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Essentials, p. 20 Seeking an avenue to introduce him “to the production cycle of real news,” Magana sought out an internship with us this summer. “I was originally interested in journalism after reading several books by my favorite columnist and cynic Charlie Brooker,” he says.

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You know what would be a great location for a liquor store? Every single grocery store, convenience store, gas station and any where else a private entrepreneur wants to open one. Those would be perfect.

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Opinion, July 20, “Slogans and Mottos”

My all time favorite is Clara Peller for Wendy’s: “Where’s the beef?”

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I say we try something radical and different. We get rid of the DABC and the liquor stores and let normal everyday grocery and convenience stores sell this stuff. It might the easiest and simplest solution out there.

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I don’t know, but it will probably end up in a much better spot than the new homeless shelters. Because people care way more about access to alcohol than they do about giving people who are homeless access to services.

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According to Orrin Hatch and the Republican supporters of the GOP health care bill, it is intended to save money, increase choice and include more people. Aside from the logical impossibility of accomplishing these mutually exclusive goals, the GOP health care bill reflects a deep misunderstanding of U.S. health care policy. To call it “health insurance” would be like calling the water bill “thirst insurance.” Cutting access to health care and limiting coverage for elderly and poor people so that the wealthy and young can enjoy a tax cut would be the equivalent of cutting the water supply to the poor and elderly of the U.S. so that the privileged can drink.

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BY LANCE S. GUDMUNDSEN

On Letters

I write letters. Not emails; not Facebook posts; not tweets. You know, paper-and-envelope, stamped letters—the kind you can unfold and hold in your hand or slip into your breast pocket to read later. Conversely, I also receive letters. Most are from friends—and, occasionally, a foe. In the past, I’ve received letters from the White House, a Nobel Prize laureate, the Vatican and publisher of The New York Times. In my mail the other day was an ivorycolored envelope. “Royal Mail,” one blue postmark read. Another was simply the letters “ER,” in red, surmounted by a crown. It was from Her Majesty the Queen. Or actually, from Mary Morrison, one of her ladies-in-waiting. You see, I’d written a brief fan letter to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, just saying, in part: “My late Mama would never forgive me if I didn’t—finally—express my admiration and feeling of genuine affection for you. You have reigned with uncommon dignity and grace.” And, I believe, she has. The message from Buckingham Palace was typewritten, but the date, my name and the complimentary close were handwritten by the 80-year-old Morrison. “The Queen wishes me to write and thank you,” she wrote. “Your kind words were greatly appreciated.” I don’t harbor the notion that Queen Elizabeth actually read my letter. I’m certain she receives hundreds a day. For a woman of 91, she keeps a breakneck schedule. One of my all-time favorite movies is 2006’s The Queen, starring Helen Mirren, who won a best-actress Oscar for her performance. It centers on the queen’s response— or lack thereof—to the August 1997 death of Princess Diana in a Paris car crash. Initially, the queen’s reaction was to do nothing and treat Diana’s funeral as a “private matter.” The screenplay traces the unflagging efforts of Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) to persuade her to publicly acknowledge the death of the People’s Princess. The queen finally agrees to return to London—she’d been on holiday in Scotland when Diana died—and address the nation. In one tense scene, an aide to Blair’s character calls the queen “an old bat.” Blair explodes. “That woman has given her whole life in service to her people … doing a job she never wanted. A job she watched kill her father,” he exclaims. “And now we’re all baying for her blood!” Elizabeth, he continues, has reigned for decades with “honor and dignity.” That’s my sentiment. She might seem antique—but at least, she’s authentic. Since her 1953 coronation, Queen Elizabeth has been the epitome of duty, honor and grace.

Something that’s sadly lacking in the head of state on this side of the pond. That said, I was a bit curious about Mary Morrison who signed the letter. It turns out she’s one of eight ladies in waiting—more companion and confidant than servant— to the queen. The daughter of a baron (the lowest order of British nobility), she’s expected to be proficient in etiquette, languages and to read and answer correspondence. A quick Google search says other requisite skills are embroidery, painting, horse riding, caring for the royal wardrobe and discreetly passing along messages from the sovereign. The gray-haired Morrison, whose formal style is “The Honorable,” made headlines a few years ago when the car she was driving was impaled on a retractable security barrier outside Windsor Castle. The barrier accidentally was raised as she crossed it. Aside from a few bruises, she escaped unscathed—but her vehicle was totaled. I’d never have known any of these obscure facts had I not written to Buckingham Palace. I could have emailed Her Majesty, I suppose, and might have received a reply. And I then could proclaim: “Hey, I got an email from the queen!” Big deal. In this digital age, a lot of folks—on the street, on the bus or on, perhaps, the toilet—seem to be glued to their smart-

phones and tablets. In fact, the Hacker Noon blog culled the results from more than a half-dozen studies on Americans’ use of the ubiquitous electronic devices. It found the average adult spends two hours and 51 minutes daily on cell phones and tablets. In the 18-24 age demographic, the number rises sharply to four hours and five minutes daily. On average, we receive 32 texts and six calls daily. And in a lifetime, young adults will spend five years and four months talking, texting and tweeting. The study also points out that our love affair with mobile devices isn’t necessarily addictive behavior. Rather, it’s evidence of a “massive cultural shift” in how we stay in touch with one another. Point conceded—even well taken. But it’s my contention that, amid the bits and bytes of the digital revolution, there still remains a place for good old-fashioned letter-writing, whether the missive is to a friend, a politician, a celebrity or a monarch. I’d suggest, maybe, that you pick up a notepad, uncap a pen and find an envelope. Try writing a letter, or even a 34-cent postcard. It might seem quaint. It might not be cool. But you just might be surprised by the result. CW Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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Outdoor Retailer would prefer to be in a state that’s less conservative than Utah. That’s what Gov. Gary Herbert said, apparently missing the message. Even right-wing conservatives acknowledge that it’s more complicated than that. It’s rural, urban, liberal, conservative, environmentalist and, yes, economic. “You’ve got multiple corners that you have to try to square,” Prof. Eric Herzik, political science department chair at University of Nevada, Reno, told NPR. Highlighting the complexities, a recent piece by The Wall Street Journal said profits from recreation drive politics. Those profits come from taxpayer subsidies, which apparently don’t support enough federal-land maintenance. It’s probably folly to think the state could handle that maintenance—or protect federal lands. But the issue is not a simple liberal-conservative divide.

Strings Attached

Royce Van Tassell is right. “The interplay between competing philosophies helps students and faculty understand the world, challenge their own biases and expose the limits of their prescriptions,” he wrote in The Salt Lake Tribune. But is that possible if a donation comes with considerable, albeit subtle, strings? That’s the question surrounding $10 million that the Charles Koch Foundation donated to the University of Utah. The U has long been seen as a liberal hub of thought, underlined by this jubilation from the Deseret News: “For the better part of a century, Castro’s Cuba and the University of Utah’s economics department seemed like the last bastions of Marxist thought in North America—with the latter being subsidized by local tax dollars.” The Los Angeles Times questioned that assertion and documented how similar donations fared at other universities. The Guardian called it “totalitarian capitalism.” And it’s coming to the U.

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It’s what voters have been saying for years: Why in the world would you vote for someone who does purely functionary work? The story of former Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott brought that to light, and now Mayor Ben McAdams suggests we eliminate that elective office. Not so fast, Deseret News’ Jay Evensen retorts, calling it an overreaction to the sad story. Of course, leaders should be accountable to voters, but those leaders should require political accountability and not a simple profit-loss statement. The debate should continue, not just for Ott’s position, but also for assessor and surveyor. Voters surely can make their wishes known in elections for mayor and council members.

Flossie Kehr is a successful artist, an amateur musician and is involved in numerous sports. Her secret to keeping a smile on her face? She never talks about religion or politics.

What first got you into painting and how is that working for you today?

I grew up in Philadelphia where my grandmother was an artist. Even before I was old enough for school, she would paint with me and explain to me all about colors and composition. I remember my first completely finished painting of a man playing bongos when I was 10 or 11. It was very satisfying. In my adult life, I put art aside for many years. But here in Salt Lake, I reconnected to art and have had several successful shows.

Before Utah, though, didn’t you do a bit of free-spirit traveling?

After my husband Roger and I got married in ’78, we bought a 30-foot sloop in Miami and spent the next two years living aboard and touring the Bahamas. It was a fabulous carefree life. When we decided to have a child, we brought the boat to Maryland, sold it and moved back to Philadelphia to have a family and a more traditional life. We each built our own businesses and transferred our love for the outdoors to Utah, where we bought a home in 2000.

When did Utah become your permanent home?

We retired in 2006 and moved here full-time. More recently, our son got married, gave us a couple of wonderful grandchildren and moved to Utah right down the street from us. It’s pretty cool. When we moved here, I took up teaching Pilates and aerobics at Snowbird Racquet Club, Cliff Lodge at Snowbird and the Cottonwood Heights rec center. Roger also retired and became a snowboard instructor for several years. Teaching helped us make lots of new friends.

Is that when you got back into painting?

One friend gave me a gift [to go] to an art class. I began taking lessons at the Petersen Art Center in Sugar House and got involved with the Intermountain Society of Artists. Along with three others, we opened up our studio in Sugar House. The art shows have been fun, and I’m looking for our next venue for some time in the fall.

Your activities don’t end with doing art and hanging out with grandkids, right?

I ski, play tennis and pickleball, road bike a lot up in Summit County and take care of our new puppy. And, of course, Roger and I are in what I call a non-performing, social band with two other couples, three guitars, a bass, a keyboard and drums. We meet every month in someone’s basement and we prohibit anyone outside the band to hear us.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Cosmic Will Is it true that quantum physics proves the universe is conscious? —Uttam Sirur

