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Why are these 10 important stories so underreported? By Paul Rosenberg

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Cover story, Sept. 21, “Call it a Comeback”

I grew up in the Avenues off of Main Street and have seen the demise of Midvale down there. It would be nice to see it brought back to life again, but I honestly don’t think it is possible to keep that old town look and feel.

ROANN FRANCOM OVERALL Via cityweekly.net

News, Sept. 21, “Full Disclosure”

This does point out that reporting laws should be looked at. But what stands out most is the two pitiful losers that will go to any length to be Sandy’s mayor. Forbush runs for everything and always loses. The other is so incredibly desperate that he’s looking for a technicality to put himself in the mayor’s chair. Bradburn has never been involved in the city in any capacity. He only wants use the position as a launching pad for his political career. How compliant is Bradburn when he can’t even follow sign laws?

JOAQUIN CINCO

Via cityweekly.net With everything going on in the current administration, isn’t what he’s doing par for the course?

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News, Sept. 14, “Taking the Plunge”

Happy to see this article about the history and possible future of an intriguing spot. I live in Rose Park, and the new life here is just what the north area of the valley needs. Thank you, City Weekly and Mr. Harris.

PAMELA B HOLMAN Via cityweekly.net

When are the open houses? I’ve lived in the area all my life and would love to come experience the history. Great article—fun read!

ALEX CARR

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Soap Box, Sept. 21, “CW readers speak their mind about Sugar House development”

Grew up in a working class area of Sugar House. Those areas exist. Or did. Namely, around the Fairmont Park area. Gentrification happened.

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The Beer Nerd, Sept. 21, “Gourd Almighty”

Love the Epic Pumpkin Porter aged in a whiskey barrel.

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Music, Sept. 21, “Return Trip”

Great interview. Well put! I have always considered Ride much more than just a shoegaze band. A great band!

@ELLEROSEELLIS3 Via Twitter

Political mess

American politics today is like a bluecollar thief and a white-collar thief taking potshots at each other. Unfortunately, Americans are light-headed enough to take sides in this debate. Democrats and Republicans are both in the wrong. Both sides are stealing history from the people. Both are stealing the American Dream from the people. Both are stealing the Constitution from the people. History shows a way out of the mess, so the pot shooters work hard to keep the past out of the picture. The American Dream has been shattered, so both work hard to force Americans to forget their dreams. The Constitution made American goodness, technology and military strength happen, and made everyone a winner. In order to have winners and losers today, the Constitution must be buried deep in the dead-letter file. The agencies that report on or support all this potshooting—big media, big culture, big corporations and big government— want the debate to stay right where it is. Why? Because they can rush in and pick away at the new loot that hits the ground when one thief pulls ahead of the other.

ROBERT KIMBALL SHINKOSKEY, Woods Cross

On DACA

DACAs were brought illegally by parents committing three felonies to get jobs. Parental criminality inflicting pain on children is “cruelty”—by the parent, regardless of nationality. DACAs can prove they love America and become law-abiding by returning home and applying to participate in President Trumps’ immigration based on the needs of America’s economy. … Compassion, mercy and forgiveness are virtues performed by individuals toward their abusers. Governments must enforce their laws to maintain order and safety for citizens. We are supposed to be a nation based on constitutional laws. Rep. Barbara Jordan emphasized the first responsibility of a nation is to control who enters. Congress has a responsibility to make immigration laws. Obama’s petulant ukases (executive DACA orders) circumvented Congress and are illegal and unconstitutional. His non-enforcement of immigration law has created more international gangs, human trafficking, drug smuggling, job loss for American workers and murders such as Kate Steinle killed by a five-times-deported felon. We should enforce U.S. Code 8 1324 to penalize employers hiring illegals and U.S. Code 8 1182 to

deport foreigners. DACA “compassionate” supporters demanding they be accepted are like prohibition-era speakeasy patrons engendering today’s organized crime. … Please ask President Trump to install this win/win solution.

VICKI MARTIN, Clearfield

Chameleonic twist

Whatever happened to the old Mormon God? While the church’s leaders are giving impassioned talks on eliminating racism, sexism and nationalism in our society, the church’s ever-present past is lurking in its basement. It is worth looking at its history, and, even more important, to address the lingering racism, sexism and nationalism that are at the core of the religion. Let’s start with Apostle M. Russell Ballard, who, in his Sunday afternoon conference talk (Oct. 1), extolled the virtues of Jane Manning James, daughter of a freed slave. He described her as “a remarkable disciple,” but he failed to mention that she had been officially adopted into the Smith family as a servant, and was later sealed to Joseph Smith in the Salt Lake Temple, by proxy, specifically as his “servitor for eternity.” At some future juncture Manning became disenchanted with the sentence of permanent servitude; she petitioned the church to let her get her own temple endowment, but was refused. Manning, was indeed, as Apostle Ballard put it, “a remarkable disciple,” since she never renounced Mormonism and Joseph Smith for her less-than-shabby treatment. It was only after the rescission of the black ban on the priesthood—along with the church’s disavowal that the ban had ever been a matter of doctrine—that Manning was, once again by proxy, allowed to receive her own temple endowment. It is more than interesting that, while white Mormons were promised the rewards of godhood, this black woman became a permanent example of the church’s attitudes and policies toward the blacks. This matter is well documented in Mormon history, so, which is it?—a god who is a racist or the one reinvented by modern church leaders. Ballard’s remarks also decried sexism, but there is no question in anyone’s mind that the LDS faith relies on the elevated status of its men. For, it is the men, alone, who can have the priesthood, and there is still that lingering remnant of the old temple ceremony: “Women, obey your hus-

bands in righteousness.” While that wording has been changed, Mormon women are impressed with the lifelong understanding that a good and worthy man is their only way to reach the highest degree of postmortal glory, and that they will be blessed to bear the children of those men in order to populate worlds of their own. So much for Ballard’s assault on sexism. Last in Apostle Ballard’s list is the matter of nationalism. No matter how Mormon leaders characterize it, its members have been drilled with the idea that the U.S. is, indeed, God’s chosen country—that he was responsible for its establishment and that it was essential to the “restoration of God’s church on Earth.” The cry of “God Bless the USA” is very much a Mormon mantra, marginalizing all other nations and anticipating that the Mormon God will bless America, even at the expense of all others. As the Mormon church has focused its efforts on converting foreigners, how can it explain to potential members that America is the chosen land? If that isn’t nationalism, I’m obviously misunderstanding the concept. In a nutshell, Mormonism can’t have it both ways. It can’t profess a non-racist, non-sexist, non-nationalistic mindset, while all three are very much alive and well. If we look at the Mormon God of Joseph Smith’s and Brigham Young’s day, and the one that seems to now be at the church’s helm, no one can ascribe the definition of God found in the Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 10:18, “For He is the same yesterday, today and forever …” No one can anticipate what measures will be taken to obscure history from the Mormon mainstream. But, do we dare ask why the first printer’s handwritten manuscript of the Book of Mormon was just purchased by the church for a cool $35 million?

MICHAEL S. ROBINSON, Riverton

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OPINION

BY JOHN RASMUSON

You Down With NPV?

