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The State of Pickleball

In the summer of 2011, I dropped by the Sports Mall in Murray to see if I could play pickleball there.

My inquiry was greeted with snickering.

“What the hell is pickleball?” the attendant asked.

That pretty well characterized the state of pickleball back then—an unfamiliar sport with a silly name and no facilities. More people knew about curling than pickleball, and you couldn’t have bought a pickleball in Salt Lake City if you had wanted to. The equipment was readily available online, but there was hardly any place to play. Ogden and St. George had some outdoor courts— Dimple Dell Recreation Center set up three makeshift courts in its gym—but those were about the only options. If you emailed Salt Lake City’s Parks and Public Lands Department (P&PLD) about it, you didn’t get a reply.

Now, just six years later, the city will have 18 outdoor courts by the end of 2017. Come fall, Utah will have about 360 of them, including a new complex on 11th Avenue, another in Fairmont Park and six lighted courts in Murray. The dramatic increase is in line with national trends. In 2010, the USA Pickleball Association registered 800 courts across the nation. Today, there are 5,000.

Utah has earned special status in the nationwide pickleball community owing to annual tournaments in Ogden and St. George. The competitions attract nationally ranked players, and in March, 1,700 pickleball players jammed the Huntsman Senior Games website vying for a place in the October games.

Pickleball is a tennis-like game played with a solid paddle and a perforated plastic ball. The net is 2 inches lower than that of tennis. The sport was invented in 1965 by Joel Pritchard, a congressman from Washington state. He cobbled together handmade plywood paddles, a whiffle ball and a badminton court to create a game for his kids. Two

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stories compete as the source of the name.

One is about Pritchard’s ball-chasing cocker spaniel named Pickles. Another comes from Pritchard’s wife who wrote in 2008, “The name of the game became Pickleball after I said it reminded me of the Pickle Boat in crew where oarsmen were chosen from the leftovers of other boats.”

Unless you lived in Florida or Arizona, chances are that pickleball was as unfamiliar as lacrosse, the nation’s other up-and-coming sport.

But both were growing apace. Lacrosse took hold in schools as soccer had done 30 years before; pickleball was the go-to game in Sun Belt retirement communities like St. George. As more and more Baby Boomers put aside their tennis racquets and golf clubs, many bought pickleball paddles. There are several reasons why. Pickleball is more forgiving than tennis—especially on aging knees and slowing reflexes—and it is a game that rewards deftness, not power. Learning the basics takes only a few minutes, and the game has an infectious, transgenerational appeal.

The construction of outdoor courts is a pivotal point in pickleball’s steep growth curve in northern Utah over the past five or six years. Quite simply, the outdoor courts make the sport more accessible. Heretofore, pickleball has mostly been an indoor sport played on weekdays at places like Holladay Lions, Millcreek, Dimple Dell and Copperview recreation centers. However, because these facilities devote weekends to Junior Jazz basketball, the unintended consequence has favored retirees. By that I mean that Baby Boomers have learned to play pickleball while Gen-Xers and Millennials are at work. With the advent of outside courts, 2017 might go down as the year that younger generations took up the fast-growing sport and changed the tenor of the game with their quick reflexes and supple knees.

The growth of pickleball along the Wasatch Front since 2011 has been propelled from the

bottom up, not the top down. The sport was not promoted by PE teachers or the P&PLD (or the LDS Church, for that matter). Neither were there local blogs or Facebook pages devoted to pickleball. Nevertheless, it has gained a solid footing as an indoor sport. Almost all recreation centers in the valley, including the Jewish Community Center and a growing number of LDS wards, offer indoor pickleball with portable nets and taped lines. On any given weekday, people queue for a court at one of the recreation centers.

The game’s popularity has surged because the timing is right: Participation in such legacy sports as golf, tennis, basketball and softball is declining in the U.S. Another factor has been the willingness of people like John Tateoka at Holladay Lions Recreation Center who has accommodated the ever-increasing demand for more court time.

Getting outdoor courts built has been another matter. Even as Draper, Brigham City, Bountiful and Ogden were building pickleball courts, the P&PLD was resistant to the if-you-build-it-they-will-come approach to what it regarded as an upstart sport. Year after year, players lobbied city and county parks departments to either build new courts or convert some of the aging tennis-court inventory to pickleball. Conversion of any of SLC’s 90 tennis courts was opposed by the tennis community. It also took offense at the sound of hitting a pickleball. The breakthrough came two years ago when the P&PLD agreed to repurpose two abandoned tennis courts on Fifth Avenue and C Street for pickleball play. But the signal event comes May 12 when Mayor Jackie Biskupski inaugurates Salt Lake City’s first designed-for-pickleball courts on 11th Avenue. By summer’s end, new pickleball courts will be built in Fairmont, Jordan and Riverside parks. In the meantime, you can play at the Sports Mall using paddles and balls bought at Big Five, Scheels or any other sporting goods store in the valley. CW Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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What’s your favorite springtime outdoor activity?

Scott Renshaw: Lying on the grass and making thank-God-there’s-no-moresnow angels.

Lisa Dorelli: There’s something about taking a leisurely stroll in the rain, as The Cure blasts intensely through my earbuds, and stopping into a café for a gourmet cocoa. I know, I’m such a pluviophile.

Jeremiah Smith: Why, drinking beer on porches and patios, of course.

Pete Saltas: Yep. Patio season in all its glory.

David Miller: I personally love seeing all the plants come back to life. Whether it’s the trees and flower beds in my neighborhood or the grass and sage in the foothills, I find it completely magical when so much dead brown and gray transforms into the greens and yellows and reds and all the other colors of life returning after winter.

Andrea Harvey: Beer and porch couches!

Mikey Saltas: Hiking, hands down. I went on the Living Room hike recently, and either that trail got harder or I got out of shape this winter.

Randy Harward: Disc golf. You’re immersed in the splendor of the season—sunrises, blue skies, green grass, dewdrops, budding flowers, chirping birds, fresh air, sunsets—while sending colorful discs on graceful, majestic flights until they collide with metal chains in a ringing ching!

It’s like living the Overture to William Tell, somewhere between the orchestral performance and goofy Spike Jones version.

Larry Carter: Gardening, fishing and biking, in that order. Biking last because, first I have to convince myself to get on it.

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Yes, sexual content—be it good, bad or ugly (and it’s mostly ugly)—is out there.

It’s everywhere, as the author states. But why is that? Maybe because, like it or not, we are part of a large group of creatures on this planet that reproduces sexually, specifically human mammals. Reproduction enables our continued existence, and because being alive beats the alternative, we are extremely interested in sex. That’s who we are. That’s what we are. That’s how and why we are here.

So why the hang-ups about sex? It’s no big deal! Really, humans, get over it! Grow up already.

We don’t shame young people for getting hungry or thirsty or for wanting to play or for being curious about the world, and our sexuality is just as natural and normal as all those things. Why all the shame? If we want our kids to be well-rounded, balanced and healthy adults, we need to teach them about all aspects of their world and their place in it, including their humanity, of which sexuality is an important aspect.

As a very wise friend of mine always says, don’t let fear make the decision for you. Just talk. Share. And not just once for “the talk” but throughout their lives as their sexuality develops and evolves. The societal problems we have regarding our sexuality are caused by ignorance, denial of our humanity, and fear. Education, as always, is the cure.

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unbelievable talents.

Also at this just-completed conference, Apostle M. Russell Ballard warns about loud voices of Satan.

Ever wonder why Utah is falling further and further behind most of the other states? Very little progress can be made in a state dominated and governed by ignorant and superstitious people who believe in men with supernatural powers and devils.

May enlightenment come to Utah one day.

May the voters no longer elect people because they are members of a religious cult similar to those of the dark ages.

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I loved the part at the beginning when Bernie pointed out that all the congressmen, senators, the governor and most of the legislators in Utah are GOP. He said, the good news is that you guys have nowhere to go but up.

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The way it should be.

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Two things struck me about this article: 1. Porn is a shitty substitute for sex education. Porn does not teach teens how to have good sex any more than watching Modern Family will teach them how to have a happy, well-adjusted family.

2. There is a great sex education program called OWL (Our Whole Lives) taught at the Unitarian Church here in Salt Lake City. This curriculum has been used by other churches as well. I also believe that Planned Parenthood is another option for sex education.

Stan Rosenzweig is correct in disparaging this state’s inability to treat teens as full human beings and to be concerned with their lack of sex education. But seriously, I don’t want the state teaching my kids about sex because they won’t tell the whole truth—which should involve relationship-building; how to have a healthy transgender, gay, lesbian, straight or bisexual relationship; how to say no; how to say yes when it’s time; how to know when it’s time; where to get and how to use contraception; how to pleasure your partner; how to pleasure yourself; how to support those who are sexually different from yourself; and a host of other real issues that our kids are already dealing with. Parents need to seek outside resources, since Utah legislators—like legislators from most states—would rather see our kids get incomplete, inaccurate or false information about sex.

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Unfair Fire

If you Google “the right way to fire someone,” chances are the University of Utah won’t pop up. “Of course, firing should be the final step in a fair and transparent process that began long before the actual termination talk—and there should be a trail of paperwork to prove it.” That’s what the Harvard Business Review says.

It’s all about face-to-face contact, showing compassion, keeping it short and having discussed just about everything with human resources. The U chose another course. It sent an email—on the day Mary Beckerle, CEO of the Huntsman Cancer Institute, was to be terminated. A spokeswoman from the U said in a statement that thoughtful consideration and careful deliberation went into the decision. That sparked an immediate petition, according to The Salt Lake Tribune, and a vow from Jon Huntsman Sr. that Dr. Vivian Lee, CEO of the U of U Health Care would be gone.

University President David Pershing just looks weak and uninformed. And Beckerle? Her reputation is saddled with questions of what conduct could possibly merit such swift termination.

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What would you do without the “liberal media?” This past week puts it in perspective.

Huntsman Cancer Institute aside, you wouldn’t know about Mayor Jackie Biskupski’s nominee for the Redevelopment Agency, if it weren’t for The Salt Lake Tribune. She pulled his name amid news of lawsuits and controversies. Then there’s a state audit that forced the resignation of the head of Utah League of Cities and Towns, and showed that tax money was being used personally. UTA also had its day in the media light, as investigations highlighted big bonuses for almost nothing and questionable real estate deals by a former board member. Also, the state finally disclosed its confidential Amazon deal. These are just a few stories that would be hidden from public view were it not for those “enemies of the people.”

Take the Toll

Ski season’s over, but the canyons still bustle with traffic. The University of Utah has been looking at the congestion along Big Cottonwood Canyon. Yeah, automobiles are a problem everywhere.

But a U of U engineering study now suggests a toll, accompanied by free public transit for year-round access, the Deseret News reports. The toll system seems to work for Millcreek Canyon, and the number of cars—13,000 during Labor Day—seems to cry for a solution. No one likes tolls. The first toll idea came about in 1995, and access is still free. It might be time to pay to play up the canyons.

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CONSTRUCTION

Observing unassuming John Cottam in one of his Trolley Square shops, The Spectacle, you’d never suspect that he’s been “Optician to the Stars.” But indeed he has. Before relocating to Salt Lake City 20 years ago, the Henderson, Nev., native practiced his craft in Las Vegas—with its bevy of celebs. We chatted with Cottam about his shop and some of his famous clients.

When did you decide to become an optician?

As a child, I noticed my eyeglasses hurt my ears. So I took a candle, heated the earpiece … and burned off the end! From then on, I paid attention to people’s eyeglasses—and thought I could fit them better. After high school, I started as a lens grinder at a local optical company, and after five years, I took the exam to become a licensed optician.

How did you end up in Sin City?

I was hired by the Optique Boutique, a high-end store on the Las Vegas Strip, across from the Stardust.

Who was your first celebrity customer?

One day, I looked up and couldn’t believe it. It was Ann-Margaret. I was dumbfounded to be talking with her. Before leaving, she signed the shop’s wall. It was amazing.

She was the first of many, right?

Yes. As time went on, I got to meet some great people with famous names—and a couple of ‘gangsters’ who were well known in Las Vegas. Each one is a story. I was able to create some fabulous glasses for Elton John, Andy Williams, Phyllis Diller, Dean Martin … the list is quite long.

Any favorites among your celebrity clients?

One was Sammy Davis Jr. He was one of the most kind, loving persons I’ve ever met. Because he was blind in one eye, we were very careful to use the most impact-resistant lens on the market at that time.

Tell us about ‘The King’—Elvis Presley.

Of course, he wore a trademark frame. And when we could no longer get them, I took a broken pair to an aircraft machine shop and had some cast in aluminum. I finished them in my garage, and added the hinges and earpieces at my store. He wore the original frame when he met President Nixon in 1970.

You’ve had some less-than-conventional orders, too?

I was contacted by a man from Los Angeles to make some movie props for a sci-fi movie.

He wouldn’t divulge much, only that the main character was a detective in the future. It turned out to be Harrison Ford in Blade Runner. The glasses were for the Chinese scientist [James Hong] with ‘magnifiers, electronics and gizmos.’ The studio kept three pairs, and I have the fourth in my other store, The Machine Age.

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After the death of Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch, I read an article about how their album Paul’s Boutique could never be made today because of copyright laws governing music sampling.

Is this true? What is the current legal state of sampling?

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Ask any copyright attorney and she’ll tell you: Unlicensed sampling, no matter how minimal, undetectable or artistic in nature, is at best a seriously risky move. Many hiphop albums now considered classics, including 1989’s Paul’s Boutique, were constructed from innumerable sampled scraps of other records, and the cost of securing the rights to every last snippet would be exorbitant.