Of course not. However, you bring up an interesting line of speculation. Some will think it sounds like the woolliest late-night bull session ever, as if that’s a bad thing. Just don’t claim you weren’t warned. Although something got garbled in translation, I’m guessing your question stems from a paper published last year by physicist Gregory Matloff titled “Can Panpsychism Become an Observational Science?” The paper’s impetus: a symposium on science-fiction author and cosmological visionary Olaf Stapledon, whose 1937 novel Star Maker has its scientific admirers. Matloff’s goal: “to investigate whether there is any evidence to support [Stapledon’s] core metaphysics—that the universe is in some sense conscious and that a portion of stellar motion is volitional.” In other words, some stars choose to move, per Stapledon, and Matloff hopes to find proof of this. Nutty? Sure, but hang on. The belief that awareness pervades all of nature, called panpsychism (it was around for millennia before Stapledon weighed in), arises from one of your more fundamental questions: Where does consciousness come from? Materialists, as I’ll call them, think it’s generated in some workaday way through the functioning of the brain. The other side, which I’ll term “idealist,” isn’t buying it. Humans are self-aware, have ideas, concoct plans, launch enterprises and generally do what they can to make their mark in the world. The organ in which this hubbub originates is a piece of meat. OK, it’s packed with neurons and is a great little computer in its way. But, like an electronic computer, presumably it would just sit there if no one wrote a program for it. Who’s the programmer? What’s the First Cause? The panpsychic answer is that consciousness, spirit, the soul or whatever is inherent in the fabric of the universe. Human consciousness is just another manifestation of something that’s always been there. Following the logic, we might also see consciousness in—why not?—a star. That brings us to Matloff’s paper. As possible evidence of stellar consciousness, he offers an astronomical phenomenon called Parenago’s Discontinuity. Generally speaking, younger, hotter stars orbit around our galaxy’s center faster than older, colder ones. The discontinuity refers to a finding that some older stars defy this principle, orbiting faster than expected. Matloff dismisses mundane explanations for this. Instead, he speculates that “minded stars” might control their motion with jets of unidirectional matter, or, more simply, psychic powers of telekinesis. Where does quantum mechanics come in? It’s the magic wand of science. Quantum effects take place below the threshold where things are directly observable, and some

results we can observe flout ordinary notions of how the world works. This makes quantum mechanics a handy tool for inventive theorists. Need justification for some crackpot notion? Wave a quantum effect at it. Matloff wants a physical basis for his stellar cogitation, the astral equivalent of a nervous system, so he invokes a quantum phenomenon called vacuum fluctuation pressure, which acts somehow on the molecules in stars. I won’t bore you with the details of how this works since he doesn’t provide any, saying only that “it is not unreasonable that vacuum fluctuations play a role in consciousness.” Abracadabra—a stellar brain! Silly? You bet. But wait till that second sixpack kicks in. Disquieting thoughts begin to intrude—not because there’s anything to panpsychism, but because there isn’t. Back to the materialist view (mind = brain). No one understands how mindless electrochemical interactions among billions of neurons result in conscious thought. All we know is they do. We also see critters lower on the food chain exhibiting lesser forms of awareness. We deduce that, given enough time, neurons and evolutionary pressure, critters will develop consciousness (or, to lower the bar, volition). The materialist view has always had its freaky aspects. (OMG, no true free-will!) But the practical implications took time to sink in, notably for that way-freaky thing called artificial intelligence. A longtime assumption was that machines couldn’t think as humans do. Objections to the Turing-test standard (if a machine acts intelligent, it is intelligent) boiled down to: A machine making algorithm-based decisions isn’t really thinking; it’s just faking it. We can’t make truly intelligent machines till we solve the mystery of consciousness. That was then. Machine learning has made such strides that Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk now warn artificial intelligence will destroy humanity. At first, that seems another example of smart people saying crazy things. The most powerful computers still need us to program them, don’t they? How can we program consciousness if we don’t understand it ourselves? Answer: Machine-learning tools don’t need us to program them. For practical purposes they program themselves, in ways even the experts using them don’t fully understand. No doubt the technology could use some tweaking, but who needs a conceptual leap? Just pour on the neurons. We won’t have to figure out how to create HAL the conscious computer. He’ll spontaneously arise. n

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Eight hottest stories Bill Frost was chasing as a new City Weekly staffer in August 1997:

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7. “The World Wide Web: A

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Space, UPN Is Now TV’s Edgiest Network”

5. “There Will Never, Ever, Ever Be a President Worse Than Bill Clinton”

4. “Speed 2: Cruise Control: at 85”

2. “Newspapers: The Dominant, 1. “NBA Championship Within Reach for Utah Jazz”

SOLAR FEES MEETING

Is it hard living in a world that tells you to conserve, then wants to tax you for it? That’s what’s happening to the solar industry in Utah, where Rocky Mountain Power flexes its muscle to make you pay. If you think you’ve paid enough just for the solar panels themselves, you’ll want to attend this meeting at which RMP will try to explain why it wants to raise your rates. No, it has nothing to do with the environment, although RMP is investing in its own solar technology. It has to do with competition and tamping down the enthusiasm for solar over coal because coal is where their profits are. Heber M. Wells Building, 160 E. 300 South, Room 403, 801-530-6767, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2 p.m., free, bit.ly/2v9KLwE

VIETNAM WAR REDUX

If you think the Trump era is divisive and controversial, you probably didn’t live through the Vietnam War. Don’t go to the next march or protest without seeing the screening of the epic PBS documentary The Vietnam War. “Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides—Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam,” PBS’ description reads. Attendees can hear the iconic music of the era and participate in a panel discussion with Vietnam veterans. Salt Lake County Library’s Viridian Event Center, 8030 S. 1825 West, West Jordan, 801-9487858, Thursday, Aug. 10, 7-9 p.m., free, RSVP to ldurham@kued.org by Aug. 7, bit.ly/2tLE7w3

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City Council hopefuls get the Mad Libs treatment. BY DYLAN WOOLF HARRIS dwharris@cityweekly.net @dylantheharris

addening, I’d presume. Even when he quits, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, steals the political limelight. The congressman’s decision to step down sparked a special election race that has overshadowed the copious municipal races advancing this year throughout the state. So forget for a moment whether you’re in the Allen, Ainge, Curtis or Herrod camp. Because more relevant to Salt Lake City residents (remember, Chaffetz didn’t represent anyone living in the city proper) are the four city council races. In total, 19 candidates are jockeying for votes leading up to the primary on Aug. 15. The top two vote-getters in each district will advance to the November ballot, and the winners in those contests, if you haven’t figured it out, will serve on the council. The pool is thick ... District 1: David Atkin, Arnold Jones, James Rogers (incumbent)

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District 3: Phil Carroll, Laura Cushman, Brian Fukushima, Jeffrey Garbett, Chris Wharton District 5: George Chapman, Carol Goode-Rogozinski, Vance Hansen, Erin Mendenhall (incumbent), Benjamin Noah Rosenberg

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Dear Citizen s of Salt Lake City,

With lots to learn and limited time and space, we let the candidates themselves—through a curated questionnaire template—list priorities, demonstrate their creativity, plug their favorite aspects of the city and sell themselves to the voters. Indeed, it’s time for City Weekly candidate Mad Libs.

District 7: Samantha Finch, Amy Fowler, Ben Haynes, Benjamin Sessions, Jason Sills, Abe Smith

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The following candidates were too busy or lazy, dignified or incompetent, uninterested or petrified— or maybe simply forgot to check their email three weeks ago—to complete the Mad Lib challenge: David Atkin, James Rogers, Arnold Jones, Vance Hansen, Erin Mendenhall, Benjamin Noah Rosenberg, Jeffrey Garbett and Jason Sills. Go out and vote!

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City, C of Salt Lake been an SL Dear Citizens Abe Smith, and I’ ve k the as st ju is — e My nam ve Salt Lake face e 2015. I lo my excited resident sinc gue Library, who see not only ’s It . ra er Sp ll at se regulars e latest bestbut also th order their ty amazing, ci every time I t is on th m e ir ak Fa that m ch as go to the places ty to do, su en pl s e’ s. er d fact that th with my ki sing House parks enty of pres and Sugar There are pl d. ne er essness el nc m co ho so al g in But I am me ke, includ portant to ng Salt La issues faci the most im r ou ut B of n. s io dict need and drug ad and infrastructure ty fe is the sa t the 7th oods. to represen e at neighborh id nd r me ca right ssly. Vote fo I am the do so tirele who il ld nc ou w ou C I d on the City District, an s er who ad s, le ew need eir own vi because we than push th unify e n or ca m ho rs w he d listen to ot ts of view, an an others’ poin s rather th understand e problem lv so to s or b gh our nei em. ing about th simply talk other, ighbor to an From one ne Abe Smith

Dear Citizens of Salt Lake City, My name is Ben Haynes, and I’ve been an SLC resident since the Affordable Care Act was signe d into law. I appreciate Salt Lake —just ask the regulars at Eggs in the City, who see my beautiful face every time I order their scrumptious biscuits and gravy. It’s not only the people that make this city interesting, but also the fact that there’s plenty to do, such as get stuck in traffic. But I am also bald. There are plen ty of pressing issues facing Salt Lake, including clean air and affordable housing. But the most important to me is com munity engagement. I am the hip candidate to represen t the 7th District, and I would do so gratefully. Vote for me because everyone deserves a seat at the table.

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Dear Citizens of Salt Lake City, My name is George Chapman, and I’ve been an SLC resident since 2006. Just ask the Salt Lake City Council and the SLC community councils who see me at almost all of their meetings. It’s not only the strikingly beautiful mountains that make this city better than anyplace else (I’ve been around the world), but also the fact that there is plenty to do, such as work with many other similarminded people to make Salt Lake City a better place for its residents. I have earned a reputation as a local community activist and blogger at georgechapma n.net. There are plenty of pressing issues facing Salt Lake, including not having enough funding to maintain/water our urban trees, maintaining our streets and providing appropriate neighborhood bus service. But the most important issue to me is the lack of solutions to address the homeless/affordability crisis in our city and the related criminal activity that victimizes the homeless and businesses and residents in SLC. I am the best candidate to represent the 5th Council District, and I would stop the secret decisions made without public input. Vote for me because the SLC Council should not be meeting in secret and making decisions behind closed doors.

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has a time-limited legal work permit through the federal government’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. Novoa getting her badge was bittersweet for him. “We were all super happy and jealous,” he says. “Finally one of us had become a cop.” Like many other Explorers, Novoa had to overcome cultural resistance to the idea of joining a profession that members of her own family and community can both fear and view as a repressive force. Novoa’s journey to badge and gun against trenchant family resistance is one built on service from a young age in her step-father’s church. That same ideal of sacrifice is enshrined in the Utah Law Enforcement memorial, of which former officer and Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Kirby is board vice president. It was his idea to have the Explorers, for a small stipend, take care of the state capitol-based memorial to cops who died in the line of duty, after he saw them take part in the opening of the $125 million Public Safety Building in 2012. “I was struck by the idea that in the SLCPD Explorers I was seeing the future of SLC policing—more ethnic groups and more women,” Kirby writes in an email. “I realized then that the department is actually growing cops.” Law enforcement has been scrambling both locally and nationally for years to address recruitment problems—particularly in the light of national controversies and protests over the use of deadly force against people of color—accompanied by, police chiefs say, a shift toward the targeted killing of police officers. The resulting stigma can prove to be a powerful deterrent. While many Explorers in Ramirez’ and Novoa’s post were “good Explorers,” Ramirez says, “at the end, they did not want to be cops because of how bad it is; how hated they are.” After the ceremony, they went out to lunch, “and every single one of them except me think being a cop now is the worst thing you can ask for,” he says. “Everyone hates you; there’s no love.” In Utah, there’s been an additional deterrent: legislative changes to retirement benefits, cutting pensions and extending the number of years officers have to serve to trigger them. When it comes to recruiting minorities, in a state where advocates say Latinos, including the undocumented, make up close to 20 percent of the population, police departments have been largely unsuccessful, despite increased hiring drives, in reflecting similar percentages of diversity in their ranks. Ironically, “The Explorers have been able to capture that market share of females and minorities where police departments are struggling,” says Det. Cody Lougy, who ran the program from 2012 until March 2017. The 2017 post boasts 28 teenage boys and 44 young women who collectively speak 15 languages, with over half the group

