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The Ocho, p. 13 Frost has graced Salt Lake City with his sarcastic, snarky writing since the ’90s. And his column The Ocho—which he says was originally a “temporary page-filler”—turns 10 this week. “The burden of being the only humor writer in Utah is onerous, but rewarding-ish,” he says.

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Cover story, Jan. 19, “Surviving Sundance”

Fun Sundance illustration on the cover of Salt Lake City Weekly this week. Will you survive?! Bring it on.

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Blog, Jan. 20, “Hundreds take to Salt Lake City streets to protest Trump”

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The beginning of a movement. I didn’t expect to see hundreds of thousands of people in cities all over the world protesting this administration.

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Blog, Jan. 20, “Graffiti inciting murder of now-President Trump appears on Main Street”

Grow up, idiots! I’m not happy that Trump is president, but this is beyond ridiculous and downright dangerous.

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This is saddening, to see people destroy property of others and saying they have the right. These people should be punished, for they have no regard for the law or the land.

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A&E, Jan. 19, “A Hard Reign”

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MARA VLADIMIROV Via Facebook

“I have long said that we should have kept the oil in Iraq. … In the old days, when we won a war, to the victor belonged the spoils.” These are the words of the most powerful man on Earth. It goes beyond bitter partisanship to realize this is clearly a slap in the face to our brave men and

women who served and lost their lives in Iraq. Two of my sons served in the Iraq War. It tells them that it’s all about monetary gain and that there is absolutely nothing wrong with America being the world’s bully if it wants to be. This is not the way I was raised to think of the country in which I live.

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Cover story, Jan. 12, “Legislature Madness”

It is puzzling City Weekly neglected to include H.J.R. 3 Joint Resolution calling for a convention to amend the constitution of the United States in the article on upcoming legislative bills. Article 5 of the U.S. Constitution empowers future generations to amend the 1789 U.S. Constitution as needs arise—27 single subject amendments to date. Republicans and Democrats both are complicit in nearly doubling the national debt since 2008 to $19.3 trillion. This requires 33-42 percent of federal income to pay merely the interest. Another third is waste and corruption with one-third, or less, to run the country. Secondly, the scope and power of federal government has expanded exponentially through extra-legal regulations made by unelected bureaucrats in ever-proliferating agencies. The Article V Convention of States Joint Resolution (H.J.R. 3) sponsored by Merrill F. Nelson is to support amendments to the U.S. Constitution: 1. fiscal restraint on federal government, 2. limiting power and jurisdiction of federal government and 3. limiting terms of office for its officials and

members of congress. Convention commissioners are agents of their respective states and can be recalled if any renegade seeks to take action outside the topics defined in the 34 state applications to call the convention. Even quicker, other delegates will also reject the new topic as out of order. When 34 states apply, Congress must call a convention and has no control over the delegates. A statesman commented where greed and power reside there breeds corruption in our federal government. Please sign the petition online at COS Action and encourage your legislators to support H.J.R. 3 to curb federal government.

VICKI MARTIN, Clearfield

Correction: Last week’s opinion piece [Jan. 26, “Jason Jarred”] said Congressman Jason Chaffetz applied to and was rejected by the CIA. It was in fact the Secret Service.

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“Foodies are foodist. They dislike and despise all non-foodies.”

—Harpers & Queen Magazine, 1982 I don’t know many foodies, so I have not felt the lash of foodist disapproval. Not yet, anyway. Foodism is a spectator sport for me. From the sidelines, I take passing notice of such food-related developments as Whole Foods morphing from grocery store to cafeteria and the hybridization of doughnut and croissant into a cronut. I marvel at the popularity of wait-in-line breakfast eateries like Finn’s, The Blue Plate Diner and The Park Café. Breakfast at a restaurant was unthinkable in my childhood. In fact, a restaurant meal was as rare as a bagel in Utah in those days. A lean family budget might have been a factor, but my parents’ homespun tastes favored pot roast, meat loaf and casseroles made with mushroom soup—not restaurant fare. My mother fried trout when I caught them. She relied on green beans and corn from cans and Kraft macaroni and cheese from a box. We occasionally dined on fivefor-a-dollar Deeburgers, but never on pizza or General Tso’s chicken or tacos or samosas. I don’t think I ventured into a Chinese restaurant until I was in college. Nowadays, most of my friends and relatives are not foodies, but almost everyone has foodish quirks. I certainly do. I like crunchy cookies, not chewy ones. I like quiet restaurants with linen on the table and tapas on the menu. A lot of people avoid restaurants with tablecloths because they don’t like paying the premium. Some people are attracted to all-you-can-eat deals like at Chuck-A-Rama. I know people who eat blackeyed peas on New Year’s Day for good luck. Two guys I know insist on a meat-and-potato dinner every day. I am fortunate to be friends with a couple who are gourmet cooks. I know food-centric families who regularly dine on

ham, scalloped potatoes and Jell-O salad. A cousin held cancer at bay with an unappetizing macrobiotic diet. And I know a 12-yearold who will eat no cheese but American—so long as it’s white. If it’s yellow, no dice. It seems like a lot of kids are like that— picky eaters. Frustrated, parents seek advice from pediatricians when their kid will eat only peanut butter smeared on white, crustless bread. I don’t much care if a kid is picky. On the other hand, I feel sorry for picky adults. They shrink from unfamiliar dishes like lamb coconut korma, pea agnoletti, molcajete and spaghetti alla cabonara just because the names are exotic. These four entrées were gleaned from “Best Dishes of 2016” as judged by The Salt Lake Tribune food writers. I like most food. However, because I am not a foodie, I am ignorant of food trends. I lose track of whether or not an egg is good for you. Cronuts notwithstanding, the last food fad I can name is Cajun-blackened fish. Foodies had been eating quinoa for years before I had even heard of the Andean grain. I didn’t know that black rice and fusion cuisine were passé. Nor did I know that fruit soups are “in” in 2017 as is harissa, a North African hot-pepper paste, and moringa, the emergent superfood. I learned about them by noodling around some food-related websites like the Sterling-Rice Group in Colorado. Some of the food predictions for 2017 seemed pretty far-fetched. Nobody I know will be making his own charcuterie or firing up the grill for a slab of jackfruit this year. However, I did note that pierogies and housemade pickles are trending, making Trestle Tavern on 15th and 15th a cutting-edge restaurant. I was interested to read the Sterling-Rice Group’s observation that “refugee populations are beginning to carve out their own culinary connections with their new home countries.” Look no further than Salt

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BY JOHN RASMUSON Lake City for evidence. Event planners here can now choose caterers offering cuisine from Iraq, Jamaica, Bhutan, Sierra Leone, Venezuela, India, Ethiopia and Burma—an impressive list for a place known for its love of lime Jell-O and funeral potatoes. Salt Lake City is one of 22 cities in the U.S. to which the International Rescue Committee (IRC) brings refugees. Last year, more than 600 from 21 different countries were resettled here by the IRC. Some of them took advantage of IRC’s Spice Kitchen Incubator, which provides technical assistance and training for those interested in starting a food business. The new Laan Na Thai Restaurant near Pioneer Park was midwifed by the IRC. Another of IRC’s success stories, the East African Refugee Goat Project of Utah, is pacing national food trends with a growing herd of Boer goats housed near the airport. New York Magazine called goat meat “a trendlet” in 2008, but because it is low in calories, fat and cholesterol, goat meat is poised to become the next go-to protein, the Sterling-Rice Group says. Utah could be the first state with an “eat local goat” campaign. The best news on the food horizon is a study from Tel Aviv University that found breakfast dessert contributes to weight loss. We can celebrate with a trending “Freakshake,” an ice-cream confection from Australia topped with chocolate sauce, cookies, doughnuts and candy. The shake packs 1,500 tasty calories, the equivalent of a brace of Big Macs. The 2017 trend to “upscale mixologistcreated mocktails” will surely bedevil Utah’s abstemious lawmakers and their silly Zion curtain. No doubt they will welcome the surging popularity of alcohol-free beverages in restaurants, but the prospect of kids drinking a Nojito or Shirley Temple is going to drive them nuts. CW

ALMOST EVERYONE HAS FOODISH QUIRKS. I CERTAINLY DO.

What’s your all-time favorite SLC comfort food? Christian Priskos: Crown Burger fry sauce. Scott Renshaw: I’ve become weirdly infatuated with the mesquite chicken salad at Squatters. The greens and toppings are served on top of Navajo fry bread, allowing the illusion of healthy eating to rest on top of a big saucer of satisfying carbs.

Jeremiah Smith: Mine are vegan wings from Vertical Diner.

Nicole Enright: TacoTaco. Best tacos ever. They can turn any frown upside down. (Do people still use this expression?) Pete Saltas: If it’s all-time, I’ll go back in time. The spanakopita at Eva was one of my fave dishes ever. #BringItBack!

Enrique Limón: Fried egg-topped chilaquiles verdes at Rancho Markets No. 7. Just like my mom never used to make.

Sarah Arnoff: Pretty much anything that the Bay Leaf used to serve. :(

Tyeson Rogers: Smart Cookies. Andrea Harvey: Pad Thai from Pleiku next to our office. It’s drenched in sauce, loaded with toppings and the meat is so tender. Plus, their servings are so huge, I can eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner (and I have).

Sierra Sessions: Breakfast food. Any kind. I would eat breakfast three times a day if I could. Chicken and waffle sandwich with a fried egg and syrup? F me up.

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Miami-Dade was the first to fold under the Dictator in Chief’s warning that federal funds will be pulled if cities continue to provide safe harbor for immigrants. Salt Lake City and County, however, are standing firm in their support of sanctuary cities as thousands protest around the nation against the president’s selective immigration ban. Billions of dollars could be withheld, although they might only constitute up to 2 percent of a city’s budget, according to CNN Money. Research by The Washington Post says the U.S. will actually be less safe, and some say he’s preventing potential allies from coming to the U.S. “He will need to convince many millions of people that freedom of religion and tolerance is better than jihad,” Newsweek opinion writer David Bier writes. The city and county of Salt Lake agree.

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Eight years ago, Salt Lake City resident James Jackson III founded the Utah African American Chamber of Commerce—a key resource for small businesses owned by members of the local black community, as well as other minority groups. Their mission is to foster accessibility, networking and education. This week, they’re kicking off Black History Month and raising money for their organization with an event called Evening in Harlem (Friday, Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m., Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, $10-$15, uaacc.org).

As the founder of the UAACC, what was your experience like?

Interesting. There was a black chamber of commerce originally, and then it was kind of slowly fading away. So, being where I was at the time, I wanted to help build it, but then I ended up going off on my own. So I networked with other chambers in the community, like the Asian chamber. I helped with guidance and structure, and ... We’ve been steadily building it. The first five years were tough because it was just me, but now I have an active board, so that helped a lot. Over the past two years, we’ve doubled in growth. CHRISTIAN DEL ROSARIO

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What does your job entail on a daily basis?

The chamber is a volunteer organization at the moment, so we don’t have any full-time staff. Everybody’s a volunteer, including myself. My main responsibilities are seeking out corporate sponsorships and taking up members, and kind of being the point person for people who want to gain access or information regarding the chamber.

What does Black History Month mean to you personally?

It’s a way to celebrate the accomplishments of people in the black community—not only in the nation but also locally.

Whom do you look up to in the black community here?

Now, I kind of look up to Pastor Davis of the Calvary Baptist Church. I was born and raised in that church, and everything he’s been able to do in the state and everything he’s done for me—he’s just kind of set the pace and been an example for what leadership is, as far as being in the black community. And he’s one of the people that we will be honoring at the Evening in Harlem event. We’ll be honoring two people: Pastor Davis, and Rep. Sandra Hollins because she was the first black representative for the state of Utah.

Tell me more about the event this week.

It’s a way to celebrate the people in our community, and kind of launch Black History Month and celebrate the Harlem Renaissance, which took place during the mid-’20s, early ’30s. So people will come dressed in their Harlem Renaissance garb and we’ll have a jazz band and a casino to raise money for our charitable foundation, and it’s just a way for people to come together and socialize and have fun.

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Why do we have to fill out a 1040 form? The IRS knows what most people owe. Why don’t they just send us a bill or a refund?