The Western Land, nervous under the beginning change. The Western States, nervous as horses before a thunderstorm. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Bunnie Keen has a good ear. She can tune a piano. She is attuned to airplanes flying over Utah, delivering presidential candidates to battleground states like Colorado and Nevada. And, with ear-to-the-ground sensitivity, she can register the distant thunder of electoral reform. When such change looms, there are three options: accede, resist, foster. Keen has chosen the third. New to the front rank of activism, she was energized by the outcome of the 2016 election. That Donald Trump became president after Hillary Clinton outpolled him by almost 3 million votes was a clarion call to action. Keen is a Democrat. She is spearheading the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV) initiative in Utah with the help of Stan Lockhart, a prominent name in Republican circles. The two plan to have NPV in place in Utah before 2020. To do that, the Keen-Lockhart partnership will have to persuade legislators to change state law so that Utah’s six electoral votes are no longer decided by a winner-take-all method based on the popular vote within the state. Instead, those electoral votes would go to the winner of the national election. So long, battleground states; hello, battleground nation! The winner-take-all method is not mandated by the constitution. Maine and Nebraska don’t use it. Keen argues that it disenfranchises millions of voters. For example, 627,000 Utahns voted Independent, Libertarian or Democrat in 2016. In California, 5,514,000 did not vote Demo-

crat. The winner-take-all system effectively nullified those votes when California went blue; Utah, red. The alternative, NPV, “means no voter left behind,” she says. NPV has been introduced in the Utah Legislature five or six times in the past 10 years. Its advocates have included former Utah Sens. Jake Garn and Bob Bennett. The measure has languished in committee partly because of opposition from the Utah Eagle Forum and Sutherland Institute. The conservative twosome is nervous as a horse in a thunderstorm as NPV gains traction. “Illegal and immoral” is how the Eagle Forum disparages NPV on its website. Both organizations fear an “endless train of liberal presidents”; a loss of Western states’ political influence; and a drift away from a republic toward a pure democracy in which citizens vote directly on laws instead of electing lawmakers. Pure democracy equates to “mob rule” in their view, and NPV threatens “the virtues of the Republican form of government.” Having sat through a good many New England town meetings—where voters debated school budgets, leash laws and police equipment for hours—the worst thing I can say about pure democracy is that it can be tedious. In singing the praises of the Electoral College, the Eagle Forum and the Sutherland Institute seem untroubled by the five times in U.S. history that it trumped the popular vote. Nor are they bothered that less than a dozen states— the so-called battleground states—have determined the outcome of recent elections. As a reliably red state, Utah gets flyover-status neglect from campaign strategists. NPV would change that, Keen says. Implementation is pretty straightforward, an exercise in fourth-grade math. Once NPV has been enacted in enough states to corral a majority of the Electoral College’s 538 votes—a minimum of 270— it is a fait accompli. “It is a normal and constitutionally appropriate way to make the change,” Keen says. Ten states and the District of Columbia, which have 165 electoral votes between them, are already committed. “Utah is poised to be the first conservative state to join,” she says with a smile The season of citizen activism has arrived after a long,

hot, ozoney summer. I can’t help thinking about Bob Dylan’s lyric: “There was music in the cafés at night and revolution in the air.” Besides Keen, a handful of reformminded people have big plans for Utah. The Legislature’s refusal to act on issues favored by a plurality of Utahns has created fertile ground for grassroots initiative. The Better Boundaries Campaign is a good example. Its goal is to end gerrymandering by appointing an independent commission to draw congressional boundaries. The majority of Utahns, 65-plus percent, agree. But Utah is the state that was called out by the conservative Wall Street Journal in 2001 as one of the nation’s worst offenders of partisan gerrymandering. Subsequent bills to establish an unbiased redistricting commission were stifled in the Legislature’s back rooms. With the Supreme Court taking up partisan gerrymandering in the case of Gill v. Whitford this week, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes filed a friend-of-thecourt brief defending the practice. Citizen’s initiative petitions on medical marijuana, school funding, caucus nominations and term limits are either underway or pending. I assume the Sutherland Institute, whose core principles extol “community-driven solutions that inspire citizens to act,” welcomes these overdue developments Keen and leaders of several other nonpartisan voting organizations are holding a joint event, “It’s your vote— make it count,” on Oct. 7 from noon-3 p.m. at the Viridian Event Center (8030 S. 1825 West, West Jordan). In addition to free hotdogs and apple pie, attendees can talk with representatives from the Utah League of Women Voters, Better Boundaries, Represent Me Utah, NPV and Ranked Choice Voting. Keen knows from experience that Utah conservatives are dyed-in-the-wool traditionalists. They are leery of departures from the status quo. But she hears the winds of change stirring in the West. “The thing that keeps me going is being a part of history,” she says. CW Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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After each mass shooting in the U.S., Bryan Schott of Utah Policy likes to post this: “Yay, Second Amendment!” It is, of course, a middle finger to the NRA and the now-growing number of Americans who think anything should go in the way of firearms. Silencers are the latest, and Congress might take up legislation to legalize them this week. Yes, right after the mass shooting in Las Vegas—the deadliest one in modern U.S. history. Neither walls, Muslim bans nor Eddie Eagle will stop it. A Washington Post opinion columnist said now is the time to politicize shootings and talk about how to prevent them. So let’s talk—not about doing away with the Second Amendment, but about correctly interpreting it. And saving lives.

Try Again

I wonder how many children Sen. Todd Weiler thinks reach for Cosmopolitan as their go-to porn magazine. I further wonder if he or Victoria Hearst—heiress to Hearst Communications, which owns the publication—have ever actually viewed porn. If you think Cosmo is explicit, then you might want to start with TV shows like Scandal, or anything on HBO. ABC4News interviewed Hearst about her billboard campaign which labels Cosmo as “explicit content.” OK, fine. It isn’t the best reading material for young women, and certainly doesn’t give young men a good idea of a woman’s worth. But it’s not porn, and labeling it as such is just silly. Try talking to your kids about sex. You might learn something.

Shafted

Good on Mine Shaft Brewery for taking on the government. The company, according to the Park Record, filed suit to force Summit County to respond to its requests under the Government Records Management and Access Act (GRAMA)—which is supposed to help the public get information from that behemoth called a bureaucracy. But bureaucrats are good at charging for it or simply denying access. Mine Shaft wants to build a brewery at the business park on state Road 224. Unfortunately for them, The Boyer Co. owns the property and the county says a brewery is not allowed under some agreement. The county didn’t respond to the 2014 request in time and Mine Shaft thinks the denial is based on personal feelings, rather than documented agreements. If Mine Shaft loses in court, it will show that governments really don’t need to work for the public.

The year 2016 was monumental for Ian Giles, a “parent, geek, entrepreneur and non-binary transman” from Orem. After funding his own female-to-male top surgery by selling wristbands, he expanded on that idea to start helping others going through the same thing. His business Genderbands (genderbands.com) sells colorful wristbands and T-shirts with sassy phrases like, “Hearts, not parts,” with proceeds going toward an FTM top-surgery fund—for which he’ll start accepting applications on Nov. 1. We caught up with him to learn the details of his new venture.

What were the defining moments that led to Genderbands?

Although I’m almost 30, I didn’t realize I was transgender until about two-and-a-half years ago. It made so much sense and explained so many things, especially in relation to how I felt about my body. It wasn’t long before I started seriously looking into getting top surgery—a double mastectomy. Dysphoria made me so miserable. I knew I needed surgery as soon as possible. That’s how Genderbands got started.

