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JENNIFER PEMBERTON News, p. 12 An alum of Utah Public Radio, where she focused on environmental issues and later gender parity in Western politics, Pemberton recently traded the comparably tepid winters of Logan for those of Juneau, Alaska, where she serves as the news editor for Alaska’s Energy Desk.

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Cover, Jan. 5, “Home Sweet Home?”

The rents on that place are waaaaaaay below market value. Very nice that the previous owners were gracious, but you’re insane if you expect that kind of charity to last forever.

MIKE GLENN Via Facebook

Why do people think that they should be able to live in nice areas for cheap when everyone else is having to pay fair market value? If you want to live cheap, then move to cheap areas.

ROBERT “BOB” SMITH Via Facebook

Build a homeless shelter next to it.

CHELC DIZZLE Via Facebook

Seriously, after paying close to $500 in application fees—only two of which were refunded—and no room for my family and pets, we were nearly homeless. [I’m a] working professional [with] nine years on the job, bad credit with student loans, and I couldn’t qualify for a loan. Imagine now lower-income families, students, etc.

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I love this story. I actually lived in the SULA— apartment 62A to be exact—from 1976-1978. It was my first apartment, I was a University of Utah student and I loved the building for all the reasons Colby Frazier and the other tenants cited. Plus, the Third Avenue bus line straight to the U campus and regular takeout Chinese food from the Pagoda. My memory of the owners/landlords has faded, but given the timeline Colby provided, I realized it had to have been Dick and Jean Raybould. Like the tenants interviewed in the story, I recall a neat and well-maintained building with the added benefit of great neighbors. New owners, higher rents—this made me sad. Thanks for the dip into nostalgia and some great memories, though. Nice work, Colby.

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News, Jan. 5, “Biskupski: The First Year”

Her firing of the director of public works has gone from a bad move to a terrible move. Anybody happy or satisfied with the condition of the streets, sidewalks and parking in downtown SLC, the Aves, 9th & 9th (or anywhere else in the city) since snow began falling on Christmas Eve?

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Opinion, Jan. 5, “Gone to Pot”

I applaud Dr. Shiozawa for his effort to provide relief alongside research. But the number of patients that would be in the study group may not provide the numbers that researchers are looking for, unless the research were to be greatly expanded. In addition, Dr. Shiozawa’s bill, like several others, was turned down for support by the Health and Human Services Committee in the Utah House. Sadly, his bill may be trampled by a bill being offered by the chair of that committee, Brad Daw. Daw’s bill is a poorly written “vendor bill,” creating a position of “Cannabis Payment Provider” for a lucky company that would be the sole processor of any transactions if a Utah cannabis program were to ever be created. Oddly enough, there happens to be a former state representative that works for such a company. The same payment processing system, word for word, is also within the bill presented by Sen. Evan Vickers, who happens to be a pharmacist in southern Utah. But in addition to a payment processor clause, Vickers has created a job niche for his fellow pharmacists, by requiring a pharmacist be employed on staff for every dispensary. A combination of Shiozawa’s and Gage Froerer’s bill may hold hope for suffering patients, but I doubt it has little chance of passing. It may take years to get past the blinders being worn by many of our legislators. The studies are out there; spending 10 minutes with Google will prove that. In the meantime, patients are still prevented from accessing a viable option for numerous ailments—from cancer to epilepsy.

DOUG RICE

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No regrets here. Still glad I voted for her. Expecting great things from her in 2017.

In Oregon, it’s legal. I don’t feel like the usage has increased. I don’t run out to my local dispensary and purchase it, just as I don’t buy cigarettes. When I choose to buy alcohol, I choose to be responsible. I do love that CBD oil is available to help with anxiety and autism as well as other illnesses. The legal stuff is strictly monitored and taxed like crazy, yet still affordable. Cheaper than buying it from a dealer (sources say).

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She has proven that on the homeless shelters issue she can lie to the public and make backroom deals with the best of them.

Stan Rosenzweig asks, “What’s the worst that could happen if Utah legalized marijuana?”Let me suggest an answer: Lots of civil and religious authorities who’ve been listing the evils of marijuana

Biskupski has my vote. I think she is looking in the long-term and will leave a lasting legacy on SLC.

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for decades—how evil and unhealthy and immoral it is, and so on—could be shown to be very wrong. I’ve never heard of any moralist—particularly a religious one—who’s anything other than extremely uncomfortable at being shown to be wrong.

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Schools could be funded by taxing weed instead of property tax.

RYAN WEST Via Facebook

We’d have too much tax revenue. It would suck bad.

MIKE GROMER Via Facebook

We can’t even get liquor to work in a normal fashion. Utah liquor laws are ludicrous and embarrassing.

@MERILEEPARIS Via Twitter

Let’s start with making liquor available to us as if we are adults.

SCOTT FRANDSEN Via Facebook

Yes, commenters, the alcohol content of your beverage is more important than slowing my genetic eye disease that leads to blindness, to help chemo patients vomit their guts up less, and to medicate the various terrible anxiety disorders, conditions and diseases people suffer from.

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Blog, Jan. 11, “Despite opposition cries, city is firm on Simpson Ave. shelter”

The mayor, city council and selection committee should have definitely asked for public input before locking in the sites. That being said, I think regardless of where the sites are there will always be a group of people who aren’t happy with it. I agree with the mayor that there needs to be different shelters for different subsets of the homeless population (i.e. women, families, men, etc.). From what I understand, Simpson Ave. may become the site for the women and children’s shelter. I have lived downtown in District 4, just a few blocks from The Road Home, for the last two and a half years with my husband and two kids. We frequently walk around the area and ride Trax with many of the city’s homeless populations without issue. The reason our homeless population is so visible downtown is because our shelter is way over burdened and can’t absorb the

1200-plus homeless population during the day. It is essential that we have shelters that house smaller populations and provide services not just at night but in the daytime hours, which is what these new shelters/resource shelters will provide. Simpson Ave. will simply not become Rio Grande Street or 500 West. It will look more like the Y WCA or youth shelter on 400 West and 900 South. The mayor should apologize for not being inclusive in the decision making process. But coming from someone who lives by the current homeless shelter, I can tell you it is not as bad or “scary” as it sounds.

AMANDA STEWART Via Facebook

There goes our neighborhood. Biskupski has turned her back on not only the Democratic process she’s sworn to uphold, but also many of her young liberal constituents who voted her into that position. Shameful.

LANA LINHART Via Facebook

Wake up, people, and have some compassion. [Residents] don’t want [homeless resource centers] in their neighborhoods, so they blame the Mayor. Sorry-ass people.

EARTH STORM JACOBS Via Facebook

You would never understand unless this is happening to you and your neighborhood. Has nothing to do with compassion.

MONTE DAVID Via Facebook

I am also firm in supporting Mayor Biskupski and her team on their choice. I was at the gathering at South Salt Lake Community College last night, and I suggested that if they want to change the location to go through the Legislation avenue.

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Trump’s Words “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” —Through the Looking Glass

Donald Trump’s election suckerpunched me. How could a guy so boorish and so unfit for the job become our 45th president? I don’t think the election was rigged, as Trump often asserted, but on the eve of his inauguration, I am trying to reconcile the fact that 62 million people disagreed with me and voted for him. The election was surreal. Just like Alice in Wonderland, whenever it seemed things couldn’t become more surreal, they did. Credit a cast of characters including “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz, James Comey, Donna Brazile, Julian Assange, Sean Hannity, Howard Stern, Nate Silver, Vladimir Putin’s hackers and a bunch of con artists feeding fake news into the maw of the internet. Alas, poor Merrick: Judge Garland played the part of the fade-away Cheshire Cat willy-nilly. I wasn’t the only one who thought it surreal. So many people looked up “surreal” in its dictionary, Merriam-Webster picked it as the 2016 Word of the Year, explaining: “Beginning with the Brussels terror attacks in March, major spikes included the days following the coup attempt in Turkey and the terrorist attack in Nice, with the largest spike in lookups for ‘surreal’ following the U.S. election in November.” A bizarre political campaign is one thing—it boosts the ratings of Saturday Night Live if nothing else—but post-truth politics is quite another. As its 2016 Word of the Year, the Oxford Dictionaries picked “post-truth,” an adjective defined as “relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” The rejection of data is troubling enough, but the ugly truth of “post-truth” is the cynical calcula-

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tion at its core. The late Lee Atwater, “the Babe Ruth of negative politics,” used posttruth advertising as character assassination. Just ask Mike Dukakis. “Post-truth” brings to mind another Merriam-Webster word of the year—Stephen Colbert’s “truthiness” in 2006. I find the prevalence of truthiness, the quality of asserting truth based on intuition instead of factual evidence, deeply troubling. Utah’s Republican legislators won’t authorize medical marijuana because it just doesn’t feel right to do so. Climate scientists are challenged by know-nothings whose post-truth pronouncements get traction on the internet. Trump’s dissing of the intelligence community a few weeks ago was truthiness exposed in 140-character spasms. The surreal election campaign took a toll on capital-T truth. Battered by demagoguery, disinformation, bombast and lies, Truth suffered as never before. Some of my friends wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton because she was habitually untruthful, they said. That Trump kept fact-checkers working overtime to correct his falsehoods bothered some people more than others. (The fact-checkers were mostly ignored.) What bothered me the most was the credence given to the fake news stories that circulated on social media, most of which skewed in Trump’s favor. According to a BuzzFeed analysis of the last three months of the campaign, “the topperforming fake election news stories on Facebook generated more engagement than the top stories from major news outlets such as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, NBC News and others.” One phony story, “Pope Francis Endorses Trump,” was shared almost a million times on Facebook. A guy armed with an AR-15 showed up at a Washington pizzeria because he had read Hillary Clinton was running a child-sex ring there. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has said that social media could “bring a more honest and transparent dialogue around

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government that could lead to more direct empowerment of people, more accountability for officials and better solutions to some of the biggest problems of our time.” Wrote The New York Times editorial board: “None of that will happen if [Zuckerberg] continues to let liars and con artists hijack his platform.” He subsequently hired broadcast journalist Campbell Brown to “help news organizations and journalists work more closely and more effectively” with Facebook. Twitter is another realm—less populous than Facebook—with trolls skulking under every bridge. Humpty Dumpty would be right at home as spinmeister @HumpDump. Trump, too, is as comfortable there as he is at his Mar-aLago resort. Through the long campaign, Trump fired off post-truth tweets impulsively. Some had careless errors. On Nov. 8, he tweeted: “Just out according to @CNN: Utah officials reporting voting machine problems across the country.” In fact, the problems in Washington County were resolved in short order by reprogramming voting machines. Other Trump tweets were as patently untrue as the one on Nov. 27 in which he wrote: “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” However you feel about Trump’s Twitter habit, you have to grant that his tweets had tactical value in the campaign. But that was then. Now, most Utahns believe it is time to move on. In a survey by utahpolicy.com, 36 percent thought he should tweet less and 35 percent thought he should stop altogether. As president, Trump’s words will carry outsized weight. Each should be carefully chosen; in combination, the words must be factual. The answer to Alice’s question of Humpty Dumpty—Can you make words mean so many different things?—must be: “No, you can’t and you shouldn’t try.” CW

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What are your plans for January 20? Nicole Enright: Lots and lots of tequila. Rhett Wilkinson: To cheer the Women’s March.

Scott Renshaw: I will be tucked away in Sundance movie screenings, probably watching something more comforting than the inaugural proceedings, like a documentary about war orphans.

Jeremiah Smith: To create a drinking game wherein you have to take a shot every time the President-elect tries to avoid a piece of his swearing in, and two every time he puts his foot in his mouth.

Enrique Limón: To watch the inauguration at full blast and Annoying Orange videos on mute in tandem, and see if I open up a vortex in the universe. Christian Priskos: I will be in Portland’s Distillery Row playing a drinking game. Every time Trump says “probably” or “believe me,” I will drink. Needless to say, I probably wont remember the event.

Pete Saltas: Since we’ll be at an alt-weekly conference in Portland, I imagine Christian, Enrique and myself drowning our sorrows at the local dispensaries and strip clubs. #SupportLocal

Sierra Sessions: I’ll just say that I’m responding to this on Friday the 13th, which is spooky, but next Friday will be Inauguration Day—which is even spookier.

Randy Harward: I’m going to a big party where an adoring throng will honor a great man. And that would be Bob Moss (see p. 45).

Dylan Woolf Harris: Jan. 20 will mark the day that I ratchet up bragging about being born in Canada and having dual citizenship. Suckers!

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Education. Need I say more? Despite being the No. 3 issue on Utahns’ minds, it’s typically one of the last to get traction. A group called Our Schools Now is stumping on the legislative preview circuit for an income tax increase to help fund education. But Senate President Wayne Niederhauser and maybe the Legislature in general seem to think this will open the gateway to hell. Studies such as one from Northwestern University underline the importance of small class sizes, but that takes money, too. Rep. Carol Spackman Moss says she’d like to hear the “dozens” of ideas for funding education. Maybe the gas tax, and, oh, if only they could get their hands on federal lands. But for now, the boy wonders of business from Our Schools Now aim at an initiative on the income tax. Well, you know what the Legislature thinks of initiatives. So, round and round we go.

Dirty Water

Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski came out fighting for the city’s right to manage its precious water resources. In a Deseret News op-ed with Sandy Mayor Tom Dolan, she alluded to the problems in Flint, Mich., as reason to retain stewardship over the waters from the Central Wasatch Mountains. “A small group of developers is working to change state law that empowers all Utah cities, including ours, to protect water sources from pollution,” she said. Development is always a driving force in Utah, and companies are already looking at ramping up mountain zip lines, building and hiking. Is it a good idea to fix something that’s not broken? She and Dolan go through the history, which itself is startling. Clean water—it’s at risk.

Metcalf’s Mishaps

No doubt, a lot of powerbrokers are unhappy with Peter Metcalf right now. The founder of Black Diamond Equipment had the audacity to say that the world’s largest outdoor retail show should look for a host somewhere else. And he did this on opening day of the show—ouch! Metcalf was referring to what he called an assault of public lands. Despite all the equivocating, the state of Utah is pursuing lawsuits to gain control of federal lands and to sue the government for the new Bears Ears monument. In a Salt Lake Tribune editorial, Metcalf called Utah “ground zero for the worst public lands policies.” He and other outdoor companies have threatened to leave Utah before, but Gov. Gary Herbert has managed to assuage their fears—until now. It’s a whole new world with the incoming administration of @realDonaldTrump, which might help wrest the lands from the public. And the Outdoor Retailers will be finding a new home.

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If you’d like to become a U.S. Olympic downhill ski racer, you might like to talk to Margo Walters McDonald who’s been there and done that. She has been noted as one of the 10 most influential Utah women in skiing, is an honoree of the Alf Engen Ski Museum’s Utah Sports Hall of Fame, was former executive director of the Intermountain Ski Association and was a U.S. Ski Team member who competed in the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

When did you first start to downhill ski?

I was born in Rexburg, Idaho, and grew up in St. Anthony, where I went to school and first started to ski at a little hill called Bear Gulch about 40 miles away. It had a rope tow and a T-bar and was popular with the locals. The Lions Club ran a bus program for school kids every weekend.

