City Weekly June 29, 2017

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In the fight over the future of the downtown homeless, the Pioneer Park Coalition looms large.

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PIONEER DAZE

In the fight over the future of the downtown homeless, Pioneer Park Coalition casts a large shadow.

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Cover story photography Calling what he does “modern-day artistic craft,” intrepid photojournalist Vargo caught the essence of the conflict at Pioneer Park this week. Along with “capturing the world,” he says the social add-on is what he loves most about his job—“I get to meet all different types of people.”

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Cover story, June 15 “Best Summer Concerts”

Lol, Lunar made the list! This article is hysterical! Enjoy the funny read.

The Ocho, June 15 “Modest Is Hottest”

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I hate the whole modest is hottest thing.

Why don’t they just call it what it is: Females cover up so males don’t get excited because, if they do, it’s your fault.

The venue descriptions!

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Via Facebook Went from funny to “liberals are an equal amount of intellectually lazy” in half of a column.

Yeah, this kinda of stuff is total nonsense!

Why not just make a cute article of clothing and say that it’s a cute article of clothing. I hate the “modest is hottest” crap—it shames women!

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Thanks to Randy Harward at @CityWeekly for including “Make You Mine” in their Summer playlist!

Why are you deciding what makes someone comfortable?

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MIKE SCHMAUCH Via Facebook

Iosepa is pronounced like it is spelled, each vowel pronounced separately. Not “Yo-sepa” as you posted but I- (as in hill) o- (as in old) se- (e, as in elf) pa (a as in papa)! The colony was not named for Joseph Fielding Smith as stated in your article, but for his father, Joseph F. Smith.

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The Straight Dope, June 15 “Agent Orange”

It’s what killed my father. Well, the complications it brought, more specifically.

ERIC FERGUSON Via Facebook

I know it caused birth defects in children born to Vietnam vets.

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MICHELLE LOUISE

Mahalo nui loa! (Greatly appreciated!)

Again, thank you for covering our story.

Not many people know of our Hawaiian heritage and people who lived out there at Iosepa “A Gem in the Desert” Skully Valley.

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The last two issues have not featured the charming, hilarious News of the Weird. I’ll keep enjoying your fine weekly, but sincerely look forward to a resumption of the collected foibles of our fellow humans.

DAVID HAMBLIN, Provo

From the editor: David, it was cut for space for our June 15 and 22 issues. Turn to p. 47 to see your prayers answered.

The Republicans remind me of some former neighbors of mine who, much to their chagrin and embarrassment, had a 70-year-old grandfather who would run naked through the streets shouting, “I am king of the world and I am the only one who can save you!”

It was annoying, but we just shut our windows and turned the stereo up and they kept him away from sharp instruments and nuclear (nuculer?) weapons.

One evening, some nice gentlemen in white suits with butterfly nets came and took Grandpa to a nice place in the country, and peace was restored to the village once more.

And they all lived happily ever after.

The End.

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The Beer Nerd, June 14, “Pedal to the Medals”

Way to go, Utah brewers! Next time do liquors.

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Kingdom Come

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News, June 15 “In Bloom”

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Mayhem in Moab

Tourists, beware. For the next three weeks, Moab has no mayor, no police chief and an absent-on-leave acting police chief. This is happening in the middle of the busiest time of the tourist seasons.

So, you ask, who’s in charge? That would be two sergeants—Sgt. Tom Nixon and Sgt.

Craig Shumway. Why wasn’t an interim chief hired after Lt. Ross went on leave? The rank and file of the Moab Police Department (along with the Sheriff’s Dept.) have a much-deserved reputation for mayhem in the Moab community. They’re like frat boys on steroids with guns. Now they have no adult supervision?

How did we get here? After years of public corruption and lax law-enforcement supervision, the proverbial shit hit the fan in 2016. All it took was for three Moab cops to crash an underage beer-pong party at the Grand Oasis. Then some underage kids told the truth and the swamp that is the Moab Police Department finally began to drain.

You could almost hear the departing officers whispering to themselves, “What a world ... what a world.” Four Moab officers either resigned or went on paid administrative leave and Chief Navarre suddenly resigned. For reasons still unclear to me, Lt. Steve Ross, who was promoted to acting chief of police, decided he needed to put himself on longterm leave.

Moab has a new chief of police coming.

I’m told he has no patience for crooked cops.

I sure hope so, Chief Winder. From all of us in Moab who have been abused by the police over the last 20 years, we say, “Good luck!”

You’ll need it.

BRIAN DONEGAN, Moab

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Changing Our Culture I recently met with several fellow members of the LDS/ Jewish Dialog Luncheon group. We do this each month in alternating venues—including the I.J. & Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center and the Brigham Young-built Lion House—to discuss and share our common values.

This meeting’s topic was humanitarianism and how much each of our two cultures devotes—in volunteer time and financial donations—to help those in need around the world. One retired judge in our group voiced how similar Mormons and Jews are with regard to faith teachings and cultural emotional ties to do what we do. Jews call this tikkun olam, which means “repair the world” through, as I understand it, human acts of kindness such as philanthropy. It is no secret that members of the LDS community, both through the church and individually, represent a disproportionately large percentage of the world’s repairers.

At this luncheon, I noted that we must not heap credit on ourselves without sharing the kudos with many other cultural groups that do the same. We discussed my recent return from Red Cross deployment to flood-ravaged northeast Arkansas where Catholics, Southern Baptists and members of over a dozen local Christian churches stood shoulder-toshoulder with the rest of us to provide aid and comfort. We all agreed that, when working together to face down all manners of trouble, we get to observe the very best of humankind.

So, we all open our hearts when a hurricane or flood attacks our “family members of humankind,” regardless of their religious faiths. And yet, we respond quite another

way—sometimes with hostility and downright hatred— when our extended family members choose to embrace an opposing political philosophy.

I’m on many political email lists that include warlike messages from both Democrats and Republicans. On each side, they absolutely always have the answers to the world’s problems as they couch their language in phrases that border on, and sometimes cross the line into, venomous hatred of the other. In the recent Democratic campaign to choose a new state party chair, the venom was turned against some of their own and was so egregious as to be, well, undemocratic.

The GOP has no cause for gloating. They, too, quite often pick on their own when they are not demonizing the Dems. Utah Republicans have said terrible things about each other.

In each party, the other side is not only the rival party, but any person, group or philosophy that is not in political alignment with the person lobbing those virtual F-bombs.

So, here’s the bottom line: Many, if not most, of the progressives and conservatives—who, in Utah, are Democrats and Republicans—are both kind and wonderful humanitarians, as well as nasty, vicious, hate mongers, depending on which emotional switch we flick on at a particular point in time. Does this mean the world is schizophrenic and we all are kinda nuts? Of course it does. In light of this, is there any hope for humans at all?

For me, salvation from our crazy political inhumanity is found in those monthly LDS/Jewish dialog luncheons. We leave our politics at the door and reinforce good in our respective cultures.

A growing group of faith-based leaders from around the

world is reminding us to remember our human roots of love and kindness. A few recent online quotes from Pope Francis, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, are examples: n “Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.” n “To change the world, we must be good to those who cannot repay us.” n “Today, too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others. To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love, is to open up a horizon of hope; it is to let a shaft of light break through the heavy clouds; it is to bring the warmth of hope!”

Recently, Apostle Dale G. Renlund (of the LDS church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles) and his wife were quoted in ldsdaily.com from their speech at the International Religious Freedom Symposium in Costa Rica. Through their words, they reminded us to help build a better world by embracing tolerance and rejecting hate speech, saying, “A truly civilized, well-functioning society depends on an accepted code of moral conduct that is based on a belief system that teaches that there is something greater than self.”

We could go on and on with the many other faith leaders. The lessons are the same. Like the Jewish tikkun olam, “repair the world” is a constant refrain among all faiths and cultures except, of course, our political culture. Here’s a hopeful thought: Let’s all get together and change that. CW

MEMBERS OF THE LDS COMMUNITY REPRESENT A DISPROPORTIONATELY LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE WORLD’S REPAIRERS.

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If it isn’t enough that a drink with dinner could potentially mean jail in Utah, Rep. Paul Ray is paving the path to bigger and better opioid use. Ray, one of those uncompromising Republicans from Clinton, says it’s enough that medical marijuana is being studied, according to a StandardExaminer story. “Studied,” as in there’s really no way so long as marijuana remains a Schedule 1 drug. But medical marijuana is a different animal, as Mormon mom and hellish pain sufferer Christine Stenquist says. She and the Utah Patients Coalition filed an initiative with the Lieutenant Governor’s Office on Monday to get the issue on the ballot. Ogden’s Gage Froerer, a GOP co-sponsor of the previously failed bill, is looking forward to a plebiscite to resolve the issue because it’s not one of moral turpitude; it’s one of human kindness.

Free-Market Health Care

In a Deseret News op-ed, Don Ruzicka calls socialism “a creeping cancer that incrementally contaminates the body of our free-market system, veiled in charity and directly conflicting with free enterprise.” This is his reason to toss Medicaid, as well as any government-subsidized health care. He longs for yesteryear when a “free-market health care actually existed and was operating smoothly at low cost in this country.” But the facts behind this claim are slim. Poor people especially seem to benefit from subsidized health care, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. But Ruzicka notes how damn charitable Americans are. Meanwhile, Utah legislators want to get that Medicaid expansion passed—but with lifetime limits and work requirements for childless adults, The Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Cookie-Cutter Housing

In Utah, the developer is king. Building Salt Lake wrote recently that the construction of a three-story residential project in the 9th & 9th area “once controversial.” But it will always be controversial. As artist William Littig says in the comments: “Why are we building temporary, cookiecutter housing? The title ‘mixed-use’ will not save a boring building.” But at least the homogenization of 9th & 9th took only two years. The “Sugar Hole” mess lasted much longer as the developer evicted tenants and scraped for non-existent funds.

And let’s not forget the Triad Center, once touted as a $650-million office, retail and entertainment complex. The dream went bust, and the LDS church stepped in to save it. KSL and Deseret News were strangely silent when the center’s wouldbe developer Adnan Khashoggi died recently, becoming the ghost of Utah’s biggest development scam.

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Salt Lake City’s Half and Half Skate Shop—where, as owner Milhouse Williamson puts it, they like “using fun, vibrant and dumb art, but the skating is serious and the homies kill it”—recently competed in the third installation of TransWorld Skateboarding magazine’s Shop Showdown. H&H was one of 16 skateshops from across the country to submit a three- to five-minute video showcasing its team’s best skateboarding. Videos were pitted head-to-head in a bracketstyle tournament which concluded earlier this month. Although Half and Half did not win this year’s showdown, the Sk801 crew put it down for the salty state with a video edit that would make even the most this-is-private-property-and-you-damned-kids-can’t-skate-here types utter a cheer of approval.

How did you get involved in TransWorld’s Shop Showdown?

Randomly, they actually reached out to us. It was something that was really humbling to have someone like TransWorld hit us up.

When did you start filming for the Showdown?

They gave us a guideline of what they preferred, and said it was all right to use older clips, but what they really wanted was about a month worth of current clips. That was a challenge in itself. Being that it was the start of March when they hit me up about it, it was, like, ‘Great. It’s March in Salt Lake City, and we’ve got to get a bunch of footage.’ It was definitely a battle with the weather, but I feel like we came through pretty solid on it.

Who are the guys in the video?

The video was the people we consider on the Half and Half team. A lot of them support the shop pretty heavily. [TransWorld] wanted the hometown hero. It was really nice having people like Levi Faust, Kordell Black and Caleb Orton, and those names involved because they are Salt Lake’s hometown heroes.

What was the experience like being in the showdown?

I had a really good time with it because I felt like we had a decent edit. The way [the showdown] was set up, it was tough to win and we had a ton of competition—which is great— that’s what I wanted. I didn’t want it to be something where it was easy.

What’s next for Half and Half?

What we are really trying to concentrate on is an HD video. Sam Hubble, a Half and Half team rider, is pretty fired up on an HD setup that he’s got. I’m just trying to support that with the shop and get everyone a little part. I’m really hyped to see what happens because it’s just going to be all the Sk801 homies.

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I saw a British documentary that stated that God—the Jewish, Christian and Muslim God, that is—used to have a female companion, but then male dominance made it impossible to imagine such a powerful female being, and goddesses were no longer worshipped.

Did this really happen?

—Amalie Before the Israelite God Yahweh really made it big, a bevy of other deities shared the stage with Him, among them a fertility goddess named Asherah. So says theologian Francesca Stavrakopoulou, host of the 2011 BBC series you evidently saw, called The Bible’s Buried Secrets. And that much is largely accepted by historians. Nor is Stavrakopoulou alone in claiming that Yahweh (in some form) and Asherah were at one point an item, worshipped side by side, though this is a matter of more contention.