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STRAIGHT DOPE Tax Facts —Scott Henderson Some big-time politicians have had that same idea. “There’s no reason the IRS can’t send Americans pre-filled tax forms to verify,” one presidential hopeful insisted in 2007. Well, apparently there was some reason, because that same guy spent the past eight years in the Oval Office and you’ll still be fumbling with a 1040 sometime between now and April 15. Circumstances partially excuse Barack Obama’s failure to deliver on his promise that “millions of Americans will be able to do their taxes in less than five minutes,” what with the economy collapsing shortly before he took office and all. But there’s a simpler explanation for why this commonsensical idea hasn’t prevailed in D.C.: Enough money has been spent to stop it from happening. If you’re paid strictly in wages and, like nearly 70 percent of Americans, you claim the standard deduction rather than itemizing, you’re familiar with the drill: You get a W-2 from your employer listing what you were paid and how much tax was withheld. Next (unless you shell out for pro prep) you fill in some blanks, do some math, squint at a tax table, sign your name, drop the form in the mail, and worry that you screwed it up. And you very well might have—the IRS finds more than two million mistakes every year. These are spotted easily enough because the IRS got the very same W-2 figures, did the same math, and filled out the same form. All this redundancy can’t really be necessary, right? Sure enough, an alternative system, known as return-free filing, already exists in such forward-thinking countries like Denmark, Sweden and Spain, where the government basically does just what you propose: They send out a bill for taxes due— or a refund of overpayment for the recipient to approve. Even here in the U.S., you don’t have to compute your property taxes yourself, so why can’t you just kick back and wait for the IRS to figure out your income tax? The closest we’ve come to an official answer was in 2009, the year Obama took office. The Taxpayer Advocate Service of the IRS told Congress that Obama’s proposal was “not feasible at this time.” The government receives the necessary information too late in tax season, they claimed, so a returnfree system would delay refunds and anger impatient taxpayers. Which sure sounds like a dodge—is the IRS, the one federal agency even less beloved than the TSA, really afraid people will be mad at it? You’d figure typical deficit-hawk conservatives would be happy to save the money the IRS wastes every year confronting the American taxpayer’s inability to subtract correctly. And, in fact, Ronald Reagan himself endorsed return-free filing in 1985. But small-government zealot Grover Norquist and his group Americans for Tax Reform oppose efforts to streamline the filing

system, preferring reforms that “enhance voluntary compliance.” A weaselly phrase, that—no arms would be twisted by offering a return-free option, and completing a 1040 hardly means you’re “volunteering” to pay taxes. The more likely reason for the resistance is that the proposed setup would make the tax “simplification” Norquist favors—lopping off upper tax brackets, mainly—a much harder sell. If you’re trying to paint U.S. taxation as hopelessly burdensome, the last thing you want to see is the IRS transformed into an agency that just mails Americans a refund check every year. Meanwhile, special-interest groups are in the trenches trying to shoot down return-free pilot plans. In 2005, California adopted a program called ReadyReturn, which allows qualified residents to opt for a pre-completed tax return rather than fill out their own. The state estimates that the new process has saved millions a year in prep fees and about a half a mil in government administrative costs, and taxpayers who’ve used the service are overwhelmingly pleased. Thing is, not many Californians take advantage of it—in 2012, only 90,000 out of the approximately one million eligible—and officials complain they’ve had a hard time getting the word out. That’s because software manufacturer Intuit, the maker of the prep app TurboTax, wants it that way: According to a 2013 investigation by the nonprofit journalism outfit ProPublica, the company spent more than $3 million in lobbying and campaign contributions between 2005 and 2009 fighting ReadyReturn. Intuit didn’t manage to kill the program outright, but the state’s budget for marketing it was cut to a dinky $10,000. Perhaps wary of incurring the deeppocketed wrath of Big Tax-Prep and its small-government allies, other states have seemingly been in no big hurry to follow California’s example. But the dream remains alive in D.C.—last April, Elizabeth Warren became the latest senator to propose (doomed) legislation introducing return-free filing. Somehow, I don’t see a lot of progress on this front any time soon. Being evidently opposed to paying taxes at all, our new president seems unlikely to expend much effort on making it simpler to do. n Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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Allegations of livestock doping rattle junior exhibitor’s future. BY DYLAN WOOLF HARRIS dwharris@cityweekly.net @DylantheHarris

he hog’s blood was dirty. Spot, a portly blue-ribbon pig, was crowned a winner at the 2015 Utah State Fair, earning a fast-track to the auction block and prize money and praise for her youth handler. One of more than 100 hogs in the junior livestock show, this pig walked away the reserve grand champion. But Spot was stripped of her accolades after traces of dexamethasone, an anti-inflammatory, were discovered in her system. Veterinarians detected the banned substance—sometimes known as dex—and notified fair administration about a month after the September event. And with that, Spot shares a commonality with the likes of Lance Armstrong and Barry Bonds—besmirched competitors who took performance-enhancing drugs. Unlike Spot’s human counterparts, the animal here, of course, is not to blame. But the unfortunate reality is that the person who took the fall for this doping scandal could be as innocent as the swine. She is a child, now 13 years old, and the daughter of Delta pig farmers. She’s frequently participated in livestock shows, and dedicated hours of work to raising pigs, according to her family. To prepare, the youth rose at 5 a.m. each morning and took the pig on a 3-mile walk; she capped the day with another walk in the evenings. Spot’s test results jeopardized the student’s eligibility to compete in livestock shows for the remainder of her junior career. Consequently, the girl—who City Weekly chooses not to identify because she is a minor—is blacklisted from entering any other state-sponsored livestock show. This blanket ban is the same for any person caught showing livestock aided by performance enhancers. It’s a lasting punishment for young livestock raisers, who in all likelihood didn’t obtain the drug themselves, probably didn’t inject it and, frankly, might have been completely oblivious to the scandal. Normally, youths can continue to show livestock until they are 18 years old or have graduated from high school. But with half a decade of competitive years left, Spot’s handler will have to watch junior livestock shows from the bleachers. The youth forfeited about $2,600 in

DOPING prize money and a belt buckle. But being barred from competition hurt the most. Initially, the family says they tried to shield their teen from the news. When she found out, she burst into inconsolable tears. Harsh as it may be, a lifetime ban is a necessary deterrent, Utah State Fair Director Judy Duncombe says. “I think that to lessen the penalty would up the chances that somebody might be willing to [inject livestock],” she says. “I think that the majority of people recognize the severity of the penalty and say, ‘Hey, it’s not worth it.’” The family denies pumping the pig with drugs. And the teen’s mother, Callie Peterson, lambasted the fair board for refusing to find an agreeable outcome. “The state fair … has been complete dicks about it,” she writes in an email. They asked for a partial, one-year ban. Junior livestock show market animals—steers, hogs, lambs and goats— are judged on market readiness and showmanship. Scrutinized by judges, livestock trot about in an arena, and the more graceful the movement, presumably the higher the marks. A hog on dex might exhibit a more pleasant temperament. And Duncombe supposes dex helps alleviate pain or discomfort related to the aches and stiffness that typically accompany travel. (Legal counsel for the Peterson family argues that dex doesn’t give any boost to the pig except, perhaps, in weight gain.) Sparhawk Laboratories Inc., a manufacturer of dexamethasone injections, did not respond to an email seeking comment. The fair board enforces lifetime bans, but it’s not the body that governs them. That responsibility falls upon the Utah State Junior Livestock Show Association—whose president, Clay Nielsen, says the hardline, punitive approach is twofold. Not only does dex taint the integrity of the competition, it isn’t approved by the Food and Drug Administration for consumption. “That’s as big a reason for the ban as anything,” Nielsen says. “These are meat animals. They go to slaughter and they are used in the food chain.” FDA spokeswoman Juli Putnam affirmed the ban in animals harvested for meat but notes that dexamethasone is permitted in horses. An FDA database shows that dex can be prescribed to treat primary bovine ketosis in cattle. Whether for cattle or horses, federal law requires the drug to be prescribed by a veterinarian, who can permit others, such as an animal owner, to administer it. Reports of livestock doping are peppered across the country. Taken together in a broad view, it would imply a spreading epidemic. Duncombe, however, believes cheaters amount to a distracting but tiny blemish. Since 2003,

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Shortly after winning, Spot was stripped of her state fair title when traces of a performance-enhancing drug were found in her system. the state fair has tested the first-place winners and runners-up, and never found a positive test until 2013. Only four instances—Spot among them—have emerged in 13 years. But as recently as last October, the fair’s grand champion goat was busted for the same substance. The problem could be happening under the radar on a much bigger scale. Nielsen, who also sits on the Utah State Fair Corporation board, says some livestock showings don’t test for drugs or test randomly. When an animal is caught, though, the reputations of meat producers are scarred. “It gives the industry a black eye and it could potentially be harmful to someone that consumes that meat that might have an allergy,” Duncombe says. “It’s far-reaching, so we take a no-nonsense stance.” But those accused of doping Spot’s blood cry foul. The Petersons filed a civil suit against the Fair Board Corporation in June 2016. The Petersons don’t deny that the pig’s sample came back dirty. In fact, they say, they suspected something was fishy before the showing. Having returned from lunch, the Petersons discovered a small speck of blood on the hog’s neck. They alerted fair staff immediately afterward, according to court documents. “We raise show pigs,” Callie Peterson tells City Weekly. “We know what it looks like when pigs have been given a shot. We knew that it had been given a shot.” Fair officials respond that this line of protection would open a door to abuse. And more importantly, they don’t believe another person drugged the Petersons’ prized pig. “It really isn’t too plausible,” Duncombe says. Declining to wade into specifics regarding the Peterson case, Duncombe

reasons that a livestock breeder has little motivation to inject a competitor’s animal with drugs that could up its likelihood of success. “How would giving your [opponent’s] hog a substance that would give it an advantage benefit me? Why would I do that?” she says. Unless it didn’t give them an advantage but instead an automatic disqualification. The Petersons suspect their reputable success at livestock shows was motive for someone to sabotage the contest. “Someone got sick of us winning and shot our pig up with dexamethasone while we were not right by our pen,” Callie Peterson says. The fair board says it explicitly lays out in its rules that contestants are responsible for the welfare and security of their animals. And in many decades of experience on the fair board, no member had seen evidence of competitors drugging another’s livestock. Peterson argues that it’s impossible for participants to guard their animals at every moment. The Petersons sought unspecified damages connected to suffering from both the teen and the family business. But the case was dismissed and both sides were ordered to pay their own attorney’s fees. During a recent state fair board meeting, members described the owners of the disqualified grand prize goat as “prominent, vocal” members of the local livestock community—ones who might also resort to litigation. “We might need to get some more appropriations for legal funds,” a member half-joked. As for Spot, Callie Peterson says the hog was purchased to live out her days as a sow—a pig that breeds litters of piglets that might boast the genes of a champion. CW

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The new year has brought a plethora of bold and brazen opinions from the cheap seats. So why not listen to an acclaimed author and social critic talk about life as we know it? From politics to pop culture, yoga pants to aging, you’ll want to be in the room to hear Fran Lebowitz’ take on the world we live in. “Fran Lebowitz has been a vibrant and opinionated part of the arts scene for decades, and we can’t wait to hear what she has to say about current events, art and culture,” Park City Institute Executive Director Teri Orr says. “She has a reputation for just tellin’ it like it is. There’s no doubt this humorous evening of banter and blunt talk will keep you thinking, and inspire your own dinner party conversations for months afterward.” George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-513-0741, Saturday, Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m., $29+, ecclescenter.org

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Shots Fired

The release of bodycam footage of the police shooting of a 17-year-old raises only more questions. BY STEPHEN DARK sdark@cityweekly.net @stephenpdark

t took just 42 seconds, according to recently released police body-camera footage, between two officers exiting the downtown Salt Lake City homeless shelter on Rio Grande Street and shooting juvenile Abdullahi “Abdi” Mohamed four times. Whatever else the footage shows about the events of that Feb. 27, 2016, night depends on who you ask. It was released by the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office to the media on Jan. 21, 2017, moments after prosecutors showed it to a juvenile court judge as part of a hearing on charges of robbery and possession against the seriously wounded Mohamed. The footage and Mohamed’s case have both become local watersheds on the state use of violence against people of color and the rights of juveniles in court. “To me, it’s pretty damning,” Utah Against Police Brutality’s Jacob Jensen says. “A lot of people would agree it was way too quick, there were no efforts on deescalation and they left him to bleed out.” Veteran officer Ian Adams, speaking as executive director of the Utah lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police, takes the opposite view. The footage is a textbook case of a good shoot, he says. “The thing that struck me was how by-thebook it was.” Surveillance footage also released by the DA appears to show Mohamed hitting a man with a stick. The body camera video shows the two officers running across the road, repeatedly shouting at two men to drop the stick-like implements they are holding as they advance on a third retreating man. One officer identifies himself once as police. The second would-be assailant realizes the cops are there and peels away. Mohamed continues to steadily advance on the retreating man, with a long, thin, seemingly curved object in one hand. Adams points out that in the few seconds that the officers had before they believed Mohamed was about to strike—his weapon was later revealed to be a hollow, green metal broomstick handle—he did not respond to Officer Jordan Winegar and Officer Kory Check-

T R A N SPA R E N C Y etts’ repeated shouted commands to stop. “He’s within striking distance of that victim; he’s close enough, if he swings at that guy’s head, officers aren’t going to be able to react quick enough to stop him. And I’m not sure why a victim’s life should matter less than the attacker’s,” Adams says. UAPB’s Ian Oliveira argues that Mohamed posed no threat. At the point where the two officers decided to shoot, they were close enough, he says, that “they could have closed in and physically removed the object before Abdi was able to make any decisive action.” In August 2016, the city’s Civilian Review Board found the shoot was “not within” policy because of the slow, non-urgent pace both Mohamed and the man he was pursuing maintained. Jensen agrees with the CRB’s ruling. “I didn’t see that in the video, that he was weighing up to hit him again,” he says. “To me, that didn’t ring true.” Adams expresses disappointment that the CRB formed “asinine opinions” based on the lack of Hollywood-like violence they saw in the footage. “That’s real life; not everybody’s a screaming lunatic as they are about to kill somebody.” For United Front Party’s Lex Scott, the footage confirms what the vocal activist already knew—namely the need to train officers in deescalation. “There’s a million different scenarios where a 17-year-old didn’t end up in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. It’s ridiculous.” She argues the officers “could have used pepper spray, used a taser, tried calming techniques.” Adams isn’t surprised the officers didn’t employ tasers. Mohamed presented a side-profile making it harder to hit him with the two prongs of a taser and the stun-devices have a reputation as being inconsistent in their effectiveness. “In a situation like that, where somebody is about to get injured or killed, you don’t bring a less than reliable tool to that fight,” he says. While much of the focus was on the shooting, critics also lambasted the police department for not providing medical care for Mohamed afterward. In the footage, three bystanders approach Mohamed, one kneeling beside him. Checketts repeatedly warns them to get back, his gun in hand. “We’ve got to get people back so we can get him medical,” he says on the footage. An officer puts Mohamed into “the recovery position,” rolling him over onto his side so he doesn’t choke on his own blood. UAPB’s Oliveira says law enforcement typically secures the scene prior to administering first aid. “However, some six or seven minutes in Winegard’s footage, specifically, you see dozens of cops get into the area, make a perimeter, the crowd is nowhere at that point.” Officers, he notes, were debriefing, chatting with