U.S. copyright law, one might argue, protects artists from moochers out to piggyback on their success. Or you might say it imposes an insurmountable financial burden on certain kinds of expression, shutting down a major avenue of creative activity.

The laws on the books, though, haven’t changed since before the days The Sugarhill Gang was cutting the first rap records. To legally sample part of a recording—i.e., digitally re-record it and use it as a component in a new piece of music—you need the permission of two sets of copyright owners: the person—or, more likely, the label— that owns the rights to the recording itself, called the mechanical rights; and the owner of the rights to the underlying composition, or publishing rights, often but not always the songwriters. So what did change?

Once sampling got cheaper, easier and more widespread, there got to be real money in suing the folks who did it without paying up.

One distinctive trick of early rap DJs was to punctuate a song’s beat with excerpts from vinyl LPs played on a turntable. By the early ’80s, high-end technology had made it possible to do this digitally instead—i.e., via sampling. Within a few years, newly affordable sampling gear set off a flurry of ingenuity in the rap world: Artists including Public Enemy, De La Soul and the Beastie Boys assembled samples by the dozens into brandnew compositions that previously would have required hours of tedious tape-splicing.

Meanwhile, though, other rap recordmakers took to simply swiping the most recognizable part of a familiar pop song— the “hook”—to score a hit of their own. The wild success of such singles as MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This” and Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” both from 1990, brought about the earliest sampling suits, which typically settled out of court.

Despite this increased legal activity, hiphop record production was still relatively unpoliced in 1991 when a comical sad-sack rapper named Biz Markie sampled the piano part from a maudlin ’70s hit by Gilbert O’ Sullivan, “Alone Again (Naturally),” for use in his own song “Alone Again.” This might have escaped notice, except that the chorus of the new song consisted of Biz singing (after a fashion) the refrain from the old one. When O’Sullivan protested, a fed-

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eral court in Manhattan decided that Biz had infringed copyright, barred further sales of his record, awarded Gil $250,000 in damages and even referred the matter to a U.S. attorney for criminal prosecution (though nothing came of this).

The response was immediate: Extensive sampling went out of fashion. But some producers were convinced that unlicensed sample use might still be feasible. What if you folded a fragment of sampled music into a larger production so trickily that no one could identify it? A federal appeals court in Cincinnati cleared that question up in 2005 when it ruled that rap group N.W.A. had infringed copyright even though the sample in question had been doctored beyond recognition. “Get a license or do not sample,” the court declared flatly, adding, “We do not see this as stifling creativity in any significant way.” Well, then.

For years, anyone with any money abided by this diktat. Last summer, though, another federal court found that using an unlicensed but very, very brief sample did not infringe copyright. The fallout from these clashing opinions hasn’t settled yet—eventually the Supreme Court might have to step in. (There does exist something called the “fair use” exception, permitting you to legally excerpt copyrighted material for purposes like criticism or parody, but it’s hard to claim it for a commercial recording.)

Negotiating sample rights has become big business. Whereas early on the norm was a buyout—a one-time payment that allowed free-and-clear usage—now you’re more likely to have to pay an ongoing percentage of royalties; once your record reaches a certain sales threshold, the percentage goes up.

Could this be simplified? Well, Congress could pass a compulsory licensing statute for samples. Rather than having to secure the approval of copyright owners, an artist who wanted to use a sample would just pay a set rate. There’s precedent for this: If I’ve written a song that you want to record, I can’t stop you as long as you comply with certain legal requirements, which include paying a predetermined royalty. But given the power that big-money copyright holders wield, it’s hard to imagine much congressional activity on the sampling-lawreform front. We might be no more likely to see another Paul’s Boutique than we are to see a new Gothic cathedral. n

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broke down, the group was left with little recourse than to hope that a historic designation shifts pressure onto the district and the developers to rehabilitate the structures.

The alliance is critical of the district’s line of thought that it’s in the best interest of taxpayers to sell off the land to developers who plan to raze the buildings. Dyers and Carter say the $11.5 million deal is undercut by demolition costs, which the district will bear.

Granite School District Communications Director Ben Horsley revealed to City Weekly that the winning demolition bid was $2.55 million.

“The cost is high for demolition, mostly because of the amount of asbestos mitigation required due to extensive damage and vandalism that has occurred and because of the age of the building,” he writes in an email.

Horsley says that in previous school demolitions, contractors have allowed interested individuals to take home bricks as a memento. He anticipates the same to happen with Granite.

It would be a consolation for the group of residents who want to see the edifices—some more than 100 years old—standing for another 100. Carter acknowledged that an 11th-hour pitch for a historic designation is a longshot, but one was worth pursuing and could pay off. “We’re doing our best,” she says.

Alumni who attended the vote applauded Carter as she exited the boardroom and thanked her for her persistence. As one man left, he boiled down the neighborhood’s concern in a simple plea to the board: “Just don’t let them build a Walmart there.” CW

move forward with a plan to preserve and repurpose several campus buildings to be used as “makerspace” areas where artists could work on innovative projects.

When the alliance’s offer to buy one developer out of its contract with Granite School District was met in February with a counter of $6.5 million, they saw it as the first foothold to reaching their goal.

“There was a glimmer of hope because at least we had a number, and they were at least interested in letting us try,” the alliance’s Executive Director Derek Dyer says. The group announced the news and began working on a funding plan.

But three weeks later, the developer rescinded the offer. Dyer and his team went back to the drawing board and for the last year, the alliance has explored all conceivable avenues in a quest to save the school.

Development on the school grounds is split into four phases. The first three concern the southern portion of the Granite property, where more than 70 single-family homes will be built by Garbett Homes. Wasatch Group plans commercial development on the northern side for the final phase.

Early on, the alliance recognized that in order to be successful, it would have to forge partnerships instead of erect roadblocks, so the group aimed to find middle-ground with the developers.

“We were trying to create a win-winwin situation, where we’re still saving some of the historical buildings. We’re still providing some community good by creating art facilities, and they could still do a development,” Dyer says.

But when the deal with the developer

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ing and asked the board to forward on a request to deny a historic registry designation.

“The school district has over 400,000 constituents,” he said. “The alumni at Granite High, while valued, make up just a small portion of those constituents and only a portion of those alumni make up these valiant efforts, Herculean, to save the building.”

The buildings, he explained, are plagued with asbestos and other hazardous material and had suffered deterioration over the years. Compounding the liability problems, the boarded-up buildings have attracted mischief, criminality and danger, he claimed.

“Inside the former high school, on the roof and throughout the campus there has been thefts, illicit activities and even an attempted suicide,” he said, then added, “This is an untenable situation for the district to maintain this building and it’s untenable to the community.”

As a final point, Anderson noted that South Salt Lake residents had twice rejected bonds to buy and preserve the buildings, when the district was trying to figure out what to do with the structures that shuttered in 2009.

“During that time, only a few parties have expressed interest in acquiring the building, but none of them has provided a viable offer to purchase this property,” he said. “Those who are seeking to save the building have no practical plan to do so.”

It’s a characterization that the Utah Arts Alliance disputes. Earlier this year, the Utah Arts Alliance made an ambitious offer: $5.3 million for a little more than 10 acres of property at Granite High School. If acquired, the group would

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he Granite High School buildings could be added to a national historic registry then reduced to a pile of rubble months later.

The Utah State Historic Preservation Review Board unanimously agreed on April 20 to recommend that the former Granite High—near 3300 S. 500 East—and several satellite buildings be recognized on the Historic Registry of National Places.

The recommendation will be forwarded to the U.S. Department of the Interior, which will determine in the next couple months whether it agrees with the suggested designation.

But developers are in the midst of acquiring from the Granite School District the 27-acre property where it’s expected they will build homes and a supercenter store. A spokesperson for the district confirmed that asbestos abatement is slated to begin within a month and demolition around August.

A historic registry designation does not protect a building from demolition, as was emphasized by members of the preservation board. Before votes were cast, Granite High School alumni lined the boardroom walls as a show of support.

City ordinances often regulate historic buildings, but South Salt Lake— where Granite High is located—has no rules on the books.

Although a historical registry designation wouldn’t legally spare the structures from a wrecking ball, Utah Arts Alliance Project Manager Merili Carter hopes it would provide some social protection.

“People believe that once something is on a historical registry, it should not be torn down. I really hope there’s some sort of collective action that comes forward and really expresses their power.

Right now, I believe, most alumni and people in the area feel like they don’t have real power,” Carter, a class of ’97 Granite High grad, says.

With the designation comes a 40 percent tax credit for renovation, she adds.

The district, however, has no desire to slow down the deal.

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The first time a 19-year-old Estrada checked-in at the downtown shelter in March 2013, he didn’t sleep a wink. The smell, the noise, the drug use, the violence—his father throwing him out of his West Valley City apartment had condemned him to this?

That night, he had his duffel bag under his legs, his shoes under his pillow. Unlike many there, he also had other options.

He could have called his mother in Bairstow, Calif., and asked for money to come back home, but his pride wouldn’t allow it. “I didn’t want to show my mother I was fucked,” he says.

“When that door closed behind me, I took it as the journey of my life, of being homeless, of becoming a man.”

The independent-minded youth had stormed out of their West Coast home a few months before, after an argument with his step-father. Estrada’s three winter months in Utah with his biological father ended over an argument about a hookah.

After Estrada’s night at the shelter, he rode his bike around the block, trying to figure out what to do next. A PacificIslander transwoman called out to him, offering to take care of his duffel bag. Myra Omar had long been a fixture at the shelter, Estrada says. She’s blessed with pipes like Lady Gaga, fists like Muhammad Ali and an outsized maternal heart for homeless kids. “Everybody knows Myra,” he says. “She’s a loud Pacific Islander. You’re not going to miss seeing a dude in a sarong.”

Omar moved to Utah to be with a sister, but a year later in 2011, after her sibling moved out of state, Omar lost her job and for the first time was homeless.

When the baby she was caring for at the shelter died, it sent her into a meth-fueled downward spiral. “When he passed away, I didn’t care for life anymore,” she says. Omar was a hardcore meth user for three years, calling it her “supermodel phase” because she went from 250 to 120 pounds.

Sitting on the edge of her small cot in one of Safe Haven’s apartments in downtown Salt Lake City, she recalls watching over about 50 street kids at the shelter during a five-year span.

Omar speaks with a softly melodious voice, swaying slightly side to side as she talks.

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call the block home generally have been absent.

As Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County have struggled to define the best path to cleaning up Rio Grande, some efforts have focused on the needs of the vulnerable and cracking down on what Utah Speaker of the House Greg Hughes has called “the wolves”—the drug dealers who prowl the area.

Estrada’s story suggests that evaluating the block’s residents needs to be more nuanced. Estrada, after all, went from homeless youth to predator to defendant to family man. He also offers insight into the ad-hoc families that homeless kids form for protection, and the thriving, cartel-controlled economic twilight that writhes there day-in, day-out.

At a time when the homeless shelter discussion in Utah has led to so much angry rhetoric, Estrada’s redemption through the love of an infant offers that most-fragile of qualities: hope.

He realized with her birth that the image which haunted him as a child—seeing his father behind bars—was the one thing he could not bequeath to her. “I don’t want my daughter seeing me how I saw my dad in jail.”

The magnitude of the obstacles that Estrada overcame—to make it out of drug dealing and addiction, and into a small apartment living-room with diapers, baby toys and cans of formula—becomes apparent as he surveys six of his 16 mugshots, pronouncing the identity of each face: “Drug addict, drug addict, dealer, mafia kid.”

When he taps the one of him in a button-up shirt and vest, with a stubble-lined head and hooded eyes staring coldly into the camera, it’s almost as if he can’t quite bring himself to look at it. “That’s the one I don’t want to go back to,” he says.

“La cara de muerte, the face of death. People always called me that because I smelled of blood and death. There’s no fear in my eyes. I just looked dead.” He blames the lifeless mask on “things I shouldn’t have seen,” but declines to elaborate.

Estrada wants to tell his story to show homeless kids they can escape the block. His former street mother, Myra Omar, says that’s a message he’s already conveyed: “Some of the street kids we both knew left because of his example. He was kind of, like, showing them no matter how deep in the game you get, you can always come out of it.”

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hen Gabriel Zamora Estrada was released from jail on Feb. 7, 2015, after serving five months for drug possession and paraphernalia charges, he started looking for work. For several months, the 21-year-old worked construction, then hired on at a McDonald’s. As a former drug dealer at Salt Lake City’s downtown shelter, Estrada had made $5,000 a week selling meth, heroin and crack cocaine. At the fast-food franchise, he was pulling in $330 weekly for 40-plus hours manning the drive-thru, serving and cleaning. “It was shit work,” he says.

By then, Estrada had survived two years as a homeless youth and drug dealer on “the block,” as its residents call the streets that surround the shelter where open-air drug dealing and use has become infamously commonplace. Rio Grande “drains you emotionally,” Estrada says. “It takes your emotions out. You don’t rely on happy feelings, on jealousy, trusting people or anger.”

He started dating a McDonald’s co-worker, Monic. (About to turn 18, she asked that her last name not be used in this story). She’d found him rude and arrogant—particularly when he pulled on her pigtails—but he also made her laugh.

In October 2015, Monic found out she was pregnant. She told Estrada, “The baby is going to change your life.” She was sure his cold heart would soften once he cradled his infant for the first time.

Little Rosana was born fighting for her life, her umbilical cord wrapped five times around her neck. Her heart rate dropped below 30—twice. It took 15 seconds to unravel the cord and get her breathing and crying. Estrada, who had buried his emotions for so long to survive the block, suddenly wanted to cry. “Gabe was so anxious to hold the baby,” Monic recalls, “so impatient.”