But I don’t see where she suggests that the goddess’ disappearance was the result of a male-centric power play, or some resulting failure of imagination. As far as we can know, Asherah might have been just another victim of the messy shift to monotheism.

It’s not hard to dream up more sinister theories, of course. As discussed here in a 2008 column, for more than 150 years scholars have periodically floated the idea that Western societies were, in millennia past, largely matriarchal, peacefully worshipping a nurturing Mother Goddess, until a warlike patriarchy took over and set up male gods in her place. But the bulk of the archaeological evidence called on to support this notion—female statuettes from prehistoric Europe, 9,000-year-old burial sites in Turkey, etc.—is open to other interpretations, to put it mildly. Goddessworship by Wiccans and other present-day pagans is probably best understood as reflecting a modern spiritual longing, rather than as some super-ancient tradition brought back to life.

But whether or not anyone ever really worshipped a dominant goddess in the prehistoric past, there’s no doubt that high-powered goddesses were found in pantheons all over the ancient Near East and Europe. In the Canaanite religions of the eastern Mediterranean, the god El, a major precursor to Yahweh, and his wife Asherah presided over a whole squad of lesser gods, male and female, with the goddesses Anat and Astarte high among these.

Polytheistic deities can seem like supernatural versions of humans—embodying various elemental concepts and forces, sure, but still feuding and fighting and mating with each other like earthly families. How do we get from there to a single God, working in basically mysterious ways?

Well, academics tell us, in systems where you’ve got a hierarchy of gods, with one or two dominant and the others variously subordinated (henotheism, you’ll see this

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setup called), sometimes the dominant god will gradually come to assume the roles of all the mid-level gods below, leaving behind the only bottom-tier deities to function as the top god’s servants. And that’s what happened with the Canaanites, biblical historian K.L. Noll says: Yahweh became the one God; the other divine beings remaining in the Old Testament are portrayed as His messengers—i.e., angels.

So yes, the goddesses got written out of the story, but most of the other male gods did, too. If female divinity really was singled out for expungement, it’d be tough to prove it.

In fact, the Christian God that eventually emerged from all this was seen as having transcended any corporeal attributes, the male-female divide included. As theology professor Andrew Walker told BBC: “Out of the Holy Trinity, the three gods in one, only one is male. ... Jesus Christ, because he was born a man.” Under a strictly Orthodox reading, Walker says, God the father has no actual procreative role, and thus no gender; he’s called the father because that’s what Jesus calls him. So why, then, is He a he? The hand of male dominance might be easier to infer here: In a male-centered society, of course God was going to get a male pronoun. As liberal theologians have worked over the years to establish the use of more inclusive language, traditionalists have battled back. Hell, traditional grammarians are still hanging onto the idea that “he” works just fine as a gender-neutral generic pronoun; what do you expect conservative clergy to say?

It’s not like the feminine divine got stamped out of Christianity altogether, though: Take the Virgin Mary for example. She’s crucially not God, or a god, but she’s held to have been conceived free from sin and taken up into heaven; and in much of the Christian world, she’s the addressee of prayer. Just this past January, a Catholic group, the International Marian Association, petitioned the Pope to acknowledge Mary as the “co-redemptrix” of humanity, together with (though, the blasphemy-averse Marians stress, not equal to) Jesus. This pitch has never quite flown with church higher-ups, but for centuries it’s remained in the debate. With the ascent of monotheism, we might say, God might have lost a wife, but, hey—he gained a mother. n

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If it isn’t confusing enough that Congress keeps missing the mark on healthcare, now the state wants to jump into the fray. Don’t give up yet because if you do, you lose. Utah does want to expand Medicaid a little—to 6,000 childless adults—but the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services haven’t approved the plan. That inspired your legislators to make it even harder by imposing limits to their Medicaid Expansion because maybe that’s what the Trump administration wants. You have 30 days to comment on the state’s plan. Take a read through the latest proposal before you put in your two cents. Cannon Health Building, Room 125, 288 N. 1460 West, Monday, July 10, 3-5 p.m., free; bit.ly/2tuGWxV, or submit comments at health.utah.gov or send to Jennifer Meyer-Smart: Utah Department of Medicaid and Health Financing, P.O. Box 143101, Salt Lake City, 84114-3101

MEDICINE WALK

This Medicine Day Walk is what New Moon Rites of Passage’s Kinde Nebeker calls a “facilitated walk in nature that allows you to slow down, tune in, shift consciousness and receive the ‘medicine’ that your soul needs.” In these high-stress times, it might be good to leave your angst behind. It’s all about getting away from the “civilized, braincentered way of knowing.” Nature, community and storytelling are all part of this sublime package. You can journal or sketch along the way. Parking lot at base of Big Cottonwood Canyon, Friday, July 7, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., $45$95, bit.ly/2sWUHb5

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Buy Park City Brewing’s Hooker Blonde Ale.

Earthquakes, fire, floods—sounds like the apocalypse, doesn’t it? In fact, it could be what we face right here in Utah.

You might want to learn how to prepare, especially as politicians continue to debunk science and, well, facts. How about a rooftop garden? If you’re concerned about the growth and development in your community, you should attend the U.S. Green Building Council’s Green Infrastructure and Resilience webinar.

“At the city scale, green infrastructure has multiple benefits that support the community but are often undervalued or installed in a silo. At the building scale, green infrastructure—like green roofs—can support stormwater regulations [and] reduce energy costs, localized flooding and heat island[s],” USGBC says. Online, Thursday, June 29, 12-1 p.m., $10 for members, $20 for nonmembers, bit.ly/2srgxSZ

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GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

Buy Shades of Pale’s Jack Wagon Wheat.

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CITIZEN REVOLT

T R A N S P O R TAT I O N

Cab Jab

Ride-sharing apps snag 50 percent of airport transports under changed regulations.

BY DYLAN WOOLF HARRIS dwharris@cityweekly.net @dylantheharris

T

he squeaky clean windshield of Rod Kujaczynski’s gray Jetta sports a pink decal—one that has become as commonplace as the urinating Calvin or the line of stick-figure family members.

Every weekday morning for the past four months, Kujaczynski hops in his car, clicks on his Lyft app—hence the sticker—and goes to work, driving commuters to their offices or schools.

He signs off for a couple hours while he works at his consulting job through the late afternoon. Then he again trawls the streets in his car, looking for the workforce commuting home.

Attracted by the additional income, he joined the swelling ranks of rideshare drivers, independent contractors in the sharing economy—a market dominated by omnipresent Lyft and its competitor, Uber.

These drivers say they have the luxury of working extra hours that fit around their schedule.

In the evenings, Kujaczynski will transport folks to bars or restaurants, and maybe even their second stop from the restaurant to the club. But he’s decided he doesn’t want to work latenights, picking up patrons when the clubs close. “This is my car, and I don’t want people getting sick in it,” he says.

That’s OK; plenty of other drivers earn their fares by helping the closing-time crowd make it home safely.

Ocassionally, Kujaczynski deviates from his usual runs to pick up folks who need to catch a flight. It’s one of his most-lucrative runs—a practically straight-shot jaunt along about 8 miles of freeway.

Airport fares are vital to taxis, vans and shuttles, plus Uber and Lyft. And over the past couple of years, lawmakers have tweaked the rules that govern their operations.

In 2015, the Legislature tackled the question of regulating emerging rideshare companies (at the time, hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers were buzzing around the Beehive). Sen. Stuart Adams, R-Layton, sponsored a bill establishing a regulatory framework.

This included enforcing driver back-

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ground checks, vehicle inspections and insurance requirements.

Leading up to a vote on the bill, Senate Business and Labor Committee members reiterated that ride-sharing companies—those can be hailed for a ride through a smartphone app—would not be permitted to pick up or drop off passengers at the airport.

But even though the bill passed, they did anyway. It’s a quintessential example of what Ute Cab Co. President Ken Olsen sees as a pattern of the ride sharers disregarding rules until regulators find it easier to change them rather than enforce them.

“Their business plan is to go in, thumb their nose up at the regulations, break all of the ordinances, the rules, the laws and do what they want to do,” he says. “Because they’re Uber and no one is going to touch them. They have billions behind them.”

The Salt Lake Tribune likened the lawlessness to “the Wild West” in a 2015 story about the impossible task of applying an established regulatory system to an innovative new industry.

Now the dust has settled, and the ride sharers are legally allowed at the airport. But looking back, Olsen has qualms with the regulatory process.

“We were incredibly regulated by the city,” he says. “They set our meter rates.

They sealed our meters. They controlled our drivers. They controlled when and where the drivers worked at the airport.”

He emphasizes he’s not opposed to competition—so long as they’re on equal footing. He’s not convinced that’s the case. Uber and Lyft, which are classified as “transportation network com-

panies,” or TNCs, and regulated by the state, don’t have a mandatory maximum fare for rides from the airport to Salt Lake City. And Lyft and Uber drivers don’t have to obtain a business license in each city they serve.

Standard taxi services differ: The drivers can wait in a staging area for pickup at the airport, and each time a cab enters that area, it is charged a small fee. The amount a driver is allowed to charge for a ride from the airport to the city is capped at $25. And, Olsen points out, if the cab has a business license with Salt Lake City only, it cannot do business in another city.

Ride-sharing companies also are charged a fee per ride, but because they don’t pass through the ground transportation staging area, the companies are responsible for keeping track of their trips for payment. It’s an “honor system,” Olsen says.

Traffic congestion was a primary concern regarding Uber and Lyft. To alleviate crowding on sidewalks, the airport set up a boundary where TNC drivers are allowed to wait for requests.

That boundary, roughly, runs west from Redwood Road, along Interstate 80 past the airport, and goes south until about 500 South. Maps are available on both companies’ websites.

Today, more than 3,000 active Uber drivers are available in Utah, according to an Uber spokesperson. Lyft did not respond by press time to a similar inquiry.

All drivers who have their apps on and enter the designated waiting area are added to a queue. As long as drivers stay in that boundary, their spot will be secured. If they leave, however, and

then enter again, they will be placed at the back of the line.

Though ride-sharing companies are eating into the ground transportation market, Uber has experienced a rash of bad publicity. A recent article in New York Magazine asks whether the company would be able to rebound from its latest blunders.

Before President Donald Trump’s first travel ban was struck down by the courts, protesting taxi companies in New York banded together and refused to offer airport service. But Uber was accused of crossing the picket line, prompting the social media hashtag #DeleteUber.

Then the company allegedly overlooked a sexual harassment complaint. Amid the turmoil, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick stepped down last week.

Whether Uber sees a decline in ridership or rebounds, or whether it’ll be affected on the ground at all, is yet to be seen.

From the airport’s pickup station, a ride request prompted a four-minute wait before an Uber driver was curbside on a late Friday morning. Deborah White, who began driving for Uber after her job as a kitchen worker in a Utah school district was eliminated, was friendly and accommodating. She had just dropped off another rider when her phone pinged for a pickup. An “Uber grandma,” she and her husband primarily make their living through the app. She says she drives six days a week.

“I used to drive around the airport a couple times,” she says. “But I realized now that I can get just as many calls on the freeway.”

But does she like it?

“I like it a lot,” she says. “It keeps me hopping.” CW

CAR WASH, SATURDAY, JULY 1 at Trinity AME Church 10AM-5PM. $5 Wash - $10 Wash & Vacuum

Bring your loose change to help with CHANGE FOR TRINITY program.

Our goal is to fill a 5-gallon water jug of coins during the car wash.

SUNDAY JULY 30

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Theme, “Men & Women United in Christ” Dress in color-coordinated wear.

WOMEN: WHITE & YELLOW MEN: WHITE & BLUE

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The two friends at the heart of the coalition are a study in contrast.

Garbett speaks softly, is cordial and deferential, even in his elegant offices-cum-mansion home he acquired from Karl Malone’s wife which sits spitting distance to the south of the Capitol.

Howell, by contrast is a whirlwind of energy and voice, every inch the well-dressed and coiffured politician. He’s prone to repeating phrases like “brothers and sisters” when talking about the homeless, and wearing his Mormon faith on his sleeve. “I don’t think we can do a better thing than follow in the footsteps of the Savior in what we’re trying to do now,” he says.

Where Garbett is at times reticent, occasionally glancing at Howell as if for direction, Howell is push, push, push, refusing to take no for an answer. “He pushes,” Garbett agrees. “He pushed some people hard­—they think, too hard.”

The coalition’s roots lie in what Garbett describes as his fast-moving, $2-million purchase of land from developer Micah Peters that fronts onto Pioneer Park, a 10-acre grassland with tennis courts that Downtown Alliance’s Chief Executive Jason Mathis says, should be “the jewel of the city.” Having assumed he knew everything there was to know about Salt Lake City, Garbett was shocked to find the park awash with criminal activity and drug use. Before launching the nonprofit, he went to then-Mayor Ralph Becker’s offices, only to be told there was nothing that could be done.