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“They had many options; they had tasers, batons, they could have used other results, instead of shooting a 17-year-old kid with a broomstick,” Mohamed told City Weekly in May. each other while Mohamed lies bleeding on the sidewalk. SLCPD’s Sgt. Brandon Shearer says, “Medical and paramedics were called for less than a minute after the shooting.” The ambulance arrived within six minutes, but “medical people didn’t feel safe to go in,” he says, because of the crowd’s anger. Scott says that’s “a cop-out. Anyone who’s ever taken CPR, you know to apply pressure to where the blood is coming out, you know how to do chest impressions.” Blaming the crowd “has the implication that every homeless person is a criminal,” rather than people “who had just watched their friend shot multiple times in the back.” The Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill’s decision to show the footage in juvenile court followed a high-profile fight between the ACLU, activists and the DA’s office over releasing the bodycam footage. The move came just two weeks after Gill “vowed to appeal a unanimous ruling from the State Records Committee” that it should be made public, the ACLU notes in a press release. Body cameras capture evidence that is “essential to the prosecution,” Gill writes in an email. “If it is classified as evidence, then I have to treat it as such, taking all the necessary precautions. Or are we saying in the alternative that our desire to see [it] supersedes an accused [person’s] right to a fair process?” On Monday, Mayor Jackie Biskupski issued a draft policy mandating the prompt release of bodycam footage, and requested citizen input over a 30day period in an attempt to forge a balance between community and law enforcement interests. Questions surrounding Mohamed’s

case first emerged a few days after the shooting when the Administration of the Courts (AOC) released his “delinquency record” to The Salt Lake Tribune, without first consulting the prosecution, the defense or the judge in the case. Utah Juvenile Defenders are co-representing Mohamed with the Salt Lake Legal Defenders Association. Its executive director Pam Vickrey writes in an email, “the release of our client’s juvenile record without any context portrayed him as a dangerous individual with a violent past, perhaps swaying public opinion that the police may have been justified in using deadly force.” She blames ambiguities in a Utah statute governing juvenile records for allowing the AOC to release them without judicial review. Worse was to follow in August, when Gill made a verbal-only “detailed and moment-by-moment summary of the video … on live television from the perspective of the prosecutor’s office,” at the same time announcing charges against Mohamed for robbery, Vickrey adds. She and co-counsel decided not to ask the judge to close the hearing because the records and Gill’s breakdown of the events was already public. Since Mohamed’s shooting, Vickrey says, “we have also seen a tremendous upswing in the media’s interest in juvenile cases.” In the past eight months, she continues, her office has seen more media requests to the courts for access to juvenile cases than in her 17-year career. “This type of attention on certain kids and their families is contrary to the purpose of juvenile court,” which seeks to hold juveniles accountable, protect the public and support rehabilitation. The last, she adds, is highly challenging when the juvenile is under intense media scrutiny. CW

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Suspicions Confirmed Schools’ standardized tests are often criticized as harmfully rigid, and in the latest version of the Texas Education Agency’s STAAR test, poet Sara Holbrook said she flubbed the “correct” answer for “author motivation”—in two of her own poems that were on the test. Writing in Huffington Post in January, a disheartened Holbrook lamented, “Kids’ futures and the evaluations of their teachers will be based on their ability to guess the so-called correct answer to [poorly] made-up questions.”

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n An organization that tracks “high net worth” investors (Spectrem Group of Lake Forest, Ill.) reported recently that, of Americans worth $25 million or more, only about two-thirds donate $10,000 or more yearly to charity. And then there is Charles Feeney, 85, of New York City, who in December made his final gift to charity ($7 million to Cornell University), completing his pledge to give away almost everything he had—$8 billion. (He left his wife and himself $2 million to live on, in their rental apartment in San Francisco.) A January New York Times profile noted that nothing is “named” for Feeney, that the gifts were mostly anonymous, and that Feeney assiduously cultivated his low profile.

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Compelling Explanations In December, James Leslie Kelly, 52, and with a 37-conviction rap sheet dating to 1985, filed a federal lawsuit in Florida claiming that his latest brush with the law was Verizon’s fault and not his. Kelly was convicted of stealing the identity of another James Kelly and taking more than $300 in Verizon services. He bases his case on the Verizon sales representative’s having spent “an hour and a half” with him—surely enough time, he says, to have figured out that he was not the James Kelly he was pretending to be. He seeks $72 million. n In Hong Kong in December, Mr. Lam Chung-kan, 37, pleaded guilty to stealing a bottle of a co-worker’s breast milk at work and drinking it—but only to help with “stress” in his job as a computer technician. Undermining the health-improvement explanation was a photo Lam sent the woman, showing himself in an aroused state.

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n A 46-year-old man was arrested in December after an evening at the Sands Casino in Bethlehem, Pa., and charged with leaving a server a non-monetary “tip”—of a Valium pill.

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A News of the Weird Classic (April 2013) College basketball player Shanteona Keys makes free throws at a 78-percent rate for her career, but on Feb. 16, 2013, she weakly shanked one of those 15-foot shots, causing it to fall about 8 feet from the rim—the worst collegiate free-throw attempt of all time, according to several sports reporters who viewed the video. Keys explained to Deadspin.com that she always brings the ball close to her face when she shoots, “and my fingernail got caught on my nose, so I couldn’t follow through correctly.” Her Georgia College (Milledgeville) team lost to rival Columbus State 70-60.

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Leading Economic Indicators The British think tank High Pay Centre reported in January that the average CEO among the U.K.’s top 100 companies (in the Financial Times Stock Exchange index) earns the equivalent of around $1,600 an hour—meaning that a 12-hour-a-day boss will earn, by midday Jan. 4, as much money as the typical worker at his firm will earn the entire year. (Around the same time, the anti-poverty organization Oxfam reported, to an astonished press, that eight men—six of them Americans, headed by Bill Gates—have the same total net worth as the 3.6 billion people who comprise the poorest half of the planet.)

The Passing Parade Woodstock, Vt., police arrested a 28-year-old man for bank robbery in January, with a key piece of evidence coming to their attention when a disapproving Vermonter noted a paper coffee cup not in its proper recycling bin. The cup held the robber’s holdup note and DNA.

Precocious In December, Ashlynd Howell, 6, of Little Rock, Ark., deftly mashed her sleeping mother’s thumbprint onto her phone to unlock the Amazon app and order $250 worth of Pokémon toys. Mom later noticed 13 email confirmations and asked Ashlynd if something was amiss. According to The Wall Street Journal report, Ashlynd said, “No, Mommy, I was shopping.”

Updates Two years ago, News of the Weird updated previous entries by noting that China’s Ministry of Culture had cracked down on the centuries-old tradition of over-the-top funerals (ceremonies to assure the family that the deceased did not die “faceless”)— by arresting the song-and-dance people (including strippers) peddling their services to mourners. Even though that ban has been working, nostalgic Chinese can still see great funeral poledancing—in Taiwan—according to a January report on the death of Chiayi county official Tung Hsiang, featuring 50 “scantily clad” entertainers. Pole-dancing is still big in China, where the national pole-dancing team recently performed its annual outdoor show, wearing shorts and halter tops, in the country’s northernmost village, Beiji—where it was negative 33 degrees Celsius.

The Litigious Society Sometime in 2006, a photographer on assignment roamed a Chipotle restaurant in Denver, snapping photos of customers. Leah Caldwell was one person photographed, but says she refused to sign the photographer’s release—and was surprised, nevertheless, to see a photo of herself in a Chipotle promotion in 2014 and again in 2015 (and on her table in the photo were “alcoholic beverages” she denied ever ordering). In January, Caldwell said the misuse of her image is Chipotle’s fault for ignoring her non-”release,” and thus that she is entitled to all of the profits Chipotle earned between 2006 and 2015: $2.237 billion.

People Different From Us “Every major event in my life has been about insects,” Aaron Rodriques, 26, told The New York Times in December, home in New York City during a winter break from his doctoral research at Purdue University on the “sweet tergal secretions” of German cockroaches, and on his way to buy a supply of crickets and hornworms. (“Hornworms,” he said, have an “amazing defense” where they “eat tobacco for the nicotine, which they exhale as a gas to scare away predators.”) “When I’m feeling stressed out,” Rodriques said, he might take one out to “calm me down.” He met his first girlfriend when she was attracted to his pet giant African millipede (as long as a human forearm), but admits that “for the vast majority” of time in school, “I was alone.”

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Ironies London’s The Guardian reported in January that dozens of people have been charged or jailed recently for defaming the new Myanmar government, which has been headed (in a prime-minister-like role) since April by Aung San Suu Kyi, who was elected after her release from house detention following two decades of persecution for criticizing the longtime military regime. For her struggle for free speech, Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Said the wife of the latest arrestee, Myo Yan Naung Thein, on trial for criminal defamation of Suu Kyi’s regime, “This is not insulting—this is just criticizing, with facts. This is freedom of speech.”

n A “disturbingly large” (according to one report) number of smartphone apps are available devoted to calculating how much the user has “earned” per day and per year during restroom breaks answering nature’s calls while at work. Australia’s News Limited’s rough calculation estimated $1,227 for someone making $55,000 a year, but results might vary since there are so many apps: Poop Salary, ToiletPay, Log-Log, Paid 2 Poo, Pricy Poop, Poop Break and perhaps others.

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Drunk cops and a game of beer pong bring police misconduct to light. By Stephen Dark sdark@cityweekly.net

ne hot night in southern Utah in July 2015, the thoughts of two off-duty Moab police officers turned to beer. Then-officer Justin Olsen became so drunk, he later told investigators, he could not remember if underage kids were drinking at a neighbor’s party he and his fellow officer crashed. He and off-duty officer Joshua A. Althoff had been partying, too, playing the classic drinking game beer pong, when they’d decided to check on what partying teenagers were doing in a neighbor’s garage. Some of the kids who were there that summer night told investigators in late spring 2016 that Olsen and Althoff joined in on a game of beer pong and were aware that some minors were drinking. But others said that only water was used for the two rounds of pong the cops played, winning two wagers and collecting $40 from the kids. Olsen claimed he could smell marijuana and, one witness told an investigator, said, “I’m OK with the alcohol but not with the pot.” Olsen entered the neighbor’s house and showed his badge. He told the boys, an investigator wrote in his report, “Just so you guys know, I am a cop, and if you have drugs, you might want to get rid of them.” Olsen and Althoff left with an eighth of an ounce of weed one of the partiers handed over to Olsen. But when the marijuana went missing and a photo began circulating of one of the officers at the party—captioned “Playing pong with cops …”—it led to a concerted push against what some Moab residents say is years of public corruption and lax law-enforcement supervision.

Cops have long been too zealous in some areas and too lenient in others, locals complain. A few months after the infamous beer pong party, another juvenile party involving alcohol and weed highlighted what Grand County attorney Andrew Fitzgerald drily calls “the unorthodox policing” by Olsen, Althoff and a third Moab officer and pal of Althoff’s, Steven Risenhoover. It was the last straw for defense attorney Happy Morgan, one of many in Moab’s legal community who was fed up with city administration and the police department for tolerating misconduct by some of their officers. She gave information from juvenile witnesses at the two parties to the FBI, Fitzgerald and Grand County Sheriff Steve White. The FBI, the State Bureau of Investigation, Peace Officer Standards and Training, the Utah County Sheriff’s Office, the Vernal Police Department, the Grand County Attorney’s Office and the Grand County Sheriff’s Office have all scrutinized the activities of individual Moab officers and their department over different periods of time since April 2016. As a result of what FBI spokesperson Sandra Barker calls its “review,” the FBI decided there weren’t federal charges, but passed along its file to the state. In August and September 2016, Fitzgerald sent three explosive letters addressed to the chief of the police department, advising that he could not use four officers— Althoff, Olsen, Risenhoover and veteran Shaun Hansen—on the stand because he did not view them as credible witnesses. Through an open-records request, City Weekly sought the officers’ discipline files, two internal affairs reports and details of work done on police employee issues by a Salt Lake City law firm that billed Moab City close to $60,000 in 2016 on cop matters. These requests were denied. Sources provided the two internal-affairs reports and copies of Fitzgerald’s letters. Fitzgerald confirmed the authenticity of his letters and the investigation documents. Since the probe began, Moab has lost a third of its police. Althoff and Olsen resigned in August, rendering the investigations into their misconduct moot and “the charges on which the disciplinary actions were based […] not sustained,” wrote City Recorder Rachel Stenta in her denial of City Weekly’s request for paperwork. Longtime Chief Mike Navarre abruptly resigned on Sept. 20, 2016. Seven days later, Risenhoover and veteran narcotics investigator Hansen were put on paid administrative leave while they were in-

vestigated. As of press time, they remain on paid leave pending the result of the investigation. Criminal cases also bit the dust. According to Moab City, at least 15 cases—all linked to the officers, excluding Hansen—have been dismissed by the city prosecutor and the county prosecutor, with multiple sources in Moab putting it as high as 40 dismissals. Officers Hansen, Olsen, Risenhoover and former Chief Navarre could not be reached for comment or declined to comment. Morgan declined to comment, citing a request by Grand County Sheriff Steve White not to talk to the media as she might be a witness in future prosecutions. Moab City also declined to comment, citing pending investigations, though interim city manager David Everitt says in a mid-December 2016 interview that Moab “was due to have a real in-depth selfevaluation around how they do business as a police department.” Fitzgerald declined to discuss specifics of the officers’ misconduct because of pending investigations. But he would talk about what he sees as a bigger issue—the city government’s tacit acceptance of law enforcement corruption, going back years. “It appeared to me the city wasn’t taking steps to address these issues. In fact, it seemed to me they put stumbling blocks in the way,” frustrations, he adds, that his office has witnessed in case work for several years. Fitzgerald’s anger rises as he talks. Members of his community, he says, “have known about some of the things that have gone on,” with regards to misbehavior by officers, “for many years before I was county attorney.” But such concerns, when raised with the city, have been “buried,” he argues. Everitt says he can’t speak to historical issues, but notes that when Fitzgerald’s letters arrived the day after Navarre retired, Mayor David Sakrison and interim Chief Steve Ross “took them seriously,” and investigations ensued. “At this point, to my knowledge, every officer that the DA and others in the community have had demonstrable issues with have either resigned or are subject to [internal-affairs] investigations.” He adds that after local and state investigations are concluded, “the city will act swiftly to adjudicate any findings.” Fitzgerald hopes that recent events in which he has played a key role will instill confidence in Moab’s residents to at least come forward with their concerns, overcoming fears that have kept many silent for some time.