hen Amy Novoa left her parents’ home in Rose Park on the west side of Salt Lake City to drive to the Pioneer Precinct for her swearing-in as a police officer, she still clung to the hope that someone from her family would attend the most important moment in her life. Her 15 fellow graduates that warm March afternoon in 2016 had partners who would pin on the badges they had earned after six grueling months in the academy. But when Novoa, who is single, asked her mother Esthela Flores to attend, she told her, “M’ija, I’m really busy at work, it’s not a good day.” The 22-year-old begged and cajoled her parents and even bribed her siblings to no avail. Her stepfather, Melquiades Flores, and her mother had long opposed her interest in law enforcement from when the then 16-year-old West High School student had told them she was joining the Salt Lake City Police Department’s Explorers. The nationwide program is run by Learning for Life, an affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America. Individual Explorer units, typically called posts, are sponsored by local organizations or agencies and focus on specific careers. SLCPD Explorers ages 14-20 don either grey or blue uniforms and black lace-up boots and attend weekly drills, classes and police training for four hours a week, as well as taking part in many community events throughout the year. Novoa joined the post in 2011, subsequently rising through its ranks to the top slot of captain. It wasn’t only the danger on the streets that Novoa would face that worried her family, nor unpleasant experiences family members had had at the hands of police officers and Border Patrol, or that some of them felt it was a man’s job. It wasn’t even that they thought, as Novoa says, that cops were “all white, older, racist men.” When the 5-foot-3 Novoa signed up for the academy, “We said ‘No, the system is corrupt,’” Esthela Flores says in Spanish, referring to people who have been arrested for drug dealing and are back on the street the next day. Amy Novoa stood her ground, her mother recalls. “She said, ‘I will make the difference.’” But when the 16 officers-in-waiting marched in for the ceremony attended by Chief Mike Brown, Novoa saw her mother and younger brother Carlos standing at the back. At the last moment, Flores and her son had decided to go to the ceremony. “I saw that she was so happy to have graduated, it convinced me to support her,” Flores says. Her daughter waved her to the front and she proudly pinned her badge on her uniform. “I was so happy, I could not stop smiling,” Amy Novoa says. Novoa’s friend and fellow former Explorer Alejandro Ramirez went to the swearing-in along with other Explorers to support her. While undocumented, Ramirez

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Former Explorer Alejandro Ramirez

Latino. Yet, while hundreds of youth have gone through the program, SLCPD Chief Mike Brown says only five Explorers—including Novoa—have joined the SLCPD since the initiative’s inception in the early 2000s. Not that joining the police force is necessarily easy, be that because of challenges for refugees and other minorities with their oral or written English, or, as in Ramirez’ case and others, immigration issues. While five states allow those with a work permit or resident status to don the blue, in Utah, you have to be a U.S. citizen. When it comes to non-citizens with a badge and gun, Brown says so far, it’s only in the discussion phase. “At least they are occurring,” he says. The Explorers is far more than a recruitment tool, Brown argues, lauding the $16,350 budgeted program for both its impact on youth and hard-to-reach communities. “We have tried for many years to push back into communities we serve,” he says. “These kids are helping us build inroads into refugee and minority communities. They truly just want to belong, they want to be represented and part of our community; they want to be part of our department.” What Novoa and the Explorers reveal, is the tenacity of often marginalized youth to cling to, and in her instance, achieve, their dreams of serving the neighborhoods they live in. It’s a potent journey that both enriches the police department and the Explorers advisors, while also opening doors for at-risk youth. City Weekly interviewed four current Explorers, including a 17-year-old trans-male, all of whom want to be cops. Det. Keith Horrocks, who took over as advisor of the SLCPD post in March, talks of Explorers who have a father or brother in prison who joined the program to understand the police mindset, or because they perceived injustice in how their family was treated and perhaps hope to bring about change. Those few Explorers, like Novoa, who do become cops, also bring a deep understanding of community policing. “Amy knows where people come from, she knows what they’re facing, she knows the fears certain people have dealing with cops,” 10-year-police veteran Horrocks says. “Because of those things that makes her a better cop than me.” Despite the paramilitary trappings of the post, what seems to drive all the Explorers interviewed for this story is as much the desire to give back to their community as to experience what Novoa calls “the fun” of her job.

Det. Keith Horrocks

Whether spending five hours searching for a suicidal teenage girl and being credited by her father with saving her life or jumping out of her mother’s car while still an Explorer to dig out someone stuck in their car in a snowdrift, Esthela Flores says her daughter, “has a heart to serve. I hope it helps her.”

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Novoa has struggled to find her place in life. English is the self-described outcast’s second language, and she says she doesn’t jell within mainstream American culture: “I don’t know where I fit in, I don’t feel like I fit in any where.” Her truck-driver father is from El Salvador, her mother from Nayarit, Mexico. Her family moved to Utah from California in 2000 when she was 7 years old, and her parents separated shortly after. She and her siblings stayed with her mother, moving around the valley in search of places to stay. Times were tough. “I felt like we ate a lot of junk food,” Novoa says. “We’d eat Little Caesar—we’d each get our own box.” She recalls running from cops a few times, whether for skipping school or being in a fight. Fighting at lunchtime was a daily tradition at her middle school, she says, where you’d go into the bathroom and trade shots to the body. “‘Till this day, I think it’s fun,” she says. At West High, her counselor told her she wouldn’t be able to handle the stress and demands of the International Baccalaureate program. Discrimination “is exactly what it was,” she says. So, she took a law enforcement class given by Det. Lougy to get an elective credit. His passion and inclusiveness touched her deeply. “He makes you feel like you can do anything,” she says. That was the only class she ever got an A in. Explorers and advisors recall her in her first months of attendance wearing sweats, her hair unkempt and her quiet, timid demeanor. The program had been run out of the police department’s training unit and received little support from administration, officers say. Det. Mike Hamaday took over shortly before Novoa joined, and focused hard on officer training. He pursued tactical training such as clearing buildings of suspects and handling high-hazard traffic stops in the department’s parking lot. He also bonded with his charges. “He pushed me further than where I thought I could go,” Novoa recalls. He brought both structure

and discipline to a group used to watching movies in class, whittling it down from 40 to 13, Ramirez says. At the time, Novoa’s parents criticized her. “Why give so much time to them? You’re not getting anything back,” she remembers being told. Ramirez heard similar complaints. His family came to the U.S. when he was just 3 years old, leaving behind a life of poverty. They ended up in Utah because “it was more immigration friendly, more acceptable than anywhere else,” he says. He grew up in Glendale and was introduced to the Explorers by friends in the program. His parents said that would make him an easy target for deportations should federal detention programs expand. Every Tuesday afternoon when Ramirez went to the Public Safety Building, he’d hear, “You’re just asking for it.” Novoa fell in love with the training. “I felt like I was good at something. It was fun to know I was getting better.” Despite her shyness, Hamaday chose her as the face for the class, putting her, she says, “on blast,” as a speaker at community events and front person for media interviews. Ramirez asked himself what was he promoting as an Explorer? He wondered why he wanted to be a cop only to be labeled by friends and others in his community as a snitch. The answer he settled on was, “These kids wanted to make a difference in their community,” he says. “Obviously being from the westside, no one gave them an answer. The police department said if you want to make a difference, maybe this is a place you can start.” While Novoa might have dreaded public engagements, Ramirez believes she also learned from Hamaday “how to fake it good. Mike was really good at teaching her that; of having a command presence, the levels of force. Mike drilled it into her head and she exploded, I guess, and became this super-awesome cop.”

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In 2012, Det. Lougy took over from Hamaday. Lougy had increasingly struggled with working homicide. “I’d seen some really dark stuff, just sad cases involving children and adults,” he says. “It was bringing me down. Explorers pulled me out of that hole.” He describes it as one of the best assignments in the department, because “you can invoke and promote so

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After Novoa graduated high school, she switched her major half a dozen times at Utah Valley University trying to figure out what she wanted to do. Her parents wanted her to run the family grocery store, but Novoa hankered for law enforcement. She successfully applied to be a cop and excelled during the six months of academy training. Still, her family continued to be nervous about her choices. “They were just hoping— they still hope and secretly pray, I’ll switch careers,” she says with a laugh. The training completed, she spent three months with a field training officer (FTO), a muscular tall white male. The first week is called “ghost week,” since you’re supposed to observe only, she says. “That’s when I realized no situation is predictable. Holy crap.” During her very first day with the FTO she was shocked to see how many people routinely lie to officers. She was called to a store and detained a shoplifter. She listened patiently to the woman’s claims of innocence, believing every word. “Ahem,” the training officer said. “She’s lying to you.” People lie to her uniform, she learned, not to her. She cited her for retail theft and told her it wasn’t a big deal, unless she did it again, in which case it would be enhanced to a misdemeanor. Novoa has had to learn to assert herself and use her “big girl voice,” when the situation requires it. Fights aren’t an issue, unless the offender is flying on meth.

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Her parents concerns about the dangers she’d face as an officer were quickly realized after she requested to patrol the westside, only to find herself caught up in three incidents that demonstrated her job could bring the threat of violence to her family’s doorstep. In one case, she went to a neighborhood Smith’s to run a quick errand and left her weapon behind. A youth who was a friend of someone she had arrested days before for discharging a firearm was leaving the market as she was getting out of her car. “Amy, right?” he shouted and charged at her. “I knew his intentions weren’t good,” she says and drove away. Such incidents taught her, she says, “Now I’m not just any person—now I’m a police officer.” Colleagues subsequently told her not to work where you live. Psychologically, she says, she’s ready if she has to use her weapon. “If it’s necessary, it’s necessary. That’s our job. That’s what we signed up to do.” Ramirez has seen use of force from both ends of a weapon. An officer he had liked, Draper Sgt. Derek Johnson, was gunned down at a domestic violence incident, while an unarmed friend was shot dead by a cop. He met Johnson through the “Shop With a Cop” Christmas present program, which the Explorers support. He attended the funeral as an Explorer, helping out with traffic detail. “As soon as you hear the last call, it’s gut-wrenching,” he says. “They’re burying your friend.” After Ramirez’ friend was killed, those who knew both of them asked him why the officer had shot him. He didn’t have an answer. “I couldn’t tell them with a

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“My toughest fight was a guy high on meth at Palmer Court,” she says, referring to a housing complex for the chronically homeless. It took her and three officers 15 minutes to get the cuffs on him. Despite being young and petite, Novoa is routinely reviled with derogatory terms, she says, such as being called, “a wetback, a beaner, a bitch all the time. You’re less respected if you wear the uniform these days.” Being a cop “is not a way of life for normal people,” Novoa continues, particularly when it comes to always carrying off-duty her personal Glock 26. She demonstrates how she stands with her holstered gun always pointing away from a suspect and how she always keeps her weapon hand empty, ready to draw.

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much change with the youth—they see you as a mentor and coach and you see their growth.” Lougy wanted to open the doors to any kid that wanted to join. About the only youth who weren’t eligible were those with felonies on their records. If they had misdemeanors such as retail theft, there had to be a gap of time to prove they’d turned the corner. Det. Veronica Montoya worked on Explorers first with Hamaday and then Lougy. “The numbers kept growing up, not because we needed them, but they needed us,” she says. She argues participating youth saw it as a great opportunity for guidance, résumés, and says they don’t have to turn out to be cops—many go into ancillary careers such as forensics, dispatch, records. “They are learning how to be responsible, how to be part of a team, to take part in a community event,” she says.