What got you interested in the sport?

My first skis were wood without sharp edges that my dad bought from Sears Roebuck. The bus had no heat and our clothes were not waterproof. So, after falling a lot on those fast, but not sharp-edged skis, I’d be chilled on every ride home. I always said I’ll never ski again, but it was lots of fun. We never had lessons, but nobody got hurt, except the one time my brother broke his leg. At each lift run, our ticket got punched, so we competed to see who could do the most runs.

When did it become evident that you would go on to greater things?

When I was 12, The Salt Lake Tribune ran a ski-racing contest for all the kids in Idaho, Wyoming and Utah in [conjunction with] the Intermountain Ski Association. Bear Gulch represented a small population, so a couple of us were chosen to compete at Brighton. It was the first time I was ever on a real ski lift. I disqualified, but when I saw those trophies, I wanted one. My family moved to Salt Lake City the following year, and I won every year until I became 18, when I became an up-and-coming ski racer.

How did you get to the Olympics?

In tryouts, I was No. 2 in the downhill, so I qualified for the 1964 team. My dad got involved in the Intermountain Ski Association. As president, he went to national conferences where he was elected president of the National Ski Association. He was a real supporter.

What did you do after the Olympics?

I got into tennis and won the Intermountain Women’s Tennis Doubles championship with a friend. And I’ve done a few running marathons, got married, had a couple of beautiful children and made Salt Lake my home.

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A botched Soviet plot to kidnap a West German radio interviewer supposedly hinged on candy laced with scopolamine. When ancient South American chieftains died, it’s said, their wives and concubines were dosed with the drug and led into tombs to be buried alive alongside the deceased. Present-day tabloids insist that Chinese gangs in Paris are using it to dope prosperous victims, who then helplessly empty their jewelry drawers on command. Such exotic tales have lent scopolamine a menacing aura and the grabby sobriquet of “the most dangerous drug in the world.” But the milligram and a half in that transdermal patch your general practitioner gave you for motion sickness poses no threat of transforming you into a mindless zombie anytime soon. Scopolamine is the active ingredient in burundanga, which is a powder made from the seeds of a picturesque tree known locally in Colombia as the borrachero. Because of its hallucinogenic properties, burundanga figured in the spiritual practices of some indigenous peoples, and they used it medicinally as well. Synthetic scopolamine wasn’t manufactured till the early 20th century, when it became popular as a childbirth sedative that not only relaxed moms but dimmed their memories of pain after the fact. And, yes, by the 1920s scopolamine had become the first drug billed as a truth serum. The twilight haze it induced left patients able to converse but seemingly less inhibited; the Texas doctor who pioneered its use in interviewing criminal suspects claimed it impaired reasoning enough to make lying impossible. Interrogators soon decided, however, that the side effects made scopolamine more trouble than it was worth. The biggest problem? “The fantastically, almost painfully, dry ‘desert’ mouth brought on by the drug is hardly conducive to free talking, even in a tractable subject,” a CIA analyst reported in 1961. Even moderate doses sound like a bad time, unless you enjoy protracted pupil dilation. Trippy as its effects can be, there’s a reason no one’s ever offered you this stuff at a party. But you can get a scrip for it, though it’s not like pharmacies are handing out bottles of pure scopolamine tablets. The clinical name is hyoscine, and its most common usage is in a patch worn behind the ear to ease nausea, whether postoperative or just your basic carsickness-type. Scopolamine reduces certain organic secretions (hence the dry mouth) and also dampens nerve signals that trigger vomiting. Under the name Buscopan (widely prescribed everywhere but the U.S.), it’s used to treat abdominal pain. Scopolamine can also provide relief from symptoms of Parkinson’s disease; some

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researchers believe it can be used as an antidepressant or to combat Alzheimer’s. That’s not to deny the nefarious uses it’s put to. A dose slipped into a beer or plate of food can disable an unsuspecting mark enough for someone to lift their wallet, and in Colombia this apparently does happen. The claim from a 1995 Wall Street Journal dispatch that burundanga was involved in half of all poisoning cases in Bogotá’s ERs seems a tad high, but the State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council has for years been warning American visitors to Colombia to keep an eye on their drinks, citing “unofficial estimates” of 50,000 scopolamine “incidents” a year. That amnesiac quality obstetricians once prized is probably the source for the “zombie drug” myth. “You wait for a minute for it to kick in and then you know you own that person,” a Colombian drug dealer once told a Vice reporter. “You can guide them wherever you want.” But, although scopolamine in your drink might leave you dopey or knock you out, it won’t rob you of free will. Sure, it’s powerful, but not supernaturally. And frankly, the horror stories about its use in Europe and the U.S. sound fishy: Supposedly, someone just hands you a business card that’s been soaked in the drug, or blows a handful of the powder into your face—but that sort of limited contact almost certainly wouldn’t be enough to incapacitate you. And there were no lab results behind those alleged Paris drugging incidents to show scopolamine was the culprit; in fact, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction hasn’t reported its use at all. In a story in the Spanish newspaper El País last summer, doctors in Madrid and Barcelona insist they’re seeing scopolamine victims regularly; they concede, though, that since it doesn’t linger long in the bloodstream, diagnosis depends more on interpreting patients’ stories than on hard chemical evidence. It’s also unclear where crooks in Europe or the U.S. would be getting all this scopolamine. With no recreational demand for burundanga, are serious quantities really being smuggled out of Colombia? And amassing enough of the synthetic kind would take more than a few prescriptions—you’d need an inside source at the lab. There are plenty of other nasty drugs out there, after all, and plenty of nasty people passing them around. n

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NEWS “When Women Run, Women Win”

Exploring the storied, difficult road for women in Utah politics. BY JENNIFER PEMBERTON @YearofJen comments@cityweekly.net

y big idea for 2016 as a reporter was to follow a woman running for office for the first time in Utah: to be there when she filed for candidacy, to follow along as she crossed manicured lawns to knock on suburban household doors asking for support, to sit in the war room with her volunteer campaign manager while they talked strategy, to look up and see her white knuckles on the podium as she gave her first public speech. I pictured election night in her living room or a high school gym, balloons fixed to the ceiling. I wanted to be there whether she won or lost. In fact, I knew she would probably lose. In 2013, when I started reporting on women in Utah politics, the Beehive State ranked 46th in the nation for the percentage of its state legislators who were female. Every year since, Utah has been at or near the bottom of this list and was for years before, too. Utah has one female in its congressional delegation; Mia Love is only the fourth woman in Utah’s history to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. The state has never elected a female senator. Currently, not a single woman holds a seat in the state executive office. Utah has had one female attorney general and one female governor. Only 9 percent of Utah’s mayors are women. A lot of people aren’t surprised when I tell them about Utah’s serious gender disparity in politics. “Duh. Mormons,” they say. Meaning, I guess, that something about the LDS culture keeps women away from the political arena. There’s some truth to this, but it’s not an explanation. Meanwhile, our neighbors to the north in Wyoming (the “Equality State”) rank dead last for women in their state legislature, and they have a lot less LDS influence. If anything, our geography and history would have more women leading in the state. We were pioneers in every sense of the word. Suffrage came first to Wyoming and then to Utah before either territory was a state. Women’s suffrage was written into Utah’s state constitution, and, well before the 19th Amendment was ratified, Martha Hughes Cannon became the first female

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state senator in the nation in 1896, beating out her own husband and a fellow female suffragist among others on the ballot.

Check Every Box

The easiest explanation for why there are so few female elected officials in Utah is this: Women need to be asked to run for office and not enough people are asking them. “Women don’t tend to be self-starters as far as political candidacy goes,” says Katie Ziegler, who tracks this issue for the National Conference of State Legislatures. “It takes recruiting a woman, asking her: ‘You should do it; you should put your hat in the ring.’” Tell a man he should run for office and he will. Tell a woman she should run for office and she’ll tell you she’s not qualified as surely as when you ask someone how they’re doing, they’ll answer “fine.” This is called the confidence gap. In the corporate world, people often cite a Hewlett-Packard study conducted when the company couldn’t figure out why there weren’t many women in their uppermanagement positions. What they found was that women only applied for promotions if they were 100 percent qualified for the job—as in, they read the full job posting and could check every single box for every single requirement. Men looking at the same job posting would apply on average if they met 60 percent of the qualifications. The reason there weren’t many women with corner offices at HP had nothing to do with qualifications and everything to do with self-esteem. Real Women Run is a Salt Lake City-based organization that knows this. They know that women need to be asked to run for office and to be told that they are qualified, so they hold workshops four times a year and invite women to come so that speaker after speaker gets up in front of this intrigued group of women and says, “You should run for office. You are totally qualified to run for office. You’re a mom? You’re a cashier? You’re involved in Relief Society? You volunteer at a homeless shelter? You tutor your neighbor’s kid in math? You should run for office. You are totally qualified to run for office.”

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Xani Haynie was totally qualified to run for office. She showed up at a Real Women Run training at the start of 2016 because the House representative in her district, Brian Greene, was going to run unopposed to keep his seat. Haynie was the first person to call me when I reached out to Real Women Run for a name of someone I could journalistically stalk all year. “You know who he is, right?” she asked me. I had to admit the name sounded familiar but she had to remind me about that time during the 2015 legislative session that he wondered—out loud, on the record, in a committee meeting—if having sex with your wife while she was sleeping would really be considered rape. That guy. She didn’t want that guy to run unopposed to

represent her district. A flat tire and unexpected Saturday morning traffic on the way to Provo made me miss Haynie’s speech at the Utah County GOP convention in April. My vision of following a candidate every step of the way, like a police ridealong, was already losing out to the realities of being a freelance reporter. I had missed her first public appearance and the voting. In fact, I barely caught her on her way out of the convention. She was furiously texting on her phone. “I bet your phone is lighting up today,” I said. “Oh, it’s my mom,” she said. “I drug her here and she just had hip surgery and she’s asking if we can go home soon.” So, I made it quick and asked her how the voting went. She landed at 33 percent approval, she told me. She needed 40 percent to move on to a primary from the convention, but luckily she took advantage of a brand new law that allowed her to gather signatures instead to get on the primary ballot. She gathered the necessary 1,000 signatures in February to assure she would be on her district’s ballot in June as a first-time candidate running against an incumbent.

Numbers Game

“When women run, women win.” This is a kind of motto with groups like Real Women Run. It’s not that women aren’t electable; they tend to win elections at the same rate as men, but they don’t enter the game in nearly the same numbers as men. “The research has shown that there’s not bias at the ballot box,” Ziegler said. “You have to take a step back and realize that when you look at the numbers, women aren’t running for state legislative offices in the numbers that would increase the women elected. Put more simply,” she continues, “women aren’t running, so they’re not getting elected. When women run, women win.” In June, a few days before Utah’s primary election, Haynie’s race got ugly. A mailer went out to Greene’s Republican constituents reminding voters about his 2015 spousal rape comments. The message came from Alliance for a Better Utah; Haynie didn’t know anything about it. Alliance for a Better Utah told The Salt Lake Tribune that

they hadn’t spoken to her about the flier and Haynie commented that she wasn’t familiar with the organization, saying, “I’m not sure why they came into my race uninvited.” No one knows how damaging that flier was to Haynie’s campaign, but she lost in the primary by fewer than 200 votes. When women run, women win … except when they don’t. I wasn’t there when Haynie lost her primary race to Greene. I was at home on my futon with my laptop watching the Utah elections results page refresh itself every 60 seconds, whiling away 59 seconds in between on Twitter. Haynie wasn’t “my candidate.” She doesn’t live in my county. She doesn’t belong to my political party. I don’t even know anyone who lives in her district, who might have voted for her. But I was bummed when she lost. She did everything right and she didn’t win. She went door-to-door in February and got 1,800 people to sign her petition. She went to all the trainings. She reacted calmly in the face of smear campaign. She never used Brian Greene’s rape comments against him; she said them to me off-the-record and never made that part of her campaign. But you don’t get to win because you’re a woman. You just get to run. And you get to lose, just like anyone else.

Watching the Scoreboard

Two things happened in June that lifted my spirits and revived my year-long reporting journey. Misty Snow, the first transgender candidate for U.S. Senate, won the Democratic nomination in her primary. So did Hillary Clinton. I spent election night with a friend from college and her four daughters. The oldest, Hannah, is a freshman in college. She turned 18 on Oct. 30, a week before the election. I asked her whom she voted for, if it wasn’t a secret. She told me that she voted for Clinton and that it wasn’t a secret, but she was a bit scared talking to people

dead laptop to check in on the Utah results. Misty Snow lost her race, but she got 27 percent of the vote, which is a good showing for any Democrat in Utah. Mia Love was re-elected in the closest of Utah’s four congressional races. The two incumbent female state senators who ran kept their seats. Both offices (one Democrat and one Republican) were challenged by men. Five new women were elected to Utah’s House of Representatives. One candidate lost by three—yes, three—votes. There were 15 additional House races that had women contenders. If every woman who ran for a spot in the Utah Legislature won her race, women would make up a third of the senate and almost 40 percent of the House. And so, in 2017 Utah will be out of the bottom 10 states for women in the state Legislature. (We’re 38!) Wyoming, on the other hand, lost women in their Legislature, making the Equality State somehow even worse than last place.