Garbett decided to set up an organization to advocate for addressing some of the issues he saw in Pioneer Park. He wanted “someone the city would listen to,” so he turned to Howell, both his friend and the governmental lobbyist he employs for Garbett Homes.

Pioneer Park Coalition was incorporated as a nonprofit in January 2014, with Garbett as its chair and Howell as a 20-houra-week consultant initially paid $45,000 (his salary climbed to $60,000 in 2015). He’s also listed as board trustee.

Much of the momentum and energy that drives the coalition comes from business owners long frustrated with problems arising from the homeless milling around Pioneer Park.

One early June day, Tony Caputo’s Market co-owner Matt Caputo has dealt with three people before 11 a.m. He had to remove a shoplifter, a speechless “zombie” with no shoes and tattered pants, and a man in a dirty tank top showing bruises and track marks on his arms. “Sometimes they go easy; sometimes not,” he says.

The coalition, he says, “has been demonizing the area to help their cause to move it. I hold no fucking stock in them walking around showboating.” Their condemnations of the quality of life of people on Rio Grande ignores how bureaucracy forms an enormous barrier in their lives, he says.

In 2015, ACLU of Utah met with The Road Home’s management to try to understand some of the issues they are facing.

“I think the people who work there, Matt Minkevitch included, are so frustrated at having their work constantly mischaracterized,” ACLU of Utah’s spokesperson Anna Thomas says. “The sense that they didn’t have security, they don’t have any rules, that’s just not true. I think they feel like they’re the easiest, most visible thing to point a finger at.”

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At first, Caputo pursued a more physical approach with those who got in his face. But after his wife threatened divorcing him if that continued—she was concerned he might be shot after an altercation—he’s chosen a more neutral approach. “This is my property. I worked hard for 15 years,” he says about the renowned deli which directly faces Pioneer Park. “I’m within my rights to physically remove someone if they refuse to go.”

His main concern, he says, is the safety of his young staff— some of whom have faced threats of violence—and customers.

He doesn’t know the world of politics, he says, keeping his militancy to his artisan-expert opinions on cheese and chocolate.

“We’re very supportive of trying something different.” Caputo provides sandwiches for the coalition’s meetings and moral support. “I have faith in them,” he says.

On the other side of the park, social worker and activist Ryan Parker doesn’t see the coalition in such glowing terms. “This shit has never once been about fucking people; it’s always been about profits.” While he works at The Road Home, the 27-yearold rapper who’s lived through homelessness, addiction and poverty, says these are solely his own opinions.

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but had more contact through the coalition. McAdams views the coalition as “having been particularly positive in highlighting some of the challenges we now face from kicking the can down the road far too long.” But in the process, his and Howell’s relationship became strained. “I’ve been frustrated by some of the tactics they’ve used,” McAdams says, casting the coalition and its demands for the shelter’s removal as “a blunt tool,” rather than an advocate for finely tuned policy. “It’s caused tension and coldness in our relationship, but we still talk.”

The agency which operates the emergency shelter, The Road Home, largely has been silent. In an emailed statement, Executive Director Matt Minkevitch charts the ever-rising number of homeless across the Wasatch Front whom the shelter has helped, much of it swollen with the ranks of the mentally ill.

From 2003-2008, The Road Home served 12,759 people. This year, it projects 8,400 will be sheltered.

Minkevitch acknowledges that the sheer volume of people along the Rio Grande corridor makes his agency and other service providers “easy targets for certain detractors. There are those who will blame the agencies serving people in need for the larger societal problems that cause these issues,” he says. “It is easy work for anyone taking shots at a shelter or soup kitchen by blaming them for anyone in the area who misbehaves.”

Salt Lake City Councilman Andrew Johnston gives the coalition credit for advocating for their neighborhood. But he still struggles with its claims to be proponents for best practices while at the same time criticizing both the homeless and service providers. “Do I trust them as a clear and honest voice for what’s best for the homeless? No.” At times, the coalition can seem tone-deaf. After it was criticized for including anyone who attended their meetings as a coalition member, they continue to claim 650 members—many of whom might be surprised that their names are on the list.

Howell also stoutly defends the coalition holding breakfast meetings at the Garden Café at the Grand America, courtesy of the hotel. “I don’t care what they think,” he says about those who contrast such a ritzy location with life at the Rio Grande. “Maybe they want us to meet down at Pioneer Park and get stabbed.”

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The group’s mission, according to its tax filing, is to “improve the quality of the Rio Grande district by developing sustainable solutions for homelessness.” That was to be achieved by “advocating for change with city and county leaders as well as with county mayors, police, service providers and media.”

Howell worked his extensive contacts in the community, and quickly encountered aggrieved and frustrated Pioneer Parklocated business owners such as Forrest McNabb who owns Big D Construction. McNabb told him of having to clean human waste off his business’ doorstep every morning. Real estate businessman Josh Romney, who owns an office in Pierpont Place, recounted repeatedly finding used tampons on his doorstep. Pete Henderson, then owner of the Rio Café, raged against the violence and squalor that daily impacted his staff and kept away patrons.

Howell brought in people who would become the bedrock of the Pioneer Park Coalition’s executive committee: Romney (who later ceased involvement); Gateway Bridal and Prom owner Nicole Thomas; and Tiffany Provost, owner of the building that’s home to Tin Angel restaurant and a recording studio on the west edge of the park. Provost is a friend of Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski and was on her housing transition team. That didn’t stop Biskupski from turning her back on the coalition because she felt members had made unfair comments about her to the media, according to Howell.

City Weekly made several interview requests to the Mayor’s Office and also emailed questions relating to this story but did not receive a response.

In those first few months, what they heard from senior community figures was that if they advocated for change, the homeless service providers would shut them down. “They’ll just come after you, say, ‘All you want to do is be a developer, to take this land away,’” Howell recalls being told. He continues that, “Not one of us have said anything about development. What we’ve said is, ‘This is a hell of a mess.’”

UNDERCOVER

The then-fledgling coalition spent months investigating why criminal activity abounded at Pioneer Park. They learned, they say, the issue wasn’t the park, but rather the downtown shelter.

In September 2014, Garbett donned an old pair of Levis, left his cell phone, ID and wallet behind, and lined up for a bed outside the shelter. The then-LDS bishop waited in line for three hours, watching a dealer at the block conduct dozens of drug sales through intermediaries. “I had no idea there was such a disgusting place,” he says.

The first night, he was “so wimpy and naive,” he says, he was shoved aside and ended up with a mat and a blanket and slept on the floor. The second and third night he slept on a cot, and later gave a $1,000 donation to The Road Home after he was criticized for taking up a desperately needed bed.

“I can’t say that I know what it’s like to be homeless,” Garbett says. “After all, I could leave any time. I wanted to find out the services they provide.” He came to the conclusion that The Road Home “warehouses” people, instead of providing services “to get them on their feet.”

The first monthly meeting of the coalition in 2015 at Big D Construction ran for more than two hours. Eighty scheduled speakers had three-to-five minutes to make their point in what resembled to onlookers a voluble community council meeting.

The coalition went to the Legislature in February 2015, seeking money for rapid re-housing. While Crossroads and The Road Home might have been expected to welcome such an initiative, the lack of any consultation about the locations the coalition proposed made both them and other agencies angry. “They presented a list of potential new social-service sites to the social services Legislature in the name of the coalition,” Tibbitts says, but the sites were on the west side—something Crossroads and many others would not have agreed to if they had known. Howell dismissed the controversy as a misunderstanding.

Nevertheless, they got the $1 million and Howell says lowincome units have gone up on North Temple from a mix of funding sources.

LEAD PIPE TO THE HEAD

While The Road Home is primarily an emergency shelter— “set up to prevent people from freezing to death on the street,” Crossroads Urban Centers’ Associate Director Bill Tibbitts adds—other homeless-services providers point to a vast array of services geared to assisting the disabled, veterans, families and the elderly. According to numbers The Road Home provided City Weekly, 81 percent of all people who stay there receive some aid from at least one of 59 case managers.

Howell recognized in Garbett’s solitary investigation a media opportunity. By Christmas, local dailies had picked up the story.

Among the 75 stakeholders Howell says he visited were service providers like Crossroads Urban Center. “We were told it would be a discussion about how to improve services,” Tibbitts says. “So we wanted to be a part of that. Life doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game. There’s ways where things can be better for everybody.”

While the coalition, Garbett says, has put little sustained effort into fundraising, its sources of money are opaque enough that board members have complained about lack of transparency. Their 990s show its first-year revenue to be $55,000, some of which was contributed by Garbett. In 2015, it jumped to over $1 million, most of which came from the Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation and is earmarked for park improvements, Garbett says.

Late that year, Howell took his friend Greg Hughes on a tour of “the block.” Speaker Hughes says Howell “understands how my brain works. There’s been a value add for me working with the Pioneer Park Coalition and particularly Scott Howell.”

Hughes witnessed a man crack another’s head with a lead pipe. What upset him even more, however, was a nearby infant in a stroller. “I see these things, I draw conclusions in my own mind,” Hughes says. He relies on Howell to “give me context behind what I’m seeing and what I’m worried about.” The coalition, Hughes says, was a significant voice in his understanding of the issues surrounding the shelter and the needs of the homeless.

The coalition kept up the pressure on promoting new approaches to homelessness by bringing in consultant Robert G. Marbut. At a time when advocates nationwide are pushing for affordable housing units, Marbut promotes the idea of what he told a HuffPost reporter are “transformational campuses.”

Howell says Marbut’s “move to transformation, versus a culture of warehousing, isn’t mean. I think it’s generous to say we’re going to help you get back on your feet.” One of Marbut’s more controversial approaches that draws favor with Howell’s emphasis

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wants closed. If the coalition has sought largely to use media and political connections to push for change, the alliance’s Pioneer Park focus has been most visible in its 25-year-old farmers market at the park and setting up of the Clean Team to provide and monitor toilets in the Rio Grande area.

Garbett says it was a good fit. “We have the ability to be a little more pushy, a little more bold, to make requests the alliance can’t. An alliance doesn’t work if you’re offending your allies.” But Mathis found the $30,000 contract to provide administrative and business support to the coalition increasingly challenging. “We try to be pretty disciplined and strategic,” but the coalition “had a more laissez-faire approach to management and strategic thinking.” Then, there was the coalition’s appetite for public slap-downs. “It’s a lot easier to get people to move in the same direction if it’s a quiet private conversation without TV cameras or the threat of public humiliation,” Mathis says.

The clash between the alliance’s more cautious public culture and the coalition’s more frenetic desire to engage issues publicly came to a head with the coalition’s dogmatic backing of Sheriff Jim Winder’s 21-point plan to solve the lawlessness on Rio Grande. “That was the real straw that broke the camel’s back,” Mathis says. “Their full-throated endorsement of the plan and our reluctance to embrace every element of it, fractured our partnership. I think they felt we were holding them back from being more strident and vocal.”

After the coalition released Winder’s plan to the media, critics were outraged at the proposal to move the bulk of the homeless to a tent camp a few blocks away. “Why would it be OK to have people in a camp instead of in The Road Home?” the ACLU’s Thomas asks.

The ACLU became increasingly concerned that rhetoric was replacing policy. “We need to step back and take a breath,” Thomas said on KRCL’s RadioActive in April after Winder’s plan hit the media. “The rhetoric over this neighborhood is so heated, the pressure so great, it also may be poisoning the well,” for the resource centers.

Ask Howell about the need to address key issues such as trauma, mental illness and lack of treatment beds and deeply affordable housing units, he takes off his coalition hat and speaks for himself. He says his father taught him the best way out of depression was through service to others. When he hears concerns about how complicated things are, he says, his perspective is to tell those in need to think about giving back to the community, rather than asking for help.

The coalition still has issues to monitor, including the fate of service providers near The Road Home. Then, there’s the decisions the Shelter the Homeless board will have to make about the future of the Rio Grande property, which it owns, and who gets to run the resource centers.

Much to the consternation of service providers, Josh Romney was elected to the board of Shelter the Homeless. Romney didn’t respond to a call for comment. Howell takes heart that while the coalition’s former financial chair is no longer with it, “he has been educated by his participation in the PPC to what the issues are.”

Both Provost and Nicole Thomas advocate for changes in The Road Home’s approach to managing shelters and, in Provost’s case, she raised the question with the Deseret News editorial board whether the agency that provides emergency shelter and housing for much of the Wasatch Front’s homeless population should run the resource centers.

In his statement to City Weekly, Minkevitch urges both collaboration and access to housing and health care. “The dialogue must rise above simply closing the downtown shelter. We must work together to develop a critical mass of deeply affordable housing, as well as greater access to comprehensive health care for those who are currently going without.”

