live sports events. Not as overtly political in their lyrics as some, Agent Orange has always paid homage to rock history with covers of “Secret Agent Man” and “Pipeline.” (BS) Club X, 445 S. 400 West, 8 p.m., $12, 21+, ClubXSLC.com

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Rapper Erasole James, aka Harrison Montgomery, is prolific. In addition to his work with eminent local hip-hop group Dine Krew, he’s dropping solo music left and right. Barely a year ago, he released the Tawa’s Nephew LP and the EP No Time for Era. Now he’s puttin’ out Into the Muh. “Muh,” he says via text message, is about personal problems: “misery, underestimation and hatred.” In fact, it seems like the dude just can’t stop. Asked how he keeps it up, he says, “I always enjoy being in a creative endeavor, music being one of my main expressive outlets. I want to push the limits within myself artistically so I can make songs that will last forever.” He a poet and he know it. (RH) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., free, 21+, TheUrbanLoungeSLC.com

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When Buckcherry bowed in the late ‘90s, they were hailed as the saviors of good ol’ hard rock. Now they’ve settled into a niche, playing retreads of insipid stripper-fodder like “Crazy Bitch” (from their 2005 album 15) and pulling a Bret Michaels/Jon Bon Jovi move like attempting a country crossover (“The Feeling Never Dies,” featuring a cameo from country singer Gretchen Wilson). The band’s current album, ironically titled Rock ‘n’ Roll, is riddled with these. That takes nothing way from Buckcherry’s ability to rock with the best of ‘em. Their recent sets emphasize tracks from 15 which, thankfully, appears to leave no room for their contemporary dreck. (RH) The Royal, 4760 S. 900 East, 7 p.m., $30 in advance, $35 day of show, 21+, TheRoyalSLC.com

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A BAR NAMED SUE 3928 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-274-5578, Trivia Tues., DJ Wed., Karaoke Thurs. A BAR NAMED SUE ON STATE 8136 S. State, SLC, 801-566-3222, Karaoke Tues. ABG’S LIBATION EMPORIUM 190 W. Center St., Provo, 801-373-1200, Live music ALLEGED 205 25th St., Ogden, 801-9900692 AREA 51 451 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-5340819, Karaoke Wed., ‘80s Thurs., DJs Fri. & Sat. THE BAR IN SUGARHOUSE 2168 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-485-1232 BAR-X 155 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-355-2287 BARBARY COAST 4242 S. State, Murray, 801-265-9889 BATTERS UP 1717 S. Main, SLC, 801-4634996, Karaoke Tues., Live music Sat. THE BAYOU 645 S. State, SLC, 801-9618400, Live music Fri. & Sat. BOURBON HOUSE 19 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-746-1005, Local jazz jam Tues., Karaoke Thurs., Live music Sat., Funk & soul night Sun. BREWSKIS 244 25th St., Ogden, 801-3941713, Live music CAROL’S COVE II 3424 S. State, SLC, 801-466-2683, Karaoke Thurs., DJs & Live music Fri. & Sat. THE CENTURY CLUB 315 24th St., Ogden, 801-781-5005, DJs, Live music CHEERS TO YOU 315 S. Main, SLC, 801575-6400 CHEERS TO YOU MIDVALE 7642 S. State, 801-566-0871 CHUCKLE’S LOUNGE 221 W. 900 South, SLC, 801-532-1721 CIRCLE LOUNGE 328 S. State, SLC, 801-5315400, DJs CISERO’S 306 Main, Park City, 435-6495044, Karaoke Thurs., Live music & DJs CLUB 48 16 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801262-7555 CLUB 90 9065 S. 150 West, Sandy, 801-5663254, Trivia Mon., Poker Thurs., Live music Fri. & Sat., Live bluegrass Sun. CLUB TRY-ANGLES 251 W. 900 South, SLC, 801-364-3203, Karaoke Thurs., DJs Fri. & Sat. CLUB X 445 S. 400 West, SLC, 801-9354267, DJs, Live music THE COMPLEX 536 W. 100 South, SLC, 801-528-9197, Live music CRUZRS SALOON 3943 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-272-1903, Free pool Wed. & Thurs., Karaoke Fri. & Sat. DAWG POUND 3350 S. State, SLC, 801-2612337, Live music THE DEERHUNTER PUB 2000 N. 300 West, Spanish Fork, 801-798-8582, Live music Fri. & Sat. THE DEPOT 400 W. South Temple, SLC, 801-355-5522, Live music