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Hannah was right—the country didn’t burst into flames when Trump won the presidential election. Her sister Allison went to school the next day and was released in the early afternoon like she always had. Trader Joe’s still has double cream brie with truffles for $7.99. I woke up early but stayed in bed late the next day. I did manage to roll over, grab my laptop and stream Clinton’s concession speech: “Our campaign was never about one person, or even one election,” she said. “It was about the country we love and building an America that is hopeful, inclusive and big-hearted.” That made me feel better about drowning my sorrows in local races. In some ways, for as close as we were to having a female commander in chief, we seem inversely far away from it now. As a journalist, I’m uncomfortable being in the chorus of Americans moaning, “It’s not fair.” I feel like saying what my mom used to bark at me all the time: “You know what? Life’s not fair.” But it seems pretty wrong to say, “You know what? Democracy’s not fair.” It’s not fair that Clinton didn’t win in the same way that it’s not fair that Misty Snow and Xani Haynie didn’t win. They did what they were expected to do. They had the confidence to run. They knew they could lose, and they did it anyway. “To all of the little girls who are watching this,” Clinton said after admitting that the loss was painful, “never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.” I thought about trying to explain this to my friend’s daughters—that girls deserve the “chance and opportunity” to pursue their dreams, but they don’t deserve to have their dreams handed to them. It would have been a lot easier to explain— especially to a kid like Allison—if Clinton had just won the election. When women run, women win. But sometimes they just don’t. CW

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at her Christian school earlier that day about whom she voted for. Hannah is shy— “reserved,” in her own word. She said she likes to avoid conflict, and that talking about the election during the weeks leading up to it was fraught with conflict. I asked if it was a big deal for her that there was a female presidential candidate on the ballot. She reminded me that there was more than one woman in the top race (sorry, Jill Stein), then she told me about her thoughts from earlier in the year, when she was still in high school learning about the primaries in her AP government class. “I was thinking it would be really cool if Hillary ended up becoming the major party candidate,” she said. “To me, it didn’t seem that unlikely. I was thinking to myself that it was really great that it was in this election—the first one for me—that this could happen.” And then it did. Hannah is bright, informed and much more prepared for her first election than I was for mine. As the race tightened on election night, I asked her what she thought was going to happen. “I was pretty certain that if Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump went against each other, there would be no question that Clinton would win,” she said. “But now it’s so close. ... I hope she wins, but … I don’t know.” “And what if she doesn’t?” I asked. “I’ll be disappointed,” she said. “I don’t think the country will burst into flames, but there are certain things about my own perception of the country and how it’s being represented diplomatically that would be disappointing because I think Hillary would represent us better.” Hannah’s youngest sister, Allison, had also voted for Clinton in her fourth grade classroom mock vote earlier that day. She said she wasn’t worried about the election because Trump only got two votes in her class and she didn’t think he was popular enough to be president. Before Pennsylvania or Florida had been called, it was time for bed for the younger girls. Allison protested, whining, “I don’t want to stay at school until 5 tomorrow.” When her mom asked what that was about she said, “Someone at school told me that if Donald Trump is president, school will be longer and we’ll have to stay until 5 every day.” This same source also told her that everything at Trader Joe’s would cost more in a Trump administration. Hannah, who was at a physics lab until 8 p.m. and had an early morning class to get to, opted to walk away from the election results and go to bed, too. “Don’t you want to know what happens?” her mom asked. “I do,” Hannah said. “Tomorrow.” Then it was just the grown-ups sitting in front of the TV, four beers in. It didn’t feel much like a history lesson anymore. It started to feel like a trainwreck. I didn’t want to be there in the morning when my friend had to tell her girls that Clinton lost the election. Watching an election is like watching the scoreboard when you can’t see the game. It’s just numbers. It’s just a score. The game itself was over a long time ago, it seemed. I felt like Hannah. I didn’t want to stay up. My phone was dead anyway: Twittered out. Before I went to bed, I plugged in my also

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Bad Day at Red Rock

Moab’s former city manager alleges she was fired for being a whistleblower on troubled police department. BY STEPHEN DARK @stephenpdark sdark@cityweekly.net

n early December 2016, Moab City announced its plan to close for an unprecedented 10 days over the holidays. The year had been diabolical for the municipality—which sees millions flood through its streets and businesses each year en route to nearby national parks, rafting and a host of other tourist delights—and they just wanted to shut the door on it for good. In the local press and social media, there had been ongoing controversies over employee departures and city manager Rebecca Davidson’s administration, while behind the scenes, multiple investigations into the police department over the prior 18 months had led to five officers—a third of the force—being put on paid administrative leave; three of them subsequently resigning. Davidson herself was put on administrative leave on Sept. 13 and terminated Sept. 30 “without cause,” and longtime police chief Mike Navarre abruptly resigned, on Sept. 20, clearing out his office overnight. Davidson, however, was not leaving without a fight. On Dec. 13, 2016, she sent a letter to Moab Mayor David Sakrison, notifying him and the city of her intent to sue for close to $2 million for firing her because, she alleged, she had “raised her concerns to the mayor and FBI about wrongful conduct by members of the city’s police department,” her attorney, Gregory W. Stevens, wrote. Conduct she had complained about included “lying while testifying in court, threats against members of the public, drinking alcohol with minors, harassment of witnesses, domestic violence and issues concerning evidence.” Moab’s interim city manager, David Everitt—former chief of staff under Salt Lake City’s former Mayor Ralph Becker— declined to answer emailed questions about why Davidson had been terminated. “The city is likely subject to litigation by Ms. Davidson and we should not comment on that matter,” he wrote. Davidson has not publicly discussed her departure from the city or the issues that led to her concerns about the police department before. In several interviews, she detailed her struggles to support, motivate and modernize the 15-strong police

department. In August and September 2016, things took a darker turn when she learned from Grand County prosecutor Andrew Fitzgerald and some angry community members of misconduct by officers. As she dug deeper, she says she also learned of apparently undocumented donated funds and questions relating to confiscated monies held in the evidence locker. Davidson had managed several other cities, also with some controversy, before starting as Moab City’s manager in April 2015. In initial interviews with police employees, she learned of low morale and concerns about lack of defense-tactic training. So she doubled the training budget. Changing hiring practices proved more challenging. “If the police chief wanted to hire, he would do it, and Donna [Metzler, the former city manager,] would sign off on it,” Davidson says. She pushed for a centralized HR department, in part because she was concerned about the caliber of police officers the city was hiring. “This is a police department in crisis, that’s the concern,” she says. “You can’t play with police departments. You need to take it really serious, how they get hired, how they get trained, and make sure we’re watching.” She instituted a psychological evaluation and polygraph for potential new hires at the PD, “for the protection of the community and the protection of that particular officer.” This became an issue, she says, when Chief Navarre favored a local candidate with no police experience over an out-of-state candidate who had served as a policeman. Attempts to contact Navarre were unsuccessful. Part of the problem, Davidson felt, was that Navarre “was hardly ever in his office, as little as a few days per week, and he did not seem to be supervising his officers very well.” In response to emailed questions, Everitt wrote, “As a salaried employee, Chief Navarre worked independently, and he periodically worked from home or remotely. He was nearing retirement, and he transitioned his responsibilities to remaining employees in the Police Department.” When she began to dig deeper into the

police department, alarmed In the weeks leading up to her termination, Rebecca by complaints of officer misDavidson started digging into Moab PD. conduct, her formerly ardent supporters, such as Moab’s Prior to opening the account, “tradiMayor Sakrison “did a 180,” she says, and tional practice for MPD was to keep cash either became increasingly critical or gave in a separate safe in the evidence vault,” her the cold shoulder. Everitt wrote. “It was subject to standard At the time she was let go, Davidson had evidence chain of custody protocols and identified several new issues of concern tracked accordingly. MPD used police at the police department. One was do- data management programs Spillman, nations. Davidson says she and Navarre then Millenium, and now Fatpot over the clashed over the latter’s plans to send two years to track and maintain records assoofficers and himself to Nevada to attend ciated with evidence.” the annual Utah Narcotic Officers AssociDavidson was also puzzled about why ation’s conference, using donations from Montague had worked in the evidence 35 companies for police training. Since locker alone on weekends and evenings. she had doubled their training budget, Everitt wrote that her inventorying and this rankled, only to grow into a larger updating the evidence locker at such concern when she couldn’t find the dona- hours was not unusual and was approved tions on the city’s books. of by her supervisors. Such hours were in Everitt says the city looked at the do- part to accommodate the work schedule nations question and found that, “Utah of an officer who was helping her. Narcotics Association solicits in-kind Davidson says she asked for an audit of donations statewide for their conference, the evidence vault at 4 p.m. on Sept. 12— and apparently they raffle off those items the next day she was put on leave. to raise funds for their association. These On Sept. 30, the council voted to terwere not donations to the city, so it would minate Davidson, council member Heila not have been documented in the city’s Ershadi being the lone voice of dissent. accounting system.” “The public does not have all the facts, Davidson also had concerns with the ev- and frankly, neither does the Moab City idence room in late August 2016, when she Council,” she was quoted as saying in learned that, earlier in the summer, a bank Moab’s Times-Independent. account had been opened for money conFor more than a decade, Moab PD was fiscated during arrests. “What concerned an active player in a multi-agency drug me was that somebody told me there were task force. In response to a City Weekly times that the evidence room didn’t bal- record request seeking a list of all Moab ance up with the money in there.” It struck PD drug task force cases, a breakdown her as odd that there were no long-standing of monies confiscated by the task force accounts for such money to be held in. and a copy of any audit by the city of its Everitt confirmed that non-sworn police evidence room, Moab City provided “the employee Cindy Montague had suggested documents that the city has access to,” “the city set up a bank account to hold all Everitt wrote, which amounted to 31 cash evidence that wasn’t also potentially pages—20 of them receipts for money to trace evidence (meaning that the cash buy drugs or for informants. might have fingerprints on it, etc.).” The 20 receipts were for sporadically That suggestion followed her attend- logged expenses relating to drug-buys ing a March 2015 conference on evidence with Moab PD money between 1983 and training that recommended such accounts 1997. There were none since then, despite as “best practices.” However, her attempts the city having a high prevalence of local to meet with Davidson were unsuccessful, drug use—much of it weed. Asked why “resulting in the account finally being au- there was no documentation post-1997, Everitt wrote, “Unclear at this time.” CW thorized in 2016,” Everitt wrote.

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Leading Economic Indicator The salary the Golden State Warriors pays to basketball whiz Stephen Curry might be a bargain at $12 million a year, but the economics is weirder about the prices Curry’s fans pay on the street for one of his used mouthguards retrieved from the arena floor after a game. One used, sticky, saliva-encased teeth-protector went for $3,190 at one August auction, and SCP Auctions of California is predicting $25,000 for another, expelled during the NBA championship series last June. ESPN Magazine reported “at least” 35 Twitter accounts dedicated to Curry’s mouthguard.

BY CHUCK SHEPHERD Famurewa and James Hearns, who were out of action against Louisiana State because of “gunshot wounds.”

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Cultural Diversity In parts of Panama, some men still fight for access to women with the ferocity of rutting male elks. The indigenous Ngabe people mostly keep to themselves in rural areas but have surfaced in towns like Volcán, near the Costa Rican border, where in December a reporter witnessed two men fist-fighting to bloody exhaustion on the street in a typical “Mi Lucha” (“my struggle”), with the loser’s wife following the winner home. As the custom loses its cachet, only about a third of the time does the wife now comply, according to the website Narratively. Bonus: It’s an often-easy “divorce” for the Ngabe—for a fed-up wife to taunt her husband into a losing fight, or for a fed-up husband to pick a fight and take a dive.

Least-Competent Criminals A December post on the Marietta, Ga., police department’s Facebook page chided a shoplifter still at large who had left his ID and fingerprints (and inadvertently posed for security cameras). The police, noting “how easy” the man had made their job, “begged” him to give them some sort of challenge: “Please at least try to hide.” Suspect Dale Tice was soon in custody.

The Passing Parade Steve Crow of Point Loma, Calif., near San Diego International Airport, told a reporter he had given up—since no relief had come from the 20,068 complaints he made during 2016 about airport noise. n A six-point deer head-butted the owner of a fur company in Willmar, Minn., in November, and broke into the building where thousands of recently harvested deer hides were being dried (and largely wrecked the place). The owner was slightly injured, and the vengeful buck escaped.

n The pre-game injury report for college football’s Dec. 31 Citrus Bowl included two University of Louisville linebackers, Henry

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Wait, What? The Las Vegas Sun reported in December that Nevada slot- and video-machine gamblers left almost $12 million on the floor during 2012 (i.e., winning tickets that remain uncashed for six months, thus reverting to the state), running the five-year total to nearly $35 million.

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Update In January, tireless convicted fraudster Kevin Trudeau, who pitched magical remedies for countless ailments on late-night TV for almost 20 years (dodging investigations and lawsuits until the feds caught up with him in 2014) was turned down in what some legal experts believe might be his final judicial appeal. Still, he never gives up. From his cell at a federal prison in Alabama, he continued to solicit funding for appeals via his Facebook fans, promising donors that they could “double” their money. Also, he said he would soon share “two secrets” that would allow donors to “vibrate frequencies … to create the life [they] want.”

n Because the 2015 San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist attack that killed 14 and seriously wounded 22 was a “workplace” injury (in that the shooters fired only at fellow employees), any health insurance the victims had was superseded exclusively by coverage under the state’s workers’ compensation system—a system largely designed for typical job injuries, such as back pain and slip-andfalls. Thus, for example, one San Bernardino victim in constant pain with “hundreds of pieces of shrapnel” still in her body even after multiple surgeries, must nevertheless constantly argue her level of care with a bureaucrat pressured by budgetary issues and forced to massage sets of one-size-fits-all guidelines.

Unclear on the Concept In December, the European Union’s 28 nations reached what members called a historic agreement to thwart terrorists: a ban on private citizens’ possessing semi-automatic weapons, but exempting terrorists’ firearm of choice, the Kalishikov assault weapon. Finland vetoed inclusion of the AK-47 because of concerns about training its reservists.

n University of Kentucky professor Buck Ryan disclosed in December that he had been punished recently (loss of travel funds and a “prestigious” award) by his dean for singing the Beach Boys classic “California Girls” for a lesson comparing American and Chinese cultures—because of the song’s “language of a sexual nature.” The school’s “coordinator” on sexual harassment issues made the ruling, apparently absent student complaints, for Ryan’s lyric change of “Well, East Coast girls are hip” to “Well, Shanghai girls are hip.”

New World Order Recent awkward apps: 1. The Kerastase Hair Coach, a “smart” hairbrush with Wi-Fi, monitoring brush strokes “on three axes” to manage “frizziness, dryness, split ends and breakage.” 2. The still-in-prototype “Kissenger” with a “meat-colored” rubbery dock for a smartphone that the user can kiss and have the sensation transmitted to a lover’s receiving dock over the internet. 3. The Ozmo smart cup, to “effortlessly” “empower you with a platform for better hydration choices” in your water and coffee consumption—with software for other drinks coming soon! Bonus: Old-school users can also just drink out of it. 4. The Prophix toothbrush with a video camera so you catch areas your brushing might have missed. 5. Spartan boxer briefs, stylishly protecting men’s goods from Wi-Fi and cellphone radiation.

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The Continuing Crisis Over a six-year period (the latest measured), drug companies and pharmacies legally distributed 780 million pain pills in West Virginia—averaging to 433 for every man, woman and child. Though rules require dispensers to investigate “suspicious” overprescribing, little was done, according to a recent Drug Enforcement Administration report obtained by the Gazette-Mail of Charleston—even though half of the pills were supplied by the nation’s “big three” drugmakers (whose CEOs’ compensation is enriched enormously by pain-pill production). Worse, yearby-year, the strengths of the pills prescribed increase as users’ tolerance demands. (West Virginia residents disproportionately suffer from unemployment, coal mining-related disabilities and poor health.)

The Entrepreneurial Spirit! Latest in vending machines: 1. Passengers awaiting trains in 35 stations in France now find kiosks dispensing short stories to pass the time. A wide range of selections (even poetry!), in suggested reading-time lengths of one, three and five minutes, can be printed out for free. 2. The only U.S. vending machine for Champagne is now operational in the 23rd-floor lobby of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Las Vegas. Moët and Chandon bubbly can be purchased with $20 tokens sold at the front desk.

