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Comic, Dec. 23, “Temple Square Lights Behind the Scenes”

Who knows what animal wastes, airborne chemicals, etc., are in there. I recommend you do not “bring a cup.”

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I think it’s a good first hard step that apparently no one else has the balls to do. The county and the state should have been addressing this years ago, but, you know … Who cares? … Just don’t bother us out here in the ’burbs. I don’t agree with the mayor’s lack of transparency, but at least she is doing something, which is more than I can say for any other elected official in this “pretty, great” state.

ceremony of President-elect Donald Trump. It is wrong on so many levels. Trump’s sexist and degrading comments regarding women and minorities, his shady business dealings, and the garish, uncouth way in which he conducts himself are antithetical to Mormon values. Performing for Trump would be an implicit endorsement of him, which is extremely problematic. It sends the message to youth and potential converts that the church condones sexual assault, unfettered greed and anti-immigrant nativism. To set a good example, the choir should do the morally responsible thing and withdraw immediately.

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The unilateral and dictatorial manner in which this decision was made is unacceptable and the situation has been further aggravated by the ridiculous excuse the Salt Lake City Council and the mayor have proffered for this behavior. The idea that they seem to feel they were elected to do what is best for us, whether we like it or not, is frightening.

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shelter are drug-addicted criminals that have no interest of helping themselves and only take advantage of the current system that’s in place. For those that think this comment is uncaring, rude and outta line, perhaps you should go down to the shelter now and just take a walk around it once or twice. ... Needless to say, I’m happy that I live nowhere near that shelter or any of the new proposed locations nor would I welcome one in my neighborhood.

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Blog, Dec. 16, “Residents, business owners express concern over proposed shelter locations”

Everyone wants something done but no one wants it near them. It’s part of a growing city. Tough, but change is inevitable.

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Meh. While it will placate the business owners in the area of the current shelter, it’s just shifted the burden to family neighborhoods and eliminated 500 needed beds. Not sure how this can be considered a step up.

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I’m all for trying to help people that wanna help themselves, but let’s be real here for a second. A lot of these folks down at that

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I was both shocked and disappointed by the news of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s upcoming performance at the inaugural

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After witnessing the nightmarish end to the quest by the University of Utah’s football team to finally break through to the top in the PAC-12 football standings, I had a restless night. My sleep was interrupted by a vision—a ghost of a Ute Indian tribal elder. He stated that the Utah Ute tribe has always honored the environment and the earth, and it was part of the foundation of their culture—a fundamental part of their lives and heritage. He said their leaders from the past were extremely disappointed to see the university that bears their name turn their backs on this principle with the way the administration treated internationally renowned naturalist, writer and teacher Terry Tempest Williams, who went so far as to purchase at great expense to her personally a tract of land to be utilized as an outdoor classroom, creating a never-ending generator of energy that would honor and fuel the ideals of environmental

education and protection. He proclaimed that as long as the university continues on this path and does not rectify the situation with Ms. Tempest Williams—much like the The Curse of The Bambino with the Boston Red Sox or the The Curse of the Billy Goat with the Chicago Cubs—it will be a long and torturous road until the university’s sports teams reach the heights they envision and desire.

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OPINION

Gone to Pot

You may or may not respect my opinion on the need to make medical marijuana legal in Utah. That’s fine. Truth be told, my personal experience with that leafy plant is totally nonexistent. I don’t use it, and have never needed to. But I do respect opinions of trained professionals who know enough about it to be taken seriously. For instance, according to well-regarded emergency room physician and state Sen. Brian Shiozawa, Utah should legalize medical marijuana, or at least perform scientific studies necessary to determine exactly what benefits it has to offer. He is in favor of legal studies to determine how much good, if any, medical marijuana can do as a replacement for various opioids that can lead to addiction and sometimes death. In a recent meeting on the subject, Shiozawa summed up his thoughts this way: “The bill that I co-sponsored to allow cannabinoid oil that helps kids with seizures has had mixed results, but it has had some positive effects to get them off of those very expensive anti-convulsive drugs that have so many side effects. Marijuana probably does have some beneficial effects, so let’s find out what components and compounds in the plant are most beneficial, in what concentrations, and how to use them. “Let’s look at patients such as at the Huntsman cancer group. We know that cannabis is an appetite stimulant for those poor people who are suffering, just have no appetite and are literally wasting away, not just from the effects of the tumor, but because they are not eating. “We know it will prolong your chances for a few years and ultimately the cancer may overtake you. But there are some thoughts that there are anti-tumor effects in the plant, and we hear stories of people who have brain cancer, and their tumors shrink and go away. “What if there is a certain type of cancer that was treatable [by marijuana]—not just

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palliative, but curative. The problem is we haven’t done studies to determine which parts of the plants and which tumors are affected.” So, I asked the senator, why should it fall on Utah to take the lead on this, when there are so many areas more socially in-tune with marijuana? Aren’t there other areas more suitable for study, where the public might be more in favor of investigating the possibilities—say, California, for instance? Shiozawa points to the wonderful research infrastructure at the University of Utah. “We have DEA endorsements, so they can do research,” he says. “We can get a supply line from the NIH and NIDA, which is the National Institute of Drug Abuse, so they can supply the product. Our researchers can get a certain group of patients and controls to say we’re going to research, for instance, PTSD, or seizures, or nausea in cancer patients. They could follow them to see the effects. And then they would do their follow up MRI studies, check their pain scales, seizure scales, etc.” And he has already proposed to the Utah Senate Health and Human Services Committee that the state could conduct several studies for less than a million dollars—a relatively small amount of the budget when compared to, for example, Utah State Prison. Shiozawa mentions that we will spend $100 million for just stabilizing the ground for a prison site. That is 100 times more than it would cost to launch three of four potentially life-saving studies with real patients and real results. In this next legislative session, a set of bills will address a very specific formulation of marijuana, grown in certain places here in Utah under strict governmentcontrolled conditions. The proposal is to produce this non-recreational strain and then do specific medical research to see how well it works.

These bills will not pass unanimously, of course. On the other hand, the senator notes that Utah research institutions support these proposals and are anxious to go forward because these controlled studies will be done by our own scientists who then can publish the resulting data. “Utah religious organizations, including the LDS Church,” according to Shiozawa, “are willing to say that this medicinal research is reasonable because, what if it really does help in certain circumstances?” Also, he reminds us that people who need treatment because of MS, PTSD, chronic pain, seizures and cancer, are so desperate for medicinal treatment beyond opioids that they’re now willing to go out of state to get it. “But it’s incomplete research,” he says. “So, why not take a relatively inexpensive but scientifically viable approach and help answer this question? Why do we have to let our people drive out of state to seek something that we could, and maybe should, have an opportunity to provide help in this state?” Now appears to be the right time to move Utah toward some very reasonable scientific research that will add to our knowledge base and could alleviate suffering in many patients. The medical community looks at the few hundred patients who could be involved in these studies and, in addition to actually helping these people, would produce some really great data. They could publish it in the New England Journal of Medicine, and this would showcase Utah in yet another favorable scientific light. So, what’s the likelihood of getting this legislative ball rolling in the upcoming session? Shiozawa thinks there’s a good possibility the Legislature will approve these bills because of obvious benefits for our citizens, our research institutions and our state. CW

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What’s the worst that could happen if Utah legalized marijuana? Nicole Enright: People here might be able to relax and enjoy themselves. GASP! Enrique Limón: Better driving, perhaps? Rhett Wilkinson: Students—gasp!—learn about responsible practice (it’s hard to come by given no sex ed).

Scott Renshaw: A devastating blow to the prescription mood-enhancer industry.

Sierra Sessions: Picture a world where everyone is in a good mood; they’re pain-free and just loving life. The local news stations have nothing bad to report anymore. They have to resort to filming squirrels fight on Main Street. Can you imagine? Worst thing to happen is either that or the skunky smell. (Not that I would know.)

Jeremiah Smith: Happy Valley would become a lot happier .

Randy Harward: That seems like pie-inthe-sky fantasy ’cause trying in vain to force guy-in-the-sky belief systems, heterosexuality, multi-level marketing scams and sobriety on the population is kinda totally Utah’s thing. I can’t see the Legislature/Mo-Vatican giving up on that. But if we do legalize it, and suddenly everyone in town is roasting bowls and having deep thoughts that seem like great ideas and actually get up off the couch and follow through with them, the worst thing I could imagine is that we’d wind up with another goofy religion to foist upon the world. But it seems more likely that everything would just be mellow.

Pete Saltas: The Legislature could get addicted to the new tax base.

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The worst part of the Bears Ears monument designation was very simply the federal government. Utahns generally don’t like the feds and think Utah can do everything better—way better. Just look at the image the feds used in their announcement—Arches National Park. And then, Utahns ask, what do you have against funding schoolchildren? You know, because Bears Ears includes School Institutional Trust Lands that can be traded for money. The Salt Lake Tribune debunked the idea in a story by Benjamin Woods wherein he mentions the 109,000 acres of SITLA lands and the opportunities for lucrative trades. Of course, Utah Treasurer David Damschen was just appalled by the feds’ actions, even though the state maintains control of those lands. Damschen, in a post to Utah Political Capitol’s MJ Orton, admitted he’s hopeful. But you know—damned feds.

Morality Check

As Republicans maintain a vice-grip hold on Utah and the nation, citizens need to steel themselves for a spate of morals legislation. You know how the GOP has your best interests at heart and how they’re going to help you overcome all your bad habits—like drinking. We won’t even get into sex yet, but those bills are coming. Rep. Norm Thurston wants to reduce the legal driving limit to 0.05 percent blood alcohol content—something the National Transportation Safety Board wants. Articles in both The Salt Lake Tribune and Los Angeles Times note that alcohol limits don’t really prevent drunk driving. Not even the local nonprofit Mothers Against Drunk Driving like the idea because it’s hard to enforce.

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Back to the sex legislation. Yes, Sen. Todd Weiler, RWoods Cross, wants to let people sue pornographers for emotional and psychological damage, the Trib reports. Weiler’s the guy who gave Utah another first in the nation with a resolution declaring pornography a publichealth crisis. It would indeed be interesting to watch someone prove in court how they’ve been hurt. A lengthy piece in Slate magazine examined the many problems with pornography research— many of which are gender-based. Ultimately, it says, the damage might have been done. PornHub, for instance, claims to get 100 million visitors a day. Still, we know the real reason Utah legislators are so interested. According to RT News (formerly Russia Today), porn leads to less “desire in young men to marry, dissatisfaction in marriage and infidelity.” Let’s not mess with getting men hitched.

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Oh-So-Sweet Dreams The Hastens workshop in Koping, Sweden, liberally using the phrase “master artisans” recently, unveiled its made-to-order $149,900 mattress. Bloomberg News reported in December on Hastens’ use of superior construction materials such as pure steel springs, “slowgrowing” pine, multiple layers of flax, horsehair lining (braided by hand, then unwound to ensure extra spring), and cotton covered by flame-retardant wool batting. With a 25-year guarantee, an eight-hour-a-day sleep habit works out to $2 an hour. Bonus: The Bloomberg reviewer, after a trial run, gave the “Vividus” a glowing thumbs-up.

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States. The U.S. State Department finally persuaded Ghanian officials to close it down, but it is unknown if any purchasers were ever caught trying to immigrate. The “embassy,” with a U.S. flag outside, had well-spoken “consular officers” who reportedly collected about $6,000 per visa.