How did the fundraising aspect come into play?

When I started looking into top surgery, I quickly realized there was no way I could pay for it without help. The average cost is $6,000 and most insurance companies don’t cover it. That cost also doesn’t include other expenses like flights and hotels if you go out of state. I’ve seen transguys online sell T-shirts, but I didn’t have the capital for that. Wristbands were much cheaper. I found a place online, used a phrase I really liked—“Pizza rolls, not gender roles”—and Genderbands became a reality. I quickly decided that, after I had my surgery, I’d use Genderbands to pay it forward to others in the trans community.

Can you explain how the grant works?

Genderbands raises funds for the surgery grant in two ways: donations and sales. Whenever someone donates, that money goes directly into the top-surgery grant fund. When someone buys a shirt, wristband or anything from the store, 20 percent of the profits of that sale goes into the grant fund. The rest goes back into the business. I set a goal of $700, but Salt Lake Pride put us over and we now have $1,100. One person will randomly be picked and they will receive the $1,100, paid directly to the surgeon. As mentioned before, top surgery costs an average of $6,000, so obviously [this] won’t pay for it all. I’m hoping to just get them over the last hump. Every year, as we grow, the fund will grow. I hope to one day be able to completely pay for someone’s surgery.

How has the first year been?

We’ve received lots of support. Lots of people love what we are doing, but not much of that has translated into online sales. Pride festivals, however, are fantastic. It’s how we stay in business. But more than that, I love meeting people from our community. I’ve had people of all ages come to my booth and share their stories—from shy, 12-year-old transguys just coming out, to 40-year-olds exhausted from years of fighting with insurance companies that won’t pay for their surgeries. Sometimes people will just hang out at the booth. I love it.

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With most aspects of food (e.g., styles of cooking, pans, dishes), you could fill a book with all the ways different cultures have come up with to do the same basic task. Not so with cutlery. For all the different worldwide cuisines, your choice is chopsticks or “Western” cutlery—knife, fork, spoon. What other options are there? Are these really the only two types of cutlery that mankind has invented?

BY CECIL ADAMS

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—Griffin1977, via the Straight Dope Message Board Hey, don’t forget the little sugar stick that comes in a packet of Fun Dip—surely the greatest Western contribution to the cause of silverware since the knife-spoonfork trifecta. It runs a distant fourth, true, but consider that the Fun Dip stick is both functional and edible. If you’re looking at this matter strictly in terms of “cutlery,” Griffin—which I’ll take to mean the nonperishable utensils one uses and then reuses to transport food from serving surface to mouth—you’re selling humankind short. Plenty of cultures haven’t gotten around to creating their own answer to silverware because they haven’t needed to. They eat the delivery device along with the food. Look at the question this way, and you realize we’ve actually come up with a great diversity of eating utensils, varying widely depending on where you are. On the Horn of Africa, it’s injera, a naturally leavened flatbread made from teff flour; in Mexico and its environs it’s the tortilla, the end result of what’s called nixtamalization, a process developed by the Mesoamericans that frees up nutrients in corn and makes it easier to grind. On the Indian subcontinent you’ve got naan; in the Middle East, pita. We note that in many places where there’s little distance between the food and the fingers, other cultural practices have, of necessity, coevolved: Namely, the convention that the right hand is for eating and the left hand is for … other business. (As the prophet Muhammad put it, “The devil eats and drinks with his left hand.”) If we think of how these edible delivery devices function—they can be used to pinch food, but also to scoop it—it’s no huge leap to connect them with the spoon: They’re fulfilling the same basic function, and indeed spoons have been around in some form or other since prehistoric times. Likewise, the knife is a descendent of the hand ax, one of the oldest human tools, which originated in Africa; using a sharpened object to hack and stab a live animal isn’t too different from using it on a cooked one. It’s the fork that’s the real interloper in terms of eating utensils, and you might be surprised to learn that it’s of relatively recent vintage. We’ll leave aside chopsticks—a story for another day—as well as a host of other, lesser utensils, like skewers. Or, heck, what about straws? IV tubes? Again, if you’re stuck on the fork-chopstick spectrum, you’re frankly not thinking big enough.

“The shape of the fork has been around a lot longer than the eating utensil,” a recent fork-history piece from Slate reminds us. This might account for some of the suspicion forks encountered when they turned up at the Byzantine dinner table circa the 11th century: Spearlike implements with multiple prongs had previously been associated with the Greek god Poseidon and, well, the devil. The ascetic Benedictine monk St. Peter Damian was a notably vigorous detractor: Witnessing a Venetian princess using a two-tined protofork to bring food to her mouth, Peter condemned with horror “the luxury of her habits”— i.e., that “she deigned not to touch her food with her fingers.” When the princess died of the plague, Peter blamed her dinnertable vanity. Forks spread through Europe from the Byzantine Empire, but retained their effete associations: A 1605 allegorical novel written about the reign of Henry III depicted a strange colony of hermaphrodites who, pointedly, ate with forks; 100 years or so later, Louis XIV still wouldn’t let his kids use them. Ultimately, though, it was the French (you know—fussy, decadent, food-obsessed) who cemented the fork’s role in the Western place setting, and it’s been here ever since. As its use trickled down from the nobles to the hoi polloi, the elite devised ways for forks to retain their rarefied status: Think of the salad fork, the dessert fork, the whole elaborate continental dinner service. But for how much longer? Avant-type restaurants in the U.S. are leading the charge in eschewing the old ways and embracing edible mediums. “You sit down at the table and you say, ‘Why do I need to eat with silverware?’ And the answer is, ‘Really, you don’t,’” Grant Achatz, maybe the nation’s most famous modernist chef, said a little while back. “It’s almost hypocritical to create a plate of food in 2013 on barbaric old serviceware that’s more than 300 years old.” We’re always at the whims of the elite, of course, but if what they’re trying to push on us next is utensils you can eat, I can’t say I mind. n

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You’ve probably heard this before: Democracy is not a spectator sport. Now you can take it to that logical conclusion and march with people committed to the true meaning of democracy. Utah will join the rest of the nation in the March for Democracy, acknowledging the serious threats at home and abroad because of this wave of populism and authoritarianism. The nonpartisan National Popular Vote March for 2020 is joining in this effort to send a message to Washington. It’s still in the organization stage, but you can help now. West Jordan Public Library and Event Center, 8030 S. 1825 West, West Jordan, Saturday, Oct. 7, noon-3 p.m., free, bit.ly/2hABQPe

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There might be five initiative petitions going around, but you should pay attention to this one first. It’s about making your vote count. Every 10 years the boundaries of voting districts are redrawn based on the most recent census data. In Utah, the state Legislature does it, pretty much without citizen input. Shouldn’t you be choosing your representatives rather than your representatives drawing you in or out of their district? Learn about it during the Redistricting Utah Panel Discussion and later at an It’s Your Vote, Make It Count civic engagement event, with various voting groups, jazz and advocacy training. It’s Your Vote: Viridian Event Center, 8030 S. 1825 West, West Jordan, Saturday, Oct. 7, noon-3 p.m., free, bit.ly/2fuU00j; Panel: Salt Lake City Public Library Marmalade Branch, 280 W. 500 North, Thursday, Oct. 12, 7-8:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/2hA Avbc (see p. 6)