A summer evening party at the Grand Oasis Mobile Home Community proved problematic for three Moab cops. While prosecutor Fitzgerald describes her as Althoff’s “girlfriend” in one of his letters to the police department, Althoff says she was his confidential informant. Bohannon says neither is correct. She and the officer had “flirted majorly, nothing more,” she says. Althoff called city prosecutor Marcus Gilson and told him Bohannon was his confidential informant and to drop the charges. Althoff says Gilson told him he would have to drop the charges against Vanzandt then, too. Both were dismissed on April 15. Gilson declined to comment for this story.

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When FBI Agent Greg Rogers came to Moab on April 12, 2016, he had a list of juvenile witnesses from the two parties to interview. The feds weren’t the only ones poking around, although the sequence of events remains murky. On April 11, according to a State Bureau of Investigation report, Navarre placed Risenhoover on paid administrative leave after he learned from the city’s HR department that the IRS had begun garnishing his wages for not paying taxes. The next day, then-Lt. Steve Ross asked the state bureau’s Maj. Brian Redd to investigate Risenhoover. The day after Rogers began knocking on doors, Lt. Ross reached out to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office to request they investigate Olsen and Althoff over the beer pong incident. Sheriff James O. Tracey authorized both an internal affairs “assist” and a criminal investigation. According to the state bureau report into Risenhoover, for approximately a decade, he was a “tax protester” who had “not filed his personal income taxes since before 2005.” In his personnel file, Moab City’s HR officer had found a document that outlined “his belief that payment of individual taxes is voluntary, and that the U.S. Government has no legal authority to collect

the truth about whether they’d been drinking and their ages, he’d let them go. He told them, he testified, “if they’re honest with me, I wasn’t going to cite them.” Cordingley, however, was arrested and charged with possession, a second-degree felony, and 14 misdemeanors relating to pot and alcohol distribution to minors. Vanzandt and Bohannon were cited for possession. Everyone else under 18 was cut loose—including three teenagers who were under the supervision of the juvenile court. When Fitzgerald first learned about the arrests, he wrote in a formal letter to Chief Ross in September 2016, he was shocked that “Officers Risenhoover, Althoff and Olsen made no arrests on any of the 12 to 18 juveniles and gathered no evidence. Some of the juveniles present at the party were on juvenile probation and juvenile probation should have been consulted.” He dismissed the charges against Cordingley after the April 5, 2016, hearing, where Olsen and Risenhoover testified. “In that hearing there were a number of anomalies that suggested not only irregularities in the case but also gave rise to question whether the officer’s testimony was truthful and whether certain facts were omitted,” Fitzgerald wrote in a separate August 2016 letter to then-Chief Navarre. Risenhoover had testified at that hearing “that he thought as an officer he had the discretion not to make arrests and take evidence,” Fitzgerald wrote in his Ross letter. “Clearly, Officer Risenhoover is wrong on this account.” It was likely, he continued, “that the information presented to the judge for his ruling [by officers testifying] could not be relied upon for its veracity and it is unlikely that Officer Risenhoover did not know of the inaccuracies and omitted facts and the improprieties of Officer Olsen and Althoff.” Bohannon was in court for the hearing and felt deeply betrayed when she learned that Althoff had informed on her party. She texted him that “he was the shittiest friend ever.” Althoff said he “didn’t want to lose me as a friend,” Bohannon says, and “he tried to fix the charges.”

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Moab attracts more than a million visitors annually, thanks to the majesty of two neighboring national parks. Old-timers recall the boom-and-bust cycles of uranium mining and John Wayne filming Westerns there, while recent arrivals talk of trying to protect the legacy of environmental activist and writer Edward Abbey. At its heart, it’s a small town, with a population of just 5,200. “Not a whole lot to do here for the youth,” says 20-year-old Tenaya Vanzandt, who grew up there. “Stay at home and be bored, or get yourself into trouble.” On Feb. 12, 2016, trouble came to the single-wide trailer she shared with her then-partner, 22-year-old Sabra Cordingley, and friend Malina Bohannon. Officer Risenhoover was finishing dinner at Denny’s on the northern outskirts of Moab with Olsen and two Grand County and San Juan sheriff deputies around 11 p.m. when he got a call from Althoff about a party at the Grand Oasis trailer park. Althoff was off-duty and wanted to remain anonymous, Olsen told a 7th District Court in Moab on April 5, 2016. “There was a lot of underage kids with weed, that’s the word I got,” Risenhoover told the Moab court that day. He said he would not have revealed that Althoff was the tipster, if Olsen hadn’t already outed him in his earlier testimony. “I’ll trust my life with him, so I’ll trust a tip,” Risenhoover said about Althoff. Althoff knew about the party because he’d picked up a friend there—19-year-old Bohannon. He’d taken Bohannon to her mother’s at Malina’s request. Unbeknownst to Althoff, she went back to the party after he dropped her off and was there when four cops surrounded the trailer. Olsen told the court, he could smell “the odor of the burnt marijuana” and alcohol, and “hear a lot of kids running inside.” Then, he continued, someone opened the door and a cloud of marijuana smoke “came out of the house.” The officers gathered the 21 people, at least 12 of whom were juveniles. A son of the San Juan deputy was found hiding in a back room. Olsen made a deal with the group. If they told him

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The entrance to Moab PD at City Hall. income taxes from its citizens,” an investigator wrote. Risenhoover was in arrears “north of 700,000,” his tax attorney told investigators, although she believed that figure was “over-inflated.” The IRS told the investigators that Risenhoover wasn’t being investigated criminally. The state bureau report shows that Risenhoover was working with the IRS to “become compliant,” and ultimately intended to “take out a personal loan to get caught up on his back taxes.” Navarre ruled his officer “exonerated”—meaning that the allegations, while true, were “lawful and reasonable”—of three policy and procedure violations the bureau had investigated.

Risenhoover emerged from the investigation unscathed, at least initially, but Althoff and Olsen were not so lucky. Investigators heard conflicting stories from underage and adult witnesses about whether the off-duty cops had drank alcohol with them or had played a version of beer pong that used water instead of beer. One witness, 17-year-old Gage Moore, agreed to be interviewed by a City Weekly reporter in the presence of his father, Mark Moore. He recalls that Olsen and Althoff knocked and came in. “They were being drunken assholes,” he says. When one of them saw a kid was filming them, they told him to put the phone away. Gage Moore recalls one saying, “We’re just here to have fun, not here to get you in trouble or us.” What did emerge was that some marijuana had been confiscated by Olsen. According to the Utah County report into the incident, the weed’s owner said that Olsen told him that “nobody was going to get in trouble for the marijuana and he wasn’t going to do a report or anything.” Olsen told investigators he gave it to Althoff, but Althoff said he never saw any pot, only a baggie with a pipe in it, which he destroyed without booking it into evidence—something he says a sergeant, whom he declines to name, taught officers as unwritten practice. Under what’s known as the Garrity warning, when cops are under investigation, they are required to be interviewed, “with the understanding that failure to answer questions, or to be untruthful could be grounds for

Moab’s sedate, sun-blessed charms bring tourists most of the year. discipline,” a state bureau investigator explained in his report on Risenhoover. Olsen told the investigators during his Garrity interview that he identified himself as a cop to the minors and advised them to get rid of any pot they had. When one handed some over, he told them, in similar fashion to what he would later do at the trailer park, “Because you’re honest, I am not going to tell your parents.” Olsen said he gave the marijuana to Althoff on the sidewalk when the latter was leaving. Because of the officers’ conflicting stories, they took polygraphs on May 25, 2016. Olsen failed the second half of the test, which related to questions about juveniles drinking, while Althoff failed all his questions. Althoff was called back in for an interview, where he told investigators, “If I made any mistakes, it would be taking the marijuana and the pipe from Officer Olsen.” He clarified his statement by adding that he only included marijuana because “everyone is telling me I did it, but it doesn’t mean I did.” The investigator concluded, “Ultimately, I have found no substantial evidence to show that Officers Althoff or Olsen contributed to the delinquency of a minor or supplied alcohol to a minor.” In bold at the end of the report, beneath several sentences about the fate of the marijuana, he wrote, “Sideline Issue of Concern Expressed to the Administration.” One criminal issue the investigators didn’t comment on was “a possible witness tampering incident” referenced by Lt. Ross in a memo at the end of the Utah County report involving Althoff and a juvenile at the party. Althoff had pulled over the youth in December 2015, and while the officer said the youth had been driving like a “jackass,” the juvenile had alleged that Althoff warned him that if he didn’t stop talking to people about the party, “things would be changing,” Moab Sgt. Craig Shumway wrote in a separate memo included in the report. The youth “basically described Althoff as saying ‘shut up or else.’” Althoff says he was denied a copy of the investigative report when he made an open-records request for it. He says both he and Olsen felt that the investigation into the “pong” party “was weird towards the second interview. They didn’t want us to be innocent.” He believes Navarre feared the Grand County Sheriff’s Office was investigating him, so he offered Althoff’s and Olsen’s

scalps instead. “I feel like Justin Olsen and I were scapegoats to deflect attention from the chief and the city manager,” he says. “The investigation was found untrue or unfounded, so they decided to write us up for policy violations.”

In the weeks after the internal-affairs investigation was concluded in July 2016, the two officers continued on patrol. Gage Moore says he was stopped by Althoff four times after he was interviewed by the FBI and subsequently for the internal-affairs investigation, an interview conducted by Utah County investigators at Moab PD. After the first time his son was pulled over, Mark Moore called a friend at the police department who told him he had warned the officers to stay away from witnesses. But the Moores say that Althoff continued to dog Gage Moore, getting “in his face” at a gas station shortly before the midnight curfew. Moore took his grievances over his son to the then-city manager, Rebecca Davidson, who, he says, “had no idea what was going on.” When Davidson learned of the harassment, she says she told staff that the next time Althoff did it, he should be arrested, particularly given that he had received a written warning to stay away from witnesses, she says. “That’s totally false,” Althoff says. They had asked to be taken off patrol during the investigation, only for that request to be denied. While they were under investigation, he and Olsen were told to have no dealings with anyone from the party, but the department would not tell them who the investigators were talking to, “so we had to go on our memory,” as to who had attended the neighboring party. When Althoff dealt with Gage Moore, he says, “I was always nice to him, I never went near him.” He says on one occasion that he pulled him over unknowingly, he called for another officer to deal with him. “They treated us worse than common criminals,” Althoff claims. “We had less rights than people actually breaking the law.” On July 22, Navarre notified both officers that they faced pre-termination hearings. Through an open-

While the four men in the crosshairs of various investigations await their outcomes, Althoff, for one, is working for both UPS and the City Market on Main Street. He’s waiting to see what will happen to his peace officer certification. Peace Officer Standards and Training has to wait for the State Bureau of Investigation to finish its investigation, so they can address whether he is fit to be a cop at another police department. However, that wait was rudely interrupted on Jan. 25, 2017, when Grand County filed a slew of charges against Althoff in both Moab justice court and Grand County district court. The two cases are not connected to the ongoing State Bureau of Investigation probe. He faces three misdemeanor counts in justice court, including threat of violence, relating to an altercation outside a bar in Moab in early August 2016, while he was still on administrative leave prior to resigning from the force. In district court, he faces six domestic violence-related

misdemeanors stemming from a late September 2016 argument with his wife, including threatening with or using a dangerous weapon in a fight and assault. Althoff declined to comment on the charges. His former friend Malina Bohannon wants to leave Moab behind, she says, perhaps travel to South America. “I want to start fresh, I want to go see big cities,” she says. Everitt acknowledges that recent events have “had a major impact on the department, and provided an opportunity to recalibrate how the department does business.” After finding the city paid their officers 20 percent less than cops in other towns, their hourly salary rate was bumped up $3 to $19.85 an hour. “I feel strongly that the personnel we have now in the police department are focused on performance, ready to move forward and recognize that it’s a different era for the Moab Police Department,” Everitt says. “The door’s open, you can go in and out there now. It’s not ‘us versus the rest of the town.’” Moab council member Rani Derasary finds optimism in how Chief Ross is working to improve the relationship between his department and the community, through initiatives such as lunching with kids or meeting community members. Her fear is that investigations “tarnish the whole department. My priorities are to have an approachable force that communicates well with the community, and that officers have what they feel they need to do the job well.” Fitzgerald hopes that the layer of unease and fear that has laid over his town for so long might start to be dissipated by the diligent work of state investigators trying to trace the fires that have caused so much smoke. “It’s unacceptable and harmful to our community that officers are behaving badly, breaking the public trust, breaking the law and harassing the public,” he says. “As long as I am around, that behavior won’t be tolerated. I hope through this process, the community feels like they can come forward with information regarding crime or bad behavior by officers and know they will be protected.”

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Whatever the extent of the power vacuum Navarre left behind, one person saw an immediate opportunity. The day after Navarre disappeared from his office, Grand County prosecutor Fitzgerald sent two letters to acting chief Ross. The first dealt with Risenhoover. It highlighted multiple issues, beginning with the investigation into his nonpayment of taxes, which “could be used to impeach Officer Risenhoover” in court. He brought up a DMV hearing where the officer told Fitzgerald’s office of his intention to bury a toxicology report that showed a defendant was negative for “intoxicating substances.” And then there was the threat Risenhoover had made regarding defense attorney Happy Morgan. He told a fireman that he was determined to see Morgan and her assistant behind bars for their role in the Althoff and Olsen investigations. It’s little wonder, Fitzgerald says, that Moab residents are reluctant to complain about law enforcement, given that even a senior attorney such as Morgan can find herself the subject of threats from an officer. “If an attorney needs to be afraid of being retaliated against, how are other citizens going to feel who are not officers of the court?” Fitzgerald asks.

In a second letter to Ross the same day, Fitzgerald focused on veteran Officer Shaun Hansen. Hansen had played a key role in a multi-agency drug task force as an undercover agent for some years, until other agencies decided they wanted out if Hansen continued as a part of it. “The reasoning behind task force member’s exclusion is not certain; however, it appears that it is an issue of trust,” Fitzgerald wrote. Similar questions hung over Hansen due to his wife’s 2012 drug possession convictions relating to forging prescriptions at work to obtain narcotics. In late 2015, she was also charged with theft. “Because Moab is a small town, it is reasonable that a jury member and other members of the community would consider Officer Hansen’s reputation to be in question due to the marital association,” Fitzgerald wrote. Fitzgerald found that Hansen, much like Risenhoover, could not be relied upon to be a credible witness, and also urged “additional inquiry” into the “reluctance of other law enforcement agencies to work” with him. Five days after the letters were dispatched, Hansen and Risenhoover were put on paid leave while Vernal Police Department conducted an internal-affairs investigation. Vernal PD did not respond to a request for comment.