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clear conscience that you would do the same if you were a cop,” he says. Ramirez decided he wanted to be a cop if only because perhaps in a similar situation to that which cost his friend’s life, “maybe I could have made a difference, maybe I would have waited [to fire], maybe I could have saved him.” Novoa patrolled the eastside for six months, then in May, requested a transfer to the west side of downtown which includes the homeless shelter. The beat’s rapid pace, she says, is fun. “Crime is crime.”

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Novoa’s working day consists of 10 hours in a patrol car bouncing from one incident to another on the city’s westside, which usually means issues stemming from Rio Grande. At each incident, she typically partners up with another officer. Up to 12 officers crisscross the westside streets to address a climbing number of calls for service through the afternoon and into the night. Novoa has the weekend swing shift, so she works Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, 2.30 p.m to 12.30 a.m., goes to Explorers on Tuesdays and works several operations a month as a decoy for the vice squad. Not that she rests before work. On Saturdays, she helps clean her family’s non-denominational church, and on Sundays she conducts Bible study and plays in the church’s band during a two-hour service, all before putting on her uniform and beginning a mentally and physically exhausting work day. One hot Friday afternoon in June, her first call after roll call at Pioneer Precinct is a man waving a gun near the Road Home shelter. Both gun carrier and victim are gone by the time Novoa and a second car roll up. She says her current beat has her dealing with mental illness-related issues, trespassing, burglaries and theft. “A lot of calls to the shelter turn into nothing,” she says. She goes on a welfare check at a hotel on a possibly suicidal man, watches as another officer explains to a young homeless man carrying a knife why he can’t display the weapon, then stands with fellow class graduate Monica Roop while youth from Brazil and San Diego are forced to leave a hotel room they paid for because of complaints of noise and cigarette smoke. They sympathize with the skateboarders but can do nothing to help them. She briefly stops at her parent’s grocery business by the I-15 off-ramp at 600 South. Her stepfather doesn’t mask his antagonism toward her chosen profession. “I feel she has so much potential, but not a police officer,” Melquiades Flores says, turning to her. “I want the best for you.” He continues that there are “so many bad people around,” he and his wife continuously worry for her safety. “We should be

supportive, pray to God that she’s fine,” he says. “Her life is more important than anything.” Flores switches hats for that of minister the following Sunday, returning to those concerns in his sermon at his 10-year-old church, Centro Cristo Maranatha. Typically, Novoa says the congregation is between 150-200 members strong, but on a recent morning, vacations and trips to Mexico have reduced that number to about 30 men, women and children. Novoa joins a four-piece band to play bass and adds backing vocals to a medley of Spanish-language Christian rock numbers on a stage whose backdrop is emblazoned with with a painting of Jerusalem, flanked by the Mexican flag on one side and the Star Spangled Banner on the other. Later, she says she learned how to play the songs from YouTube videos. From the pulpit, Flores delivers his sermon referencing crime rates in Salt Lake City, and how, “when we see the streets, we think of Amy as we think of these dangers, alone in her patrol car. She takes God with her.” Among the congregants is Peruvian-born Roxann Carrion. The 34-year-old was a police officer in Lima. She admires Novoa. “It’s better to die for something you feel passion for, than work at a desk or a call center,” she says. Carrion lives in Kearns and when she saw a Latina officer with a flashlight searching a truck one night, she was overcome with pride. Here was someone who could speak her language and understood her culture. Many in the Latino community have expressed their gratitude to Novoa’s mother Esthela for her daughter’s police service. “She takes care of our people,” Carrion says in Spanish. “It’s what she’s doing here.” While Novoa’s former Explorer peer Ramirez has been promoted to a security supervisor at City Creek Center, he still hopes to follow in her footsteps, despite the always-looming possibility of deportation. If the federal government revokes the youth work permits, “there’s not much I can do. If they come for us, there’s not much that I can do than starting over in Mexico,” he says. “Until I get deported, I’m still going to become a cop.” He argues that being a cop “is an art,” not just citations and paperwork. “You’re there for the community, you always influence the community to be a force for good—even if it’s not part of the job description.” As Novoa leaves the church that Sunday and walks toward her parked patrol car, she draws a line between her family’s community and the community she now serves. “I grew up serving mostly in church,” she says. “This is service, too. Now I’m enforcing laws.” CW

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It’s never easy to launch a new small theater company, and those who do often find themselves working in makeshift spaces. That’s why Anthem Theatre Co. Creative Director Caitlin Bell is delighted to be staging a production of George Brant’s 2008 play Elephant’s Graveyard in the Rose Wagner Center’s Studio Theatre. “It’s very nice, I have to tell you,” Bell says. “It’s kind of been a relief to step into this space and say, ‘Oh, this is where people actually perform.’” While this might be Anthem’s first show in such an established space, this isn’t their debut production. The company launched at the 2016 Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival with an original play about multiple personality disorder, Conversations With Caligula, written by company co-founder Laurel Myler. That show was followed by a co-production of Alice in Wonderland with aerial arts company Cirque Asylum. Elephant’s Graveyard—based on a real-life 1916 Tennessee incident involving the lynching of a circus elephant—fits with these previous productions, according to Bell, as part of the company’s mission to “bring to life difficult subjects, and talk about them in a productive way.” Even as Anthem transitions to a traditional theater space, this show also marks a transition for the company, as Myler prepares to move to England. “Laurel and I went to Alta High School together and did [Elephant’s Graveyard],” Bell says. “It was an extremely traumatizing and moving experience for both of us. We wanted to bring it back to life again … do one really good show before she leaves.” (Scott Renshaw) Anthem Theatre Co.: Elephant’s Graveyard @ Rose Wagner Center Studio Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Aug. 3-5, 7:30 p.m., $10, artsaltlake.org

The summer arts festival season offers many places and opportunities to experience the work of local artists and artisans, but few venues are as unique as Park City’s historic Main Street. The picturesque mountain thoroughfare once again provides the setting for the 48th annual Park City Kimball Arts Festival, as returning Best in Show award winners from 2016 are among the nearly 200 participating creators of work representing painting, sculpture, jewelry, fiber, glasswork, woodwork and photography. Make your way through the Festival Gallery Stroll for special exhibit debuts, and later join the Festival After Dark to enjoy comedy at the Egyptian Theatre and films from the Sundance Institute. The musical lineup boasts performances from several genres throughout the weekend, featuring bands like Tony Holiday & The Velvetones, Smiling Souls and Michelle Moonshine Trio. Even the little ones can participate in the kids art area, featuring fun activities like face-painting and constructing wind catchers for little to no cost. And as always, it wouldn’t be a celebration without a bountiful selection of fare, which you can look forward to at the food truck roundup. Summit County residents are invited to attend for free on Friday Locals Night; consider riding your bike to take advantage of the new bike valet on Seventh Street instead of battling for a parking spot, and join the estimated 50,000 attendees for the festivities that support Kimball Arts Center in its mission to foster art education in the community. (Lauren Gutierrez) Park City Kimball Arts Festival @ Main Street, Park City, 435-649-8882, Aug. 4, 5-9 p.m.; Aug. 5, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Aug. 6, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., $6-$12, parkcitykimballartsfestival.org

The Utah Symphony’s now-traditional outdoor performances of Tchaikovsky’s iconic 1812 Overture wouldn’t be the same without the accompanying live cannon fire at the climax. But who do you turn to when you want your classical music with a side order of artillery? For 40 years, Cannoneers of the Wasatch has taken on that role, according to the group’s current president, Charles Freshman, as one of four or five annual summer concert gigs throughout the Intermountain West. The 20 cannons in the group are owned by individual members—all of them built completely or in part by current or past members, using re-machined surplus 40 mm antiaircraft artillery barrels. “They look quite authentic, and we’re asked often how old they are,” Freshman says. “People are quite surprised that the oldest are less than 50 years old.” While operating the cannons is just a hobby for the group, Freshman is proud of the attention to safety protocols that has led to more than four decades without a single accident; the group is also required to be licensed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. For the concert performance—requiring perfect timing to the musical score—a keyboard connected to electronic igniters allows for precise control of the 16 reports in each 1812 performance. Two group members have memorized the Tchaikovsky score to achieve this precision—and it’s the only music they need to memorize. “Unfortunately, that’s the only music we know of that requires cannon fire,” Freshman says, chuckling. “We wish there was more.” (SR) Utah Symphony: Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture @ Deer Valley Snow Park Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive, Park City, 801-355-2787, Aug. 4, 7:30 p.m., $15$76, artsaltlake.org

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Nate Bargatze imagines he was meant for comedy, stemming from the fact that his dad was a full-time clown until Bargatze was 12 years old. “Do you know how confusing that is?” he asks the audience in his act. “Being screamed at by a guy with a smile painted on his face?” But if Bargatze has had a colorful upbringing, he has also grounded himself with humbling experiences. He’s worked everything from delivering pizzas at night and reading water meters to moving furniture for nice old ladies. He’s not ashamed to say in his stand-up routine that he was never prestigiously educated: “I went to a community college for one year, and I do not have one credit to show for it. Like, that’s worse than not going.” However, he believes trying a bit of everything is the best way to find your own interests. This same motto is perhaps what encouraged Netflix to invite Bargatze to appear in its series The Standups, which premiered July 4. Where Comedy Central and HBO once dominated the world of half-hour comedy specials, Netflix has arguably taken the format to the next level in terms of providing exposure for comedians. Bargatze’s comedy is worth a look. Not only has he performed at South by Southwest, the Moontower and Bonnaroo, but his second album, Full-Time Magic, topped the comedy Billboard charts, where his previous album had fallen just one position short. You know he’s good when he counts Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien and Marc Maron among his personal fans. (Rex Magana) Nate Bargatze @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5S233, Aug. 4, 7 p.m.; Aug. 5, 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., $20, wiseguyscomedy.com

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s summer begins its slide into autumn, county and state fairs around the country will bring food, entertainment and unique memories to millions of visitors. On the eve of the Salt Lake County Fair, we asked City Weekly staffers and contributors to share their own recollections of special fairground experiences. Casey Koldewyn, freelance contributor: My family has gone to the Salt Lake County Fair every year that I can remember. We might have missed once, maybe twice, but certainly not more. Cheapticket-Thursdays are what got us in the door, and we always attend the rodeo. When I was really little, I participated in that rodeo. My dad joined the ranks of many probably well-meaning parents who decide that having their children placed on sheep, told to hold on tightly and then, completely bewildered, propelled out of a gate and around the rodeo arena on top of said sheep, is totally fine—fun, even. One of these lucky traumatized kids got a bike. I won a belt buckle for coming in second. Amanda Rock, freelance contributor: My parents were pretty overprotective, so my experience at the fair wasn’t like other kids’. The Ferris wheel and other fun-looking rides were deemed unsafe and, therefore, strictly off-limits. My mom patiently explained to a despondent 5-year-old me that the rides were not securely built, and the operators were probably drunk. Watching the kids with less-devoted parents screaming with delight on the rides was heartbreaking, but I wasn’t sad for long. Consoled by my favorite snow cone—bright red Tiger’s Blood—the gigantic stuffed animal prizes caught my eye. My dad was a champ at the carnival games, and made sure I left with the biggest and best stuffed animal. Kylee Ehmann, freelance contributor: A few days after loading my first paycheck onto my unused debit card at the age of 16, I was determined to buy something important. I wandered through the rows of dirty-white tents at the Weber County Fair, searching for that all-important first purchase. It took me until closing time to find it: a floppy sun hat of near-impractical size priced at $10. I wasn’t an outdoors person, but I knew that it was mine. Six years later, I still don’t go out much, but that hat is serving me well, providing shade during my short walk from FrontRunner to Trax. Enrique Limón, editor: Growing up on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border, I was fortunate to have double the plea-