Social activist Parker takes a bleak long-term view of the impact on the homeless of the policies the coalition has pushed so hard for. “Ten years from now, at this rate, they’ll make Rio Grande into condominiums and coffee shops, housing; there’ll be cute families, very little police calls. And they’ll say, ‘We did it.’” All they will have done, he argues, is move the problem elsewhere, though it won’t be at the expense of developers, their consultants and politicians.

“It’s going to be at the expense of the 60-year-old man waiting in line at a shelter. He’s going to be the one bearing the cost,” he says.

Nicole Thomas says the coalition is not saying move the homeless and forget about them. Rather it’s a quest for a solution that benefits everyone—Howell’s “brothers and sisters” included.

“I still love downtown, I still love the meaning of it all,” she says. “At the end of the day, everyone’s heart is in it, too. I have to make a profit; I have to be successful. The only thing in it for me is a safer, cleaner downtown.” CW

In November 2016, the city and county announced that the shelter would be closing. Then in February, Speaker Hughes huddled with city and county leaders behind closed doors to bring some closure to an increasingly fraught, volatile and divisive resource center site selection process. At a press conference, he announced two sites in the city, one in the county and a firm date for the shelter’s closure: June 30, 2019.

If service providers had hoped that the coalition would lift their foot from the pedal with a closure date now set, the blood in the water seemed to only spur them on, albeit to the detriment of a six-month support contract they had inked with the Downtown Alliance.

Both share a long-term vision of the park as a centerpiece to downtown’s future, yet cultural differences remain. While the coalition has consistently criticized service providers, the alliance, Executive Director Mathis says, “has been very careful not to villainize anyone, but instead focus on long-term strategies for success and solutions,” such as expanding the Wiegand Center opposite The Road Home, which the coalition

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on self-reliance, is rewarding good behavior, with consequences for misbehavior. If you’re drunk, you sleep on a cement floor; if you’ve maintained sobriety, you get promotion to a studio.

Some of the coalition’s more punitive ideas led to it locking horns with the ACLU in late May 2016 after coalition members approved a proposal to urge the city to hire more street cops, and target panhandling, camping and loitering. This was to tackle everything from street-side dealing to defecation in public and lewd behavior. Longtime local homeless guru Pamela Atkinson proposed cracking down on people handing out food to the homeless without permits.

That raised the hackles of the ACLU which a week later warned the city the coalition’s proposals might draw civil rights lawsuits.

The coalition sought a meeting with the ACLU. Neither side was impressed by the other. “They’re very challenging to work with,” Howell says. “They want to give constitutional rights but only to people who fit their description.” When he asked about the rights of homeowners and business owners faced with human waste on their front porch, he says, the ACLU told him to provide more restrooms.

The ACLU was equally frustrated. Thomas felt that “whatever we proposed to the Pioneer Park Coalition, it was never enough.

And whatever they proposed violated people’s civil liberties. I felt in some meetings the tenor and tone was so unproductive, there was no point in meeting with them anymore.”

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Linnie Brown: Maps of Insufficient Clarity Lehi-based artist Linnie Brown isn’t a fashion designer by trade, but the concept behind her solo show Maps of Insufficient Clarity began with a unique clothing project when she was a graduate student at the University of Utah. Visiting artist J. Morgan Puett had created an assignment where, rather than using traditional pattern shapes for a piece of clothing, the students used templates derived from specific physical sites.

While the resulting articles of clothing were, as Brown notes in her artist statement, “barely functional,” the idea inspired her own exploration of how people are shaped by the key physical locations of their lives, and their experiences in those places.

The collages represented in this show dive into the idea that, as Brown describes in a phone interview, “We’re an accumulation of all the experiences we’ve had in different places.” Among the shapes represented in these works are the floorplan of her childhood home, her elementary and junior high schools and the boundary maps of cities where she’s lived. Using mostly paper, because of how relatively easy it is to manipulate, she put those pieces together in evocative ways.

“I was thinking about this time when I was in graduate school and got this idea started; that was super stressful,” Brown says of the origin of one piece. “So I picked three places—the university, my home and my kids’ school. In that particular artwork, I was trying to work with the interaction between those three places.” Those interactions provide more clarity than the show’s title might modestly suggest. (Scott Renshaw) Linnie Brown: Maps of Insufficient Clarity @ Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, 801-596-5000, through Aug. 4, free, saltlakearts.org

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Utah Symphony Patriotic Celebration It’s a lucky thing that America marks its birthday in the summer, even though, of course, that means ol’ Uncle Sam never got to have a party during the school year. That July 4 birthday means that we get to mark the occasion outdoors, enjoying all the glory of the country’s natural beauty— including our own purple mountains’ majesty.

The Utah Symphony brings its annual Independence Day-themed Patriotic Celebration to Deer Valley’s Snow Park Amphitheater, offering an opportunity to feel the spirit move you under the wide mountain skies. Conductor Jerry Steichen leads a program that includes both familiar, make-you-wanna-stand-and-salute standards (“Battle Hymn of the Republic,” the U.S. Marines hymn, “Yankee Doodle”) and stirring compositions by the likes of Aaron Copland and John Williams. Plus, it’s hard to imagine anything more American than a rousing rendition of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”

Accompanying several songs is vocalist Lisa Vroman (pictured), whose Broadway and touring credits include The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables. Vroman is performing a medley of old-timey classics like “Simple Gifts,” while also sharing tunes like “When Did I Fall in Love” from the musical Fiorello! And while your first association with America’s birthday might not be the two Swedish guys from ABBA, the lyrics of “Anthem”—from the Benny Andersson/Björn Ulvaeus musical Chess—offer a lovely idea to remember: “No man, no madness/ Though their sad power may prevail/ Can possess, conquer, my country’s heart.” (SR) Utah Symphony Patriotic Celebration @ Deer Valley Resort Snow Park Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive, Park City, 801355-2787, July 1, 7:30 p.m., $15-$93, utahsymphony.org

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One of the best parts of Fourth of July in Utah is how easy it is to find a party suitable for all ages.

Everyone seems to know of some local barbecue, or someone with a small stash of fireworks to set off. But if you’re looking for something with a little more flair than a local cookout or personal fireworks show, there are many bigger parties for the public to enjoy.

The state’s largest patriotic bash, America’s Freedom Festival in Provo, kicks off June 30 and rolls right on through July 4. Guests can see country stars Little Big Town, comedian Brian Regan, a fireworks show, the Grand Parade, 25 hot air balloons take off and much more.

If you’re feeling up for a more traditional picnic-and-a-show event, Salt Lake City’s Independence Day Celebration in Jordan Park is free to all. The park is open all day, but the real fun starts at 6 p.m., when the food trucks arrive, followed by fireworks at 10 p.m. Tara Olson, events manager for the Gallivan Center, which helped organize the show, says the feeling of togetherness is what sets big, communal events like theirs apart. “The positive energy and unity felt in the audience in this show is incredible,” she says. “The cheers and applause that are heard throughout a communal Fourth of July fireworks show make all the difference.”

For a boatload of additional Independence Day entertainment options—like the popular arts fest and fireworks in Sugar House Park—check out City Weekly’s article “Baby You’re a Firework,” included in our 2017 Summer Guide. (Kylee Ehmann) America’s Freedom Festival @ Center Street, Provo, 801-818-1776, June 30-July 4, times and prices vary, freedomfestival.org Independence Day Celebration @ Jordan Park, 1060 S. 900 West, food trucks, 6 p.m.; fireworks, 10 p.m., free, slcgov.com

Comedian Doug Benson has a lot to say, and when he says it, he might not remember having said it. Benson has become as much a part of marijuana culture as rattails, tie-dye and Taco Bell promotional menus. He’s always willing, too, to lace his cannabis with humor—or vice versa— wherever he can manage.

After a 30-year career in stand-up, acting and podcasting, Benson is trying his own special brand of courtroom drama: The High Court with Doug Benson premiered in February on Comedy Central. It features comedian guest bailiffs alongside guest litigants. Benson presides over the small-claims suits with a balance in one hand and a bong in the other. His bubbly disinterest in the cases provides entertaining relief from the complainants and defendants who exhibit apprehension instilled by courtroom decorum; “I’m a little fuzzy on what the word ‘affidavit’ means,” he says in one episode.

Although many of us were introduced to Benson through his TV appearances over the past few decades, there is a growing minority who know Benson as the popular podcaster behind Getting Doug with High and Doug Loves Movies—the title of the latter being unquestionable. His guests have included the real Leonard Maltin, but also such greats as Werner Herzog (played by Paul F. Tompkins) and Mark Wahlberg (Daniel Van Kirk). You have to appreciate Benson’s love for both movies and weed. In terms of sheer tonnage, he’s probably emptied more marijuana fields than the South American spider mite, and watched more movies than a locked-in-syndrome patient with a work-shy nurse. (Rex Magana) Doug Benson @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, July 5, 7:30 p.m., $20, wiseguyscomedy.com

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Friends, Romans, Controversy

Utah Shakespeare launches a new season as the Bard makes national news.

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n 2017 America, it feels like nothing should be able to surprise us anymore.

Yet it was still somehow particularly bizarre when a New York City production of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar—with the Roman emperor dressed as Donald Trump—became the latest flashpoint for political tensions at the outset of the current presidency. Yes, it was 2017, and we were all getting worked into a lather over a Shakespeare play.

Brian Vaughn, artistic director of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, thinks about the controversy somewhat differently. “Actually, no, it’s not shocking to me,” Vaughn says in a phone interview about the Julius Caesar kerfuffle. “As far as the relevance of Shakespeare, I don’t find it surprising at all, because his plays are always relevant.”

Dealing with the potential for controversy is an inevitable part of leading an arts organization, and Vaughn understands that reality. While most of Utah Shakespeare’s productions retain a period context from the plays’ 17th-century origins, others have ventured into a more modern framework— including their 2016 production of Julius Caesar that placed the story in an Italy hinting at connections to fascism and Mussolini. Vaughn recalls no extreme response to such productions along the lines of what occurred in New York, but will still occasionally find that audiences struggle with unique interpretations of these centuries-old texts.

“We did The Comedy of Errors one year set in the 1800s Gold Rush,” Vaughn recalls.

“And there was a little bit of internal controversy over taking that out of an Elizabethan setting. Some traditionalists just couldn’t go there, but other patrons said it really worked.

And that’s just the beauty of what art is. I like milk chocolate, you like dark chocolate.

Sometimes it just comes down to that.”

As Vaughn describes the festival planning process, it’s also not one designed for an of-the-moment topical approach to any given show. The schedule for a season is set about a year out, at which point the company hires the director, designers and other key behind-the-scenes personnel and begins a series of design meetings. “A director might say, ‘OK, let’s set it in the

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1920s, and accentuate the romanticism,’” Vaughn says, referring to this season’s Jazz Age-set version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. “Sometimes it works, and sometimes things might not line up. That’s the job over six to nine months. Then there’s more dialogue about the inner workings of the play, the performance interpretations, so that it falls in line with the design.”

That long-range planning can lead to some wonderful opportunities for the individual plays in a Utah Shakespeare Festival season to exist not merely as stand-alone productions, but as part of an overall framework in which the plays interconnect on some level. Such an opportunity presented itself when the festival got the rights to Shakespeare in Love, the stage adaptation of the 1998 Oscar-winning film. While the play had been performed in London and elsewhere on a traditional proscenium stage, it had never been produced in a space like Utah Shakespeare’s Elizabethan-style outdoor theater.

“Then we said, ‘This play is about the writing of Romeo and Juliet,’” Vaughn says. “‘Could we produce these plays side-byside, and the conversation might exist in the audience, that they can see a sort of origin version, then the next night actually see Romeo and Juliet?’

“We had just done Romeo and Juliet in 2011, so we wondered, is it too soon to come back to that play? But this was a unique opportunity, so let’s put them together.

Then it becomes a conversation of how these plays exist together, and that folds over into love, and strong female lead characters.”

While production decisions of that kind aren’t ones that actively court controversy, that doesn’t mean Utah Shakespeare won’t make choices that risk alienating certain

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kinds of viewers. This season will feature a world premiere play by Neil LaBute, How to Fight Loneliness, and those familiar with the playwright know that his work often addresses dark themes—“not the traditional summer fare,” as Vaughn describes it. Yet, the artistic director feels that the play is powerful and relevant enough that it’s important to include it alongside plays that appeal to a more traditional Shakespeare-loving crowd.

Most important of all though, according to Vaughn, is the idea that the festival is an opportunity for education. Performances have traditionally ended with post-show discussions led by a literary seminar director, allowing the audience into the history of the plays as well as the specific artistic choices made by the creative. In light of the controversy over the recent Julius Caesar staging, such discussions might be just as important as the shows themselves.

“What is shocking to me [about the controversy] is the misinterpretation of the play,” Vaughn says. “Julius Caesar is by no means a pro-assassination play. It’s about people making a decision, and the tragic repercussions. It throws their world into chaos.