Until now, the Rio Grande shelter debate has been driven largely by public clamor to get rid of the drug-related crime that runs rampant through the surrounding streets. Politicians and even a property developer have spent several nights “undercover” at the shelter, reporting back on nightmarish scenes of violence and drug use. But the voices of those who

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In July, Estrada decided to explore his options on the men’s side of the shelter, where dealers sold 0.2 grams of dope in fingernail-width “balloons” through middlemen and homeless runners. He settled against a black fence and lit up a spice joint. He watched the “spitters,” he says, “how they were basically bringing people to them, getting money, pulling a wad out of their pocket, giving change, then they’ll spit the balloons in their mouths out.”

A self-assured man in blue jeans, a T-shirt and backpack approached him with, Estrada recalls, “the cheesiest smile on his face. He knows he’s going to get what he wants.” “¿Qué estás haciendo aquí?” the man asked.

“Nothin’. Chillin’,” Estrada replied.

When the Mexican national learned he was smoking spice,

he told him in broken English it was bad for him.

“Only thing that’s cheap,” Estrada recalls answering.

He introduced himself as Hector and asked him if he wanted to work. He spit out 10 balloons of heroin, then pulled out a spice jar with crack in it. “I wiped it off and went around selling it,” Estrada says.

When he earned $60 on commission from his sales that day, Estrada told Hector to hold the money for him until he could double it. Hector didn’t have to ask twice if he wanted a hotel room. They bought food and clean clothes. Estrada took a shower “and felt good for once.”

“Hector was offering something financially that Myra wasn’t, which looked to Gabe like a way out,” Welch says. “Gabe would have felt that this is exactly the posse I should be rolling with.”

Get to know Estrada, though, and it was clear, he “needed more of a family than a crew,” the advocate adds.

Hector and Estrada shared a similar, prankster sensibility, but differed over drug consumption. Estrada’s taste for “whiteboy” drugs—meth and heroin—were frowned upon by Hector and other Mexican counterparts. “Those are the devil’s drugs,” Estrada says. Hector prefered powdered cocaine and alcohol.

Losing one of her kids to a dealer was Omar’s nightmare, even more so when it came to Estrada. He was so talkative and friendly—qualities Omar knew were perfect for a dealer in search of good salesmen to exploit.

She was devastated. “Every time I’d hear his name, hear he was on the block, I’d cry.” She couldn’t help but smart over the ingratitude. “After making him my favorite street kid, the bastard took off and left me hanging,” she says. But then, she acknowledges, Hector had more drugs. “Everybody goes through Hector because he had the fattest dope.”

Estrada changed, she says. “His character kind of changed a little bit. His ego was—it went from a polite little kid to ‘I don’t give a fuck’ kind of attitude. Sorry for the language.” Later, she adds, “There’s still a little bit of that Gabriel in him.”

Joining forces with Hector ended his relationship with Omar.

The second time Estrada went to jail, Omar called his mother in California, even though, from the beginning of their relationship, her street son had told her not to.

When he was released and found out what she had done, he hunted her down on the block. “Why the fuck did you get hold of my family when I asked you not to?” he demanded.

“You expect me to sit here and be worried sick?” Omar fired back. “How do you think your mother feels? Can you imagine what she’s going through?”

Estrada can hold a grudge. It would be a year before they began to talk again.

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To make money, she and her kids would gather in a circle and roll cigarettes with loose tobacco from a local tobacconist and five small rolling machines. She sold the smokes seven for a dollar.

Of all her kids, it was Estrada who stole her heart. “He made sure that he was my special one,” she says.

While she was more than capable of administering a beatdown to anyone who threatened one of her clan, her biggest challenge was warding off the allure for some of her brood working for dealers on the men’s side of the shelter.

Pastor and street outreach advocate John Welch came to know Omar and Estrada well through his work with Street Krew, a K2 Church-affiliated group that provides friendship and support to the homeless. “As much as [Omar] tries to protect these kids, a lot of the drug dealers prey on [them],” Welch says. “They become an addict and the easiest way to deal with addiction is [to] become a runner for your supplier.”

While Omar hated the the dealers’ predatory nature, she nevertheless also sold spice cigarettes. Estrada recalls buying containers of spice from a white man in a red SUV for $60 a bottle—$100 for two—and then rolled-out joints, two for $5.

If their days were spent making and selling the cigarettes, at night they slept in an abandoned trailer or building, wherever they could nest for the night.

As the long 2013 summer nights continued, Estrada’s drug use evolved from spice to meth. “It felt like I drank 100 Red Bulls,” he says about the first time he tried the substance. “I didn’t feel anything.” At the same time, he had a deepening disdain for sleeping rough and making pennies. “I was tired of breaking even with spice and cigarettes,” he says. “I wanted to get into a hotel room and sleep in a bed.”

“There’s still a little bit of that Gabriel in him.”

–Myra Omar

Hector and Estrada increasingly distanced themselves from the block. They took taxis back-and-forth between their Main Street hotel and the shelter.

“They were letting it be known they were dealing on the block,” Welch, says. By then, he had started losing touch with Estrada. “One of the things drug dealers know is it’s easier having homeless people become a presence on the block. If you become a presence, that becomes a problem for the police department.”

Hector and Estrada stayed at a number of flophouses on State and Main where Estrada could pull the curtains and “chase the dragon”—smoking heroin on tin foil—or shoot-up crack cocaine. Those early months with Hector were “fun times,” he says. “It was a brother-romance. We were getting more trusted with each other, he trusted me more with his product.”

Estrada went from being a salesman to becoming Hector’s accountant, he says, keeping track of the money, sending some to Mexico, investing some in more product and “buying whatever the fuck” he wanted. He went from earning $80 a day with Omar to grossing $5,000 with Hector in a week.

He began collecting Ray-Bans and baseball caps by the score.

Omar would come around asking for Estrada, upsetting Hector. “She worries about me; I’m like her kid,” Estrada explained. But he refused to talk to her.

Estrada’s months of high-end motel living with Hector were rudely interrupted when he was arrested on Jan. 18, 2014, on multiple counts of drug possession and for carrying weapons.

Such was Estrada’s unease that night before his arrest, he sought guidance from santería magic. He’d become progressively more involved through Hector with narcotraficante culture—building an altar to the Santa Muerte for protection and listening to narco-corrido ballads celebrating Mexican drug life. He rolled the dice to see what odds and evens came up and got three 3s and three 4s—inconclusive, he thought.

So he took a hit of crack and got in the car. The driver eased out of the hotel’s street exit onto Main Street at 900 South, heading down to the shelter. Hector was in the passenger seat and a Honduran runner sat next to Estrada in the back, 10 small “balloons” of heroin in his mouth.

They were just 40 feet from the exit when a dozen or more cop cars surrounded them, bathing the four frozen men in blue-and-red flickering light. The Honduran immediately began chugging water to flush the balloons down his throat.

Hector muttered in Spanish, “Give me the stuff,” but Estrada

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In March 2015, Volunteers of America found 21-year-old Estrada a room at their Salt Lake City transitional home with 13 other males.

When Monic found out she was pregnant, she says, “I didn’t think Gabe wanted to help me, but he was happy” at the prospect of being a father.

Estrada started accessing services at the new VOA homeless youth resource center near 900 South and 400 West.

“You could tell he had a vision: He knew he wanted to exit homelessness and the lifestyle that it came with,” the center’s manager Sarah Strang, says. “Gabe would talk about this long-term goal of family and stability,” and how he then could start reaching out to homeless kids at the block.

Strang says, after the birth of his daughter, “I don’t know I ever saw Gabe without [the baby] in his arms, that shock of dark hair.”

With the help of a housing voucher for rental assistance from VOA, Estrada, Monic and their baby moved into an apartment just off State Street in August 2016.

Strang says that Estrada “is achieving success in the way society wants him to succeed,” leaving criminality, moving into housing, being engaged with his daughter. He’s also juggling two jobs, stacking shelves in a small, family-owned

Back in jail for the fourth time, Estrada applied to enter drug court, according to a court docket dated Jan. 13, 2014.

In theory, this meant he had to surrender control of his life to Judge Randall Skanchy, and routinely attend group meetings in court for a three-minute report on the progress of his sobriety. Estrada had little, if any, serious intent with drug court initially, signing up only so he could get out of jail. “At first I didn’t care; at first I thought it was a waste of time,” he says.

Estrada was released on Feb. 28, 2014. He and Hector picked up right where they’d left off, but this time with the added assurance that Estrada had Hector’s back.

Estrada’s year-long relationship with Hector took him to places and acts he won’t talk about. He learned to shut himself down emotionally in order to survive in Hector’s world.

He admits he witnessed acts of violence, but whether in Utah or out-of-state isn’t clear. Nor is it clear if he participated in those acts. In a notebook he’s kept from that time, a former girlfriend wrote that she was scared to break up with him because of who he was, what he did, who his friends were.

The one thing he relied on was Psalm 23, reciting, “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not walk through the valley of darkness ... ” But the darkness consumed his life, as he attempted suicide three times. “I was getting tired of it, of everything, of the voices in my head saying, ‘You’re not worth shit anymore, just fucking do it.’ 2014 was the darkest year.”

After Estrada was arrested at the block on Sept. 11, 2014— asleep on the ground with his girlfriend, a syringe and needle jutting out of his shirt pocket, another by his head—he found himself back in Skanchy’s court at the beginning of

grocery during the day and delivering pizza at night.

The block’s temptations rear their head occasionally, whether it’s meth addicts smoking under his window, the toxic fumes teasing his nostrils or the thoughts of easy money to be made near the shelter—especially for a young man known for always carrying some “weight.” Those who advise and support Estrada know he can take nothing for granted.

“Finding your way out of the block doesn’t mean you’ve figured life out,” Welch cautions. “But it’s a good step in the right direction.”

Estrada hopes to graduate from drug court in June, four years after he signed up. His last criminal issue, according to the Utah court docket system, was receiving stolen property on Aug. 18, 2015. Since then, other than a few missed or selfreported dirty drug tests resulting in two- or three-day jail sanctions, Estrada’s record has been clean.

In March, Maggie Taylor came out to see her son and his new family. “I saw him at peace. He loves his family,” she says, crying softly. “He’s a good father and he has a lot of patience.”

Estrada’s life changed with Rosana’s arrival. “I don’t go out anymore, I don’t do any stupid shit anymore,” he says. “It gets me excited [that] she knows I’m her dad. I have a little person to look after and take care of—make sure she’s safe, fed, clothed, that she grows up; make sure I give her what I didn’t have as a kid.” It all boils down to being there. Monic won’t take Rosana to see him if he relapses and goes to jail.

Plans in Estrada’s future now include mentoring homeless youth for the VOA. To do that, he will have to wait two years, a mandatory requirement by the agency for hiring exclients.

Taylor returned to California, deprived of witnessing Estrada taking a bow before a room full of wealthy benefactors. The morning of March 30, he, Monic and Rosana went to the Little America Hotel for a VOA gala breakfast and fundraiser.

In a purple shirt, black tie and Vans, Estrada was the star client chosen by the agency to share his story. After uncharacteristically faltering at the podium, he told the crowd that if it weren’t for drug court and VOA, “I wouldn’t be standing in front of you.”

After he sat down, beneath the glitzy ballroom lights, surrounded by well-dressed advocates and corporate donors, the babble of voices slowly slipped away, until it seemed the world was no more than this: Estrada gazing down at Rosana in his lap as she guzzled milk from a bottle, eyes closed—yet bathing in her father’s love. CW

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what would be his longest jail stretch, six months.

The 3rd District judge scolded him and ordered he complete Salt Lake County’s Correction Addiction Treatment Services (CATS) program at county jail. Part of the program required him to solicit letters from everyone who loved him, asking, “What did I do to hurt my family with my drug use?”

He chose his mother Maggie Taylor’s response to read aloud. She wrote in the December 2014 note that she had never expected in her “wildest dreams,” that he would end up a homeless drug-addict in jail. And after she had learned that, things only got worse. “Then when I didn’t hear from you, Gabe, I thought you were dead,” she wrote. “I hurt my heart. I couldn’t make it better. I couldn’t help you.”

After completing the program, Estrada was scheduled for release from jail on Feb. 17, 2015. However, something was wrong. He’d stopped getting money on his books from Hector. The night before he was released, he learned from another prisoner that Hector had been arrested. Six months later, he was deported.

Instead of being devastated, Estrada felt relief. “I’d found a way out,” he says.

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shook his head. He had outstanding warrants and knew he was jail-bound anyway.

Eventually, he was directed to get out of the car. According to the police report, Estrada was well-armed. He had a meat cleaver hanging from his hip, a butterfly knife in both his left and right pant pockets and a straight razor in his hooded jacket. He also had 16 grams of black tar heroin, 18 grams of meth and 15 grams of crack cocaine, all intended for sale. Total street value, he calculates, was close to $5,000.

Estrada thought he saw fear in Hector’s eyes—and that he would turn him in as the cops cuffed him—but his street brother was ready to take the fall.

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Kelly O’Neill—a recent recipient of a BFA in studio art emphasizing in photography/digital imaging from the University of Utah—likes to tinker with digital production. He’s fascinated with how the digital image is created, and then how we react to it. Thus far, he’s focused on cultural arenas like courtroom hearings and social media. But for a new exhibit, he’s gone further afield. For rend/er, he’s created 3-D prints and computer-generated scenes built up from photographic images gathered at the Sun Tunnels, Nancy Holt’s 1976 Earth art piece constructed of long concrete tunnels in the remote west desert near Wendover.

As the current artist-in-residence in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s A.I.R. Space, O’Neill takes the most extreme presence of nature in art—the genre of Earth art—and “renders” it, in both the literal and figurative senses, into the most virtual, artificial and unnatural state imaginable. In O’Neill’s interpretation, the Sun Tunnels are depicted as appearing to float in space, or distorted by other effects of digital media, like pixilation.