DEVIL’S DAUGHTER 533 S. 500 West, SLC, 801-532-1610, Karaoke Wed., Live music Fri. & Sat. DO DROP INN 2971 N. Hill Field Road (400 West), Layton, 801-776-9697. Karaoke Fri. & Sat. DONKEY TAILS CANTINA 136 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-571-8134. Karaoke Wed.; Live music Tues., Thurs. & Fri; Live DJ Sat. DOWNSTAIRS 625 Main, Park City, 435226-5340, Live music, DJs ELIXIR LOUNGE 6405 S. 3000 East, Holladay, 801-943-1696 THE FALLOUT 625 S. 600 West, SLC, 801953-6374, Live music FAT’S GRILL 2182 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-484-9467, Live music THE FILLING STATION 8987 W. 2700 South, Magna, 801-250-1970, Karaoke Thurs. FLANAGAN’S ON MAIN 438 Main, Park City, 435-649-8600, Trivia Tues., Live music Fri. & Sat. FOX HOLE PUB & GRILL 7078 S. Redwood Road, West Jordan, 801-566-4653, Karaoke, Live music FUNK ’N DIVE BAR 2550 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-621-3483, Live music, Karaoke THE GARAGE 1199 Beck St., SLC, 801-5213904, Live music GRACIE’S 326 S. West Temple, SLC, 801819-7565, Live music, DJs THE GREAT SALTAIR 12408 W. Saltair Drive, Magna, 801-250-6205, Live music THE GREEN PIG PUB 31 E. 400 South, SLC, 801-532-7441, Live music Thurs.-Sat. HABITS 832 E. 3900 South, SLC, 801-2682228, Poker Mon., Ladies night Tues., ’80s night Wed., Karaoke Thurs., DJs Fri. & Sat. HIGHLANDER 6194 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-277-8251, Karaoke THE HOG WALLOW PUB 3200 E. Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, SLC, 801-733-5567, Live music THE HOTEL/CLUB ELEVATE 155 W. 200 South, SLC, 801-478-4310, DJs HUKA BAR & GRILL 151 E. 6100 South, Murray, 801-281-9665, Reggae Tues., DJs Fri. & Sat ICE HAUS 7 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801266-1885 IN THE VENUE/CLUB SOUND 219 S. 600 West, SLC, 801-359-3219, Live music & DJs JACKALOPE LOUNGE 372 S. State, SLC, 801-359-8054, DJs JAM 751 N. 300 West, SLC, 801-891-1162, Karaoke Tues., Wed. & Sun.; DJs Thurs.-Sat. JOHNNY’S ON SECOND 165 E. 200 South, SLC, 801-746-3334, DJs Tues. & Fri., Karaoke Wed., Live music Sat. KARAMBA 1051 E. 2100 South, SLC, 801696-0639, DJs KEYS ON MAIN 242 S. Main, SLC, 801-3633638, Karaoke Tues. & Wed., Dueling pianos Thurs.-Sat. KILBY COURT 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), SLC, 801-364-3538, Live music, all ages KRISTAUF’S 16 W. Market St., SLC, 801943-1696, DJ Fri. & Sat. THE LEPRECHAUN INN 4700 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-268-3294 LIQUID JOE’S 1249 E. 3300 South, SLC, 801-467-5637, Live music Tues.-Sat. THE LOADING DOCK 445 S. 400 West, SLC, 385-229-4493, Live music, all ages LUCKY 13 135 W. 1300 South, SLC, 801487-4418, Trivia Wed.