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demonstrates the Obama and Trump administrations’ markedly different approaches to immigration proceedings. Kent Davis is a local prosecuting attorney who previously worked for the Department of Justice at an immigration detention facility in Arizona. What many people don’t realize, he says, is that immigration proceedings are civil rather than criminal. This means that in most cases, immigrants in the system are not guaranteed the right to an attorney. And expecting an immigrant to be able to navigate an expansive law that even baffles attorneys, no less laypersons, is ludicrous. “The Immigration and Nationality Act is extraordinarily complex and voluminous,” he says. “It took me the better part of a year to wrap my head around it.” Davis also notes that in immigration cases, the Department of Homeland Security acts as prosecutor and the Department of Justice acts as judge— both of which fall under the executive branch. Although he doesn’t impugn the DoJ, he does favor a system that would put on the bench an independent arbiter from the judiciary branch to try these cases. “One possible solution is to have immigration proceedings be conducted in federal court, even if it’s under a federal magistrate,” he says. “An independent judge is something to seriously consider looking at.” Whatever comes out of this week’s discussion, Quintana doesn’t want it to digress into complaining. He predicts a productive evening—one that isn’t anchored down with negativity, fingerpointing and charged comments that can rile a room. “We are there to talk, not shout,” Quintana says. “We are there to discuss solutions, not vent frustrations. There’s been enough venting, enough protests and enough shouting.” CW

just keep kicking it down the road.” Cracking down on illegal immigration was a cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s campaign and included building a 1,900-mile wall along the southern border. More recently, he threatened to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and kicked the responsibility of passing protections back to Congress. Since then—and in the face of mounting criticism—he tweeted that no one who applied for DACA protection will be removed from the country in the six months that Congress has to pass a bill. DACA aside, the new administration has already implemented changes to U.S. immigration policy, according to attorney Adam Crayk, who practices at a firm that specializes in immigration cases and was invited to speak as a panelist at Quintana’s event. Crayk says that during the Obama administration’s second term, the government prioritized deportation for undocumented immigrants who were deemed a threat—those who had been convicted of a violent crime, for example. Otherwise, law-abiding immigrants who did not have any disqualifying offenses were mostly left alone. The Trump administration, on the other hand, has broadened that net and given Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents considerable discretion to determine whether someone poses a safety concern. “You could subjectively determine anything you wanted as being dangerous,” Crayk says. Recently, a man had gone out hunting rabbits with his son, he continues. Legally, the man broke no state law related to hunting, but as an undocumented person, he is not allowed to possess the gun. Local prosecutors cut him loose, but the federal government picked him up for illegally possessing a firearm. Crayk says a rash of similar examples

is suggesting, you’re making the right decision,” he says. Along with representing many immigrants throughout his career, Quintana says he relates to their plight on a personal level. His Spanish ancestors settled in New Mexico long before it was claimed by the U.S. When he moved to Utah around age 8, the differences separating him from the mainstream culture were stark. “I relate to the immigrants. I come from a small farming village in New Mexico. I grew up speaking a different language, practicing a different religion, I have dark skin and faced the brutal racism they endure,” he writes in an email, adding, “I have been called a ‘nigger,’ spit on, and had to face violence growing up in Utah. I have had people leave notes on my vehicle ‘foreigner go home you do not belong in my country.’” A key element of Quintana’s goal is to keep the immigrants’ humanity in the forefront. At the conclusion of Thursday’s event, he intends to draft a report to send to Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, both R-Utah. Hatch, as it happens, announced his sponsorship last week on a new bill intended to improve U.S. immigration policy. The measure centers on border security, protecting so-called DREAMers and crafting a merit-based visa program. The senior senator has tried to pass legislation to protect people who were brought to the U.S. by their parents— children who, while not citizens, have lived their lives as if they were and have little to no connection with their country of origin. “Listen: I’m tired of this problem,” Hatch said last week during a press conference in Washington, D.C. “I think we have millions of brilliant, brilliant young people who can add a great deal to our country. We need a permanent solution to this problem and not

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anny Quintana is nothing if not lofty. The practicing attorney has taken on the U.S. Army, counseled Iraqis who he says plotted to assassinate Saddam Hussein, and fought for Native Americans to be able to continue sacred sweat-lodge ceremonies. Outside of the courtroom, he’s tasked himself with saving the ocean’s dwindling fisheries—that’s when he’s not writing and publishing books or delivering wheelchairs to Mexico, Afghanistan or Haiti. He also has been known to organize public forums aimed at generating sharp, thoughtful ideas that shift policy and perception. But he’s ready to retire from public life, he says. That is after one final event, of course. Quintana’s swan song is an attempt to improve America’s immigration system. Immigration reform remains a polarizing topic in U.S. politics, but Quintana believes the issues that people find problematic aren’t beyond resolve. “I, personally, believe we can solve the immigration problems right here, right now,” he says, sitting in his 10th floor office in a downtown high-rise. He’s assembled a panel from the legal community with experience in immigration cases to start a dialogue. They’ll speak and listen to attendees’ ideas and questions at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 5, at the University of Utah Quinney College of Law’s moot courtroom. The discussion is titled, “What are we going to do about immigration?” Quintana has some ideas of his own: “The DACA kids, just give them visas,” he says. “Give them visas; leave it at that.” Easy enough, but he has grandiose suggestions, too. The North American Free Trade Agreement, for example, could be modernized, he says, to look more like the European Union—sans the common currency—“where with your visa you can work, travel, study, open a business in the three treaty countries.” As Quintana sees it, the populous can either trust that Congress will offer up legislation or citizens can supply ideas and pressure their senators and representatives to run with them. “Usually, if you do the opposite of what a politician

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purposeful or not, by any method—including bias, omission, underreporting or selfcensorship—that prevents the public from fully knowing what is happening in its society.” In the current edition’s introduction to the list of stories, Andy Lee Roth writes, “Finding common themes across news stories helps to contextualize each item as a part of the larger narratives shaping our times.” He goes on to cite several examples spanning the Top 25 list: four stories on climate change, six involving racial inequalities, four on issues involving courts, three relating to health, “at least two stories” involving the Pentagon, three on government surveillance and two involving documentary films produced by Shell Oil Co. Roth goes on to say, “There are more connections to be identified. As we have noted in previous Censored volumes, the task of identifying common topical themes, within each year’s story list and across multiple years, transforms the reader from a passive recipient of information into an active, engaged interpreter. We invite you to engage with this year’s story list in this way.” It’s excellent advice. But to get things started on the more limited scope of the Top 10 stories, three main themes clearly seem evident: first, threats to public health; second, threats to democracy, both at home and abroad; and third, an out-of-control military. But don’t let this overview pattern blind you to other patterns you might see for yourself. Even individual stories often involve different overlapping patterns—environmental destruction and an out-of-control military in No. 7, for example, or public health and infrastructure concerns in No. 1. These patterns don’t just connect problems and issues; they connect people, communities and potential solutions as well. A shared understanding of the patterns that hold us down and divide us is the key to developing better patterns to live by together. With that thought in mind, here is Project Censored’s Top 10 list for the year.