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sure and double the fair fun. La Feria de las Californias in Tijuana had a makeshift freak show, and I remember paying the twoheaded boy 50 pesos to separate and reveal the trick (spoiler alert: It was two kids). Perhaps more indelible, though, was asking a farmer to lend me his imposing charolais to walk around San Diego’s Del Mar Fair. Such was the amazement of a group of 15 or so Japanese tourists in seeing this portly kid parade around the gentle bovine that they all stopped in their tracks to frantically take pictures. To this day, I’m sure that I became an instant meme in Japan à la Barron Trump, but alas, those were pre-internet days, so we’ll never know. A sad bookend to that memory is recently becoming lactose intolerant. If I could go back in time, Bran Stark-like, I’d advise young Enrique to consume as much butter, milk and cheese as possible, and to learn the lactose tricks from his new cow friend. Childhood cholesterol statistics be damned! Anna Kaser, street team: One year, when I was about 13, I participated in my family’s small county fair pig-wrestling competition. Pig wrestling consisted of a team of about four people chasing around a greased pig in a mud pit. The teams’ goal: to capture the greased pig and place it in a barrel in the middle of the pit. Each team’s pig was picked according to its age and size. A team of small children got a 1015 pound pig; a team of grown men got a

All-American: Flag-bearer greets crowd at Salt Lake County Fair.

300-pound pig. Our pig weighed about 70 pounds. Suffice it to say, we didn’t achieve much besides getting extremely dirty. Randy Harward, music editor: In the fall of the year we graduated from high school, my friend “Wade” and I, as newly minted free-range adults, believed the Salt Lake County Fair—in the afternoon—would be a great place to meet women. Only we were 18, worked in fast food, had no goals and our first move upon arrival was to buy guinea pigs on impulse. We weren’t getting laid that day. Instead, we wound up in a tent facing a fortune-teller who resembled the squeaky-voiced psychic from Poltergeist. I recall only one prediction: “You’re going to meet a girl in February and—oh, boy, are you gonna have lots of sex with her!” Alas, Tangina was off by a number of years. CW

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moreESSENTIALS PERFORMANCE THEATER

Photographer Kaustubh Thapa captures images of his world travels, including his native Nepal, in Shadows and Colors at Art Access Gallery (230 S. 500 West, Ste. 125, 801-328-0703, accessart.org) through Friday, Aug. 11.

The 3 Amigos Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801-266-2600, through Aug. 19, times vary, desertstar.biz 9 to 5 Center Point Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, through Sept. 2, MondaySaturday, 7:30 p.m., centerpointtheatre.org Annie American Fork Amphitheater, 851 E. 700 North, American Fork, through Aug. 12, 8 p.m., timpanogosarts.org As You Like It Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre, 200 W. College Ave., Cedar City, 435-586-7878, through Sept. 7, times vary, bard.org The Book of Mormon Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, through Aug. 20, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org Broadway Bound Neil Simon Fest, Heritage Center Theater, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, 435-267-0194, through Aug. 12, see schedule at simonfest.org The Dinner Party Neil Simon Festival, Heritage Center Theater, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, 435-2670194, through Aug. 11, dates and times vary, simonfest.org Disney’s Tarzan Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, through Aug. 5, 7:30 p.m.; various matinees Friday-Saturday, haletheater.org Elephant’s Graveyard Anthem Theatre Co., Rose Wagner Center Studio Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Aug. 3-5, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 20) Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival Fringe Factory, 2234 Highland Drive; Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East; Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East, through Aug. 6, times vary, greatsaltlakefringe.org Guys and Dolls Randall L. Jones Theatre, 300 W. Center St., Cedar City, 435-586-7878, through Sept. 1, times vary, bard.org Honk Jr. Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, through Aug. 12, Friday-Saturday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee, 2 p.m.; Monday, Aug. 7, 7:30 p.m., empresstheatre.com Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Hale Center Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-984-9000, through Aug. 12, times

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vary, hct.org Madama Butterfly Ellen Eccles Theater, 43 S. Main, Logan, 800-262-0074, through Aug. 8, artsaltlake. org Mamma Mia Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 435-652-3200, through Oct. 21, tuacahn.org A Midsummer Night’s Dream Randall L. Jones Theatre, 300 W. Center St., Cedar City, 453-5867878, through Oct. 21, times vary, bard.org Noises Off Neil Simon Festival, Heritage Center Theater, 105 N. 100 West, Cedar City, 435-267-0194, through Aug. 9, dates and times vary, simonfest.org Peter and the Starcatcher The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855-944-2787, Aug. 4-Sept. 2, times vary, theziegfeldtheater.com Pillow Talk Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, 801-226-8600, Aug. 9-Sept. 23, times vary, haletheater.org Rex Utah Theatre, 18 W. Center St., Logan, 800-2620074, through Aug. 7, artsaltlake.org Romeo and Juliet Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre, 200 W. College Ave., Cedar City, 435-586-7878, through Sept. 9, times vary, bard.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 Utah Theatre, 18 W. Center St., Logan, 801-355-2787, through Aug. 7, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org Shakespeare in Love Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre, 200 W. College Ave., Cedar City, 435-5867878, through Sept. 8, times vary, bard.org Shrek: The Musical Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, 435-652-3200, through Oct. 21, tuacahn.org Treasure Island Randall L. Jones Theatre 300 W. Center St., Cedar City, 435-586-7878, through Sept. 2, times vary, bard.org Under Construction: The Blue Collar Musical Neil Simon Festival, Heritage Center Theater, 105 N. 100 East, Cedar City, 435-267-0194, through Aug. 12, dates and times vary, simonfest.org William Shakespeare’s Long-Lost First Play Eileen and Allen Anes Studio Theatre, 195 W. Center St., Cedar City, 435-586-7878, through Oct. 21, times vary, bard.org

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Vault! Marriott Center for Dance, University of Utah, 330 S. 1500 East, Studio 240, Aug. 5, 2:30 p.m., $10-$20, nichelevanportfleet.com/calendar World Travelers Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, Aug. 7, 7:30 p.m., culturalcelebration.org

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Classical Mystery Tour: A Beatles Tribute With Utah Symphony Deer Valley Snow Park Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive, Park City, 801-355-2787, Aug. 5, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Utah Symphony: Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture Deer Valley Snow Park Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive, Park City, 801-355-2787, Aug. 4, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 20)

COMEDY & IMPROV

Craig Bielik Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., 801622-5588, Aug. 4-5, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Mick DiFlo & Greg Hahn Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, Aug. 4-5, 8 p.m., parkcityshows.com Nate Bargatze Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Aug. 4, 7 p.m.; Aug. 5, 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 20) Open-Mic Night Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com

AUTHOR APPEARANCES

D.J. Butler: The Giant’s Seat Provo City Library, 550 N. University Ave., 801-484-9100, Aug. 8, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Kiersten White: Now I Rise The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, Aug. 9, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

FARMERS MARKETS

9th West Farmers Market International Peace Gardens, 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 Sugar House Farmers Market Fairmont Park, 1040 E. Sugarmont Drive, through Oct. 25, Wednesdays, 5-8 p.m., sugarhousefarmersmarket.org

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Al Ahad: The Hijab Project UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Nov. 18; artist reception, Aug. 25, 6-9 p.m., utahmoca.org Amy Fairchild: Color My World SLC Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Aug. 5Sept. 15; artist reception Aug. 5, 4 p.m., slcpl.org Art, Politics & Alternative Realities Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8284, through Sept. 8, phillips-gallery.com Avenues Open Studies: Works by Local Artists Corinne and Jack Sweet Library, 455 F St., 801-594-8651, through Aug. 19, slcpl.org Eight O’Clock in the Morning Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande, 801-230-0820, through Sept. 3; artist reception, Aug. 18, 6-9 p.m., urbanartsgallery.org Face of Utah Sculpture XIII Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, 801-9655100, through Aug. 30, culturalcelebration.org Joseph Bishop: Smoke Signals Anderson Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, through Sept. 14; artist reception Aug. 3, 7 p.m., slcpl.org Kaustubh Thapa: Shadows and Colors Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, 801-328-0703, through Aug. 11, accessart.org (see p. 24) Linnie Brown: Maps of Insufficient Clarity Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, 801-5965000, through Aug. 4, saltlakearts.org Luke Watson: Anthropocene Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, 801-594-8623, through Aug. 24, slcpl.org 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 Multiple Inspirations: MS + Art Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, 801-328-0703, through Aug. 11, accessart.org Naomi Marine: Sleepwalking Sprague Branch Library, 2131 S. 1100 East, 801-594-8640, through Aug. 26, slcpl.org Naomi S. Adams: Structural Language Salt Lake Community College South City, 1575 S. State, 801-957-4111, through Sept. 7, slcc.edu Native Voices: Contemporary Trading Post Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, 801-3553383, through Aug. 21, modernwestfineart.com Richard Serra: Prints Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., 435-649-8882, through Aug. 20, kimballartcenter.org Robert Barett: Figurative Tradition Visual Art Institute, 2901 S. Highland Drive, 801-474-3796, through Aug. 4, visualartinstitute.org Sabrina Squires: Natural Kaleidoscope Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, Aug. 5Sept. 15; artist reception Aug. 5, 4 p.m., slcpl.org Spy Hop: Safe and Sound Utah Museum of Cultural Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Sept. 23, utahmoca.org Sticks Laid In Patterns and Other Mundane Oracles Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, 801236-7555, through Sept. 8, heritage.utah.gov A Study of Multiple Exposure Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, 801-594-8632, through Aug. 20, slcpl.org Under the Influence: Eight Local Artists Influenced by Animation Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 801-245-7272, through Sept. 1, heritage.utah.gov

Salt Lake County Fair County Fairgrounds, 2100 W. 11400 South, South Jordan, through Aug. 5, slcfair.com (see p. 22) Park City Kimball Arts Festival Main Street, Park City, 435-649-8882, Aug. 4-6, kimballartcenter.org (see p. 20) Ogden Pride Ogden City Amphitheater, 343 25th St., Ogden, 801-917-4588, Aug. 5, 9 a.m., ogdenpride.org