In an email interview, O’Neill says he hopes viewers can take from his work “a more subtle, complicated understanding of the interplay between artificial and natural realms,” which can often be seen as in opposition, rather than as complementary.

“I hope the audience has time to think of where their own lives balance at the uneasy intersection of these fascinating landscapes,” O’Neill adds. That conversation has a lot to say about how we live our lives. (Brian Staker) Kelly O’Neill: rend/er @ Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801328-4201, April 28-June 3, free, utahmoca.org

At the end of every spring, outdoor activities start capturing Utahns’ attention, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to see in theater spaces. Since 2013, SALT Contemporary Dance has been showcasing emerging voices in contemporary dance by working with professional choreographers from all around the world, creating fresh and original content with their collective of classically trained, versatile dancers. They also celebrate progression and upward evolution in dance. For their fourth year, the group introduces a new concert of world-premiere works.

The artistically bold company has mounted many sold-out shows since their debut four years ago. “SALT is trying to find venues large enough to hold the audiences of the rising generation,” co-founder and Artistic Director Michelle Nielsen says. Thankfully, their spring concert offers another chance to see their energetic performances.

The program features new works choreographed by major dancers such as Peter Chu, Jermaine Spivey and Lindsey Matheis. Chu, a Juilliard graduate who has choreographed for So You Think You Can Dance, opens the concert with Paper Cuts. It features an original score produced

by Djeff Houle, who has been a part of big productions such as Cirque Du Soleil. Paper Cuts, Chu says, “exposes the fragility of character as waving emotions groove through fragmented sounds.”

SALT’s innovative work elevates the cultural vibrancy and diversity of our community. Get ready to get your groove on because their energy will make you want to get up and dance along.

(Sulaiman Alfadhli) SALT Spring Concert @ Infinity Event Center, 26 E. 600 South, 385-240-4554, April 28-29, 8 p.m., $15-$50, saltdance.com

Life has taken a few different turns for Jenna Kim Jones in recent years, but it’s given her brand-new material as she returns to Utah this weekend. The first turn came after she left the staff of The Daily Show to move to Los Angeles and focus on stand-up comedy. During this time, she also created the #SorryNotSorry podcast— one of the top 200 comedy podcasts on iTunes— with her producer and husband, Allan Moss.

“It’s such a great way to stay in touch with fans and listeners,” Jones said in an email interview. “Not to mention, I feel like I’m producing content regularly, so people don’t have to wait around until I come perform wherever they are.”

The next turn was when she started touring on a regular basis as a “clean comedian,” including recording the 2016 special Jenna Kim Jones Live in Hollywood for Sirus XM’s Laugh USA channel.

“I think there is a need for clean comedy. I like to think I can be funny with being too cheesy or corny,” Jones said at the time. “Bring your parents, bring your kids; it’s one size fits all. Even my podcast is clean compared to most. In fact, many of our listeners love us because they can listen to our show in the car with their kids.”

Most exciting for Jones, she became a mother in late 2015—a topic she’s incorporating into her set. “Being a mom is weird,” she says. “It’s fun and exhausting and overwhelming, and also you worry about poop far more than I realized.

I’m enjoying it and, in fact, I’m actually pregnant again. Surprise! So come out and see me tell jokes as a pregnant woman.” (Gavin Sheehan) Jenna Kim Jones @ Wiseguys, 269 25th Street, Ogden, 801-622-5588, April 28-29, 8 p.m., $12, wiseguyscomedy.com

America is known for its great humorists and satirists—astute observers who have documented the nation’s progress with unflinching commentary and a wry sense of irreverence. Mark Twain, James Thurber and Will Rogers set the standard.

But author, essayist and playwright David Sedaris certainly follows in their footsteps, thanks to a series of best-selling books that gleefully tackle today’s social mores with an incisive wit that tosses political correctness aside and leaves no subject spared.

The titles of his works reflect his barbed humor. Best-sellers like Naked, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames and Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls have delighted readers by providing a squint-eyed, unblemished view of our current culture and the absurdities that find a disproportionate place in our world. Sedaris’ insights have resulted in sales of 7 million copies of his books—the latest of which, Theft By Finding, is due this June.

One need only sample some of his memorable quotes to understand his particular perspective.

Here’s one on relationships: “Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you’re offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone’s feelings” (from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim). Or this, from Naked, regarding religion: “There seems to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.”

OK, we’re not sure about that last one, but the fact that Sedaris’ work has been translated into 25 languages indicates that his ideas have found universal appeal. (Lee Zimmerman) David Sedaris @ Eccles Theatre, 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, May 2, 7:30 p.m., $25-$49.50, live-at-the-eccles.com

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Salt Lake Acting Co.: Hand to God

If you want to experience the most exhilarating acting performance on a Utah stage this year, be forewarned: You’re going to have to endure plenty of profanity, more than a hint of blasphemy and a marathon session of puppet sex.

That performance belongs to Riley O’Toole, who technically plays two characters in Salt Lake Acting Co.’s production of Robert Askins’ Hand to God. The first is Jason, a teenager participating in a church-sponsored puppet workshop led by his mother (Alexandra Harbold); the second is Tyrone, the foulmouthed sock marionette who becomes the troubled Jason’s alter-ego in a manner that begins to resemble a demonic possession.

The plot swirls around several other confused characters as well, including the church’s minister (Daniel Beecher) and two other members of the puppet youth group, Jessica (Amy Ware) and Timothy (Nathan Vaughn), whose actions are colored by the recent death of Jason’s father. Askins weaves some tangled psychology into the story, asking fairly boldly whether religion can actually solve people’s problems when they’re this profoundly messed up.

But if you can stomach the swipes at faith, you’re in for a hilariously bizarre ride, anchored by O’Toole’s deft physical performance. Tyrone genuinely seems like a separate entity, whether rising ominously beneath bed covers or violently attacking other people. It all builds to Jessica’s valiant attempt to distract the evil Tyrone by bringing in her own female hand-puppet— and a sequence of puppeteered pornography that’s made all the more uproarious by the humans’ unsettled facial expressions. It takes real acting talent to make something so bleak simultaneously so funny. (SR)

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Wasatch Theatre Co.: Dinner

A writer, a scientist, an artist and a sexpot are invited to a dinner party. It might sound like the beginning of a joke, but the scheming, wealthy host e0ntertaining these guests has ulterior motives. In Wasatch Theatre Co.’s production of Moira Buffini’s pitch-black comedy Dinner, you’re invited to more than just a meal.

After the release of Lars’ (Nicholas Dunn) new book, his wife Paige (Stacey Jenson) invites an array of guests to dinner—scientist Hal (Daniel McLeod) and his wife Sian (Alyssa Franks), and Wynne (Ali Lente), an artist who has a history with Lars—all served for the evening by a silently brooding waiter (Gordon Dunn). The soirée really gets interesting when Mike (Carlos Nobleza Posas) unexpectedly shows up at the front door. While Mike isn’t part of Paige’s plan, he does add an interesting twist.

Like many meals, Dinner starts a bit slowly. As the waiter brings out each course, however, and Mike appears, the story gets more intriguing. It’s a slow burn as each character discloses a secret of some kind throughout the second act.

Although the set consists almost entirely of a simple dining-room table, there’s also a mirror at the back of the room that reflects the audience. It’s disconcerting at first, but it makes you feel like you, too, have been invited to Paige’s party. Whether you want to be part of this feast or not, you’re pulled right up to that table. (MB)

Utah Repertory Theatre: Kiss of the Spider Woman

It’s not often that a theatrical musical feels intimate; the nature of the production generally keeps the audience physically removed from the performers. But director Johnny Hebda takes advantage of the tight space of the Sorensen Unity Center Black Box for a staging of Kiss of the Spider Woman that drops viewers into the center of the intense story.

Based on the same novel as the Oscarwinning film, the musical version is set in Argentina during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, where a political dissident named Valentín (Juan Pereira) is placed in a cell with Molina (Kenneth Wayne), a gay man serving a sentence for

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“corrupting a minor.” Valentín’s antagonism toward his flamboyant cellmate is soon complicated by the prison’s warden promising to reduce Molina’s sentence if he can wrangle information out of Valentín about his fellow activists’ intentions.

The music written by Kander and Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago) is a perfect match for this dark material, mixing sardonic humor into a story filled with violence and corruption; Molina’s cinema-inspired fantasies generate delicious numbers like the second-act opening, “Russian Movie.” Wayne himself provides a sensational centerpiece performance, filling his interpretation of Molina with humor, pathos and a courage even he doesn’t realize he has. But the show proves most thrilling by sending the talented dancers within inches of the first row of seats, so that you can practically catch the flying feathers from their colorful boas. For a show about finding glorious emotional escape from a contained area, it proves to be an inspired choice. (SR) CW

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Salt Lake Acting Co. Upstairs Theatre 168 W. 500 North 801-363-7522 Through May 14 $15-$38 saltlakeactingcompany.org DINNER

Wasatch Theatre Co. Rose Wagner Center 138 W. 300 South 801-355-2787 Through May 7 $20-$30 wasatchtheatre.org KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

Repertory Theater Co. Sorensen Unity Center 1383 S. 900 West 801-535-6533 Through May 7 $17-$20 utahrep.org

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Salt Lake City-based artist Denae Shanidiin commemorates the legacy of the American Indian Movement in her exhibition I Honor You at Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts (631 W. North Temple, Ste. 700, facebook.com/mestizoarts) through May 12.

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Barber’s Violin Concerto Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, April 28-29, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Salt Lake Symphony Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, April 29, 7:30 p.m., saltlakesymphony.org Utah Chamber Artists: Alchemy Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, 801-572-2010, May 1, 7:30 p.m., utahchamberartists.org Utah Symphony Guild Gala Salt Lake Masonic Temple, 650 E. South Temple, April 27, 5:30 p.m., utahsymphonyguild.org

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Darrell Hammond Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, April 28-29, 7 & 9:30p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Free Kittens: A Stand Up Comedy Show The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, April 29, 6 p.m., theurbanloungeslc.com Jenna Kim Jones Wiseguys, 269 25th Street, Ogden, 801-622-5588, April 28-29, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 18) Joshua Fonokalafi Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, April 27, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Laughing Stock Improv The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., laughingstock.us Off the Wall Comedy Improv Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, 801-572-4144, Saturdays, 10:30 p.m., drapertheatre.org

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SALT Contemporary Dance Spring Concert Infinity Event Center, 26 E 600 S, 385-2404554, April 28-29, 8 p.m., saltdance.com (see p. 18) Samba Fogo: Chama (Flame) Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, April 27-29, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org

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Betty Blue Eyes Hale Center Theatre, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, through May 27, 11 a.m., 3 & 7:30 p.m., haletheater.org Captain AmericanFORK Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, through June 3, times vary, desertstar.biz Crazy For You The Empress Theatre, 9104 W. Main, Magna, 801-347-7373, through April 29, times vary, empresstheatre.com Dinner Rose Wagner Studio Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, through May 7, FridaySaturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m., arttix.org (see p. 20) Disney’s Aladdin Jr. Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, 801-572-4144, through April 28, Friday-Saturday & selected Mondays, 7 p.m., drapertheatre.org Disney’s Beauty and the Beast The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787, through May 20, theziegfeldtheater.com Hand to God Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, through May 14, Wednesday-Friday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m. & 6 p.m., saltlakeactingcompany.org (see p. 20) I Am My Own Wife Good Company Theatre, 260 25th St., Ogden, 801-564-0288, through April 30; Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; SaturdaySunday, 4 p.m., goodcotheatre.com Kiss of the Spider Woman Sorenson Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, 801-535-6533, through May 7, Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m.; Sunday matinee, May 7, 3 p.m., utahrep.org (see p. 20) Lionel Bart’s Oliver Center Point Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, through May 13; MondayFriday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 2:30 & 7:30 p.m., centerpointtheatre.org Oklahoma! Heritage Theatre, 2505 S. Highway 89, Perry, 435-723-8392, through May 13, Friday-Saturday & Monday, 7:30 p.m., heritagetheatreutah.com

To Kill a Mockingbird Hale Center Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, through May 22; 12:30, 4 & 7:30 p.m., hct.org Silent Sky Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, April 28-May 13, 7:30 p.m.; 2 p.m. matinees Sunday and May 13, arttix.org

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Open-Mic Night Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Sinbad DeJoria Center, 970 N. State Road 32, Kamas, 435-783-3525, April 29, 7 p.m., dejoriacenter.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Adam Bray: A Star Wars Visual Encyclopedia The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, May 3, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Anna Lebaron: The Polygamist’s Daughter Barnes & Noble Sugar House, 1104 E. 2100 South, 801-463-2610, April 29, 4 p.m., barnesandnoble.com James Ure and Paul Ketzle Art Barn, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, April 27, 7 p.m., saltlakearts.org Richard Paul Evans: The Broken Road Barnes & Noble, 1780 Woodland Park Drive, Layton, 801773-9973, May 2, 7 p.m., barnesandnoble.com Rosie Maloney: Girl Unbroken Barnes & Noble, 5249 S. State, 801-261-4040, April 29, noon, barnesandnoble.com Shawn Paulsen: Why Not Me?: Choosing to Be Positive in the Face of Adversity Barnes & Noble, 1780 N. Woodland Park Drive, Layton, 801773-9973, April 29, 1 p.m., barnesandnoble.com

SPECIAL EVENTS TALKS & LECTURES

David Sedaris Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801355-2787, May 2, 7:30 p.m., live-at-the-eccles.com (see p. 18)

