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Cover story, March 23, “Set in Stone” Let me see if I can get this straight. Salt Lake County wants to force one elderly man with dementia to pay for a contractor’s malfeasance … but keeps another one on the payroll and pays the other elderly man with dementia a six-figure annual salary?

DOMINIQUE STORNI

Hard to have a voice when eight out of nine [legislators] are Mormon, and you know who is telling them what to vote for. I’m in favor of taxing the LDS church, since they want to be so involved in politics for this state. They preach free-will while stuffing their beliefs down our throats.

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Via cityweekly.net Great investigative article by Dylan Woolf Harris. I hope Ms. Tiffany Janzen doesn’t have to sell her house. Please crowd-fund.

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But don’t you dare take away their Prozac and Xanax.

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Dang! They’re so ignorant.

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This will be a disaster.

News, March 23, “Life Elevated”

This article is a joke. Just because you have the loudest opinion doesn’t mean you have the only opinion. Take the lesson from the presidential election and realize this. If this bill or bills like it have not passed for however many years, then there must be another problem with it. Call your legislators and tell them what you want, and then go vote. It’s simple.

ALEX WILLIAMS

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But sugar is totally A-OK! LOL.

ASHLEY KIJOWSKI Via Facebook Bad move for Utah.

LISA A MILLER Via Facebook

Does he realize it will affect tourism? Does he? It will!

Via Facebook And what lesson might that be? That we can get a racist, misogynist, fascist demagogue even though 3 million more people voted for his opposition?

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Opinion, March 23, “The Kids Are Alt-Right” Hate is never innocuous.

News, March 23, “Utah and Booze: A complicated relationship”

Give the Utah Legislature a bit (sip?) of credit for putting Amendment XXI, repealing prohibition, over the top on Dec. 5, 1933.

WILLIAM VOGEL, Salt Lake City

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Homelessness affects you, too

Like most Salt Lake County citizens, I’ve been listening closely over the past several months as the matter of how to best manage the issues related to homelessness in

our community continue to unfold. I share some of the same concerns that have been voiced by my neighbors and friends—such as safety, drug use, crime, loitering, panhandling, wandering, hygiene issues, waste management, property devaluation, costs of services and overall stress on the community infrastructure. I understand. I worry. I wonder how it is all supposed to work, as we all do. I believe that it is natural to have reservations and questions about things, and to seek answers about how any decisions and changes will affect our families and neighborhoods. It is also a natural that there will be multiple opinions and ideas about what is best. And, by that same token, it is vital that communication is and continues to be open and ongoing. It is also important to remember that the communication we share should be, by our very best efforts, productive and aimed at reaching the most workable solution. It is so disheartening to watch the members of my community be torn apart by name calling, blaming, finger pointing, belittling, wall building and deteriorating the strengths and integrity that can keep us together. It is heartbreaking to think that so many of my friends and neighbors view the problem of homelessness as one that doesn’t affect them. … I heard one guy at a community meeting say, “We don’t want Salt Lake County pushing their problems on us.” We really have separated the issue of homelessness as something that is meant to be dealt with, and remain, downtown. We want to turn a blind eye, keeping the ugly parts of homelessness hidden from the view of our schools, yards, churches, parks, malls, arenas, freeways and sidewalks, as if the homeless shelter is its own little city,

reserved for losers, addicts and failures. Ultimately, regardless of the reasons that drive individuals to homelessness, the right thing to do is to be a part of facilitating a solution. Making the right decisions about locations, policies and procedures is difficult. It’s part of what comes with being a good citizen, though. Acknowledging the issues, having the tough discussions and staring down the ugliness right in the face until we reach a workable solution is necessary. It’s our job. We don’t get to hide. We can’t play favorites or be unfair. The burdens are all of ours to bear. Not just poor cities, or rich people, or neighborhoods without kids, or blocks with no businesses, or streets with no fancy malls or stores, or places no one has to see. There’s definitely much to consider, but while I share the same concerns, fears and reservations, I know that homelessness is a community issue. It affects all of us, whether we can see it or not. And the best, most workable, positive solutions will be found when we are willing to come together for a cause, and do what is right, not just what is comfortable.

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OPINION Panhandling

To give or not to give? That is the question I confronted in my 20s while living in Africa. I eventually decided I would not give money to panhandlers. It was not an easy decision, and I concede it favored no one’s interests but my own. In the city where I lived, I had frequent encounters with beggars huddled on the sidewalks looking more like bundles of rags than human beings. They did not hold cardboard signs. Instead, they thrust their disfigurements at passersby—a foot engorged with elephantiasis; arms raw with leprotic sores; hopelessly twisted legs—and always a plaintive plea for money. As an American, rich as royalty by African standards, I found the desolate appeals irresistible. But I soon learned that placing a coin in an upturned palm brought a scrum of street boys on the run, clamoring for money. More than once, a policeman waded into the chaotic scene, dispersing the ragged kids with kicks. I soon learned the word giss. Spoken as a command, giss translated roughly as “get the hell away and leave me alone.” It was used on dogs and street kids alike. A friend of mine, an American pediatrician, volunteered in the city’s flyblown hospital wards a few hours each week. He noticed that when a baby was born with a disfiguring birth defect, the parents would often refuse corrective surgery because a crippled child could make money begging. He worked at early interventions to give the babies a chance for a normal life. I remember a trip we made together into the thick of it. We stopped at a settlement where our Land Rovers were immediately surrounded by curious villagers. We opened the doors and mingled with the crowd. Whereupon the disabled were led out, their imploring hands extended toward us. At one point, feeling the press of people at my back, I turned and looked directly into a pair of eyes as white and vacant as a marble statue’s. The blind man’s

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escort smiled expectantly as he pointed to the sightless eyes. For a strapping guy in his prime—a product of an insular, Mormon-tinged upbringing—I was unprepared for the heart-rending sights common in developing nations. There were no panhandlers in Salt Lake City in those days. Maybe in New York or Boston or San Francisco, but not in Utah’s capital. I might have encountered a guy talking loudly to himself on Main Street, but I was never confronted by someone pleading for money. My inexperience—call it innocence—made it easier to give money to remote beggars than to withhold it. Giving was consonant with a sense of moral obligation I felt to alleviate suffering where I could. Opportunity abounded in Africa for a guy with a moral impulse and money in his pocket. But my handouts usually brought a commotion, not a sense of satisfaction. I often felt like a Pied Piper leading a clamorous gang of urchins along the sidewalk calling, “Gimme money!” So, I stopped giving. Withholding change was expedient. I could walk around the city without interference. It took a while to adjust. I had to suppress any moral concern, and I had to learn to walk deliberately, turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to the beggars at my feet. Declining to give handouts is a practice that has gained widespread acceptance in the ensuing years. Locally, the received wisdom is to ignore panhandlers on the street but donate to the organizations that provide services to them. My guess is that most people are religious about ignoring panhandlers but less religious about writing checks to organizations like The Road Home. Pope Francis is critical of such a practice because it shifts the responsibility to help from one person to another. Instead, he advocates giving money to panhandlers

face-to-face. In an article published by the Catholic News Service in February, he said, “It is always right” to give money to those in need. Moreover, “The way one reaches out to the person asking for help is important and must be done by looking them in the eyes and touching their hands.” The pope also addressed the oftexpressed concern that panhandlers use the money to buy beer. Said the pope: If a beer is the only happiness he has in life, then that’s OK. Turning the tables, he continued, “Ask yourself, what do you do on the sly? What happiness do you seek in secret?” Utah’s homeless problem was center stage in the recently concluded legislative session. But our hypervigilant legislators also passed House Bill 161. In brief, it prohibits panhandling at freeway off-ramps and on roads with a posted speed limit of 35 mph or greater. The bill, co-sponsored by Rep. Steven Eliason, R-Sandy, and Curtis S. Bramble, R-Provo, was promoted as a “pedestrian safety” law. Does that seem as disingenuous to you as it does to me? Isn’t it more likely a measure intended to get the homeless out of sight and out of mind? I don’t recall an instance of a panhandler being run down by a motorist, but as a frequent walker on Salt Lake City’s streets, I could provide concerned legislators with a list of real pedestrian-safety issues. HB161 was signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert on March 17. To give or not to give? The pope has annulled the question. Instead, the only query for each of us is, how best to give? My treatment of African beggars was demeaning, and my interactions with Salt Lake City panhandlers have fallen short of the pope’s standards of human dignity. I intend to do better. CW

GIVING WAS CONSONANT WITH A SENSE OF MORAL OBLIGATION I FELT TO ALLEVIATE SUFFERING WHERE I COULD.

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Is it better to give $ to panhandlers, or support them in a different way? John Saltas: With lots of familiar homeless or panhandler faces on Main Street, it’s a hard call every day. Sometimes a hello or nice word is all one can give. I often give food, but some folks don’t like that.

Nicole Enright: Well, it depends on your motive for giving them money. If you want to REALLY help them though, you should give money to The Road Home or similar charities. That will give them real help.

Jeremiah Smith: I think it depends on the situation. I don’t usually have change so I try and help out how I can.

David Miller: This is a hard one for me. I would like to always assume the best in people; going through life being suspicious of everyone is not a way to live. On the other hand, no one likes to get tricked, especially when you were trying to do something sincere. So I guess my answer is a very confident “I don’t know.”

Andrea Harvey: I think it’s better to give to charities. But I sympathize with some panhandlers—no one deserves to be hungry. I’ll usually help if they’re nice.

Josh Scheuerman: My policy is to never give money to panhandlers, but rather coffee and pastries. A hot cup of coffee is my equivalent to the multitude of fish that Christ gave out to the poor. Mikey Saltas: My rule of thumb is to give food to panhandlers and give money to support programs.

Randy Harward: On my way out of the office one day, I gave a guy a doughnut and a bottle of High Point IPA. That got a better reaction than any time I gave pocket change or spare singles. But I don’t always carry beer and treats, so … I don’t know.

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Nick Frederick is executive director of the Salt Lake County Democratic Party. He moved to Utah in 2015 from Washington, D.C., where he worked for Sen. Tim Kaine—who, he laments, did not become vice president. Nick was a field organizer in Virginia during Kaine’s Senate campaign. Before that, he was an international baseball player and coach in Europe and Australia.

How does a baseball player get into politics?

After playing baseball at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., I went to Belgium to coach younger teammates while I played A-team ball. Then I went to Australia to play there for a while. But I wanted to help people. My mom had worked for the Department of Commerce. At night, we talked about how really complex the economy was and about people who understood what the fixes were. These people weren’t political who worked in government. I was impressed by that. My goal became to get good people into office. I liked working for Senator Kaine when constituents with problems called who didn’t get their Social Security checks, or couldn’t get veteran benefits. Making people’s lives easier was the best part of the job. That’s what most people want—to make their lives a bit easier. In the Senate, I met people who had different views, but they wanted to help the country just as much as I do. We disagreed on how to do it, but we agreed on a lot more. People are generally good.

How did you transition from D.C. to SLC?

I came out to visit my sister and really liked it here. I moved here to ski, looked for a job and found the opening for executive director of the Salt Lake County Democratic Party. When I said I was going to Utah to work in politics, I was told, ‘You’ll be the only Democrat.’ I found so many Dems, I got optimistic. Then election season came and reminded me that this still is a Republican state. Salt Lake County is more Democratic and candidates like Ben McAdams win, but the rest of the state is hard for someone from Virginia.

How do you spend your personal time?

Eat, snowboard, run, hike and read about sports. The conversation about sports has gotten very intelligent in the last few years and there are a lot of parallels between sports and politics. You have to get past a really bad news cycle and keep your eye on what’s really important, like winning that championship or winning that election. Not every blown game is the end of the world, or the end of the campaign.

Do you see any hope for Democrats in Utah?

I don’t think we give the Republicans enough credit. But we can get a bunch of people elected to city councils and to the state Senate from different districts and rebuild the political infrastructure. You need patience to not get discouraged. Pushing forward is important.

Are you here for the long term or do you have other plans?

Silly me! I got into a relationship and she got a job in Denver. I will be moving there this summer. I would like to come back to Salt Lake at some point. It’s a great city and a great community. I don’t know where you can have access to so many educational, recreational and job opportunities, and the great cultural life.

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

An SLC Problem

A recent poll from The Salt Lake Tribune and Hinckley Institute of Politics revealed the not-so-surprising fact that most Utah voters don’t know any homeless people. Meanwhile, that “compassionate conservatism” Utahns love to proclaim has been sadly missing from the legislative-driven frenzy to site homeless shelters. NIMBY is alive and well as Draper, South Salt Lake, Sugar House, et al., reject the notion of living near the homeless. Indeed, The Road Home has become a hell-hole for that population. Anyone who follows realtor and columnist Babs De Lay knows the downside—drugs, filth, starvation, crime. And yet she persists. Not so for the residents of Draper who saw fit to boo a homeless man who called for compassion and patience. Their signs blared that homelessness is a Salt Lake City problem, and they rejected the proposed Draper site.

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We know that money talks. And so, when police run into dead ends, they or the victims’ families often turn to monetary rewards for information. It seemed to work in the Elizabeth Smart case. Eight people split a $250,000 reward for helping find her. The reward for information about the torture of Sage the cat is at $61,850 as of March 23, and the case competes with Smart’s in exposure. People Magazine and the New York Daily News are among those spotlighting the crime. But lawyers.com, a network of U.S. attorneys, cautions that fear often keeps people from reporting. On the plus side, those rewards led to the capture of the Unabomber. But someone has to snitch on Sage’s abuser.

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Not everyone reacts negatively to the homeless. Katie Lewis-Kooring struck up a friendship with a homeless man named Ben at Sugar House Coffee. “I realized he was funny, sweet and smart and eventually we sought each other’s company,” she says. You might have seen Ben around the Sugarhood. He sells hand-carved walking sticks. “He’s always willing to listen to people, and people deliberately seek him out and unload on him.” LewisKooring and her friend Cameron Williams noticed Ben was having trouble with his eyes. They arranged for him to visit an optometrist who diagnosed cataracts. They were unsuccessful seeking help from the Department of Veterans Affairs (his records were lost), and were considering a Kickstarter campaign when an eye surgeon offered her services free of charge. Ben now has sight in both eyes—because someone was not afraid.