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remember my first taco. In college, buddies of mine would gather on Sunday evenings at a Mexican all-you-can eat joint called La Cafeteria. The price of dinner was $1.89. The first time I tagged along, I’m pretty sure the only things I ate were hard-shell tacos stuffed with ground beef and shredded cheddar cheese—I haven’t always been an adventurous foodie. I’m guessing your first taco was also a hard-shell version—maybe from Taco Bell or Del Taco, or homemade, courtesy of Ortega. This is not about that. We will not discuss the hard-shell type here, but rather the most democratic and ubiquitous incarnation: the corn tortilla street taco. The most popular of Mexican food in the U.S. is available to all, and the phrase meaning “to grab a taco”—echarse un taco—is, according to the book Tacopedia, also used to describe any kind of eating. That’s how thoroughly they thread their way through Mexican culture, and now our own. Food historians estimate that the taco predates Spanish colonists arriving in Mexico, and was invented by indigenous people between 1000 and 500 B.C. The first ones were probably filled with fish, and eaten by people in the valley of Mexico. Today, there are dozens of types, including al pastor, birria, barbacoa, mixiote, insect, stewed, griddled, grilled, deep-fried and more. To enjoy a broad range of authentically delicious Tijuana-style street tacos, look no further than Taquería Mi Caramelo in West Valley. This is the real deal, and although some of the staff speaks a bit of English, brushing up on your Spanish wouldn’t hurt. Google Translate is helpful

Beef cheek tacos at Mi Caramelo in ferreting out terms like suadero, cabeza, lengua, cachete, maciza and surtido, which are among the fillings here. This friendly walk-up restaurant is organized into separate lines, depending on which items you want. That’s because, for example, the tacos al pastor are so popular that they have a line all to their own—and rightly so. Al pastor came to Mexico—Puebla, to be specific—via Middle Eastern immigrants. It’s pig meat that is roasted on an upright spit, the way Greeks roast lamb for gyros. Somewhere along the line, pineapple was added to cilantro and onion to flavor al pastor, resulting in today’s sweetand-spicy treats, and the version at Mi Caramelo is second to none. An interesting aspect of this taquería is that although there is a salsa and condiment bar, tacos are topped individually by the taqueros (taco makers) depending on the type. Tacos al pastor are topped with minced white onion, cilantro leaves and guacamole, while the tender, tasty cachete tacos (beef cheek) come with tomatillo salsa in place of guacamole. My very favorite of all the types I tried is the maciza, which is slowly stewed pork shoulder (think carnitas, but juicier). Buche, tripa and asada versions are also excellent. At $2 apiece, you can try a wide variety without breaking the bank. In addition to street-style tacos, Mi Caramelo also makes quesadillas, vampiros and mulitas. I hadn’t seen mulitas before; they’re tacos made by pressing fillings between two corn tortillas and adding a hearty dose of cheese. A vampiro is a grilled, crunchy corn tortilla with toppings that gets its name from the tortilla warping into the shape of a bat’s ear. That they’re open 24 hours on Fridays and Saturdays, and until 1 a.m. the rest of the week, seals the deal for Mi Caramelo as my new favorite taco joint. It might become yours, too. CW

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One of Utah’s most popular annual food events is right around the corner—and as of press time, tickets are still available. Solitude Mountain Resort (12000 Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, 801-5341400, solitudemountain.com) once again hosts Taste of the Wasatch on Aug. 4, noon-4 p.m., with an opportunity for attendees to sample food from the state’s finest chefs, wineries and craft beer makers—including a dozen brand-new participants for 2017—all for a good cause. Out of each $105 general admission ticket, $85 goes to support local nonprofit organizations working to combat hunger and food security issues. Restaurants scheduled to be represented include Copper Onion, La Caille, Sage’s Café/ Vertical Diner, Franck’s, Red Iguana and Tuscany. Visit tasteofthewasatch.org to buy tickets and for additional information, including overnight lodging options.

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Kids can’t get enough of sweet frozen treats in the summer; here’s a chance to take advantage of that interest and teach them a little something. On Aug. 12, Red Butte Garden (300 Wakara Way, 801-5850556) hosts “Ice Cream, You Scream,” a scientific experience for kids age 4-12. They can learn the processes by which their favorite chilly dessert is created, as well as some of the botanical products that provide distinctive flavors. Two 90-minute sessions are available—one at 10 a.m., one at 1 p.m.—for $10 per participant, including a sample of housemade ice cream at the end of the class. Visit redbuttegarden.org to register.

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uring this desiccating scorcher of a summer, I’ve noticed that my taste in suds has been skewing toward the lighter side of the spectrum. If it looks like gold, straw or peach and has an ABV of 5.5 percent or less, the odds are pretty good that we’re about to become close friends. Now, just because my current battle cry has become “light and fruity, please,” that doesn’t mean I’ve flushed my beer-nerd credentials down the shitter. It turns out not all brews are meant to be served at frigid, tongue-shocking tempera-

tures. That said, they’re not supposed to be served at 70 degrees, either. They are a reflection of the regions and the people from which they were born. The British don’t drink “warm beer,” for Thor’s sake. Yeah, it’s warmer than the American-preferred

30 degrees but, hey, most liquids are. You should know that your beer’s quenching qualities are not just about brain freeze, and instead are more about equal parts of flavor, hydration and satisfaction. So let’s move on to what beer styles can be placed into their specific temperature zones for maximum quaffability. Frosty, 32-40 degrees Fahrenheit: I often tell people that I’ve never met a beer I didn’t like. That’s not entirely true; there are a couple of beers out there that will make me convulse like a vegan chomping on a sea cucumber. Grolsch Lager, out of the Netherlands, is one of those beers that tastes like hurting to me. If I have to swill on one of these skunky and grassy sons-ofbitches, it needs to be at a palate-numbing temperature. In this case, a little frostbite on the taste buds is perfectly acceptable. It will benefit both you and the brewer’s marketing department to go this route. No local lager fits this category. Brisk, 40-45 degrees Fahrenheit: A well-crafted lager doesn’t need the kiss of an ice queen to hide its flavors. While many beer-drinkers find warm lagers completely unpalatable due to the herbal and grassy-tasting hops, their long and cool fermentation period creates a smoothness that can be difficult to duplicate at warmer temperatures. Drink these beers chilled,

but not so much that you miss the wonderful toasted malts and complementing floral spices. Proper Brewing Co. Beckerman’s Brew works here. Cool, 45-55 degrees Fahrenheit: Now we’re starting to venture into a land where the average consumer gets a bit stressed. This is sometimes considered the “warm beer zone,” but that couldn’t be further from the truth. This range on the thermometer is refreshingly cool. There’s no shock or smack, just satisfaction as you get the full sensory experience from the malt and hop additions while your attitude is pleasantly adjusted. Uinta Brewing’s Wyld Simcoe Ale is a great example. Coldish, 55-65 degrees Fahrenheit: At this point, we’re out of refreshing territory and into the complexity zone. The beers here are massively flavorful, and you definitely want the full experience on your palate. Drink these in stemware so your hands can assist in keeping the beer at the appropriate temperature. These are definitely not summer beers, but are often irresistible. Epic Brewing Co.’s Big Bad Baptista is the perfect candidate in this category. Don’t stress. If you want that Belgian quadrupel ale on the arctic side, that’s your call. Just remember that you owe it to yourself to make every swig a brilliant one. As always, cheers! CW

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John Boyega in Detroit key part—a Vietnam veteran incurring the cops’ particular ire because they believe he’s pimping two white teenagers (Hannah Murray and Kaitlyn Dever)—as Krauss repeatedly refuses to believe he could be a “real” soldier. This isn’t a portrait of a country where black Americans can be on “our” side; it’s a country where they’re the enemy. Detroit takes another structural risk by ending not with the resolution of the actual siege at the Algiers, but with proceedings that follow two years later as Krauss and two fellow cops—fictionalized versions of the reallife accused—stand trial for murder. Yet the system that denies a chance at justice—full of familiar references to any history of wrongdoing to smear African-American victims, and assumptions that police claims of selfdefense must be true—is just as crucial to the full story. While the courtroom scenes can’t match the gut-punch power of literal police brutality, there’s another kind of violence on display. The combination of the two is what turns Bigelow’s Detroit into such a particularly damning kind of war story—one that reminds us how often war is about insuring that those in power hang on to it. CW

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to protect freedom didn’t experience it. Eventually, the film introduces the three primary narrative threads. A racist Detroit cop with an itchy trigger finger, Krauss (Will Poulter), shoots a fleeing looter in the back, but is returned to duty during the state of emergency. Machinist Melvin Dismukes (John Boyega), moonlighting as a security guard protecting a grocery store, tries to save black youth from the threats to their lives by local cops, state police and the National Guard. Aspiring singer Larry (Algee Smith) and his friend Fred (Jacob Latimore) get stranded in the conflict zone after their bus is attacked by rioters. Their lives tragically intersect at the Algiers Motel, when police, fearing sniper fire, storm the building and spend hours physically and emotionally assaulting everyone they find, trying to determine who the gunman was— even as it’s not clear there ever was one. That centerpiece sequence takes up the bulk of Detroit’s running time, and it’s one of the year’s most devastating pieces of filmmaking. Barry Ackroyd’s hand-held cinematography captures the chaos and sheer terror of the confrontation; every gunshot and shotgun butt to the ribs carries into the audience. Bigelow pulls fantastic performances out of her cast members, accentuating their roles in the madness: Poulter, with his wildly arched eyebrows, radiating calculating sadism; Algee and Latimore, their initial defiance crumpling into despair; Boyega, playing a man trying to use his role to keep people alive while fearing that he’s not doing enough. Anthony Mackie also plays a

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LANDLINE BBB Was there any particular reason for Gillian Robespierre and Elisabeth Holm’s screenplay to be set in 1995, and provide multiple signifiers for that era? Mostly, it’s a story of the Jacobs family of Manhattan: oldest daughter Dana (Jenny Slate), engaged to marry Ben (Jay Duplass); teenage daughter Ali (Abby Quinn), experimenting with youthful rebellion; and their parents Alan (John Turturro) and Pat (Edie Falco). Much of the plot turns on Ali’s discovery that her father might be having an affair, and the story is at its most affecting when the two sisters—presumably a decade apart in age—bond for perhaps the first time over their shared familial crisis. It’s unfortunate that Robespierre (also the director) spreads the story so thin—including Dana’s doubts about her impending marriage—in a way that doesn’t seem to recognize how the sisters’ story carries all the narrative energy. The same off-beat verve and humor goes a long way here, as it did in the Robespierre/Slate collaboration Obvious Child, making it easier to overlook scattered storytelling, and one too many nudging references to pay phones, floppy disks and CD listening stations. Opens Aug. 4 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR

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ATOMIC BLONDE BB.5 More stripped-down action thrillers is a good thing; more opportunities for women to lead them, also good. But what sounds good in theory only carries things so far in this story about MI6 agent Lorraine (Charlize Theron) trying to track down a list of covert agents in 1989 Berlin. Veteran stunt coordinator David Leitch (John Wick) directs with a clean focus during long-take fight sequences, but as viscerally effective as the movie is, Theron never quite becomes the same charismatic center she provided for Mad Max: Fury Road, leaving James McAvoy’s high-strung maybe-an-ally-maybe-not to do much of the heavy lifting. The framework of violent Cold War espionage ultimately seeming futile as the Soviet Bloc disintegrates overcomplicates the narrative needlessly, when all we really need is the forward momentum of a badass doing what we come to see badasses do. (R)—SR