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records request, City Weekly obtained two documents relating to the officers’ departures from the Moab PD. On the documents, Navarre wrote that Althoff resigned a month after the pre-termination notice “for personal reasons,” and Olsen followed suit on Aug. 30, 2016. There was no final decision by Navarre regarding the allegations of police misconduct against either man. The allegations against Olsen were not sustained, Navarre wrote, and the findings from the investigation that he “relied on” to issue his pre-termination notice, did not relate to Olsen’s “truthfulness, credibility or mishandling of evidence.” Navarre wrote that Althoff, however, “had been untruthful during his interviews with the investigator.” Because Althoff resigned, he forwent challenging allegations of “untruthfulness” that emerged from the internal-affairs investigation. “As a result, there has not been, and there will not be, any final and conclusive adjudication of those findings,” Navarre wrote. Less than a month after Althoff and Olsen left the force, Chief Navarre cleaned out his own desk. He’d announced his intention to resign in May, but his sudden departure came as a surprise to those in the department. No replacement has yet been found, though months before, Navarre stressed the need for an “exit plan” that would leave Moab “under the watchful eye of a competent new Chief of Police.” Interim City Manager Everitt wrote in an email in response to questions, that, “I understand the Chief elected to postpone his resignation for a few months, particularly given the active investigations and staff turnover happening at that time.” As to why no replacement had been found as the chief intended, Everitt wrote, “I do not know.”

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While purists on both sides of the theatrical/ pop music divide may complain about rock’s invasion of Broadway, there’s no denying the success of shows that transpose popular music onto theater stages. The Who’s Tommy, Jersey Boys, Billy Joel’s Movin’ Out and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical all have proven the viability—not to mention the incredible commercial potential—that results when music makes the crossover from the top of the charts to the front of the stage. Mamma Mia! is an ideal example of this trend, given the fact that its songs—originally penned and performed by ABBA—had already proven their worth when it came to garnering the gold. So when British playwright Catherine Johnson proposed making a musical with the group’s chief songwriters, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, they nodded approvingly, repurposed the material and sanctioned the staging and the accompanying theatrical trappings. Mining mega hits like “Dancing Queen,” “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” “Fernando,” “Take a Chance on Me” and the title track, the basis of a successful musical was already assured. Consequently, it’s little wonder that after $2 billion in worldwide proceeds and audience attendance in excess of 60 million, Mamma Mia! remains the eighth longest running show both on Broadway and on London’s West End, even as this production is advertised as its farewell tour. And let’s not forget the film version. To quote another of its signature songs, it all adds up to plenty of “Money, Money, Money.” (Lee Zimmerman) Mamma Mia! @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Feb. 2-5, showtimes vary, $71-$128, broadway-at-the-eccles.com

If Jeff Ross is the Roastmaster General, then Anthony Jeselnik is the guy who will eventually overthrow him and claim his empire. A recent Comedy Central staple, Jeselnik managed to offend everyone in his path by taking a “who cares about you” approach to his comedy. The Pittsburgh native got his start in 2003 performing around the country, then in 2009 he managed to score two major breaks: signing on as a writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and being featured in his own Comedy Central Presents special. From there, he became a Comedy Central roast regular. Top moments include bits mocking Charlie Sheen and Donald Trump, and then his own show called The Jeselnik Offensive in 2013. Over the past couple years, he’s put together some outstanding albums and specials, including Shakespeare (2010) and Caligula (2013). Last year, he released one of his best performances to date, Thoughts and Prayers, an hour-long special now available on Netflix. Jeselnik comes to town with a brand new set filled with observations about social media, death, religion and family. If you’re easily offended, this is definitely not the show for you, as he pulls no punches when speaking his mind. Not even the audience is safe, as he often pauses his shows to chat with people and incorporate them into his set. But it’s worth the risk of becoming a punch line during what might be one of the best shows to come through Wiseguys this year. (Gavin Sheehan) Anthony Jeselnik @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-523-5233, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 3-4, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $35, wiseguyscomedy.com

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Ririe Woodbury’s Winter Season rounds up an eclectic bunch of performances from choreographers of different modern dance eras and world stages, with the potential for an unforgettable show from beginning to end. Looking to “investigate humanity’s fascination with the physical world,” Winter Season takes a local perspective with the world premiere Snowmelt by Ririe-Woodbury artistic director Daniel Charon, then looks afar with Super WE (2013) a duet co-created by Bulgarian-born choreographer Tzveta Kassabova and the young, up-and-coming American choreographer Raja Feather Kelly. Physalia, however, takes us to the sea. This piece has been in the RWDC repertoire since it was originally choreographed in 1977 for the company by Alison Chase and Moses Pendelton, founders of the world-famous, gravity-defying dance company Pilobolus. The title is Latin nomenclature for the deadly but beautiful Atlantic Portuguese man o’ war, a reference to the dance’s unusual movement style which juxtaposes watery grace with the absurd movements that might come from a sea creature moving on dry land. Jumping forward to a modern aesthetic, Cuban-born RWDC alumnus Miguel Azcue’s You and the Space Between uses the technology of live video feed to take dance into a sort of fourth dimension. As the dancers move about while lying on the floor, the audience is also privy to a bird’s-eye view of the movement via overhead camera. One finds that the eye is drawn more to the dancers’ image on the screen than the bodies on the floor. A commentary on our addiction to screens? Perhaps. (Katherine Pioli) Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.: Winter Season @ Capitol Theater, 50 W. 200 South, 801355-2787, Feb 3-4, 7:30 p.m.; Feb 4 matinee, 2 p.m., $15-$40, arttix.artsaltlake.org

It can be easy to feel fatigue at the very mention of superheroes, when every week seems to bring another gritty, dark movie costumed character. But The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World—the Marvel novel by local authors Shannon and Dean Hale—bucks this trend. The King’s English is celebrating the launch of the first novel about Squirrel Girl, in which readers can expect a fun respite from the grimness of cinematic superheroes. Shannon Hale says she hopes the novel brings silliness and fun to teenagers’ reading, and that its heroine can be a role model for kids, regardless of gender. “Books are really a place where girls are given a chance to shine. I hope this is a book that boys are allowed to read, too,” she says. “Sometimes parents shame boys away from reading books about girls. I think that’s a real disservice to boys.” Created in 1991 as a lighthearted superhero story, Squirrel Girl has all the powers her name implies. She can speak to the squirrels and has their proportional strength, speed and agility. While she’s typically depicted as a college student, this novel takes readers to her teen years. “I think it can be a hard age to live, and books mean so much to kids that age. I know for me they did,” Hale says. Note: Only those who purchase The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl through King’s English will have a place in the signing line. Books can be pre-ordered online or by phone. Callers must specify they’re attending and want their copy personalized. (Kylee Ehmann) Shannon and Dean Hale: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Feb. 7, 7 p.m., free, kingsenglish.com

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n a time where progressives rage against an American system seemingly out of control, it’s hard to know how to live. Author Mark Sundeen has found himself uniquely fascinated with people who decide to live as far outside that system as possible. In his 2012 book The Man Who Quit Money, Sundeen told the story of Daniel Suelo, who decided to step completely outside of the economy and live by foraging, bartering and living in the caves of southern Utah. His latest book, The Unsettlers, is an attempt to show that such bold decisions don’t have to be limited to people living a solitary existence, and can include being part of a family. And in all these cases, the pull was following people living their principles to the fullest. “I guess I’ve had this feeling of powerlessness,” Sundeen says in a phone interview, “because I feel like I’m totally dependent on the industries that are destroying our way of life and our planet, specifically food, fuel and finance. So with that sense of being stuck in a cycle … I went out to find people who had done something to excise themselves from this global economy.” In The Unsettlers, he explores three primary case studies in such dramatic independent living. Ethan Hughes and Sarah Wilcox formed The Possibility Alliance, a sustainable community near La Plata, Mo., where they live with their children. Olivia Hubert and Greg Willerer founded an urban farm called Brother Nature in the “food desert” of Detroit, Mich. Luci Brieger and Steve Elliott have spent nearly 40 years farming and raising a family in Montana, mostly consuming only what they produce. They weren’t the kind of subjects he initially planned to investigate, however. “I went out expecting to write a book mostly about people who were off the grid. I was expecting to write about mountain men, maybe that old Vietnam vet who lives in a cabin,” Sundeen says. “I came to see that that is no longer in itself an act of dissent. You have people living in total comfort, because of technology, with their satellite modem, solar panels, and not only that, but they’re still totally tied into the global economy through commuting or through telecommuting. I came to the conclusion

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that the off-grid commuter is just a suburbanite with a longer driveway. And I became more interested in people who were trying to create alternative systems and economies.” The Unsettlers’ subjects also challenge simple binary notions of how such “backto-the-landers” must think politically. Sundeen describes most of them as having “a strong libertarian streak, in that they’re very mistrustful of government.” They interact happily and respectfully with neighbors who might have very different political views, and the feeling generally appears to be mutual—a unique example in a world where polarized politics are assumed to be the norm. “I listen to a lot of Rush Limbaugh and Christian conservative radio when I’m driving around, and they’re always saying that liberals are hypocrites,” Sundeen says. “And to a certain extent, that’s very true: ‘I’m opposed to oil and gas, but I’m going to spend all my day on my computer, using fossil fuels to power my computer, so I can grandstand on social media.’ So I do think that conservatives can and will respect the people in my book, because they walk the talk. “I was interested by the fact that some of the things [my subjects] complained about … are the same thing Trump voters were saying: that elites are just consumers, and they don’t understand how things are produced. And as a result they seem kind of feckless and spoiled.” But even within the pages of The Unsettlers, Sundeen is careful to address the reality that most people won’t live in such an extreme way, and that it’s not necessarily about suggesting his subjects are role models. “With these three couples, they love the work; they’re not wearing

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a hair shirt and being martyrs,” he says. “They are pursuing their dream. It just so happens that their dream is so unlike the rest of our dreams.” The key, Sundeen suggests, is for people not to follow the “reality-TV bad example” of making a dramatic but cosmetic lifestyle shift, like moving into a tiny house. He describes the changes required as more spiritual and ethical, addressing where our food comes from and where our money goes, and the consequences of those choices. The result could be not a sense of obligation, but a desire to live a different way. “If I was going to put this into one sentence, what people need to do is follow their heart and find what’s meaningful,” Sundeen says. “Because I feel that so much of our waste in society is a result of people doing work that they dislike for most of their waking hours, so they need this material reward. When you find meaningful work, I feel like a lot of those other needs fall away.” CW

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Chi Ho Han in Concert Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 West 300 South, 801-355-2787, Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Utah Symphony: Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 Browning Center for the Performing Arts, 3950 W. Campus Drive, Ogden, 801-626-7000, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m., symphonyballet.org

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Our Story Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Raymonda Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, Ste. 106, 801-581-7100, Feb. 2-4, times vary, dance.utah.edu Utah Ballet II: Classic/Contemporary Mix Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, University of Utah, 801-581-7100, Feb. 2-4, tickets.utah.edu Winter Season Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Feb. 3-4, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 4 matinee, 2 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 20)

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Mamma Mia! Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801355-2787, Feb. 2-5, times vary, artsaltlake.org (see p. 20) 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 Mary Poppins de Jong Concert Hall, Brigham Young University, Campus & Heritage Drive, Provo, 801-422-2981, through Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m., arts.byu.edu/event The Nerd Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley, 801-984-9000, MondaySaturday, times vary, through Feb. 4, hct.org Oliver! Heritage Center Theater, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, 435-865-2896, through Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 4 matinee, 2 p.m., heritagectr.org 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, 855-911-2787, through Feb. 4, Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., theziegfeldtheater.com

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Utah Symphony: Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-3552787, Feb. 3-4, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Anthony Jeselnik Wiseguys, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Feb. 2-4, times vary, wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 20) Brad Bonar Wiseguys, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, Feb. 3-4, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Free Kittens: A Stand Up Comedy Show The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-746-0557, Feb. 3, 7 p.m., theurbanloungeslccom 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 Laughing Stock Improv The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Salt Lake City, 801-355-4628, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., laughingstock.us 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 Quick Wits Comedy 695 W. Center St., Midvale, 801-824-0523, Saturdays, 10 p.m., qwcomedy.com Random Tangent Comedy Improv Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, 801572-4144, Saturdays, 10 p.m., drapertheatre.org Rob Van Dam’s “The Whole FN Comedy Tour” with Tom Garland & Matt Light Club X, 445 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-935-4267, Feb. 2, 8 p.m., $20-$50, clubxslc.com Sasquatch Cowboy The Comedy Loft, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 435-327-8273, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m., ogdencomedyloft.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Mark Sundeen: The Unsettlers The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100, Feb. 2, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com (see p. 22) Fran Lebowitz Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114, Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m., ecclescenter.org

UPCOMING EVENTS

Nora & Lisa Ericson: Dill & Bizzy: Opposite Day The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Feb. 4, 11 a.m., kingsenglish.com Lisa McMann: Dragon Captives The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100, Feb. 6, 6-7:30 p.m., kingsenglish.com Shannon & Dean Hale: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-484-9100, Feb. 7, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com (see p. 20)

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

TALKS & LECTURES

Barry Scheck: Human Values & The Innocence Project S. J. Quinney College of Law, 332 S. 1400 East, Feb. 8, 7 p.m., thc.utah.edu

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

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 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, through Feb. 11, artatthemain.com 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, through Feb. 11, artatthemain.com