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BY CECIL ADAMS SLUG SIGNORINO

STRAIGHT DOPE Roll the Credits Not so many years ago, when you went to the movies, the opening credits just concluded with “produced by,” then “directed by.” Now, you’ll see three or four different company logos, two or three executive producers, a batch of regular producers and maybe even some co-executive producers or co-producers. What do they all do? —Craig Blouin Owing to some very well-documented envelope trouble, this year’s Academy Awards telecast ended with an unusually large throng of humans onstage. But even a glitchfree Oscars now closes with a sizable gaggle of some of the least recognizable people in the room—the producers—trooping up the aisle to receive the biggest award of the night. You’re right, of course: Production credits on a typical film have ballooned in the past quarter century, as filmmaking has gotten ever pricier. Between 1994 and 2013, according to film-industry data analyst Stephen Follows, the average number of producers per movie climbed from 5.8 to 10.1—though the 2013 figure was surely skewed by Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which made movie-biz headlines with its whopping 41 producers. But who exactly are all these cooks stirring the broth we gulp down at the multiplex each summer? Let’s start with that barrage of preliminary logos. The first belongs to the distributor who got the film into theaters. Next comes the production company, the entity that sees to it that a film gets made— or, quite possibly, a series of production companies, listed in order of size or degree of involvement in the project. Among the smaller fish might be one of the many boutique agencies formed by top actors or directors, who seek scripts that interest them and then market the projects to larger companies or studios. Following these corporate names come those of the individual producers, in all their glorious variety. That stock mental image you have of an old-school movie executive—colossal desk, cigar, multiple phone lines? That was supposed to be a producer, the figure who essentially runs the whole production. (Here, at least, the title makes sense.) The producer (no modifiers, just plain “producer”) disburses money, supervises the artistic calls (which might include hiring a director and securing a script), and has ultimate control over the day-to-day administrative operations that go into making a movie. Theoretically, the producer also has final say over what we see on the screen, to many a director’s chagrin. But, again, today a film rarely has just one producer, meaning these responsibilities must somehow get divvied up; feel free to picture whatever behindthe-scenes Hollywood carnage you like. The producers have someone impatiently peering over their shoulders, too. The executive producer supervises their work on behalf of the folks ponying up funds for the film, which could mean a studio, a production company, independent financiers of

various sorts, or some combination. Someone with this title might also be the person who secured the rights to a film’s underlying source material. In TV, confusingly, “executive producer” often designates an auteur type—someone who created or scripted a series. But in film it’s mainly about keeping the machine running smoothly and thus protecting investor cash. Financing a modern big-budget picture requires multiple revenue sources, though, and investors love public recognition. That, my child, is where co-executive producers come from. They might poke their noses in periodically to see how their money’s being spent, or maybe they just want to see their names up there at the premiere. These folks are not to be confused with co-producers, who do take an active role in the production. A co-producer is in many cases the screenwriter, or at the very least someone who played a significant role in revising the script. While many of these titles are doled out at the whim of the film’s powers that be, some have been defined by professional filmmaking organizations. The Writers Guild of America, for instance, makes the call about who can be billed as co-producer. And after struggling for years to set criteria for earning a producer credit, in 2012 the Producers Guild of America convinced most major industry players to accept the idea of a “producer’s mark.” Anyone who wants the lower-case letters “p.g.a.” after their name in the credits must, in fact, handle production duties as spelled out by the guild: They have to play a role in script selection and casting, and spend significant time on set. The big push to establish this mark began after Shakespeare in Love won Best Picture in 1995 and five whole people showed up onstage to collect their trophies—a skeleton crew by today’s standards. You don’t need the PGA’s nod to produce a film; the carrot the guild dangles in front of producers and studios, though, is that you can’t qualify for the major awards, including the Best Picture Oscar, without their stamp of approval. Sometimes, of course, that’s not much leverage. Last October, studio head Dana Brunetti complained on Facebook that he’d been denied a producer’s mark for his role in making the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker. Which might be smart, but let’s face it: He wasn’t exactly bound for the Dolby Theatre stage anyway. n

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Eight Utah “state works of art” that deserve as much designation as the Spiral Jetty:

8. Lucky 13’s “Big Benny” burger, if size is a qualifier.

“Utah’s Only Legitimate Pyramid Scheme.”

“Dr. Seuss’ Strap-On.”

5. Vernal’s Dinosaur Garden, featuring historical creatures nearly 6,000 years old.

4. The Heavy Metal Shop

hoodie, which represents Utah around the world more ubiquitously than LDS missionaries.

2. The Coachman’s Dinner & 1. Epic Brewing’s Spiral Jetty IPA, duh.

Everyone seems to be channeling the Founding Fathers these days. Why not find out what they really thought in a discussion with author Stephen F. Knott at “Washington, Hamilton and the American Presidency.” His book explores the friendship between George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, two men of vastly different backgrounds. Knott attributes the ratification of the Constitution partly to the professional, enduring friendship between these two key players, and speaks to how Hamilton was the focus of attacks because Washington, as president, was pretty untouchable. Weber State University, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Hurst Center Dumke Legacy Hall, 801-626-6252, Thursday, April 13 (RSVP by Friday, April 7), noon-1:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/2ojUInF

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If you “believe” in climate change—unlike the new head of the EPA—you need to collaborate with other science-minded people. Plan to attend Path to Positive Utah’s Water and Climate Forum, with presentations and small group discussions about these critical environmental issues. Salt Lake City Public Safety Building, Community Room, 475 S. 300 East, Tuesday, April 25 (RSVP by Monday, April 10), 10 a.m.-noon, free, bit.ly/2oHoFtT

3. The Beaver Taco road sign in

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6. The Tree of Utah, aka

Get your facts to fight the fake news fervor that’s taken over the country. You need that ammo, as a large percentage of Americans hold tight to misguided views fueled by “alternative facts.” In a recent survey on news consumption, Pew Research Center found that 59 percent of U.S. adults just want the facts—no interpretation. They also found that not everyone can agree which facts are true. And, of course, that’s what helped propel @realDonaldTrump into office. You can learn more at the panel discussion “Facts, Fake News and a Post-Truth America,” moderated by KRCL RadioActive Host and Executive Producer Lara Jones with local experts including City Weekly’s own Enrique Limón, George Pyle of The Salt Lake Tribune, Joel Campbell from BYU and Allison Pond of Deseret News. Salt Lake City Public Library, Marmalade Branch, 280 W. 500 North, 801-363-1818, April 11, 7 p.m., free, bit.ly/2opLray

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A River Runs Through Him Glendale resident’s plan calls for a new linear nature park system. BY DYLAN WOOLF HARRIS dwharris@cityweekly.net @DylantheHarris

ot 50 yards from Ray Wheeler’s home, wherein he’s cued up slides from a 1983 kayak trip, the subdued Jordan River drifts northward. On a late autumn afternoon, the silty stream is still low, a stark contrast to the surging waterway Wheeler’s photographs depict from more than 30 years ago. The colossal flood of ’83 transformed State Street into a Venetian canal, mobilized citizens with sandbags, and sent Wheeler on a funky river adventure through pockets of nature hidden in Salt Lake County’s backyard. That year, while the city constructed wooden walkway bridges so residents could cross streets without getting wet, Wheeler hopped right in and embarked on a 150-mile, 10-day journey up the river. What he learned on his odyssey planted the seeds of a decades-long conservation mission. The Jordan River begins in the fresh water of Utah Lake. It’s fed along its route by canyon creeks and finally empties into the Great Salt Lake. Wheeler mapped out his itinerary, starting in Utah County. He would paddle from the northern edge of Utah Lake, cross over into the Salt Lake Valley, continue along an arm of the GSL’s eastern shore, pass Antelope Island and go further onto wetlands near the mouth of the Bear River. What he saw, he says, was stunning. He floated through flooded homes, under near-inundated bridges, past waterlogged factories and collapsing railroad bridges—all damaged by the great flood. First lesson: Sooner or later, the area will flood again. Floodplains aren’t features that need to be conquered, he concludes, but rather respected as elemental parts of a larger river system where native plants thrive. “Floodplains are designed by floods, not as platforms for an extremely risky expansion of industrial civilization, but to accommodate floodwater,” he says. “They serve many different valuable ecological purposes and should be respected and preserved for their awesome biological vitality.” But his voyage led him to another

ENVIRONMENT poignant discovery—an unforeseen “beauty of the river where it hasn’t been developed.” In one picture, Wheeler’s kayak cuts through the water beneath a canopy of trees that line the river banks, their branches bending together to form a green archway. “The trees had knit together over the top of the river,” he says. “Squirrels would run across these sky bridges. It was really cool and it really surprised me.” Surprised him, in part, because the terrain was wild, and yet, so close to the urban sprawl that has filled in much of the valley. It was in untrammeled nature where he found an abundance of wildlife, particularly migratory birds. Already the river was commonly viewed as a polluted conduit that flushed sediment and industrial runoff to the Great Salt Lake. But he saw an ecosystem of wetland habitat where waterfowl made their rookeries in the marshes. The experience stuck with him. In an age when it feels like every square-foot of land is claimed, Wheeler has managed to pinpoint 17 areas along the Jordan River corridor that could— with a bit of planning—be preserved as linear nature park system. He calls it Nature in the City—a riparian restoration master plan. The spots he’s identified differ in size and shape. The largest top 150 acres while the smallest are just a few. Common to all is an emphasis on native vegetation. The funding estimation or mechanism isn’t clear, but Wheeler posits a mixture of public dollars and private donations. Wheeler is a resident of the Glendale neighborhood, an activist of sorts, a retired space planner at the University of Utah and a kayaker. What he’s not is a politician. So he’s spent the past few months pitching his idea to communities along the river with the aim of getting a large enough buy-in that elected city officials will see its value and push for implementation. The Glendale Community Council was one of the earliest supporters. Chairman Sean Crossland says the concept was received with nearunanimous support in his community. “I think it’s ambitious, but necessary,” he says. “We need to think a little different about development and prioritizing conservation and nature in a proactive way.” Beyond the inherent appeal of natural spaces, Wheeler has compiled a list of selling points, contending that nature parks bring social, environmental and economic benefits. Because the proposed reserves are near the Jordan River Parkway Trail, for example, they could be used to promote and connect bike routes for recreation and commuting, thereby

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Ray Wheeler, surrounded by garbage, floats in his kayak down the Jordan River. cutting back on greenhouse gas-emitting traffic. “It allows people to explore the river corridor in a really nice way on an off-street bike trail that goes winding through all of this scenery. But, in addition, it provides a really efficient bike commuting corridor,” he says. The natural spaces would make for exceptional hands-on classrooms within walking distance of many local elementary and middle schools, he continues. Two of the 17 proposed segments are existing golf courses. In 2015, the city found itself wondering what to do about some of its golf courses, and toyed with the idea of shutting a few down on the assumption that it would save taxpayer dollars. Building on that idea, Nature in the City looks to convert a couple westside courses into public nature spaces. Wheeler envisions the Glendale course, for example, could be relandscaped into a place with a multitude of community and recreational opportunities. “What we proposed was take the core golf course and make a large nature park with a community fishery, and then around the perimeter do some of the things that the public has identified that they want, like a bike pump track, an urban agriculture area of 9 acres, a Frisbee golf course, a boat dock for sculling, etc.,” he says. So far, Nature in the City is backed by more than 15 national, regional and local conservation groups, including the Sierra Club and Utah Rivers Council. It’s also gaining allies in westside community councils, such as Westpointe. Dorothy Owen sits on the council for Westpointe, a neighborhood that extends from the northern and western city limits to roughly Redwood Road and down to 700 North. Council members favored the concept of Nature in the City and voted to send a letter of recommendation to Salt Lake City. But

that’s not to say the measure passed without reservation. “Westpointe really loves our Rose Park golf course,” Owen says. “We didn’t want anyone to think that, because we support Nature in the City, that we were against the golf course.” As she sees it, the choice isn’t binary. And the entire plan doesn’t have to be scrapped because a small portion isn’t to her neighborhood’s liking. “The nice thing about Nature in the City is it’s a commitment to principles and values about how you want land developed,” Owen says. “Certainly, as you go along, you have to deal with each individual parcel. It’s all about getting ahead of the pressure of economic development. We know what our vision is to make this a better neighborhood.” Salt Lake City’s deputy director of public services, Dan Dent, who oversees the city’s golf courses, doesn’t expect the links to close on his watch. An anchor for the community, the Glendale golf course has been a 50-year landmark that now annually generates around $1 million, Dent says. He also rebuffs the claim that golf in the city is a monetary sinkhole, saying the courses’ greens fees generate more cash citywide than the operating costs. Replacing the Glendale course with a public amenity would be an enormous cost, he argues, and would likely be met with revolt from the community members who enjoy the sport. But like Owen, Dent doesn’t think golf enthusiasts and those who prefer nature reserves need to be at odds with one another. He welcomes the idea of beautifying the areas around the golf course. “They can coexist,” he says. Most of the proposed land is not on a golf course. Wheeler says Nature in the City offers a land-use plan if courses are closed. “We have broad principles. This is what you would do if you could— if funding were available, if land were available.” CW

Nightmare Scenario

A pedophile’s right to defend himself in court clashes with a minor’s desperation to escape his toxic legacy. BY STEPHEN DARK sdark@cityweekly.net @stephenpdark

Scott Gollaher appears in 2nd District Court in Morgan, Utah, representing himself in 2015.