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The Job of the Researcher Humans are good at recognizing faces, but exceptionally poor at recognition when the same face’s features are scrambled or upside down. In December, a research team from the Netherlands and Japan published findings that chimpanzees are the same way—when it comes to recognizing other chimps’ butts. That suggests, the scientists concluded, that sophisticated recognition of rear ends is as important for chimps (as “socio-sexual signaling,” such as prevention of inbreeding) as faces are to humans. Suspicions Confirmed Humanity has accumulated an estimated 30 trillion tons of “stuff,” according to research by University of Leicester geologists—enough to fit over 100 pounds’ worth over every square meter of the planet’s surface. The scientists, writing in The Anthropocene Review, are even more alarmed that very little of it is ever recycled and that buried layers of technofossils that define our era will clutter and weigh down the planet, hampering future generations. Finer Points of the Law A federal appeals court agreed with a jury in December that Battle Creek, Mich., police were justified in shooting (and killing) two hardly misbehaving family dogs during a legal search of a house’s basement. Mark and Cheryl Brown had pointed out that their dogs never attacked; one, an officer admitted, was “just standing there” when shot and killed. The officers said that conducting a thorough search of the premises might have riled the dogs and threatened their safety. (Unaddressed was whether a dog might avoid being shot if it masters the classic trick of “playing dead.”) Sounds Like a Joke Spencer Hanvey, 22, was charged with four burglaries of the same MedCare Pharmacy in Conway, Ark., in October and November, using the same modus operandi each time to steal drugs. Bonus: Oddly, the drugs were not for obsessive-compulsive disorder. n Hamden (Connecticut) High School was put into lockdown for an hour on Dec. 15 when a student was seen running in the hallway, zig-zagging from side to side, swinging an arm and leaping into the air. Police were called, but quickly learned that it was just a 12th-grade boy practicing a basketball move and pretending to dunk. [Arkansas Online, Dec. 7, 2016]

The Aristocrats! A camera-less Alan Ralph, 62, was arrested in Sarasota, Fla., in December after being seen on surveillance video in October in a Wal-Mart stooping down to the floor to peer up the skirt of a woman. n John Kuznezow, 54, was charged with invasion of privacy in Madison, Wis., in November after he was discovered, pants down, up a tree outside a woman’s second-floor bedroom window.

Bright Ideas For about 10 years, organized crime rings operated a makeshift U.S. “embassy” in a rundown pink building in Accra, the capital of Ghana, issuing official-looking identification papers, including “visas” that theoretically permitted entry into the United

Weird Old World Wu Jianping, 25, from China’s Henan province, complained in November that he had been denied home loans at several banks for not providing fingerprints—because he has no arms (following a childhood accident) and “signs” documents by holding a pen in his mouth. He was not allowed to substitute “toeprints.” n Classes were canceled in early December in the village of Batagai in the Yakutia region of Siberia when the temperature reached -53 Celsius (-63 Fahrenheit)—but only for kids 15 and under; older children still had to get to school. Yakutia is regarded as the coldest inhabited region on the planet.

Sex Toys in the News The government in Saxony, Germany, chose as third-place winner of its 2016 prize for innovation and start-up companies the inventor of the ingenious silent vibrator (leading to shaming of the economy minister Martin Dulig, now known as “Dildo Dulig”). n An unknown armed robber made off with cash at the Lotions and Lace adult store in San Bernardino, Calif., in December— although employees told police they angrily pelted the man with dildos from the shelves as he ran out the door.

Least Competent Criminals Leonard Rinaldi, 53, was arrested in Torrington, Conn., in November following his theft of a rare-coin collection belonging to his father. The coins were valued at about $8,000, but apparently to make his theft less easily discoverable, he ran them through a Coinstar coin-cashing machine—netting himself a cool $60. n James Walsh was arrested in Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Dec. 12, 2016, at a Walmart after carting out an unpaid-for big-screen TV. Walsh said he had swiped another TV on Dec. 11 with no problem—but failed to notice that, on the 12th, the store had a “shop with a cop” event at which St. Lucie County deputies were buying toys for kids.

Recurring Themes Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation remains the most storied, but Venezuela is catching up. In mid-December, the government declared its largest-currency bill (the 100-bolivar note) worthless, replacing it with larger denomination money (after a brief cash-in period that has ended and which some drug dealers were likely shut out of). The 100-bolivar’s value had shrunk to 2 cents on the black market. Stacks of it were required to make even the smallest food purchases, and since wallets could no longer hold the notes, robbers feasted on the “packages” of money people carried around while shopping. The Passing Parade In October, Chicago alderman Howard Brookins Jr. publicly denounced “aggressive” squirrels that were gnawing through trash cans and costing the city an extra $300,000. A month later, Brookins was badly injured in a bicycle collision (broken nose, missing teeth) when a squirrel (in either a mighty coincidence or suicide terrorism) jumped into one of his wheels, sending Brookins over the handlebar. n In October, officials of Alaska’s Iditarod reaffirmed an earlier decision to allow mushers to use mobile phones during the 2017 race; “purists” maintain that phones destroy the “frontierness” of the event.

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I keep hearing about the bright future of gene editing, specifically involving something called CRISPR. I’ve seen claims that it could cure cancer and most genetic diseases, maybe even prolong life to infinity and beyond. Is this kooky futurist crap, or maybe something that’ll be too expensive for mass distribution?

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STRAIGHT DOPE Altered Genes —Julia The experts predicting cancer cures are the relatively sober, realistic ones, Julia— we’ve got CRISPR teams living the sci-fi dream, sticking preserved mammoth genes into elephant cells. The CRISPR-Cas9 editing process still looks like the revolutionary development it’s been touted as over the last four years, and research hums along at a remarkable pace. Still, some of the more dramatic projections surely won’t pan out, and those that do will have to overcome all kinds of stumbling blocks—biological, ethical, legal, ecological and, yes, financial. Let’s catch everyone up on what we’re talking about. The immune systems of certain bacteria use DNA sequences called CRISPR (clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats), containing genetic material collected from viruses the bacteria have been exposed to. When one of these viruses attacks again, the matching CRISPR segment gets copied to an RNA molecule (remember from bio class? Like DNA, but just one strand?) that tracks down and binds to the virus’ own DNA, allowing a specialized enzyme called a Cas (CRISPR-associated) protein to cut the DNA and disable the virus. So in CRISPR-Cas9 editing, researchers create guide RNA sequences that match parts of whatever gene they want to alter and use them to essentially program Cas enzymes to go make cuts at the desired spots, adding or removing DNA as needed. This turns out to be easier, cheaper, more precise and more flexible than previous gene-editing methods, and since late 2012 scientists everywhere have been putting CRISPR to ambitious use. Researchers in Pennsylvania used it to cure hemophilia in mice, with major implications for other genetic disorders. At UC Davis, they’re getting ready to create a modified pig that will grow a (presumably transplantable) human pancreas inside it. Just two months ago, in the first such test on an actual person, Chinese oncologists introduced CRISPR-edited immune-response cells into a lung cancer patient. As one might guess with such a pervasive and powerful new methodology, critics have raised concerns about the safety of performing CRISPR editing on human genes. Chief among cited risks is what’s called off-target effects, in which the guide RNA gets confused by multiple similar DNA strings and the wrong gene gets edited; even when the enzyme finds and cuts the correct DNA, it can still dart off and snip some other segment, too. The resulting potential for cellular mayhem is serious: A mistargeted edit could, for example, activate a gene, causing cancer. Efforts to identify and minimize off-target trouble spots are complicated by the fact that

each person’s genome is different and might contain more repeated segments than usual. The field of embryonic gene editing is both more promising and more ethically troubling. We might soon be able to correct genetic problems or add immunities in utero, but such prenatal tinkering refuels perennial fears of creating designer babies, customized for attractiveness or intelligence. CRISPR-edited genes might also head out into the ecosystem: Scientists anticipate being able to quickly wipe out pest species (mosquitoes being the classic) using something called a gene drive, which would cause a sterility mutation to spread through the population much more quickly than ordinary heredity could manage. The low cost of CRISPR research democratizes the research process but thereby increases the likelihood of error by a careless team, and it’s not like there’s much regulation to keep mavericks in line. There are more restrictions on the embryo-modification front: Some countries ban it outright, or permit it only for research; others have spelledout but unenforceable guidelines. A year ago, scientific bodies in the U.S., the UK and China called for a moratorium on making any heritable changes to human DNA. Since then, though, Swedish and British biologists have begun CRISPR-based research on healthy human embryos. The understanding is that these won’t be brought to term, but given such obvious potential for clinical benefit, this might be a tough door to keep closed. With scientists predicting that competition between China and the U.S. for CRISPR supremacy will become the fiercest scientific rivalry since the space race, it’s unlikely that either government will want to set up too many regulatory hoops for scientists to leap through. On the other hand, there’s existing intellectual property law. Wherever billions of dollars are at stake, lawsuits proliferate— competing researchers are now battling over CRISPR-related patent claims in U.S. federal court, and they won’t be the last. And though the research itself might be cheap, any resulting medical treatment likely won’t be. In recent SEC filings, two CRISPR research firms stated their investors’ profits will hinge on the availability of insurance coverage for their still-developing procedures. That’s no hypothetical concern—insurers have been reluctant to cover medical procedures tailored to individual patients. The biggest obstacle to the life-altering breakthroughs CRISPR might yield could well be our kludgy healthcare system. Those designer babies ain’t gonna pay for themselves. n

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Biskupski: The First Year

Milestones, missteps line the mayor’s first 366 days in office. BY DYLAN WOOLF HARRIS dwharris@cityweekly.net @DylantheHarris

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welve months ago, Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski publically promised to shake up the culture in City Hall. She recommended her dawning administration instill a “collaborative, bottom-up, inclusive” framework for city government. “We already have ‘everyday’ experts, and it’s time those of us at the top listened to them,” she said in her State of the City address. But several top city employees were never provided that chance to listen. Before stepping into office, Biskupski asked that all but a couple department heads tender their resignations. Several opted instead to leave before her swearing in. This supposed purge, she told City Weekly at the time, was a means of ensuring city officials were on the same page. Former Mayor Rocky Anderson, who supported Biskupski on the campaign trail, was livid. Had Anderson known then that “she was going to fire so many world-class city employees and completely fail to replace them with anyone that had remotely the same education or experience in the field,” he never would have championed her campaign. Matthew Rojas, the mayor’s communications director, argues that Biskupski’s process was more nuanced than she’s been given credit. Instead of firing public employees, he says, the mayor interviewed each to determine whether they adhered to the team’s

GOVERNMENT common vision. Department directors were expressly told they wouldn’t necessarily lose their jobs. And about half of the cabinet heads were retained after Biskupski interviewed them. Since then, a couple of more have left for other jobs or retired, Rojas adds. “The team that has been put together is a great team,” he says. “All people who were new or elevated had to be confirmed by the council, and every person was confirmed unanimously by the council.” But Anderson says Biskupski created a vacuum of institutional knowledge. Thus began Biskupski’s tenure in office, a bold proclamation that drew sideways glances and pointed comments. Her first year was bookended with more controversy when the city shocked four neighborhoods by revealing they would house new homeless shelters. Still, the mayor’s office offers a litany of successes in 2016, from securing a new UPS hub and 1,500 jobs, to switching to a more efficient and collaborative 911 model. Members of the community certainly congratulated Biskupski throughout the year. The Road Home Executive Director Matt Minkevitch, for example, applauds Operation Diversion—the joint city-county sting that offered prompt drug and alcohol treatment in lieu of jail for homeless people caught with narcotics. “It had an immediate and visible impact upon Rio Grande Street and 500 West,” he says. And true to her campaign platform, Biskupski committed to improving the foul air quality. Several days each year, the valley sky is gray and bleak with pollutants. Toxic air has been cause for concern for several years and politicians uniformly agree it’s a problem. This summer, the city passed a resolution pledging to run off 100 percent renewable energy by 2032, and reduce 80 percent of its carbon emissions by 2040. “This is probably one of the things the mayor is most proud of this year,” Rojas says. Heal Utah Executive Director Matt Pacenza agrees. “That’s a welcome and ambitious and exciting initiative with

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the mayor and her staff,” he says. “I do think in the environmental arena a lot of great stuff has happened.” Salt Lake City also renegotiated its franchise agreement with Rocky Mountain Power a few months later. Instead of a 20-year contract, however, the new agreement will expire in 5. The shorter contract allows the city to evaluate and update the agreement in a manageable time frame. But the mayor’s first term has undergone plenty of shaky moments beyond turnover and issues related to homelessness. In February, 2016, police shot 17-yearold Abdi Mohamed for allegedly beat-

ing another man with a stick. Mohamed denied the allegation, saying he carried the broomstick for protection. Despite requests for the police-cam footage, it has not been released to the public. At the time, Biskupski encouraged Police Chief Mike Brown to meet with a community board to mollify simmering tensions. But when investigators announced in August that the shooting was justified— even while an oversight board determined police broke protocol—a protest descended on City Hall. Demonstrators called for the ouster of Biskupski—for not taking a stronger stand against the police—and District Attorney Sim Gill.