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Thanksgiving Point’s 13th annual Tulip Festival The Ashton Gardens, 3900 Garden Drive, Lehi, 801-768-2300, through May 6, MondaySaturday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; April 29, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., thanksgivingpoint.org

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

April Gallery Stroll Exhibit Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, 801-328-0703, through May 10, 1 1 a.m.-4 p.m., accessart.org Art Behind the Zion Curtain Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, through May 13, modernwestfineart.com Barbara Ellard Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, through June 9, 8 a.m.5 p.m., saltlakearts.org Bill Lee Gallery at Library Square, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through June 9, slcpl.org Celebration of the Hand 300 South (between 200 West & 200 East), 801-906-8521, through April 28, craftlakecity.com

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Denae Shanidiin: I Honor You Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Ste. 700, through May 12, 6-9 p.m., facebook.com/mestizoarts (see p. 21) 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 The Future Isn’t What it Used to Be UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through May 13, utahmoca.org Gary Jacobson: Some Thoughts UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through May 6, utahmoca.org Gemma Joon Bae: When I Called You By Name You Came to Me and Became a Flower Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, through May 25, slcpl.org Intersections II: Forging Family from More than DNA Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, 801-328-0703, April 27-29, 7 p.m., accessart.org James Stewart Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801-363-4088, through May 13, 10 a.m.7 p.m., artatthemain.com Joseph Cipro: Cosmic Musings Gallery 814, 814 E. 100 South, 801-533-0204, through July 31 Kelly O’Neill: rend/er UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, April 28-June 3, utahmoca.org (see p. 18) Kendra Hitchcock: Ubiquitous Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East, 801-594-8640, through May 6, slcpl.org Laura Hope Mason: Abstract Landscapes Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, through June 9, saltlakearts.org Mapping & Unpacking: Mixed Media and Sculpture by Bret Hanson Gallery at Library Square, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through June 9, slcpl.org Rod Heiss: Let Paint Be Paint Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, 801-594-8623, through April 27, slcpl.org RE Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., 801-230-0820, through April 30, urbanartsgallery.org Robotic: Drawings by Carter Johnson Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, 801-594-8632, through April 29, 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 Rosalie Winard Art Barn/Finch Lane Galleries, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, through June 9, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., saltlakearts.org Sam Wilson: Poor Traits of a Terminal Art Major God Hates Robots, 314 W. 300 South, through May 12, Monday-Friday, godhatesrobots.com Subject Abject Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 801-245-7272, through May 12, heritage.utah.gov Whitney Horrocks Paintings: Personae Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, 801-5948680, through May 26, slcpl.org

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Recently, the restaurant launched dinner service on Fridays and Saturdays, and the plan is to expand to additional weeknights soon. At first glance, I thought there must be a mistake. Dinner portions are very generous and yet all of them are priced at $20 or less. These days, that’s a bargain.

A plate of djeij and reiz (chicken and rice) was extraordinary. Though chicken and rice might sound ordinary, this was Mary’s organic chicken breast (an airline cut) seasoned with lemon juice, olive oil and sumac, served on nutty tasting rice pilaf ($20). Samak tajen ($20) is a large, flaky cod fillet that’s grilled and finished with lemon, cumin, tajen sauce, caramelized onions and pine nuts. It, too, was heavenly. Other dinner items include cauliflower stew ($13) and beef patties with vermicelli rice called kafta bil sanieh ($15). Should you be lucky enough to spot beef bazella on the menu, go for it. It’s what Sbeity called a “really homey stew” that incorporates peas, carrots, cinnamon and cumin in a tomato base.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t remark on the superb service. Servers like Bruni and Annie deftly combine a comforting informality with precise professionalism. Service is friendly, but also quite informative, and the entire staff seems to have an excellent command of the exotic menu and wines.

Laziz Kitchen strikes me as nothing less than a labor of love. CW

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but for meat eaters I highly recommend the kibbeh ($7). This small-plate offering is a pair of fried kibbeh balls made with ground beef, walnuts, Middle Eastern spices and burghul (aka cracked wheat) served with pickles, tomatoes and tahini-based tarator sauce.

Additional can’t-miss small plates include grape leaves stuffed with rice, walnuts, parsley and tomato ($6); baba ganoush ($7); fried cauliflower florets with cumin, parsley and tarator-tahini ($6); and of course, the heavenly hummus ($6) that started it all, served with fresh pita and lettuce. I recommend living large and springing an extra $3 to add on ground beef and pine nuts.

In addition to unique drinks like Arabic coffee, jallab (sparkling date and grape drink) and grenadine rose syrup served over ice, Laziz offers a small, but adequate beer and wine selection. Included on the wine list are a couple from Lebanon: Chateau Ksara Reserve Du Couvent red wine and Massaya Blanc. During a nighttime visit, we enjoyed the Massaya Blanc ($40/bottle; $8/ glass). This lovely white wine is made with mostly Obeidi and Clairette grapes from Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, and its versatility allows it to work with dishes ranging from garlicky spiced labne or pepper tajen, which is topped with fried onions—to heftier items like maghmour (chickpeas, fried eggplant, mint-and-garlic pesto and vermicelli rice) and kafta bil senieh beef patties.

Since Laziz Kitchen opens at 9 a.m., you might drop in for a tomato or spinach omelet ($12), or perhaps shakshouka: two scrambled eggs with green peppers, mint, garlic and onion ($12). There are also a couple of breakfast/lunch platters to enjoy.

The kafta platter ($13) features grilled beef skewers with rice or quinoa, pita, pickles, hummus, salad and toum garlic sauce. Or, enjoy grilled chicken skewers with the same accoutrements.

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erek Kitchen and Moudi Sbeity—his partner in business and life—will forever be associated with the landmark Kitchen v. Herbert case, which successfully challenged Utah’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. As important as the case was, my guess is that the unassuming pair would probably prefer to be known for their from-scratch business, Laziz Kitchen, than for any renown resulting from their place in legal history.

I refer to Kitchen and Sbeity’s enterprise as “from-scratch” because what is now a full-blown Middle Eastern restaurant grew from humble beginnings. In 2012, the couple founded Laziz and began selling homemade hummus at the Downtown Farmers Market, before adding items like muhammara and toum to the menu. Kitchen—who grew up in South Jordan—probably didn’t have a lot of Middle Eastern flavor in his upbringing. But Sbeity did. He’s from Beirut, Lebanon, and moved to Utah for college in 2006. The partnership between Sbeity and Kitchen has yielded wonderful results, on all sorts of levels.

The fellas sure picked an appropriate name for their business. Laziz in Arabic means “tasty, enjoyable and lighthearted,” according to their website. And the restaurant is all those things and more. The airy, inviting space is done in mostly white and cream, with splashes of green and copper/ brown colored seating. It’s a comfortable, independent restaurant that looks like a million bucks. Off to one side is a small market where guests can purchase items, including packaged spices like za’atar (to which I’ve become addicted), Middle Eastern grains, oils, flavored molasses and their signature “Hummusexual” T-shirts.

With so many enticing small plates, salads, wraps and (at dinner time) entrées on the menu, it’s hard to know where to begin.

Know this though: Muhammara ($8) is a must. This red-pepper spread/dip originated in Syria, and is made from roasted Aleppo peppers, ground and chopped walnuts and pomegranate molasses, served— not inconsequentially—with the best pita bread you’re going to encounter in this town. The pita is made in-house from scratch and is light, airy and positively delicious. Another way to enjoy it is to order the grilled halloumi cheese ($8). It’s an open-faced cheese sandwich with melted, soft cheese, a sprinkling of tomato, sesame seeds, mint leave and olives.

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Chef/owner Manoli Katsanevas has launched his spring menu at Manoli’s (402 E. 900 South, 801-532-3760, manolison9th.com), featuring a new array of small plates, wine options and cocktails. Fresh on the menu are kakavia (clams, scallops, garlic confit broth, pepperoncini, shaved fennel, orzo and grilled bread), perdika (grilled quail with beluga lentil salad and creamy walnut sauce) and an arugula salad with seasonal fruit, toasted almonds, housemade mizithra and white balsamic vinaigrette, called roka. Alongside, you might want to enjoy a Moscow Moulári: Sugar House Vodka with fresh ginger and lime, ouzo and ginger beer.

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Fans, like me, of Millcreek’s Sicilia Mia restaurant and Sole Mio in Sandy now have more Sicilia to love. Chef Franco Mirenda and his family have opened a new Italian restaurant, Antica Sicilia Ristorante (2020 E. 3300 South, 385-202-7236, facebook.com/anticasiciliarestaurant), which offers Sicilian-style dishes in a family-friendly ambiance. The menu has items in common with Sicilia Mia, such as the much-loved pasta carbonara, arancini and their heavenly tiramisu.

But I was told by a manager that the new restaurant also offers four versions of branzino—steaks prepared tableside and decadent dishes such as lobster tagliatelle. You just can’t have too much Sicily in your diet.

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Sips of the Middle East Discover the wines of Lebanon.

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ne of the fun aspects of visiting Middle Eastern restaurants—such as Laziz Kitchen (see p. 23), Mazza, Layla Mediterranean Grill and Cedars of Lebanon—is exploring not just exotic foods, but also wines, beers, coffees, teas and liquors. Cedars of Lebanon, for example, offers nine wines from Lebanon and Morocco, plus Moroccan Casablanca beer and Lebanese Almaza. Mazza features 15 Lebanese, Israeli and Moroccan wines on its beverage menu. Layla’s excellent list is a mix of New and Old World wines with some Lebanese.

Luckily, these wines are often outstanding, and run a fraction of the price of their more esteemed European cousins. Bottles

of wine from top-notch Middle East producers like Ksara, Chateau Kefraya, Chateau Musar and Massaya typically sell at local restaurants in the $30-$40 range.

And keep in mind that’s the marked-up, per-bottle restaurant pricing. They’re even cheaper if you can track them down or order them at your favorite wine store. Once you taste these, you’ll know you’ve found a bargain.

Most of the best Middle Eastern wineries have French roots of one type or another.

Such is the case of Chateau Musar: Gaston Hochar planted Musar’s first vineyards, in Lebanon, after returning from a visit to Bordeaux. Chateau Musar Rouge is a cabernet/carignan/cinsault blend from vineyards in the Bekaa Valley (the Middle East’s Sonoma or Napa) that takes seven years to make. It’s truly a world-class red wine.

It might surprise readers to learn (it did me) that Lebanon’s Chateau Ksara winery was founded in 1857 by Jesuit monks. The estate became privatized in 1973 following the Vatican’s urging to sell off monasteries’ and missions’ commercial assets around the world. The early ’90s saw the planting of French “noble grapes”—cabernet sauvignon, syrah, semillon, chardonnay, merlot and sauvignon blanc. Today, in addition to Arak and Eau de Vie, Ksara produces exceptional still wines such as their Cuvée du Troisiéme Millénaire and Ksara

DRINK Le Prieuré, as well as more affordable everyday wines like luscious Blanc de L’Observatoire—the Middle East’s first observatory was established at Ksara, where the monks recorded rainfall and seismic activity—and Le Souverain, which is an unusual grape blend of arinarnoa, marselan and cabernet franc.

At Laziz Kitchen, I recently enjoyed the Massaya Blanc—a gorgeous white wine made from obeidi, clairette, sauvignon blanc and chardonnay by the Massaya winery in Lebanon. But I also really like Massaya’s Le Colombier. It’s a wonderful red for everyday sipping, with appealing pepper and spice notes— something to be enjoyed while you’re young and without fanfare. Unlike Ksara, Massaya is a relatively new winery that dates back to the mid-’90s.

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French-influenced, thanks to a partnership with Bordeaux’ Maison Hébrard and Vignobles Brunier in C h â t e a u n e u f- d u - P a p e , maker of the notable Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe. Massaya Terrasses de Baalbeck is a very Châteauneuf-like blend of grenache noir, mourvèdre and syrah grown in chalky clay. In a blind tasting, I’ll bet you’d peg it as a French Rhône wine.

Chateau Kefraya is the second-largest Lebanese winery, and is also located in the Bekaa Valley. Although the current Kefraya vines were planted in 1951 and 1979, grapevines in Lebanon were already growing more than 4,000 years ago, when the Phoenicians were fermenting grape juice there. My favorite Kefraya offering is their rosé—an elegant and delicate blend of cinsault and tempranillo, the perfect wine for springtime sipping. CW

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Sea Salt is a beautiful but casual space—an open and airy restaurant with wide swatches of white throughout. The semi-communal tables are a nice touch, too. The menu is extensive, with many dishes based on the owner’s Italian grandmother’s recipes. As a tribute to her, some menu items, such as the meatballs and ravioli, carry her name, Nonna Maria. Good starters include olives and focaccia, or the bruschetta alla checca (wood-oven-baked grilled filone, campari tomato, basil, garlic and Grana Padano cheese).

Pizza and pasta account for much of the main menu, along with risotto and grilled items such as spiced lemon chicken, grilled Shetland Island Scottish salmon and grilled housemade lamb sausage. For dessert, consider the housemade gelato or caramelized peach tart. 1709 E. 1300 South, Salt Lake City, 801-349-1480, seasaltslc.com

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When Deer Valley Resort purchased and took over operations of Solitude Mountain Resort last year, they probably weren’t anticipating having to remodel the iconic mid-mountain Roundhouse restaurant. But, accidents happen: Last year, the 60-year-old structure burned to the ground while, due to lack of access and water, firefighters had to simply sit and watch the blaze. The good news is that the new Roundhouse is a much more modern eatery with improved seating capacity and, maybe ironically, a huge round fire pit in the center of the upstairs dining room.