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said the issues raised by Gollaher’s Salt Lake County case, and others like it, boil down to the question: “How can we provide protection and not retraumatize victims in court?” Questions to Wall from the appeals court’s judges at the hearing suggested they were leaning toward returning the case to 3rd District Court. Without the issues Wall was raising having actually happened in a district courtroom, they had nothing to address. Wall was “asking us to review decisions that have never been made,” appeals Judge Jill M. Pohlman wrote. If the case is returned to district court, Wall told the judges, “I will move to withdraw; I will not proceed with my client’s case. I can’t imagine any defense attorney going forward with it.” If that’s the case, that leaves one avenue open to Gollaher—namely to act as his own counsel. In the Morgan County case, Gollaher represented himself, which meant he cross-examined the two teenage girls he was subsequently convicted of abusing. Maxfield says she doesn’t know if her daughter’s fear of “having to be in the same room as the man who violated her in so many ways—emotionally, physically—will ever go away until the trial is done.” She told the girl of the impending appeals court hearing. Her daughter already knew the images existed, although Maxfield doesn’t know how she found out. When she told her that Gollaher wanted to put her on the stand and show her the pictures, Maxfield says she clenched up and shook. Her daughter told her, “Why do people have to look at the photos of my private parts? I don’t want to have to see them. Nobody should have to see them. Haven’t they looked at them enough?” CW

FBI Agent Jeff Ross showed Maxfield the photos the FBI had found at Gollaher’s apartment involving her daughter and Gollaher. “It was hard enough for me having to look at those photos. They were very graphic. I can’t imagine her having to have those presented to her in any way, ever,” she says. Maxfield points out she and her daughter are critical of the FBI and the Utah Attorney General’s Office for pressuring her daughter. Their insistence—in multiple conversations in person and on the phone—that she be prepared to testify has only compounded Gollaher’s alleged abuse, making the now 16-year-old “feel like she’s not normal,” her mother says. The FBI and the AG’s Office declined City Weekly’s request for comment. For a child who used to be the center of attention among her friends in Utah, she now “doesn’t trust anybody, adults or kids,” her mother says. “I can’t believe all the areas this has affected her, kept her from being a normal kid.” She’s now failing nearly all of her classes. “It’s very hard to push her to continue with schoolwork when she is damaged emotionally and mentally.” In late March, at the suggestion of the LDS bishop in their new ward, her daughter began seeing a therapist. However, such is the extensive, yearslong history of abuse she’s suffered— not only allegedly at Gollaher’s hands, but also by another a man currently in prison—both therapist and client face a long road ahead. The Children’s Center’s Goldsmith said in June 2016 that minor-victims testifying in court have historically been treated as providing data; meanwhile, they are being retraumatized. “It’s not just them talking about it, but their body relieving the stress of that day.” Goldsmith

But for Gollaher, the girl’s testimony is crucial to his defense. Wall told the appeals court’s three judges that if the victim indicates she isn’t the pictures’ unwilling subject, “the case [will] come to a lock.” As it stands, the case ground to a halt during the preliminary hearing in 2013, marked, in part, by the federal government’s refusal to provide case notes, videos and other material from the files of three FBI agents involved in the Gollaher investigation. The feds cited Touhy regulations, which allows them to decide what documents to release publicly. Wall wanted the court to dismiss the case because he believes no defense attorney can truly represent Gollaher, given the legal conundrum his counsel faces. The family of the alleged victim— who moved to California two years ago in an attempt to help the girl heal and escape the trauma—just wants the case to end. In a phone interview, mother Marie Maxfield says her daughter’s greatest fear is that Gollaher might one day walk free and turn up on their doorstep. Her daughter has fought “a real battle with depression and thoughts of suicide from then until now,” she says. The conflict between Gollaher’s legal rights and his alleged victim’s mental and emotional health does not surprise Douglas Goldsmith. He’s the executive director of The Children’s Center, a Salt Lake City-based nonprofit that provides comprehensive mental health care to young children and their families. In a June 2016 interview several months after Gollaher’s sentencing in the Morgan County case, he said, “There’s a huge gap, unfortunately, between the legal world and psychology, and a lot of times what we wish would happen as mentalhealth therapists may not be allowed because of the laws or legal procedures.” Goldsmith found the possibility of the minor-victim having to go to court and be confronted by such images “disgusting.” Such a possibility was an example of how the legal system, “doesn’t fully understand trauma, is not trauma-informed and does not look at what’s best for the child,” he says. For Maxfield’s daughter, such a court appearance, if it were to occur, would unquestionably be a case of her being “revictimized in court,” he said. The child repeatedly cut herself. She has scarring down the inside of both legs—from her thighs to her ankles— and on her arms. She chooses to wear long shirts and pants in the California heat, but sometimes wears shorts indoors with her immediate family. “It breaks your heart to see physically what this has done to her,” Maxfield says. “She will not be able to get away from that.” State health insurance does not cover plastic surgery for someone her daughter’s age.

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s Gordian knots go, the one defense attorney Ed Wall presented to the Utah Court of Appeals on March 23 required a particularly sharp sword. Wall explained to the court he could not zealously represent his client Scott Gollaher in a prosecution in 3rd District Court brought by the Utah Attorney General’s Office, because to do so would mean the attorney himself would be liable for prosecution. Gollaher is currently serving 15 years to life at the Utah State Prison on multiple aggravated child sex-abuse charges from a case in Morgan County, a story told in an April 2015 City Weekly cover story titled, “No Apologies.” In an ongoing Salt Lake County case, Gollaher is being prosecuted for possession of child pornography, including images of himself orally abusing an unidentifiable 11-year-old girl, with only her private parts and lower abdomen visible. In order to defend Gollaher, Wall needs to put the alleged victim on the stand so she can confirm or deny the images are of her. Gollaher believes her answer will be negatory, according to court motions. But for a defense attorney to show child pornography to a minor, indeed to handle it at all, is a state and federal crime. However, to not show the now-teenager the images would violate Gollaher’s constitutional rights to a defense. “Counsel cannot properly ignore Mr. Gollaher’s right to call the child-victim to testify,” Wall wrote in a motion for the appeals court. “Nor can counsel lawfully obtain the child-victim’s testimony.” Wall declined to comment after the hearing. In a friend-of-the-court briefing filed by Utah Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeannette F. Swent, the federal prosecutor dismissed Wall’s concerns as “baseless.” She wrote it is “implausible to suppose that defense counsel would be prosecuted for such conduct, under the supervision of a state court judge.”

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Long burdened by ill health and poverty, a westside community strives to turn the page. By Stephen Dark Photos by Niki Chan

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nce a week, C.J. Withers—owner of We Witches 3, a spiritual supply store on Main Street in downtown Magna—casts a spell for prosperity. From her shop’s bell-jar-laden shelves, she takes down mint, mandrake, red clover, orange flower and echinacea, and combines them with a mortar and pestle. She then rolls a green candle, first in an oil of her preparation, and then in the crushed herbs. Finally, she sets the herb-crusted candle in sugar “for sweet endings,” places it in a small cauldron and lights the wick. “You just let it go,” she says. With just a year and three months on a street that has more than its fair share of empty storefronts, Withers knows she has to be optimistic to see growth in a business that she sank her 401(k) into. With the spell, her intent is “to see everyone be able to progress, to move forward in their businesses,” in a community that for outsiders has long been associated through media headlines with drug-related, violent crime. That image is unfair, say residents and newly appointed deputy chief of police services for Kearns and Magna, Brent Atkinson. Magna’s crime level is no different from other Salt Lake Valley communities, Atkinson says, with property crime such as burglaries and car thefts the principal issue. “What drives that is addiction, to get stuff to pawn, to feed their habit,” he says. Atkinson began his law-enforcement career in Magna and now returns to the town full-circle. “What resonates with me is the incredible sense of community pride,” he says. That steely pride is something Magna Library manager and recently elected metro township council member Trish Hull traces back through the town’s roots. Hull has lived there for 36 years yet still considers herself a newcomer. “Magna has been around since 1850. A lot of people can trace their ancestors back to that time, or when the miners came in the turn of the century,” she says. “There’s a strong sense of loyalty, of history and love for this community.” Main Street runs from 8400 West to 9200 West, where it abruptly ends at the foot of a mountain. The producers of several TV shows that recently shot series on Main, such as BYUtv’s Granite Flats, left behind awnings and freshly painted frontages that reinforce the 1950s charm of some sections of the street. Such cheery facades cement the sense of change in the

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air, heralded by pennants hanging from lampposts proclaiming Magna’s 3-month-old status as a metro township. In November 2015, Magna, along with four other unincorporated townships that were part of Salt Lake County, voted to become “metros” as the county’s Township Executive Rick Graham calls them, or, in essence, municipalities. Millcreek struck a different path, finally becoming the city many had fought for it to be. Magna’s sales taxes now flow to a newly established municipal-services district, which pools the townships’ taxes to pay for services contracted from Salt Lake County. And its new status grants the town legislative independence through a community-elected five-person council that controls planning, zoning and code-enforcement ordinances. The county council assembled this year’s budgets for the townships and Magna and the other metro councils currently are amending those budgets, Graham says. “We’ve got good people,” Jack Nielsen says of the council. For the past 25 years, Nielsen has owned an industrial repair business at the end of Main, and two bars on the same street. He doesn’t take kindly to county interference. “I think, once they get the wheels underneath them, they will tell the county where to pee in the bushes.” But with the prosperity push, there’s a part of Magna that struggles to keep up. That’s evident in statistics compiled by the Salt Lake County Health Department, which places it as among the unhealthiest communities in the state. According to January 2017 numbers, the population of 28,000 regularly outstrips both Salt Lake County and the state in general in some disturbing categories. These include teen birth rates, asthma, diabetes-related deaths, depression, lung cancer, motor vehicle crashes leading to emergency room visits, obesity, incidences of traumatic brain injury and lower life expectancy. According to the federal census, 13.5 percent of its residents are below the poverty level, compared to 12.3 percent statewide. While there’s a vibrant middle class in Magna, with a string of families that go back to the pioneer days, “the people that need help are probably the most desperate you’ll ever run across,” Nielsen says. “The economy out here isn’t able to generate the number of jobs required to keep everybody happy.”

Magna Chamber of Commerce President Storm Anderson in his tattoo parlor.

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STEPPING UP

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If state agencies are geographically inaccessible for families without cars, true to its working-class roots, Magna works hard to support its own. Amid the small-town storefronts that populate Main, the letters of Magna FACT stand out on one window. FACT, which stands for Family, Agencies, Community Together, is a 10-year-old nonprofit that serves the area’s low-income families. It’s best known for its annual Sub-for-Santa, which last year saw 59 kids get a mode of transportation— a bicycle, tricycle or scooter—a coat, a pair of shoes, two outfits, underwear and socks. FACT is open Monday through Thursday, from 1-4 p.m. In just the first week of March, says Assistant Director Andrea Boone, who relies on a walker to get around, “I’ve seen everyone from people seeking employment and wanting to know if we had shoes and clothes, to seeking transportation assistance to get to a mental health meeting downtown. Six or seven families in the last three days needed food.” Boone says she refers many of her clients to counselors at The Road Home shelter in downtown Salt Lake City and used to give out bus tokens, until she saw people selling them across the street. One option for free food in Magna is Salt Lake Community Action Program’s office in a strip mall on the corner of 8400 West and 3500 South. It’s open three afternoons a week and serves 60-80 individuals or families a week. They’re allowed one visit a month to fill a shopping cart with groceries from the pantry shelves. Clients include a number of homeless individuals and couples living in cars, along with the occasional influx of the homeless from downtown Salt Lake City.

Low-income families seeking help have to go to Taylorsville for the Department of Workforce Services (DWS), or else rely on a list of resources prepared by United Way. The Salt Lake City-centric nature of the list floors them. “It’s a blow,” one advocate says. “You ought to see the look on these people’s faces. They want to know where to apply for food stamps, for medical help, they look at that list, and they’re awe-struck” at how far they have to go for help. Elliott says underemployment has long dogged Magna. When DWS had local offices, the former LDS bishop would struggle getting those in need of help to go to the job center. But in November 2013, DWS closed its Magna branch. The department’s nearest offices are now 13 miles away in Taylorsville, either 19 minutes by car or over an hour by bus. “I sure wish we had them a lot closer,” he says. “I wish we had a voice in that.” In an email response to questions, DWS Communications Director Nate McDonald says research showed the Magna center was “underutilized.” An expensive lease and cost-savings of over $330,000 annually, combined with increased use by customers of online resources, were all factors in the state’s decision. Hull says that while DWS’ Magna customers might be using their online services, many are doing so on the library’s computers. “DWS has awesome services, but they don’t do outreach. Adults come in to use computers to apply for jobs and benefits. We help them with banking and getting their W-2s off the internet.” Several people City Weekly spoke to lamented the loss of DWS, recalling how, at 7 a.m. when it opened, the line for help with case reviews, employment evaluations, job skill tests and benefits eligibility was out the door.

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Storm Anderson owns tattoo shop Art on You Studios on the main thoroughfare and is president of Magna’s Chamber of Commerce. His wife and coowner Renee is president of the town council, which oversees two local festivals. In its heyday, Storm Anderson says, people came from across the Salt Lake Valley to enjoy Main Street’s string of bars and the hustle-and-bustle of its commerce. “At some point, that began to move out and eventually Main Street became a veritable ghost town, besides some of the bars that helped keep it alive,” he says. The Andersons, who opened their parlor in 2009, have been part of a slow revival of Main Street’s fortunes. Economic revitalization promises enhanced sales-tax revenue—with new residential developments, expanding business areas along 3500 South and plans for light industrial development along Highway 201 as Magna’s neighbor Kennecott sells off parcels of land. “Magna’s at a crossroads, really, whether it becomes a bedroom community or maintains its own identity,” says Richard Elliot, publisher of the broadsheet weekly Magna Times. But whether this economic renaissance will also favor the lives of low-income families isolated by Magna’s far-west location from vital services, is a question the new metro council will have to address. “I can’t fix people,” Hull says, wearing her council hat. “We need to have social services to do that. If you hit rock bottom in this community and want help, there isn’t any.” Hull frets at the stories the statistics tell, plucking one at random. “Cancer rates are not high but cancer death rates are,” she says. “That tells me insurance is an issue. There’s a lot of families in the gap who can’t get ACA and can’t get Medicaid.” She keenly feels the weight of representing her community’s interests. “Now I’m in the government of Magna, I feel responsibility to this community and we need to see that these services are here,” she says.

Trisha Hull, proud Magna resident and now metro township council member.

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Local businessman Jack Nielsen wants the new council to shake off any county interference.

A Granite Flats TV show location getting a touch-up.

CHURCHES ON MAIN

County statistics that highlighted Magna’s many troubling physical and mental health problems prompted the creation of volunteer-manned Magna in Motion. Founded in 2014, the organization seeks to combat diabetes and obesity (35.7 percent of Magna’s adults are obese, compared to 26.6 percent in the county) with exercise programs, such as walking up a steep hill. “That’s a real calorie-burner,” chair Keri Duckworth says. Fellow volunteer Jennifer Gordon says, in total, participants lost 695 pounds in two years. As welfare funding has dried up, “What are low-income people supposed to do?” Gordon asks. “That’s why we’re trying to educate people that it’s free to do a jumping jack outside. We figure if we change two or five people at a time, that’s where you have to start.” Exodus Healthcare Network, the only health clinic in town, also pitches in by running free pre-diabetes and tobacco-cessation programs with federal and state partners. While private, it offers a sliding-scale for the 12.6 percent of Magna residents who are uninsured. Otherwise, residents would be forced to go to one of the free clinics in Salt Lake City or Midvale. Still, a single mother, packing groceries from the CAP food pantry into the back of her SUV, notes that a visit to Exodus without health insurance costs her $130—a price that will surely deter future visits, she says. Half a dozen churches dot Main Street, mostly a few blocks east of Art on You and We Witches 3. Several of the churches provide some form of welfare support to congregants. Some argue the surprising number of houses of worship reflects the collapse in median income Magna has experienced in recent decades. “Churches are the main indicator of a bad economy,” Nielsen says. “They get the building cheap and the tax structure is cheap. It’s a really good area for them to thrive in.”

That’s led to lots of jokes, Anderson says, about “indulging your carnal interests on a Saturday night and then spending Sunday morning repenting at the church across the street.” He admits to frustration with the churches, given that their tax-exempt status means they don’t contribute taxes to the business district. Elliott disagrees. “I think the reason there’s a lot of those churches there is low rent. I don’t think it hurts economic growth as much as people might think. It beats having empty storefronts as far as I’m concerned.” He doubts Main Street ”will ever be an economic engine. It’s going to be boutiques at best,” bringing charm and quality of life to Magna but not necessarily much-needed sales taxes. He looks to a new Holiday gas station and an expected new Maverick on 7200 South as being the kind of engines for salestax collection that’ll power Magna to the point where it can become a city.