A month-by-month look at Biskupski’s first year January

Biskupski delivers her inaugural address: “As the new mayor of the capital city, I promise improving our air quality will be at the core of every decision and policy we make.”

February

Seventeen-year-old Abdi Mohamed is shot by Salt Lake City police in Rio Grande. It was the third “use of force” incident by SLC police that year: “I had a serious conversation with Police Chief Brown and members of his team to review details about each of these incidents, including a discussion on training and whether deescalation efforts could have been implemented.”

March

Public Service Director April Townsend resigns after a month on the job. She had replaced 35-year-veteran Rick Graham, who the mayor fired: “April is highly qualified and an excellent choice to lead the Department of Public Services, but this department requires enormous commitment and responsibility from its director. April expressed to me a need to devote more attention to other areas of her life.”

April

Biskupski bans city funded or sponsored travel to Mississippi and North Carolina—states that passed anti-LGBTQ legislation: “Our nation and our local community has come too far to allow our progress to be undermined by desperate laws that seem designed only to limit opportunity and access for certain individuals”

May

The city commits to doubling its solar-powered operations from 6 percent to 12 percent: “We are thrilled to align with Subscriber Solar and invest in clean, carbonfree energy to better serve our community.”

June

To offer temporary relief to the homeless, the city establishes a number of mitigation measures: “These recommended projects will provide some short-term relief to individuals experiencing homelessness, while we continue to move forward with our longer-term plans to provide homeless services.”

July

Biskupski shuts down a sincere questioner at a forum meant to repair relationships between police and the public: "I don't want this to be an intimidation that is occurring."

August

A 90-day parking ticket amnesty program is implemented: “When this was first proposed to me by our finance team, it sounded like a win-win for everyone involved.”

November

Ongoing protests near Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota capture the nation’s attention: “Members of Native American tribes in Salt Lake City are rightfully concerned about the Dakota Pipeline’s impact on sacred cultural sites, as well as climate-change issues caused by a new project devoted to more burning of fossil fuels.”

December

The mayor reveals four locations where the city will build homeless resource centers: “The sites we are announcing today represent more than just land; they are spaces of hope for those in need.”

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out controversy. “We can either try to find reasons for this to not work and not be successful, or we can find reasons to make sure it is successful,” she said. “I’m hoping that you who serve in the media will not be out running around looking for reasons for us to fail, but to find good reasons for us to succeed.” Rojas acknowledged a backlash of grief. Some interpreted the mayor’s words to be chastising reporters for refusing to function as a mouthpiece on behalf of the mayor and the city. But he refutes that interpretation. The news is hyperfocused on Rio Grande, he says, which leads residents to believe the same broken system will be operating near them. But the city is doing what it can to avoid replicating that antiquated model. The new shelters will offer daytime resources, thereby preventing residents from milling in long lines outside the shelter, like they do now. “What she’s really thinking is that there are things that could work rather than only thinking of the negative things that we’re trying to change,” he says. By way of example, the mayor points to the Y.M.C.A., which offers services and housing without bothering its neighbors. As for her relationship with the media in general, Rojas says what can come off as guarded boils down to time, or a lack thereof. Biskupski reads every resolution and ordinance, according to Rojas, and she prefers precision rather than quick “victory laps” when interacting with media members. Anderson, who served as SLC mayor for eight years, doesn’t buy it. “Who’s too hard-working that they can’t take a call from members of the media?” he asks. “I worked my tail off when I was there. I worked there basically seven days a week and still made time to talk to reporters.” Attending to a family emergency in Minnesota, Biskupski was unable to speak with City Weekly for this article. Standing in the cold last January, the same month she asked for department leaders’ resignations, Biskupski assured to empower city employees, to visit the offices, garages and service stations. “While I may not get my hands as dirty as some of you,” she said, “I can assure you this is a hands-together administration.” That promise, she said, was one she intended to keep for the next four years. CW

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The latest uproar, however, is one that could resonate for years to come. The marquee moves in her inaugural year will likely refine the landscape of Salt Lake City’s oftmaligned Rio Grande neighborhood. If the city is successful on a path of reform, it will indelibly alter homelessness downtown. The Road Home shelter—which sleeps more than 1,000 homeless—sits on Rio Grande Street, an area that has devolved into a hotbed of drugs and crime. It’s a place with criminal infiltration, where drug pushers have embedded themselves among the most vulnerable. As a result, this ground zero for the destitute has been a prickly thorn in the sides of neighborhood businesses and any politician within earshot. Speaking in a lilting yet authoritative cadence, Biskupski took to the microphone at a mid-December press conference and asked the public to accept that the city was making a difficult decision it believed would lead to a better solution for the homeless. “Today is an important day in Salt Lake City, a day which I ask everyone to have the courage to acknowledge the harsh realities we face in the Rio Grande neighborhood and to support us so that we might transform the future for that neighborhood and the people who will and currently are experiencing homelessness,” she read from a prepared speech. Despite Biskupski’s request, the response from those a stone’s throw from the new sites has not been pretty. Highest on the list of residents’ complaints was that they weren’t allowed to weigh in on where the sites should go. The city moved on a decision without public input. Rojas says the mayor and council members were willing to take a political hit rather than pit neighborhoods against one another. “They didn’t believe that would be a productive conversation,” he says. A steering committee gathered input from the public to develop a rubric for the new sites. “The No. 1 criteria was that the new sites not be conducive for drug trade,” Rojas says. “The public basically told us that public safety was No. 1.” When asked about neighborhood vitality and what she expected from the unhappy residents that reporters were bound to find and interview, Biskupski responded in a peeved plea that the media try not to root

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HOME SWEET H•ME?

How a single real estate deal highlights a city in flux and in crisis.

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t was by accident that Dick and Jean Raybould came to own the SULA apartment building at 60 E St. in the Avenues neighborhood of Salt Lake City. In January of 1974, Dick’s brother told him that he was owed $10,000— an amount that could not be paid in any currency besides the sevenunit, red brick apartment that has, since 1909, been anchored between First and Second Avenue. Apartment No. 66 had been charred by fire sometime that winter. Water remained on the floor, and it needed to be rebuilt, which is where Dick fit in. His brother would accept the building as payment for the debt only if Dick agreed to rebuild the burned-out apartment—a challenge he accepted, and one that earned him an ownership stake in the building and a long career as an accidental landlord and maintenance man. It has been a decade since Dick, 88, has been permitted to stand atop a ladder and perform maintenance work on the building. And his daughter, Robyn Raybould, 62, who has acted as de-facto maintenance manager for years, has long been looking forward to the day when she could move out of state to be closer to her grandchildren. And so, by the accident of age and time’s relentless passage, the Rayboulds sold their proud building last summer, a building where, for the past two years, I have lived with my family. The sale of the SULA, a name that no one seems to know the exact meaning of (Dick believes it could be an acronym for Single Unit Lease Agreements, while Robyn likes to think it is a term for a water bird), sent a wave of change through the lives of many who called the place home. And it also became a metaphor of sorts for Salt Lake City’s housing crisis, where rental vacancy rates are at a scant 2.5 percent, homelessness is on the rise and because housing demands exceed supply, prices are soaring. Rather than reporting on the city’s housing issues from the bureaucratic heights of cold numbers and statistics, this story is one of a single real estate deal in a single city that is, apparently at the same time, growing into and out of itself. And, just like many American cities, Salt Lake City is experiencing a wave of prosperity for some, while many others are being minced by the jaws of basic market economics. At the SULA—whose new owners, SEPR Real Estate LLC, did not respond to requests to comment for this story—four of the seven tenants moved out upon being notified that their rents would, in some cases, double, and in other instances, be raised by around 40 percent. Other tenants interviewed said they had plans to vacate in the near future. For me, the $850 I was paying for a spacious two-bedroom place, replete with the masonry walls and other charms of the SULA, but lacking amenities like washing machines and off-street parking, was hiked to $1,350 per month.

Like my neighbors, I anticipated that a rent hike, courtesy of new ownership, was imminent. But $500 more a month? This amount was surprising, depressing and, ultimately, far more than I could afford. As I waded into the rental market, I found several things to be true, including the fact that renting in Salt Lake City was no longer a game that I could play. According to Mike Akerlow, director of the city’s Housing and Neighborhood Development Division, more than 50 percent of the city’s renters pay more than 30 percent of their income on housing. Once housing costs exceed 30 percent of one’s income, this housing is considered unaffordable. And in Salt Lake City, where Akerlow says about 50 percent of the city’s residents are renters, this means that a good number can’t afford where they’re living. So I set out to buy, begging and borrowing money from as many loved ones as I could to come up with a down payment. As my wife, daughter and I searched for homes, though, it became apparent that our loss in an affordable place to live would soon spiral into a lucky gain that would almost inevitably morph into another person’s loss. This pattern, I imagined, would repeat itself until, somewhere down the line, a person less lucky than I would end up homeless. It is this cycle—the loss of affordable units to increasing housing values and escalating rents—Akerlow says, that the city, which has declared an affordable housing crisis and is preparing to spend tens of millions on affordable housing initiatives, does not have a handle on. “With the timing of our market here, the increase in home sale prices and rental rates, we are taking existing affordable housing and making it more expensive,” he says. “The housing we are building is too expensive, so we’re out of options. There’s always a problem if you’ve got people living in your city who can’t afford to live in their homes.”

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For the past seven years, David Ashton has lived in a small one-bedroom apartment in the SULA. Like many residents here, Ashton was notified at the beginning of October that his rent would be increased, and that he had 20 days to notify the new owners if he planned to stay or go. “They raised my rent by $500 and that’s kind of life-changing right now,” says Ashton, who was paying $450. Like many of his neighbors, Ashton considers SULA, and the wider Avenues neighborhood, his home. He works downtown in retail management, and for a number of years, he didn’t need a car and walked everywhere he went. But the SULA, under the stewardship of the Rayboulds, became an affordable sanctuary when Ashton fell ill with a genetic issue, forcing him to undergo open-heart surgery.

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At 65, Amy, who asked that her real name be withheld from the story, has lived at the SULA since 2004, paying $650 for her two-bedroom apartment. Over the years, Amy’s son, and her grandson, have lived with her. And every Sunday, Amy walks to the Cathedral of the Madeleine on South Temple, just a few blocks from her place, to take her grandson to church. Her apartment, she says, is everything to her. “I get very attached to where I live,” she says. “This is my home, I’m protected; I feel protected by these four walls. I loved this apartment and I loved being secure. All that shattered when they sold this building.” Amy was one of the first SULA tenants to receive notice that her rent was being raised, and she says the increase of $450 per month sent her into a state of shock. Amy approached my wife and I, asking if our rent had been increased as well. When we said no, she seemed hurt and wondered aloud why the new landlords were singling her out. I tried to assure her that I had faith that soon, my rent, too, would be increased. But these assurances didn’t seem to soothe Amy’s anger. Like Ashton and myself, she turned to a rental market that seemed to have left her in the dust. She says her searches for a comparable place in the neighborhood yielded options ranging $1,100-$1,300. “Who can imagine coming up with $500 more a month in rent?” she asks. Amy liked the Rayboulds because they didn’t hassle her, and they kept the rent low. In exchange for the low rent, Amy says she felt comfortable buying new blinds and going without amenities like a dishwasher. And the SULA cast its spell on her, she says, charming her with its big front windows that allow the sun to pour in, the brick walls and her patio, where she planted flowers. Amy knows, just as Ashton knows, that the Rayboulds were giving them a screaming deal. Dick even let Amy pay her rent in two monthly chunks because it was hard for her to make a lump sum payment. “They were just wonderful landlords,” she says. “We loved this neighborhood. We love this area and I don’t want to leave this area.”

Dick Raybould says that after he took over ownership of the SULA, prior owners had racked up a series of high-interest loans on the place, which he inherited. But once these were paid off, the building became a reliable source of income for his family. The Rayboulds realized that consistency in renters was the key to, not only their happiness, but to the happiness of their renters as well. And so when someone was fortunate enough to snag an apartment in the SULA, their rent began at or near fair-market value, but was never raised.