Menu options here are divvied up into two parts: the Wasatch and Himalayan. All-American (and Canadian) foods like chicken pot pie, burgers, grilled chicken and poutine occupy the Wasatch side, while Eastern flavors beckon on the other, including vegetarian-friendly dishes like dal bhat (split lentil and vegetable stew), saag paneer (sautéed spinach with Indian cheese) and vegetable curry. Meat lovers will enjoy the richly flavored meat entrée, which includes both Himalayan-style butter chicken and tender, braised lamb curry, plus jasmine rice. Reviewed Feb. 16.

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Adrian Titieni and Maria Dragus in Graduation. also a strangely unresolved subplot in which Romeo believes he has evidence that Marius was a witness to the attack on Eliza, but failed to help her, and a seemingly pointless tangent involving the health problems of Romeo’s elderly mother. An overall narrative drift diminishes the impact of the most tension-filled confrontations and slows the momentum of Romeo’s dilemma as his plan unravels.

Yet, there’s ultimately a powerful notion embedded in the naturalistic filmmaking of Graduation: What are parents really teaching their children about how to be a “good person”? As Romeo cares for Sandra’s son one day at a playground, and the boy is caught throwing rocks at another child, Romeo tells him that’s not how people behave. “How should I behave?” the boy replies; and it’s obvious that Romeo has no idea what to tell him. Parental platitudes inevitably collide with the choices real people make every day. That’s the kind of morality play that should be harder to ignore. CW

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ally seeks out a government official named Bulai (Petre Ciubotaru) who needs a new liver, and might be able to pull a few strings for Eliza’s exams if Romeo is able to move him up the list of potential transplant recipients. Romeo has also been carrying on a matter-of-fact affair with a neighbor, a single mother named Sandra (Malina Manovici), while remaining in a dead-in-allbut-name marriage to his wife, Magda (Lia Bugnar). When Romeo earnestly refuses Bulai’s offer of cash as a thank-you, it’s clear that he still considers himself an honest man, even as Mungiu shows the many ways he has already compromised his integrity.

That character study is part of an equally intriguing peek into the machinations of a Romanian society that’s built on handshake deals, bribes and gaming the system. Conversations refer to funeral directors paying off ambulance drivers for tipping them off about casualties; Eliza’s boyfriend, Marius (Rares Andrici), matterof-factly tells Romeo about the allowances granted to the athletes at his high school.

“Everyone cheats” Romeo says at one point, rationalizing his own behavior because it will allow Eliza to have a future away from this culture of graft.

If there’s a frustration in Graduation, it’s that Mungiu is better at establishing the broad strokes of his scenario than he is at filling in the details. The reasons behind the disintegration of Romeo and Magda’s marriage remain curiously fuzzy, making it harder to get a sense for how culpable Romeo is in his infidelity. There’s

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ew things make for more compelling drama than moral choices, and—hey, where’s everybody going? Come back!

Herein lies the dilemma when trying to talk about some of the most talented creators of international cinema, like Romanian director Cristian Mungiu: The subjects that drive their work lead many potential viewers to check out mentally.

Whether it’s the filmmakers like Mungiu in the Romanian New Wave, or Iran’s Asghar Farhadi, or any of 100 other great artists, when storytellers dig into why people do sometimes indefensible things, no giant spacecraft are hovering menacingly above big cities. Moral drama is a tough sell.

Graduation finds Mungiu, as he did in his previous sensational works 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Beyond the Hills, exploring how people in post-Ceausescu Romania are still negotiating the country’s often-corrupt institutions in a way that allows them to retain their dignity and humanity. The story follows a surgeon named Romeo Aldea (Adrian Titieni) in the city of Cluj. He’s focused his entire life on the prospects of his daughter, Eliza (Maria Dragus), who is about to graduate from high school. Eliza is on the verge of earning a scholarship to attend Cambridge in England, requiring only the completion of her final exams. But on the day before she takes them, she is sexually assaulted—and Romeo, worried that a distracted Eliza might not achieve the required scores, begins exploring, shall we say, ethically creative ways of ensuring high marks.

Mungiu builds Romeo as a fascinating protagonist from Graduation’s opening scene, in which a rock thrown through his apartment window sends him on a furious quest to find out who was responsible. That sense of having the moral high ground— being the one who finds bad guys, rather than being one—erodes as Romeo eventu-

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THE CIRCLE [not yet reviewed] A new employee (Emma Watson) at a technology company discovers that the science might be employed for sinister purposes.

Opens April 28 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) GRADUATION BBB See review on p. 29. Opens April 28 at Broadway Centre Cinemas.

(NR) GROWING UP SMITH BB What do you get when you cross a sincere drama about the American immigrant experience with whimsical nostalgia à la The Sandlot? Serious tonal confusion. From a brief presentday setup, the story flashes back to 1979, where 10-year-old Smith Bhatnagar (Roni Akurati)—a first-generation IndianAmerican—tries to adapt to life in suburban Oklahoma, including his crush on a neighbor girl named Amy (Brighton Sharbino).

As co-written by Anjul Nigam (who also plays Smith’s traditional father), the movie leans on an episodic structure narrated by the adult Smith, with broad fantasy sequences (like Smith in a Saturday Night Fever setup) and predictable needle-drops. But the real frustration comes from how the script treats what should have been the central conflict—between tradition and assimilation—as an afterthought, or even as a punch line, like when Smith’s mother makes him a Ganesh costume for Halloween.

Likeable performances—including Jason Lee as Amy’s dad and Smith’s mentor in becoming an all-American boy—carry it a long way, until it becomes impossible to reconcile its attempts at an emotional core with its glossy, jokey view of Smith’s childhood.

Opens April 28 at Tower Theatre. (PG-13)—Scott Renshaw

HOW TO BE A LATIN LOVER [not yet reviewed] An aging playboy (Eugenio Derbez) moves in with his estranged sister (Salma Hayek). Opens April 28 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) SLEIGHT BB.5 Bashir “Bo” Wolfe (Jacob Latimore) is such a singular character that it’s hard not to wish JD Dillard had found a better story for him to be a part of. Bo is an intelligent young black man whose chance at a college scholarship was lost when he had to become the guardian for his younger sister after their mother’s death. He’s also a talented close-up street magician whose sleight-of-hand skills have made him a valuable distributor for local drug dealer Angelo (Dulé Hill). But the thriller that emerges from that character—as he tries to find an exit strategy from Angelo’s organization after a turf war turns violent—keeps grabbing at bits and pieces from far less interesting genre fare, introducing obligatory love interest, sophisticated-yet-abruptly-vicious crime boss and set pieces that never build the visceral intensity they seem designed for. Most surprisingly, Sleight takes an abrupt turn toward becoming a de facto origin story for a super-hero franchise. That might all sound weirdly appealing, but even Latimore’s charismatic work can’t overcome the sense of a filmmaker pushing too hard to make his movie awesome, when he hadn’t yet figured out how to make it good. Opens April 28 at theaters valleywide. (R)—SR

SPECIAL SCREENINGS HER At Sprague Library, April 27, 6 p.m. (R) PERSONAL SHOPPER At Park City Film Series, April 28-29, 8 p.m. & April 30, 6 p.m. (R) TOXIC PUZZLE At Main Library, May 2, 7 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES AFTER THE STORM BBB.5 “It’s not that easy growing up to be the man you want to be,” says Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), a once-promising novelist whose inability to live responsibly has already cost him his wife and potentially his young son, as well. Writer/director Hirokazu Kore-eda continues his career-long exploration of complex familial relationships, as Abe turns in a wonderful performance playing a perpetually down-on-his-luck hustler who could have become a cliché, wrapped in the history of Ryota’s recently deceased father to create a portrait of big dreamers facing real-world consequences of their actions. There’s no earth-shaking drama here—just small heartbreaking moments. Kore-eda extracts honesty from the choices a man faces once he acknowledges that the life he imagined has simply become the life he chooses for himself. (NR)—SR

THE LOST CITY OF Z BBB.5 In typically non-flashy style, James Gray tells the stranger-thanfiction true story of Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), a British soldier who spent decades in the early 1900s obsessed with finding evidence of advanced civilization in the Amazon basin.

Events of Fawcett’s life dictate an unusual structure that can feel jarring, as segments alternate between domestic life and frustrated expeditions. Those shifts between two worlds are crucial, however, to Gray’s juxtaposition of a regimented British social structure and the meritocracy of surviving the “uncivilized” jungle. Hunnam sells that psychological journey with a compelling, improbable mix of zeal and British restraint, and the supporting cast is equally strong. It’s apt for an underappreciated filmmaker to tell a story about how you don’t need fussy elites to decide for you that you’ve accomplished something remarkable.

(R)—SR

BORN IN CHINA BB.5 The Mouse again gets circle-of-life-y in its latest DisneyNature documentary, with John Krasinski narrating a year in the life of various critters in China—including pandas, snow leopards and monkeys. Predictably, the focus is on humanizing animals, which continues to fuel the idea that animals are only worth caring about to the extent that they seem like furry versions of us. Additionally, while many individual sequences capture fascinating and/or cute animal behavior, the post-credits scenes of filmmakers at work suggest that it would be even more interesting watching a documentary about the making of these documentaries. Sure, you’ll get more than your recommended daily allowance of adorableness from a baby panda tumbling and snuggling, but as a motivator for people to embrace protecting the natural world, this one offers the fleeting pleasures of a YouTube video. (PG)—SR

THE PROMISE BB If you’ve ever wondered what Pearl Harbor would be like without explosions, but with a similarly dull love story, here’s the picture for you. As if the Armenian Genocide isn’t weighty enough to sustain 133 minutes, writers Terry George and Robin Swicord give us a yawn-worthy romantic triangle involving a loudmouth American journalist (Christian Bale), a feckless Armenian medical student (Oscar Isaac) and a beautiful-and-that’s-her-onlycharacter-trait Armenian tutor (Charlotte Le Bon) stuck in bythe-numbers PG-13 torture and mayhem. It’s impossible not to be moved by images of agony inflicted upon children and elderly people, but genocide doesn’t need context; it’s genocide. Bale and Isaac acquit themselves well, but that’s a testament to their talent, not George’s tepid direction. You’d think with Hotel Rwanda under his belt, he’d be more skilled at depicting human suffering.

(PG-13)—David Riedel

FREE FIRE BB.5 When does non-stop shooting and swearing cease being a genre goof and become wearying nihilism? Co-writer/director Ben Wheatley’s action/crime thriller finds a 1970s arms deal in an abandoned warehouse going sideways and turning into a gunsblazing mess. The cast brings in some fun talent, like Sharlto Copley optimizing his over-the-top qualities as a cowardly weapons dealer, to supplement the potential mystery of who doublecrossed them all. But there’s not nearly enough personality to go around, leaving little to the proceedings but various creative and unpleasant ways in which they are wounded and eventually killed.

It’s kinda cool for a while, but it lacks that burst of humanity and/ or tart dialogue that can elevate similar scenarios from Quentin Tarantino or Martin McDonagh. All that remains is brutality, and there comes a point when it’s just not funny anymore. (R)—SR

UNFORGETTABLE BB Giving a formulaic thriller this title is an act of wishful thinking, but as middlebrow trash goes, this “psycho ex from hell” tale isn’t bad—or at least no worse than it’s supposed to be. Web publisher Julia (Rosario Dawson) is engaged to gentleman David (Geoff Stults), whose bitter ex-wife Tessa (Katherine Heigl) is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Tessa uses her and David’s young daughter as an excuse to micromanage and second-guess Julia, while plotting to get rid of her. Heigl is well cast as a soap opera villain, with the perfect mien for a character who drinks red wine in the dark while impersonating her rival on Facebook, but movies where the crazy person tells insane lies and the innocent person doesn’t try hard enough to explain the truth are beyond frustrating.

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Dear White People Friday, April 28 (Netflix)

Series Debut: A few white people were angry about the mere title of creator/director Justin Simien’s 2014 film Dear White People, and even more got pissed when Netflix dropped a trailer for his new 10-episode series of the same name. They’ve never seen more than a minute of either, but said whiteys waged futile YouTube downvote campaigns and “cancel Netflix” drives to stop this reverse oppression, or whatever the hell was perceived as happening. Too bad, because Dear White People is a ferociously funny look at “post-racial” relations, PC college culture and misconceptions from both ends of the color spectrum that could just maybe change some minds. Nah, probably not. But! For everyone else, DWP features some killer performances and nimble comical/political scripting. What’s in a name?

American Gods Sunday, April 30 (Starz)

Series Debut: Producer extraordinaire Bryan Fuller is no longer attached to CBS All Access’ Star Trek Discovery; in other news, Star Trek Discovery is never going to happen.

Anyway: Fuller’s previous TV work, even the darker-thandark Hannibal, has always been constrained by the lim-

United Shades of America Sunday, April 30 (CNN)

Season Premiere: Similar to the Dear White People situation, viewers of all colors took exception to comic W. Kamau Bell kicking off his CNN docu-series United Shades of America in 2016 with a behind-the-sheets look at the Ku Klux Klan, claiming that he was “normalizing” white supremiscists.

He wasn’t; they’re morons. Over eight episodes, Bell profiled prison life, Latino culture, police, survivalists, gentrification and more from a black perspective with a deft blend of humor and factuality, a task that won’t come easier in the era of “fake news.” Season 2 isn’t toning anything down, as the first episode tackles immigration and features an interview with everyone’s favorite white nationalist/ Nazi piñata, Richard Spencer. United Shades of America: The bravest (and, as far as I know, only) show on CNN.