KIDS GOING HUNGRY

One of council member Hull’s biggest concerns is the impact of poverty on the children she sees while working her daytime job as Magna Library’s manager. When the county moved the library from the business district on 3500 South to an $8.5-million Main Street building five years ago, she noticed an unexpected uptick in the number of children coming to her branch. Every day after school, kids would come and stay on the facility’s 30 computers until the 9 p.m. closing time. During the summers, she says 50-60 kids would come in at 10 a.m., some who had had nothing to eat. They would have to wait till late afternoon to get snacks provided by the Utah Food Bank. “My kids wouldn’t spend eight hours at a library, but, for these kids, that’s the best place they can be,” she says. “We feed them; sometimes that’s the only meal they get. To me that means there is a problem.”

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Cyprus High School Principal Robert E. McDaniel says his biggest challenges are attendance and apathy. Three out of four students graduate, which puts the school 5 percent behind the state average. That lack of graduation ties into attendance issues through elementary and middle school, he says. McDaniel estimates that marijuana is the drug of choice for around 10 percent of his students, although typically they are non-attendees. “Kids would say it’s higher. There definitely needs to be more programs for teenagers to keep kids off the streets,” he adds. “Idle time kills teenagers.” One bright spot that Hull highlights is Magna United, a collaboration between local government agencies, community partners and school administrators to provide kids and their relatives access to services. Run by Salt Lake County’s Youth Services Afterschool Program Manager Danielle Latta, it was started in 2012 through a $450,000 federal grant to Magna schools. Salt Lake County’s Youth Services “really stepped up,” Hull says. “They’ve written some grants, and now every school has an afterschool program, homework help, enrichment and a meal until the parents get there.” Those services, however, are under threat. President Donald Trump’s proposed budget includes gutting those 21st-century grants—“the only service in Magna that is working,” Hull says.

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While resources, at least for now, are being directed at Magna’s children, “when it comes to adults, if they want to try to improve their lives, sometimes it’s tough to get the help they need,” Hull says. As Magna Library manager, she tried to address that disparity in 2016 by bringing in South Valley Services, a spinoff from the domestic violence shelter South Valley. They provide a case manager each Wednesday afternoon for a few hours—a service six

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Hull says her dream is to have a space on Main Street where, one day a week, drug rehab, free health and dental care and Workforce Services roll into town. She says Magna “has a lot of potential right now.” She wants people to think better of her hometown, to “understand what a great place it is, that it has a lot of diversity.” All that’s missing is the services. “We deserve to have them in our town,” she says. “We shouldn’t be forcing people to leave our community to find them.”

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High above Magna is the wind-swept Pleasant Green Cemetery, which dates back to 1883. Elegant, gated plots tell the stories of Magna’s royalty, its multigenerational families. Other graves carry no name but rather a sun-bleached photo of a loved one, or just a beaten whirligig rattling in the breeze. Look down on the township and you see subdivisions of large houses similar to ones you find in West Jordan or Sandy. In the distance, along 8400 West, trucks thunder north up the narrow street toward Kennecott, a reminder of yet another statistic that Magna unfortunately tops the state in: It’s almost a third higher than the number of Salt Lake County’s motor vehicle crash-related emergency department visits. Magna stands at 126.1 per 10,000, while the county is at 92. One mother at the library’s afternoon snack hour pleads for a safer crosswalk on 8400 West by the recreation center. “People don’t stop,” she says. Storm Anderson ties the town’s future to economic development, hoping for a time when “median income rises and the quality of health overall improves. I think they are directly correlated to one another. As one improves, so will the other.” Part of the fight of restoring Magna to its former glory involves coaxing casual-dining restaurants to town, such as Olive Garden, Red Lobster and Chili’s, he

says. The problem is that the town’s demographics at the moment lure only McDonald’s, Arby’s and other fast-food franchises, which worsen rather than improve the town’s health issues. While several women getting goods at one of the two local food pantries cite a need for more lowincome housing and daycare, Anderson wants to see affordable long-term, single-family homes with a $200,000-plus price tag for people who can afford to dine at an establishment like Olive Garden. “I want people with disposable income supporting Magna Main, people who sit out here long-term while raising children, rather than first-time renters who come and go.” Nielsen shares Anderson’s optimism, particularly now that the metro township council has officially taken control. “At least something has changed. We were the unknown ugly step-child of the county; the only time [the county] gives a shit about us is election time,” he says. “Now we have people on the chamber, on the township council who live here. They’re part of the solution.” We Witches 3 owner Withers says she took “a leap of faith” to open her store. A former EMT, she took on the venture in part to support her daughter, a practising witch, only for the latter to fall in love and move to North Carolina, from where she conducts tarot readings via Skype. With Magna claiming a large Wiccan and pagan community, Withers says, during the first year, they “did a hell of a lot better than I expected.” Withers aims to keep prices low, she says, because of the poverty around her. She talks about one woman who brought in a stone from her garden which she offered in exchange for several necklaces. The stone turned out to be worth more than the necklaces the woman got. When she offered her additional recompense, she turned it down. “They don’t want handouts,” Withers says admiringly. “They want to make it on their own.” CW

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other county libraries use. South Valley’s Morgan Bodily says they offer employment and clothing referrals, help with getting financial assistance and heat programs, along with referrals to dental clinics and free- and low-cost health care. A flyer posted in the library also lists legal services, parenting classes and resources for basic needs and family violence. Drug addiction inevitably also forms a part of the laundry list of needs facing Magna’s council in coming months. One recovering addict agreed to share her thoughts if granted anonymity. She used heroin and meth for years and says one Magna doctor, at Exodus, prescribes suboxone—medication similar to methadone—as long as you don’t relapse. To fill her prescription, she has to travel for two hours by bus to a Salt Lake City clinic every day. “It’s an all-day thing,” she says. “There’s no way to have a job, no way to take care of a kid.” And the journey’s even longer if the bus is late or she misses one of her transfers. The complexity of applying for suboxone “is such a maze. It’s a joke, especially when you’re withdrawing from heroin,” she says. “It’s a process that takes far too long with not nearly enough help coming in.” She advocates for a methadone or suboxone clinic on the west side “because there’s a whole bunch of drug addicts out here and the biggest problem is getting there.” Then there’s the cost—whether it’s $50 a day or $50 a week, she says, “either way it might as well be $1,000 because, for an addict, nothing is still nothing.” She links the high rates of teen pregnancies with multigenerational addiction. “People raised by addicts, turned into addicts, depressed their whole family is an addict—that’s just how this town is.” Magna Times’ Elliott agrees that the distance to travel for methadone or suboxone is an issue. “The people who need it the most have the least access to it, at least from our point of view in Magna.” He hopes the council “will lobby for a fair shake of social services that Trish talks about. You’ve got to go after those aggressively. It feels like we’re an afterthought.”

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It’s been 65 years since the United Kingdom has witnessed a coronation ceremony. It’s morbid to think about, but one person’s death is required before another’s ascension to the throne. In King Charles III, presented by Pioneer Theatre Co., playwright Mike Bartlett explores the volatile what-ifs following Queen Elizabeth II’s death. The power struggle is felt immediately after the queen dies, and Prince Charles (John Hutton) becomes head of state as King Charles III. The prime minister (Larry Bull) insists Charles sign several bills that will soon become law—including one limiting the free press. Charles fundamentally disagrees with the bill and refuses to sign, setting off a series of events that pit the monarchy against British Parliament. Stuck in the middle are Prince William (Grant Goodman) and wife Katherine (Samantha Eggers), who want Charles to continue with tradition, while Prince Harry (John Ford-Dunker) finds love in Jess (Jess Nahikian), an anti-monarch “commoner” who’s haunted by her past. The clash of traditionalists and progressives comes to a head prior to the king’s coronation. As a distant observer from the other side of the pond, it’s easy to understand both points of view of the monarchy and Parliament. Being stuck in the middle, however, is a different story. Given the current political climate in the U.K., and the queen’s age (she turns 91 on April 21), we might not have to wait long to see if King Charles III gets it right. (Missy Bird) Pioneer Theatre Co.: King Charles III @ Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, through April 8, Thursday, 7 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m., $38-$44, pioneertheatre.org

Both contemporary and historical, a personal story and universal narrative, Repertory Dance Theatre’s production of Zvi Gotheiner’s Dabke invites audiences to become immersed in a journey that can’t be replicated anywhere else. The title of this nearly hour-long, nointermision piece comes from a Levantine folk dance, originating in a Middle Eastern region that includes Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. Gotheiner was inspired to create his take on the dance following 2011’s Arab Spring, where democratic uprisings took place throughout the Middle East and northern Africa, and because he personally is connected to these Arab countries. A northern Israeli by birth, Gotheiner feels the traditions in those regions deeply influenced his own culture. “He really wanted to loan whatever artistic voice he had to document that feeling of optimism, and also wanted to do what he could to initiate some sort of healing,” says Linda Smith, executive and artistic director of Repertory Dance Theatre. Though the piece is inspired by the popular dance—with research through Gotheiner’s company ZviDance, working mainly off YouTube videos—Dabke is not an exact replica. Instead, it acts as a mix of elements, utilizing both traditional and pop Arab music in addition to contemporary styles to create a unique work of art. As a result, the show is accessible to a wide variety of people. “It’s about conflict in the Middle East, but it’s also a symbol of conflict that we feel throughout the world,” Smith says. (Casey Koldewyn) Repertory Dance Theatre: Dabke @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-534-1000, April 6-8, 7:30 p.m., $15-$35, rdtutah.org

For those of a certain generation, Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky’s most famous piano composition, Pictures at an Exhibition, is better known as an early live recording by the British supergroup Emerson Lake and Palmer. That said, classical aficionados are likely familiar with the interpretation by composer Maurice Ravel, who made the 10-part suite a favorite among discriminating audiences in the early part of the 20th century. Indeed, portions of Mussorgsky’s work were among the first compositions chosen for recording by the budding Columbia Records label nearly 100 years ago—predating ELP by half a century. It could also be claimed that the work prefigured the concept of combining sights and sounds, an innovation generally credited to MTV. Of course, video hadn’t been invented back then, so Mussorgsky took his inspiration from the paintings and drawings of a friend: artist and architect Viktor Hartmann. However, despite that initial impetus, Mussorgsky’s music wasn’t published until a dozen years after it was completed, and a full five years after his death. It took another five years before the work received its first public performance. Despite its eratic trajectory, Ravel’s arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibition remains a riveting musical experience. Combined with three other pieces on the program—Elgar’s graduationceremony standard Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, Elgar’s Violin Concerto and Ravel/ Boulez’ Frontispice—it allows the Utah Symphony to offer audiences a spectacular evening of auditory exposition. (Lee Zimmerman) Utah Symphony: Pictures at an Exhibition @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, April 7-8, 7:30 p.m., $15$82, utahsymphony.org

There are few topics artists have explored as thoroughly as humanity’s complicated contemplation of its own existence. It’s a topic that has no single answer, but exploring it has the satisfying result of pushing people to reflect on themselves and their lives. With their upcoming Journeys and Reflections, Ballet West joins this centuries-long tradition. CEO and Artistic Director Adam Sklute says the three 30-minute performances explore both how humanity sees itself in the world, and ballet as a diverse art form. “The three works together created this through-line about humanity,” he says, “and all of the different realms of humanity, from the Elysian Fields of Heaven to a very earthy and elegant way of people interacting to the ravages of war.” The night begins with “Chaconne,” an upbeat and joyful piece that uses the imagery of the Elysian Fields—the ancient Greek equivalent of heaven—to invite the audience to contemplate paradise. Next is “Facades,” created by Utah native Garret Smith that focuses on selfreflection. The final piece delves into the German Expressionist movement with Kurt Jooss’ “The Green Table.” Created in 1932 Germany, just one year before Hitler rose to power, the piece looks at the futility of war and the products of failed diplomacy. “It’s important for us as an artistic organization to be able to show that diversity of styles and to be able to produce them at the highest caliber,” Sklute says. “That’s what keeps us relevant.” (Kylee Ehmann) Ballet West: Journeys and Reflections @ Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, April 7-15, 7:30 p.m., $44-$87, artsaltlake.org

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Utah Symphony: Pictures at an Exhibition

Ballet West: Journeys and Reflections

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ack in the 1990s, when I was in high school, the cool thing for aspiring artist, writers and adolescent intellectuals was to make a zine. You’d craft some art, write an autobiographical story, create some collages—I still have a copy of the zine I made from diary entries documenting the long recovery after I broke my leg—and go down to the local photocopy shop. You’d print out a few pages, bind them with staples or a thread and needle, then drop off your creation at coffee shops around town, and there it was: your self-published work, out there in the world. It felt subversive and new, though it wasn’t entirely. Zine origins can be traced back to political pamphlets of the 18th century and sci-fi pulp fanzines of the 1930s. In the ’70s, they were part of the punk and feminist movements. And by the 1990s, even the Salt Lake City Public Library had a healthy and growing collection of handmade zines of all shapes and sizes—from big books to little folded cards—produced by zine-sters all over the United States. Then the internet really took off, and the future of such physical objects looked bleak. Whether a sign of resurgence or proof that zines never died, this Saturday marks the inaugural Grid Zine Fest in Salt Lake City. More than 40 zine makers, many of

them local, gather to exhibit and sell their one-of-a-kind creations, while panels and workshops throughout the day provide inspiration and how-to tips for those curious about starting their own. Ella Mendoza—a native of Lima, Peru, now living in SLC, and a talented artist and activist for undocumented immigrants— created her zine series, Resist, as a pocketsized handbook for undocumented residents. “I’ve been making art for a few years, but I started making the zines about a year ago after going to a feminist zine fest in New York,” Mendoza says. She says her zines are “educational, know-your-rights stuff, like how to interact with police. My favorite has a little person with a blank speech bubble and a black picket sign where you can fill in your own words. It helps prepare you: How are you going to resist?” In addition to bringing her zines to the festival, Mendoza leads a workshop titled “How Our Art Is Liberation: Zines of Resistance.” According to the festival’s website, the workshop “will outline different ways that art and illustrations are being used in current political movements as well as offer the opportunity for participants to create their own zine.” A quick glance at the festival’s attendees reveals a vibrant creative community, and one with a lot to say. Mendoza’s certainly isn’t the only powerful, communityminded, issue-based zine being produced locally. In Provo, Sara Faulkner is busy creating, curating and compiling Pillars of Salt, with a focus on intersectional feminism, including stories that overlap with other social equality issues and identities including race, class, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. Faulkner works hard to keep her zine bright and colorful, something that people would be excited to pick up, because on the inside, Pillars of Salt can get pretty deep, personal and

sometimes scary. It’s a zine that creates a space for healthy community dialogue, a place where people can be honest, raising issues like suicide, which Faulkner considers a serious problem in Utah County but one that most people would rather ignore. Zines might be small and powerful, but they can also be silly and entertaining. The goal for Ricky Vigil is to take the most lighthearted approach. Five years ago, he created an autobiographical comic/zine called Super Cool & Stuff, which started out as a simple way to entertain his friends. “I’ve liked comics since I was a kid,” he says. “When I was older, I got into indie comics like American Elf and punk rock comics like Snake Pit. I was reading them and thought, I could do that, so I made a comic every day for about nine months and posted them online. The response from friends was really good and that’s how it started.” Life moved on for Vigil, and after a few issues of Super Cool & Stuff, the comic/zine fell by the wayside. Grid Zine Fest, he says, has given him a reason to start it up again. Now, there are some new characters in Vigil’s cartoon panels, including his wife. He hasn’t posted any online yet; he says he might get around to it. But for now, he’s pretty busy getting some hard copies ready to take to the festival. “Zines are handmade passion projects,” he muses. “Having something physical that you made is really cool. Instagram is cool, too, but it’s different having something in your hand that someone made.” CW