n America, we commonly think of press freedom and censorship in terms of the First Amendment, which focuses attention on the press itself and limits on the power of government to restrict it. But the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in the aftermath of World War II, presents a broader framework. Article 19 reads: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. By highlighting the right to receive information and ideas, Article 19 makes it clear that press freedom is about everyone in society, not just the press, and that government censorship is only one potential way of thwarting that right. That perspective has informed Project Censored from the beginning, more than 40 years ago. Even though Project Censored’s annual list focuses on specific censored stories, the underlying issue has never been isolated examples. They serve to highlight how short we fall from the fully informed public that a healthy democracy requires—and that we all require in order to live healthy, safe, productive, satisfying lives. It’s the larger patterns of missing information, hidden problems and threats that should really concern us. Each Project Censored story provides some of that information, but the annual list helps shed light on these broader patterns of what’s missing, as well as on the specifics of the stories themselves. During the 1972 election, Woodward and Bernstein were reporting on the earliest developments in the Watergate Scandal, but their work was largely isolated, despite running in The Washington Post. They were covering it as a developing criminal case; it never crossed over into a political story until after the election. That’s a striking example of a missing pattern. It helped contribute to the founding of Project Censored by Carl Jensen, who defined censorship as “the suppression of information, whether

Why are these 10 important stories so underreported?

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Widespread Lead Contamination Threatens Children’s Health and Could Triple Household Water Bills

After President Barack Obama declared a federal emergency in Flint, Mich., based on lead contamination of the city’s water supply in January 2016, Reuters reporters M.B. Pell and Joshua Schneyer began an investigation of lead contamination nationwide with shocking results. In June 2016, they reported that although many states and Medicaid rules require blood-lead tests for young children, millions of children were not being tested. In December 2016, they reported on the highly decentralized data they had been able to assemble from 21 states, showing that 2,606 census tracts and 278 ZIP codes across the United States had levels of lead poisoning more than double the rates found in Flint at the peak of its contamination crisis. Of those, 1,100 communities had lead contamination rates “at least four times higher” than Flint. In Flint, 5 percent of the children screened high blood-lead levels. Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 2.5 percent of all U.S. children younger than 6—about 500,000 children—have elevated blood lead levels. But Pell and Schneyer’s neighborhood focus allowed them to identify local hot spots “whose lead poisoning problems may be obscured in broader surveys,” such as those focused on statewide or countywide rates. They found them in communities that “stretch from Warren, Pa. … where 36 percent of children tested had high lead levels, to … Goat Island, Texas, where a quarter of tests showed poisoning.” What’s more, “in some pockets of Baltimore, Cleveland and Philadelphia, where lead poisoning has spanned generations, the rate of elevated tests over the last decade was 40 to 50 percent.” In January 2017, Schneyer and Pell reported that, based on their previous investigation, “from California to Pennsylvania, local leaders, health officials and researchers are advancing measures to protect children from the toxic threat. They include more blood-lead screening, property inspections, hazard abatement and community outreach programs.” But there’s a deeper infrastructure problem involved, as Farron Cousins reported for DeSmogBlog in January 2017. “Lead pipes are time bombs” and water contamination is to be expected, Cousins wrote. The U.S. relies on an estimated 1.2 million

miles of lead pipes for municipal delivery of drinking water, and much of this aging infrastructure is reaching or has exceeded its lifespan. In 2012, the American Water Works Association estimated that a complete overhaul of the nation’s aging water systems would require an investment of $1 trillion over the next 25 years, which could triple household water bills. As Cousins reported, a January 2017 Michigan State University study found that, “while water rates are currently unaffordable for an estimated 11.9 percent of households, the conservative estimates of rising rates used in this study highlight that this number could grow to 35.6 percent in the next five years.” As Cousins concluded, “while the water contamination crisis will occasionally steal a headline or two, virtually no attention has been paid to the fact that we’re pricing a third of United States citizens out of the water market.”

Over $6 Trillion in Unaccountable Army Spending

In 1996, Congress passed legislation requiring all government agencies to undergo annual audits, but a July 2016 report by the U.S. Department of Defense’s inspector general found that the Army alone has accumulated $6.5 trillion in expenditures that can’t be accounted for over the past two decades. As Dave Lindorff reported for This Can’t Be Happening!, the DoD “has not been tracking or recording or auditing all of the taxpayer money allocated by Congress—what it was spent on, how well it was spent or where the money actually ended up.” But the Army wasn’t alone. “Things aren’t any better at the Navy, Air Force and Marines,” he added. The report appeared at a time when “politicians of both major political parties are demanding accountability for every penny spent on welfare. … Ditto for people receiving unemployment compensation,” Lindorff wrote. Politicians have also engaged in pervasive efforts “to make teachers accountable for student ‘performance,’” he added. Yet, he observed, “the military doesn’t have to account for any of its trillions of dollars of spending … even though Congress fully a generation ago passed a law requiring such accountability.” In March 2017, after President Trump proposed a $52 billion increase in military spending, Thomas Hedges reported for The

Guardian that “the Pentagon has exempted itself without consequence for 20 years now, telling the Government Accountability Office that collecting and organizing the required information for a full audit is too costly and time-consuming.” The most recent DoD audit deadline was September 2017, yet neither the Pentagon, Congress nor the media seem to have paid any attention.

Pentagon Paid PR Firm in the United Kingdom for Fake al-Qaeda Videos

Concern over Russian involvement in promoting fake news during the 2016 election is a justified hot topic in the media. But what about our own involvement in similar operations? In October 2016, Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith reported for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism on one such very expensive—and questionable—operation. The Pentagon paid a British PR firm, Bell Pottinger, more than $660 million to run a top-secret propaganda program in Iraq from at least 2006 to December 2011. The work consisted of three types of products: TV commercials portraying al-Qaeda in a negative light, news items intended to look like Arabic TV, and— most disturbing—fake al-Qaeda propaganda films. A former Bell Pottinger video editor, Martin Wells, told the Bureau that he was given precise instructions for production of fake al-Qaeda films, and that the firm’s output was approved by former Gen. David Petraeus—the commander of the coalition forces in Iraq—and on occasion by the White House. They reported that the U.S. used contractors because “the military didn’t have the in-house expertise and was operating in a legal ‘gray area.’” The reporters “traced the firm’s Iraq work through U.S. Army contracting censuses, federal procurement transaction records and reports by the Defense Department’s inspector general, as well as Bell Pottinger’s corporate filings and specialist publications on military propaganda.” Black and Fielding-Smith also interviewed former officials and contractors involved in information operations in Iraq. Documents show that Bell Pottinger employed as many as 300 British and Iraqi staff at one point; and its media operations in Iraq cost more than $100 million per year on average. It’s remarkable that an operation on this scale has been totally ignored in midst of so much focus on “fake news” in the U.S.

Big Data and Dark Money Behind the 2016 Election

Antibiotic Resistant “Superbugs” Threaten Health and Foundations of Modern Medicine

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The problem of antibiotics giving rise to more dangerous drugresistant germs (“superbugs”) has been present since the early days of penicillin, but has now reached a crisis, with companies creating dangerous superbugs when their factories leak industrial waste, as reported by Madlen Davies of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in September 2016. Factories in China and India—where the majority of worldwide antibiotics are manufactured—have released “untreated waste fluid” into local soils and waters, leading to increases in antimicrobial resistance that diminish the effectiveness of antibiotics and threaten the foundations of modern medicine. “After bacteria in the environment become resistant, they can exchange genetic material with other germs, spreading antibiotic resistance around the world, according to an assessment issued by the European Public Health Alliance, which served as the basis for Davies’ news report,” Project Censored explained. One strain of drug-resistant bacterium that originated in India in 2014 has since spread to 70 other countries. Superbugs have already killed an estimated 25,000 people across Europe—thus globally posing “as big a threat as terrorism,” according to U.K. National Health Service Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies.