The post-show conversations, he adds, “are what we should be doing: Having a conversation. I think it’s important, rather than just going to a play and then forgetting about it.” CW

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Park City’s Gallery MAR (436 Main, 435-649-3001, gallerymar.com) presents a joint exhibition of works by painters Pamela Murphy (“Impostor” is pictured) and Sarah Winkler exploring different facets of our collective history in Past | Present, with an artist reception June 30, 6-8 p.m.

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1776 Center Point Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, through July 15, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., centerpointtheatre.org The 3 Amigos Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, through Aug 19, times vary, desertstar.biz Cabaret Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371, June 30-July 23, Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 6 p.m., egyptiantheatrecompany.org Houses Riot Act Theatre, Kilby Court, 748 W. Kilby Court, June 29 & July 2, 8 p.m., riotacttheatre.com The Importance of Being Earnest Westminster College Dumke Auditorium, 1840 S. 1300 East, through July 1, times vary, pinnacleactingcompany.org Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Hale Center Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, through Aug. 12, times vary, hct.org Newsies Tuacahn Amphitheatre, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 435-652-3200, through Oct. 18, tuacahn.org A Night at the Imperial Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, through July 29, Friday, Saturday & Monday, 7:30 p.m., theobt.org Saturday’s Voyeur Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, 801-363-7522, through Aug. 27, times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org Seussical The Musical Eccles Theatre, 131 S. Main, 385-468-1010, through Aug. 7, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org Shrek the Musical Tuacahn Amphitheatre, 1100 Tuacahn, Ivins, 435-652-3300, through Oct. 20, dates and times vary, tuacahn.org

Steel Magnolias Center Point Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, through July 1, 7 p.m., centerpointtheatre.org Utah Shakespeare Fest Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre, 200 W. College Ave., Cedar City, June 29-Oct. 21, times vary, bard.org (see p. 20) The Whale The Hive Theatre Co., Sorensen Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, through July 1, FridaySaturday, 8 p.m., hivetheatre.com

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

America the Beautiful Draper Philharmonic & Choral Society, Draper Amphitheater, 944 E. Vestry Road, Draper, June 30, 8 p.m., draperphilharmonic.org Symphony Under the Stars Snowbasin Resort, 3925 E. Snowbasin Road, Huntsville, June 30, 6 p.m., utahsymphony.org Utah Symphony Patriotic Celebration Snow Park Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive, Park City, 801-355-2787, July 1, 7:30 p.m., utahsymphony.org (see p. 18)

COMEDY & IMPROV

Bengt Washburn Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, 801-622-5588, June 30 & July 1, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Cali Bee & Moose ’n’ Bootz The Bear Den, 1259 E. 200 South, July 1, 8 p.m.

Commit to the Bit Comedy Tour 50 West Club and Cafe, 50 W. 300 South, July 2, 7 p.m., 50westslc.com Doug Benson Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, July 5, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 18) Mark Normand Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, June 30, 9:30 p.m.; July 1, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

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Eric Hinderaker: Boston’s Massacre The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, June 29, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Michael Pollan Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, 801-585-0556, June 29, 6 p.m., redbuttegarden.org Mackenzi Lee: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, June 30, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

9th West Farmers Market International Peace Garden, 1000 S. 900 West, through Oct. 29, Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 9thwestfarmersmarket.org Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 350 W. 300 South, through Oct. 28, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org Provo Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 500 W. Center St., Provo, through Oct. 28, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., provofarmersmarket.com Sugar House Farmers Market Fairmont Park, 1040 E. Sugarmont Drive, through Oct. 25, Wednesdays, 5-8 p.m., sugarhousefarmersmarket.org

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Oval Racing Rocky Mountain Raceways, 6555 W. 2100 South, 385-352-3991, July 1, 4-10 p.m., rmrracing.com Summit ET Series Rocky Mountain Raceways, 6555 W. 2100 South, 385-352-3991, June 30,

FOURTH OF JULY

All-State Utah High School Art Show Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through July 29, slcpl.org All of Us Beasts Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through July 7, heritage.utah.gov

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America’s Freedom Festival Center Street, Provo, 801-818-1776, June 30-July 4, times and prices vary, freedomfestival.org (see p. 18) Independence Day Celebration Jordan Park, 1060 S. 900 West, 6-10 p.m., slcgov.com (see p. 18) Park City 4th Park City Mountain Resort, 1345 Lowell Ave., Park City, 7-11 p.m., pclodge.com Sandy City 4th of July South Towne Promenade, 10000 S. Centennial Parkway, Sandy, July 4, 10:30 a.m.-11 p.m., sandy.utah.gov Sugar House 4th of July Arts Festival Wilmington Plaza, Wilmington Ave., July 4, 10 a.m.-11 p.m., sugarhousechamber.org

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Cache Valley Cruise-In Cache County Fairgrounds, 450 S. 500 West, Logan, June 30-July 1, cachevalleycruisein.net Kingdom of Artemisia 20 Year Celebration Fort Buenaventura. 2450 A Ave., Ogden, June 30-July 3, baronyofgryphonslair.org/20year Mt. Ogden Midweek Bike Race Series, Snowbasin Resort, 3925 E. Snowbasin Road, Huntsville, 801-620-1000, Wednesdays through Aug. 24, snowbasin.com

The All-State Utah High School Art Show Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through July 29, slcpl.org Anthony Siciliano, Desarae Lee: Phenomenal Allegories Art Access, 230 S. 500 West, 801-3280703, through July 14, accessart.org Avenues Open Studies: Works by Local Artists Corinne and Jack Sweet Library, 455 F St., 801-594-8651, July 3-Aug. 19, slcpl.org Christopher Lynn: Misplaced Wall SLC Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through July 19, slcpl.org Corinne Humphrey: Tao of Rudy: Essential Dogma for Everyday Joy Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Aug. 7, slcpl.org I Am I Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts 631 W. North Temple, Ste. 700, through July 7, facebook.com/mestizoarts INK Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., 801-230-0820, July 4-30, urbanartsgallery.org International Art Quilt Invitational Brigham City Museum, 24 N. 300 West, 435-226-1439, through Aug. 31, brighamcitymuseum.org Joanna Johannesen: Reflections of My Soul Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, through July 20, slcpl.org John Vehar-Evanoff Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-355-3383, through July 15, modernwestfineart.com Joseph Cipro: Cosmic Musings Gallery 814, 814 E. 100 South, 801-533-0204, through July 31 Julie van der Wekken: Shadows & Reflections Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, 801594-8632, through July 15, slcpl.org Linnie Brown: Maps of Insufficient Clarity Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-5965000, through Aug. 4, saltlakearts.org (see p. 18) Masterworks of Western American Art David Dee Fine Arts, 1709 E. 1300 South, 801-583-8143, through Aug. 31, daviddeefinearts.com Michael Ryan Handley: Sublimation UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Sept. 9, utahmoca.org Naomi Marine: Sleepwalking Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East, 801-594-8640, July 3-Aug. 26, slcpl.org Nathan Florence: In a Common Act of Magic Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-3553383, through July 15, modernwestfineart.com Pamela Murphy & Sarah Winkler: Past | Present Gallery MAR, 436 Main, Park City, 435649-3001, artist reception June 30, 6-8 p.m., gallerymar.com (see p. 22) Richard Serra: Prints Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., 435-649-8882, through Aug. 20, kimballartcenter.org Sandy Williams Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, 801-363-4088, through July 16, artatthemain.com Scott Filipiak Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-596-5000, through Aug. 4, saltlakearts.org Scott Horsley: I Learned it from Watching You UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through July 15, utahmoca.org Self Expressions Urban Arts Museum, 137 S. Rio Grande St., 801-230-0820, through July 2, urbanartsgallery.org Traveling Out West: Going Places, Seeing Things: Photography by Alex Kravtsov and Nadia Dolzhenko Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, 801-594-8680, through July 7, slcpl.org Willow Skye-Biggs: Tastes Like Mandy UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Aug. 12, utahmoca.org

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’Cue for You Try these bodacious barbecue hubs for Independence Day.

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ndependence Day in America is synonymous with fireworks and barbecue.

Many, if not most of us, will do some grilling on the Fourth of July—be it on a balcony or rooftop hibachi, backyard Big Green Egg or $20,000 custom outdoor grilling island.

Then again, maybe you don’t have room to grill or barbecue, or perhaps you just don’t have the inclination to spend what is assured to be a hot day toiling over an even hotter grill. No worries. Just leave your barbecue needs to the pros. These folks can provide you with everything you need to throw a great Fourth of July cookout— without the cooking.

The staff at Bandits Grill & Bar (3176 E. 6200 South, Cottonwood Heights, 801944-0505, banditsbbqutah.com) has been smoking meats over oak wood fires since 1989. With catering packages priced as low as $12 per person, it’s not just smart, but economical, to let them do the smoking.

The slow-roasted, wood-grilled tri-tip here is legendary, and you’ll be, too, should you choose to serve it to your guests.

One of the best kept barbecue secrets in the state is Layton’s Holy Smoke BBQ & Grill (855 Heritage Park Blvd., 801-6145011, hsbbqlayton.com). A great choice for your faux backyard barbecue is to offer guests Holy Smoke’s pulled chicken.

Whole chickens are lightly smoked, then the barbecue experts remove the skin and bones, leaving nothing but tender, tasty morsels of light and dark chicken meat.

It’s perfect for making pulled chicken sandwiches for your outdoor activities.

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by Kaiser’s Bar-B-Que & General Store (962 S., 300 West, SLC, 801-355-0499, kaisersbbq.com). Situated in an old meat

Smoked pork loin from Pat’s BBQ locker, Kaiser’s is the real deal. Pulled pork here is juicy and tender, and the brisket is sensational. I’m especially fond of the tender pork ribs, with their perfect bark, and so will the folks lucky enough to enjoy the holiday at your place with Kaiser’s supplying the meats. In case you need party decorations: What other barbecue joint do you know of can you purchase a pair of steel-sculpted pink flamingoes while your meal is being prepared?

It’s hard to imagine Salt Lake City without a Pat’s BBQ (155 W. Commonwealth Ave., SLC, 801-484-5963, patsbbq.com).

Pitmaster Pat Barber has been satisfying the staunchest of barbecue aficionados for decades, as well as supplying a unique venue for live music. If you have 100 people or more showing up, Pat himself will park his smoker at your place and do the cooking.

Otherwise, try Pat’s customized “BBQ-ina-Box” to feed your hungry revelers.

Now, if you know anything about Utah barbecue, you surely know of Tommy “T” Brown: former restaurateur, awardwinning barbecue master, musician and all-around great guy. You’ll find his food and fixins at the Q4U BBQ Truck (q4ubbqtruck.com), at various locations around the Salt Lake Valley on any given day. T’s incendiary hot link sausages are sure to turn up the heat on your patriotic gathering long before the fireworks begin to crackle and pop.

Everything at R&R BBQ (multiple locations, randrbbq.com) is excellent—from St. Louis spare ribs to deep-fried okra—but if barbecued brisket is your thing, this is the place. And, since R&R sells items like brisket, pulled pork, smoked sausage and more by-the-pound, it’s perfect for any celebration.

A longtime staple of the local barbecue scene, venerable SugarHouse BBQ (880 E. 2100 South, SLC, 801-463-4800, sugarhousebbq.com) has the right stuff.

The specialty here is Memphis-style barbecue, with a focus on flavorful dry rubs and properly smoked meats rather than smothering sauces. I simply can’t resist the Carolina-style pulled pork with housemade Carolina Pig Sauce, and neither should you. CW

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This new release pours from it’s psychedelic tie-dye-looking bottle a murky, light golden-orange color with a cap of creamy white foam that leaves tendrils of sudsy lace along the sides of the glass. The nose has pleasant whiffs of tangerine, orange and ripe peach.

As you let your sniffer linger in the glass, notes of mango and cookie dough round the aroma. The taste starts off with juicy orange meat and grapefruit peel. Lime pith comes next, with a bit of creamy nectarine. The end has some minor doughy cake-batter sweetness with a slight smack of spicy pine hops.

This made-in-Midvale silky brew is insanely delicious, dangerously chuggable and hides its 9-percent ABV very well.

Epic Brewing Co.: Citralush

The State Street brewery’s relatively new offering pours a deep, hazy apricot color with a nice soapy white head equipped with good retention and sticky lacing. After dissipating, the head leaves patches of fluffy foam. The nose is sweet, with hints of orange juice, peach and pineapple. It has a very hop-forward aroma, evoking mostly tropical fruit. The taste follows the fruity nose. Believe it or not, some snickerdoodlelike sweetness comes next, with big resinous tangerine and “cutie” juiciness. As for

the finish, it comes through with the slightest hint of pine. This is a mind-blowing juice bomb. With its super tropical palate and creamy body, this is a must-try.

Shades of Pale Brewing: Slick City Citrus

Rounding up the list, this IPA pours a notably murky, but bright golden-orange color. The head starts out at about two fingers, then fades to a sturdy half-inch. The nose here is a bit faint, but is completely dominated by a “shload” of pine resin and grapefruit zest. Tastewise, it starts with a juice explosion full of orange and mango.