WE LOVE YOU, SALLY CARMICHAEL! BBB Whispers of Stephen King’s Misery and The Dark Half get a considerably more lighthearted treatment in this Utah-made comedy about frustrated literary author Simon Hayes (director Christopher Gorham), who creates a best-selling Twilight-esque series about a human/mer-man romance, yet remains anonymous behind the pseudonym Sally Carmichael. Gorham and screenwriter Daryn Tufts pull back on the most potentially interesting subtext, as the self-loathing Simon gets glimpses of the joy that these embarrassing works have given to others. Instead, they focus on Simon’s romance with a widowed mother (Elizabeth Tulloch) and the shenanigans of an eccentric movie star (Sebastian Roché) considering starring in the movie adaptation. It’s mostly silliness rather than a hard look at the divide between high and low art, but the silliness is efficiently constructed—including an opening credits sequence that dispatches the setup most movies would turn into the entire first act—and full of small moments that land their punch lines. As is true of Sally Carmichael’s books, there are far worse things than stories that simply make people happy. Opens Aug. 4 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—SR

THE EMOJI MOVIE [ZERO STARS] The Emoji Movie is like Donald Trump: Though it represents humanity’s worst tendencies and we groan under indignities suffered at its cartoonish hands, there’s comfort in having an entirely despicable enemy. Borrowing from Toy Story, Wreck-It Ralph and the fever dreams of a syphilitic vaudevillian, it’s set inside a smartphone where “meh” emoji Gene (T.J. Miller), struggling because he has a variety of emotions instead of just one, leaves the text app in search of the cloud, where he hopes to be reprogrammed as a perfect, single-faced emoji. Along the way are countless easy references to Candy Crush, Spotify, et al., culminating in an insincere message about ... friendship, I guess? It’s an unworkable premise that nobody thought would actually happen, and yet it did, and it’s as bad as everyone said it would be. Make movies great again! (PG)—Eric D. Snider

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and a catchy, Ramones-esque theme song (“Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!/ We’re all gonna die in a Sharknado!”) aside, the most unbelievable element of The Second One is the sight of a packed stadium for a Mets game. Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015): Mr. Chompers Goes to Washington! In Washington, D.C., receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor, Fin and April are called upon to handle the latest Sharknado—but not in time to save President Mark Cuban and Vice President Ann Coulter (which seems like such a quaint pairing now). Of an ever-expanding list of celebrity deplorables—which included Anthony Weiner and Michele Bachmann—one didn’t make the final cut: Jared the Subway Guy, because, standards. The Sharknado then heads south (causing the East Coast to be dubbed “Feast Coast”) to allow for plenty of Universal Orlando optics, as well as space shuttle debris to kill April … but does it? Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens (2016): Not quite: April is brought back as a cyborg(!), thanks to a Twitter campaign that allowed fans to vote #AprilLives or #AprilDies (no such courtesy was extended to two-time franchise vet Mark McGrath, however— #SaveSugarRayDude!). In Sharknado 4, the chompstorm goes national, hitting Nevada (Sandnado!), Texas (Oilnado and Firenado!), Arizona (Bouldernado!), NorCal (Hailnado!), Yellowstone National Park (Lavanado!), Utah (Mormonado?) and elsewhere (so many more ’nados). Any intended environmental message is undercut by the fact that April can now fly and shoot lasers, as well as Gov. Gary Herbert’s “acting.” Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (Sunday, Aug. 6, Syfy): Taglined “Make America Bait Again,” Sharknado 5: Global Swarming finally takes the series international, dragging the Pope (Fabio) and the Queen of England (Charo) into the fray, as well as a veritable Celebrity Rehab of guest stars (including Margaret Cho, Bret Michaels, Downtown Julie Brown, Olivia Newton-John, Gilbert Gottfried and even a White Walker extra from Game of Thrones!). On a concerning note, Sharknado 5 is the first installment to not be written by Sharknado mastermind Thunder Levin, but everything will probably be fine … please, please, let everything be fine. The fate of Sharknado 6: Shark Side of the Moon is riding on it. CW

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Left to right: Hectic Hobo band members Eric Peatross, Sam Osimitz, Hasen Cone, Carson Wolfe and Todd Johnson. Gov. Gary Herbert’s son, Nathan. “In the Pines (or the Gruesome Murder of Jacob Jones)” concerns a black girl who killed a white man. In “Jazz Funeral,” a guy attends his own bon voyage. Cone tells his tales with just enough detail, always the appropriate number of words—“Bottles and Chains” has only five lines; “Jazz Funeral” is essay-length. His writing style is informed by Kurt Vonnegut (“I like that he writes like he’s talking to someone,” Cone says) and Jack Kerouac, and songwriters like Woody Guthrie. “I’m a good songwriter, but I’m a terrible musician,” he says, crediting his bandmates with helping him create a convincing, vivid experience for the listener. On their new album, the group transcends trendy folk-rock with moments reminiscent of Neil Young’s spare score for Jim Jarmusch’s film Dead Man, vocals that flirt with Violent Femmes frontguy Gordon Gano’s “Gone Daddy Gone” ’fraidy-cat whisper and jubilant moments that recall Dr. Hook’s Freakers Ball. Now, after three albums, Cone feels that Hectic Hobo is finally at home in its sound. He’s right. Through 2010’s Preachers, Paupers & Pimps, 2012’s We Lost Our Legs in the War, We Just Can’t Remember Which War and 2014’s Our Medicine Will Do You In, you can observe the band having a clear idea for their sound, and working incrementally toward it. With Died on the Fourth of July, they achieve a satisfying, spellbinding sound that sets them apart as an old-fashioned but modern act. “It’s not trying to be a replica of old music, but it is drawing on old music,” Cone says. And in seeking to be both earnest and original, he adds, “Over time, we fell into our own natural groove.” CW

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The well-curated Twilight Concert Series almost always features predominantly indie rock and conscious hip-hop acts—not so many collaborative jazz cats. That’s Los Angeles-based sax wiz Kamasi Washington in a nutshell, as he’s best known from working with acts like Thundercat, Ryan Adams, Kendrick Lamar and Snoop Dogg. Although he’s dropped three self-released albums since 2005, his label debut The Epic (Brainfeeder) came only two years ago. But at nearly three hours long, it’s literally and musically deep, an expansive head trip that proves he not only has the material to headline, but also the chops to stretch it far into that night. The idea of an adventurous, allinstrumental jazz set under the trees and stars at Pioneer Park sounds quite nice. Brooklyn afrobeat band Antibalas makes it all the better with their lively multiculti jams. (Randy Harward) Twilight Concert Series, Pioneer Park, 350 S. 300 West, 7 p.m., $7.50 presale, $10 day of show, all ages, twilightconcerts.com

FRIDAY 8/4

Tolchock Trio, Palace of Buddies, 90s Television

It seems almost impossible to believe, but once upon a time, there was a local band so smart and savvy that they covered a song by English post-punks The Fall, penned an ode to Detroit noise band Wolf Eyes and took their name from a word in the 1962 Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange (“tolchock” is Russian slang for “prison toilet,” among other things). Formed in 2000, the band was originally an actual trio until the

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lineup of bassist/vocalist Oliver Lewis, drummer Dan Thomas and guitarist/vocalist Ryan Fedor welcomed guitarist Tommy Nguyen. Over three concise yet stylistically comprehensive albums, they staked out their spot as one of SLC’s most adventurous musical units: spiky yet sensitive, angular and adult. While the band dissolved in 2013 when Thomas moved to Los Angeles to work with the Joshua Payne Orchestra, this one-off show was set up as a surprise 40th birthday present to Fedor from his wife Chris, and Thomas is trekking back for the occasion— which happens almost four years exactly from their farewell show. Don’t miss this chance to see them one more time. (Brian Staker) Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $5, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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The title of Steve Earle’s 16th studio album, So You Wannabe an Outlaw (Warner Bros.,

Kamasi Washington 2017), should make you chuckle. Earle, of course, is—or was—an outlaw, having done time on drug and weapons charges in the mid-’90s. Upon his release, he kicked his addiction. He’s also been married seven times, including one recidivist union, so we’re talkin’ about one tough sumbitch. The title, then, is a gentle Scared Straight! jab to the wannabes who think it’s cool and fun to be bad. The subtext is that there’s a difference between a bad boy and a badass—which is what Earle has become, post-release (and what punks really want to be). The country legend and card-carrying curmudgeon is now also an author, political activist and actor. So what he’s saying here is that real badassery takes hard work, including all the soulsearching you have to do to elude—and live down—your past. Earle does it every

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Nearly 84 years old, John Mayall is at an age where most people have long since retired, content to drape themselves in a shawl, sip hot tea and huddle near the hearth. Not so Mr. Mayall. Widely heralded as the father of British blues, the multiinstrumentalist and singer’s impact on modern music can’t be overstated. Indeed, his band the Bluesbreakers provided the training grounds for such icons as Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Jack Bruce among very many. Yet rather than dwell on the past, Mayall stays very much in the present. His 50-year career has provided many twists and turns, but his bond to the blues remains unbroken. He still tours relentlessly with a new version of the Bluesbreakers, and probably will for some time to come. (LZ) The Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, 8 p.m., $29-$60, all ages, egyptiantheatrecompany.org

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single day, and on every single album, even this one, which he regards as a spiritual follow-up to his classic debut, Guitar Town (MCA, 1986). So if you wanna be a badass, take a knee tonight. (RH) The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., sold out (check uselyte.com for tickets), 21+, thestateroomslc.com

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Alternative-country combo Drive-By Truckers is one of the great grassroots success stories: coming out of Alabama, hitting the road like their namesake and building a following for their intimate, incendiary live shows and solid songwriting. DBT—now based in Athens, Ga.—has come a long way from its initial release, Gangstabilly (Soul Dump Records, 1998) to its 11th, last year’s American Band (ATO Records). The new album continues their tradition of delivering literary food for thought through music, addressing the deep political divide and offering profound insights on the South and what the region represents in the great American mythology. The song “Surrender Under Protest” starts, “From the comfort zone of history/ on the lips of trusted loved ones/ to the lonely, fragile minds of angry youths,” then proceeds to show how uncomfortable a wide-open look at history can be. As for the openers: Led by co-founder Ray Benson, country/Ameripolitan/Western swing outfit Asleep at the Wheel dates back to the early ‘70s, with a discography boasting nearly three dozen albums. The band’s most recent release is Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (Bismeaux, 2015), their third tribute to the Western swing legend—not counting Ride with Bob, their musical based on a hypothetical conversation between Benson and Wills. (Brian Staker) Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, 7:30 p.m., $38-$43, all ages, redbuttegarden.org

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of Fame 48. Really appeals to 51. Not one’s best effort, in coachspeak 52. Plunge 53. ____-Soviet relations 54. Bedroom poster subject 55. Homework lover, maybe 56. Bottle alternative 57. “To his good friends thus wide I’ll ____ my arms”: “Hamlet” 58. Crunchy sandwich