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“Our first priority was having renters that tell you if the plumbing’s leaking so you can get over and get it fixed right now,” Dick Raybould says. “Once we had it fully rented, the name of the game was to keep it fully rented, then it became a cash cow.” In four decades, the Rayboulds have only ever had to ask two renters to leave; one exited in a huff, the other with grace. And at two years, my tenure at the SULA was by far the slimmest, as I shared walls with a woman—who asked that her name be withheld—who lived there for 12 years, Ashton for seven, and Gloria for 10. Dick Raybould, who retired from a military career but who had always been taken by architecture, says his love for the SULA stemmed from its design. The two-bedroom apartments feature large living and dining rooms, their own front doors and back doors, and small bedrooms. “I just liked the building,” he says. “It’s a great, solid, brick building. I like the architecture of it, with the private entrance, private exit in the rear; it looked like a place I’d like to live.” While the SULA has always been rich in character and charm, Robyn Raybould says that she didn’t feel the need to charge high rental prices, and also didn’t feel bad levying less than market rate, because the units lacked many of the amenities renters might expect if paying top dollar. It’s difficult to know the situation of the new owners, who seemed like nice enough people. Real estate website Zillow shows that the SULA sold in July for $699,900. The Rayboulds said that they received upward of 20 offers for the property, and went with the eventual buyers because they wrote a nice letter, and seemed genuine when they insinuated that their ambitions were not to simply flip the place. Dick Raybould notes that during the sale, a real estate agent remarked that it was kind of him to provide charity housing for people. While some of the rates were undoubtedly low, Robyn Raybould says her father’s ethos, when it came to his tenants, was to hold onto them as long as possible. “Dad didn’t like to kick people out. He listened to everyone’s life,” Robyn Raybould says. “Different people were in different places. We cared about the people and we didn’t raise the rent and everybody was happy.”

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“Having a place like this helps me survive because rent was affordable,” Ashton says. “I would be homeless if I didn’t have this building. That’s how this place has affected me. It’s been my home for the last seven years.” When Ashton underwent surgery, he was a couple of weeks late on rent. The landlords, he said, told him not to worry and to pay when he could. When he returned to his apartment from the hospital, he says that Robyn Raybould had made him cookies. A couple of years ago, Ashton says he was short on rent money and asked the Rayboulds if there was anything he could do to help make up the gap. He stained the fence and helped Robyn with various maintenance projects and, he says, rent for that month was waived. “They were really, really great to rent from.” Ashton says he can’t afford to pay the new monthly rent of $950. But when he began his search for a new place, he found that over the past seven years, rental prices had skyrocketed. “I kind of expected to find something for $750-ish for a one bedroom,” Ashton says. “I’ve been shocked to find everything $850, $900, $1,100. I’m trying to figure out a new budget.” Aside from having to leave the SULA, Ashton is also disappointed that he might have to leave the Avenues, a neighborhood he has called home for 16 years. He enjoys walking to the liquor store, only a few blocks up E Street, and the Smith’s Marketplace grocery store. “I’ve often said to people, ‘I have no reason to leave the Avenues, everything I need is here,’” he says. “It’s my home. It’s super sad.”

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Amy says that she had a small savings that she used to pay a couple of months’ rent at the SULA while she continued her search for a place. Short of that savings, though, she says she doesn’t know what she would have done. She says that her experience at the SULA has opened her eyes to how a person could end up on the street. “Losing where you live is not fun; it makes you sick,” she says. “This is how people get homeless.”

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Gloria was the first resident I met at the SULA; we shared a patio that overlooked E Street, where every single morning, horns blare in the street as traffic overflows from the popular Java Jo’s drive-thru coffee shop. For Gloria, life at the SULA has lasted 10 years. Ashton got his place in the building, just across the hall from Gloria, because she recommended him to the Rayboulds. The $475 per month she paid over those years was raised last October to $950—an amount that she says is going to force her to grow up and look at buying a place. “I was expecting them to raise the rent by maybe a couple hundred bucks, but I definitely wasn’t expecting double,” she says. Gloria has lived in the Avenues for 20 years, and she says the neighborhood feels like home. When she needs groceries, she feels comfortable heading to Smith’s in her pajamas. The Rayboulds, Gloria says, were kind to her. Shortly after moving in, she dropped something into her sink, cracking the porcelain. Dick replaced it, but a short time later, Gloria says she broke the new one. She fessed up and told Dick that before she left town for a vacation, she would leave some money for a new sink. When she returned, not only had the sink been replaced, but the countertop as well. When Gloria attempted to find a new place to live, she says she was greeted by the same reality as other SULA residents: Rent had shot up to the point where it was difficult to justify renting. “It’s painful to pay double the price for the same place,” Gloria says. “It’s just changing times. I was re-

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ally surprised by how much the rents have gone up in this area. That’s one of the shockers. It’ll be sad to move from the Avenues. There’s a good chance that I’m going to have to move from the Avenues because it’s too expensive.”

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Kirk and Alex Campbell moved into the SULA shortly after marrying in 2009. Earlier this year, Alex gave birth to a baby boy, Rocky, who on summer nights, when all of the windows were open, I could sometimes hear crying. “This is the only place we’ve ever lived,” Alex says of her time being married to Kirk, and the new addition to the family. Alex says the SULA’s close proximity to the University of Utah came in handy when she was a student there, and now, it is close to her job downtown. And $700 a month for a two-bedroom apartment was pretty reasonable even in 2009. The couple work opposite schedules, and currently can swing it so that Rocky is with one of them while the other is at work. As they have mulled moving, they say that it is difficult to find an affordable place to live in the neighborhood, but the further they branch out away from their jobs, the more expensive childcare and other tangential expenses become. As is the case with Gloria, Alex and Kirk say they’re thinking about buying a place (they plan to stay at the SULA while they’re looking). “It no longer makes fiscal sense to pay that high of rent here,” Kirk says. “It’s not all bad because now we’re, like, ‘what do we really want to do?’” The couple also says that the Rayboulds were great landlords, and that they got used to living without certain amenities, and living with quirks, like the pigeons inhabiting the swamp cooler. “They just valued you staying,” Alex says. “They valued somebody staying for a long time over an investment. They’d rather have tenants they trusted, that stayed long term, rather than charging more.”

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Housing and Neighborhood Development Director Akerlow says that signs of an affordable housing crunch were showing up years before it became the crises he says it is today. And while the city has made some efforts to grapple with housing needs for the poor, Akerlow says it is very difficult to gauge how many affordable units the city is losing as landlords raise rents, forcing tenants to flee. “My guess is, and I’m pretty certain on this, we’re at a net loss,” Akerlow says of affordable housing units. “We are losing affordable housing.” Around the same time tenants at the SULA were notified of rent hikes, the Salt Lake City Council voted to strip $21 million from the city’s Redevelopment Agency to put toward affordable housing projects. This money, hoped District 4 Councilman Derek Kitchen, could be used to incentivize developers to build affordable housing, to coax landlords into keeping existing units affordable, or funding a community land trust, whereby the city could buy land and eventually build affordable housing units. Some regulatory tools that are commonly used in other communities facing similar situations—like inclusionary zoning laws, which would force developers to build a certain number of affordable units as a condition of developing—have not yet been implemented in Salt Lake City. Part of the reason, Kitchen says, is the propensity of the Legislature to step in and forbid the city from enacting progressive agendas, as it did in 2012 when the city attempted to ban idling at drive-through windows, only to see state lawmakers forbid municipalities from taking such actions. “There’s no appetite for [inclusionary housing],” Kitchen says of the Legislature. “It’s always this really delicate dance we do to make sure that we don’t get out too far ahead.” Akerlow says that whether the goal is to build new affordable units or preserve old ones, there needs to be money.

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When my family and I moved into the SULA two years ago, we felt like we had struck gold. At the SULA, we paid $850, which—if federal statistics about median income in Salt Lake County are to be believed—still isn’t too far from the roughly $938 that a two-bedroom apartment should cost, in order to be affordable for the majority of those who live here. My daughter’s elementary school is just up the street from the SULA, which is flanked on both sides by coffee shops. From E Street, my City Weekly office is an easy walk or bike-ride away. The SULA’s ceilings were tall enough for my daughter’s loft bed. I drank gin and tonics on

timeframe, and possibly even verifying that some improvements were made, before a house-flipper can turn a property around. “All that did was drive up housing prices and made it so we couldn’t live in that house affordably,” Sarah says. During our home search, we entered two houses on the city’s west side where Hispanic ladies lived with their families. In one home, a room was occupied with a pair of neatly made beds with superhero sheets. A woman was in the kitchen, where pots of wonderful-smelling food bubbled on the stovetop. This house was fine, except for the fact that someone lived there. Sarah and I left with a sick feeling, knowing that if we bought that house, we’d be sending this lady and her children on the same frustrating journey that we were on. I hate moving, especially when I don’t want to. But this time around, I have realized that I occupy a perch somewhere in the middle section of a food chain that loves to eat itself alive. The new owners of the SULA have done whatever it is they believe they need to do. And in selling the SULA, the Rayboulds did what they needed to do. But while accomplishing these goals, most of the building's tenants were displaced. My response was to hire a real estate agent and begin scouring places where I could afford to live. The city’s west side, long affordable and home to diverse populations, was perfect. And so here comes Colby with his beard and his Protect Wild Utah bumper sticker to buy up a patch of the American dream. As I painted the brown walls, replaced the door knobs and cleaned out the gutters at my new house, I looked over the rooftops of a city in flux, and couldn’t help but wonder if I am as much a part of the problem as the landlords casually jacking up the rents, forcing people to grow up and get out. CW

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the patio and got a kick out of my cat as she stalked birds in the window. “I liked being close to my school,” my daughter, June, says. “I liked how spacious it was and how quality the SULA was. It was built well, I guess.” My wife, Sarah, says she liked the brick walls; the interior walls were lined with wood, probably cedar, giving the place a genuine '70s look. When our rent was raised in October, we set out to be home buyers, and we succeeded, buying a small house in the Glendale neighborhood. But this isn’t where the story ends happily. We made offers on three houses before one was accepted. On the second-to-last one, we were beat out by a cash offer. Before the offer on our eventual house closed, we saw the same house that had gone to the cash buyer go back on the market for $40,000 more. The new owner didn’t appear to have made a single improvement, and even used the same pictures from the previous listing. The criminality in this rabid speculation and money-making made us angry. Sarah says she’d like to see some regulations put into place restricting the

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Helping to fuel the housing shortage, Akerlow says, are prices that have now crested pre-recession levels, with the median home price in Salt Lake County jumping to more than $300,000 for the first time in the state’s history. While rental and home prices have jumped, incomes, Akerlow says, have remained mostly stagnant, meaning that more and more people are being forced to spend more than they can afford on housing. In an apparent attempt to ease the strain of the growing homeless population living along Rio Grande Street, the council announced the locations of four 150-bed homeless shelters in December. With the planned closure of the nearly 1,000-bed Road Home shelter, though, the success of these new, smaller shelters at easing the housing crunch is a big question mark. “We are now in the middle of a crisis because the housing is not there, the funding is so limited, our options are so few that unless there’s a dramatic change, we are going to continue to lose,” he says.