The pine then comes in, striking a balance with a bit of caramel malts. From there,

Shades of Pale Brewing’s Slick City Citrus lightly bitter grapefruit and biscuit take over, giving the malt a platform on which to build it’s faux juice base. The end is mostly pink grapefruit full of pith and semi-tart citrus meat that finishes bitter and dry.

This one is a on the drier side—but no less fruity than the others—which actually gives it added drinkability. Expert assessment? This beer makes Mikey happy.

All the above beers are hot tickets right now, with breweries cranking them out as fast as we beer nerds are sucking ’em down. Make sure to contact them before making your trips. Cheers! CW

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If you love American-style IPAs, it’s probably because of the assertive bitterness and the higher-than-normal alcohol content. If you hate them, it’s most likely because of those two factors as well. Over the past 10 years or so, our love-’em-or-leave-’em IPAs have undergone something of an evolution as hops have taken on more citrus-like bitterness profiles—this makes them highly palatable and popular with beer drinkers that like the added tropical freshness they bring to IPAs. The creative brewer can take these juice-ish beers to full-on juicy in just a few easy steps. The latest trend in IPAs is called the Northeast-style. These beers are by design cloudy and murky like a hefeweizen, but are both sweet and tart— a combo that tricks the mind into thinking you’re drinking a boozy and creamy

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dgar Wright loves his genre cinema— of this there can be no doubt. Since graduating from British episodic television to features in 2004, Wright has delivered affectionate takes on zombie horror (Shaun of the Dead), 1980s buddy-cop action (Hot Fuzz), comic-book adaptation (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) and science-fiction (The World’s End) with a distinctively oddball sense of humor. No matter what form he was fiddling with, he never seemed to be playing copycat. Call it satire, call it sendup, call it homage, but even when an Edgar Wright movie was nodding at other movies, it never felt like he was trying to make anything besides an Edgar Wright movie.

On the surface, Baby Driver seems to fall squarely within his wheelhouse of planting a sloppy wet kiss on an unapologetically low-brow cinematic form—in this case, the ’70s exploitation heist thriller. But there’s something off about the tone that makes it feel like he’s filtering his vision through other approaches to similar subject matter.

Instead of an Edgar Wright movie, it feels like a photocopy of a photocopy—an Edgar Wright version of a Quentin Tarantino take on the exploitation heist thriller.

That’s not the case for the opening 20 minutes, which offer a blissed-out and thoroughly distinctive shot of movie endorphins. While a trio of armed baddies (Jon Hamm, Eiza González and Jon Bernthal) rob an Atlanta bank, getaway driver Baby (Ansel Elgort) plugs his earbuds into a Jon Spencer Blues Explosion tune, rocks out and air-drums his way through the actual robbery, then lets his soundtrack guide him on a magnificently careening flight from the police through freeways and city streets.

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Baby bops down the street to Bob & Earl’s “Harlem Shuffle,” with the lyrics appearing in graffiti, window signs and lamppost flyers as though the city itself had acquiesced to being part of his personal music video. It’s a splendid, giddy-making introduction to the way this character lives in the world created through his music, even as chaos might be erupting around him.

But the more we learn about Baby, the less interesting he becomes. The omnipresent music is a therapy for tinnitus that has lingered after the childhood car accident in which both of his parents died; his involvement as a getaway driver is part of paying off a debt to the theft ring’s mastermind, Doc (Kevin Spacey), for the youthful mistake of having boosted Doc’s stolen-goods-filled car.

Wright (who also wrote the script) tries to build sympathy for Baby’s desire to find some semblance of a normal life—especially once he falls for a diner waitress named Debora (Lily James)—and while Elgort serves up some nice moments as the introverted Baby, he fails to hold the center once he’s moving less to his own enigmatic rhythms.

There are plenty of interesting characters around the edges, but even then Wright keeps making awkward choices in how he uses them. Jamie Foxx gets a terrific part as an unpredictable new member of Doc’s crew, and Hamm shows off a more dangerous side that hasn’t previously been part of his repertoire. Yet you also get Spacey doing a version of “menacing Kevin Spacey character” that feels recycled, and a strangely misguided decision regarding

Jon Hamm, Eiza González, Ansel Elgort and Jamie Foxx in Baby Driver.

who becomes Baby’s ultimate antagonist.

As many goofy bits of business as Wright manages to pack into Baby Driver—including a grade-school-age kid who’s just a bit too familiar with how to scout a potential robbery location—there are also a number of elements that feel slightly … off.

Nothing is quite so askew, though, as the overall sense that Wright isn’t even working from primary source material. Echoes of Tarantino are everywhere here, from the soundtrack lousy with vintage chestnuts (T. Rex, Golden Earring, Queen, Barry White) to the loquacious criminals to the abrupt bursts of violence. As the running time drifts toward two hours, much of the action starts to feel repetitive, as though Wright weren’t quite sure how to find the soulful center that has anchored Tarantino’s best films, and that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost were able to give to Wright’s other celebrations of cheesy entertainment. It’s a frustrating thing to find such a gifted filmmaker taking on an idea where he seems to be saying, “Somebody else already did this before, and better.” CW

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AMITYVILLE: THE AWAKENING [not yet reviewed] A new family moves into the infamous haunted house. Opens June 30 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) BABY DRIVER BB.5 See review on p. 30. Opens June 28 at theaters valleywide. (R)

THE HOUSE [not yet reviewed] A suburban couple (Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler) turn their home into a casino to finance their daughter’s college education.

Opens June 30 at theaters valleywide. (R)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS ZIP & ZAP AND THE MARBLE GANG At Main Library, July 1, 11 a.m. (NR) GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995) At Tower Theatre, June 30-July 1, 11 p.m.; July 2, noon. (R)

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THE HERO BBB A formula only feels like a formula when it’s not working—and Sam Elliott owns this one in a way that makes it easier not to care. He plays Lee Hayden, an iconic Western actor now spending most of his time stoned or getting occasional gigs as a voice-over pitchman; a hilarious opening segment leans on Elliott’s gravelly drawl repeatedly touting a barbecue sauce. When he gets a likely terminal cancer diagnosis, he starts shaking up his life, including a relationship with a young woman (Laura Prepon) and attempting to make amends with his estranged daughter (Krysten Ritter).

The role was tailor-made for Elliott by co-writer/director Brett Haley, and the actor also shows a sweet emotional range, selling the obvious subtext in a YA-adaptation blockbuster role for which he’s being considered (running lines with his pot dealer pal, a perfectly Nick Offerman-y Nick Offerman). If the relationship with Prepon feels icky and forced—and the third-act conflict between them particularly low-stakes—it’s only because the movie isn’t really about whatever Lee learns about himself. It’s more about the audience learning how great it is to watch Sam Elliott play himself. Opens June 30 at Broadway Centre Cinemas.

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She also notably (and controversially) eliminates the non-white characters from Cullinan’s narrative, and while that choice allows her to focus on women in wartime, it also flattens the context of the world in which these women operate on a different level of subservience to the men who are fighting. It’s left to the uniformly strong performances and Coppola’s perfectly languid pacing to fill in the blanks. Opens June 30 at theaters valleywide.

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DESPICABLE ME 3 [not yet reviewed] Groo (Steve Carell) has to return to a life of super-villainy, and the Minions do Minion things. Opens June 30 at theaters valleywide.

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CARS 3 B.5 Cars 2 erred in making Mater the tow truck the main character and emphasizing tired espionage capering over jokes; Cars 3 replaces those mistakes with different ones. The accursed Mater is hardly around at all in this existential drama about aging racer Lightning McQueen’s (Owen Wilson) career being threatened by a faster rookie (Armie Hammer), so he reluctantly teams up with a perky trainer (Cristela Alonzo) to get back to basics and confront mortality. Whee! Vrooom! The Toy Story trilogy got pretty grim, too, but it also included humor and established a convincing reality for its characters. Cars 3 is nearly devoid of comedy, follows no internal logic and, apart from a fun sequence at a demolition derby, isn’t much to look at. This isn’t for kids; it’s for NASCAR-loving adults who enjoy generic stories when they involve talking cars. (G)—Eric D. Snider

CURRENT RELEASES THE BAD BATCH BB.5 Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) again takes a familiar genre—the post-apocalyptic adventure—and shakes it up. In the near future, “bad batch” prisoners are thrown in a fencedoff Texas desert with no hope of release, so hopelessness hangs over new inmate Arlen (Suki Waterhouse). The best situation is a makeshift town—overseen by “kindly” overlord Keanu Reeves— where residents enact a parody of decent society. The worst is … infinitely worse. Matter-of-fact brutality and offhand compassion sit side-by-side, but most welcome is Amirpour’s determination not to sensationalize the violence or make the end of civilization look cool. There are problematic depictions of people of color, and the two-hour runtime is not justified. But while Amirpour might stumble a bit in her sophomore feature, she remains a talent to watch. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson

ROUGH NIGHT B Part of the creative team behind Comedy Central’s Broad City concocts a dark, zealously silly plot—five bachelorette-partiers accidentally kill a male stripper and attempt a cover-up—that would be at home on the show. But the movie is the length of five episodes, stretching the premise beyond its breaking point, and instead of embracing two-dimensional farcicality, the movie tries to pass stock characters off as real people. Why is it so hard to commit to door-slamming, identity-mistaking, body-hiding farce? Anyway, Scarlett Johansson plays the bride-to-be, a political candidate who’s starting to forget her friends: clingy Alice (Jillian Bell); rich Blair (Zoe Kravitz); lesbian activist Frankie (Ilana Glazer); and Australian kook Pippa (Kate McKinnon). There are scattered chuckles, but the group lacks chemistry and director Lucia Aniello never gets the energy up to the zippy level required to pull off such mania. (R)—EDS

BAND AID BBB “What if we turned all our fights into songs?” Ben (Adam Pally) says to his wife Anna (Zoe Lister-Jones). It’s a funny idea—a perpetually at-one-another’s-throats young couple using art as auto-marriage counseling—and Lister-Jones (who also wrote and directed) gives the humor a satisfying kick, including the welcome weirdness of Fred Armisen and an inspired sight gag involving a harmonica holder. Eventually, though, Ben and Anna must face the root causes of their unhappiness, leading to one of those scenes where they punch at the other’s most vulnerable points. It’s a bummer to see something so frisky get grim, all so it can feel like a serious observation about Being a Young Married Person in 2017.

Would it be so bad just to have a movie about a bickering pair airing their tuneful dirty laundry at open mics? (R)—SR

TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT B Much of what you might hear makes it sound more watchable than it is. Stanley Tucci hamming it up as Merlin the wizard?

A World War II flashback where Transformers help the Allies defeat Hitler? Yes, that’s all here in the fifth chapter of Michael Bay’s franchise, but whatever you’re imagining, it’s dumber, clumsier and more exasperating than that. This time, Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) and cohorts must stop the bad alien robots from getting the magic staff of power. The descendants of King Arthur’s knights are somehow involved (as explained by chief expositor Anthony Hopkins), as is a gorgeous English historian (Laura Haddock). The film quickly devolves into undifferentiated shooting, yelling and exploding, and the robots never seem like anything other than CGI creations, especially compared to their automobile forms. And Tucci’s only in the first five minutes! (PG-13)—EDS

BEATRIZ AT DINNER B.5 New Age-y masseuse Beatriz (Salma Hayek) becomes the working-class fly in the ointment at a dinner party thrown by a wealthy client and attended by corporate high rollers. For a little while, it’s an effectively broad comedy of manners, even as the script by Mike White (collaborating again with director Miguel Arteta) tosses up batting-practice pitches of insensitive, oblivious comments for our knowing chuckles. It’s hard to emphasize enough, however, the tonal disaster of the final 15 minutes, as Beatriz’ shock at her dining companions’ attitudes manifests itself in various bizarre ways. White’s strange mishmash of self-righteous satire and earnest pity for toosensitive-for-this-world Beatriz ends up both painfully obvious and maddeningly opaque. If you want to feel good about yourself for not being the kind of person who assumes every Latina woman you see is domestic help, here you go. (R)—SR

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is a Manhattan therapist with an idyllic practice and home life, but she has a problem: She gets waaay too involved with her patients outside of the office, both personally and sexually. Unfortunately, it all unfolds like a straight-toVHS ’90s semi-erotic potboiler. But, hey, at least we still have Janey-E. Unbeknownst to, well, everyone, ABC has been airing/ burning off a Shakespearean period drama in primetime for over a month—and it’s a ShondaLand production! I know, right? Still Star-Crossed (Mondays, ABC) answers the never, ever-asked question “What happened after Romeo and Juliet took their dirtnap of love?” As you’ve already guessed, the Montagues and the Capulets are still assholes to each other, and Still Star-Crossed is as tedious as a twice-told tale, proving that the touch of Shonda Rimes doesn’t exempt a show from the vortex of suck (anybody remember Off the Map?). At least it’s only seven episodes long—brevity being the soul of shit or however that went.