When Richard Nixon first ran for Congress in 1946, he and his supporters used a wide range of dirty tricks aimed at smearing his opponent as pro-Communist, including a boiler-room operation generating phone calls to registered Democrats, which simply said, “This is a friend of yours, but I can’t tell you who I am. Did you know that Jerry Voorhis is a Communist?” Then the caller would hang up. In 2016, the same basic strategy was employed but with decades of refinement, technological advances and massively more money behind it. A key player in this was right-wing computer scientist and hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who contributed $13.5 million to Trump’s campaign and also funded Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics company that specializes in “election management strategies” and using “psychographic” microtargeting—based on thousands of pieces of data for some 220 million American voters—as Carole Cadwalladr reported for The Guardian in February 2017. After Trump’s victory, Cambridge Analytica’s CEO Alexander Nix said, “We are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to data-driven communication has played such an integral part in President-elect Trump’s extraordinary win.” Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, Strategic Communication Laboratories, was more old-school until recently in elections across Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. In Trinidad, it paid for the painting of graffiti slogans purporting to be from grassroots youth. In Nigeria, it advised its client party to suppress the vote of their opposition “by organizing anti-poll rallies on the day of the election.” But now they’re able to micro-target their deceptive, disruptive messaging. “Pretty much every message that Trump put out was data-driven” after they joined the campaign, Nix said in September 2016. On the day of the third presidential debate,

Trump’s team “tested 175,000 different ad variations for his arguments” via Facebook. This messaging had everything to do with how those targeted would respond, not with Trump’s or Mercer’s views. In a New Yorker profile, Jane Mayer noted that Mercer argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a major mistake, a subject not remotely hinted at during the campaign. “Suddenly, a random billionaire can change politics and public policy—to sweep everything else off the table—even if they don’t speak publicly, and even if there’s almost no public awareness of his or her views,” Trevor Potter, former chair of the Federal Election Commission, told Mayer. With the real patterns of influence, ideology, money, power and belief hidden from view, the very concept of democratic selfgovernance is now fundamentally at risk.

The 2016 election was the first in 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, first passed in 1965. In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), a 5-4 conservative majority in the Supreme Court struck down a key provision requiring jurisdictions with a history of violations to “pre-clear” changes. As a result, changes to voting laws in nine states and parts of six others with long histories of racial discrimination in voting were no longer subject to federal government approval in advance. Since Shelby, 14 states, including many Southern states and key swing states, implemented new voting restrictions, in many cases just in time for the election. These included restrictive voter-identification laws in Texas and North Carolina, Englishonly elections in many Florida counties, as well as last-minute changes of poll locations, and changes in Arizona voting laws that had previously been rejected by the Department of Justice before the Shelby decision. Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was foremost among a small number of non-mainstream journalists to cover the suppression efforts and their results. In May 2017, he reported on an analysis of the effects of voter suppression by Priorities U.S.A., which showed that strict voter-ID laws in Wisconsin and other states resulted in a “significant reduction” in voter turnout in 2016 with “a disproportionate impact on African-American and Democratic-leaning voters.” Berman noted that turnout was reduced by 200,000 votes in Wisconsin, while Donald Trump won the state by just over 22,000 votes. Nationwide, the study found that the change in voter turnout from 2012-2016 was significantly impacted by new voter-ID laws. In counties that were more than 40 percent African-American, turnout dropped 5 percent with new voter-ID laws, compared to 2.2 percent without. In counties that were less than 10 percent African-American, turnout decreased 0.7 percent with new voter-ID laws, compared to a 1.9 percent increase without. Berman concluded, “This study provides more evidence for the claim that voter-ID laws are designed not to stop voter impersonation fraud, which is virtually nonexistent, but to make it harder for certain communities to vote.” As Berman noted in an article published by Moyers & Co. in

December 2016, the topic of “gutting” the Voting Rights Act did not arise once during the 26 presidential debates prior to the election, and “cable news devoted hours and hours to Trump’s absurd claim that the election was rigged against him while spending precious little time on the real threat that voters faced.”

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“At the heart of the issue is how to motivate pharmaceutical companies to improve their production practices. With strong demand for antibiotics, the companies continue to profit despite the negative consequences of their actions,” Project Censored noted. “The EPHA assessment recommended five responses that major purchasers of medicines could implement to help stop antibiotic pollution. Among these recommendations are blacklisting pharmaceutical companies that contribute to the spread of superbugs through irresponsible practices, and promoting legislation to incorporate environmental criteria into the industry’s good manufacturing practices.” Superbugs are especially threatening modern medicine, in which a wide range of sophisticated practices—organ transplants, joint replacements, cancer chemotherapy and care of pre-term infants—“will become more difficult or even too dangerous to undertake,” according to Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization. “Although the threat of antibiotic-resistant microbes is well documented in scientific publications, there is little-to-no coverage on superbugs in the corporate press,” Project Censored noted. “What corporate news coverage there is tends to exaggerate the risks and consequences of natural outbreaks—as seen during the Ebola scare in the U.S. in 2014—rather than reporting on the preventable spread of superbugs by irresponsible pharmaceutical companies.” Once again, it’s not just a problem of suppressing a single story, but two overlapping patterns— the biological problem of superbugs and political economy problem of the corporate practices that produce them so wantonly.

The Toll of U.S. Navy Training on Wildlife in the North Pacific

The U.S. Navy has killed, injured or harassed marine mammals in the North Pacific almost 12 million times over a five-year period, according to research conducted by The West Coast Action Alliance and reported by Dahr Jamail for Truthout. This includes dolphins, porpoises, sea lions and endangered species like humpback whales, blue whales, gray whales, sperm whales, Steller sea lions and sea otters. The number was tabulated from the Navy’s Northwest Training and Testing environmental impact statement and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Letter of Authorization for the number of “takes” of marine mammals caused by Navy exercises. “A ‘take’ is a form of harm to an animal that ranges from harassment to injury, and sometimes to death,” Jamail wrote. “Many wildlife conservationists see even ‘takes’ that only cause behavior changes as injurious because chronic harassment of animals that are feeding or breeding can end up harming or even contributing to their deaths if they are driven out of habitats critical to their survival.” As the Alliance noted, this does not include impacts on “endangered and threatened seabirds, fish, sea turtles or terrestrial species” due to Navy activities, which have expanded dramatically, according to the Navy’s October 2015 environmental impact statement, including: n A 778 percent increase in number of torpedoes

n A 400 percent increase in air-to-surface missile exercises (including Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary) n A 1,150 percent increase in drone aircraft n An increase from none to 284 sonar testing events in inland waters “It is, and has been for quite some time now, well known in the scientific community that the Navy’s use of sonar can damage and kill marine life,” Jamail reported. “With little oversight on Navy training activities, the public is left in the dark regarding their environmental impacts, including especially how Navy operations impact fish in the North Pacific and marine life at the bottom of the food chain,” Project Censored noted. “There has been almost no coverage of these impacts in the corporate press.”