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Repertory Dance Theatre: Emerge Utah’s Repertory Dance Theatre is unique in the dance world for many reasons. One of the most important is the approach to dance as more than just a vessel to be filled with the energetic creations of seasoned choreographers. The performers are also expected to be teachers and choreographers in their own right. Starting with the very first group of RDT dancers in 1966, this collective pushed each other to become better at their art by tackling it from all angles, as creator and dancer. It’s the kind of experience that has led to tremendous careers later on down the road for many of RDT’s alumni. The current group of dancers has, for the most part, been working together for the past two or three seasons, solidifying relationships with each other that become more apparent every time they perform. They are ready to take it to the next level. And so, with Emerge, these dancers are given the next challenge: to present themselves as emerging choreographers, putting all that they have learned, and all that they wish to express, out there for us to see in their own “words.” Emerge showcases the work of seven company members—Justin Bass, Jaclyn Brown, Lauren Curley, Efren Corado Garcia, Dan Higgins, Tyler Orcutt and Ursula Perry—and the company’s artistic director and former RDT dancer, Nicholas Cendese. (Katherine Pioli) Repertory Dance Theater: Emerge @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-3552787, Jan 6-7, 7:30 p.m., $15, students/ seniors $12. artsaltlake.arttix.org

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The number of problems with the criminal justice system is so high, it can be hard to know where to begin. The prison population of the United States is so large that it exceeds that of some countries; police disproportionately target and incarcerate people of color for minor crimes; prisons practically encourage recidivism. The list goes on and on. None of these problems can be fixed in the two-hour runtime of this lecture, nor are they likely to change drastically given the incoming administration. But Parks City’s Eccles Center for the Performing Arts offers a chance for people to come and learn about the problems facing America’s penal system, and how to raise awareness and move forward. Leading the night’s discussion is Van Jones, CNN contributor, attorney and former White House adviser who rose to prominence during the most recent election cycle. Joining him is Mike Farrell, star of the television show M*A*S*H* and an advocate for ending the death penalty; and Kirk Bloodsworth, the first man released from death row based on DNA evidence not presented at trial. The conversation covers a broad array of issues within the justice system, but given Farrell and Bloodsworth’s advocacy, the night focuses around the ways these failings are especially highlighted in America’s use of capital punishment. As one of the few lecture-based events in this season’s performance lineup, the night is unique within the Eccles Center’s current session. (Kylee Ehmann) Criminal Justice Reform with Van Jones @ Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114, Jan. 7, 7:30 p.m., $29. ecclescenter.org

Local multiplexes fill up at year-end with movies that are pushing for awards consideration. You might have to go just a bit farther—to Park City, perhaps—to catch up with 2016’s best film on a theater screen. The term “monumental” feels like it must be hyperbole, but there’s really nothing else that captures what veteran documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson has achieved with Cameraperson. It’s an idea that sounds on the surface like a snooze: compiling snippets of footage from many of the documentary films she’s shot over the course of 25 years, for high-profile documentary directors including Michael Moore and Kirby Dick, plus her own home movies. But what emerges in that footage is something that strips bare the idea of “objective” journalistic filmmaking to find the humanity in every work of artistic creation—the person behind the camera. And that person emerges here in ways both adorably small (a sneeze that shakes the camera, or a shadow on the sidewalk) to gasp-inducingly huge (watching without interfering as a Bosnian toddler tries to play with a hatchet lodged in a stump). The on-camera subjects are often fascinating all on their own, whether they’re survivors of genocide or Johnson’s own mother struggling with dementia. It’s the way these moments are put together, however—in one of the greatest works of film editing you’ll ever find—that results in an emotional bombshell about art and the simple experience of caring about other people. (SR) Park City Film Series: Cameraperson @ Jim Santy Auditorium, 1255 Park Ave., Park City, Jan. 6-7, 8 p.m.; Jan. 8, 6 p.m., free. parkcityfilmseries.com

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PERFORMANCE THEATER

A Year With Frog and Toad SCERA, 745 S. State, Orem, 801-225-2787, Jan. 6-26, Monday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m., scera.org Cash on Delivery Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, through Feb. 4, times vary, haletheater.org Fences Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, 801-581-6961, daily except Sundays, times vary, Jan. 6-21, pioneertheatre.org (see p. 18) Gidion’s Knot Westminster College Dumke Auditorium, 1250 E. 1700 South, Salt Lake City, Jan. 5-21, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 21, 2 p.m. matinee, pinnacleactingcompany.org Live Museum Theater Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 801-581-6927, through April 15, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., nhmu.utah.edu The Marvelous Wonderettes Beverly’s Terrace Plaza Playhouse, 99 E. 4700 South, Washington Terrace, 801-393-0700, Monday, Friday, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Feb. 11, terraceplayhouse.com The Nerd Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley, 801-984-9000, daily except Sundays, times vary, through Feb. 4, hct.org Wizard of Oz Utah Children’s Theatre, 3605 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-532-6000, through Jan. 14, dates and times vary, uctheatre.org

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Emerge Leona Wagner Black Box Theater, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787, Jan. 6-7, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 18)

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Utah Symphony Haitian fund concert Susan Swartz Studios, 260 Main, Park City, 435-6551201, Jan. 8, 4 p.m., susanswartz.com Utah Symphony: Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-3552787, Jan. 6-7, 7:30 p.m., utahsymphony.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Collin Williams, Jackson Banks & Nicholas Smith Sandy Station, 8925 S. Harrison, Sandy, 801-255-2078, Jan. 6, 8:30 p.m., sandystation.com Free Kittens: A Stand Up Comedy Show The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, Salt Lake

City, 801-746-0557, Jan. 6 & Feb. 3, 7 p.m., theurbanloungeslc.com ImprovBroadway 496 N. 900 East, Provo, 909-260-2509, every Saturday, 8 p.m., improvbroadway.com Improv Comedy Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 435-327-8273, every Saturday, 9:30 p.m., ogdencomedyloft.com Jacob Leigh Wiseguys, 194 S. 400 West, 801-5325233, Jan. 5, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com John Heffron Wiseguys, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Jan. 6-7, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Laughing Stock Improv The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-355-4628, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., laughingstock.us Marcus & Guy Seidel Wiseguys, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-463-2909, Jan. 6-7, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Off the Wall Comedy Improv Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, 801-5724144, Saturdays, 10:30 p.m., drapertheatre.org Open-Mic Night Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Random Tangent Comedy Improv Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, 801572-4144, Saturdays, 10 p.m., drapertheatre.org Sasquatch Cowboy The Comedy Loft, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 435-327-8273, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m., ogdencomedyloft.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Alan Bernheimer: Lost Profiles Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Salt Lake City, 801-3282586, Jan. 9, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Alexandra Bracken & Susan Dennard: Wayfarer & Windwitch The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Jan. 9, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Erin Summerhill: Ever the Hunted Provo Library, 550 N. University Ave., Provo, 801-4849100, Dec. 29, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Local Author Showcase The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City 801-484-9100, Jan. 10, 7-9 p.m., kingsenglish.com

Mette Ivie Harrison: For Time and All Eternities The King’s English, 1511 S., 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100, Jan. 11, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Robert T. Winn: Night Reflections: A True Story of Friendship, Love, Cancer, and Survival The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-464-9100, Jan. 6, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

Winter Market Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St., Salt Lake City, through April 22, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Subaru WinterFest Snowbird Resort, Hwy. 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, 801-933-2222, Jan. 7-8, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., snowbird.com/events

TALKS & LECTURES

Criminal Justice Reform with Van Jones, Mike Farrell & Kirk Bloodsworth Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114, Jan. 7, 7:3010 p.m., ecclescenter.org (see p. 18) Leah Murray: The Election of 2016 Hurst Center, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, 801-6266706, Jan. 9, 7 p.m., weber.edu/history Kevin Bales Grand America, 555 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-258-6000, Jan. 9, 7 p.m., utahdiplomacy.org

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Alyce Carrier: Old Work Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, through Jan. 14, utahmoca.org Amy Caron: Angel Series Corinne & Jack Sweet Library, 455 F St., Salt Lake City, 801-594-8651, reception Jan. 14, 3 p.m.; exhibit Jan. 9-Feb. 25, slcpl.org The Art of Joy! Local Colors of Utah, 1054 E. 2100 South, 801-363-3922, through Jan. 10, localcolorsart.com Benjamin Cook: Allure of the Mountains Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, 801-594-8623,

Jan. 7 reception, 4-5 p.m.; exhibit through Feb. 28, slcpl.org Ben Steele: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-3553383, through Jan. 14, modernwestfineart.com Carl Richards: This is Where I Draw the Line Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-649-8882, through Jan. 8, kimballartcenter.org David Levinthal: The Wild West Julie Nester Gallery, 1280 Iron Horse Drive, Park City, 435-6497855, through Jan. 17, julienestergallery.com Drew Conrad: The Desert Is A Good Place To Die CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, Salt Lake City, 385215-6768, through Jan. 13, cuartcenter.org Faces & Places West Jordan Schorr Gallery 8000 S. Redwood Road, third floor, West Jordan, 801-569-5000, through Jan. 6, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., wjordan.com Gallery at the Station: Michael Calles/Saline Visions Union Station, 2501 S. Wall Ave., Ogden, 801-393-9890, through Jan. 6, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., free, theunionstation.org Holly Manneck: Popped & Twisted Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-6498882, through Jan. 8, kimballartcenter.org Jazmine Martinez: Ciclo Vital Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Ste. 700, Salt Lake City, 801-596-0500, through Jan. 14, facebook.com/mestizoarts Jeri Jonise: Together Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, 801-594-8680, through Jan. 20, slcpl.org Kaori Takamura & Gwen Davidson: Look Closely Meyer Gallery, 305 Main, Park City, 435-649-8160, through Jan. 14, meyergallery.com Lewis J. Crawford: Geometry from Public Space Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Jan. 6, slcpl.org Megan Gibbons: Beyond the Narrative Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, 801-236-7555, through Jan. 13, Monday-Friday, visualarts.utah.org Peter Everett: Transmutation CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 385-215-6768, through Jan. 13, cuartcenter.org Phoebe Berrey: Fun with Stuff Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Jan. 6, slcpl.org Rick Whitson: From Souks to the Sahara: Visions of Morocco Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-594-8640, through Jan. 7, slcpl.org Scott Filipiak: The Fragility of Nature Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-594-8611, daily except Sundays, 10 a.m., through Jan. 26, slcpl.org Stephanie Leitch: Interstices Granary Art Center, 86 N. Main, Ephraim, 435-283-3456, through Jan. 27, granaryartcenter.org Jordan Brun: Garish SLC Main Library, Level 2, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801-524-8200, reception Jan. 23, 6:30-8 p.m.; exhibit Jan. 11-Feb. 10, slcpl.org Kaori Takamura & Gwen Davidson: Look Closely Meyer Gallery, 305 Main St., Park City, 435-649-8160, Dec. 26-Jan. 14, meyergallery.com Lindsay Daniels: Nepal Rises Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-594-8640, reception Jan. 17, 6:30 p.m., exhibit Jan. 9-March 18, slcpl.org Phoebe Berrey: Fun with Stuff Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City, 801524-8200, through Jan. 6, slcpl.org Western Landscapes 1859-1978 David Dee Fine Arts, 1709 E. 1300 South, Ste. 201, Salt Lake City, 801-583-8143, Tuesday-Friday, 1-5:30 p.m., through Jan. 6, daviddeefinearts.com

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placed an order for pho and banh mi. I felt a little guilty—like I’d just committed a bank heist—when the bill, including drinks, came to less than $20 for two hungry people. The shrimp rolls—steamed shrimp, shredded carrots, lettuce and vermicelli in rice paper—were satisfying, especially for a mere $2.75. My wife enjoyed an excellent banh mi sandwich—there are 10 different ones to choose from—of cari ga, or curried chicken. The sandwiches are served on slightly crisp, lightly toasted hoagiestyle rolls with butter, cucumber, jalapeño, cilantro, carrot, pickles and lettuce, plus whatever main ingredients you’d like. Options include barbecue lemongrass pork, teriyaki chicken, garlic beef, lemongrass tofu, grilled pork meatballs and traditional pork. Beyond the alluring flavors and textures—spicy and sweet, crunchy and soft— the cari ga was also a bargain; it was much more than we could eat in a single sitting. Luckily, Pho Banh is well-equipped for food on the fly. It’s the perfect place to grab a to-go meal the next time you find yourself hankering for Vietnamese flavors in Clearfield. CW