Drop the Mic Tuesday, May 2 (TBS)

Series Debut: Prompting celebrities to sing karaoke, lipsync hits and engage in rap battles are cheap and easy methods to connect with Middle ’Merica—and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Late, Late Show with James Corden have the gimmick on lock. Spike expanded Fallon’s Lip Sync Battle bits into a successful series, and Corden’s Carpool Karaoke gets regular primetime-special treatment on CBS. Now, his hip-hop combat segment Drop the Mic is a TBS show. (Note to these series: Stop dropping unplugged microphones in commercials—details, people.) Drop the Mic blatantly clones Lip Sync Battle’s LL Cool J/Chrissy Teigen dynamic with hosts Method Man (veteran rapper) and Hailey Baldwin (model with an Instagram account). Up next: Celebrity Colonoscopy.

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hristian Riley and Isaiah Michael’s band name—Civil Lust—and the title of their Mike Sasich-produced debut EP Constitutions (civillust.bandcamp.com) are provocative. What’s civilized about something as primal as lust, which leads to grunty rutting? Does it mock the lame distinction between civil unions and marriages? And how does Civil Lust pair with Constitutions, which can describe the parts and the whole, or one’s general well-being or disposition?

Casually slouched on the small couch in their second-floor Avenues pad, singer/ multi-instrumentalist Riley and bassist Michael gamely explain. Naturally, as a new band—they’ve been together since June— they wanted something grabby, an attentiongetter. But there was definitely an emotional and socio-political tone to capture. “It’s kind of hard to explain,” Michael says. His head is cocked in the opposite direction of the Morrissey-esque swoop in his hair, which is shaved high and tight to reveal a spider-web tattoo covering his cranium.

“A lot of the influence behind this band is a lot of post-punk and early goth stuff,” Michael says. His tattoos advertise this much: post-punk Morrissey (The Smiths) covers his right carotid artery; late goth-rocker Rozz Williams (Christian Death) covers the left.

The Moz-Rozz portraits speak to an interesting duality within Civil Lust. Morrissey’s music is wistfully blissful, while Williams’ is largely confrontational. Yet Morrissey, for all his lyrical sensitivity, can be a cantankerous dick, while Williams had a sensitive side—many of his lyrics dealt with heartbreak.

Civil Lust’s music is similarly complicated and contradictory.

The duo also is into the glammier side of goth and post-punk, “all that lustful stuff that all those glam bands bring to the stage,” Michael says. He adds that they also want to convey a sort of militancy, which comes from another major influence—The Clash, circa Combat Rock—only it’s not the legendary English punk-rockers’ leftist politics they wanna cop. It’s the gentle but active aggression of their message. This makes the seven synth- and bass-heavy songs as melancholy and questioning as they are grounded and forthright, and that duality sufficiently clarifies the band name.

Now we get down to divining the significance of Constitutions.

The title track opens with a sample of John C. Lilly quoting Sufi Oscar Ichazo regarding the concept of Satori, “a natural, simple, easy, obvious and continuous state” that’s akin to mindfulness or loving kindness. “It’s basically self-identity and finding your own little niche,” Riley explains from his seat closest to the window. When writing the lyrics for the EP, “I was questioning my constitution, where do I fit in?” In the song, over a tortured guitar, insistent bass and moaning synths, Riley intones deeply and with emotion, as though channelling Peter Murphy and Robert Smith: “My constitution/ is fading I know/ but how to define it?/ how does one grow?”

The theme continues throughout the other six tracks, like “An Alternate Display”: “I’m alone/ I am nobody/ understand me/ understand me/ let me go.” Others explore relationships, religion, alienation, and even names—as with “A Man You Will” (a play on

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Emmanuel). The songs, Riley continues, “reflect how you view yourself, [and how your experiences] define who you are.” From his end of the couch, Michael contributes this: “It’s very existentialist.”

Even as he strove to reflect and define, Riley continues, he realized that this soul-searching quest for balance and composure is a work in progress, forever. It’s not something you can rush. Ideally, it should move at a comfortable, civilized tempo. Ideally, because life determines your pace.

When Michael and Riley met, they almost immediately started Civil Lust and even moved in together. Before the songs were fully written, they were already playing shows and booking studio time.

But at their gigs, Riley says they were playing unfinished music.

“Prior to recording, I was making up lyrics for many of the songs.”

It was nerve-wracking, he says, but he learned that he can work that way: “It’s completely changed the way I write music.

“I realized that, before getting a point across, or telling a story, that the goal is to create a mood.” Words, whether names or lyrics, have meaning, but sometimes serve only “to reinforce the tone of the song.”

And Constitution’s tone, although dark and aggressively brooding, is not entirely offset by a faint pulse of hope. Just like with Moz and Rozz, Michael and Riley are engaged in civil lust for answers.

Only, whereas Moz remains a jackass and Rozz hanged himself 20 years ago, these guys, in their ardent but aggressive quest, actually have a shot at gleaning some meaning from life. CW

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hree-time Grammy Hall of Fame inductee Johnny Mathis has been a staggeringly popular recording artist and performer for more than 60 years.

His 1958 LP Johnny’s Greatest Hits (Columbia) is widely acknowledged as the prototypical best-of collection and, like much of his discography, it sold in massive quantities. Although best known for his 1957 classics “Chances Are” and “Wonderful!

Wonderful!” he has scored hit singles on one chart or another every decade since.

The 81-year-old singer’s current The Voice of Romance Tour draws material from throughout his long career, rightly focusing on the hits. But a deeper dig into Mathis’ massive discography unearths many gems and a few oddities, revealing him as a rare diamond among music icons—with only slight imperfections.

“When Sunny Gets Blue” from Warm (Capitol, 1957): As the lesser-heard B-side of “Wonderful! Wonderful!” this tune helped established the Mathis formula: exactingly enunciated, effortless vocals against a lush string accompaniment. “Sunny” got some latter-day publicity when DJ Rick Dees (of “Disco Duck” fame) cut a parody version that included the memorable lyric, “When Sunny sniffs glue.” The composer sued Dees and lost.

“Night Dreams” from The Singles (Legacy/Sony Music, 2015): Written by “Strangers in the Night” composer Bert Kaempfert, this one is vintage easylistening Mathis. Released as a Columbia single in 1968, it reached the lower rungs of

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For his cover, Mathis changed his easylistening ways. His version doesn’t exactly rock, but it swings hard and features a tasty Hammond organ solo. It’s not impossible to imagine parents and teens of the day actually enjoying this track together.

“Everytime You Touch Me (I Get High)” from I Only Have Eyes for You (Columbia, 1976): With its wah-wah guitars and understated brass and strings, this cover of a tune by country crooner Charlie Rich was Mathis’ B-side of minor hit “Yellow Roses on Her Gown.” It might disappoint crate-diggers who think they’ve discovered a long-lost Johnny Mathis psychedelic record. He’s in standard romantic crooning mode, but the arrangement feels forced; it might have done better in a version by Barry White.

“The Lights of Rio” from Different Kinda Different (Columbia, 1980): As recently as last year, Mathis’ live set included “Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil),” a song he cut in 1998.

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sions. By this stage in his career, he had found success recording duets with popular female singers and, on this LP, his vocal foil is one Paulette McWilliams of R&B/ disco/funk band Rufus—though she only sings five words.

“Most of All There’s You” from The Biggest Bundle of Them All (MGM Records, 1968): Even the great Johnny Mathis turns out an occasional dud. Perhaps his most cringe-worthy recording ever, “Most of All There’s You”—from the soundtrack to the 1968 Raquel Welch caper comedy The Biggest Bundles of Them All—hasn’t appeared on any Mathis release. His vocals aren’t quite awful; he gamely sings along to an overwrought melody replete with vocal whoops, choirs and grating, tuned percussion. More than any other song on this list, don’t expect to hear this one at the show. CW

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Baritone saxophonist Jon Gudmunson, director of jazz studies at Utah State University, leads a quartet of his fellow faculty members (Max Matzen on trumpet, Josh Skinner on bass and Jason Nicholson on drums) to pay homage to fellow “bari” maestro Gerry Mulligan. Mulligan was one of the architects of cool jazz, a cerebral musical style that achieved its pinnacle in the 1950s.

With his meandering blonde locks and penetrating blue eyes, Gudmunson bears a resemblance to Mulligan in his later years, and knows this particular stream of jazz inside and out. “Jeru,” as Mulligan was known, died a little over 20 years ago, in 1996, and this month marks what would have been his 90th birthday. So it’s entirely appropriate to examine the impact Mulligan and the other cool cats had on music—and popular culture, as well. After all, what would the ’50s (and the ensuing 67 years) have been without the cool daddy-O? (Brian Staker) The Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main, 7:30 p.m., free, all ages, excellenceconcerts.org

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This Nashville group was spawned when former punk band Blacklist Royals’ guitarist Nat Rufus, inspired by a black-andwhite biker photo, started a new unit emulating and echoing everything about the darker side of the ’60s—namely, rebels with or without a cause, who only cared that the music was loud and the scene was wild. Perhaps it would be the soundtrack to a neverproduced Hells Angels movie, or a Tarantino set piece. Along with his brother Rob from the Royals, they nabbed alt-country warbler Samantha Harlow for her Nancy Sinatra-like pipes. Their new EP, Black Magic Moments (Number Nine Creative Cult), is an official Record Store Day release, and if you have the wherewithal to spin it backward, you’ll hear back-masked subliminal messages supposedly conjure up demons. All hail Azathoth Pazuzu Presley!

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In a matter of only five years, All Them Witches have taken the indie world by storm, thanks to a sometimes bizarre blend of psychedelia, blues and hard rock. Their new album—their fourth to date—Sleeping Through the War (New West, 2017) is no exception. But the fact that they recruited veteran producer Dave Cobb (the man behind the boards for such names as Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson), and actually wrote the material before entering the studio, suggests some sort of premeditated madness. In truth, these Witches opt instead for controlled chaos. Given their anythinggoes attitude, they’re actually a complete left turn from anything else emerging from Nashville—where real premeditation occurs these days. Still, there’s something to be said for a band that strikes a balance between impulse and intention: When All Them Witches play live, they’re practiced enough to be tight, but also ready to let loose. To be sure, there’s no telling what these guitartoting necromancers will conjure. The co-ed foursome that calls themselves Idle Bloom open the show with a frenetic blend of pop, psychedelia and earnest intent. Also hailing from Nashville, they, too, have nothing in common with the pre-fab, vaguely country pop music that town’s known for—and a likewise off-kilter approach. (Lee Zimmerman) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $15, 21+, thestateroomslc.com

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Dueling guitars became a basic part of the musical makeup for bands like The Rolling Stones, The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Thin Lizzy, but finding three exceptional players sharing the frontline is something of an anomaly as far as basic band-configuration precepts.

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Après Ski (The Cabin) The Bad Signs (Diabolical Records) see p. 36 Bobaflex + Another Lost Year + The Complicated + Outside Infinity (The Royal) Chance the Rapper (Maverick Center) see p. 36 Colt. 46 (The Outlaw Saloon) Eighth Day (Club 90) Freemind + Ivy Local + Maikon + Ivie + DJ Mixter Mike + Em Garcia + Rock LP (Metro Music Hall) Get Down Tonight (Brewskis) Jeff Dillon (The Sand Trap) Johnny Mathis (Eccles Theatre) see p. 34 Joy Spring Band (Sugar House Coffee) Kaleb Austin (The Westerner) Live Local Music (A Bar Named Sue) Live Music on the Plaza Deck (Snowbird) Live Trio (The Red Door) Los Hellcaminos (The Spur) Metal Bash feat. Rue the Day + Raven Mind + Demented Asylum + Guilty Scapegoat + Sex Room (The Loading Dock) Mod Sun + Marty Grimes & Swaghollywood + New Hippies + DJ Kam Bennett + Benny Freestyles + Kurt Rockmore (The Complex) Morgan Whitney (Johnny’s on Second) New Language + Visitors + Hemwick (Kilby Court) Spazmatics (Liquid Joe’s) Russell James Pyle (Funk ’n’ Dive Bar) Talia Keys & The Love + Pixie and the Party Grass Boys (The State Room)

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For some Utahns, Monday is Family Home Evening—a time to bond with the brood and ensure the lessons learned in Sunday School (you know, yesterday) stick. For others, it’s a night to go to the bar and continue the good works we started at Miller Time on Friday. Or maybe, like for my wife and me, it’s just date night and we’re caught in the “I don’t know, what do you want to do?” loop. A couple of Mondays ago, we wound up stopping at The Ice Haüs in Murray. All we wanted was food and booze, so we sat in the back corner to avoid being mistaken as interested in anything else—like Josh’s Pub Quiz, which would soon begin. It was as cold as an icehouse (go figure) and looked kinda like a ski lodge, but we forgot about that when the poutine arrived and questions started flying. We knew the answer to almost every query tossed out by hosts Josh Stasinos (you might recognize him from trivia nights at The Garage on Beck and The Republican) and, according to the event’s Facebook page, “whichever hot chick Josh talked into reading his script for that week.” We were unstoppable, scribbling our answers on the back of an extra-long grocery receipt. Except we weren’t really participating, like the others at the surrounding tables. It was like playing Jeopardy! at home, except with easier questions and only ourselves to witness our mastery of all this mostly useless information. But we’ll be back, and we’re gonna take all the spoils—especially one of those D.I.-purchased archery- and golf participation trophies. (Randy Harward) The Ice Haüs, 7 E. 4800 South, Murray, 8 p.m., facebook.com/theicehaus

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ACROSS

1. Italian scooter brand 2. Groups of starting players 3. Battlefield of April 6-7, 1862 4. Agitated state 5. Like some points 6. Woodworking tool 7. “Glee” actress Michele 8. Within the rules 9. Part of a contract

tag “Kitty Purry” 48. “Take your time” 49. Helps a hospital, say 53. Ghostly white 54. Puzzle with a start and a finish 55. Dash gauge 56. Its state tree is the buckeye 57. Light bulb unit 58. “black-ish” network 59. Rock’s ____ Speedwagon 60. “Tight” NFL position 62. Belittle

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No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

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10. Cameron of “Charlie’s Angels” 11. Rainbow’s shape 12. ____ Kippur 13. Not you specifically 18. Actress Malone of “The Hunger Games” 22. General ____ (name on a Chinese menu) 24. Least remote 25. Sampras or Seeger 26. Upside-down sleepers 27. ____-mo replay 29. Chewable Mideast stimulant 30. Speech coach’s targets 31. “If you ask me ...,” in texts 32. “____ won’t be afraid” (“Stand by Me” lyric) 35. Chief Justice Roberts 36. ____ the crack of dawn 37. Word before and after “yes” 38. Neighbor of Caps Lock 39. Ear: Prefix 40. President Johannes ____ of Germany, 1999-2004 41. Successor to FDR 44. Carry a balance 45. Former Egyptian leader with a lake named after him 46. Discounted 47. #1 Katy Perry hit whose video features a tiger wearing the name

Complete the grid so that each row, column, diagonal and 3x3 square contain all of the numbers 1 to 9.