Maternal Mortality a Growing Threat in the U.S.

The U.S. maternal mortality rate is rising, while it’s falling elsewhere across the developed world. Serious injuries and complications are needlessly even more widespread with shockingly little attention being paid. “Each year, over 600 women in the U.S. die from pregnancy-related causes and over 65,000 experience life-threatening complications or severe maternal morbidity,” Elizabeth Dawes Gay reported, covering an April 2016 congressional briefing organized by Women’s Policy Inc. “The average national rate of maternal mortality has increased from 12 per 100,000 live births in 1998 to 15.9 in 2012, after peaking at 17.8 in 2011.” “The U.S. is the only nation in the developed world with a rising maternal mortality rate,” Rep. Lois Capps stated at the meeting. “Inadequate health care in rural areas and racial disparities are drivers of this maternal health crisis,” Project Censored summarized. “Nationally, African-American women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes, with rates even higher in parts of the U.S. that Gay characterized as ‘pockets of neglect,’ such as Georgia, where the 2011 maternal mortality rate of 28.7 per 100,000 live births was nearly double the national average.” The Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health has developed safety bundles of ‘best practices, guidelines and protocols to improve maternal health care quality and safety,’” Gay wrote. “These ‘bundles’ include equipping hospital labor units with a fully stocked cart for immediate hemorrhage treatment, establishing a hospital-level emergency management protocol, conducting regular staff drills and reviewing all cases to learn from past mistakes, among other things.” More broadly, Kiera Butler reported for Mother Jones that doctors rarely warn patients of the potential for serious injuries and complications that can occur following birth. “Women have a right to make informed decisions about their bodies and serious medical situations; however, when it comes to birth and its aftereffects, Butler found that doctors simply are not providing vital information,” Project Censored summarized. Many state laws require doctors to inform women of the potential complications and dangers associated with delivery, but none require them to discuss potential long-term problems, including the fact that some complications

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In 2016, governments around the world shut down internet access more than 50 times, according to the digital rights organization Access Now, “suppressing elections, slowing economies and limiting free speech,” as Lyndal Rowlands reported for the Inter Press Service. “In the worst cases, internet shutdowns have been associated with human rights violations,” Rowlands was told by Deji Olukotun of Access Now. “What we have found is that internet shutdowns go hand-in-hand with atrocities.” Olukotun said. Kevin Collier also covered the report for Vocativ, noting that Access Now uses a “conservative metric,” counting “repeated, similar outages”—like those which occurred during Gabon’s widely criticized internet “curfew”—as a single instance. The Vocativ report included a dynamic map chart, designed by Kaitlyn Kelly, that vividly depicts internet shutdowns around the world, month by month for all of 2016, as documented by Access Now. “Many countries intentionally blacked out internet access during elections and to quell protest. Not only do these shutdowns restrict freedom of speech, they also hurt economies around the world,” Project Censored noted. “TechCrunch, IPS and other independent news organizations reported that a Brookings Institution study found that internet shutdowns cost countries $2.4 billion between July 2015 and June 2016”—a conservative estimate according to the study’s author, Darrell West. As Olukotun told IPS, one way to stop government shutdowns is for internet providers to resist government demands. “Telecommunications companies can push back on government orders, or at least document them to show what’s been happening, to at least have a paper trail,” Olukotun observed. On July 1, 2016, the U.N. Human Rights Council passed a nonbinding resolution signed by more than 70 countries lauding the internet’s “great potential to accelerate human progress” and condemning “measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online.” It noted that “the exercise of human rights, in particular the right to freedom of expression, on the internet is an issue of increasing interest and importance.” Yet, “understanding what this means for internet users can be difficult,” Azad Essa reported for Al Jazeera in May 2017. Advocates of online rights “need to be constantly pushing for laws that protect this space and demand that governments meet their obligations in digital spaces just as in non-digital spaces,” he was told by the U.N.’s special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye. CW

A key story about 2016 election has mostly been ignored by the media—a classaction lawsuit alleging that the Democratic National Committee broke legally binding neutrality agreements in the Democratic primaries by strategizing to make Hillary Clinton the nominee before a single vote was cast. The lawsuit was filed against the DNC and its former chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in June 2016 by Beck & Lee, a Miami law firm, on behalf of supporters of Bernie Sanders. A hearing was held on suit in April 2017, in which DNC lawyers argued that neutrality was not actually required and that the court had no jurisdiction to assess neutral treatment. As Michael Sainato reported for The Observer, DNC attorneys claimed that Article V, Section 4, of the DNC Charter—which instructs the DNC chair and staff to ensure neutrality in the Democratic presidential primaries—is actually “a discretionary rule” that the DNC “didn’t need to adopt to begin with.” In addition, DNC attorney Bruce Spiva later said it was within the DNC’s rights to “go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.” Sainato also reported that DNC attorneys argued that specific terms used in the DNC charter—including “impartial” and “evenhanded”—couldn’t be interpreted in a court of law because it would “drag the Court … into a political question and a question of how the party runs its own affairs.” Jared Beck, representing Sanders’ supporters, responded, “Your Honor, I’m shocked to hear that we can’t define what it means to be evenhanded and impartial. If that were the case, we couldn’t have courts. I mean, that’s what courts do every day, is decide disputes in an evenhanded and impartial manner.” Not only was running elections in a fair and impartial manner a “bedrock assumption” of democracy, Beck argued earlier, but it was also a binding commitment for the DNC: “That’s what the Democratic National Committee’s own charter says,” he said. “It says it in black and white.” Much of the reporting and commentary on the broader subject of the DNC’s collusion with the Clinton campaign has been speculative and misdirected—focused on questions about voter fraud and countered by claims of indulging in “conspiracy theory.” But this trial focuses on documentary evidence and questions of law—all publicly visible yet still treated as suspect, when not simply ignored out of hand.

2016: A Record Year for Global Internet Shutdowns

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As Project Censored noted, “even Michael Sainato’s reporting—which has consistently used official documents, including the leaked DNC emails and courtroom transcripts, as primary sources— has been repeatedly labeled ‘opinion’—rather than straight news reporting—by his publisher, The Observer.”

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are more prevalent in women who give birth vaginally, rather than by C-section. “All told, according to a 2008 study by researchers at the California HMO Kaiser Permanente, about one in three women suffer from a pelvic floor disorder (a category that includes urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence and prolapse), and roughly 80 percent of those women are mothers,” Butler reported. “Women who deliver vaginally are twice as likely to experience these injuries as women who have a cesarean or who have not given birth. For one in 10 women, the problem is severe enough to warrant surgery.” “The corporate news media have paid limited attention to maternal mortality and morbidity in the U.S.,” Project Censored noted. There have been scattered stories, but nothing remotely close to the sort of sustained coverage that is warranted.