Pho 33 strives to satisfy a range of palates with a pan-Asian menu where you’ll find, in addition to Vietnamese dishes, ones like pad Thai, sweet-and-sour pork, Malaysian rice noodles, walnut shrimp and kung pao chicken. Still, lots of regular customers come for the pho, Vietnam’s contribution to the world’s great soups. At Pho 33, it ranges from $3.95 for the kids’ size, to $6.50-$12.50 for adult servings. Options include tripe, meatballs, rare beef, brisket, tendon, chicken, tofu and veggie. I opted for the priciest version: pho with kobe beef ($12.50). The well-balanced beef broth was subtle and quite clear, not cloudy, with flavors and aromas of cinnamon, star anise, ginger, black cardamom and onion. A hefty portion of perfectly cooked rice noodles was submerged in the broth, with thinly sliced, lean kobe beef and scallions floating on top. Alongside were the traditional accoutrements of Thai basil, bean sprouts, cilantro, jalapeño slices and lime to use as desired. While heading up to Ogden recently, I spotted a little Vietnamese eatery just off the interstate in Clearfield. Pho Banh is a Vietnamese sandwich and noodle shop located in the Legend Hills development just north of Layton, which is also home to Lucky Slice Pizza, Chen’s Asian Cuisine, Tepanyaki Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi Ya. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but left Pho Banh saying, “I’ll be back!” Low prices and super-friendly service will have you saying the same. It’s a tiny place where you order at the counter, and much of the food is served on Styrofoam. We grabbed an order of shrimp spring rolls ($2.75) from the refrigerated self-serve shelves (where you’ll also find avocado rolls, cold drinks and such) and

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positive result of the emigration to this country by Vietnamese families, both during and following the Vietnam War, is that their cuisine was exported along with parts of their culture, and it’s now become part of ours. There are dozens of eateries along the Wasatch Front that feature popular Vietnamese foods such as pho and banh mi, like the two I’m focusing on here: one down south in Midvale, the other up north in Clearfield. Pho 33 probably wouldn’t have shown up on my culinary radar otherwise, but their discount dinner coupons offered through the City Weekly Store caught my attention. The restaurant doesn’t have much curb appeal. In fact, walking into a nondescript side-door off the parking lot, it looks like an underground drinking club, or a meeting space for secret societies. Frankly, it’s not a whole lot better inside, décor-wise. But, it’s a large space where you won’t be cramped, and the staff is very friendly and welcoming. We settled into a booth and ordered beverages (no booze here) and a couple of appetizers from the extensive menu. I was immediately struck by how low the prices were. For example, an order of fresh shrimp spring rolls is $4.50. Wrapped in rice paper, cut into six manageable pieces and served cold, two full-sized spring rolls are stuffed with tender cooked shrimp (tofu is also an option), shredded lettuce, avocado wedges, mint and thin vermicelli noodles. The thick, rich peanut dipping sauce alongside was wonderful. Another enjoyable appetizer is dau hu me ($4.25)—firm tofu that is battered, deepfried and coated with sesame seeds. I liked the tofu quite a lot, but couldn’t detect any sesame seeds, besides those floating in the tasty garlic-soy sauce it’s served with. Folks like me, who don’t mind a meaty salad, will enjoy the goi bo, a salad of cubed beef filet with cucumber, celery, onion and tomato, all tossed in a zippy chile-lime dressing ($9.95). Service could not have been friendlier or more informative, which makes Pho 33 a good choice for anyone new to Vietnamese cuisine, or who might be intimidated by the exotic menu. One stir-fry dish we enjoyed, which was recommended by our server, is lemongrass chicken ($7.50) called com ga xa. It’s a simple, but flavorful plate of tender, lemongrass-infused, boneless pieces of chicken fried with onions and hot dried chili peppers, served with rice and a side salad.

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f 2016 was any indication, 2017 promises to be a tumultuous year. I, for one, will probably be drinking more than usual. But what and how I drink will be partly determined by trends in the food and wine industry. Based on stats and sales from previous years, there are a few overall trends that we can predict for 2017. I’m certain, for example, that the popularity of biodynamic, organic and natural wines—the type that winemaker Evan Lewandowski produces here—will continue to blossom. As they are with their food purchases, consumers are becoming much more sav v y about what goes into (or doesn’t go into) their wines, and that will lead them more and more to natural

products like those from Ruth Lewandowski Wines and others. This is particularly true when you factor in that an increasing sector of the market is impacted by millennials, who tend to be smart, informed consumers, and accounted for a whopping 36 percent of all wine purchases last year. “Biodynamic is the future for Champagne,” Louis Roederer cellar master Jean-Baptiste Lecaillon says. Sparkling wines other than Champagne will continue to be popular. The last couple of years showed an astonishing growth—estimated to be as much as 40 percent—of non-Champagne sparkling wine sales, with Italy’s prosecco leading the charge. Prosecco, which is typically a great value and quite food friendly, will continue its climb in popularity. But, so will Spanish cavas and an up-and-coming wine category: sparkling reds. Look for lesser-known white wine varietals from Europe in the stores and restaurants this year. Wine buyers, both professional and amateur, are getting smart about the relative bargains to be had with wines such as Portuguese whites (like Vinho Verde) and chardonnay-like varietals (such as Encruzado, Antão Vaz and Arinto). Likewise, I expect to see more Austrian Grüner Veltliner being poured, along with Albariño/Alvarino from Spain and Portugal, and Spain’s verdejo-based

DRINK Rueda wines. Look also for white rioja/ rioja blanco, which is becoming a darling of some sommeliers around the world. Personally, I find myself experimenting increasingly with more obscure wines and I think others will, too. It’s not that I don’t love pinot noir, chardonnay, Bordeaux and all the other rock stars of the wine world. But in addition to “orange” and pétillant wines, I’m enjoying tasting obscure wines like Picpouls, Mondeuse, Ribolla Gialla, Malvasia Istriana, Viura, Silvaner, Mourvedre and Moschofilero—just to name a few. Likewise, sommeliers and wine buyers are unearthing quality wines from little-known wine regions and stocking their stores and wine lists with them. So, look for interesting wines from countries like Croatia, Greece, Lebanon, Romania, Canada, Uruguay, Slovenia, Turkey (which has the fourthlargest vineyard acreage in the world) and Morocco. In the U.S., there’s increasing interest in vino from the lesser-known regions of California—like Mendocino and Lake Counties, Santa

Barbara County, the Sierra Foothills, Monterey County and others. Anyone can order a bottle of French burgundy, but you’ll really impress your somm by knowing to order a California pinot noir from the Santa Lucia Highlands. I think unpredictable food and wine pairings will become more acceptable and common this year. There’s nothing wrong with classic pairings like sauvignon blanc and scallops or oysters with chablis. But there’s a whole world of potential wine and food pairings that have yet to be discovered. Austrian white wines, for example, tend to be very clean and are a beautiful match for many fish and seafood dishes. And my brain nearly breaks when I think of the beauty of an unorthodox pairing like that of Leroy Bourgogne Rouge with black sea bass and hot-andsour soup—the creation of the genius Le Bernardin sommelier, Aldo Sohm. Whatever and however you’re drinking, I hope your 2017 is spectacular! CW

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Janelle Monáe, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer in Hidden Figures so Hidden Figures makes up for another omission of cinema: We’ve barely seen onscreen the realities of day-to-day workplace life under segregation, a shameful period of the nation’s history that demands much more examination in pop culture. Here, through the interconnected stories of all three women, we feel the weight of the the ignominy of separate public facilities and the pressure to not complain about it, lest one be tagged as a troublemaker. Johnson does finally snap in a scene that is devastating. Some white folks do get woke over the course of the narrative, but they are not the focus of the story; they are merely listening to the voices and experiences of black women being heard, really heard, at long last. And therein lies the beauty of Hidden Figures. This shouldn’t be a rarity. It’s a hugely entertaining movie, but it’s also an important and necessary one. CW

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turning in her head, and we share how transporting it is for her to escape into numbers when so much of her day is spent merely convincing the white men around her that she can do the job. Director Theodore Melfi (St. Vincent) wrings a lot of wry humor out of simple visual moments, such as when Johnson hesitates while typing a report for reasons that have everything to do with her agitating for validation. Melfi also makes sly visual allusions to iconic moments from The Right Stuff: Johnson does a lot of running around NASA’s Langley, Va., campus à la Jeff Goldblum in the 1983 film, though for wildly different reasons. Melfi’s use of the “victory walk,” which The Right Stuff director Philip Kaufman all but invented, has the always-wonderful Octavia Spencer as Vaughn leading her “colored computers” to a plum new assignment at NASA that she has made possible. It’s clearly meant to elevate these women (and rightly so) to a realm as rarefied as the one the Mercury 7 astronauts have enjoyed, thanks in part to Kaufman’s visual iconography. Melfi might be the first filmmaker to have truly recaptured the power of those images, with characters who have actually earned the right to be proud of their achievements. It’s a glorious moment in the film. Then there’s Jackson, whom Janelle Monáe makes the spikiest of the three as she faces an actual legal battle to get into NASA’s engineering training program. And

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nce upon a time—during the early years of America’s space program— “computer” meant “person who does manual calculations.” This was considered rather menial labor, particularly when a woman did it—and lots of women did it. Though they were as smart and as educated—and often did much of the same work—they were paid less in money and in respect than their male counterparts (who held titles such as “engineer”). Anything done by black women was, obviously, barely worth mentioning. And barely mentioned at all has, outrageously, been the fate of so many black women who were essential to the U.S. space program of the 1960s. You know Alan Shepard (first American in space) and John Glenn (first American to orbit Earth). But you have probably never heard of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson—who were pioneers in, respectively, mathematics, computer programming and engineering at NASA—without whom those guys never would have flown. Hidden Figures is an about-damn-time true story that smashes the notion that the only people who had the Right Stuff in the moon-shot effort were white and male. This is no dry history lesson, though, but an often funny, ultimately feel-good triumph of geeks who faced even more absurd obstacles than any white boy with a pocket protector. It’s disgraceful that it has taken this long for its like to come along. Now that it’s here, Hidden Figures is cause for celebration. Empire’s Taraji P. Henson is completely marvelous as Johnson, who does a lot of standing at blackboards chalking out calculations and making that process genuinely thrilling, not only because—geeky squee—she is trying to invent the math needed to put a ship into orbit and return it safely to Earth. She lets us feel the gears

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A MONSTER CALLS BB.5 There are stories that can make the transition from allegory on the page to a movie, and there are those that cannot; count this among the latter. Patrick Ness adapts his own illustrated novel about a boy named Conor O’Malley (Lewis MacDougall) living with his cancer-stricken single mother (Felicity Jones) who is visited in the night by a mysterious creature in the form of a giant anthropomorphic yew tree (voiced by Liam Neeson). Director J.A. Bayona effectively re-creates the style of Jim Kay’s book illustrations and more than a few stunning visuals of his own, and gets a strong performance from MacDougall as a boy wrestling with fear and anger over his mother’s illness. But the structure of the book as a literary fable allows Ness to get away with a featurelength therapy session, where putting those same elements on a big screen does not. Many viewers will undoubtedly be moved to tears by its child’s-eye-view approach to processing grief; I might have joined them if it hadn’t felt like this movie was cutting onions beneath my chin to extract those tears. Opens Jan. 6 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—Scott Renshaw HIDDEN FIGURES BBBB See review p. 27. Opens Jan. 6 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

HUNTER GATHERER BB.5 There’s a funky, loose vibe to writer/director Josh Locy’s lowkey drama that gives it a unique flavor, even as it’s often hard to latch on to what it’s all about beyond its colorful central character. His name is Ashley Douglas (Andre Royo), a recently released middle-aged ex-con trying to restart his life, including convincing his onetime girlfriend, Linda (Ashley Wilkerson), to take another chance. Locy populates his world with interesting supporting characters like Ashley’s new young friend Jeremy (George Sample III) and a neighborhood photography entrepreneur called Santa, and bounces along on a surprisingly lively tone built largely on Royo’s charismatic performance as an inveterate schemer making only the most superficial efforts to improve his situation. It’s too bad that there’s never the same energy when the story shifts focus to Jeremy and his efforts to care for his