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While it’s not exactly the Downwinders issue, outdoor testing surely affects the air you breathe. But let’s give it a try. The public has a chance to hear all about the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground plans to conduct outdoor testing of small quantities of pharmaceuticals, “which pose an emerging threat to U.S. citizens and the Armed Forces,” the public notice says. It will all be done in a “remote area” of DPG. They’re going to see how the substances act in an outdoor environment, and test data will be used to verify and predict the behavior of larger testing. Wendover City Offices, City Council Room, 920 Wendover Blvd., Wendover, Thursday, Jan. 19, 6 p.m.; Tooele County Emergency Management Center, Policy Room, 15 E. 100 South, Tooele; Monday, Jan. 23, 6:30 p.m.; Salt Lake City Library, Conference Room 4, Fourth Floor, 210 E. 400 South, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 6 p.m.; DPG Community Center, Conference Room 239, Dugway, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 6 p.m., 801-237-2376, free, bit.ly/2jfZVJV

TRUMP PROTEST

Adding to the protest culture that has developed since Nov. 8, Utahns are gathering on Inauguration Day to make their voices heard. Utah Rejects Trump’s Agenda is organized by the University of Utah Students for a Democratic Society and is more than just a march. It’s an effort to start organizing against what they call “the racist, sexist, ableist and overall bigoted agenda” of the President-elect. Wallace Bennett Federal Building, 125 S. State, Friday, Jan. 20, 7-10 p.m., free

CLEAN AIR RALLY

And if you’re concerned about the small particulates being sucked into your lungs, then you should attend the 2017 Clean Air, No Excuses Rally, where the mission is to “Hold the line; defend clean air!” The winter inversions are the best time to be heard and hold your state and federal officials accountable. It’s not the first time Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, HEAL Utah, Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance, Utah Rivers Council and Utah Moms for Clear Air have marched to the Capitol. Make it their last. Utah Capitol Steps, 350 State, 435-4910230, Saturday, Jan. 21, 1-2 p.m., free

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very year, for a few strange days, Utah’s predictable conservative majority swings just a couple of percentage points to the left as the movie industry comes to town. The Sundance Film Festival offers a strange brew of high altitude and high attitude, turning Park City into a crowded, chaotic temporary Rocky Mountain center of the cinematic universe. But with that craziness comes the opportunity for unique experiences for Utahns, and our annual Sundance Guide is a way to help you be part of it. Want to be there when the Next Big Thing is born? David Riedel tells you about the career paths of Sundance breakout stars. We’ll share tips for how to have the best possible festival experience, from surviving the festival without breaking your budget, to knowing the backroads that locals know. And you can get a preview of this year’s movies through our look at some of the books that were adapted for Sundance features. Whether you want to rub shoulders with celebrities or be ahead of next year’s Oscars curve by seeing the next Manchester by the Sea, we can hook you up. The magic of the movies isn’t in your backyard just every day.

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The big-time actors who broke out at Sundance. from indie darlings to big-ass stars. Jennifer Lawrence: Lawrence has been a big deal for seven years, which is an incredibly short time considering how many films she’s starred in since her Sundance breakthrough, Winter’s Bone. In it, she plays Ree, a smart, resourceful teen living in the Ozarks, trying to find her family together while searching for her good-for-nothing father who might be dead. Before Winter’s Bone, Lawrence was mostly known for The Bill Engvall Show, the laugh-free sitcom starring laugh-free comedian Engvall. Since Winter’s Bone, Lawrence has starred in at least 16 movies (not a typo)—several of which are parts of successful franchises—and had a successful working relationship with director David O. Russell (American Hustle, Joy and Silver Linings Playbook, in which Lawrence won an Academy Award for Best Actress). Next up: Darren Aronofsky’s Mother and lots of other stuff— maybe even that movie she wrote with Amy Schumer. Owen Wilson: Sundance is responsible for the careers of both Wilson and director Wes Anderson, proof that, occasionally, terrible things come from something with an overall solid track record. (I’m in the minority on Anderson ... yeah, yeah, whatever). Wilson’s IMDB résumé has exactly one acting role before Anderson’s Bottle Rocket, and that’s Anderson’s short Bottle Rocket, proving that Wilson really does play the same character over and over.

I kid. Bottle Rocket (the short) was a big deal in the Sundance shorts program, even if the feature didn’t play the festival when it was made a couple years later. But Bottle Rocket (both the short and the feature) prove Wilson has deft comic timing, even if he sometimes coasts. But give Wilson credit for being one of the few actors to star in a Woody Allen film (Midnight in Paris) yet not do a Woody Allen approximation. He also made some oddball choices earlier in his career (The Minus Man, Breakfast of Champions) before settling into the Wilson archetype we all know (and some of us love, despite You, Me, and Dupree). Of note: Wilson gives Marley & Me far more depth than its subject matter would suggest. Amy Adams: If more actors had movies with titles such as Psycho Beach Party in their pasts, we could really put together a great “Before They Were Stars”type screening. Anywho, before Junebug, Adams had some solid roles (including a memorable few scenes in Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can) in which flashes of her talents pop. In Junebug—as Ashley, a relentlessly cheerful chatterbox—Adams steals the show from star Embeth Davidtz, and everyone else; Adams earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 2005. It took a couple years for Adams’ career to take off, but then Enchanted (2007) happened, and she’s been on the ascent, more or less, ever since. Even when she

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t might be hard to believe, but there was a time when Ryan Gosling wasn’t winning Golden Globe awards for awkwardly performing seemingly simple dance steps. And there was a time when he wasn’t stomping someone’s face in an elevator, slapping Steve Carell or falling in love with Emma Stone on screen three times. Way back when—after he was just another Mouseketeer but long before La La Land—he was a working actor booking gigs, earning decent reviews but not quite hitting the big time. And then: Sundance. Gosling’s fortunes changed with The Believer, the story of a Jewish man who becomes a neo-Nazi and does some horrific shit. The Believer won the Grand Jury Prize in 2001, and Gosling’s performance was roundly praised. His post-Believer output is varied—Murder By Numbers is crap, but diverting; The Slaughter Rule and The United States of Leland are little-seen—but then The Notebook turned him into a heartthrob. Since then, Gosling has alternated between smaller dramas, comedies and thrillers with the occasional giant hit, culminating in La La Land. The Sundance Film Festival can have that impact on a career. It can take you from zero to hero (to steal a phrase). This year will likely see some new (or newish) stars emerge. Until we learn who they might be, take a gander at this list of actors who have gone

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regarded 2016 performance in Florence Foster Jenkins. It’s a storied career that deserves better than my cheap jokes, but cheap is what I do. Maggie Gyllenhaal: Gyllenhaal is one of those performers who always catches the eye, even when she’s in lesser Drew Barrymore movies such as Riding in Cars with Boys, or her brother Jake’s doesn’t-make-sense-butit’s-kinda-fun vehicle Donnie Darko. When Gyllenhaal got the lead reins (HA!) in the S&M dramedy Secretary, she became something of a beloved indie actor (and Secretary co-stars James Spader before everyone else was in on the joke), with turns in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Happy Endings and Criminal. In 2006, she appeared in some bigger budgeted movies, first appearing in Oliver Stone’s surprisingly unOliver Stone-like World Trade Center and then Marc Forster’s Stranger Than Fiction. When she took over for Katie Holmes in The Dark Knight, it seemed her indie days were behind her, until she appeared in Crazy Heart the following year. Gyllenhaal seems to like mixing up the big pics (White House Down) and the smaller pics (the overlooked Frank).

other names, for various reasons), who may or may not be having paranoid delusions that the cult leader is after her following her breakout. Martha Marcy May Marlene isn’t perfect, but Olsen is. Her other Sundance picture in 2011 was Silent House, a not-bad horror flick that uses the ol’ single-shot technique. Since Sundance, Olsen’s career has been a mixed bag, with her good performances standing out in some lackluster movies (Godzilla, Oldboy and Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, which is possibly a worse movie than Plan 9 from Outer Space or Reefer Madness), even as she she disappeared as Scarlet Witch in Marvel franchise pictures despite her best efforts. Though when you’re competing with Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, how often do you win? Hugh Grant: That’s right! Four Weddings and a Funeral premiered at Sundance in 1994. And no, Grant was not a star at the time, though he appeared in the highly regarded Merchant-Ivory flick The Remains of the Day and the fuggin’ weirdo Bram Stoker flick The Lair of the White Worm. We all know Grant’s fate since then: He’s starred in a billion romantic comedies (and been quite good in them), been arrested with Divine Brown, had a child with one woman, then a child with a second woman, then had another child with the first woman, and then had another child with the second women (no really), and had a cameo in the Wachowskis’ Cloud Atlas before a well-

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makes dreck like Nocturnal Animals or Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, she puts out a movie as highly regarded as Arrival in the same year. Carey Mulligan: Mulligan is one of those performers who seemingly came out of nowhere despite a supporting role in Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice, and being something of a mainstay on British TV for several years before An Education got her noticed by audiences at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. But that’s what happens, right? You have sex with Peter Sarsgaard on film and then—poof!—everything comes up roses. Since An Education—which netted Mulligan an Oscar nomination as Best Actress—Mulligan’s career has been remarkably high-profile, even for someone with her credentials. Each movie she stars in is arguably An Event, whether it’s based on a highly regarded novel (Never Let Me Go), is one of the few movies released as NC-17 (Shame), or somehow makes Thomas Hardy compelling (Far From the Madding Crowd). Elizabeth Olsen: All this time there was a talented Olsen sister, and she was in the shadows until Martha Marcy May Marlene, the super creepy tale of a woman who escapes from a cult. Even those viewers who had seen Olsen’s work in her older sisters’ classics The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley: The Case of the Mystery Cruise and The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley: The Case of the Christmas Caper were surprised by her tightly controlled performance as Martha (who also uses the

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Tips for navigating Park City from those who are there year-round.

ark City during Sundance can be a magical place. There’s an energy and buzz. The little mountain town feels like the adopted home of everybody who’s anybody in the world of entertainment. Star sightings abound. It can also be crowded, impossible to get around, expensive, exasperating and exclusive— with “exclusive” meaning, “You’re not on the list.” Whether you’re somebody with a festival credential, have tickets to some screenings or just want to go see what all the fuss is about and enjoy a day above the Salt Lake Valley inversion, consider these hacks to help make your time in PC more enjoyable. Save driving time: Park City’s layout and historic charm are good for many things, but hosting a large festival where tens of thousands of people show up is not one of them—especially in the winter when snow is piled everywhere. Step 1: Find a parking space. Any space. Doesn’t really matter that much where. Step 2: Grab the space before somebody else does. Step 3: Take one of the many shuttles that go everywhere you need to go. There are friendly volunteers at every stop to help you, and most of the stops have heaters. The shuttles run constantly in all different directions. There’s even an app you can download on your phone to get schedules. On your ride, you’ll also get the feeling of really being at a festival, as you hear a bus full of people talking about films, stars and events. If you are driving—especially into the congested Main Street area—consider using Deer Valley Drive as an alternate for driving out of Park City, avoiding at least a portion of Park Avenue during the typical evening rush-hour traffic jams. The more you can stay away from the busiest routes, the better. Spend time walking up and down Main: Even if you have no tickets to screenings, don’t know anybody who could get you into a big-shot party or aren’t interested in spending any money, you need to stop by Main Street during the first few days of Sundance. The place is a swag fest. Festival sponsors and film organizations take over stores, clubs and restaurants up and down the street and give away free stuff. If there’s not a security guard standing in front of the door with a list, just walk in and see what’s available. You don’t need to spend money buying hats, scarves and gloves for your family. An hour of strolling, and you’ll have enough for everybody for the next two years.

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The highlight venues for this year include the Festival Base Camp presented by Canada Goose (475 Swede Alley) just off of the main drag. Visitors can try on or buy one of the Sundance staples from the company that keeps Canada warm during the winter, or grab a free cup of coffee, tea or cocoa and some Canadian snacks. There are also food trucks, live music, free Wi-Fi and, most importantly, charging stations for your phone. If your tastes run to something a little colder, check out the Stella Artois Filmmaker Lounge (364 Main), where the namesake beverage is available. Eat cheap: There are plenty of fine restaurants in Park City. Trouble is, during Sundance, many of them are either closed, rented out or charging what the market of Hollywood big spenders can bear. However, there are still quick, easy and cheap options available for getting good food. El Chubasco (1890 Bonanza Drive, 435-645-9114, elchubascomexicangrill.com) in Prospector Square is where Park City locals go for Mexican food. The 20 different salsas made fresh daily are just one of the reasons the restaurant got voted “Best Cheap Eats” for the past two years in the town’s newspaper. Dine-in or take-out on burritos, street tacos, chile rellenos or the spicy shrimp house specialty, “camarones a la diabla.” Davanza’s (690 Park Ave., 435-649-2222, davanzas.com) is right near the action of downtown PC, but since it sits on Park Avenue, one block over from Main Street, it isn’t overrun with Sundancers. The main crowd for this place—which serves pizzas, burgers and sandwiches—consists of skiers and snowboarders who hop off a nearby lift and walk over to grab pizza-by-the-slice between runs. Be nice and tip well: Wherever you end up, treat the bartenders, restaurant staff, hotel people or any other locals you should happen to run across with consideration. Park City citizens and workers put up with their town getting completely taken over by the outside world for 10 days every winter. They do it because many of the people who visit are very famous, very rich and tip extremely well. If you are neither very famous or very rich, this is not the time to stiff somebody on a tip, or make a big point about not liking the way your cocktail got mixed. CW

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Festival features previewed from source material.

ow do you prepare a film festival viewing schedule when so many of the filmmakers are unknown quantities? That discovery is part of the excitement of Sundance, but also part of the challenge for an attendee. One of the few ways to make educated guesses when the film guide is full of mysteries: previously published source material. Here’s a look at five Sundance 2017 films through the books that inspired them. Title: Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver Festival category: Premieres Book overview: Connecticut high-school senior Samantha Kingston, part of her school’s queen-bee clique, is involved in a car accident after a party—then awakens the next morning to find herself reliving the day of her death. It’s not as though Oliver isn’t aware that she’s essentially re-making Groundhog Day with Y.A. Mean Girls twist—she name-checks Groundhog Day at one point—and the similarity of the basic character arc for much of the narrative becomes fairly distracting, along with a bunch of nudging italic asides. But the borrowing is salvaged in large part by a bold third-act change of direction, and a welcome complexity in the approach to teenage cruelty, status-seeking and bullying.

Book grade: BReason for adaptation optimism: Rising star Zoey Deutch feels like a solid choice to capture Samantha’s combination of insecurity and awakening conscience. Reason for adaptation concern: Director Ry Russo-Young’s 2012 Sundance film Nobody Walks didn’t exactly inspire confidence in her ability to navigate interpersonal melodrama. Title: The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers Festival category: U.S. Dramatic Competition Book overview: This 2012 National Book Award finalist follows 20-year-old Private John Bartles through a 2004 tour in Iraq, and the aftermath back home as he deals with traumatic events. Powers (himself an Iraq veteran) makes it clear early on that something terrible happened to Bartles’ best Army buddy, and the back-and-forth chronology plays coy with the exact nature of the tragedy. But more frustrating than the build-up is the purple prose that provides the only insight into the mind of our too-sensitive-for-this-war protagonist. While the wartime sequences are effectively unsettling, Powers provides too little sense of who Bartles was before the war to make any sense out of the man he is after it.

Book grade: C Reason for adaptation optimism: Terrific creative-team pedigree including director Alexandre Moors (the edgy 2013 Sundance drama Blue Caprice), screenwriter David Lowery (Pete’s Dragon, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) and Alden Ehrenreich as Bartles. Reason for adaptation concern: It takes a special touch to deliver something that doesn’t feel like a been-there-done-that take on the horrors of men at war.