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Utah Symphony: Pictures at an Exhibition Abravanell Hall, 123 W. South Temple, April 7-8, 7:30 p.m., utahsymphony.org (see p. 18)

COMEDY & IMPROV

Brad Williams Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, April 9, 7:30p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Jacob Leigh Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, April 7, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Jay Whittaker Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, April 6, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com John Moyer Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, April 8, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Open-Mic Night Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Salt Lake City, 801-532-5233, every Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Quick Wits Comedy 695 W. Center St., Midvale, 801-824-0523, Saturdays, 10 p.m., qwcomedy.com Shawn Paulsen Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., 801-622-5588, April 7-8, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Lily Hoang Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, April 6, 7 p.m., saltlakearts.org

Beer & Ballet Fundraiser Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, April 6, 7 p.m., balletwest.org Ballet West: Journeys and Reflections Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, April 7-15, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 7 p.m., balletwest.org (see p. 18) Repertory Dance Theatre: Dabke Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 385-468-1010, April 6-8, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 18) Municipal Ballet Co. and Conquer Monster: Metatransit The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, April 7-8, 7 p.m., municipalballet.com Oddyssey Dance Theatre: Shut Up & Dance Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, through April 7, tickets.utah.edu

Utah Valley University art alum Kendra Hitchcock presents paintings inspired by the baroque work of Caravaggio in the exhibit Ubiquitous at Sprague Library (2131 S. 1100 East, 801-5948640, slcpl.org) through May 6.

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Blithe Spirit Jewett Center for the Performing Arts, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, 801-484-7651, April 6-8 & 13-15, 7:30 p.m., westminstercollege.edu/theatre Captain AmericanFORK Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, through June 3, 11:30 a.m., 2, 6, 7:30 & 8:30 p.m., desertstar.biz Cutie and The Beast Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, through April 22, 7:30 p.m., theobt.org Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aladdin Jr. Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, 801-572-4144, April 7-28, Friday-Saturday & selected Mondays, 7 p.m., drapertheatre.org Hand to God Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, April 12-May 14, Wednesday-Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 1 p.m. & 6 p.m., saltlakeactingcompany.org King Charles III Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, through April 8, FridaySaturday, 7:30 p.m.; Monday-Thursday, 7 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m., pioneertheatre.org (see p. 18) The Lion King Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, through April 16, artsaltlake.org Peter and the Starcatcher Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, through April 8, times vary, haletheater.org The Two Noble Kinsmen Babcock Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-7100, April 7-9 & 13-16, 7:30 p.m.; April 15 matinee, 2 p.m., theatre.utah.edu

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Maria V. Snyder: Dawn Study Herriman Library, 5380 W. Herriman Main, Herriman, 801-943-4636, April 6, 7 p.m., slcolibrary.org Brandon Mull: Dragonwatch Barnes & Noble, 1780 N. Woodland Park Drive, Layton, 801-7739973, April 11, 5 p.m., barnesandnoble.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FESTIVALS & FAIRS

2017 Chocolate & Cheese Festival Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, April 8 & 9, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., nhmu.utah.edu Grid Zine Fest Salt Lake Arts Academy, 844 S. 200 East, April 8, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., gridzinefest.org (see p. 20) USU Computer & Technology Fair Taggart Student Center Ballroom, Utah State University, 175 Old Main Hill, Logan, April 11, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m., ctf.usu.edu

FARMERS MARKETS

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

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Andrew Zimmern: A Global Perspective on the State of Our Food Life Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, April 11, 7 p.m., tickets.utah.edu

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Adrian Bangerter: Reflections Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801-363-4088, through April 14, artatthemain.com Brent Godfrey: Observation A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, 801-583-4800, through April 22, agalleryonline.com Ed Napia, Rad Cuch & Wahid Migoli Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, Ste. 125, 801-328-0703, through April 14, accessart.org Embracing Diverse Voices: A Century of African-American Art BYU Museum of Art, N. Campus Drive, Provo, 801-422-8287, through April 29, moa.byu.edu Focus: Photography by Jessica Hernandez Sprague Library, 280 W. 500 North, 801-594-8680, through April 14, slcpl.org From the Heart: Expressions in Fiber Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, 801-965-5100, through April 26, culturalcelebration.org

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The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through May 13, free, utahmoca.org Gary Jacobson: Some Thoughts UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through May 6, free, utahmoca.org Groundbreaking: Innovations in Clay Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435649-8882, through April 16, kimballartcenter.org Imagining UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801328-4201, through April 15, utahmoca.org Isaac Hastings: Inevitably Inert God Hates Robots, 314 W. 300 South, through April 7, godhatesrobots.com Justin Chouinard: These Ribbons Are Substratum UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through April 22, utahmoca.org Kendra Hitchcock: Ubiquitous Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East, 801-594-8640, through May 6, slcpl.org (see p. 21) Liberty Blake: Paper Collage Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8284, through April 14, phillips-gallery.com Michael Workman: Helper Paintings David Ericson Fine Art, 418 S. 200 West, 801-5338245, through April 14, davidericson-fineart.com Off the Map Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, Ste. 125, 801-328-0703, through April 14, accessart.org RE Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., 801-230-0820, through April 30, urbanartsgallery.org Rebecca Campbell Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, through April 15, modernwestfineart.com Robotic: Drawings by Carter Johnson Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, 801-594-8632, through April 29, slcpl.org Rod Heiss: Let Paint Be Paint Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, 801-594-8623, through April 27, slcpl.org Rona Pondick & Robert Feintuch: Heads, hands, feet; sleeping, holding, dreaming, dying UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-3284201, through July 15, utahmoca.org Sleeping Giants + Untold Tales: Paintings by Matt Monsoon Gallery at Library Square, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through April 14, slcpl.org SOS Save Our Seas: Mixed Media Artwork by Lori A. McPherson SLC Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through April 14, slcpl.org Utah At War SLC Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through April 22, slcpl.org

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long) firefly squid. In restaurants like this, I like to work from sashimi and nigiri up to heavier, richer rolls and cooked foods. Takashi always has a chalkboard full of nightly specials in addition to the staples. Bigeye tuna belly nigiri ($8) was deliciously tender, almost creamy; iwana ($5.95), aka Asian trout, was luxurious and tasted like delicate salmon. Even more stunning was kinmedai ($12), sometimes called golden eye snapper, a white-flesh fish with tender meat and a slightly sweet flavor. Our exceptional server made sure empty dishes and plates were quickly removed, and water and wine glasses were filled. She also knew the extensive menu inside-out. She couldn’t have been more helpful or professional. After enjoying some exquisite sashimi, we ordered fried trout ($12), which was the whole fish—gutted, scored, deep-fried and sprinkled with sea salt. The simplicity of the understated trout belied its fantastic flavor. Sometimes, less is more. But even Takashi misses occasionally. For us, it was the wagyu nikumaki ($15): vegetables (asparagus, carrots and scallions in this case) rolled in thin-sliced beef and grilled. What should have been tender waygu beef came out overcooked, tough and lacking in flavor. On the other hand, steamed clams in a Thai-style coconut-curry broth with glass noodles ($12.50) remains one of the restaurant’s most delectable dishes. Thin-sliced jalapeños atop our “Avalanche” roll ($16) set my tongue ablaze, albeit in a good way. Perfectly cooked sushi rice encases raw salmon, shiso and tempura scallions, and the roll is topped with tender, raw bincho (albacore), jalapeño and yuzukoshō aioli. Yuzukoshō is a chef’s secret weapon made from hot chiles fermented with salt, plus yuzu fruit and zest. It’s a perfect marriage of spice and citrus flavors that can enhance almost anything, special occasion or not. CW

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akashi might not, at first glance, appear to be a “special occasion” dining venue in the way that, say, La Caille, The New Yorker, Log Haven, Tuscany or The Roof Restaurant are. And yet, every time I visit, I see someone celebrating a birthday, an anniversary, a promotion, a proposal or something special. Once I thought about it, I realized that I tend to celebrate at Takashi as well, most recently my wife’s birthday. It’s a place where I know I can count on consistency and quality for occasions when I’m not up for playing culinary Russian roulette. Celebrating or not, I like to check in every now and then to discover what’s new, and how the 15-year-old business is faring. It’s hard to believe that I first wrote about Utah’s foremost sushi restaurant way back in summer 2004. I had become a fan of Chef Takashi Gibo when I was treated to his talents at Shogun, where he worked before opening his namesake eatery. I can’t speak for Gibo himself, but there seems to be an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mantra that runs through his restaurant. He doesn’t have a website, for example—and doesn’t need it. And, re-reading my initial review, I found that many of the menu items I loved back then are still my favorites, like the ankimo (monkfish liver), T&T roll and curried clams. Why abandon tried-and-true customer faves simply for the sake of newness? Website or not, people know about

Takashi. From Monday through Saturday, a line forms on the sidewalk outside the restaurant prior to their opening (11:30 a.m.2 p.m. for lunch; 5:30-10 p.m. for dinner). I cannot think of another Utah eatery where customers line up before the doors open to claim a seat. And lunchtime is nearly as busy. Most in-demand are seats at the sushi counter, where guests can enjoy watching the chef and his superb staff of sushi experts wield razor-sharp hōchōs (sushi and sashimi knives) with skill and finesse. “The hōchō is the soul of the cook,” according to a Japanese proverb. If you can’t be seated immediately, take solace—no, revel—in knowing that there’s a terrific bar where you can whet your whistle while you wait. The beverage program run by General Manager Richard Romney is excellent, and you can’t go wrong with signature cocktails such as the Kishu Kiss (Kissui Japanese rice vodka, umeboshi, lemon, umeshu liqueur and five-spice), or the “Ernest Goes to Japan” (Jougo black sugar, Sudachi Chu Japanese shōchū, Luxardo, yuzu, house grapefruit and shrub). Non-alcoholic drinks—like the “Shiso Sober” with cucumber, Japanese mint, yuzu, lime, simple sugar and soda— indicate that non-drinkers and designated drivers aren’t ignored. When seated at the sushi counter, the best bet is to put yourself into the capable hands of your sushi chef and eat omakase style, meaning he or she will choose what to serve you (with your input, of course; if you don’t like oysters, you won’t be forced to eat them). I like to mix and match, ordering some regular menu items and asking a sushi chef to also prepare something off menu. During my wife’s birthday dinner, we asked Gibo himself to hit us up with something off-menu, and he prepared plates of bite-sized noshes: Kumamoto oyster, ankimo with ponzu, lotus root and firefly squid (hotaru ika). The briny, crisp taste of the oyster led into the fatty lushness of the ankimo, which is like foie gras in taste and texture. Crunchy lotus root served as a mild palate cleanser before we enjoyed the tiny (a little more than an inch

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hen most of us wine drinkers think of bubbly, we probably envision, first and foremost, Champagne. France’s famous sparkling wines from the Champagne region—technically, the only ones that are supposed to be called “Champagne”—have become somewhat synonymous with all sparkling wines. I hear folks all the time referring to California “Champagne,” for example. Anyway, when the topic of sparkling wine arises, Champagne springs to mind first, followed probably by domestic bubbly like Schramsberg, Korbel, Iron Horse and Domaine Chandon. Next comes Italian Prosecco, followed maybe by Cava from Spain. It’s a shame that Spanish cava is the

poor step-child of the bubbles biz, since it can be such a bang for the buck. There are $15 cavas that I would put up against $50 French Champagne in a blind taste test. And recently, the Spanish wine industry stepped up its game by creating a new cava designation there, hoping to do justice to Spain’s signature sparkler. More about that in a skosh. For now, what is cava? Well, during a trip to France in 1872, Don José Raventós of bodega Codorníu became enchanted with Champagne, and he returned to his home in Penedès with Champagne-making equipment and created his country’s first méthode champenoise sparkling wine—cava. Just like Champagne, the Spanish variation ranges from ultra-dry (called brut nature) to sweet. By law, it must be made from one or more of five native grape varieties: xarel-lo, parellada, macabeo, chardonnay and malvasia (which is rarely used). Parellada provides delicacy and nuance; macabeo is fruity and acidic; xarel-lo gives it body and crispness. Adding chardonnay imparts finesse. Quality cava producers to look for include Codorníu, Freixenet, Segura Viudas, Miro, Huguet and Recaredo, as well as a new breed of young winemakers and wineries with terroir-driven wines like Avinyó, Raventós i Blanc and Pere Mata. Last summer, Spain’s Cava Regulatory Board (Consejo Regulador del Cava) an-

DRINK nounced the designation of a new premium category called Single Estate Cavas. To be classified in the new designation, the wine must meet the following requirements, according to the country’s Trade Commission’s Wines from Spain newsletter: 1. They must be made with grapes from vines that are at least 10 years old; 2. Are from vineyards that are hand-harvested and have a maximum yield of 8,000 kilograms per hectare; 3. Are estate fermented and vinified with a maximum output of 48 hectoliters per hectare; 4. Are fermented in bottles and aged for at least 36 months; 5. A certification of the base wine must be made for complete traceability from the vine to a store shelf. This new classification should help consumers identify high-quality cava and enhance the visibility of those wines being made

in the traditional méthode champenoise style. In a recent interview with Wines from Spain, president of the Cava Consejo Regulador Pedro Bonet said, “This has been something in the works for quite some time. We proposed creating this new category to do justice to cava. In terms of principal, we were eager to show the world cava’s excellence while giving our producers a way to demonstrate the superior quality of their amazing wines.” So far, no producers have been certified by the Cava Board as they are still awaiting definitive ratification from the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, but that could be coming in a matter of days, according to Bonet. In the meantime, I recommend trying these exceptional cavas: Raventós i Blanc L’hereu ($21.99), Poema Brut ($13.95), Freixenet Semi-Seco ($9.99), Sumarroca Brut Reserva ($12.99) and my favorite, Marques de Gelida Brut Exclusive Gran Reserva ($16.99). CW