LUMPY’S DOWNTOWN 145 Pierpont Ave., SLC, 801-938-3070 LUMPY’S HIGHLAND 3000 S. Highland Drive, SLC, 801-484-5597 THE MADISON/THE COWBOY 295 W. Center St., Provo, 801-375-9000, Live music, DJs MAXWELL’S EAST COAST EATERY 9 Exchange Place, SLC, 801-328-0304, Poker Tues., DJs Fri. & Sat. METRO BAR 615 W. 100 South, SLC, 801652-6543, DJs THE MOOSE LOUNGE 180 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-900-7499, DJs NO NAME SALOON 447 Main, Park City, 435-649-6667 THE OFFICE 122 W. Pierpont Ave., SLC, 801-883-8838 O.P. ROCKWELL 268 Main, Park City, 435615-7000, Live music PARK CITY LIVE 427 Main, Park City, 435649-9123, Live music PAT’S BBQ 155 W. Commonwealth Ave., SLC, 801-484-5963, Live music Thurs.-Sat., All ages THE PENALTY BOX 3 W. 4800 South, Murray, 801-590-9316, Karaoke Tues., Live Music, DJs PIPER DOWN 1492 S. State, SLC, 801-4681492, Poker Mon., Acoustic Tues., Trivia Wed., Bingo Thurs. POPLAR STREET PUB 242 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-532-2715, Live music Thurs.-Sat. THE RED DOOR 57 W. 200 South, SLC, 801-363-6030, DJs Fri., Live jazz Sat. THE ROYAL 4760 S. 900 East, SLC, 801590-9940, Live music SANDY STATION 8925 Harrison St., Sandy, 801-255-2078, DJs SCALLYWAGS 3040 S. State, SLC, 801604-0869 SKY 149 W. Pierpont Ave., SLC, 801-8838714, Live music THE SPUR BAR & GRILL 352 Main, Park City, 435-615-1618, Live music THE STATE ROOM 638 S. State, SLC, 800501-2885, Live music THE STEREO ROOM 521 N. 1200 West, Orem, 714-345-8163, Live music, All ages SUGARHOUSE PUB 1992 S. 1100 East, SLC, 801-413-2857 THE SUN TRAPP 102 S. 600 West, SLC, 385-235-6786 THE TAVERNACLE 201 E. 300 South, SLC, 801-519-8900, Dueling pianos Wed.-Sat., Karaoke Sun.-Tues. TIN ANGEL CAFE 365 W. 400 South, SLC, 801-328-4155, Live music THE URBAN LOUNGE 241 S. 500 East, SLC, 801-746-0557, Live music TWIST 32Exchange Place, SLC 801-3223200, Live music VELOUR 135 N. University Ave., Provo, 801818-2263, Live music, All ages WASTED SPACE 342 S. State, SLC, 801531-2107, DJs Thurs.-Sat. THE WESTERNER 3360 S. Redwood Road, West Valley City, 801-972-5447, Live music WILLIE’S LOUNGE 1716 S. Main, SLC, 760828-7351, Trivia Wed., Karaoke Fri.-Sun., Live music ZEST KITCHEN & BAR 275 S. 200 West, SLC, 801-433-0589, DJs

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Buckcherry + Sons of Texas (The Royal) see p. 51 Erasole James + Pikkoroh + Dine Krew + Malev Da Shinobi + Auratorikal + Mixter Mike (The Urban Lounge) see p.44 John Draper (Twist) Montana of 300 + AZA + Swell Merchants + Shanghaii (Kilby Court)