Title: Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan Festival category: Premieres Book overview: Employing the narrative voices of six characters, Jordan tells the story of two families—one white and one black—on a Mississippi delta cotton farm in 1947. Though it always feels a bit awkward when a white writer employs black vernacular in prose, Jordan effectively gets inside the experience of both women and men, white and black, as they play the roles—and strain against them—assigned to them by their time and place. While there’s strong material in the way two World War II veterans of different races deal with returning home from their wartime experience, Mudbound is even more effective when Jordan locks on to the ferocity and frustrations of her two female protagonists.

Book grade: B+ Reason for adaptation optimism: Presence of director Dee Rees (Pariah) suggests strong likelihood that potentially problematic racial components will be handled gracefully. Reason for adaptation concern: Casting suggests that there may be an attempt to emphasize the romantic elements, which would be a huge mistake.

Title: Wilson, by Daniel Clowes Festival category: Premieres Book overview: The author of Ghost World delivers another tale of congenitally unhappy people, this one the tale of a misanthropic middle-aged man who tries to reconnect with his ex-wife, beginning a strange odyssey. The format structures the story as a series of single-page vignette “chapters,” with an illustration style that alternates between tight character design and cartoonish exaggeration. The result is a strangely unsettling, depressing but surprisingly affecting profile of a guy who seems incapable of finding other people anything but a frustration, leaving him doomed to isolation. In other words: Cheery stuff! Book grade: B Reason for adaptation optimism: Woody Harrelson as the surly, happiness-repelling Wilson feels like a match made in heaven; director Craig Johnson dealt effectively with depressive, self-destructive characters in Sundance 2014’s The Skeleton Twins. Reason for adaptation concern: Could be a challenge to flesh out the narrative beyond the comic-strip-esque quick-hit punch lines.

Title: Call Me by Your Name, by André Aciman Festival category: Premieres Book overview: In the mid-1980s, 17-year-old Elio becomes infatuated with his parents’ summer guest— 24-year-old graduate student Oliver—in their Italian Riviera home. Aciman spends nearly half of the book focused on Elio’s obsessive interpretations of Oliver’s every glance and mood, which might be in keeping with a first serious young love, but feels off since it’s being described by Elio a from 20-year reflective distance without any self-criticism, and becomes irritating in large doses. There’s much stronger material once the relationship actually begins, as Aciman effectively captures the sense of a whirlwind romance that can leave an impression that lasts a lifetime. Book grade: B Reason for adaptation optimism: Director Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) seems like a great choice for a sexy, psychologically complex story set in a sunkissed European locale. Reason for adaptation concern: Elio’s internal narrative—so central to the book’s exploration of this relationship—could be hard to translate to the screen. CW

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Saturday, Jan. 14, at 8 a.m., so they might already be sold out, but it’s worth a shot. Parking: Parking in any one of the “official” festival lots in Park City costs a minimum of $25 per day, and on busier days (particularly the first weekend) it will be a premium even above that. There are few ways to get around that exorbitant price tag, but those who are willing to get into town early in the morning can find some of the limited, free street parking in the Prospector Square area, near the official festival headquarters at the Park City Marriott. Winter weather conditions might further complicate street parking, but it’s still your best shot at avoiding the hefty fees. Just be very aware of signs identifying where parking is and is not permitted, because Park City police are out in force patrolling for violations. SLC screenings at the Rose Wagner Center, Broadway Centre Cinemas and Library auditorium are located within a two-block walk of Trax stations, so consider public transportation as a great alternative to parking if those are your destinations. Food: Theater venue fare is expensive, and limited time between screenings can make it difficult to find a cheaper place nearby. The alternative? Brown-bag it. Pack calorie-high, nutrition-dense, transportable snacks (e.g. trail mix or dried fruit) and bring a reusable water bottle rather than purchasing a drink somewhere. Getting a flavor of the festival for free: If you’ve never done it before, find a parking spot early in the morning on the opening weekend, and spend the day just strolling around Park City’s Main Street. You might pass a wandering celebrity, or maybe just enjoy the buzz of activity and cameras around various official venues. You won’t need to have a ticket for a festival screening, and you can get at least a taste of what makes this weird week one of Utah’s most distinctive experiences. CW

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irst, a confession: The title of this piece is a lie. There’s no way to do Sundance— or at least do it in a way that makes the effort worthwhile—without forking over some scratch. When you’re talking about one of the film industry’s biggest events of the year anywhere, that’s just a reality. But anyone who has attended for any amount of time—and this year marks my 20th anniversary as a Sundance attendee—has learned that there are better and worse ways to keep to a budget and still experience the festival, especially for Utah locals. Here are just a few of the ways you can get a taste of Sundance without breaking the bank. The screenings themselves: By this point, the pricey ticket packages have all sold out, as have most of the public screenings—at least officially. As Sundance regulars know, there are ways to get individual screening tickets: those released at the main festival box offices in Park City and Trolley Square at 8 a.m. each morning for that day’s screenings, and wait-list tickets at individual venues. Tickets are $20-$25 per screening, and those interested can get an “electronic queue” waitlist number by using the festival’s mobile app. App eWaitlists open two hours before the scheduled screening time—be ready right on the dot, because numbers go quickly—and you can even link your registration with that of a friend so you can get the same waitlist number. Remember: Cash only for venue waitlist tickets. There’s also an even cheaper way to see a Sundance movie: Free “Best of Fest” local screenings on Monday, Jan. 30, after the official end of the festival. Titles aren’t announced until Jan. 29, so there’s no way of knowing which of the award-winners will be shown. Tickets are distributed first-come, first-served for the three screening times (3:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.) at the Trolley Square ticket office beginning

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En Plein Air: Levi Jackson and Adam Bateman Ah, plein air—the most Western of painting genres. What could define the artist as rugged individual more than braving the elements to make art in the great outdoors, from life, almost melding into and becoming part of nature in all its glory. Local artists Levi Jackson and Adam Bateman have taken a seemingly exhaustive visual essay on the form, between the two of the them completing 60 plein air paintings depicting rural areas of Utah. Plein air is a tradition with sharply defined constraints, including everything from subject matter to presentation and framing. In this show, they explore the act of making them, more so than the paintings themselves. “This is about participating in the ritual of plein air painting with the landscape,” Bateman says, and that act delves into the nature of the pastoral, or how nature was domesticated. They found plein air painting a metaphor for the American tradition of Manifest Destiny. The executive director of CUAC gallery, Bateman brings a sculptural sense of composition to his contributions (his “Nebo” is pictured), and you can intuit a tinge of the conceptual art that he favors in his own space. Jackson is a photographer/sculptor who, like Bateman, is without training as a painter, and tends to see his subjects more through the camera lens. As these experiments play out on the canvases, it’s really a segment of the American psyche made manifest. A Gallery Stroll opening reception is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 20, 6-9 p.m. (Brian Staker) En Plein Air: Levi Jackson and Adam Bateman, Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., Jan. 20-March 10, visualarts.utah.gov

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What is it about Man of La Mancha that has drawn audiences to theaters more than 12,000 times throughout its half-century of existence? It could be the clever way it incorporates and changes its source material without losing the book’s wide-eyed idealism. Or it could be the play within a play that pulls the audience into the story with the characters. Audiences can judge for themselves as the Utah Opera stages its own version of the classic musical this week. The play is a take on Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th-century Spanish novel Don Quixote, where a nobleman reads so many romances that he loses his mind and sets on a quest to revive chivalry. Utah Opera public relations director Renée Huang says this production’s message of hope, integrity and humanity are especially resonant today. “The production is truly timeless,” she says. “It is a smash success that we felt would add an enriching element to our current opera season that audiences would appreciate and relate to.” The musical turns Cervantes into an out-ofwork actor arrested by the Spanish Inquisition with his manservant. As part of their defense, the pair decides to act out a play where Cervantes becomes the nobleman from the original novel. Utah Opera’s production draws even more attention to this play-within-a-play setup, with the actors never fully changing costume as they blur the boundaries between the different realities of audience and performance. (Kylee Ehmann) Utah Opera: Man of La Mancha @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Jan. 21, 23, 25 & 27, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 29, 2 p.m., $21-$110, utahopera.org

It wouldn’t be Sundance without an appearance from Kevin Smith. He might be a New Jersey native, but his career launched in Park City when Clerks was part of the 1994 program. Since then, his name has practically become synonymous with the festival’s history of discovering new talent, and Smith himself has returned over the years with films like Red State and Yoga Hosers. Beyond being a talented director, writer and occasional actor, Smith has taken on numerous side projects, including his successful Smodcast Network, where he hosts and appears on several podcasts. For more than two decades, he’s also been touring the country doing one-man shows where he talks about whatever comes to mind while also taking questions from the audience; these events morphed into both a successful DVD series and podcasts. Smith’s shows regularly sell out across the U.S. and Canada, as fans get a rare opportunity to ask one of the most opinionated directors working today about what’s going on in his life and in the world. Smith visits Wiseguys on Jan. 22, shortly after Sundance launches, to perform two shows at the downtown location. While there are no other guests listed, it wouldn’t be too shocking if he reached out to some friends in the area to join him on stage for a conversation. Whatever the case may be, you’re in for an hour of adult comedy and strange tales told by one of the film industry’s most entertaining storytellers. (Gavin Sheehan) Kevin Smith @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Jan. 22, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $35, wiseguyscomedy.com

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Granted, not everyone can be the next J.K. Rowling, but fantasy worlds inhabited by sorcerers, vampires, hobbits and District tributes have reinforced the notion that the youth market remains as lucrative as ever. Never trusting anyone over the age of 30 might be a slogan that comes back in vogue. New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth (the Divergent series) might agree with that premise, given the fact that her striking new young adult novel, Carve the Mark, factors in all the elements that makes series like Hunger Games, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of Rings and every super hero sequel so incredibly popular with the younger set. The book’s two otherworldly heroes possess the prerequisite special powers, but in a world dominated by violence and vengeance, honor and integrity are tough to come by. Hailing from feuding factions, the duo’s struggle to survive becomes far more formidable. A modern parallel perhaps? Whether Roth intended it that way could be a question worth asking when she makes a special appearance at Granger High School for a freewheeling discussion with Sarah Enni, host of the popular podcast First Draft. Despite her relatively tender years—Roth turns 29 in August—she’s already had plenty of experience exploring the topic, having won critical kudos with her popular Divergent books. Indeed, it garnered her a publishing deal before she completed college. Career advice is hopefully on the agenda. (Lee Zimmerman) Veronica Roth @ Granger High School, 3580 S. 3600 West, West Valley City, Jan. 24, 7 p.m., two free tickets with book purchase, kingsenglish.com

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A Hard Reign

Alex Caldiero takes up the case for Bob Dylan as Nobel-worthy poet. BY BRIAN STAKER comments@cityweekly.net @stakerized

ob Dylan has always been a mercurial figure in the arenas of music and literature, and being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature last year has seemed to sharpen the polarizing effect of his expressive vision. There’s been a good deal of controversy over whether the award should be given to someone who’s made his name overwhelmingly in the world of popular music. Local poet and scholar Alex Caldiero presents a spoken-word performance of Dylan’s lyrics to demonstrate not only that they stand on their own without musical accompaniment, but also make a profound literary statement. Known as “The Sonosopher” or “muse of sound,” Caldiero is interested in sound in its own right, and his impulse to take on Dylan should provide very interesting results. As Dylan said in “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” “you don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows,” and he’s been a kind of cultural barometer since emerging in the New York folk music scene in the early 1960s. Always seen as a poet, he’s gone through numerous musical, lyrical and even spiritual transformations in the course of his career. A song like “Masters of War,” with its biting indictment of those with the power to wage war, is as relevant now as it was at the height of the Vietnam War. Dylan’s songs about relationships like “It Ain’t Me, Babe,” sometimes detail the painful sides of romance, and his own relationships gave a window into his own attitudes and the changes in society. He is one of those figures whose personality has an immense cultural impact, in addition to his work. Caldiero wanted to perform Dylan in response to what he calls the “so-called controversy,” part of the ongoing conflict between “high” and “low” art. “The response: to present Dylan’s work in its literary body,” he says. “So I began to calibrate it; that is, make the necessary adjustments by ‘unstringing the guitar,’ thus de-emphasizing the ‘sung’ aspects and emphasizing the language of the text by a sonosophic approach. In other words,” he continues, “let the words speak-breathe-sound forth the wisdom of their meanings incarnated in the text-body-word-form-being of his living rhythm, manifested simultaneously on the page

and atmosphere.” At a performance by Caldiero—whom filmmaker Trent Harris once called “the only Mormon beatnik poet”—you never know exactly what you’re going to get. It might include grunts and groans and other sublingual sounds, hoots and hollars, and absurd costumes and gestures. Caldiero recently obtained the newly published Dylan tome The Lyrics: 1961-2012 and delved into it. “I read it from cover to cover, and kept my ear open for the call from each lyric to say ‘choose me,’” he writes in an email. “I mean this literally, by the power of sonosophy (in other words, sonal wisdom).” Caldiero recited Allen Ginsberg’s monumental poem “Howl” for its 60th anniversary at the Salt Lake Public Library in 2015, as he has every five years, and that performance was as much incantation as reading. He compares the figure of Dylan as literary artist to such icons as Ginsberg: “Dylan is in that strain of the American incarnation of various influences and impulses, including surrealism, Rimbaud as avatar of youth rebellion, the oral folk homegrown blues and jazz traditions (as in Harry Smith’s American Music collection), rock and beat generation poets. We both have drunk at the same well, at the same source.” Caldiero hints that some of his selections for the event might include “The Times They Are A-changing,’’ “The Mighty Quinn,” “Visions of Johanna,” “Blowin’ in the Wind” and some of his stories. Tarantula, a 1971 volume of experimental prose poetry, might also make an appearance. Prior to the Nobel recognition, Dylan had already been given a special citation by the Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” That didn’t incite the same level of controversy as the Nobel, whose description was “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” He was included in the ‘“Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century,” compiled by that publication in 1999 covering the 20th century, citing him as “master poet, caustic social critic and intrepid, guiding spirit of the counterculture generation.” His cultural and musical significance isn’t in doubt. While maintaining inestimable artistic integrity and a singular, inimitable voice, the former Robert Allen Zimmerman has undergone an astounding number of changes to become the writer and musician he is today. He’s traced, and been a catalyst for, a number of transformations that have occurred in society, and that includes our measure of what makes great literature. CW

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Paintings by Nocona Burgess embodying his Native American ancestry are on display in his solo show The Legendary Plains at Modern West Fine Art (177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, modernwestfineart.com), Jan. 20-Feb. 11.