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Start your dinner or lunch with some spicy guacamole— prepared at your table and paired with chips and salsa. For appetizers, try the hearty tortilla soup or the crispy chicken taquitos. This restaurant makes choosing an entrée difficult, since there are so many delicious surf-and-turf options. If you’re in the mood for seafood, try the salmón mancha manteles: The salmon is slow-cooked and served with crispy bananas and pineapple salsa. Or, go with the costillas al piquín: braised beef short ribs that come with spicy poblano peppers in cream and salsa. In addition to an array of Mexican beers, there’s a wide variety of tequilas and Latin-inspired cocktails that will pair well with your meal. 268 S. State, Salt Lake City, 801-779-4747, alamexo.com

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One of the oldest restaurants in Salt Lake City, Ruth’s opened in 1949 in a downtown trolley car that Ruth herself moved up Emigration Canyon. Erik and Tracy Nelson now run the place, and you’ll find contemporary dishes like Erik’s raspberry chicken alongside classics such as liver and onions or tender, braised pot roast. Breakfast is served into late afternoon, so you can order the famous “Mile-High biscuits” with country gravy for a late lunch. In warm weather, the sprawling patio is the place to be, as the restaurant also offers live music from local artists. 4160 E. Emigration Canyon Road, Salt Lake City, 801-582-5807, ruthsdiner.com

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Family members of multiple generations work side-by-side to bring stellar Mexican food and south-of-the-border-style amabilidad to their customers, most of whom seem to be regulars. Cabrito in Spanish means “young goat,” and you can’t go wrong with goat in any of its wallet-friendly forms here. If you’re not quite sure about goat but would like to try it, I recommend the enchiladas—three large corn tortillas stuffed with tender, shredded, barbecued goat meat, baked and bathed in a rich, dark mole sauce, then smothered with shredded lettuce, tomato and cheese. All tortillas are housemade, so even the simple tostada that came alongside my order of pozole was wonderful. The tacos served here are ginormous; one carnitas taco and a side of rice makes for a satisfying meal at less than $5. They also sell ready-to-eat carnitas meat to take out for a mere $6 per pound—cheaper than it would be to make at home. For $11.99 you get a pound of carnitas, plus tortillas, cilantro, onions and limes; you can add rice and refried beans for $2 more. Servers we encountered were helpful and spoke perfect English, so don’t be deterred if your Spanish isn’t too swell. Reviewed March 9. 956 W. 1000 North, SLC, 801-363-2645

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Every explosion is predictable in the post-WWII Danish drama Land of Mine. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

Louis Hofmann and Roland Møller in Land of Mine intelligent soldier named Sebastian (Louis Hofmann), German officer Helmut (Joel Basman) and a pair of twins. Møller gives Rasmussen as much humanity as he can under the circumstances, but there’s never an attempt to give his anger any nuance, or a particular history. There’s a woman and her young daughter on a nearby farm, but they only exist so that the girl can wander onto the beach and require a lifethreatening rescue. Land of Mine might as well be a Medieval morality play, for as much as these people exist for any reason other than imparting lessons in forgiveness and tolerance and whatnot. I haven’t even mentioned the dog. I probably shouldn’t mention the dog. The dog has his own preordained function as well, and it’s even more cringe-inducing than anything involving the humans. The people in the Motion Picture Academy who decided this was one of the five best non-English language films of 2016 have a lot to answer for. CW

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t came as something of a shock to discover that the original Danish title of Land of Mine—a Best Foreign Language Film nominee at this year’s Academy Awards— was in fact Under Sandet, which translates as “Under the Sand.” The surprise isn’t that the title was changed—perhaps to avoid confusion with the 2000 French film Under the Sand—but that there was ever anything about the movie that wasn’t ham-fisted and obvious. The nudging play-on-words of the title Land of Mine? That feels like it should have been the perfect choice all along. Because Land of Mine is both about somebody feeling possessive about his land and—get this—about land mines. And if you expect writer/director Martin Zandvliet is going to get any subtler than that, you’re in for a looooong 100 minutes. It begins with Carl Rasmussen (Roland Møller), a captain in the Danish army, seething as occupying German troops march out of the country in May 1945. He spies one of the soldiers carrying a Danish flag, and begins beating the man senseless for daring to lay his hands on the object. “This isn’t your flag!” Rasmussen screams. Perhaps quite understandably, where Germans in his country are concerned, he has some issues. So it’s not an easy marriage when Rasmussen is placed in command of a group of young German soldiers, who are tasked with finding and defusing the German land mines buried around the Danish coastline to defend against Allied attack—some 45,000 on the one beach to which Rasmussen’s crew is assigned. They are de facto prisoners of war, and Rasmussen isn’t about to feel sympathetic that they’re not getting any of the precious available food as they go about their dangerous work.

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Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. THE CASE FOR CHRIST [not yet reviewed] An atheist journalist (Mike Vogel) sets out to disprove the existence of Jesus. Opens April 7 at theaters valleywide. (PG) GOING IN STYLE [not yet reviewed] Three retirees (Alan Arkin, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman) facing the loss of their pensions plot a bank heist. (PG-13) LAND OF MINE B.5 See review on p. 29. Opens April 7 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)

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SMURFS: THE LOST VILLAGE B The current Smurfs cycle began only in 2011, with another installment in 2013, and it’s being rebooted already? The horrid mix of live action and animation is out, but this new all-cartoon entry is pure dumb and might be even too problematic to work on a strictly for-kiddies level. A trek into the “Forbidden Forest” to find a legendary lost village of Smurfs becomes an obsession for Smurfette (Demi Lovato), desperate to redeem her evil origin as a spy for Gargamel (Rainn Wilson) and discover her “purpose” as the sole woman in a world full of men named Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty. Even with this overt attempt to be feminist, she still ends up a damsel in distress who needs rescuing, and she still hikes through the forest in impractical heels. Arrival in said lost village—similar to the psychedelic trippyness of last year’s Trolls—quickly descends into an even more head-scratching idea of feminism, one that puts Smurfette on a pedestal and excuses the one-note nature of her male compatriots. She “can’t be defined by just one word,” but they can? Not a good message for the little ones. Opens April 7 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—MaryAnn Johanson

THE VOID BBB It’s Lovecraft by way of The Thing and Alien in this schlock ’80s throwback from writer-directors Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski. They’ve created an eerie and extremely gruesome homage to old-school body horror, complete with practical (i.e., not CGI) monsters and mind-bending science fiction that satisfies in a less-is-more way, leaving the question “What the heck is going on?” tantalizingly ambiguous. It makes for a genuinely mysterious experience around the band of small-town folk holed up in a rural hospital. As some start behaving in strange, violent ways, sinister white-robed figures gather outside the building—but are they trying to prevent those inside from leaving? Somehow, that makes the situation even creepier. The body horror is mostly of the tiring and already well-explored “male filmmakers freak out over the idea of pregnancy” type, but around that familiarity, Gillespie and Kostanski craft a unnerving flick that draws on the genre’s past while delivering something new. Opens April 7 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—MAJ YOUR NAME BB.5 It might be easier to figure out how good Makoto Shinkai’s anime adaptation of his own novel is, if it were easier to figure out what kind of movie it is. Initially, it plays out as a body-swap comedy à la Freaky Friday, as students Mitsuha (Mone Kamishiraishi) and Taki (Ryûnosuke Kamiki)—her a small-town girl, him a Tokyo city boy—wake up sporadically in one another’s lives. Wackiness ensues, including getting used to different-sex bodies and their respective friends and families, with the same kind of second-act musical montage you’d expect from the live-action equivalent. Then the narrative abruptly takes a dark turn, and the comedy disappears into something that mixes time-travel, romance and disaster movie with sometimes confounding results. Shinkai seems to be reaching for something profound about a connection that transcends all boundaries of space and time, and crafts some lovely moments in the process. He simply takes the crazier parts of his story far too seriously for something that begins with someone incredulously squeezing his/her own boobs. Opens April 7 at Century 16 Cinemas and Cinemark Jordan Landing. (PG)—Scott Renshaw

SPECIAL SCREENINGS BROADWAY BILL At SLC Main Library, April 12, 2 p.m. (NR) FIRE AT SEA At SLC Main Library, April 11, 7 p.m. (NR) SPARROWS At Edison Street Events, April 6-7, 7:30 p.m. (NR) A UNITED KINGDOM At Park City Film Series, April 7-8, 8 p.m.; April 9, 6 p.m. (PG-13)

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GHOST IN THE SHELL BB This futuristic cyber-thriller is loaded with advanced technology, in the service of a disappointingly unsurprising plot. In a heavily CGI’d Japan, super-soldier Major (Scarlett Johansson) is the first robot with a human brain, supposedly rescued from a dying refugee (though Major doesn’t remember her pre-robot life, wink-wink). Cared for by a compassionate scientist (Juliette Binoche) and supervised by a growling government functionary (Takeshi Kitano), Major leads the investigation when a terrorist starts killing robotics scientists. The ensuing spiffy-looking but dull police procedural is only mildly enhanced by innovations like cops communicating telepathically or Major sometimes turning invisible. As for the implications of Japanese scientists putting Japanese brains into Caucasian robots—but giving those robots black hair and eyebrows, as if trying to pass them off as Japanese—well, best to follow the filmmakers’ example and just not think about it. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider

T2:TRAINSPOTTING BBB Whatever sparse, cold satisfaction might have been wrung from Trainspotting’s punk insolence is gone, replaced by an exhausted, bitter cynicism that barely has any tolerance for melancholy, and even less room for sympathy. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), fleeing a failed marriage, returns to Edinburgh and old friends “Sick Boy” Simon (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle) and Spud (Ewen Bremner). What happens from there includes more felonies, a bit of drug use and some male rebonding. But the most intriguing aspects are thematic, as these characters occupy the post-Brexit world. There’s nothing nostalgic, and when it seems Mark is about to descend into sentimentality over his return home, Simon warns him to snap out of it. There might be a lot of rage against reality, but there’s no suggestion of going backward—only forward and through. (R)—MAJ

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Season Premiere: If you somehow made it through the 2016 “holiday” flick Office Christmas Party, you must concur that Jillian Bell’s bipolar she-pimp character was the funniest part of the movie—really, you must. Earlier in 2016, Bell and comedy partner Charlotte Newhouse dropped the debut season of Idiotsitter, a hilarious, flipped-to-female Workaholics of sorts that looked to be another Comedy Central one-and-done (see also 2015’s genius Big Time in Hollywood, FL). But! Idiotsitter is back for a second season, and broke “babysitter” Billie (Newhouse) and heiress “idiot” Gene (Bell) are now off to college. Despite what the Ghostbusters trolls told you, 2016 was a fantastic year for women in comedy—on-demand Idiotsitter Season 1 now and report back.

The Son Saturday, April 8 (AMC)

Series Debut: Speaking of the Saturday-night cable dead zone, here’s another western from AMC to fill that Hell on Wheels void: The Son, based on Philipp Meyer’s novel of the same name, chronicles the rise of Texas oil tycoon

The Gorburger Show Sunday, April 9 (Comedy Central)

Series Debut: Great news for those sick of late-night talk shows hosted by white dudes: The Gorburger Show is hosted by a blue alien (puppeteered and voiced by white dude T.J. Miller, but still). After taking over a Japanese variety show and making slaves of its staff, alien Gorburger “settles in as host in an attempt to understand what it means to be human.” The Gorgburber Show, which sprang from an online series, borrows from tweaked talkers like The Eric Andre Show and Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, but never fully commits to the bit. It doesn’t help that Miller’s frequently upstaged by his guests—which could be by design, but I’ve already overanalyzed this show that costs maybe $150 to produce.

Idiotsitter (Comedy Central) Better Call Saul Monday, April 10 (AMC)

Season Premiere: Yeah, yeah—I know: “But I can’t watch Season 3 yet, because Season 2 just came out on Netflix two weeks ago! I don’t have cable, anyway—I only watch shows when they’re on Netflix, so can you puh-leez refrain from dropping any spoilers for, like, a year? And will you remind me when Season 3 comes to Netflix, because Netflix, Netflix, NETFLIX!” Do you realize what a pain in the ass it is to review TV for you cord-cutters? Anyway: Season 3 of Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul picks up immediately where the last left off, with Chuck (Michael McKean) plotting to take down brother Jimmy/Saul (Bob Odenkirk) with a secretly taped confession. As for the much-geeked-about introduction of Bad villain Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), like everything else, BCS is in no hurry to get there. Just like you and your Netflix. 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.

Series Debut: Was Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s recent spanking of House Speaker Paul Ryan merely a publicity stunt to promote You the Jury, the new legal-reality show she’s presiding over? Since Justice With Judge Jeanine airs in the dead zone of Saturday-night cable, and only your red-cap-sportin’ grandpa knows who the hell she is, probably. And this show seems no less cynical: “The new unscripted series You the Jury will give the biggest jury pool in history—America—the power to decide the outcome of some of the most explosive, real-life, ripped-fromthe-headline civil cases,” Fox pitches. “Six top attorneys who’ve represented some of the nation’s biggest celebrities will argue their cases each week for America’s vote.” Via text, of course, as American Litigation Idol brings us one step closer to the dystopia we deserve.

Eli McCullough (Pierce Brosnan) by focusing on two time periods: 1849 and 1915. In the earlier timeline, you get young Eli (Jacob Lofland) being kidnapped and held captive by Comanches; in the later, Brosnan in full Texan mode being a hardline bastard in business and a plain ol’ bastard to his children, who each have their own drama. There’s also an uneasy tension with a Spanish family occupying the land between McCullough’s and Mexico … and, as you might gather, the uneasy tension of cramming a 576-page western epic into 10 episodes.