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801-585-0556, through Feb. 26, redbuttegarden.org Lindsay Daniels: Nepal Rises Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East, 801-594-8640, through March 18, slcpl.org Micheal Jensen: Where Is My Mind Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-594-8680, through March 3, Monday-Saturday, slcpl.org/events Nocona Burgess: The Legendary Plains Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801355-3383, through Feb. 11, modernwestfineart.com Only God Can Judge Me Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Projects Gallery, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, Feb. 3-March 18; opening reception Feb. 3, 7-9 p.m., utahmoca.org (see p. 23) Resiliency: SLC Ronald McDonald House Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, Ste. 125, 801328-0703, through Feb. 10, accessart.org Rona Pondick & Robert Feintuch: Heads, hands, feet; sleeping, holding, dreaming, dying Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, reception Feb. 3, 7-9 p.m.; exhibit Feb. 3-July 15, utahmoca.org Thirty-Three: Celebrating 33 Years of the Independent Spirit & Sundance Film Festival Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435649-8882, through Feb. 12, kimballartcenter.org Vatsala Soni Ranjan: Spirit Animals DayRiverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, 801-5948632, reception Feb. 6, 2 p.m.; exhibit through Feb. 24, slcpl.org/events Wayne L. Geary: Topographies Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Feb. 24, slcpl.org/events

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Check out delectable eats and drinks on Harvey Milk Blvd. BY TED SCHEFFLER tscheffler@cityweekly.net @critic1

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hen Creedence Clearwater Revival sang “Early in the evening, just about supper time …” about the jovial spot “Down on the Corner,” perhaps they foretold what would decades later take place at the corner of Harvey Milk Boulevard (900 South) and 200 West in Salt Lake City. Its new retail development is a delicious pleasure zone that hosts the recently relocated Meditrina Small Plates & Wine Bar, along with Laziz Kitchen, Sage Market and Water Witch bar. There’s more fun and flavor packed into about a half-block than you’ll find in many entire towns. Judging from the bustling scene—even on a damp and dreary Tuesday night— owner/chef Jen Gilroy’s decision to move Meditrina was a smart one. I like the more contemporary art-filled décor at Meditrina 2.0, which still retains the warm vibe of the original location. Service is as stellar as it is friendly, and the Gilroy team’s cuisine always hits the right notes. It’s a bit counterintuitive, but the small plates menu somehow lends itself better to sharing than larger typical restaurant entrées. Maybe that’s partly because diners can afford to explore an array of different dishes and flavors instead of just locking into one apiece. For as little as $3 or $4, guests can share dishes like the vegan and usually gluten-free house pickles; chilled prawns with kimchi cocktail sauce; warm brown butter cucumbers with toasted sunflower seeds; and addictive spiced nuts. Nibble on those noshes while you peruse the beer and wine selection, with many of the wines available in 2- and 5-ounce pours, or by the bottle. Alma Negra Sparkling Malbec Rosé from Argentina was an interesting find, as was one of my favorite pinot grigios: Redentore, from Italy. And Meditrina’s signature sangria is always a festive and versatile beverage. I could eat a couple dozen of Gilroy’s deep-fried falafel nuggets ($6); the tzatziki spiked with Frank’s Red Hot sauce gives it a Southern slant. The “chef’s whimsy” bruschetta ($9) is always a good call, too. Mine was a trio of nicely grilled and charred baguette slices topped with eggplant, goat cheese, tomato and crispy fried shallot slivers. My favorite hot dishes included melt-inthe-mouth Snake River Farms Wagyu steak

frites ($14). The boneless steak is rubbed with juniper and coffee before being cooked to perfection, sliced and served with delicately flavored roasted garlic beurre blanc. Gilroy’s shrimp and grits ($12) is always a crowd-pleaser, and we also loved the housemade sundried tomato- and ricotta-stuffed ravioli, which came topped with roasted pine nuts, mushrooms and diced tomato, all nestled upon basil-arugula pesto and heavenly tomato brown butter ($12). Before or after dining at Meditrina, I’d urge you to visit Water Witch next door for adult libations. The 21-and-over establishment is the creation of what many, including me, consider to be three of the most talented and friendly barmen in the Beehive: Scott Gardner, Sean Neves and Matt Pfohl. Water Witch’s logo is, not surprisingly, a divining rod known as a water witch, but also refers to a type of sailing vessel, of which there is a large painting on the bar’s back wall. Witchcraft indeed seems to be afoot, insofar as the libations here are nothing if not magical. Rather than have an extensive craft or signature cocktail menu, the mixologists here tend to create custom drinks for their clients. “Whaddya like?” Gardner asked during my visit. “Gin? Rum? Mezcal?” When I mentioned I’m a rum lover, he mixed me a killer daquiri; and for a friend, he concocted an amazing gin and mezcal cocktail. It’s truly a “have it your way” speakeasy, where one-off beverages are invented and enjoyed, perhaps never to be made or tasted again. That’s one of the draws of this witchy tavern. Another is the size. It’s diminutive and friendly, with no more than a few seats at the bar, and a single row of tables; 25 people would be a crowd. And there’s nothing foo-foo about this place. To wit, some cocktails are served in laboratory-style beakers. There’s a turntable where Neves (or whoever happens to be working that night) spins vinyl, no TVs (yay) and a small but appealing bar menu. Bar tapas include deathly delectable lardo with sea salt and Basque pickled chile peppers called piparras ($5); pork rillette with crostini,

Lardo on crostini at Water Witch with Scott Gardner cornichons and mustard ($6); sardines ($8); Beltex Meats’ nduja ($3); and cockles in brine ($10). Each time I visit Water Witch, I learn something new. The staff’s encyclopedic knowledge of all things drink is daunting. When I mention that one of my favorite rums is Flor de Caña from Nicaragua, Gardner pours me a splash of Wray & Nephew “Overproof” white rum from Kingston, Jamaica, and then what is now my favorite rum on the planet: Plantation Pineapple rum. It turns out to have been a tribute to Charles Dickens’ Reverend Stiggins, whose favorite drink was pineapple rum. Next to Water Witch is the new Jade Market, where you can stock up on local craft brews, coffee, kitchen and home essentials, and artisan goods such as Salsa del Diablo’s chips and salsas, Amour Spreads jams and imported pastas. Now, if you’re wondering why I didn’t devote space here to the aforementioned Laziz Kitchen, be patient. During a recent lunch of top-notch Mediterranean fare there, I was thrilled to learn that the restaurant will soon launch dinner service, so stay tuned. CW

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Each Wine Wednesday at Stanza Italian Bistro & Wine Bar (454 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-746-4441, stanzaslc.com), wine educator and sommelier Jimmy Santangelo hosts Flight & Bite, a formerly monthly event that was so popular it’s now gone weekly. The informal soirée runs 5-7 p.m. on Wednesdays, and includes two two-and-a-half-ounce splashes of wine paired with two “bites” of Stanza’s cuisine, all specially selected by Santangelo. Many of the wine selections are special orders that aren’t otherwise available in the state. “With over 30 wines available by the glass of mostly Italian selections, this is a great way for our diners to be a little adventurous and to try some of these amazing wines we are special ordering,” Santangelo writes in an email. Reservations are recommended.

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Made on a Gallo-Roman site near Gigondas, you might mistake this Côtesdu-Rhône for its more pricey Gigondas big brother. It’s an intense, but early drinking wine and the 2015 vintage is superb— easily the best since 2010. I’m also a fan of the Viognier- and Ma rsa nne-based white wine of Côtesdu-Rhône. Saint Cosme Côtes-duRhône Blanc 2015 ($21.50) is a blend of 30 percent each viognier, marsanne and picpoul de pinet, plus 10 percent clairette. The hot summer of this vintage provided a technical challenge to the winemakers, who needed to considerably hasten their harvest. You’ll enjoy the pineapple and stone fruit aromas and flavors

in this yummy blanc. Les Dauphins Côtes-du-Rhône Reserve Rouge 2015 ($12.99), a well-structured blend of classic Rhône varietals—grenache, syrah and mourvèdre—is a deep, intense red poured into the glass. The wine quickly offers up ripe fruits on the nose, with hints of spice. On the palate, earthy cherry and black currant flavors mingle along with spicy pepper notes. Soft tannins and well-balanced acidity make this an easydrinking, very enjoyable and economical choice for winter meals. It’s perfect paired with steak au poivre. Delas Saint-Esprit Côtes-du-Rhône 2015 ($12.98) is a bit unusual for a Côtesdu-Rhône, as it’s composed of 75 percent syrah and 25 percent grenache, not the more typical “GSM” blend of grenache, syrah and mourvèdre. I think that the large percentage of syrah gives this wine a little more complexity, more delicate tannins and a rounder palate than predominantly grenache-based Côtes-du-Rhône. Mocha and plum are the main flavors here, with a bit of green pepper on the finish. E. Guigal Côtes-du-Rhône Rosé 2015 ($16.99) is a 60/30/10 percent blend of grenache, cinsault and syrah that is a lovely Rhône-style pink wine. It’s blended from cuvées of several top growers throughout the Rhône Valley, and shows hints of raspberry, strawberry and gooseberry, along with a strong mineral backbone. CW

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he Rhône Valley in southeast France is a source of high quality, and often relatively inexpensive wines. It’s made up of two parts—southern and northern—and the wines from each are quite different. Syrah tends to dominate the northern Rhône, while in the south you’ll find more blended wines made from grapes like mourvèdre and grenache. Red wines account of most of the valley’s production, but very good whites and rosés also come from the area. The most well-known wine from the south is Châteauneuf-du-Pape, while the north is particularly known for Hermitage and Côte-Rôtie. For my money, the red and white wines of the southern Rhône appellation called

Côtes-du-Rhône are terrific “workhorse” wines of great value. It’s easy to find good Côtes-du-Rhône for well under $20. Sure, I’d rather drink Rhône wines like Condrieu and Gigondas, but they are beyond my daily budget. Most come from vineyards in the southern Rhône, and they are staples in French cafés and bistros. Very different from the north, and separated by about an hour drive, the southern Rhône is Provençal, with a Mediterranean-like climate. Vineyards tend to be sun-drenched—except during the cold, windy snaps called le mistral—and surrounded by fields of lavender and olive orchards. The terroir there is unique, too; some vineyards are devoid of dirt, with vines growing in gravel, clay, stones and limestone. It’s a rough winegrowing area that produces what have traditionally been seen as rough wines, not known for their subtlety. But, in recent years, that has changed, and Côtes-du-Rhône wines are increasingly harmonious and well-balanced, if not exactly elegant. Here are a few of my favorite Côtesdu-Rhône bottles—ones that are pleasing both to the palate and the pocketbook. Saint Cosme Côtes-du-Rhône Rouge 2015 ($15.99) is produced with grapes grown on vines that average 60 years old. In this case, syrah from two difference vineyards— one owned by the Cosme winemaker’s childhood friend and the other by his cousins.

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Fratelli’s has been the winner of the Best Italian category several times over in City Weekly’s annual Best of Utah issue, and there’s little doubt why: Owners Pete and Dave Cannella created a menu traditional to homeland Italy, preach and practice the use of fresh ingredients and treat everyone who walks through the door like family. The Italian fare boasts an expansive list of pizzas, pastas and salads, as well as a beer and wine list. Save some room for the delectable tiramisu. 9236 S. Village Shop Drive, Sandy, 801-495-4550, FratelliUtah.com

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With ovens firing until 2 a.m. Sunday-Thursday and 3 a.m. on weekends, there’s little surprise that the downtown Pie Hole is busiest after midnight—what sounds better than a hot, cheesy pizza waiting for you after a night out? Order it by the slice or get a whole pie (there’s even a vegan option), and satisfy those late-night hunger pangs. 344 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-3594653, pieholeutah.com

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With an experienced staff of cooks and courteous service, Paris Bistro gives its dining guests an experience much like you’d find on the Champs-Élysées. The filet mignon with squash blossoms and zucchini gratin is superb, and the lemongrass crème brûlée will satisfy even the most picky of palates. An extensive wine list perfectly complements the exquisite cuisine. 1500 S. 1500 East, Salt Lake City, 801-486-5585, theparis.net

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The owners of Red Iguana—the Cardenas family—have been in the restaurant business for more than 50 years. Following humble beginnings (the first iteration opened with a dining area that could seat just 18 guests), the restaurant has since grown a national following for serving some of the finest Mexican fare in America—it’s been featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, The New York Times and countless pictures and signatures of celebrities adorn its colorful walls. For authentic Mexican fare, turn to dishes like Red Iguana’s signature cochinita pibil, papadzules and puntas de filete a la Norteña (sirloin with bacon). Multiple Locations, RedIguana.com

Takashi

Not only is it the best Japanese in Utah, it might very well be the best sushi and Japanese on this side of the Mississippi. Takashi Gibo’s eclectic and ever-changing list of sushi rolls and dishes traditional to his native homeland makes one wonder if sushi is appropriate for all three meals of the day. For the mild palate, try the crunch ebi roll with shrimp tempura, and for the venturesome, order a round of citrusy mussel shooters with a quail egg yolk. There’s no such thing as a bad meal at Takashi. 18 W. Market St., Salt Lake City, 801-519-9595

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The centerpiece of this Park City restaurant’s kitchen—which can be viewed by guests via dining room-long insulated windows—is an extraordinarily expensive Grillworks Infierno 154. The multi-station wood-burning grill allows Firewood’s cooks to use different woods and various temperatures best suited to the foods being prepared. A sextet of grilled oysters—topped with spinach pesto, wood-roasted bacon, beet-pickled shallot slices and finely shredded Parmigiano-Reggiano—were soft, silky and scrumptious and far from overcooked. Likewise, a shareable starter of grilled pork belly with honey-wine apple vinegar and red pear/frisée salad was oh-so tender, juicy and flavorful. The lightly browned, organic, airline-style chicken was plump and juicy, served on a plate of garlic-thyme-butter jus with puréed sweet potatoes, slightly charred Brussels sprouts and sprinkled with pomegranate seeds. A beautifully crusted Arctiac char fillet rested on thick fire-roasted clam, cabbage and bacon sauce, adorned with gremolata and broccolini. As with pretty much everything else, the desserts seem to punch above their weight class; pastry chef Aimee Altizer’s simple-but-stupendous wood-roasted apple with winter-spice mulled fruit, housemade almond gelato and Slide Ridge honeycomb was remarkable. Reviewed Jan. 26. 306 Main, Park City, 435-252-9900, firewoodonmain.com