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) I’m confident that I will never again need to moonlight as a janitor or dishwasher in order to pay my bills. My gig as a horoscope columnist provides me with enough money to eat well, so it’s no longer necessary to shoplift bread or scavenge for dented cans of beets in grocery store dumpsters. What accounts for my growing financial luck? I mean besides the fact that I have been steadily improving my skills as an oracle and writer? I suspect it might in part have to do with my determination to cultivate generosity. As I’ve become better at expressing compassion and bestowing blessings, money has flowed to me in greater abundance. Would this strategy work for you? The coming weeks and months will be a good time to experiment. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Here’s my translation of a passage from the ancient Gospel of Thomas, agnostic text about the teachings of Jesus: “If you do not awaken and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will damage you. If you do awaken and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will heal you.” Whether you actually awaken and develop those talents or not depends on two things: your ability to identify them clearly and your determination to bring them to life with the graceful force of your willpower. I call this to your attention, Libra, because the coming months will be a highly favorable time to expedite the ripening of your talents. And it all starts now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I propose that you and I make a deal. Here’s how it would work: For the next three weeks, I will say three prayers for you every day. I will ask God, Fate and Life to send you more of the recognition and appreciation you deserve. I will coax and convince them to give you rich experiences of being seen for who you really are. Now here’s what I ask of you in return: You will rigorously resolve to act on your core beliefs, express your noblest desires and say only what you truly mean. You will be alert for those times when you start to stray from the path with heart, and you will immediately get yourself back on that path. You will be yourself three times stronger and clearer than you have ever been before.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) I invite you to explore the healing power of sex. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to do so. You are also likely to generate good fortune for yourself if you try to fix any aspect of your erotic life that feels wounded or awkward. For best results, suspend all your theories about the way physical intimacy should work in your life. Adopting a beginner’s mind could lead you to subtly spectacular breakthroughs. (P.S. You don’t necessarily need a partner to take full advantage of this big opening.)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Even if you are a wild-eyed adventure-seeker with extremist views and melodramatic yearnings, you’ll benefit from taking a moderate approach to life in the coming weeks. In fact, you’re most likely to attract the help and inspiration you need if you adopt the strategy used by Goldilocks in the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”: neither excessive nor underdone, neither extravagant nor restrained, neither bawdy, loud and in-your-face nor demure, quiet and passive—but rather just right. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Some of my readers love me but also hate me. They are drawn to my horoscopes in the hope that I will help relieve them of their habitual pain, but then get mad at me when I do just that. In retrospect, they feel lost without the familiar companionship of their habitual pain. It had been a centerpiece of their identity, a source of stability and when it’s gone, they don’t know who they are anymore. Are you like these people, Taurus? If so, you might want to avoid my horoscopes for a while. I will be engaged in a subtle crusade to dissolve your angst and agitation. And it all starts now with this magic spell: Your wound is a blessing. Discover why. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) In my dream last night, bad guys wearing white hats constrained you in a canvas straitjacket, then further wrapped you up with heavy steel chain secured by three padlocks. They drove you to a weedy field behind an abandoned warehouse and left you there in the pitch dark. But you were indomitable. By dawn, you had miraculously wriggled your way out of your confinement. Then you walked back home, free and undaunted. Here’s my interpretation of the dream: You now have special skills as an escape artist. No cage can hold you. No riddle can stump you. No tangle can confuse you. (P.S.: For best results, trust yourself even more than you usually do.) CANCER (June 21-July 22) The next four weeks will be a favorable time to come all the way home. Here are nine prompts for how to accomplish that: 1. Nourish your roots. 2. Strengthen your foundations. 3. Meditate about where you truly belong. 4. Upgrade the way you attend to your self-care. 5. Honor your living traditions. 6. Make a pilgrimage to the land where your ancestors lived. 7. Deepen your intimacy with the earth. 8. Be ingenious about expressing your tenderness. 9. Reinvigorate your commitment to the influences that nurture and support you. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) What tools will work best for the tasks you’ll be invited to perform in the coming weeks? A sledgehammer or tweezers? Pruning shears or a sewing machine? A monkey wrench or a screwdriver? Here’s my guess: Always have your entire toolbox on hand. You might need to change tools in mid-task—or even use several tools for the same task. I can envision at least one situation that would benefit from you alternating between a sledgehammer and tweezers.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) If you loosen yourself up by drinking an alcoholic beverage, don’t drive a forklift or ride a unicycle. If you have a hunch that your luck at gambling is peaking, don’t buy lottery tickets or play the slot machines. If you’re drawn to explore the frontiers of intimacy, be armed with the ancient Latin maxim, Primum non nocere, or “First, do no harm.” And if you really do believe it would be fun to play with fire, bring a fire extinguisher with you. In presenting this cautionary advice, I’m not saying that

you should never push the limits or bend the rules. But I want to be sure that as you dare to experiment, you remain savvy and ethical and responsible.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Work too much and push yourself too hard, Sagittarius. Eat corn chips for breakfast, ice cream for lunch and french fries for dinner— every day, if possible. And please, please, please get no more than four hours’ sleep per night. If you have any extra time, do arduous favors for friends and intensify your workout routine. Just kidding! Don’t you dare heed any of that ridiculous advice. In fact, I suggest you do just the opposite. Dream up brilliant excuses not to work too much or push too hard. Treat yourself to the finest meals and best sleep ever. Take your mastery of the art of relaxation to new heights. Right now, the most effective way to serve your long-term dreams is by having as much fun, joy and release as possible.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You can’t completely eliminate unhelpful influences and trivial saboteurs and debilitating distractions from your life. But you’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you have more power than usual to diminish their effects. To get started in this gritty yet lofty endeavor, try this: Decrease your connection with anything that tends to demean your spirit, shrink your lust for life, limit your freedom, ignore your soul, compromise your integrity, dishonor your reverence, inhibit your self-expressiveness or alienate you from what you love.

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