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ince I got my first album when I was 4, I didn’t understand much of what Kiss was talking about—like what they meant by, “Meet you in the ladies’ room,” what they intended to do in there and why, exactly, there was a room for ladies. That’s OK, though, because I still connected to the rhythm and melody, the sound of the cowbell, thumping basslines, distorted chords and powerful vocals. Music is a language we already understand intuitively. Exhilarated by these sounds, I jumped on my couch and ran around the apartment. When we’re infants, we pick up language by hearing it spoken. First we hear gibberish and speak gibberish, and glean meaning from expressions and gestures and learn to associate words with people, objects, actions and emotions. As I aged and learned new words, phrases and concepts, songs revealed more with each listen. The world became clearer. Over time, I learned what business Gene Simmons had in the ladies’ room, where boys weren’t allowed, even if—eeeewww—they wanted to be there: He was gonna give the lady the business. As an adult, the journey from discovery to understanding is accelerated. It’s also harder to connect to music. Sometimes I’m looking for something more specific to my mood or circumstances. I want it to sound a certain way, but I often can’t articulate how. Recently, I realized that I crave the old rush that comes from the unfamiliar. The epiphany came in November, the day after I saw the Mexican band Cuca. While I speak decent Spanish, reverb and deficits in my knowledge of the language meant I couldn’t understand much of singer José Fors’ stage banter or lyrics. I relied, as when I was young, on tone, gestures and intuition. Yet it’s one of the best concerts of my life; I left feeling energized and satisfied, thinking that this must be how the Japanese audience felt when Cheap Trick played Budokan. They didn’t need to know what “High Roller” or “California Man” meant; they connected to Robin Zander’s soaring rasp and Rick Nielsen’s bouncy guitars. But, man, were they jumping around. I have a fascination with Mexico and the Spanish language, so of course I love rock en Español. Although it’s essentially the same American blues-based rock music I grew up on, it has, as John Travolta said of Amsterdam in Pulp Fiction, “little differences.” It’s not hard to grasp what local band Leyenda Oculta means in “Viva el Rock ’n’ Roll,” but when Gabino Ramirez rolls the “r” in “rock,” there’s a power and strangeness to it. I can’t make that sound. I don’t understand all the lyrics. But I feel the music, and it gets me jumpy. My personal collection is organized like a record store, by genres. Although the world music section is dominated by Latino acts, I also have music from Africa, Tibet, Tuva, Cambodia, Brazil, Thailand, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Russia, Japan and Italy. I also have Native American music and Australian didgeridoo collections. While some is purely traditional, and I get a thrill from all of that, I’m especially fond of the rock-based stuff, seeing how it translates in other cultures. A favorite is Albert Kuvezin, a Tuvan musician best known in the states for his covers of Joy Division, Led Zeppelin and Motörhead

Left to right: Dengue Fever members Zac Holtzman, Ethan Holtzman, David Ralicke, Chhom Nimol, Paul Smith and Senon Williams. songs that employ Tuvan throat-singing and traditional instrumentation. He’s also been part of the rock bands Hartyga and Yat-Kha, where he sings in Tuvan backed with instruments such as the khomus (Altai mouth harp) and morin khuur (Mongolian horsehead fiddle). A song like Hartyga’s “Megechi Kham,” then, might have a familiar, stomping 4/4 beat, but guttural, single-voiced harmonies, mysterious lyrics and exotic tones are exciting—a reminder of how big the world is, and how much there is to learn. Two bands playing Salt Lake City on Friday night evoke similar reactions. Tinariwen, from the Saharan region of Mali, plays an intoxicating blend of West African and Tuareg assouf music, with a generous helping of electric guitar. The cinematic, groovy tunes earned the group a Grammy Award for their 2011 album Tassili (Anti-) and, particularly if you know the nomadic nature of the Tuareg people, it conjures all kinds of fantastic imagery. Dengue Fever, although from Los Angeles and mainly comprised of Americans, blends psychedelic rock with Cambodian pop music. The music is as trippy and febrile with vocalist Chhom Nimol singing in her native language about a “Ghost Voice” and the “Deepest Lake on the Planet.” I’ve yet to see either band live. A chance to see them both on the same bill—on the same night that Liquid Joe’s hosts an outdoor rock en Español concert (see p. 35)—has me feeling pretty froggy. CW

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mericana” is a handle that’s bandied about quite a bit, but few musicians put it into practice like John McEuen. Just over 45 years ago, he helped assemble some of the living legends of country, folk and traditional music—a lineup that included such venerable talent as Doc and Merle Watson, Roy Acuff, Earl Scruggs and Maybelle Carter—to record with his group, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Those sessions became the band’s landmark album Will the Circle Be Unbroken (United Artists, 1972), a fusion of old and new Americana that materialized well before the term came into popular use. While the majority of McEuen’s 50-year career has been chiefly devoted to the Dirt Band, he often ventured beyond the realms of his day job to enjoy a solo excursion. Made in Brooklyn (Chesky, 2016), McEuen’s latest effort, is the best example yet. It not only demonstrates a reverence for his roots, but also his determination to carry on the legacy the Dirt Band began in Long Beach, Calif., in 1966—and continues today. The album contains covers of Dillard & Clark’s “She Darked the Sun,” Johnny Cash’s “I Still Miss Someone,” his own “Acoustic Traveller” and Warren Zevon’s “My Dirty Life and Times,” giving the songs

a contemporary treatment that never dimminishes their vintage standing. He also revisits the band’s classic “Mr. Bojangles” that adds new eloquence and assurance. McEuen says the album reflects Circle’s original spirit and spontaneity, proving that, despite its age and origins, great music never goes out of style. He says his intent was to use the album’s best elements, along with the things he learned in the Dirt Band, to take the listener on a musical journey. “I told the other players that this was going to be like us making our own Circle.” This is the second time McEuen has looped back to a solo career, which is how he started. “I toured solo even before the Dirt Band started, when I was 19 or 20,” he says. “I was going to school and trying to figure out how not to work.” In 1986, after playing with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band since its founding, he took a lengthy hiatus, and spent much of the ’90s focusing on his own projects. Utilizing his skills as a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, he released four solo albums, scored and produced films, compiled the songs for the award-winning television miniseries The Wild West and performed with A-list artists like Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton, Jerry Garcia and Johnny Cash. He also produced The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo, a Grammy-winning album by Steve Martin, whom he’s known since both were seniors in high school. Since rejoining the Dirt Band in 2001, McEuen has divided his time between touring with the group, performing solo, hosting his show The Acoustic Traveller on Sirius radio and serving as CEO of syndicatednews.net, a news organization he describes as “a combination of The Whole Earth Catalog, Rolling Stone and The Huffington Post.” At an age where most people are settling into retirement—he turns 72 this year—McEuen is actually picking up the pace.

For all his extracurricular activities, it’s clear McEuen loves nothing more than performing. “One of the interesting things about this situation—I think they call it a job—is that it’s more fun than ever,” he said in 2014. “People appreciate the fact that you’re still around and not necessarily trying to prove anything. I’ve played shows with the Dirt Band in front of 8,000 people and shows with only 60 people on my own. Either way, it’s always fun. “I got a job called ‘playing.’ I always tell people, ‘You’re paying me to get here. I play for free.’” CW

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Retro-electro duo Conquer Monster’s 2015 album Metatransit already had a unique visual complement in the Purge Worlds

comic book series created in collaboration with Black Omen Comics. Now, Joshua Faulkner and Daniel Romero add another with this two-night stand featuring dancers from the Municipal Ballet Co. These shows are billed as a “futuristic ballet,” which is somewhat ironic since the music is so redolent of the ’80s. But there’s a reason that the music of that decade—particularly the synth-heavy sci-fi film soundtracks—is hot right now, revived by millennials with a taste for oldstyle camp, access to musical gadgetry and the software to recreate those DayGlo dreams. As for juxtaposing it with ballet—an art form that stretches back to the 15th century—well, at first blush that seems like retro’s nuclear option. Except, if you close your eyes and imagine graceful movements choreographed to old-school bleeps, bloops and burns—it’s poetically trippy. (RH) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 6 p.m., $10 per night, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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that rarely exceed 30 minutes in length, despite track lists numbering into the high teens. They’re also rather spirited on stage: Drummer Donny Paycheck once stuck a drumstick in his eye. Nashville Pussy is likeminded, with blistering, high-velocity songs that bridge classic rock, metal, punk and outlaw country, plus a stage stunt involving simulated fellatio (with the help of a longneck Budweiser) and copious spilt beer in spite of present electricity. Then there’s Thunderfist, the pride of Salt Lake City. Weirdly, they’ve mellowed with age. No more bunny ears and bloodshed, but they still tear it up live with songs about bending elves and Pabst Blue Ribbon. They’re working on a new album, so you can expect to hear a preview. (RH) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $18 presale, $20 day of show, 21+, metromusichall.com

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In the 1991 film What About Bob? Bill Murray says, “There are two types of people in the world: Those who like Neil Diamond and those who don’t.” Bah! Neil Diamond is for everybody—a true showman whose songs resonate with all types. Who doesn’t have a “Sweet Caroline” whose memory brings joy and pain, or know someone special with a zest for life, as in “I’m a Believer”? That’s a song you know by heart even if you don’t realize it’s not a Monkees or Smash Mouth original. In fact, there’s a chance you already dig a Diamond song and don’t know it. UB40’s “Red Red Wine”? Deep Purple’s “Kentucky Woman”? How about

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“Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon,” popularized by Urge Overkill in Pulp Fiction? Some are turned off by what seems to be a corny Vegas show with a giant band and multiple changes of tight-fitting sequined costumes on a near-octogenarian dude. Well, somebody, somewhere—that’s their thing. But really, have you ever watched him perform? The guy still pulls off rousing, career-spanning, two-hour sets where he doesn’t sit still, and that’s where you understand his badassery. Seriously. Everybody likes Neil Diamond. Or they should. (RH) Vivint Smart Home Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $36.50-$146.50, uconcerts.com

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FRIDAY 4/07 LIVE MUSIC

Après Live Music (Park City Mountain) The Blind Boys of Alabama (Egyptian Theatre) Colonel Lingus + Poonhammer + Playing Ghosts + 7 Second Memory (The Royal) The Courtneys + Jay Som + Strong Words (Kilby Court) Dayshell + Silver Snakes + Wired For Havoc (Club X) Ginger and the Gents (Funk ’n’ Dive Bar) I See Stars + Echos + CMDWN (In the Venue) Jack Russell’s Great White + Reloaded + My Private Island + Transit Cast (Liquid Joe’s) Live Local Music (A Bar Named Sue) Live Music (Outlaw Saloon) Live Music at The Aerie (Snowbird) Live Music at The Wildflower (Snowbird) Latin Rock Fest feat. Luzbel w/ Arturo Huizar + Cenizas Ajenas + La Calavera + Leyenda Oculta (Liquid Joe’s) see p. 35 Mountain Country (Acoustic Space) Ozuna (Riverbend Sports Center)

Rohrer (Shades of Pale) SEGO + Pinguin Mofex + Star Crossed Loners (Velour) Tinariwen + Dengue Fever (The State Room) see p. 32 Zeke + Nashville Pussy + Thunderfist (Metro Music) see p. 35

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All-Request Gothic + Industrial + EBM + Dark Wave w/ DJ Vision (Area 51) Chaseone2 (Twist) DJ Juggy (Bourbon House) Dubwise feat. Blind Prophet + Illoom + Quintana (The Urban Lounge) Dueling Pianos (Tavernacle) Friday Night Fun (All-Request Dance) w/ DJ Twitch (Area 51) Funkin’ Friday w/ DJ Rude Boy & Bad Boy Brian (Johnny’s on Second) Hot Noise (The Red Door)

SATURDAY 4/08 LIVE MUSIC

Après Live Music (Park City Mountain) The Allah-Las + The Babe Rainbow (Metro Music Hall) Black Market III (Garage on Beck) The Blind Boys of Alabama (Egyptian Theatre) Bonanza Town (The Spur Bar and Grill) Breakfast Klub (Brewskis) The Browning + The Last Ten Seconds of Life + Blessing A Curse + A Traitor’s Last Breath (The Loading Dock) Candy’s River House (O.P. Rockwell) Cry Wolf (Park City Base Area) Joy Spring Band (Sugar House Coffee) John McEuen (Eccles Theatre) see p. 34 Live Local Music (A Bar Named Sue) Live Music (Outlaw Saloon) Live Music at The Aerie (Snowbird) Live Trio (The Red Door) Mandolin Orange + Eli West (The State Room) Methyl Ethel + Vorhees + Batty Blue (Kilby Court) Metro Music Club + Garrett Lebeau (The Canyons) Michelle Moonshine Band (Hog Wallow) Motion Coasters + Cinders (Velour) Parachute + Kris Allen (The Complex) Parish Lane + My Private Island (The Royal) Sage the Gemini (USU Field House) Spazmatics (Liquid Joe’s) Tom Bennette + George Nelson (Johnny’s on Second)

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Though he was born in Sweden, Anders Osborne’s longtime residency in New Orleans has been the overriding influence throughout most of his recording career, both as a producer and a performer. Boasting a hefty catalog that currently includes some 15 albums and seven record labels, Osborne’s prolific prowess is very clear. One needs look no further than his two recent outings, both released last year. His latest, Flower Box, followed Spacedust & Ocean Views (both on the Back on Dumaine label) by only six months, yet the two releases were markedly different. While Spacedust boasted songs of a laid-back variety, Flower Box successfully upped the ante in terms of energy and exuberance. Parker’s opening act, the nine-piece New Breed Brass Band, brings its own robust dynamic, and a similar love for Crescent City tradition. Natives of New Orleans, they’ve been making music from a young age, blending funk, rock, jazz and hip-hop to create a diverse and distinctive style. (Lee Zimmerman) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $32, 21+, thestateroom.com

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Sometimes, when you go out to eat and there’s live music, it’s just ambience; you’re not really meant to pay attention. There are times, though, when you can’t help it. Maybe you’ve heard the sounds coming from Gracie’s patio one balmy Monday evening. That’s what I’m talking about: the weekly jazz jam hosted by local genre luminary David Halliday. It’s been happening since the summer of 2014 and typically consists of an opening set by Halliday with the Jazz Vespers Quartet (aka the JVQ), during which interested performers sign-in for the jam session following intermission. “There has never been a night in which at least a couple of musicians don’t come to sit in,” Halliday says. He sees the jams as a way to engage local musicians, including his sax students at the University of Utah and members of the Westminster College Jazz Ensemble, which he directs, and also to edify non-musicians and nonjazz fans who originally came for the food and televised sports. Halliday says that it’s often these patrons who have the most fun watching the musical interplay. “I see lots of smiles and there is laughter and cheering,” he says. “I think patrons realize what they’re witnessing is on the fly, and that adds to the excitement.” He’s especially proud to introduce jazz to new ears, and show them it’s not as arcane and inaccessible as most laypeople believe. “Jazz is an aural tradition, passed on by listening, by example, and through friendships.” (Randy Harward) Gracie’s, 326 S. West Temple, 7-10 p.m., free, 21+, graciesslc.com

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TUESDAY 4/11 LIVE MUSIC

Anders Osborne + New Breed Brass Band (The State Room) see p. 39 Joshy Soul + Caleb Hawley + Branson Anderson (The Urban Lounge) Lincoln Durham + Onward, Etc. (The Loading Dock) Live Music at The Bistro (Snowbird) Michale Graves + Suburban Hell Kill + Dealin’ In Dirt + LSDO (Club X) Whistling Rufus (Sugar House Coffee) Winding Road (Whitmore Library)