THINGS TO COME BBB Mia Hansen-Løve has become one of cinema’s finest crafters of intimately detailed character studies, which makes for a potent result when that character is played by Isabelle Huppert. She plays Nathalie, a Parisian philosophy professor experiencing multiple bumpy life transitions at once, including her husband (André Marcon) leaving her for another woman, the fading interest in her scholarship and struggles dealing with her needy, aging mother (Edith Scob). Hansen-Løve isn’t timid about allowing her stories to drift into tangents, which occasionally can make it hard to get a handle on what the story is about. But Huppert rewards a viewer’s patience by digging into the way Nathalie thoughtfully processes arriving at an unexpected point in her life, including great material with Nathalie interacting with a former student (Roman Kolinka) and his group of young political activists. “I think I’m too old for radicality,” Nathalie says at one point, but Things to Come finds lovely small drama in a woman’s radical act of re-inventing herself when all of her previous self-definitions no longer apply. Opens Jan. 6 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)—SR UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS [not yet reviewed] Vampires. Werewolves. Kate Beckinsale. Fighting. Whaddaya need, a road map? Opens Jan. 6 at theaters valleywide. (R)

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ASSASSIN’S CREED B In a just world, a movie starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling and Brendan Gleeson would be a lush historical epic or period drama. But since the world is garbage, it’s another turgid, useless video-game adaptation. A murderer named Lynch (Fassbender) learns he’s descended from 15th-century Spanish assassins who pledged to protect a sacred artifact; the bad guys (Cotillard and Irons) use science and magic to make Lynch relive his ancestor’s life and find the dingus, leading to battle and bloodshed (and, for some reason, parkour). There are recognizable human emotions and motivations buried under humorless exposition and tedious bloodletting, but extraneous elements like “story” and “character” are abandoned so we can focus on what’s important: scene after scene of self-serious cyphers fighting over something we don’t care about. I smell something, but it’s not an Oscar. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider

FENCES BBB.5 Denzel Washington and Viola Davis won Tony Awards for their performances in the 2010 Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Fences, and this big-screen adaptation gives them an opportunity to burn down the screen. Davis does in her portrayal of Rose, a long-suffering wife to Troy (Washington). If only Washington the director had made Washington the actor rise to Davis’ level, instead offering a quite-good performance that still feels like an amalgamation of other, better Washington performances. But with material this strong, it’s impossible not to get swept up in the story of a former Negro League ballplayer looking back at his life. The story is also bigger than that—a dense drama with enough subtext to demand repeated viewings. The supporting cast—Stephen Henderson and Russell Hornsby—is excellent, and Charlotte Bruus Christensen’s handsome cinematography almost makes Fences transcend its stage roots. (R)—David Riedel

JACKIE BBB Chilean director Pablo Larraín and screenwriter Noah Oppenheim often nail the connection between history and image in their profile of Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) the week following JFK’s assassination. The narrative darts back and forth in time, from framing narrative with a journalist (Billy Crudup) interviewing Jackie about the tragic day, then weaving back to the immediate aftermath in flashbacks. Much of the running time surrounds her detailed involvement in orchestrating the president’s funeral procession, while repeating more or less the same concept: giving her husband an epic send-off to cement his legacy in the American consciousness. Portman walks an effective, tricky line humanizing

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invalid grandfather, building to a conclusion that comes with strangely abrupt tonal shifts. Locy might not know quite how to bring Hunter Gatherer in for a landing, but Ashley’s irrepressible spirit at least makes for a mostly satisfying ride. Opens Jan. 6 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—SR

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SING BBB.5 Yes, Sing bears some similarity to Zootopia, but the two movies are very different in tone, humor, drama and intent; this could be a light comedy produced in Zootopia. Theatrical impressario Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), a koala, stages a voicetalent show in a last-ditch attempt to save his failing theater. McConaughey’s transcendent voice performance sells Buster as a bear of big ideas and bigger optimism, never mind the details. With a simpler story and gentler metaphors than Zootopia, Sing will be easier going for younger kids, and it might even get them interested in classic pop standards (though there’s tons of modern pop here, too). With smart attention to the trials and foibles of a diverse range of characters—not just in species, but in gender, too—and some irresistibly toe-tapping musical numbers, Sing is a sweet, funny delight. (PG)—MaryAnn Johanson WHY HIM? BB.5 James Franco actually starts to seem like a bona fide movie star whenever his character is dialed up to 11—like Laird Mayhew, the unfiltered, tatted-up video-game millionaire trying to impress Ned (Bryan Cranston) and Barb Fleming (Megan Mullally), the Midwestern parents of his girlfriend (Zoey Deutch), during a preChristmas visit to his California mansion. Plenty of broad, crude, R-rated shenanigans ensue—a literal tidal wave of piss may be involved—with predictably uneven results. But Cranston and Mullally are aces at incredulous-bordering-on-horrified reaction takes, while Franco goes for the gusto playing a guy with a completely ingenuous sincerity behind his obliviousness to decorum, making him—God forgive me for saying so—almost endearing. It might be the kind of studio comedy that you know will include weird cameos, but at least it sells the weirdness at its center. (R)—SR

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PASSENGERS BB Only once the final credits roll does it become clear how badly director Morten Tyldum misjudges the necessary tone, and how indefensible the ending is. Jim (Chris Pratt), an engineer aboard an interstellar ship, awakens 90 years early from cryosleep due to a malfunction, then makes a desperate choice to awaken another passenger, Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence), rather than live the rest of his life alone. The story is strong while it’s a two-hander morality play about justifying actions for our own survival, leaving aside cribbing its most romantic moment from WALL-E. Then it turns into a crisis sci-fi adventure, which might have been justifiable if it had built to a resolution with some bite. Instead, Passengers fails miserably at guiding

the characters to the only place that would have allowed them to be something besides a criminal and a victim. (PG-13)—SR

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New Series: Few, if any, Buffy the Vampire Slayer “tributes” (or, if you prefer, “loving rip-offs”) have gotten that classic series’ deft blend of horror and humor as wonderfully right as British import Crazyhead, created and written by Misfits’ Howard Overman. When 20-something Bristolian Amy (Cara Theobold) discovers she’s a “seer” who can recognize the demon-possessed hiding among us, she forms an at-first-unlikely alliance with fellow seer-turned-hunter Raquel (Susan Wokoma); much ass-whipping and sass-quipping ensue. But, the six-episode Crazyhead’s bedrock isn’t action and wisecracks—it’s the friendship between Amy and Raquel, a sweetly rocky bond that’s as believable as it is hysterical. Also: killer soundtrack. Also, also: some of the loveliest public restrooms on television, British or otherwise.

One Day at a Time Friday, Jan. 6 (Netflix)

Series Debut: A remake of the ’70s sitcom with a Cuban-American twist, complete with single mom (Justina Machado), precocious kids, a sleazy building manager and, unfortunately, a damned laugh track. Norman Lear, the 94-year-old former comedy kingpin who managed to escape the Grim Reaper of 2016, is listed as an executive producer, but there’s little reason for this to be called, or linked to, One Day at a Time, even with a Gloria Estefan re-recording of the theme song: It’s a bland, lazy sitcom in its own right. But, that hasn’t hurt Netflix’s other dim throwbacks, Fuller House and The Ranch, so this One Day at a Time will probably outlast Lear.

Emerald City Friday, Jan. 6 (NBC)

Series Debut: A smoldering Puerto-Rican Dorothy (Adria Arjona, True Detective) and a promisingly weird Wizard casting (Vincent D’Onofrio!) headline a “reimagining” of The Wizard of Oz that’s been kicked by NBC around for almost two years. Syfy tried this in 2007 with Tin Man, a mess of a miniseries that dropped Zooey Deschanel into a steampunk nightmare that went nowhere darkly and slowly. Emerald City is more in-line with its Friday-night

lead-in Grimm: fantastical and soapy, but rarely scary (and, unlike Grimm, eye-poppingly expensive-looking; the CGI effects and D’Onofrio’s wigs probably cost NBC more than all 12 current Chicago dramas combined). Intriguing, but not built (or priced) to last.

Taboo Tuesday, Jan. 10 (FX)

Series Debut: Long-missing-and-presumed-dead James Delancy (Tom Hardy) returns to 1814 London to inherit his late father’s East India Company empire, only to become caught up in a treacherous trade conspiracy that might get him killed, as well. FX’s last attempt at a period drama, The Bastard Executioner, suffered from lack of star power (unless you count Vampire Bill from True Blood, which no one did), among many other problems; Taboo has Bane and Mad Max, fergawdsakes! It also has Ridley Scott and Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) onboard as producers, as well as a Too Many Shows-friendlier runtime of eight episodes. Dark, violent and sexy, Taboo should at least tide you over until the return of FX’s Baskets.

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Jeff & Some Aliens Wednesday, Jan. 11 (Comedy Central)

Series Debut: Loser Earthling Jeff (voiced by Brett Gelman) is observed by, and annoyed with, a trio of aliens crashing in his apartment. As Comedy Central cartoons go … this is one of them. As with most—OK, all—animated shorts from the network’s TripTank series, Jeff & Some Aliens offers little evidence that it deserves to be expanded into primetime and share an hour with a proven player like Workaholics, but here it is. Still, comedy MVP Gelman can’t help but make anything he’s involved with better (ever seen Blunt Talk?), and his distinctive delivery elevates Jeff & Some Aliens from standard stoner comedy to tolerable stoner comedy. An achievement, really.

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n the phone, Sarah Anne DeGraw called a stranger “dude” and dropped F-bombs without a hint of self-awareness. It fit how she looks in the Crook & the Bluff band photo. Neither smiling nor scowling, she wears a long black coat and matching bowler hat. She leans against a wall but slightly forward, as if preparing to push off and sock you in the jaw. It follows that DeGraw would stand out in a room—have presence. But when I got to meet her at Ruin, two different patrons seem like they could be her. One, at an elevated table against the east wall, is tallish, her hair and coat are long but not black—but she vibes mousy. The other occupies a low table in the back corner, head down, haloed by clean white light. She seems too gentle, too reserved. I fire off a text and wait to see who shoots back. A survey of the room ends at the back-corner woman, with a smile as bright as her halo and eyes that spark memories of her YouTube videos. In “Ten Cent Lovers,” she strolls onstage in a sundress and sweater, saying, “I’m glad to be here. And that’s all I am.” A jump-cut finds her seated, vignetted by the spotlight, trying to keep her bangs out of sad blue eyes that pop against a red velvet backdrop. She breaks a reverent silence with fingerpicked arpeggios that sound like falling tears, punctuated by single-note harmonics like sighs. In a bewitching, mellifluous, achy voice, she sings. Someone can write and sing a song and still say nothing. When Sarah Anne DeGraw performs, every lyric, strum, rake, pluck and rest resonates. You’re utterly rapt, feeling tranquil and in tune with her. Pity the fool who shatters the trance. In conversation, DeGraw’s tough and tender sides dovetail. “Dudes” and “fucks” abound. She speaks candidly, both making and avoiding eye contact. She wants to share, but has a threshold. When discussing her itinerant childhood singing folk, gospel and barbershop music with her family band and running their merch booth, she politely demands to go off-the-record. What she shares isn’t a bombshell, but someday will make a great story. “I was born in Utah, but I’m not really from a place,” she says. As a child, she socialized more with adults than children. “I was outspoken,” she says, but her mother didn’t take her 8-year-old daughter’s protests seriously. DeGraw never relented, but by 14, she turned to songwriting as an additional outlet. She feels that her first song, “Better You,” is well constructed but lyrically “really dumb and very

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’ve spent the last year trying to see The Nods. Tonight, I finally made it. I’m even early. Anticipation tempers the tension accompanying a looming late-night deadline. Then Mike Sartain hands me my first beer, along with some news: “They canceled. One of them is sick.” It just so happens that the story due in the morning was gonna be all about requital re: The Nods. (Not that they knew this—and no hard feelings. Hope you feel better soon, Rocky.) Luckily, I still get to see Muzzle Tung and 90s Television. I’d narrowly missed them both on other bills. More significantly, I missed Koala Temple altogether in my time away from the scene. This one-off reunion gig might be the first and only time I’ll ever see them. There is a certain romance to the notion, almost like it’s a predestined onenight stand. As Muzzle Tung singer-bassist Geoffrey Leonard starts a yelping mic-check, a friend shows up and we proceed to imbibe. A waxing buzz suits the band’s fuzzy, febrile post-punk songs, which feel like futuristic beat poetry that you can either dance to or stand and contemplate like gallery art. Distractions, however, abound as our group expands. Further contemplation is required and planned. On the patio between sets, suitably lubed by libations, new acquaintances talk like old friends, and stress wanes. Back inside, the stage is dressed in colorful plush and props: a Fraggle, a baby mask, an E.T. whose raised finger looks more defiant than healing, a Christmas tree, a jack-o’-lantern, a giant two-dimensional Easter egg. And a Tyco Hot Lixx Guitar! It’s weird. I love weird, and I really love all four of 90s Television’s albums,