PERFORMANCE

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The Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City: The Lark Quartet Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, Jan. 19, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu

COMEDY & IMPROV

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SLUG Localized Comedy Night! The Urban Lounge, 241 S 500 East, Jan. 19, 8 p.m., theurbanloungeslc.com Classic Quick Wits! Midvale Performing Arts Center, 695 W. Center St., Midvale, 801-8520523, Jan. 21, 10 p.m., qwcomedy.com David Spade Wiseguys, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, Jan. 20-21, 7 p.m.; Jan. 21, 9:30 p.m., sold out, wiseguyscomedy.com Gina Brillon Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Jan. 19, 7:30 p.m.; Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., 801-622-5588, Jan. 20-21, 8 p.m., WiseguysComedy.com ImprovBroadway 496 N. 900 East, Provo, 909-260-2509, Saturdays, 8 p.m., improvbroadway.com Improv Comedy Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 435-327-8273, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m., ogdencomedyloft.com

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Alice In Wonderland Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center, Provo, 801-852-7007, Jan. 20-21, 5 & 7:30 p.m, provo.org A Year With Frog and Toad SCERA, 745 S. State, Orem, 801-225-2787, through Jan. 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 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, 801-347-7373, through Jan. 21, dates and times vary, empresstheatre.com Fences Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, Salt Lake City, 801-581-6961, through Jan. 21, Monday-Saturday, times vary, pioneertheatre.org Gidion’s Knot Westminster College Dumke Auditorium, 1250 E. 1700 South, Salt Lake City, through Jan. 21, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 21, 2 p.m. matinee, pinnacleactingcompany.org Indiana Bones: Raiders of the Wall Mart Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, through March 18, times vary, desertstar.biz Kinky Boots Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-355-2787, through Jan. 22, times vary, broadway-at-the-eccles.com La Bohème Westminster College Gore Concert Hall, 1840 S. 1300 East, Jan. 21, 23, 26 & 28, 7:30 p.m., westminstercollege.edu Leigh’s Man of La Mancha Utah Opera, Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Jan. 21-29, UtahOpera.org (see p. 24) Live Museum Theater Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 801581-6927, 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, through Feb. 11, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m., terraceplayhouse.com The Nerd Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley, 801-984-9000, MondaySaturday, times vary, through Feb. 4, hct.org

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Noorda Theatre, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, 801863-7529, Jan. 19-28, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 28 matinee, 2 p.m., uvu.edu/arts Peter and the Starcatcher Heritage Theatre, 2505 S. Highway 89, Perry, 435-723-8392, through Jan. 30; matinees Jan. 21 & 28, heritagetheatreutah.com Poor Bastard CUAC, 175 E. 200 South, 801574-9959, Jan 20-21 & 27-28, 7:30 p.m., riotacttheatre.tumblr.com/current Utah Opera: Man of La Mancha Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Jan. 21, 23, 25 & 27, 7:30 p.m.; Jan. 29, 2 p.m., $21-$110, utahopera.org (see p. 24) You Can’t Take It With You CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-2981302, through Feb. 4, centerpointtheatre.org You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855911-2787, through Feb. 4, Friday-Saturday 7:30 p.m., theziegfeldtheater.com

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moreESSENTIALS Laughing Stock Improv The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-355-4628, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., laughingstock.us Kevin Smith Wiseguys, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, Jan. 22, 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 24) 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 Quick Wits Comedy 695 W. Center St., Midvale, 801-824-0523, Saturdays, 10 p.m., qwcomedy.com Sasquatch Cowboy The Comedy Loft, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 435-327-8273, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m., ogdencomedyloft.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Erin Summerhill: Ever the Hunted The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Jan. 19, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Alex Caldiero: Bob Dylan, unstrung Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East, 801-521-3819, Jan. 20, 7 p.m., kensandersbooks.com (see p. 26) James Riley: Story Thieves: Secret Origins The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Jan. 23, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com Veronica Roth: Carve the Mark The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, Jan. 24, 7 p.m., KingsEnglish.com (see p. 24)

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

Sundance Film Festival Various venues in Park City, Salt Lake City and Sundance Resort, Jan. 19-29, sundance.org (see p. 17) Winter Festival Wasatch Mountain State Park, 750 Homestead Drive, Midway, 435-654-1791, Jan. 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., stateparks.utah.gov

TALKS & LECTURES

Brody Leven: Old Friend Kazakhstan Snowbird Resort, Hwy. 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, 801933-2222, Jan. 19, 6-8 p.m., snowbird.com/events The Kolob Tragedy: The Lost Tale of a Canyoneering Calamity Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, 383 S. University St., Jan. 19, 12:30 p.m., law.utah.edu A Night with Eric Foxman Our Lady of the Snows Center, 10189 E. State Hwy. 210, Alta, 801-742-2889, Jan. 20, 6:30-9 p.m., altaarts.org Julie de Azevedo Hanks: Creating and Growing Small Businesses as Women Sorensen Center, Utah Valley University, 800 W. University Pkwy., Orem, 801-863-6176, Jan. 24, 6:30 p.m., uvu.edu/uwlp

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Abstract Urban Arts Gallery, 127 S. Rio Grande St., 801-230-0820, through Jan. 31, urbanartsgallery.org

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Amy Caron: Angel Series Corinne & Jack Sweet Library, 455 F St., 801-594-8651, through Feb. 25, slcpl.org Andy White Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, 801-585-0556, through Feb. 21, redbuttegarden.org/andy-white Be It Ever So Humble ... Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, 801-965-5100, through March 1, culturalcelebration.org Christopher Boffoli: Food for Thought Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-649-8882, through March 19, kimballartcenter.org Benjamin Cook: Allure of the Mountains Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, 801-5948623, through Feb. 28, slcpl.org Bill Reed: Kinda Blue Art at the Main 210 E. 400 South, 801-363-4088, Jan. 20-Feb. 11, artatthemain.com Dave Volsic Mountain West Hard Cider, 425 N. 400 West, 801-935-4147, Jan. 20, 5-7 p.m., mountainwestcider.com Deborah Hake Brinckerhoff and Dan Toone Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-3648284, Jan. 20-Feb. 10, phillips-gallery.com Ed Bateman Phillips Gallery Dibble Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8284, Jan. 20-Feb. 10, phillips-gallery.com En Plein Air: Levi Jackson and Adam Bateman Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., Jan. 20-March 10, heritage.utah.gov (see p. 24) Erin D. Coleman: In the Distance from Here to My Heart Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Feb. 24, slcpl.org/events Fidalis Buehler Pioneer Theatre Co., Loge Gallery, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, through Jan. 20, pioneertheatre.org H. James Stewart: The Wall Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Feb. 24, saltlakearts.org Home!/?: Paintings of Life in Foster Care Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, Ste. 125, 801328-0703, Jan. 20-Feb. 10, accessart.org Howard Brough Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Feb. 24, saltlakearts.org John Sproul Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Feb. 24, saltlakearts.org Jeri Jonise: Together Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, 801-594-8680, through Jan. 20, slcpl.org Jordan Brun: Garish Salt Lake City Main Library, Level 2, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Feb. 10; reception Jan. 23, 6:30-8 p.m., slcpl.org Kay Miner Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, 801-585-0556, through Feb. 26, redbuttegarden.org/kay-miner Nocona Burgess: The Legendary Plains Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, Jan. 20-Feb. 11, modernwestfineart.com (see p. 27) Lindsay Daniels: Nepal Rises Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-594-8640, through March 18, slcpl.org Micheal Jensen: Where is My Mind Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-5948680, Jan. 23-March 3 except Sundays, slcpl.org/events Resiliency: SLC Ronald McDonald House Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, Ste. 125, 801-328-0703, Jan. 20-Feb. 10, accessart.org

Scott Filipiak: The Fragility of Nature Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City, 801-594-8611, through Jan. 26, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m., slcpl.org Stephanie Leitch: Interstices Granary Art Center, 86 N. Main, Ephraim, 435-283-3456, through Jan. 27, granaryartcenter.org Thirty-Three: Celebrating 33 Years of the Independent Spirit & Sundance Film Festival Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-649-8882, Jan. 19-Feb. 12; member preview, Jan. 21, 3-6 p.m., kimballartcenter.org/exhibition Tyler Alexander, John Erickson, Linda Dalton Walker, Jan Richins Bountiful Davis Art Center, 90 N. Main, Bountiful, 801-295-3618, reception Jan. 20, 6-8 p.m.; exhibit through Feb. 17, bdac.org/january2017

Vatsala Soni Ranjan: Spirit Animals Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, 801-594-8632, reception Feb. 6, 2 p.m.; exhibit Jan. 22-Feb. 24, slcpl.org/events Visual Art Institute Student Exhibit Visual Art Institute, 2901 S. Highland Drive, 801-474-3796, daily except Saturdays & Sundays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., through Jan. 31, visualartinstitute.org Wayne L. Geary: Topographies Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Feb. 24, slcpl.org/events Where Children Sleep The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, Salt Lake City, 801-531-9800, through Jan. 31, theleonardo.org Woven Rugs Beverly Taylor Sorenson Arts & Education Complex, 1720 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, 801-581-7221, Jan. 21, 1-4 p.m., umfa.utah.edu

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n addition to the draw of the actual films, loads of folks enjoy rubbing elbows—or at least sharing sidewalk space—with movie stars, directors and Hollywood movers and shakers during the Sundance Film Festival. I’m not one of them. In fact, I tend to go to great lengths to avoid all things Sundance during the fest, except for the films and panels themselves. And I certainly don’t want to have to wrestle for a table at Park City’s Main Street dining venues. However, whether you’re there to enjoy the festival or not, there are some sanctuaries that are little known enough, or off the beaten path enough, or both, to offer quiet, quality dining with little or no wait. Here are a few favorites. In what is generally known as the Prospector area of town, several terrific eateries beckon. Este Pizzeria (1781 Sidewinder Drive, 435-731-8970, estepizzaco.com) dishes up authentic New York-style pizza whole and by the slice, along with beer and wine. Be sure to cop an order of the handmade garlic knots as well. The Grub Steak (2093 Sidewinder Drive, 435-649-8060, grubsteakrestaurant.com) isn’t hip enough to attract the Sundance elite, but the popular steak house has been feeding locals since 1976. The fresh salad bar keeps even vegetarians coming back. For more exotic fare, one of my favorites is Good Karma (1782 Prospector Ave., 435-658-0958, goodkarmarestaurants.com), where owner/chef Houman Gohary takes a melting pot approach to flavor, offering dishes like huevos rancheros and a vegetarian Benedict alongside Indian and Persian ones such as salmon parsi, Navratan veggie korma, Bollywood burritos and joojeh kebabs. The Boneyard Saloon & Kitchen (1251 Kearns Blvd., 435-649-0911, boneyardsaloon.com) is a food and drink playground with woodfired sandwiches and burgers like the killer Cubano, and entrées such as jambalaya, shepherd’s pie and cedar plank-grilled miso salmon. The only word to describe the Boneyard atmosphere? Fun. Another choice neighborhood for Sundancing without the Sundancers is Bonanza. It’s unlikely that you’ll be able to score a table at any of restaurateur Bill White’s Main Street restaurants during the festival, but you might at his hidden jewel Windy Ridge Café (1250 Iron Horse Drive, 435647-0880, windyridgecafe.com). This is

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White’s comfort food venue—a casual eatery with choices like freshbaked cinnamon buns and quiche, to meatloaf, almond-crusted Utah red trout, herb-roasted chicken and much more, including an excellent beer, cocktail and wine selection. Although it tends to be packed regardless of what is going on in town, I still think El Chubasco (1890 Bonanza Drive, Ste. 115, 435-645-9114, elchubascomexicangrill.com) is a prime spot for authentic Mexican fare, cold beer and a happy atmosphere. Momo Haiku (1890 Bonanza Drive, Ste. 105, 435-602-1901) is so new I doubt the Sundance hoi polloi has yet to find it. But when you do, you’ll discover pan-Asian cuisine ranging from Japanese yakitori and ramen to Vietnamese-style pho and banh mi, plus potstickers, lettuce wraps and more. For an escape to Old World charm—not to mention free and plentiful parking—Adolph’s (1500 Kearns Blvd., 435649-7177, adolphsrestaurantparkcity.com) is the only option. Who can resist Adolph Imboden’s classic fondues and continental cuisine like escargot, trout Meuniér, Wienerschnitzel, steak Diane, roast duck l’orange and chateaubriand? Deer Valley Resort dining (435-64566632, deervalley.com/dining) is wellsuited to Sundance goers insofar as these venues are all easy-access and off of Main Street, with plenty of parking to boot. In Empire Canyon Lodge (9200 Marsac Ave.), Fireside Dining feels like eating in the Alps, with warm Swiss raclette, cured meats, stews, fire-roasted lamb and a warm, cozy atmosphere. The Seafood Buffet at Snow Park Village (2250 Deer Valley Drive South) is an extravaganza of seafood, including a poke bar, sushi, fresh crab, shrimp, mussels, clams and oysters, plus hot foods like Niman Ranch St. Louis pork ribs, a carving station, side dishes, desserts and an excellent wine list. Tucked away in the Lodges at Deer Valley (2900 Deer Valley Drive East), The Brass Tag offers abundant parking and foods prepared in the restaurant’s brick oven, including seafood skillets, seared

Boneyard Saloon & Kitchen meats, oven-roasted fish, flatbreads, and a lot more. And, the easy-in/easy-out Deer Valley Grocery-Café is a great spot to eatin for breakfast, lunch or dinner, but also a convenient place to stock up on everything, like prepared entrées, sandwiches, pizzas, desserts, breads and baked goods, and even wine, beer and liquor to take home or back to your hotel or condo. Locals know that most Sundance Film Festival attendees don’t take advantage of our incredible snow and mountain terrain, so it’s an ideal time for the rest of us to ski and snowboard. For on-mountain eats, it’s hard to top Lookout Cabin (4000 The Canyons Resort Drive, 435-615-2892, parkcitymountain.com, reservations recommended), Park City Mountain’s upscale dining spot for lunch. Enjoy a glass of wine or a custom cocktail from the full-service bar before diving into delicious dishes like the chicken bao buns, the perfectly dressed salmon salad or acorn squash risotto. The stunning 360-degree views are complimentary. Meanwhile, Miners Camp serves up American classics like burgers and chili, along with Mediterranean fare including kabobs and gyros. At Cloud Dine you’ll find restaurant-quality cuisine in a cafeteria setting. Highlights include Korean barbecue beef sliders, a nifty Niçoise salad and their outrageous Kobe beef hot dog. And down at Canyons Village, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better dining spot than The Farm (435-615-8080), which I consider to be one of Utah’s outstanding restaurants. The friendly folks and warm atmosphere at Lisa and Jeff Ward’s Silver Star Café (1825 Three Kings Drive, 435-655-3456, thesilverstarcafe.com) make it the perfect Sundance escape. Not only is the Silver Star a good choice for brunch, lunch and dinner, but it is also a cozy venue for live roots music from world-class artists. Here’s hoping this roundup of underthe-radar eateries will make your Sundance experience a little tastier. CW

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Salt Lake City-based “craft-casual restaurant” Even Stevens will donate their one millionth sandwich this month—a major milestone to say the least. The restaurant donates one sandwich for every one sold to one of their partnering nonprofit organizations in Utah, Arizona and Idaho. “Every sandwich donated reflects the love and passion of our team members who create memorable experiences for our guests,” founder Steve Down says in a press release. “For our success, I will forever thank for our guests, community partners and the team members who live the ‘eat to give’ philosophy every day.” Since its opening in 2014, the company now donates more than 10,000 sandwiches each month within each of their markets. As their slogan claims, this truly is “a sandwich shop with a cause.”