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Trumpdance

Outside events cast a long shadow over the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

efore the 2017 Sundance Film Festival kicked off on Jan. 19, a colleague joked on Twitter that the inauguration of Donald Trump—which occurred on the fest’s first full day—would frame every wrap-up piece. In hindsight, it’s hard to imagine he’ll be proven wrong. The beginning of the Trump era cast a long shadow over the festival, in ways large and small. A march denouncing the new administration—headlined by celebrities including Chelsea Handler and Charlize Theron—took over Park City’s Main Street on Saturday, part of a series of nationwide protests. The feature documentary Trumped: Inside the Greatest Political Upset of All Time was a late addition to the programming, and several other documentary features—including An Inconvenient Sequel, Quest, Dina and Nobody Speak— seemed to have been edited at the 11th hour in order to include Trump’s ascendance. People might have gone to a remote ski town to celebrate the art of film, but they weren’t going to escape the outside world. When attendees finally made their way into theaters—a challenge nearly all week, as a series of storms pounded Park City with several inches of snow—they saw films that often explored the volatility and uncertainty of that outside world. Possible misconduct by law enforcement was explored from two perspectives: the Ferguson, Mo., protests of Whose Streets? and the attempts to reform the embattled

Oakland, Calif., police department in The Force. Other documentaries focused on environmental crises, from An Inconvenient Sequel to Chasing Coral. Popular uprisings even made their way into feature films like the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Prize winner The Nile Hilton Incident, which effectively set a film noir mystery of institutional corruption against the backdrop of Egypt’s 2011 Tahrir Square protests. And, as often happens with Sundance films, they also offered a window into parts of the outside world you might never have known existed. Did you know that the reindeer-herding nomadic Sami people were an oppressed minority in Sweden? You’d learn a lot about them in Sami Blood, Amanda Kernell’s fascinating, heartbreaking drama about a Sami girl desperately trying to integrate herself into the mainstream of her society. What about the phenomenon of Japanese “idols”—mostly teen internet celebritiescum-would-be-pop-stars—and their largely male, considerably older fanbase? Director Kyoko Miyake provided a wonderful insight into that world in Tokyo Idols, while also offering perspective on a larger Japanese culture perversely obsessed with youthful female innocence. Or perhaps it never occurred to you what unique relationship challenges might face two people in love who happen to have Asperger’s Syndrome, as we found in the sensitive, surprising U.S. Documentary Grand Prize winner Dina. It was also inevitable—as is ever the case in a movie showcase that coincidentally overlaps with the announcement of the Academy Awards nominations—that people would wonder if they might discover the next Manchester By the Sea, a 2016 Sundance premiere that went on to be an Oscars front-runner. Among the likelier prospects was Mudbound, director Dee Rees adaptation of Hillary Jordan’s novel that crafted an uncomfortably relevant story about the post-World War II friendship between two ex-GIs—one black (Jason Mitchell) and one white (Garrett Hedlund)—returning to

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Protest sign on the stage at the Jan. 21 Women’s March on Park City’s Main Street; A Ghost Story segregated 1945 Mississippi. Better still was yet another literary adaptation—director Luca Guadagnino’s version of André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name—which combined a coming-of-age narrative with a beautifully sensitive romance between a 17-year-old boy (sensational newcomer Timothée Chalamet) and his academic father’s summer research assistant (Armie Hammer), and gave Michael Stuhlbarg a lump-in-the-throat “fatherly wisdom” speech for the ages. Every year, though, Sundance’s greatest appeal is the chance to discover a new filmmaker with that special something. Maggie Betts made the transition from documentary to drama with the uniquely challenging “Catholic nuns in the 1960s” tale Novitiate. Writer/director Cory Finley walked the razor’s edge of social satire in Thoroughbred, a dark comedy about a rich girl (Anya Taylor-Joy), her sociopathic best friend (Olivia Cooke) and thoughts of murder. Then there was the small miracle of Columbus, the feature debut of film critic Kogonada, who turned the unique modernist architecture mecca of Columbus, Ind., into the backdrop for an unexpected friendship, featuring a stunning performance by Haley Lu Richardson and a breathtaking master class in shot composition. The festival’s single grandest achievement, however, came from a Sundance alumnus: David Lowery, who reunited his Ain’t Them Bodies Saints stars Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara for the haunting, jaw-droppingly profound meditation on mortality and attachment A Ghost Story. Perhaps there was something particularly fitting, during a festival marked by anxiety about the future, for its one true masterpiece to be about how this, like all things, shall pass. CW

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NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. THE COMEDIAN B.5 If you want to respect how hard it is to be a stand-up comedian, observe how hard it is for movies to create fictionalized versions of stand-up comedians that aren’t clearly awful at it. Four writers contributed to the tale of Jackie Burke (Robert De Niro), once the star of a beloved sitcom, now having as much trouble sustaining his career—made up of small-time club gigs and nostalgia conventions—as his relationships. If that sounds a lot like the premise of BoJack Horseman, that’s because it is—only without BoJack’s pathos and wit. The story gives Jackie a friendship with a messed-up woman (Leslie Mann, bringing a spiky energy this movie doesn’t deserve) and dwells on Jackie’s collision with new media models he doesn’t understand, like humiliating reality shows and viral videos. But mostly, it’s just excruciatingly unfunny whenever Jackie has the microphone doing his “outrageous” insult-comedy shtick—which, sadly, is a significant chunk of the running time. We know that the journey is toward Jackie making peace with where his life has taken him; it’s hard to make peace with how dreary the audience’s journey is toward that same point. Opens Feb. 3 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Scott Renshaw

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JULIETA BB.5 It wasn’t until the closing credits of Pedro Almodóvar’s feature that I realized it was adapted from Alice Munro short stories— and suddenly my frustration made a lot more sense. He begins with an intriguing set-up: Middle-aged Julieta (Emma Suárez) is preparing to move from Madrid with her boyfriend, when a chance encounter on the street leads her to re-examine her relationship with her estranged daughter, as it unfolds in flashback (with Adriana Ugarte as the younger Julieta). The mysteries of Julieta’s various relationships become the meat of the narrative, with Almodóvar providing his singular visual flair; the shot in which

RINGS [not yet reviewed] The terrifying video-transmitted curse gets a YouTube-era update. Opens Feb. 3 at theaters valleywide. (R) THE SPACE BETWEEN US [not yet reviewed] A boy born and raised during a space mission (Asa Butterfield) gets his first experience of Earth—and love. Opens Feb. 3 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS THE LOVING STORY At Main Library, Feb. 7, 7 p.m. (NR) PATTON At Main Library, Feb. 8, 2 p.m. (NR) THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH At Edison Street Events, Feb. 2-3, 7:30 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES GOLD BB.5 If you kinda liked The Big Short and The Wolf of Wall Street, but found them a bit pretentious with their “satire” and “relevance,”

here’s a movie for you. Based on a true story, it stars Matthew McConaughey as fictionalized precious metals speculator Kenny Wells in full gimme-an-Oscar mode—sweaty and faux bald, showing off the weight he gained in comic scenes of near nudity. Wells latches on to a geologist (Edgar Ramírez) and his awesome intuition about where gold might be found in a remote Indonesian valley, but this is no treasure-hunt adventure. We’re meant to identify with Wells’ refusal to bow down to corporate Big Boys, and his tenacity in sticking with his “dream.” But in spite of McConaughey’s entertaining gusto for the character, Wells isn’t very interesting. He might be bursting with purpose, but the movie isn’t. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson

RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER BB The evil Umbrella Corporation has yet another viral plan for the end of the world—and this time, they really mean it. Mostly, anyway. The last few series installments have risen beyond guilty pleasure status, smuggling in some surprisingly formalist themes among all of the explosions and CGI skin-eating. This supposed concluding chapter, however, unfortunately seems impatient, jettisoning most of the inventiveness in favor of revisiting the same old zombie-clogged corridors. Even director Paul W.S. Anderson’s reputation as one of the few filmmakers to really use 3D effectively is stymied by a newly rapid editing style. On a basic genre level, this still mostly works, mainly thanks to Milla Jovovich, who has few peers when it comes to nonchalantly wiping out an entire fleet of ghouls. Fans of the franchise, however, might want to consider watching the previous one again. (R)—Andrew Wright

SPLIT BB.5 The legacy of “The Twist” continues to follow M. Night Shyamalan, ignoring the reality that he’s always a better director than he is a writer. He begins with a premise that sets off “problematic” alarms: A man with dissociative identity disorder (James McAvoy) abducts three teens (Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson and Jessica Sula) for a mysterious but clearly dark purpose. McAvoy dives into his multiple-personalities role with relish, and Shyamalan is aces at the kind of tense, cross-cutting climax that has him weaving between four or five different locations. The story, sadly, tries to build a tragic backstory for Taylor-Joy’s character, and every attempt at creating wellrounded characters falls flat. Shyamalan would do well to trust his skills behind the camera, and not try to overthink a boogabooga genre piece about a guy with multiple personalities. (PG-13)—SR

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Suárez takes the character back from Ugarte is a deliciously ingenious transition. But while the performances and musical score build the sense that this is a vintage Almodóvar psychodrama—a Patricia Highsmith reference feels all-too-clear a nudge—the direction of the source material feels profoundly out of step with the director’s style. Do the expectations built by an auteur’s work affect the experience as a new one unfolds? Perhaps so. But it’s jarring to watch a director seemingly steer a story into something it isn’t. Opens Feb. 3 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR

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Series Debut: Sitcoms like NBC’s The Carmichael Show and CBS’ Mom have shown that it’s possible for smart comedy, serious issues and … ugh … laugh tracks to coexist. But why, why, WHY?! Same goes for Roman numerals and the Super Bowl; it’s 2017, start using ’Merican numbers before I tweet at Uncle Cheeto to sign an executive order (and you know he’d do it). Anyway: Superior Donuts centers around a crusty old doughnut shop owner (Judd Hirsch) in a gentrifying Chicago neighborhood who begrudgingly hires an ambitious Millennial (Jermaine Fowler) to update his business. Hot-button issues like race, guns and cronuts are tackled between punchlines, but Superior Donuts tries a little too hard to be Important Commentary (it is based on a play, after all). Just lean into the funny, and maybe I’ll forgive the laugh track. Maybe.

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Series Debut: Netflix’s slow reveal of just what is the diet of Santa Clarita was a shrewd move, teasing with an appealingodd actor combo (Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant) and vague hints at suburban shenanigans for almost a year. The plot-bomb finally dropped a few weeks ago: SoCal realtor couple Sheila (Barrymore) and Joel’s (Olyphant) deadly dull lives are upended when Sheila contracts a mild case of zombieism and a hunger for human flesh. Thing is, she’s never felt better, and life is a whole new, if murder-y, adventure for the couple. Santa Clarita Diet contains traces of Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Weeds and iZombie (no Walking Dead, fortunately), but remains its own unique, bizarro thing. Most surprisingly, drama vet Olyphant consistently upstages Barrymore, letting his comedic freak flag fly like a loose-limbed maniac.

APB Monday, Feb. 6 (Fox)

Series Debut: Even with 45 cop shows currently set there, Chicago is still a crime-ridden hellscape—will APB finally clean up this town? Probably not, but it’ll at least kill an hour after 24: Legacy for a few weeks. Much like—OK, exactly like—CBS’ now-canceled Pure Genius, ABP finds a tech billionaire (Justin Kirk) buying a failing enterprise (a Chicago police precinct instead of Pure Genius’ hospital)

Series Debut: It’s an X-Men TV series—but not. Legion, based on the Marvel comics, follows David Haller (Dan Stevens), who was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a child and has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for decades. When a disturbing encounter with new patient Syd (Rachel Keller) explodes his mind-numbed world, David realizes that his inner voices and visions are real. Like creator Noah Hawley’s previous FX hit, Fargo, Legion looks and feels outside of its defined time, more of an inward psychological trip than a blockbuster Marvel flick. Not that there isn’t action and comic relief (like Aubrey Plaza as David’s perkily unhinged hospital pal), but don’t expect Wolverine. Listen to Frost Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell, and on the TV Tan podcast via Stitcher, iTunes, Google Play and billfrost.tv.

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Series Debut: Rebooted before it even premiered: Powerless, which exists somewhere within the DC Comics universe, was originally a deadpan workplace comedy à la The Office, about an insurance firm that handled cases of civilians affected by superhero-vs.-supervillain battles—real catastrophic damage. Now, it’s about Wayne Security (as in, Bruce Wayne and Wayne Enterprises), a company specializing in tactical-tech personal-protection devices for non-super humans. It’s a faster-paced, colorful upgrade that the cast (Vanessa Hudgens, Alan Tudyk, Danny Pudi, Ron Funches and Christina Kirk) delivers hysterically—when the material’s there. Unfortunately, Powerless’ writing isn’t as consistent as that of recent NBC comedy breakouts Superstore and The Good Place, so it’ll have to be carried by its stars for now.