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Leo actor Robert De Niro once observed that most people devote more energy to concealing their emotions and longings than to revealing them. Is that true about you? If so, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to hide less of yourself and express more. There’ll be relatively little hell to pay as a result, and you’ll get a boost of vitality. Don’t go overboard, though. I’m not suggesting that you unveil every last one of your feelings and yearnings to everyone—just to those you trust. Most importantly, I hope you will unveil all your feelings and yearnings to yourself. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) It has almost become a tradition: Each year at about this time, you seem to enjoy scaring the hell out of yourself, and often the heaven, too. These self-inflicted shocks have often had a beneficial side effect. They have served as rousing prompts for you to reimagine the future. They have motivated and mobilized you. So, yes, there has been an apparent method in your madness—an upside to the uproar. What should we expect this time, my dear? A field trip to a crack house or a meth lab? Some fun and games in a pit of snakes? An excursion to the land of bad memories? I suggest something less melodramatic. How about, for example, a frolic with unruly allies in a future paradise that’s still a bit unorganized?

misinformed people regard my chosen field as a superstitious pseudo-science, I say it’s an imaginative art form that helps us identify and transform our subconscious patterns. So the wise answer to my earlier question is that the imminent lunar eclipse is neither bad luck nor good luck. Rather, it tells you that have more power than usual to tame and manage the disruptive and destructive aspects of your instinctual nature, make progress in dissolving your old conditioning and become more skilled at mothering yourself. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) August is Good Hard Labor Month for you Pisceans. It’s one of those rare times when a smart version of workaholic behavior might actually make sense. Why? First of all, it could ultimately lead to a pay raise or new perks. Secondly, it might bring to light certain truths about your job that you’ve been unconscious of. Third, it could awaken you to the fact that you haven’t been trying as hard as you could to fulfill one of your long-term dreams; it might expand your capacity to devote yourself passionately to the epic tasks that matter most. For your homework, please meditate on this thought: Summoning your peak effort in the little things will mobilize your maximum effort for the Big Thing.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) In my astrological opinion, your life in the coming days should draw inspiration from the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia, a six-day bout of revelry that encouraged everyone to indulge in pleasure, speak freely and give gifts. Your imminent future could (and I believe should) also have resemblances to the yearly Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena, which features a farcical cavalcade of lunatics, like the Shopping Cart Drill Team, the Radioactive Chicken Heads, the Army of Toy Soldiers and the Men of Leisure Synchronized Nap Team. In other words, Aries, it’s an excellent time to set aside your dignity and put an emphasis on having uninhibited fun; to amuse yourself to the max as SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Are you gearing up to promote yourself and your services? In my you experiment on the frontiers of self-expression; to be the astrological opinion, you should be. If so, you could put the following person you would be if you had nothing to lose. testimonial from me in your résumé or advertisement: “[Place your name here] is a poised overseer of nerve-wracking transitions and TAURUS (April 20-May 20) a canny scout who is skilled at tracking down scarce resources. He/ It’s time to Reinvent the Wheel and Rediscover Fire, Taurus. In she can help you acquire the information and enhancements you my astrological opinion, you’ll be wasting your time unless you don’t quite have the power to get by yourself. When conditions are return to the root of all your Big Questions. Every important murky or perplexing, this plucky soul is enterprising and inventive.” task will mandate you to consult your heart’s primal intelligence. So don’t mess around with trivial pleasures or transitory frustrations that won’t mean anything to you in a year from now. Be SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your eyes are more powerful than you realize. If you were stand- a mature wild child in service to the core of your creative powers. ing on a mountaintop under a cloudless night sky with no moon, you could see a fire burning 50 miles away. Your imagination is GEMINI (May 21-June 20) also capable of feats that might surprise you. It can, for example, Writing in The Futurist magazine, Christopher Wolf says that provide you with an expansive and objective view of your entire the tradition of eating three hearty meals per day is fading life history. I advise you to seek that boost now. Ask your imagi- and will eventually disappear. “Grazing” will be the operative nation to give you a prolonged look at the big picture of where term for how we get our fill, similar to the method used by you have been and where you are going. I think it’s essential to cavemen and cavewomen. The first snack after we awaken, Wolf suggests, might be called “daystart.” The ensuing four your discovery of the key to the next chapter of your life story. could be dubbed “pulsebreak,” “humpmunch,” “holdmeal” and “evesnack.” In light of your current astrological omens, CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Love is your gritty but sacred duty. It’s your prickly prod and your Gemini, I endorse a comparable approach to everything you expansive riddle, your curious joy and your demanding teacher. do: not a few big doses, but rather frequent smaller doses; not I’m talking about the whole gamut, Capricorn—from messy intense cramming but casual browsing; not sprawling heroic personal romantic love to lucid unconditional spiritual love; from epics but a series of amusing short stories. asking smartly for what you desire to gratefully giving more than you thought you had. Can you handle this much sweet, dark CANCER (June 21-July 22) mystery? Can you grow your intimacy skills fast enough to keep The Riken Institute in Japan experiments with using ion beams to enhance plant growth. In one notable case, they created a new up with the interesting challenges? I think you can. breed of cherry tree that blossoms four times a year and produces triple the number of flowers. The blooms last longer, too, AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) There’s an eclipse of the moon coming up in the sign of Aquarius. and the trees thrive under a wider span of temperatures. In the Will it bring bad luck or good luck? Ha! That’s a trick question. next 11 months, Cancerian, you won’t need to be flooded with I threw it in to see if you have been learning anything from ion beams to experience a similar phenomenon. I expect that my efforts to redeem astrology’s reputation. Although some your power to bloom and flourish will be far stronger than usual. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Before grapes become wine, they have to be cleaned, then crushed, then macerated and pressed. The next phase is fermentation, followed by filtering. The aging process, which brings the grapes’ transformation to completion, requires more time than the other steps. At the end, there’s one more stage: putting the wine in bottles. I’d like to compare the grapes’ evolution to the story of your life since your last birthday. You are nearing the end of the aging phase. When that’s finished, I hope you put great care into the bottling. It’s as important as the other steps.

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The Salt Lake Valley’s annual Parade of Homes is in full swing. There are 33 models on display through Aug. 12 from Cottonwood Heights to Riverton. Given that we’re in a seller’s market and there are few available homes, having all these beautiful, tempting residences to visit is like smelling the sweet goodness of fresh cinnamon buns wafting through the mall when the bakery just sold out. According to the Salt Lake Home Builders Association, our Parade of Homes dates back to 1946, and was one of the first in the country. That year, the average annual income in the U.S. was $2,600 and the average cost of a home was $5,150. A new car was $1,125 and a gallon of gas was 21 cents. Since then, countless potential buyers from around the country have viewed the grand showcase of town homes, ranch/ramblers, multi-levels, condominiums and patio homes. Participating in the event will cost you a small fee (which pays for advertising and goes to charities the builders have chosen) but the benefits are terrific because you get the latest in both big and small builders’ designs and finishes. In recent Parades, I saw modern granite and composite countertops (like recycled glass and quartz), Nest monitoring systems, 3-D electric fireplaces and kitchen appliances. If I had just gone to my local big-box hardware store, I wouldn’t have been able to see these items installed and working as they would in my own home. The reality is that you can’t actually buy any of the properties on the tour just yet, as they are models for builders’ subdivisions and examples of their work. Nor do builders throw up 20 homes and wait for you to buy them during the event. Each builder has a certain number of lots, and you can meet with their representatives to discuss where you might want to live and in what style home. Sadly, our market is so tight for buyers that construction time (which would usually be around six months) might be closer to 10 months, due to a lack of available land and a labor shortage in the construction industry. And, of course, the cost of living is much more expensive now than in 1946—a gallon of gas averages $2.48, monthly rent for a 900-square-foot apartment is $1,173 and finding a home for less than $350,000 is near impossible in Salt Lake City, at least in my experience. If you love to shop, love to dream or are truly ready to build and buy a home, check out saltlakeparade.com to see where the model homes are located and visit them. n

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Suspicions Confirmed Karen Leclair, 51, of Albion, Pa., was reported missing on June 11 by her commercial fisherman husband, Christopher, 48, after she went over the side of his boat on Lake Erie. Christopher told police he hadn’t been watching when his wife fell overboard. When her body washed ashore on July 4 in upstate New York, however, she had a gunshot wound in her head, and she was bound by nylon fishing rope and weighted with an anchor. Christopher was charged with her murder after the gun used to shoot Karen was found under a bed in their home.

Bright Ideas In New Hampshire on June 29, a state police officer stopped the 57-year-old driver of a Honda Odyssey minivan who had piled a Beverly Hillbillies-esque stack of belongings on top of his car. The collection, which was about as tall as the minivan, included a wooden chest, a bike, a floor lamp, a rake, a snow shovel, a moving dolly and a folding ladder, along with blankets and towels and a shopping cart full of items hanging off the back. Police cited the driver for negligent driving, and the car was towed away.

Oh, Those Monkeys A monkey mystery unfolded near Mesa, Ariz., in early July as drone owner Jesse Sorensan dispatched his device over a facility rumored to house abandoned monkeys. “Hovered above it and took some pictures … and sure enough there’s monkeys in almost all the cages,” Sorensan said. “What are these monkeys doing … in the middle of the desert?” Local TV reporters looked into the mystery and found the facility is used for research and breeding for the University of Washington and the Centers for Disease Control, who were quick to point out that the monkeys have access to air conditioning and veterinary care.

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Sorry I Missed It A Canada Day parade in southern Ontario sparked a flood of typically mild protests over Dave Szusz’ float, which featured a 3-meter-tall blow-up Jesus (holding a baby sheep) and several real sheep. “I thought it was kind of sad to see sheep out with very loud blasting music, out in the heat in the city,” animal rights activist Dan MacDonald said. Others flooded Szusz with complaints on Facebook. Szusz and MacDonald have since talked it out, although MacDonald still hopes Szusz will discontinue using sheep on his floats.

Family Values Flower girls at weddings often steal the show, and Georgiana Arlt of Chaska, Minn., was no exception as she walked down the aisle on July 1. The 92-year-old grandmother of the bride, Abby Arlt, told her granddaughter the only other wedding she had been in was her own, when she was 20 years old. Abby had hoped to have her grandfather as the ring bearer, but he passed away last year. Oops! What seemed like the best hide-and-seek idea ever took a frightening turn on July 6 in Colonial Heights, Va., when a 12-year-old girl became stuck in a sleeper sofa. Another child called 911 when she couldn’t free her friend. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” fire chief A.G. Moore said. “When she got out, she was fine.”

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n In Green Bay, Wis., a driver crossing the Walnut Street Bridge on June 22 disregarded the traffic arm and drove around it onto the drawbridge as it was opening. His van ascended the opening span, but then rolled back down into the gap between the stationary bridge and the moveable span. Green Bay Metro firefighters, concerned that the van might slip through the gap, cut a hole in its roof to rescue the driver.

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n A repeat offender came to the end of his career when he and an accomplice tried to burglarize a home in East Macon, Ga., on June 19. As James Robert Young, 41, a 35-time resident in the Bibb County Jail, and another man zeroed in on her television, the homeowner woke up and heard them. “When she yelled, the men ran out,” Sheriff David Davis said, and that was when the other suspect turned around and fired his weapon, striking Young in the head, killing him. The accomplice is still at large.

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