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or any of you who plan to be in Park City during this year’s Sundance Film Festival, you’re going to find that many the usual venues for imbibing in cocktails, craft beers, wines and such are going to be mobbed. That’s especially true of most of the bars and lounges on Main Street in Old Town, but also of places like High West Distillery and the St. Regis Bar, which are magnets for thirsty Sundancers. So if you’re looking to belly up to the bar during the next 10 days or so, here are some spots to try. You’ll probably still see some celebs, but won’t have to fight them for a barstool. The sister restaurant and bar to Park City’s Boneyard is the 21-and-over Wine Dive (1251 Kearns Blvd., 435-649-0911, boneyardsaloon.com), which features former Chez Betty chef/owner Jerry Garcia’s flawless cuisine along with over 90 varieties of beer, unique craft cocktails and 16 wines on hand, plus a much larger by-thebottle selection. Adolph’s (1500 Kearns Blvd., 435-6497177, adolphsrestaurantparkcity.com) convenient location eases parking pains and is a great spot to hunker down at the bar— which opens nightly at 4:30 p.m.—while enjoying former Swiss ski racer Adolph Imboden’s excellent fondue, burgers and

other temping items from the bar menu. It’s an Old World European atmosphere that is cozy, friendly and warm. If you do decide to weather the Sundance storm on Main Street, here’s an underthe-radar spot that most attendees would probably ignore: The Eating Establishment (317 Main, 435-649-8284). Recently, Modern Family star Ty Burrell and his partners (who also own SLC’s Bar X and Beer Bar) purchased and partially revamped the longtime family-favorite haunt. Part of the reboot includes a 21-andover lounge with a snazzy floor-to-ceiling bar and libations aplenty, including signature cocktails like the Pamplemousse and Punch Up at a Wedding. If you’re catching a film at Kimball Junction’s Redstone Cinemas, The Lift Lounge at Jupiter Bowl (1090 Center Drive, 435658-2695, jupiterbowl.com) will be an excellent place to escape the festival throngs. Although located in a high-end bowling alley, the Lift doesn’t feel or look like a bowl-

ing alley bar; you’ll find no microwaved pizzas here. Rather, enjoy a wide range of cuisine—including Neapolitan-style pizzas and entrées like cioppino—along with a full selection of liquor, wine, beer and cocktails at the Black Diamond Bar. I don’t know of another bowling alley bar that serves prosecco. Kimball Junction’s Loco Lizard Cantina (1612 Ute Blvd., 435-645-7000, locolizardcantina.com) has been delighting locals and visitors alike with their Mexican food and drinks since 1999. With seven flat screen TVs, it’s the perfect place to catch up on sports while enjoying a margarita, cerveza or Sexo en la Playa cocktail and a bowl of pozole. Just down the road is Molly Blooms Gastro Pub (1680 Ute Blvd., 435-645-0844, mollybloomsgastropub. com), where you can enjoy great food and entertainment, to boot. The eclectic menu ranges from curry coconut chicken, chipotle taco salads and hummus with flatbread, to shepherd’s pie and bison burgers. Then,

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there’s poker night three times a week, and dueling pianos on Fridays and Saturdays. There’s also 16 beers on tap, plus wine and their extensive Encyclopedia O’ Drinks to peruse. Park City’s Waldorf Astoria (2100 Frostwood Drive, 435-647-5500, waldorfastoriaparkcity.com) is far enough off the beaten path that you should be able to find Sundance solace and an open barstool. During the festival, the Waldorf invites hotel guests and visitors alike to experience their al fresco, fire-themed Firestorm Lounge by Lamborghini. In addition to the fire pits, fire walls and entertainment by fire dancers, guests can indulge in treats like fondue, chocolate-themed cocktails and a chocolate volcano. CW AS SEEN ON “ DINERS, DRIVE-INS AND DIVES”

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Owner and chef Ryan Lowder traveled the world, gathering inspiration, experience and cooking techniques before piecing them together into the gold mine that is Copper Onion. The hip and welcoming restaurant serves some of the best small plates in town, such as the ricotta dumplings and patatas bravas. For dinner, the melt-in-yourmouth lamb riblets in a balsamic glaze are to die for. 111 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-355-3282, thecopperonion.com

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Annette Bening, Elle Fanning and Greta Gerwig too-much-information-y about the loss of her virginity. There’s not much in the way of laugh-out-loud comedy, but Mills finds gentle humor as well as drama in the way that their individual sense of age-appropriate instruction creates bumps in this plan to serve as Jamie’s assistant life mentors. At its heart, though, this is Dorothea’s story more than it is any of the other characters’, and Bening brings a grace to the role that’s beautiful to watch. She gets miles out of the eye shift that indicates her shock at realizing the family car—and by obvious extension, herself—has gotten old. It’s even more heartbreaking observing her attempts to better understand her son, while resisting opening her own fears and anxieties up to him in return. Portraits of a parent don’t get much more multilayered than this one, in its respect for a woman willing to push herself into uncomfortable places, and keep learning about the world, all to do the best possible job at making her son a person who won’t need her anymore. CW

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even as she awaits news on whether she’s healthy after a bout with cervical cancer. Mills navigates through all these characters deftly, stopping occasionally to provide backstory about the circumstances that shaped them (and, perhaps more surprisingly, to have them narrate what becomes of them after the events portrayed here). His affection for these characters is evident, but he’s not always effective at shaping 20th Century Women’s many episodes into a cohesive narrative. At times he seems distracted by punching hard on the historical specificity of his setting— the pop-music needle-drops, captions on screen explaining the seminal texts the characters are reading, or the pessimistic “crisis of confidence” speech by President Jimmy Carter that seemed to doom his chance for a second term—such that it seems nothing could have been quite so difficult as growing up in this particular place at this particular time. Indeed, there are moments when Mills all but puts a caption on the screen to tell us that This Is a Coming-of-Age Story, and Things Were Never the Same After That Important Year. The center is strong, however, and it’s strongest when the women are working through the generation gaps that divide them. Best of all is a wonderful scene set at one of Dorothea’s dinner parties, where she and her guests shift uncomfortably over Abbie’s insistence on normalizing the word “menstruation,” and Julie gets a bit

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f you were given just a thumbnail description of the plot of writer/director Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women, you might think you’d know what to expect from the character of Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening). The 55-year-old single mother of a 15-year-old son, Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), in 1979 Santa Barbara, Dorothea struggles with the confidence that she can provide everything Jamie needs to grow up emotionally healthy. So she turns to two younger women for additional support: 24-year-old photographer Abbie (Greta Gerwig), one of the boarders in their house; and 17-year-old Julie (Elle Fanning), their sexually precocious neighbor. And cue the baffled resistance of child-of-theDepression Dorothea to anything these crazy kids might have to teach her son. Right? Not quite. Dorothea, it turns out, is something of a trailblazer herself, a woman who went to flight school for a chance to fight in World War II, and a trained architect. When Abbie plays a punk record for Jamie, she’s curious enough to try to understand the appeal rather than dismissing it; when Jamie gets in trouble at school for cutting class, she supports his desire for occasional extracurricular exploration. Bening’s performances are almost invariably lovely in their subtlety, but here she’s playing a particularly fascinating sort of character. Dorothea is a progressive who wants to keep up with the pace of the modern world, but isn’t quite sure that she can. That dynamic—and Mills’ warm, compassionate take on it—energizes much of 20th Century Women, even as he navigates through several other relationships in this strange makeshift family. Jamie harbors an unrequited crush on Julie, who sneaks in through his bedroom window so that he can be her platonic confidante. Abbie begins a fling with Dorothea’s other boarder, hippie mechanic William (Billy Crudup),

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Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. 20TH CENTURY WOMEN BBB See review p. 35. Opens Jan. 20 at theaters valleywide. (R) THE FOUNDER BB Somewhere along the way, John Lee Hancock’s biography of McDonald’s king Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) turns into a Steve Jobsstyle “portrait of the visionary as an asshole”—and if it had committed to that point of view earlier, it might not have felt so tedious. Robert D. Siegel’s script opens with Kroc as a down-on-his-luck traveling salesman in 1954, when he discovers a California burger restaurant—run by brothers Mac (John Carroll Lynch) and Dick McDonald (Nick Offerman)—with a concept Kroc is convinced he can turn into gold. Keaton commits fully to Kroc’s sweaty, relentless old-school salesmanship, and there are a few interesting plot moments as the business turns into a behemoth. But the plot moves far too sluggishly through various business details, no matter how pivotal they might ultimately have been in McDonald’s history, and waiting far too long to bring the focus around to Kroc’s emergence as corporate cutthroat. The shift comes out of nowhere, and whatever The Founder might be trying to say about this story as metaphor for the American Dream as corrupter of morality gets lost in the minutiae. Opens Jan. 20 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—Scott Renshaw

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SPLIT [not yet reviewed] Young women try to survive after being kidnapped by a man (James McAvoy) with multiple personalities. Opens Jan. 20 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) XXX: THE RETURN OF XANDER CAGE [not yet reviewed] The badass, extreme secret agent (Vin Diesel) is back on the case. Opens Jan. 20 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS A SAILOR-MADE MAN At Edison Street Events, Jan. 19-20, 7:30 p.m. (NR) SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL At Treasure Mountain Inn, Park City, Jan. 20-28. SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL See cover package, p. 17. At venues in Park City, Salt Lake City and Sundance Resort, Jan. 19-31.

CURRENT RELEASES THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE BBB.5 / André Øvredal delivers A+ scary-movie directing with this deliciously creepy mix of body horror and haunted-house spookfest. In the basement of their home/family mortuary, father-and-son coroners Tommy (Brian Cox) and Austin Tilden (Emile Hirsch) try to determine the cause of death of a mysterious unknown woman found at the scene of a mass homicide in a suburban Virginia home. Their progressively bizarre discoveries point to something unsettling, but … what? The setup and character dynamics are minimal, leaving the focus almost entirely on the Tildens’ increasing unease. And viewers will be right there with them, as Øvredal masterfully uses dark corners, the haunting / blank stare of Jane Doe and a shudder-inducing sound design The climax almost seems doomed to be anti-climax, but the middle third should be taught in film schools for how to turn atmosphere into delightful fright. (NR)—SR THE BYE BYE MAN If it feels familiar, that’s because you’ve seen movies before and your brain is capable of forming memories. Congratulations: You’re more advanced than the people who made this movie. College sweethearts Elliot (Douglas Smith) and Sasha (Cressida Bonas) move into a giant old house, with Elliot’s best friend (Lucien Laviscount) along to help with rent. A spooky table in the basement has “Don’t think it, don’t say it” scrawled on it, referring to the title boogeyman, who’s empowered by being thought about. The three have hallucinations that inspire jealousy and rage; visions of things that aren’t there and wouldn’t be scary if they were, are, by definition, not scary. Throw in a psychic, a research trip to the library, and a visit to an old woman who remembers the past and you’ve got yourself a generic, pointless, thrill-less horror movie. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider ELLE BBB Yes, Paul Verhoeven’s movie is problematic, but do the ways in which it’s problematic get in the way of what’s fascinating about it? Isabelle Huppert plays Michèle, who is raped during a home invasion as the movie begins. What follows is a thorny character study sparked by Huppert’s performance as a woman whose tormented past is connected to her seeming self-loathing and manipulations of friends and family in the present. Michèle’s Roman Catholic upbringing is somehow connected to her behavior, and it’s deeply unsettling when she becomes a willing participant in sexual violence. Verhoeven’s provocative perversity makes it harder to resolve whether the connection between those two ideas justifies them both, makes them both even more potentially offensive or simply makes for a narrative that requires multiple viewings to untangle the connection between shame and the need for penance. (R)—SR

LIVE BY NIGHT BB.5 Ben Affleck wrote, adapted Dennis Lehane’s novel and stars as Joe Coughlin, a small-time criminal in Prohibition-era Boston who gets caught up in a war between Irish and Italian gangs, eventually becoming boss of a Florida-based rum-running operation. While Affleck paints a vivid picture of multiethnic 1930s Tampa, the period piece gets away from him as he tries to create characters who don’t seem like a collection of speeches about life and love, like “You make your own luck.” “Sometimes. Sometimes it makes you.” Or “It’s not enough to break the rules; you have to be strong enough to make your own.” Or an extended chess metaphor that even Joe and the woman he’s flirting with (Zoe Saldana) get lost in. Familiar gangster-movie scenarios need more specificity than a script that could be cut up and inserted into fortune cookies. (R)—SR

MONSTER TRUCKS .5B What if “monster trucks” actually meant—wait for it—that there were monsters in the trucks? A monster in a truck might be the least ridiculous thing in this story developed from an idea by the 4-year-old son of a Paramount exec. Maybe the fact that this is “for kids” excuses the absurd plot about a North Dakota oil drill unleashing a family of tentacle-y underground sea monsters that just so happen to take a super-quick liking to using truck chassis as wheelchairs, like the vintage pickup high-school senior Tripp (Lucas Till) is restoring. But it’s not cool that the adults actually in charge of this movie crafted it as a sort of last-gasp romance of American environmental narcissism that fetishizes gas-guzzlers, or that it includes monster-in-a-truck shenanigans involving outrageously dangerous driving and massive criminal damage. You know, for kids. (PG)—MaryAnn Johanson

PATRIOTS DAY B In the best of cases, dramatizing a real-life tragedy is a fraught enterprise. This is not the best of cases. Director Peter Berg and star Mark Wahlberg again team up for fact-based rah-rah, this one focused around the April 15, 2013, terrorist attack at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. It gets off to the worst possible start, introducing several everyday Bostonians going about their lives with mournful music in the background, as we simply wait for them to become casualties. Then there’s Wahlberg’s character, Boston cop Tommy Saunders, a fictionalized amalgam who’s like the Forrest Gump of this horrific event; he’s absolutely everywhere and figuring out absolutely everything, to a degree that feels grotesquely offensive to everyone else involved in saving lives and tracking down the Tsarnaev brothers. And it’s squirm-inducing to note how much time the story spends with the Tsarnaevs themselves, in a way that’s unpleasant without ever being enlightening. I hope everyone involved feels good telling themselves this was all about honoring the victims, instead of delivering an embarrassing cash-in. (R)—SR

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Baskets is still weird and wonderful; Beaches … why? Baskets Thursday, Jan. 19 (FX)

Season Premiere: When Baskets premiered last January, it appeared to be a loony lark, like someone dared Zach Galifianakis to create a comedy bizarre enough to make even FX flinch: Aspiring artiste Chip Baskets (Galifianakis) flunks out of a prestigious French clown academy and returns home to uncultured Bakersfield to become a crestfallen rodeo clown. Oh, and the black comedy also features an undercurrent of commentary on the decline of Western civilization and the futility of artistry, as well as Galifianakis playing his own twin brother Dale, and Louie Anderson in drag as their mom—comedy gold, right? Actually, yes. Baskets’ weirdness was balanced with a certain sweetness, and Anderson’s hyper-quotable “Christine” became the unlikeliest breakout character of the year. At the outset of Season 2, Chip attempts to flee Bakersfield (hobo-clownstyle riding the rails, of course), and Christine finds romance (and water aerobics). So, yeah, still bizarre.