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so full of catchy, well-smithed songs that check some of my favorite musical flavors: power pop, dream pop, psych and surf. Sucked in, I’m a drunken fanboy trying to snap decent pictures without spilling my drink or missing the real-life 360-degree action around me. References swirl in my dizzy head (Donovan, The Hate Bombs, Spacemen 3). Singer-guitarist Josh Brown, rockin’ a Robin Trower T-shirt, hypes the headlining band—somewhat cheekily, considering he and bassist Craig Michael Murray are two-thirds of Koala Temple. He says something about City Weekly declaring this the most important night of the year. Someone in the crowd shouts, “You’re doin’ fine!” The band proceeds to rocket through the rest of their set, including a delightful and bitchin’ Tyco toy solo by Victor Blandon. This is why we go to rock shows: to escape. Once more to the patio and back. The stage is clear of all but instruments, gear and cups. Koala Temple will rely solely upon their music, which is as fuzzy and epic as their name would imply, plus lights and fog. Murray, now playing guitar and singing, looks like the lost ginger Beatle and one of the dudes from Angel (both clear influences). Brown now wields the Thunderbird bass Murray used in the last set. Drummer Taylor Clark pounds the skins behind them, and each new song brings more energy and intensity. Murray and Brown get active, whipping their hair, playing on their knees and giving birthday hugs to fans. Clark and Murray trade places to perform the former’s song, “Probably Sick.” As the energy builds, so does the pressure of beer on my bladder. Instead of returning to the front row, I watch from the back. Murray is spending more time on the floor and engaging with fans. A sax player, then Blando and his toy axe, make cameos. Behind the crowd, gathered as tightly to the stage as when the set began, happy fans run to and from the bar, happy to have thwarted last call and eager to get back to the show. Speaking of getting back, I’m mindful of my responsibilities. On my way out, I recall a moment where Murray expressed gratitude for the crowd’s interest, “especially on a Wednesday night. Thanks, guys.” Back atcha, dude. CW

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Are they psycho, or simply psychobilly? That’s the question the fans and followers of the Reverend Horton Heat (aka Jim Heath) have been pondering for more than 30 years. Indeed, purveying an approach generally described as “country-fed punkabilly,” the Rev created a signature sound that combines his own singular form of pure punk insurgence with rock, rockabilly, surf and swing. Led by singer-guitarist (and native Texan) Heath, the trio combines an homage to country legend Johnny Horton, a shortened version of Heath’s last name and

Reverend Horton Heat presumably a heightened sense of reverence for the music they make. Over the course of a dozen albums, they’ve even wrangled their way into the mainstream courtesy of commercials, cartoons and video games. And dang, when you have such idiosyncratic icons as Tony Hawk, Beavis and Butt-head and Hot Wheels tapping your tunes, stardom seems inevitable. Or not. It’s likely Reverend Horton Heat are destined to remain cult faves, too rowdy for all except a restive few. No matter. Feel the Heat, fuel the frenzy and let this turbulent trio do the rest. No need for reverence. (Lee Zimmerman) The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $21 in advance, $26 day of show, depotslc.com

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Hailing from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Michel Camilo started playing piano at age 9, and caught the jazz bug at 14. That was roughly 1968, and

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nearly 50 years later, he’s a legend. Maybe not in the same sense as the cats who influenced him—guys like Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea whose names register higher in pop cultural awareness. But in jazz circles, he’s a badass, the recipient of numerous prestigious appointments, awards and designations recognizing his contributions to jazz music and his jaw-dropping live exercises in musical prestidigitation. He’s performed with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to George Benson to Celia Cruz to Esperanza Spalding. This week he performs with Cliff Almond and Lincoln Goines—the same musicians who accompany him in the award-winning 2015 documentary Playing Lecuona, a tribute to the late Cuban composter Ernesto Lecuona. For a taste of what they’re serving, search “Para Vigo Me Voy” on YouTube. (If you’re short on time and just wanna see the Camilo’s fingers in full flurry, skip to 3:48—but you’re just gonna play the whole thing, anyway.) (RH) Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 7:30 p.m., $29.50, artssaltlake.org

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The Stale Street Underground, like the late, storied Moroccan, was a commune/venue for local musicians—and the 11 bands playing this two-night reunion of sorts all had members who at one time called it home. That includes a lot of bands you know. Night 1 consists of sets by The Nods, Cupidcome, The Artificial Flower Company, Eleventh Door, Echoplaxia, while Night 2 features Super 78, Muzzle Tung, 90s Television, Lord Vox and Bengt & Hoochie Power. Alas, the “Thingy Wingy” part of the title appears not to be an allusion to the night’s eats. So don’t expect big plates of wings. They should recruit local musician/filmmaker Dan Morley to right this wrong. Like the two venues, his wings are legend. Speakin’ of the Moroccan—how about a two-night reunion of those bands? (Randy Harward) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $3 per night, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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Just when you think every other newgrass/nü-grass or progressive bluegrass band sounds the same, or at least does the same increasingly lame classic-rock covers shtick, along comes a band like the Lil’ Smokies. While they’re not averse to dropping a cover—like their ace retread of Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing,” their originals aren’t the usual hipster-ly take on highlonesome acoustic Americana. Instead, their songs are most redolent of a New England band that used to be a popular draw here in Salt Lake City during the mid-to-late ’90s Zephyr Club scene: The Courage Brothers. Singer-Dobro player Andy Dunnigan, in fact, bears a striking vocal resemblance to lead Co-Bro Todd Thibaud. The songs have the same quiet ache and intensity, too. If you have a taste for that band, and solid acoustic musicianship influenced by more than Americana, you’ll gobble up Lil’ Smokies. (RH) O.P. Rockwell, 628 Main, Park City, 9 p.m., $15 in advance, $17 day of show, oprockwell.com

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I thought of you when I read a tweet by a person who calls himself Vexing Voidsquid. “I feel imbued with a mysterious positive energy,” he wrote, “as if thousands of supplicants are worshipping golden statues of me somewhere.” Given the astrological omens, I think it’s quite possible you will have similar feelings on regular occasions in 2017. I’m not necessarily saying there will literally be golden statues of you in town squares and religious shrines, nor am I guaranteeing that thousands of supplicants will telepathically bathe you in adoration. But who cares how you’re imbued with mysterious positive energy as long as you are?

CANCER (June 21-July 22) The creature known as the short-eared elephant shrew is typically four inches long and weighs a little more than one ounce. And yet it’s more genetically similar to elephants than to true shrews. In its home habitat of southern Africa, it’s known as the sengi. I propose we regard it as one of your spirit animals in 2017. Its playful place in your life will symbolize the fact that you, too, will have secret connections to big, strong influences; you, too, will have natural links with powerhouses that outwardly don’t resemble you.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “When I look back, I see my former selves, numerous as the AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) When it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the birds known as trees,” writes Leo poet Chase Twichell. I’m sure that’s an expearctic terns hang out in Greenland and Iceland. Before the chill sets rience you’ve had yourself. Do you find it comforting? Does it in, they embark on an epic migration to Antarctica, arriving in time feel like being surrounded by old friends who cushion you with for another summer. But when the weather begins to turn too cold nurturing familiarity? Or is it oppressive and claustrophobic? there, they head to the far north again. This is their yearly routine. In Does it muffle your spontaneity and keep you tethered to the the course of a lifetime, a single bird might travel as far as 1.25 million past? I think these are important questions for you to meditate miles—the equivalent of three roundtrips to the moon. I propose on in 2017. It’s time to be very conscious and creative about that you make this creature your spirit animal in 2017, Aquarius. May shaping your relationships with all the people you used to be. the arctic tern inspire you to journey as far as necessary to fulfill your VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) personal equivalent of a quest for endless summer. “‘Life experience’ does not amount to very much and could be learned from novels alone … without any help from life.” PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) In June 1962, three prisoners sneaked out of the Alcatraz Federal So said Nobel Prize-winning author Elias Canetti, who was Penitentiary, located on an island in San Francisco Bay. Did they born in Bulgaria, had British citizenship, and wrote in German. succeed in escaping? Did they swim to safety through the frigid Although his idea contradicts conventional wisdom, I am prewater and start new lives abroad? No one knows. Law enforcement senting it for your consideration in 2017. You’re ready for a officials never found them. Even today, though, the U.S. Marshals massive upgrade in your understanding about the nature of Service keeps the case open, and still investigates new evidence reality—and firsthand “life experience” alone won’t be enough when it comes in. Are there comparable enigmas in your own life, to ensure that. Pisces? Events in your past that raised questions you’ve never been able to solve? In 2017, I bet you will finally get to the bottom of them. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) I am rooting for you to be flagrantly unique in 2017. I vehemently want you to be uninhibited about expressing your deepest, rawARIES (March 21-April 19) Light, electricity, and magnetism are different expressions of a est, hottest inclinations. In this spirit, I offer the following four single phenomenon. Scottish scientist and mathematician James rallying cries: 1. “Don’t be addicted to looking cool, baby!”-my Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was the first to formulate a theory to friend Luther. 2. Creative power arises when you conquer your explain that startling fact. One of the cornerstones of his work was tendency to stay detached.-paraphrased from poet Marianne a set of 20 equations with 20 unknowns. But a younger scientist Moore. 3. If you want to be original, have the courage to be an named Oliver Heaviside decided this was much too complicated. He amateur.-paraphrased from poet Wallace Stevens. 4. “In the recast Maxwell’s cumbersome theory in the form of four equations beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s with four unknowns. That became the new standard. In 2017, I mind there are few.”-Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki. believe you Aries will have a knack akin to Heaviside’s. You’ll see the concise essentials obscured by needless complexity. You’ll extract SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “There is a desperation for unknown things,” wrote poet the shining truths trapped inside messy confusions. Charles Wright, “a thirst for endlessness that snakes through our bones.” Every one of us has that desperation and thirst TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road,” wrote Franz from time to time, but no one feels the pull toward perplexKafka. “It must catch fire if you want to go further.” Let’s analyze ing enchantments and eternal riddles more often and more this thought, Taurus. If it’s to be of maximum use for you in 2017, intensely than you Scorpios. And according to my astrological we will have to develop it further. So here are my questions. Did meditations on your life in 2017, you will experience this pull Kafka mean that you’re supposed to wait around passively, hoping even more often and with greater intensity than ever before. Is the thornbush will somehow catch fire, either through a lucky that a problem? I don’t see why it should be. In fact, it could make lightning strike or an act of random vandalism? Or should you, you sexier and smarter than ever—especially if you regard it as instead, take matters into your own hands—douse the thornbush a golden opportunity to become sexier and smarter than ever. with gasoline and throw a match into it? Here’s another pertinent query: Is the thornbush really so broad and hardy that it blocks the SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) I hope you will seek out a wide range of intoxicating experiwhole road? If not, maybe you could just go around it. ences in 2017. The omens predict it. Fate sanctifies it. I hope you will gracefully barrel your way through the daily whirl with GEMINI (May 21-June 20) The fictional character Scott Pilgrim is the hero of Bryan Lee a constant expectation of sly epiphanies, amusing ecstasies, O’Malley’s series of graphic novels. He becomes infatuated and practical miracles. There has rarely been a time in your life with a “ninja delivery girl” named Ramona Flowers, but there’s when you’ve had so much potential to heal old wounds through a complication. Before he can win her heart, he must defeat immersions in uncanny bliss. But please note: The best of these all seven of her evil ex-lovers. I’m sure your romantic history highs will NOT be induced by drugs or alcohol, but rather by has compelled you to deal with equally challenging dilemmas, natural means like sex, art, dancing, meditation, dreamwork, Gemini. But I suspect you’ll get a reprieve from that kind of dark singing, yoga, lucid perceptions and vivid conversations. melodrama in 2017. The coming months should be a bright and expansive chapter in your Book of Love.

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