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Eric Johnson electric thing, I’m sure. It’s a change.” Not as much of a change, though, as Johnson playing piano instead. In addition to the songs off EJ, which includes a stellar instrumental reading of Simon & Garfunkel’s hit “Mrs. Robinson,” concertgoers can hear Johnson explore the acoustic energies within songs from his back catalog. The setlist includes acoustic reworkings of tracks that date back to Ah Via Musicom, and even one from his 1986 album Tones and another from his 1978 debut, Seven Worlds. “I actually have more songs than I can do each night,” he says. While Johnson hasn’t forsaken his electric guitar, he’s energized by the experimentation, and considering working some acoustic material into his future electric, full-band sets. What’s more, he says fans can expect more unplugged action on subsequent recordings. For that matter, they’ll hear more on this tour: He says his current set even includes some as-yet-unrecorded songs. “I have a bunch of stuff written for a Volume 2 already.” CW

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Live looper Simply B rediscovers band life with SuperBubble. BY RANDY HARWARD rharward@cityweekly.net

usicians’ practice spaces can be messy. So when you walk into one—especially one inhabited by a guy who goes by “B”—you’re not prepared for a harmonious collision of obsessivecompulsiveness and feng shui. The hardwood floors are clean, and the furniture, instruments, cases and peripherals are precisely arranged. Someone’s proverbial stuff is together. It’d have to be, for a guy like B—which stands for Brandon, Barker and Bob. (“My middle name is Robert,” the bespectacled ginge says.) He’s a Captain’s Platter guy with an insatiable appetite for everything from funk to hip-hop to rock to singersongwriters to soul to jazz. And one diversely influenced, versatile man can’t sound like a band without organizational skills. Playing just one instrument takes focus. B prefers the beefy low tones that, in tandem with drums, anchor music’s engine. His weapon of choice, natch, is the bass, but he wields a variety of axes: guitar, harmonica, drums and a banana-shaped shaker all at the same time. OK, not exactly. B uses a looping station at his feet to record a part on one instrument, set it to repeat, then put down the instrument, pick up another and play along to the track he just recorded while recording yet another track, then grab another instrument—and so on. He’s doing it in his living room, playing and singing like it’s a show, feeling the funk, tapping pedals, tweaking knobs on his mixer, shooting wordless queries as to whether I’m getting good photos. The song ends, and I ask him to dink around for a sec so I can try to nail a shot. “I can’t fake it,” he says, jumping into another grooving, percolating tune. We live in the future, ramping up to when Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive comes true and humans get destroyed by the Internet of Things—so looping isn’t arcane witchery. We’ve watched Keller Williams

Brandon “B” Barker of SuperBubble

(one of B’s big influences) and Reggie Watts do it for more than a decade. Now even cheesy pop dudes like Ed Sheeran are into it. The technology isn’t as impressive as keeping so many balls in the air while making music that’s more than ambience. B caught the live looping bug years ago at a Williams gig. “We were all waiting for the show to start,” he says, finishing lunch in his kitchen. Everyone was standing around, when they sensed something different about the pre-show stopgap music coming over the PA. “It was Keller,” he says. Williams had been behind the stacks of speakers, playing along, setting up a surprise entrance. B realized he could book more shows and make more money as a solo act. He bought the looping station and, billing himself as Simply B for his fun, funky stuff and B & Company for his singer-songwriter side (he calls them “my sad songs”), he recorded and released piles of music—and gigged like crazy. “I probably played 130 shows last year,” he says, “and 100 the year before.” But he found it hard to get main-stage slots at certain festivals like the Ogden Equinox, where he says they told him, “the main stage is for bands.” It was easy to pull together a sextet from his group of friends, including guitarists Rob Drayna and Max Webb, keyboard player Tim Ouburg, drummer Wyatt Richards and percussionist Dan Muir. B announced the new project with a one-line online news item: “A new funk band has emerged called SuperBubble.” They’ve been gigging for months, and start their first recording this March. It’s thrilling, B says, to be able to step back and “lock in” with his band and watch them flex their musical muscles. He’s missed that interplay. Does he need another project, though? Considering how much he does all by himself, it’s not a problem. Besides, he says, “All that’s on my schedule is music.” CW

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They say there’s no such thing as overnight success. However, Jake Shimabukuro proves the exception. Despite his modest following in Japan, the 40-year-old ukulele virtuoso was virtually unknown to the rest of the world until a YouTube clip of him performing the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” garnered 12 million views and suddenly made him an internet sensation, as well as an international star. “It singlehandedly changed my life,” the affable fourthgeneration Hawaiian of Japanese descent told me in a 2016 interview. “It started a touring career that’s taken me all over the world. Even today, people come up to me and tell me they saw that YouTube clip. I feel very lucky.” Luck? Yet with all the accolades from fans and fellow musicians, along with comparisons to Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis due to his imagination and ingenuity, it’s clearly talent, not luck, that made the difference. Ten years after his viral outbreak, Shimabukuro is making waves with his own compositions, as well as his ace covers of Adele, Queen and Leonard Cohen tunes. (Lee Zimmerman) Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 7:30 p.m., $20, egyptiantheaterogden.com

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If you’re in a local band and get David J— that David J, the goth rock legend who cofounded Bauhaus and Love & Rockets—to produce and play on your record, and tap your band to open his SLC shows, you’re doing something right. Or you have money. Or both. Since Forgotten Stars is full of super

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At 26, Lydia Loveless is already that rare combination—an artist who reveres tradition while conveying her own singular insurgent sound, a seamless blend of roots, country, pop and punk. That’s not surprising, considering the diverse group of musicians she cites as prime influences— Loretta Lynn, Stevie Nicks, Hank 3 and The Replacements among them. Loveless not only is uncompromising but feisty, and ever since signing to the upstart Americana label Bloodshot, she’s had the artistic freedom to make music that delivers on her own terms. Consequently, her songs are flush with fits and fury, emotion and outrage, all conveyed in ways that eschew pomp and pretense. Her latest album, Real, sums things up succinctly. “Who are you, really, at the end of the day?” Loveless says on her website. “Real is my sort of love letter to that realization—that my existence was just as valid as any other.” Opening band Slim Cessna’s Auto Club—are equally adept at defying description, even as they strive for Americana authenticity. Theirs is goth-like noir that’s rugged, robust, reverent and irreverent all at the same time. Angelica Garcia opens. (LZ) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $15 in advance, $17 day of show, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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Ladies, you won’t want to miss Pepper this month at The Complex. As easy on the eyes as the ears, these Hawaiian gentlemen play a spicy kinda dub rock. Hot lyrics, smooth vocals and solid but unobtrusive reggaethemed instrumentation create a smooth backdrop for straight-up tropical bliss that always scratches the itch. But in case that’s not your jam, the second band has the rest of your bases covered. Less Than Jake, out of Gainesville, Fla., remain actively writing and touring after 20 lively years of blending the shades of genre between ska-punk and punk-metal. For this prolific quintet, every new album is an exploration in style, but their recent partnership with Pure Noise Records yielded Sound the Alarm, and the newly released single “Whatever the Weather” suggests they’ve come full circle, joining their recent success in pop punk with their classic ska brass. Joining them are Kash’d Out and Red City Radio. (Lyndi Perry) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 6:30 p.m. (doors), $24, thecomplexslc.com

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With spacious arrangements, jangly, reverbdrenched lead guitars and soulful, passionate female vocals, Seratones is doing something right on the debut album, Get Gone (Fat Possum). Bordering on familiar rock tropes but never falling into a generic sound, it’s no wonder these Shreveport, La., rockers are gaining international attention, even following their U.S. tour dates with stops through France and Germany. Having captured the ears of major media outlets (Rolling Stone, NPR Music, The New York Times) for their creative mix of gospel sounds, garage punk and Southern rock, Seratones are poised to explode. This could be your last chance to see them at a venue as intimate as Kilby Court. Known for hot riffs and dynamic live performances, Orem’s Queenadilla is the perfect opening act. (LP) Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, 7 p.m., $12, kilbycourt.com

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) In the documentary movie Catfish, the directors, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, present a metaphor drawn from the fishing industry. They say that Asian suppliers used to put live codfish in tanks and send them to overseas markets. It was only upon arrival that the fish would be processed into food. But there was a problem: Because the cod were so sluggish during the long trips, their meat was mushy and tasteless. The solution? Add catfish to the tanks. That energized the cod and ultimately made them more flavorful. Moral of the story, according to Joost and Schulman: Like the cod, humans need catfish-like companions to stimulate them and keep them sharp. Do you have enough influences like that in your life, Leo? Now is a good PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) In Shakespeare’s play MacBeth, three witches brew up a spell in a time to make sure you do. cauldron. Among the ingredients they throw in there is the “eye of newt.” Many modern people assume this refers to the optical VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) organ of a salamander, but it doesn’t. It’s actually an archaic term for The city of Boston allows an arts organization called Mass Poetry to “mustard seed.” When I told my Piscean friend John about this, he stencil poems on sidewalks. The legal graffiti is done with a special said, “Damn! Now I know why Jessica didn’t fall in love with me.” He paint that remains invisible until it gets wet. So if you’re a pedestrian was making a joke about how the love spell he’d tried hadn’t worked. trudging through the streets as it starts to rain, you may suddenly Let’s use this as a teaching story, Pisces. Could it be that one of your behold, emerging from the blank grey concrete, Langston Hughes’ efforts failed because it lacked some of the correct ingredients? poem “Still Here” or Fred Marchant’s “Pear Tree In Flower.” I Did you perhaps have a misunderstanding about the elements you foresee a metaphorically similar development in your life, Virgo: a needed for a successful outcome? if so, correct your approach and pleasant and educational surprise arising unexpectedly out of the vacant blahs. try again. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Who would have guessed that Aquarian Charles Darwin, the pioneering theorist of evolution, had a playful streak? Once he placed a male flower’s pollen under a glass along with an unfertilized female flower to see if anything interesting would happen. “That’s a fool’s experiment,” he confessed to a colleague. “But I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.” Now would be an excellent time for you to consider trying some fools’ experiments of your own, Aquarius. I bet at least one of them will turn out to be both fun and productive.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) When he was in the rock band Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh took his time composing and recording new music. From 1978 to 1984, he and his collaborators averaged one album per year. But when Mothersbaugh started writing soundtracks for the weekly TV show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, his process went into overdrive. He typically wrote an entire show’s worth of music each Wednesday and recorded it each Thursday. I suspect you have that level of creative verve right now, Libra. Use it wisely! If you’re not an artist, channel it into the area of your life that most needs to be refreshed or reinvented.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Many vintage American songs remain available today because of the pioneering musicologist, John Lomax. In the first half of the 20th century, he traveled widely to track down and record obscure cowboy ballads, folk songs and traditional African American tunes. “Home on the Range” was a prime example of his many discoveries. He learned that song, often referred to as “the anthem of the American West,” from a black saloonkeeper in Texas. I suggest we make Lomax a role model for you Scorpios during the coming weeks. It’s an excellent time to preserve and protect the parts of your past that are worth taking with you GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Here are your five words of power for the next two weeks, Gemini. into the future. 1. Unscramble. Invoke this verb with regal confidence as you banish chaos and restore order. 2. Purify. Be inspired to cleanse your SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) motivations and clarify your intentions. 3. Reach. Act as if you have The mountain won’t come to you. It will not acquire the supera mandate to stretch out, expand and extend yourself to arrive in natural power to drag itself over to where you are, bend its the right place. 4. Rollick. Chant this magic word as you activate craggy peak down to your level and give you a free ride as it your drive to be lively, carefree and frolicsome. 5. Blithe. Don’t take returns to its erect position. So what will you do? Moan and wail in frustration? Retreat into a knot of helpless indignation and anything too personally, too seriously, or too literally. sadness? Please don’t. Instead, stop hoping for the mountain to do the impossible. Set off on a journey to the remote, majestic CANCER (June 21-July 22) The 17th-century German alchemist Hennig Brand collected pinnacle with a fierce song in your determined heart. Pace 1,500 gallons of urine from beer-drinkers, then cooked and yourself. Doggedly master the art of slow, incremental magic. re-cooked it till it achieved the “consistency of honey.” Why? He thought his experiment would eventually yield large quantities CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) of gold. It didn’t, of course. But along the way, he accidentally Who can run faster, a person or a horse? There’s evidence that produced a substance of great value: phosphorus. It was the first under certain circumstances, a human can prevail. In June of time anyone had created a pure form of it. So in a sense, Brand every year since 1980, the Man Versus Horse Marathon has “discovered” it. Today phosphorus is widely used in fertil- taken place in the Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells. The route izers, water treatment, steel production, detergents and food of the race weaves 22 miles through marsh, bogs and hills. On processing. I bring this to your attention, my fellow Cancerian, two occasions, a human has outpaced all the horses. According because I suspect you will soon have a metaphorically similar to my astrological analysis, you Capricorns will have that level of experience. Your attempt to create a beneficial new asset will animalistic power during the coming weeks. It may not take the not generate exactly what you wanted, but will nevertheless form of foot speed, but it will be available as stamina, energy, vitality and instinctual savvy. yield a useful result. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The coming weeks will be an excellent time to ask for favors. I think you will be exceptionally adept at seeking out people who can actually help you. Furthermore, those from whom you request help will be more receptive than usual. Finally, your timing is likely to be close to impeccable. Here’s a tip to aid your efforts: A new study suggests that people are more inclined to be agreeable to your appeals if you address their right ears rather than their left ears. (More info: tinyurl.com/intherightear)

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If, like me, you’ve driven to Wendover more times than you can count, you’re probably familiar with that odd concrete “Tree of Utah” sculpture about 25 miles east. I remember when it was first built in 1986 and the conversations I had about it with my environmentalist friend Terry Tempest Williams. She was completely appalled that some non-resident felt that our fabulously unique and beautiful Salt Flats were so ugly that they needed a piece of art to beautif y the land. I had to agree with her. Our desert of salt out there is desolate, deceptive, divine and stunning, and every time I drive by, I just want to spit on that scultpure. I’m an artist and an art patron myself, but I’ve never agreed that scarring our natural vista with one man’s idea of improvement is worthy to our rare and unusual landscapes. Yet, I’m conf licted because the Spiral Jetty and the Sun Tunnels are of the same ilk and I love both of those additions. Karl Momen, the artist of the tree, donated the sculpture to Utah when he was finished and has wanted for the last several years to build a museum and “interpretive center” around the area of the art. To do this, a freeway off-ramp would have to be built along with the public building. Cost estimates are up to $6 million at this point, and the money is to be raised by a newly formed Tree of Utah nonprofit organization. You can’t really park along I-80 because it’s illegal to park on a freeway (although countless motorists have risked a ticket pulling over to photograph the thing over the years). Momen wants to design the new addition to tell the story of the sculpture and serve as a site for arts festivals and different exhibits. Momen is an acclaimed international artist originally born in Iran but lives in Sweden and carries dual citizenship with that country and the United States. In his early years, he became famous for painting portraits of Stalin and the Shah of Iran but then went and studied with the surrealist painter Max Ernst and studied architecture in Germany. His 10-painting suite on the operas of Richard Wagner will soon become a permanent feature of a new wing at the Seattle Nordic Heritage Museum. He says he was moved to build the tree by the “vastness and relative emptiness” of the Bonneville Salt Flats, and that the tree “brings space, nature, myth and technology together.”n

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