Beaches Saturday, Jan. 21 (Lifetime)

John Wayne Gacy ICP Hunted Sunday, Jan. 22 (CBS)

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Series Debut: Unfortunately, not a second season of Melissa George’s cool 2012 spy series of the same name, which was wrongfully canceled and … I’m just talking to myself here, aren’t I? Anyway: This Hunted is a reality show that pits teams of regular folk against pro investigators in an elaborate game of digital-age hide-and-seek; the fugitive squad that can stay off the grid and avoid being caught for 28 days wins $250,000. Sure, that prize split between a group of nine comes out roughly to a measly $27,777 apiece, but Hunted offers a valuable lesson about the liability of your digital footprint (not to mention reality-TV camera crews and trucks—wouldn’t they be a dead giveaway?). You might need to disappear yourself sometime in the next four years, so pay attention.

Outsiders Tuesday, Jan. 24 (WGN America)

Season Premiere: The 2016 epidemic of Too Many Shows caused the debut season of Outsiders to slip by me—but not a record-setting number of WGN America viewers who instantly latched onto this Appalachian hill-folk drama like it was Sons of Anarchy in overalls (coincidentally, SOA’s Ryan Hurst is one of the stars). Outsiders is rife with juicy hillbilly family drama and stick-it-to-the-man anti-authoritarianism, as well as the most mud-flinging ATV action you’ll see outside of the Outdoor Channel.

The story: The isolationist, mountain-dwelling Farrell clan (patriarched by an unrecognizable David Morse) wants nothing to do with modern society in lowland Kentucky— then along comes Big Coal, aided by local police, to run them out of their centuries-long home. It’s a visceral, pulpy ride—catch up on Season 1 on Hulu.

The Magicians Wednesday, Jan. 25 (Syfy)

Season Premiere: Essentially “sexy Harry Potter goes to Hogwarts College,” the first season of The Magicians introduced a pretty, angsty cast with plenty of personal probs and supernatural challenges, if not much humor or personality (which would have made it more of a Freeform show than a Syfy series, but whatever). Season 1 did, however, find some footing by its closing episodes, resulting in a relatively spectacular finale that could have launched a promising second season. Early S2 signs point to more perpetually gray skies and hair-in-the-eyes moping, but with flashier, Doctor Strange-lite F/X and a slightly clearer dramatic path forward. Nice trick (sorry, illusion).

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Movie: The original 1988 Beaches, from a different time when Garry Marshall movies weren’t complete shit (too soon?), is a cheesy-weepy classic that needs no “reimagining.” But, since we’re in the post-imagination 2010s, here’s a new Beaches, complete with remade songs. While it’s tough to argue with the smart casting of Idina Menzel and Nia Long in the iconic Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey roles—not to mention cred-to-burn director Allison Anders replacing Marshall—is a note-for-note recreation of this lifelong gal-pals tale really necessary? Nope, but Beaches will be an easy hit for Lifetime, which means we can probably look forward to an update of Pretty Woman, rewritten by and starring Lena Dunham, by fall.

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ity the poor soul who’s asked to define just what funk is. James Brown likely found the funk somewhere in his gut. George Clinton had it beamed down from another galaxy entirely. If you ask Josh Fairman, bassist and co-founder of Denver’s Analog Son, he’ll tell you that you’ll know it when you feel it. “Does it make you want to move? Does it make your upper lip curl up?” Fairman asks in a telephone interview. “For me it’s how it makes you feel.” Since releasing their self-titled debut in 2014, Analog Son has made serious work of answering these elusive questions. Fairman describes the process as like that of a joyous laboratory, tinkering and experimenting with guitarist Jordan Linit and a host of collaborators until that eureka moment finally comes. “Jordan will play something and I’m, like, ‘You did it! Oh, it’s funky!’” Fairman and Linit have been playing together ever since they were 13 years old, growing up in Columbia, Mo. Fairman says their gateway to funk was through ’90s rock and hip-hop artists who incorporated elements of it in their music—Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snoop Dogg, Rage Against the Machine. Eventually, that led them to funk pioneers such as Parliament and James Brown. Fusion, jazz and jam bands followed suit. “By the time we were in our teens, we were playing instrumental music,” Fairman says. “We’ve been playing ‘Jungle Boogie’ since we were 14 years old.” The two friends moved out west thanks to music scholarships at the University of Denver, where they studied jazz. After spending about 10 years in a jam band, Linit and Fairman formed Analog Son as a way to focus exclusively on funk—the music that captivated them in the first place. “It’s kind of nice to just focus on one genre,” Fairman says. “Basically, when we’re writing the music, it’s only one question: Is it funky?” Analog Son sees itself as toeing the line between funk’s past and its future. The name of the band pays homage to the golden age of funk, when its forefathers recorded to tape and mixed on big studio consoles. “That’s where we come from,” Fairman says. “My dad saw computers get invented. They invented that stuff one generation before us. … We’re trying to preserve some of that music.” Fittingly, the group gets a lot of help from those who came before them. For a relatively young band, they’ve already racked up an impressive list of collaborators who used to be musical heroes of theirs. The band’s newest album, Black Diamond—which is released Jan. 27—was recorded in New Orleans in the middle of its Jazz and Heritage Festival. Fairman described being able to watch one of their heroes—Oteil Burbridge, a former member of The Allman Brothers Band—play at a club one night, only to have him sit in on a recording session shortly after that. Other guests were Ivan Neville (Dumpstaphunk), Nigel Hall (Lettuce) and Terrence Houston (Funky Meters). Still, for Fairman, playing with his heroes didn’t turn out to be as intimidating as it seems. “When you’re in there playing, the music is the great equalizer,” he says. “Even though we write the music, the music really comes alive with whoever’s on the track.” The recently released track off the new album, “Sunshine,”

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he Sundance Film Festival always includes a few noteworthy collisions of sonics and celluloid. There are films about music or musicians, films by musicians or featuring them as actors, film screenings where musicians show up as fans or for photo opps and concerts coinciding with and capitalizing on the festival. The year 2017, known in the days of Trumplandia as the Final One, has all that … but no bag of chips. Here are City Weekly’s picks, plus some other stuff. Mogwai Plays Atomic: Scotch experimental post-rockers Mogwai performs their latest album Atomic, a retread of their score for Mark Cousins’ documentary Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise, which explores the full spectrum of atomic power—how it’s used to both enrich and destroy lives. The Complex, Saturday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m.; smithstix.com. Roxanne, Roxanne: Remember when rap was scandalous for using just one F-bomb? It was a simpler time, then. I was in junior high back then, so of course I was all about dat. I hung on every salvo of the “Roxanne Wars,” a dis battle that started when Roxanne Shanté, a young rapper from Queens, dropped “Roxanne’s Revenge” in response to UTFO’s “Roxanne, Roxanne.” Fans of old-school rap music will no doubt dig this biopic about Shanté, who left the game (although not entirely) after two albums to go to college, becoming a motivational speaker. Five screenings—see schedule at sundance.org/projects/roxanne-roxanne. Kuso: Another rap-connected film, this time directed by and starring Flying Lotus (Steven Ellison). The rapper’s debut feature is based on his original short film, which is so gnarly they thought it wise to provide audience members with a barf bag. The film, based on one of FlyLo’s nightmares, stars Hannibal Buress, Tim Heidecker, Donnell Rawlings, George Clinton, Anders Holm and Byron Bowers, and features new music by Flying Lotus alter ego Captain Murphy, Thundercat and Akira Yamaoka. It screens four times, including once in SLC at the Broadway. See dates and times at sundance.org/projects/kuso.

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Despite the fact that the town of Trumbull, Conn., sounds like a place that is more familiar with MBAs than MCs, it just so happens to be upstart rapper Felly’s (born Chris Felner) point of origin. After gaining a strong internet following during his late teens, Felly uprooted and made his way to California to work on a music degree at USC. During his time as a student, Felly continued to experiment with his unique mix of reggae, hip-hop and jazz, selfreleasing his first album, This Shit Comes in Waves, in 2015 and becoming acquainted with like-minded MC Gyyps. With the momentum of their huge fanbase, the pair have kicked off The Mermaid Gang Tour, which will see them teaming up with New York rapper Yonas and Memphisbased, acoustic-rap virtuoso Healy. (Alex Springer) In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, 7 p.m., $18 in advance, $20 day of show; inthevenueslc.com

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All the eponymous one-word female musical acts carry an aura of “diva”—in the best sense of the word. The term originates from opera, and describes a female singer who not only has vocal

Felly chops but also a commanding stage presence. It’s undoubtedly true of Dorothy Martin of the Los Angeles quartet bearing her name. Dorothy’s 2014 self-titled debut EP had Rolling Stone listing them on their “50 Best New Artists of 2014,” and last year’s full-length Rockisdead was released on Jay Z’s Roc Nation label. The band’s neo-classic rock (that’s a thing, right?) riffage might not be the most innovative musical creation, but rock ’n’ roll is oftentimes about re-inventing the wheel. And with Martin driving this machine, it’s both sexy and tough as nails—what a combo. Opening for Dorothy is Atlanta’s The Georgia Flood, a group that plays rock with closer ties to Southern roots. (Brian Staker) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $12.50, 21+; theurbanloungeslc.com

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My first exposure to the pair of Brooklynbased synthpop maestros Great Good Fine OK came in the form of a truly surreal music video for their song “You’re the One for Me,” in which a beautiful woman makes a splattered mockery of a perfectly good sandwich. Couple that imagery with the band’s liberal use of Jon Sandler’s sugary falsetto and the translucent chime of Luke Moellman’s synth chords, and there’s really no turning back. Following the recent release of their EP III, Great Good Fine OK is bringing their neon brand of dance-friendly music on a North American tour. Joining them for this audio smorgasbord will be Oregonian indie-pop quartet Flor, who have been making all kinds of lovely waves with their accessible yet haunting sound. It’s a show that promises to be a nostalgic trip into the future. (AS) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 7 p.m., $12 in advance, $14 day of show; kilbycourt.com

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Although we lost Bob Moss five years ago, The heart of the Utah treasure—and rare true gentlemen—still beats within SLC’s art and music scene, and he’s about to get the accolade he’s due. Since Moss was a dual-medium talent, working in visual art as well as music, this is a two-headed tribute. Tonight represents the opening of experimental art gallery God Hates Robots’ exhibition, Covering Moss—A Bob Moss Visual Art Tribute, where noteworthy local artists like Sri Whipple, Trent Call, Lincoln Lysager and Mary Toscano “cover” Bob’s singular, signature woodburned works. That’s a helluva concept, itself, taking a cue from how the music world honors its greats. It’s fitting, then, that the evening is also the official release of the limited-edition two-disc, 24-song Son of Deseret, where dozens of local Utah musicians—including Moss collaborators and friends like Mike Kirkland, Bad Brad Wheeler, Eli Morrison, Joe Judd, Greg Midgley, Aldine Strychnine, Chubby Bunny, George St. John and (full disclosure) a couple of guys from City Weekly (yours truly and Brian Staker) teamed up with real musicians Dave Boogert and Steve Morrison—cover Bob’s ingenuous and ingenious songs. Tonight, all our hearts beat with Bob’s. Covering Bob Moss runs through Feb. 13. (Randy Harward) God Hates Robots, 314 W. 300 South Ste. 250, 6-9 p.m., free; godhatesrobots.com

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CONCERTS & CLUBS DJ Spider + DJ Battleship (The Cabin) Jim and Sam + Jarrett Burns + Pablo Blaqk + Jared Bird (The Acoustic Space) Lil Jon (DJ set) (Downstairs) Live Bluegrass (Club 90) Marshmello (Park City Live) see p. 41 Michelle Moonshine (Garage on Beck) Warbly Jets + Civil Lust + 90s Television + Cesar Reyes (The Urban Lounge)

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Candy’s River House (The Spur Bar & Grill) Hamilton Leithauser + Alexandra Savior (The State Room) see p. 43 The Nude Party + Heavy Dose + Marla Stone + Dream Slut (The Urban Lounge) Oteil Burbidge & Friends (The Cabin) Spellcaster + ToxicDose + Barlow + Bestial Karnage (Club X)

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Access Music (The Spur Bar & Grill) The Anchorage + From the Sun (Metro Music Hall) Tom Bennett (Hog Wallow Pub) Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation (DJ set) (The Cabin) Marty Grimes + Cal Scruby + Splyt (Kilby Court) Kris Lager Band (Kamikazes) Live Jazz (Club 90) Made Monster (Downstairs) Pigeon (Twist) David Rohrer (Shades of Pale) Young Chop + Frayze + Sicko Mobb + Saint Millie + Watt Chamberlain + Nessly + Mcee Bride (The Urban Lounge)

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) The word “naysayer” describes a person who’s addicted to expressing negativity. A “yeasayer,” on the other hand, is a person who is prone to expressing optimism. According to my assessment of the astrological omens, you can and should be a creative yeasayer in the coming days—both for the sake of your own well-being and that of everyone whose life you touch. For inspiration, study Upton Sinclair’s passage about Beethoven: He was “the defier of fate, the great yea-sayer.” His music is “like the wind running over a meadow of flowers, superlative happiness infinitely multiplied.” PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) If I’m feeling prosaic, I might refer to a group of flamingos as a flock. But one of the more colorful and equally correct terms is a “flamboyance” of flamingos. Similarly, a bunch of pretty insects with clubbed antennae and big fluttery wings may be called a kaleidoscope of butterflies. The collective noun for zebras can be a dazzle, for pheasants a bouquet, for larks an exaltation, and for finches a charm. In accordance with current astrological omens, I’m borrowing these nouns to describe members of your tribe. A flamboyance or kaleidoscope of Pisceans? Yes! A dazzle or bouquet or exaltation or charm of Pisceans? Yes! All of the above. ARIES (March 21-April 19) Are you more attracted to honing group dynamics or liberating group dynamics? Do you have more aptitude as a director who organizes people or as a sparkplug who inspires people? Would you rather be a Chief Executive Officer or a Chief Imagination Officer? Questions like these will be fertile for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. The astrological omens suggest it’s time to explore and activate more of your potential as a leader or catalyst.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) What exactly would a bolt of lightning taste like? I mean, if you could somehow manage to roll it around in your mouth without having to endure the white-hot shock. There’s a booze manufacturer that claims to provide this sensation. The company known as Oddka has created “Electricity Vodka,” hard liquor with an extra fizzy jolt. But if any sign of the zodiac could safely approximate eating a streak of lightning without the help of Electricity Vodka, it would be you, Leos. These days you have a special talent for absorbing and enjoying and integrating fiery inspiration. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Eighteenth-century painter Joshua Reynolds said that a “disposition to abstractions, to generalizing and classification, is the great glory of the human mind.” To that lofty sentiment, his fellow artist William Blake responded, “To generalize is to be an idiot; to particularize is the alone distinction of merit.” So I may be an idiot when I make the following generalization, but I think I’m right: In the coming weeks, it will be in your best interests to rely on crafty generalizations to guide your decisions. Getting bogged down in details at the expense of the big picture—missing the forest for the trees—is a potential pitfall that you can and should avoid.

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