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WEDNESDAY 4/12 LIVE MUSIC

The Bookends (The Spur) Diego Davidenko (Tin Angel Café) see p. 36 Erra + Phinehas + Auras (In the Venue) Live Jazz (Club 90) Live Music at The Aerie (Snowbird) The London Souls + The Sextones (The State Room) Stolas + Mylets + Icarus The Owl (The Loading Dock) The Strike + Caleb Hawley (Velour)

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1. Armstrong and Bass 2. Sans intermission, maybe 3. Only soccer player who can throw the ball 4. “Yes! The weekend’s almost here!” 5. Designer Gucci 6. One with misgivings 7. Actor Penn of “Milk” 8. In ____ (agitated) 9. China’s ____ Kai-shek 10. What a mascot represents 11. Voice-activated assistant 12. Rickman of the Harry Potter films 13. Airline to Stockholm 18. Actress/comedian Notaro 21. 1996 grammar bestseller “Woe ____”

49. “Give a guy a break, will ya?” 51. Place to play the ponies, for short 52. Anti bodies? 53. Decides (to) 54. Perlman of “Cheers” 55. Antioxidant berry 56. Nonkosher sandwiches 57. Honey Bunches of ____ 58. “Yeah ... I don’t think so” 59. Word ignored in alphabetizing

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25. [typo not fixed] 26. ____ Wednesday 27. Maiden name preceder 28. Gloomy, in poetry 29. ____ buco 30. The Eagles, on a scoreboard 31. ____ Center (Chicago skyscraper) 32. Line part: Abbr. 33. Goldenrod, e.g. 35. ____ choy 36. 2018 Super Bowl number 37. SEAL’s org. 38. Fashion designer Anna whose surname becomes an article of clothing when a “t” is tacked on its end 39. Summer hours on the Atl. coast 40. Lisa, to Bart 44. Like some breakfast cereals 45. Shots 46. Suffix with social or sentimental 47. When Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr dueled 48. 2002 Missy Elliott hit that helped popularize the term “badonkadonk”

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1. Guest book, e.g. 4. Blackens, as a reputation 8. Impersonates 14. 12 meses 15. Arts and crafts purchase 16. “The Glamorous Life” singer ____ E. 17. “Clever thinking!” 19. Sparkly headwear 20. Ugandan despot after relocating to the Golden State? 22. Vaping need, informally 23. The bus stops here: Abbr. 24. Abbr. in an office address 25. Dads who might take their kids to a Chargers game or to a world-renowned zoo? 33. Not so likely to be fooled again 34. One going on foot? 35. Gorgonzola and Roquefort belt out a few tunes? 41. River to the Seine 42. The “A” in A/V 43. Casper the Friendly Ghost and others like him? 47. Cribside cries 50. Hesitant sounds 51. Texter’s “That being said ...” 52. Grammy-winning 2000 rap hit ... or an observation about 20-, 25-, 35- and 43-Across 59. Bit of attire for Mr. Monopoly 60. Beach cookout 61. Prefix with sexual 62. Abbr. on a cover sheet 63. Minn. neighbor 64. Op-ed pieces 65. “That ____ last year” 66. To the ____ degree

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) I hope that by mid-May you will be qualified to teach a workshop called “Sweet Secrets of Tender Intimacy” or “Dirty Secrets of Raw Intimacy” or maybe even “Sweet and Dirty Secrets of Raw and Tender Intimacy.” In other words, Libra, I suspect that you will be adding substantially to your understanding of the art of TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Are you weary of lugging around decayed guilt and regret? Is togetherness. Along the way, you might also have experiences it increasingly difficult to keep forbidden feelings concealed? that would enable you to write an essay entitled “How to Act Like Have your friends been wondering about the whip marks from You Have Nothing to Lose When You Have Everything to Gain.” your self-flagellation sessions? Do you ache for redemption? If you answered yes to any of those questions, listen up. The SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) empathetic and earthy saints of the Confession Catharsis If you have a dream of eating soup with a fork, it might mean that in Corps are ready to receive your blubbering disclosures. They your waking life you’re using the wrong approach to getting nourare clairvoyant, they’re non-judgmental, and best of all, they’re ished. If you have a dream of entering through an exit, it might mean free. Within seconds after you telepathically communicate with that in your waking life you’re trying to start at the end rather than our earthy saints, they will psychically beam you 11 minutes of the beginning. And if you dream of singing nursery rhymes at a karaunconditional love, no strings attached. Do it! You’ll be amazed oke bar with unlikable people from high school, it might mean that in at how much lighter and smarter you feel. Transmit your sad your waking life you should seek more fulfilling ways to express your wild side and your creative energies. (P.S. You’ll be wise to do these stories to the Confession Catharsis Corps NOW! things, even if you don’t have the dreams I described.) GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Now is an excellent time to free your memories. What comes to SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) mind when I suggest that? Here are my thoughts on the subject. If you’re a Quixotic lover, you’re more in love with love itself than with To free your memories, you could change the way you talk any person. If you’re a Cryptic lover, the best way to stay in love with a and feel about your past. Re-examine your assumptions about particular partner is to keep him or her guessing. If you’re a Harlequin, your old stories, and dream up fresh interpretations to explain your steady lover must provide as much variety as three lovers. If how and why they happened. Here’s another way to free your you’re a Buddy, your specialties are having friendly sex and having sex memories: If you’re holding on to an insult someone hurled at with friends. If you’re a Histrionic, you’re addicted to confounding, you once upon a time, let it go. In fact, declare a general amnesty disorienting love. It’s also possible that you’re none of the above. I hope for everyone who ever did you wrong. By the way, the coming so, because now is an excellent time to have a beginner’s mind about weeks will also be a favorable phase to free yourself of memories what kind of love you really need and want to cultivate in the future. that hold you back. Are there any tales you tell yourself about the past that undermine your dreams about the future? Stop telling CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Your new vocabulary word is “adytum.” It refers to the most sacred yourself those tales. place within a sacred place—the inner shrine at the heart of a sublime sanctuary. Is there such a spot in your world? A location that CANCER (June 21-July 22) How big is your vocabulary? Twenty thousand words? Thirty embodies all you hold precious about your journey on planet Earth? thousand? Whatever size it is, the coming weeks will be prime It might be in a church or temple or synagogue or mosque, or it could time to expand it. Life will be conspiring to enhance your creative be a magic zone in nature or a corner of your bedroom. Here you use of language … to deepen your enjoyment of the verbal flow … feel an intimate connection with the divine, or a sense of awe and to help you become more articulate in rendering the mysterious reverence for the privilege of being alive. If you don’t have a personal feelings and complex thoughts that rumble around inside you. If adytum, Capricorn, find or create one. You need the refreshment you pay attention to the signals coming from your unconscious that comes from dwelling in the midst of the numinous. mind, you will be shown how to speak and write more effectively. You might not turn into a silver-tongued persuader, but AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) you could become a more eloquent spokesperson for your own You could defy gravity a little, but not a lot. You can’t move a mountain, but you might be able to budge a hill. Luck won’t miraculously interests. enable you to win a contest, but it might help you seize a hard-earned perk or privilege. A bit of voraciousness might be good for your soul, LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) We all need more breaks from the routine—more holidays, but a big blast of greed would be bad for both your soul and your ego. more vacations, more days off from work. We should all play and Being savvy and feisty will energize your collaborators and attract new dance and sing more, and guiltlessly practice the arts of leisure allies; being a smart-ass show-off would alienate and repel people. and relaxation, and celebrate freedom in regular boisterous rituals. 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If you were born before 1983, you weren’t around to see the lines of people on State Street in Salt Lake City, passing sand bags to one another and stacking them in an attempt to control f loodwaters from City Creek Canyon (see News, p. 12). Downtown State Street was a river, as were many other streets (1300 South comes to mind). It was a mess. Folks rallied to help stave the waters, or else kayaked for photo ops. Some even threw fishing lines from the “banks” of sidewalks to catch wild trout. These f loods occured because we had one massive, wet winter in 1982, and by the following Memorial Day, all hell broke loose as the snowpack melted and ran into the valley. We have just gone through another extreme winter and the wettest March possibly ever, which means we might again have f looding in the Salt Lake Valley. Other areas to the north already have seen the havoc of Mother Nature—Logan, Plain City, Bear River City, etc. It’s time to ask: Do you have f lood insurance? Do you need it? Your best bet is to call your insurance agent and find out. Most people do not have it because they don’t live in a f lood zone. Federal maps show where these zones are located in every city and state, and the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) can help people who live in those areas. Let’s say you own a $350,000 home near a creek in Holladay. You weren’t required by your mortgage lender to get f lood insurance at the closing of escrow because it wasn’t in a f lood zone. With an NFIP policy, you would only be able to get $250,000 of building coverage and up to $100,000 of personal property coverage. If you wanted more, you’d have to turn to the private insurance sources. My insurance agent, Jon Jepsen with Sentr yWest, tells me that premiums range from $400 to more than $8,000 per year; thus, it’s impossible to offer an accurate quote on coverage for a $350,000 home without knowing more details. However, he says the waiting period for the NFIP is 30 days, and 10-15 days through private insurers in Utah. In other words, when is that creek going to overf low? Will it damage your home? Do you have insurance, and when will it kick in if you need it or order it today? The f lood of ’83 happened on Memorial Day weekend—which is about seven weeks away; just sayin’. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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TP Goes High Tech China’s public-park restrooms have for years suffered toilet-paper theft by local residents who raid dispensers for their own homes—a cultural habit, wrote Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, expressing taxpayer feelings of “owning” public facilities—but the government recently fought back with technology. At Beijing’s popular Temple of Heaven park, dispensers now have facial-recognition scanners beside the six toilets, with pre-cut paper (about 24 inches long) issued only to users who pose for a picture. Just one slug of paper can be dispensed to the same face in a nine-minute period, catastrophic for the diarrhea-stricken and requiring calling an attendant to override the machine.

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Latest Religious Messages The church-state “wall” leaks badly in Spindale, N.C., according to former members of the Word of Faith Fellowship (reported in February by the Associated Press). Two state prosecutors (one a relative of the church’s founder), in nearby Burke and Rutherford counties, allegedly coached Fellowship members and leaders how to neutralize government investigations into church “abuse”—coaching that would violate state law and attorney ethical standards. Fellowship officials have been accused of beating “misbehaving” congregants, including children, in order to repel their demons. Among the Fellowship’s edicts revealed in the AP report: All dating, marriages and procreation subject to approval; no wedding-night intimacy beyond a “godly” cheek kiss; subsequent marital sex limited to 30 minutes, no foreplay, lights off, missionary position.

The Bedroom of Tomorrow In March, vibrator customers were awarded up to $10,000 each in their class-action “invasion of privacy” lawsuit against the company Standard Innovation, whose We-Vibe model’s smartphone app collected intimate data (vibrator temperature and motor intensity) that could be associated with particular customers—and which were easily hackable, and controllable, by anyone nearby with a Bluetooth connection. The Illinois federal court limited the award to $199 for anyone who bought the vibrator but did not activate the app. n The company British Condoms is now accepting pre-orders for the iCon Smart Condom, with an app that can track, among other data, a man’s “thrust velocity,” calories expended “per session” and skin temperature, as well as do tests for chlamydia and syphilis. Projected price is about $75, but the tech news site Cnet reported in March that no money will be collected until the product is ready to ship.

Eyewitness News On the morning of March 20 in Winter Park, Fla., Charles Howard, standing outside his home being interviewed live by a WFTV reporter, denied he had committed a crime in a widely reported series of voicemail messages to a U.S. congressman, containing threats to “wrap a rope around your neck and hang you from a lamppost.” He boasted that proof of his having done nothing wrong was that if he had, he would have already been arrested. Three minutes later, according to the reporter, agents drove up and arrested Howard.

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People Different From Us Royce Atkins, 23, told the judge in Northampton County, Pa., in March that he was so sorry he did not stop his car in 2015 and help that 9-year-old boy he had just hit and killed. However, Atkins had earlier been jailhouse-recorded viciously trashtalking the boy’s family for “reacting like they’re the victims. What about my family? My family is the victim, too.” Atkins got a four-year sentence. n In February, in a Wayne County, Mich., court during sentencing for a DUI driver who had killed a man and severely injured his fiancée, Judge Qiana Lillard kicked the driver’s mother out of the courtroom for laughing at the victim’s sister who was tearfully addressing the judge. Lillard sentenced the mother to 93 days for contempt, but later reduced it to one day.

The Aristocrats! Among the facts revealed in the ongoing criminal proceedings against U.S. Navy officials and defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis, who is charged with arranging kickbacks: In 2007, Francis staged a party for the officials at the Shangri-La Hotel in the Philippines during which, according to an indictment unsealed in March, “historical memorabilia related to Gen. Douglas MacArthur were used by the participants in sexual acts.” The Passing Parade A 23-year-old Albuquerque woman performed cartwheels instead of a standard field sobriety test at a DUI stop in February, but she did poorly and was charged anyway. On the other hand, student Blayk Puckett, stopped by University of Central Arkansas police, helped shield himself from a DUI by juggling for the officer. n Oreos fans sampling the limited-edition Peeps Oreos in February expressed alarm that not only their tongues and saliva turned pink, but also their stools (and leaving a pink ring in the bowl). A gastroenterologist told Live Science it was nothing to worry about.

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Perspective The U.S. House of Representatives, demonstrating particular concern for military veterans, enhanced vets’ civil rights in March by removing a source of delay in gun purchases. A 2007 law had required all federal agencies to enter any mentally ill clients into the National Instant Criminal Background Check database for gun purchases, but the new bill exempts veterans—including,

Fine Points of the Law Police and prosecutors in Williamsburg, Va., are absolutely certain that Oswaldo Martinez raped and killed a teenage girl in 2005, but, though he was quickly arrested, they have—12 years later—not even put him on trial. Martinez, then 33, is still apparently, genuinely (i.e., not faking) deaf, illiterate and almost mute, and besides that, the undocumented Salvadoran immigrant has such limited intelligence that test after test has shown him incapable of understanding his legal rights, and therefore incompetent to stand trial. Police made multiple “slam-dunk” findings of Martinez’s DNA on the victim’s body and also linked Martinez via a store camera to the very bottle of juice left at the crime scene.

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n Catholic priest Juan Carlos Martínez, 40, apologized shortly after realizing, as he said, he had gone “too far” in celebrating March’s Carnival in a town in the Galicia area of Spain—that he acted inappropriately in dressing as Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, reclining on a red satin sheet on a parade float carrying men dressed as classic Playboy “Bunnies.” Despite apparent public support for Father Martínez, his archbishop asked him to attend a “spiritual retreat” to reflect on his behavior.

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