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wo years ago, I actually typed the phrase “renegade zoologist” in reference to Jackson Oz (James Wolk), the protagonist of Zoo (Season 3 premiere, Thursday, June 29, CBS). Surprisingly, both Wolk and I still have jobs in 2017, even though Zoo has now moved past the material of the original James Patterson novel, wherein animals had taken over the planet because humankind was too weak and dumb to stop it (sounds about right). In Season 3, the sci-fi-ish series jumps ahead 10 years to a 2027 with a dwindling world population due to sterility, but at least animals are no longer a threat—well, except for the new, military-spawned lab creatures that are even more deadly. Way to go, humans!

Nothing prompts me to cheer for a critter apocalypse like the major networks’ continued insistence on digging up long-dead “classics” and repositioning them as summer filler—the latest being Battle of the Network Stars (series debut, Thursday, June 29, ABC). The ’70s/’80s throwback blends “TV celebrities with athleticism and hilarious antics” (but not in a literal blender; that, I’d watch).

This week’s debut pits “TV Sitcoms” (Bronson Pinchot, Tom Arnold, Dave Coulier, A.J. Michalka and Tracey Gold) vs. “TV Kids” (Joey Lawrence, Corbin Bleu, Nolan Gould, Lisa Whelchel and Kim Fields). But wasn’t Gold technically a Growing Pains “Kid”? Christ, whatever.

A trio of sexy-scruffy bounty hunters (Aaron Ashmore, Hannah John-Kamen and Luke Macfarlane) continue to work the interplanetary warzone in what’s essentially Firefly meets Guardians of the Galaxy on a Canadian budget.

Killjoys (Season 3 premiere, Friday, June 30, Syfy), along with Dark Matter, got Syfy back into space a couple of years before the network decided to (re)become a sci-fi channel, and continues to be an underappreciated gem in the schedule. Unlike Dark Matter, Killjoys has a sense of humor about itself, as well as smaller, tighter-knit cast of characters to keep track of (and one, John-Kamen’s badass Dutch, who outshines them all). Catch up now at syfy.com/killjoys.

We all diverge on the Showtime revival of Twin Peaks— you say it’s an incomprehensible mess directed by a lunatic who’s just fucking with our psyches; I say, yeah, so what?

Let’s agree, however, that Naomi Watts is absolutely killing it as Janey-E Jones, OK? Gypsy (series debut, Friday, June 30, Netflix) is another cool TV showcase for Watts, if not quite the “thriller” it wants to be. Jean Holloway (Watts)

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“Bad” Brad Wheeler fills the doorway. At 6-foot-6, his presence is as large as his voice, so familiar to local music fans from his years hosting Little Bit Louder Now on KRCL 90.9 FM. When Wheeler announced on June 2 that he was leaving the station, the news spread like a brushfire. He’d been a part of KRCL for two decades, and was arguably the listener-supported station’s most popular personality. As the embodiment of the station’s motto, “Community Connection—Music Discovery,” Wheeler filled so many lives with music, laughter and friendship that his absence is a supermassive black hole.

Still, since the announcement of his departure, friends and fans have cried foul, posting messages supporting Wheeler and criticizing the station on his Facebook page. “The day the music died.

You blew it, [KRCL manager] Vicki Mann. You ripped the heart out of Salt Lake City,” one fan wrote, appending the note with the hashtag #fuckkrcl. Another posted, “Listening to KRCL’s drivetime programming post-Bad Brad [is] like trading an imperial double IPA for a budget rosé wine.”

Until now, Wheeler has largely refrained from public comment, aside from posting songs such as Steely Dan’s “Dirty Work” (with messages to supporters in lyrics like, “You know I’ll be around”) and changing his profile picture to one of fired FBI Director James Comey. Lounging on a blue corduroy sofa in his living room—a wonderland of music gear and memorabilia—Wheeler says he wanted to ensure he made a thoughtful statement that accurately conveyed the swirl of conflicting emotions he’s felt. To that end, he consulted with respected friends and family, including his sensei Michael Mugaku Zimmerman at the Two Arrows Zen Center.

“I had the whole fuckin’ Zendo lookin’ at it,” he says with a laugh.

He dials his mother one more time—he’d solicited her input on the statement—then reads aloud from his MacBook Pro: “I am writing this letter to the listeners of Little Bit Louder Now and to the KRCL community at large. I am very sorry to leave KRCL, an organization that has been a large part of my life for the last 20 years. My decision to leave was difficult, but made only after many days of thought and consideration as to what is best for myself at this time in my life.”

Wheeler says he felt he and the station had grown apart for some time, and that he shares some of the concerns listeners have about the station’s direction. Leaving, he says, was preferable over allowing the relationship to sour any further. “I need to say thank you to the listeners of KRCL for letting me into your homes, your cars, your radios, your ears and your hearts,” he continues reading. “Being your DJ was an honor and a privilege.” He also expresses his appreciation

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Reached for comment, KRCL Board Chair Chip Luman reiterated the station’s policy not to comment on personnel matters, but says Wheeler has been a good member of the station, and they’ll miss him. “Brad’s not the first personality to leave KRCL and have the community react,” Luman says. “It’s happened many times over the years. But he was well-loved.” Regarding listeners’ comments, Luman appreciates they feel so strongly about KRCL. “I ask that they come down and see what they can do, to bring that passion to making the station what they want it to be.”

Wheeler, meanwhile, doesn’t know his next move. Some listeners are calling for the station to rehire him, but that’s a can of worms.

He’s been contacted with proposals from other outlets, but declines to mention them so early in his job search. Whatever happens, he feels good about his decision and his prospects—especially because he has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to supporters. He relates a story from a recent meeting where his interviewer, who didn’t know him, said she read his name from a list of résumés and “at least five of her coworkers said, ‘You’d be a fool not to interview him.’”

Wheeler escorts me out the door, where he greets his neighbor Lincoln Lysager (a local painter and musician), friend Becky and her 2-year-old daughter. While Lysager waters the flowers—and the little girl—Becky brings out popsicles. There’s an ease among them, something more than neighborly. Wheeler records the child frolicking in the watery arch formed by Lysager’s garden hose, then sits down and plays it back in slow motion, smiling.

Earlier in our conversation, Wheeler related an exchange involving two important figures in his life: activist/educator Dr. Forrest Crawford and jazz legend Joe McQueen. “[Crawford] told me that Joe’s biggest gift to the community is his accessibility. It’s totally true. … Someday I’m gonna have to teach this to somebody else.”

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Friday’s concert also honors the 18th anniversary of Kilby Court—our legendary all-ages music space (even Esquire magazine has deemed it one of the “coolest venues in the country”) that’s been instrumental in birthing our local music scene, pairing great touring acts like !!! with locals Panthermilk and Telepanther.

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Uno (Yaddart, 2012)—the debut album from Metalachi, the world’s foremost purveyors of mariachi-flavored metal covers— focused on glammy ’80s metal, classic rock and grunge. Now, Dos (2016) appears to satirize the ubiquitous PR-statement so many bands of that era uttered in interviews promoting their next albums: “It’s gonna be heavier, but it still sounds like us.” To that end, the merry band of Misfits delves into the catalogs of Megadeth (“Symphony of Destruction”), Slayer (“Raining Blood”), Motörhead (“Ace of Spades”) and Pantera (“Cemetery Gates”) with expectedly awesome results. Expected, because mariachi music is basically Latino bluegrass—and tons of gringo bands, from Bad Livers and Split Lip Rayfield to Hayseed Dixie and the CMH Pickin’ On series, have already done the “thrash-grass” thing, performing rock and metal classics on acoustic instruments. We gobble it up like a Red Iguana combo plate every time. It’s not all heavy, though: Dos still features hair-band fare like Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again,” Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher” and Quiet Riot’s “Metal Health.” The band even tosses out an original, “Give Me Some Chon Chon,” and a faithful take on Los Lobos’ “Canción del Mariachi,” made famous in Robert Rodriguez’ Desperado—making Dos double the party of Uno. (Randy Harward) Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $12 presale, $14 day of show, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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Colt.46 (The Westerner) Jelly Bread (O.P. Rockwell) Joy Spring Band (Sugar House Coffee) Los Hellcaminos (The Spur) The Midsummer Nightmare Metal Fest (Club X) Rise Against + Deftones + Thrice + Frank Iero + The Patience (Usana Amphitheatre) Silver Tongued Devils (Johnny’s on Second) Spazmatics (Liquid Joe’s) Park City Summer Concert Series feat. John Németh + The New Orleans Suspects + Tony Holiday & the Velvetones (Canyons Resort) see above Too Slim and The Taildraggers + Rob Reinfurt (Snowbird Resort) SuperBubble (Hog Wallow Pub) Tarot Death Card + Ivy Local (The Ice Haüs)

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Here’s the question of the day: Can a guy from Boise, Idaho, truly know how to sing the blues? In the case of John Németh, the answer is decidedly yes.

Indeed, this assertive singer and harmonica-wielding wizard paid his dues the hard way, beginning with tenures in a variety of blues bands, constant touring and gigs that often stretched out over seven nights a week. Fortunately, due diligence paid off; no less an authority than Living Blues magazine said his third album, Magic Touch (Blind Pig, 2007), “gives hope that the blues will survive.” The album also brought him a Blues Music Award nomination in the Best New Artist Debut category—the first of many accolades. His next set, Love Me Tonight (2009), reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Blues Albums chart, and he’s since garnered nods for multiple others. On his latest, Feelin’ Freaky (Memphis Grease, 2017), Németh rocks the blues, and his audience.

Utahns have two chances to see him this weekend, starting with a solo show at the Bit & Spur in Springdale, and ending at the Park City Summer Concert Series. (Lee Zimmerman) Bit & Spur, 1212 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, June 30, 10 p.m., $15, 21+, facebook.com/bitandspur; Canyons Resort, 4000 Canyons Resort Drive, Park City, July 1, 4 p.m., free, all ages, parkcitymountain.com

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MONDAY 7/3 LIVE MUSIC

Alicia Stockman (The Spur) Guitar Wolf + Isaac Rother & The Phantoms (Urban Lounge) see p. 36 Luxxe + Ash & Ember + Mojave Nomads (Kilby Court) Reaping Asmodeia + Tomb of Belial + Warriors of Tenchu (The Loading Dock)

As the sun drops behind the Oquirrh Mountains, Carlos “Coco” Garcia rushes into Liquid Joe’s with maracas and other percussive exotica under both arms. Members of his Latino sound machine, Rumba Libre Band, are already tuning up. The group is the engine behind Tropicana Thursday, a new weekly event at Joe’s. It might seem an odd choice for the longstanding club—known for booking rappers, cult bands, professional cover/tribute acts and classic ’80s hard rock and metal groups. But Joe’s is also known for shaking things up with new stuff, like outdoor rock en español and old-school funk shows, so Tropicana Thursday fits. And Garcia—a veteran of almost every major local Latin dance act from Mambo Jumbo to Salsa Brava to Ritmo Caliente—is the go-to guy for such a night. The busy bandleader already leads his crew through 10-15 gigs a month, so you know this is the best place to salsa a Thursday night away, getting a hot start on a spicy weekend. Your next shot is July 6, though, because June 29 is pre-empted by the Warren G. show. (Randy Harward) Liquid Joe’s, 1249 E. 3300 South, 9 p.m., $8, 21+, liquidjoes.net

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1. Chemistry Nobelist Otto 2. Skin care brand that dropped 15-Across from its name in 2000 3. Momentary disruption 4. Line on a map 5. Cardinal’s cap letters 6. Mozart’s “____ Fan Tutte” 7. Calculated thing 8. Novelist Huxley 9. “____ funny!”

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) When Leos rise above their habit selves and seize the authority to be rigorously authentic, I refer to them as Sun Queens or Sun Kings. When you Cancerians do the same—triumph over your conditioning and become masters of your own destiny—I call you Moon Queens or Moon Kings. In the coming weeks, I suspect many of you will make big strides toward earning this title.

Why? Because you’re on the verge of claiming more of the “soft power,” the potent sensitivity, that enables you to feel at home no matter what you’re doing or where you are on this planet.

therefore a more dynamic talisman, I spilled wine on one corner of it and unraveled some threads in another corner. Now here’s my interpretation of my dream: You’re ready to regard messiness as an essential ingredient in your quest for deeper intimacy.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Your word of power is “supplication”—the act of asking earnestly and humbly for what you want. When practiced correctly, “supplication” is indeed a sign of potency, not of weakness. It means you are totally united with your desire, feel no guilt or shyness about it, and intend to express it with liberated abandon.