1. ____ deferens 4. What a conservative has that a member of the Conservative Party lacks, in political-speak 10. “Me say” this word in a 1957 hit 14. Biblical verb ending 15. “Negotiations are off!”

16. Fe, to chemists 17. Conductor who co-wrote a 2016 bestseller containing his conversations with novelist Haruki Murakami about classical music 19. Tiptop 20. Artist’s paint holder 21. Mess around (with) 23. “I ____ a roll!”

24. Use bad words 25. “This Old House” airer 28. Basketball great who wrote a 2011 autobiography detailing his 19-year career in the NBA 33. Gun belt contents 34. Germany’s von Bismarck 35. Classic 1902 Rudyard Kipling work ... or, read another way, a description of the literary output of 17-, 28-, 43- and 61-Across 41. Native American tribe with a rain dance 42. “I could ____ horse!”

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “One of the advantages of being disorderly,” author A. A. Milne said, “is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” I wouldn’t normally offer this idea as advice to a methodical dynamo like you. But my interpretation of the astrological omens compels me to override my personal theories about what you need. I must suggest that you consider experimenting with jaunty, rambunctious behavior in the coming days, even if it generates some disorder. The potential reward? Exciting discoveries, of course.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Why would you guzzle mind-clouding moonshine when you will eventually get a chance to sip a heart-reviving tonic? Why spoil your appetite by loading up on non-nutritious hors d’oeuvres when a healthy feast will be available sooner than you imagine? I advise you to suppress your compulsion for immediate gratification. It might seem impossible for you to summon such heroic patience, but I know you can. And in the long run, you’ll be happy if you do.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) According to my reading of the astrological omens, it’s time for you to take a break from the magic you have been weaving since your birthday in 2016. That’s why I’m suggesting that you go on a brief sabbatical. Allow your deep mind to fully integrate the lessons you’ve been learning and the transformations you have undergone over the past 11 months. In a few weeks, you’ll be ready to resume where you left off. For now, though, you require breathing room. Your spiritual batteries need time to recharge. The hard work you’ve done should be balanced by an extended regimen of relaxed playtime.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “You’ll always be my favorite what-if.” Many years ago, I heard that phrase whispered in my ear. It came from the mouth of a wonderful-but-impossible woman. We had just decided that it was not a good plan, as we had previously fantasized, to run away and get married at Angkor Wat in Cambodia and then spend the next decade being tour guides who led travelers on exotic getaways to the world’s sacred sites. “You’ll always be my favorite what-if” was a poignant but liberating moment. It allowed us to move on with our lives and pursue other dreams that were more realistic and productive. I invite you to consider triggering a liberation like that sometime soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Apparently, a lot of kids in the U.K. don’t like to eat vegetables.

In response, food researchers in that country marketed a variety of exotic variations designed to appeal to their palate. The new dishes included chocolate-flavored carrots, pizza-flavored corn and cheese-and-onion-flavored cauliflower. I don’t recommend that you get quite so extreme in trying to broaden your own appeal, Cancerian. But see if you can at least reach out to your potential constituency with a new wrinkle or fresh twist. Be imaginative as you expand the range of what your colleagues and clientele have to choose from.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Among America’s 50 states, Texas has the third-highest rate of teen pregnancies. Uncoincidentally, sex education in Texas is steeped in ignorance. Most of its high schools offer no teaching about contraception other than to advise students to avoid sex. In the coming weeks, Pisces, you can’t afford to be as deprived of the truth as those kids. Even more than usual, you need accurate information that’s tailored to your precise needs—not fake news or ideological delusions or self-serving propaganda. Make sure you gather insight and wisdom from the very best sources. That’s how you’ll avoid behavior that’s irrelevant to your life goals. That’s how you’ll attract experiences that serve your highest good.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) On numerous occasions, French acrobat Charles Blondin walked across a tightrope that spanned the gorge near Niagara Falls. His cable was 3 ¼ inches in diameter, 1,100 feet long and 160 feet above the Niagara River. Once he made the entire crossing by doing backflips and somersaults. Another time, he carried a small stove on his back, stopped midway to cook an omelet and ate the meal before finishing. Now would be an excellent time for you to carry out your personal equivalent of his feats, Virgo. What daring actions have you never tried before, even though you’ve been sufficiently trained ARIES (March 21-April 19) or educated to perform them well?

I have misgivings when I witness bears riding bicycles or tigers dancing on their hind legs or Aries people wielding diplomatic LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Ready for some subterranean journeys? They might not involve phrases and making careful compromises at committee meetliteral explorations of deep caverns and ancient tunnels and under- ings. While I am impressed by the disciplined expression of ground streams. You might not stumble upon lost treasure and for- primal power, I worry for the soul of the creature that is behavgotten artifacts and valuable ruins. But then again, maybe you will. ing with such civilized restraint. So here’s my advice for you in At the very least, you’ll encounter metaphorical versions of some of the coming weeks: Take advantage of opportunities to make the above. What mysteries would you love to solve? What secrets deals and forge win-win situations. But also keep a part of your would be fun to uncover? What shadows would you be excited to fiery heart untamed. Don’t let people think they’ve got you all figured out. illuminate?

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You could go online and buy an antique Gothic throne or a psychedelic hippie couch to spruce up your living room. For your bathroom, you could get a Japanese “wonder toilet,” complete with a heated seat, automated bidet and white-noise generator. Here’s another good idea: You could build a sacred crazy altar in your bedroom where you will conduct rituals of playful liberation. Or, how about this?

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) In speaking about the arduous quest to become one’s authentic self, writer Thomas Merton used the example of poets who aspire to be original but end up being imitative. “Many poets never succeed in being themselves,” he said. “They never get around to being the particular poet they are intended to be by God. They never become the person or artist who is called for by all of the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet. They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else’s experiences or write somebody else’s poems.” I happen to believe that this is a problem for nonpoets, as well. Many of us never succeed in becoming ourselves.

Luckily for you, Leo, in the coming weeks and months, you will have an unprecedented chance to become more of who you really are. To expedite the process, work on dissolving any attraction you might have to acting like someone other than yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) I’d love to see you increase the number of people, places and experiences you love, as well as the wise intensity with which you love them. From an astrological perspective, now is an excellent time to upgrade your appreciation and adoration for the whole world and everything in it. To get you in the mood, I’ll call your attention to some unfamiliar forms of ardor you might want to pursue: eraunophilia, an attraction to thunder and lightning; cymophilia, a fascination with waves and waviness; chorophilia, a passion for dancing; asymmetrophilia, a zeal for asymmetrical things; and sapiophilia, an erotic enchantment with intelligence.

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I recently returned from a quick trip to the Big Apple, and it got me thinking: What do New York City and Salt Lake City have in common? Well, there’s great food, swell vistas, massive potholes and homeless shelters. Guess how many shelters there are in the Big Apple: 20? 50? 200? Guess again. There are 674—including traditional shelters, landlord-operated shelters and converted hotels—and Mayor Bill de Blasio intends to add 90 more in the near future.

Both cities have similar problems: The majority of current shelters are old and decrepit, and the shelters are understaffed and overcrowded. New York’s Daily News recently did an undercover photoshoot at several shelters and found crumbling bathrooms, gaping holes in walls, cramped work conditions and worse. The mayor is trying to buy buildings to turn into new shelters, but just like Salt Lake City, no one wants a shelter in their backyard.

According to advocacy and services group Coalition for the Homeless, more than 62,000 homeless people stay in NYC shelters—about 78 percent higher than 10 years ago. SLC’s homeless population has also skyrocketed and the ugly truth is that housing is becoming more and more unaffordable. Mayor de Blasio proposed a solution recently to address the crisis: When the city rezones an area to allow more dense construction or to convert land to residential use, all new housing would have to meet affordability rules. Basically, if you wanted to build a new apartment building, a percentage of units would have to be affordable for people earning the area’s median income (a federally calculated metric).

According to the formula, an estimated 13-15,000 new units of affordable housing would be added within a decade. There is no math equivalent in Salt Lake City because our mayor hasn’t adopted any percentages/ requirements for new construction and affordable housing. Several thousand new apartment units have been constructed here in the past few years. Example: If 20 percent of 3,000 apartments being built were priced in the affordable-housing range the feds have set for our area, then 600 units would be rented to lower-income folks.

Both NYC and SLC, like many other cities across America, are seeing a housing crisis. The average Starbucks barista and Harmons clerk likely can’t afford an apartment downtown, let alone find one that’s available. We’re losing our working-class and low-income renters to gentrification.

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Windows, walls and wrought-iron doors were destroyed; tear gas and a “flash bomb” were employed. Jessen suspects that the farmhouse’s isolation enticed police to decide that it presented an excellent training opportunity.

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Leading Economic Indicators The eight elite Ivy League universities are better thought of as “hedge fund[s] with classes,” according to a March report by transparency repository Open the Books, and thus there is little reason for taxpayers to have given them the more than $41 billion in grants and entitlements they received over a recent six-year period. The schools are already legendary for their $119 billion endowments (based on donations from alumni and aggressive investment).

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Compelling Explanations Pro-choice activist Jessica Farrar, a Texas state legislator, introduced a bill in March to create consistency between the state’s rigorous regulation of women’s reproductive functions and those of men (regulation which, by the way, in either case she calls “invasive” and “unnecessary”). Because Texas’ anti-abortion laws highlight procreation as a crucial government interest, she believes male use of erectile-dysfunction drugs should be regulated as abortion is. Under her bill, individual use of Viagra or similar drugs must be preceded by counseling similar to that required by abortion laws, and since male masturbation involves the “wasting” of precious sperm cells, it, too, would require beforehand counseling.

n Paul Perry Jr., 39, sound asleep behind the wheel of his car, with motor running, at 6 a.m. on April 2, was in no position to talk his way out of a DUI ticket, but did offer a gentle challenge to the Youngstown, Ohio, police officer. Several times, according to the police report, Perry offered to “thumb wrestle” the officer to get out of the ticket. From the report: “Perry was advised officers would not thumb-wrestle him.”

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Bright Ideas In January, local government and sexual-assault critics unveiled a consciousness-raising exhibit on Mexico City’s trains: a plastic seat onto which is subtly molded contours of a male body, except with genitals sharply exposed. (Men supposedly have been spotted absentmindedly lowering themselves onto the seat only to leap up in shock.) A note on the floor by the body read, in Spanish, “It’s uncomfortable to sit here, but that’s nothing compared to the sexual violence suffered by women on their commute.”

The Foreign Press Village police in Bangladesh arrested Yasin Byapari, 45, in January on the complaint of his wife—after she had learned that she was not, as he had told her, his second spouse, but rather the 25th of his 28. (Police found him at the home of No. 27.) The accuser said she had, through sleuthing, tracked down 17 of her “competitors.”

• A male schoolteacher reported in February that he had been kidnapped by four women near Lupane, Zimbabwe, drugged with a beverage and sexually assaulted, in what appears to be a return of the “sperm bandits” said to operate in the area; previously, police set up roadblocks and arrested three women with 31 condoms full of semen.

The Passing Parade In same-day competition in March, perennial Guinness Book records jockeys Zoe L’Amore and Ashrita Furman squared off over the record for stopping blades on an electric table fan the most times in one minute using only their tongues. On Italian TV, L’Amore stopped blades 32 times, but Furman, at a different venue, later stopped 35. n Norway unseated Denmark as the world’s happiest country, according to the UN’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network. There was no word on whether Denmark was unhappy about losing the top spot.

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n Jason Sexton told KFSM-TV in Fort Smith, Ark., in April that he alone had been digging the massive hole neighbors noticed, now 34 feet deep and with separate tunnels extending off of the main hole. Police had come to check it out, since it was on another person’s private property (and not the city’s, which Sexton had assumed). He said he had been digging off and on for three years to get an answer to whether “the Spanish” had been in Fort Smith centuries ago, mining iron—and, if so, the site should therefore be a lucrative tourist destination. Sexton said he felt he had to give his explanation: “Nobody in their right mind,” he said, “would dig a hole like that for no reason.”

Ironies Federico Musto was suspected recently by wired.com of audaciously inventing academic credentials to help land his job as CEO of the company Arduino—a circuit-board manufacturer popular in the computer industry among coders creating, among other things, robots and motion detectors. Arduino’s work is “open source”—creating hardware that others, by design, can exploit and modify for their own loftier projects. It might thus be said that Musto’s claimed academic “accomplishments” (his socalled MBA from New York University and claimed Ph.D from MIT) are themselves the product of his having “open-sourced” his own, previously modest curriculum vitae.

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