Supplication makes you supple, poised to be flexible as you do LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You might not realize it, but you now have a remarkable power to what’s necessary to get the blessing you yearn for. Being a suppliperform magic tricks. I’m not talking about Houdini-style hocus- cant also makes you smarter, because it helps you realize that you pocus. I’m referring to practical wizardry that will enable you to can’t get what you want on the strength of your willful ego alone. make relatively efficient transformations in your daily life. Here You need grace, luck and help from sources beyond your control. are some of the possibilities: wiggling out of a tight spot without offending anyone; conjuring up a new opportunity for yourself out AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) of thin air; doing well on a test even though you don’t feel prepared In the coming weeks, your relationships with painkillers will for it; converting a seemingly tough twist of fate into a fertile date be extra sweet and intense. Please note that I’m not talking about ibuprofen or acetaminophen or aspirin. My reference to with destiny. How else would you like to use your magic? painkillers is metaphorical. What I’m predicting is that you will have a knack for finding experiences that reduce your suffering.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Feminist pioneer and author Gloria Steinem said, “Writing is the You’ll have a sixth sense about where to go to get the most only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something meaningful kinds of healing and relief. Your intuition will guide else.” Is there such an activity for you, Virgo? If not, now is a favor- you to initiate acts of atonement and forgiveness, which will in able time to identify what it is. And if there is indeed such a pas- turn ameliorate your wounds. sionate pursuit, you should do it as much as possible in the coming weeks. You’re primed for a breakthrough in your relationship with PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) this life-giving joy. To evolve to the next phase of its power to inspire Don’t wait around passively as you fantasize about becoming you, it needs as much of your love and intelligence as you can spare. the “Chosen One” of some person or group or institution. Be your own Chosen One. And don’t wander around aimlessly, biding your time in the hope of eventually being awarded some prize LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) One of the 21st century’s most entertaining archaeological or boon by a prestigious source. Give yourself a prize or boon. events was the discovery of King Richard III’s bones. The English Here’s one further piece of advice, Pisces: Don’t postpone your monarch died in 1485, but his burial site had long been a mys- practical and proactive intentions until the mythical “perfect tery. It wasn’t an archaeologist who tracked down his remains, moment” arrives. Create your own perfect moment. but a screenwriter named Philippa Langley. She did extensive historical research, narrowing down the possibilities to a car ARIES (March 21-April 19) park in Leicester. As she wandered around there, she got a psy- This is a perfect moment to create a new tradition, Aries. You chic impression at one point that she was walking directly over intuitively know how to turn one of your recent breakthroughs Richard’s grave. Her feeling later turned out to be right. I suspect into a good habit that will provide continuity and stability for a your near future will have resemblances to her adventure. You’ll long time to come. You can make a permanent upgrade in your have success in a mode that’s not your official area of expertise. life by capitalizing on an accidental discovery you made during Sharp analytical thinking will lead you to the brink, and a less a spontaneous episode. It’s time, in other words, to convert the temporary assistance you received into a long-term asset; to use rational twist of intelligence will take you the rest of the way. a stroke of luck to foster a lasting pleasure.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) The tides of destiny are no longer just whispering their message TAURUS (April 20-May 20) for you. They are shouting. And what they are shouting is that Physicist Freeman Dyson told Wired magazine how crucial it is your brave quest must begin soon. There can be no further to learn from failures. As an example, he described the invention excuses for postponement. What’s that you say? You don’t of the bicycle. “There were thousands of weird models built and have the luxury of embarking on a brave quest? You’re too tried before they found the one that really worked,” he said. bogged down in the thousand and one details of managing the “You could never design a bicycle theoretically. Even now, it’s day-to-day hubbub? Well, in case you need reminding, the tides difficult to understand why a bicycle works. But just by trial and of destiny are not in the habit of making things convenient. And error, we found out how to do it, and the error was essential.” if you don’t cooperate willingly, they will ultimately compel you I hope you will keep that in mind, Taurus. It’s the Successto do so. But now here’s the really good news, Scorpio: The tides Through-Failure Phase of your astrological cycle. of destiny will make available at least one burst of assistance GEMINI (May 21-June 20) that you can’t imagine right now.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should lease a chauffeured stretch limousine with nine TVs and a hot SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) In my dream, I used the non-itchy wool of the queen’s special tub inside. You’d also be smart to accessorize your smooth Merino sheep to weave an enchanted blanket for you. I wanted ride with a $5,000-bottle of Château Le Pin Pomerol Red this blanket to be a good luck charm you could use in your cru- Bordeaux wine and servings of the Golden Opulence Sundae, sade to achieve deeper levels of romantic intimacy. In its tap- which features a topping of 24-karat edible gold and sprinkles estry I spun scenes depicting the most love-filled events from of Amedei Porcelana, the most expensive chocolate in the your past. It was beautiful and perfect. But after I finished it, I world. If none of that is possible, do the next best thing, which had second thoughts about giving it to you. Wasn’t it a mistake is to mastermind a long-term plan to bring more money into to make it so flawless? Shouldn’t it also embody the messier your life. From an astrological perspective, wealth-building aspects of togetherness? To turn it into a better symbol and activities will be favored in the coming weeks.

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I came to Utah decades ago to finish high school at Wasatch Academy in Mt. Pleasant.

Just hours before dragging my footlocker up the stairs to my new dorm room, I had been living in northern Arizona—Sedona, to be specific. Back then, that red-rock town only had a few thousand residents.

High school students were bussed nearly 50 miles away—either to the ghost town of Jerome, Ariz., or to Flagstaff, depending on which side of the county line you lived.

We lived on the Jerome side, so I attended Mingus High School. I mention this because, at the time, both schools were attended predominantly by white students and the minority population was mostly Navajos, and a few Hispanics.

When I arrived at Wasatch, there was a rainbow of students representing all colors and many nations—from Gambians and Thais to local Native Americans. The small school recruited worldwide, and still does.

When I graduated and moved on to the University of Utah, there were even more minorities in that student population.

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Thankfully, times have changed and Utah has grown. Researchers with Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the U have recently announced that minorities now make up 21 percent of Utah’s population. From 2010-16, state demographics saw significant change: While our white population grew by 8 percent, our Native American population grew by 11 percent; Hispanic, by 17.3 percent; Pacific Islander, by 20.2 percent; black, by 23.2 percent; mixed race, by 30.8 percent; and Asian, by 34 percent.

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Update Three weeks ago, News of the Weird touted the “genderless,” extraterrestrial-appearing Hollywood makeup artist known as Vinny Ohh, but then Marcela Iglesias announced (following a leaked TV clip) that she had formed an agency for would-be celebrities who had radically transformed their bodies, and that Vinny is now a client. Iglesias’ Plastics of Hollywood has human “Ken” dolls Rodrigo Alves and Justin Jedlica, the Argentine “elf” Luis Padron, Jessica Rabbit look-alike Pixee Fox and seven others who, Iglesias figures, have collectively spent almost $3 million on surgery and procedures (some of which are ongoing). Padron, 25, seems the most ambitious, having endured, among other procedures, painful, “medically unapproved” treatments to change his eye color.

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Recurring Themes Richard Patterson, 65, is the most recent defendant to choose, as a trial strategy, to show the jury his penis. A Broward County, Fla., court was trying him in the choking death of his girlfriend.

Patterson called the death accidental, as it occurred during oral sex, and there was conflicting medical opinion on whether that could have proved fatal. Patterson’s lawyer said his standby position was to show a mold of the penis, but insisted that a live demonstration would be more effective. Update: The judge disallowed the showing, but in May the jury found Patterson not guilty anyway. n In rare cases, mothers have given birth for the principal purpose of “harvesting” a baby’s cells, ultimately to benefit another family member with a condition or illness that the cells would aid. However, Keri Young of Oklahoma gave birth in April for a different purpose. After learning while pregnant that her baby would not long survive after birth because of anencephaly, she nonetheless carried it to term—just to harvest organs for unspecified people who might need them, though the grieving Keri and husband Royce admit that some might judge their motive harshly.

n Robert Bratton filed a lawsuit recently in Columbia, Mo., against the Hershey chocolate company because there was too much empty space in his grocery-store box of Reese’s Pieces, which he thought was “deceptive,” even though the correct number of Pieces was printed on the label. In May, federal judge Nanette Laughrey ruled that Bratton’s case could continue for the jury to decide.

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Animals With Affordable Health Care In April, the annual report of the Association of British Insurers on its members’ policies for pet owners noted that among the claims paid were those for a bearded dragon with an abscess, an anorexic Burmese python, a cocker spaniel that swallowed a turkey baster, a cockatoo with respiratory problems and even a “lethargic” house cat (which nonetheless cost the equivalent of $470 to treat).

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American “sovereigns” litter courtrooms with their self-indulgent misreadings of history and the Constitution—misreadings that, coincidentally, happen to favor them with free passes on arrests and tax-paying—but now, the U.K.’s Exeter Crown Court has experienced Mark Angell, 41, who said in May that he simply could not step into the courtroom dock to state a plea concerning possession of cannabis because he would thus be “submitting” to “maritime law,” which he could not legally do on dry land. Judge: “Don’t talk nonsense. Get in the dock.” Angell was ordered to trial. Before leaving, he gave the judge a bill for his detention: the equivalent of $2.5 million.

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When God Calls In March, Zimbabwean pastor Paul Sanyangore of Victory World International Ministries was captured on video during a sermon telephoning God. Clutching a phone to his ear, he yelled, “Hello, is this heaven? I have a woman here; what do you have to say about her?” Her two children—one epileptic, the other asthmatic—are then confusingly described by “heaven” as being “changed,” and Paul ended the call to resounding cheers from the congregation.

More of the World’s Third-Oldest Crime (Smuggling) In the latest awesome drug-mule haul of gold into South Korea, where it fetches higher prices than in neighboring countries, 51 people were arrested in May for bringing in, over a two-year period, a cumulative 2 tons, worth $99 million, by hiding it in body parts befitting their biological sex. n Customs officials in Abdali, Kuwait, apprehended a pigeon in May with 178 ketamine pills inside a fabric pocket attached to its back.

Almost an Epidemic Men suffering compulsive public masturbation recently: In the midst of evening rush hour in the New York-New Jersey Lincoln Tunnel, Ismael Esquilin, 48, stopped his minivan and engaged (May 11). 2. In downtown Portland, Ore., Terry Andreassen was arrested engaging “vigorously” because he “hates Portland” and was charged with felony public indecency (May 3). 3. In Dunbar, W.Va., Tristan Tucker, 27, allegedly broke into a relative’s home and stole security camera recordings of him engaging (April 23). 4. Vix Bodziak, 70, allegedly engaged at a McDonald’s in Springfield, Mass. Bonus: Police found a paperstuffed tube sock bulging underneath his pant leg (April 20).

n In Australia, Chanel’s just-introduced luxury wood-and-resin boomerang, selling for the equivalent of about $1,415, came

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Latest From Offended Classes Some minority students’ organizations, commenting on the planned extensive renovation of the University of Michigan’s student union building, recommended ditching the current interior’s elegant wood paneling—because it gives off an “imposing, masculine” feeling that makes them seem “marginalized.” A spokesperson for the students, attempting to soothe the controversy, said the marginalization was more based on the building’s “quiet nature.”

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Arrested Recently and Awaiting Trial for Murder: Boe Wayne Adams (Wichita, Kan., May); Jason Vann Wayne Godfrey (Sanford, N.C., August); Earl Wayne Humphries (Dallas, May); Michael Wayne Pennington Jr. (Tazewell, Va., May). Convicted of Murder: Anthony Wayne Davis (Elyria, Ohio, January); Jerry Wayne Merritt (Columbus, Ga., February). Pleaded No Contest to Murder: Nathan Wayne Scheiern (Glendale, Calif., April).

Murder Conviction Appeal Denied: Derrick Wayne Murray (Birmingham, Ala., April). Convicted Murderer Seeking New Plea Deal: Robert Wayne Lonardo (Benton, Maine, May).

Murderers No Longer With Us: Billy Wayne Cope (Rock Hill, S.C., February, died in prison); Marcel Wayne Williams (Varner, Ark., April, executed).

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Our Litigious Society David Waugaman, 57, fell off a barstool last year and needed surgery. Of course, he is suing the tavern at Ziggy’s Hotel in Youngwood, Pa., for continuing to serve him before he fell. He wrote, “You’re not supposed to feed people so much booze.”

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n In some parts of traditional Japanese society, it’s not uncommon for someone to feel the need to rent friends. For example, relatives at a funeral bear the grief better if they realize the many friends the deceased had. Or, a working man or woman might rent a sweetheart just to help deflect parental pressure to marry. In northern China, in April, a man was arrested for renting family and friends to populate his side of the aisle at his wedding.

Apparently, there were conflicts plaguing each family, and police were investigating, but the groom surely worsened the plan by not coaching the actors on his personal details, thus making interfamily small-talk especially awkward.

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