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Norm Macdonald

Known for his dry sarcasm and understated delivery, Norm Macdonald is that snarky guy you were always wary of. Was he giving you a compliment, or subtly putting you down? Either way, Macdonald has never shied from telling the truth, even at his targets’ expense. The Canadian-born comedian’s initial claim to fame came after his first of five seasons on Saturday Night Live in the early ’90s. While spoton impressions of Larry King, Quentin Tarantino, Burt Reynolds, David Letterman and Bob Dole garnered immediate accolades, his role as anchor of “Weekend Update” brought him notoriety due to his caustic comments that appeared controversial even by SNL standards. He mercilessly targeted Michael Jackson, Hillary Clinton and disgraced Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, using his biting satire and supreme cynicism to shred his victims unapologetically at every opportunity. His stint on SNL didn’t end well; after a series of typically caustic comments about the embattled O.J. Simpson, Macdonald was removed from “Weekend Update” by producer Don Ohlmeyer. Macdonald suspected it was Ohlmeyer’s friendship with Simpson that caused his dismissal, and though he stayed on afterward, he eventually quit, making no secret of his dissatisfaction. Nevertheless, Macdonald’s success has continued unabated ever since, both on film and on TV, including his roles as a judge on Last Comic Standing, his unlikely portrayal of Colonel Sanders for KFC and his most recent special on Netflix, Hitler’s Dog, Gossip & Trickery. Still, live stand-up is the best way to experience his savage satire. (Lee Zimmerman) Norm Macdonald @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 6-7, 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., $32, 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com

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Since its designation, Bears Ears National Monument in Southern Utah has inspired a lot of things: excitement, controversy—even a dance. As a tribute, planned long before Donald Trump and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke made Bears Ears a political hot-button issue, Repertory Dance Theatre commissioned a new work by New York City-based Israeli choreographer Zvi Gotheiner— with whom the company has a long-standing and close relationship—that might explore through movement the extraordinary landscape preserved within the monument’s boundaries. Dancing the Bears Ears premieres this week as part of RDT’s season opening performance, Sanctuary. The evening’s program is also scheduled to include Andy Noble’s 2015 work Tower and Eric Handman’s 2007 Ghost Ship. Before choreographing Dancing the Bears Ears, Gotheiner and the RDT dancers traveled to Southern Utah to spend time among the mesas and canyons, and to meet with members of the conservation nonprofit Utah Diné Bikéyah (UDB). In a recent panel discussion organized by RDT in advance of the premiere, UDB board member Mary Benally talked about why she is excited to see the Bears Ears-inspired work: “You see that ugly rock over there. You pick it up. You look at it up close. There are minerals and so much beauty. It’s like the rock formations are singing to you—the plants, the animals, they talk to you. As a dancer, I can just see what you can do with it.” (Katherine Pioli) Repertory Dance Theatre: Sanctuary @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Oct 5-7, 7:30 p.m., $15-$35, rdtutah.org

It might seem crazy now that Odyssey Dance’s annual Halloween-themed Thriller production is practically a Utah institution, but 21 years ago, the then-fledgling company’s first production almost ended before it began. “The first four performances were set up at Kingsbury Hall,” Odyssey Artistic Director Derryl Yeager recalls, “and about a week before we opened, [they] called and said, ‘You’ve only sold 50 tickets; maybe you should cancel it.’ … I thought, ‘I think we’ve got something special here. If we’re going to go down, let’s go down in flames.’” Only 300 or so tickets were ultimately sold for that first run, but response was strong enough that, within a few years, performances were selling out. This year, demand for Thriller is so high that two different companies are required for the more than 50 performances scheduled for Salt Lake City, Park City, Utah County, Southern Utah, Ogden and Logan. For the collection of dance vignettes centered around famous monsters, much of the content has remained consistent for more than two decades, including the dancing hockey-mask-clad killers of the “Jason Jam” and the choreographed zombies à la Michael Jackson that give the production its name. But there are also slight tweaks to the lineup every year, including this year’s addition of aerial arts, plus a new segment based on the superhero team-up Justice League. “When people come back year after year, it’s not exactly the same show,” Yeager says. “We’re just so grateful and thankful we’ve got something people want to come back and see.” (Scott Renshaw) Odyssey Dance: Thriller @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, Oct. 6-30, dates and times vary, $35.50$55.50; additional dates at other locations, odysseydance.com

The music of An American in Paris has been wowing audiences since its Carnegie Hall premiere in 1928. The pairing of that great music with dance and story been dazzling viewers since the film premiered in 1951 and went on to win six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. And, for six nights, fans of this enduring classic have a chance to experience it live at the Eccles Theater. Originally composed by George Gershwin to represent the impressions of American tourists in Paris and inspired by the compositions of Maurice Ravel, it tells the story of love and hope in post-World War II Paris. Two American veterans and a wealthy Frenchman work to create a show that brings light into a recovering city, but their dedication to the art is challenged by their competing love and devotion to the same woman, Lise. With music stemming from the golden era of movie musicals, it’s not hard to see why this show won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations. Beneath its jaunty tunes lie the pain of war and a nostalgia for a time of innocence lost. But, as Gershwin said, “Nostalgia is not a fatal disease,” and the production shows how devotion to past ideals of love and hope can build to a better tomorrow. It’s hard to think of a better message for the world right now. A captioned performance for An American in Paris is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Oct. 14. For access to captions, select seats located in the orchestra right section on the main floor. (Kylee Ehmann) An American in Paris @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, Oct. 10-15, times vary, $40-$85, broadway-at-the-eccles.com

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Utah Opera’s La Bohème still speaks to audiences. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

“Although I certainly am a political person, and can see the politics in things,” Clawson says, “I don’t think that’s their impetus for the life [these characters are] choosing to live. … I don’t think [Puccini] and his librettists were trying to make a political statement. These people are happy, and these people aren’t. Choose happiness. Choose joy. Chose love. “What La Bohème has to say is something that speaks to everyone, at all stages of life. And I believe it will endure way past what’s going on with us politically.” CW

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Utah native Celena Shafer (Musetta) and Michael Adams (Marcello) in La Bohème.

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that, and Puccini was a master.” As a director, then, Clawson sees it as one of her responsibilities to make sure the action she’s designing for the performers matches the emotional tenor of the music. “Sometimes I’ll watch a production where the music is vigorous and lively, and everybody is just standing there,” she says. “And I keep thinking, ‘The music is telling you to move. Why aren’t you moving? How can you stand still when the music is doing that?’ That’s my job, just to pay attention.” This Utah Opera production marks the third time Clawson has directed La Bohème, and part of that paying attention for her means applying what she’s learned from her own additional life experience—including having directed a production of the musical Rent, a modernday interpretation based on the same source material—or from a suggestion by one of her cast members that presents a different way of looking at a character. Her interpretation this time around, however, doesn’t necessarily fold in the present American political moment, even for a story about the struggles of impoverished young people.

lover, an artist, is painting a portrait of a woman who does not look like her. Tosca’s eyes are dark; the eyes of the woman in the portrait are blue. “As she leaves, [Tosca] says, ‘Make sure to change her eye color,’” Clawson says. “If you translate it word-forword from Italian, it says, ‘Give her black eyes.’ But to us, that phrase means something entirely different. ‘Make her eyes dark’ is what it means. I saw titles that said ‘Give her black eyes,” and I went, wait, no. “As a performer, I can remember being on stage, not having seen the titles, because we’re on stage when they’re up there, and the audience was laughing. I was thinking, ‘What we’re saying, what we’re doing, is not funny at all.’ That can be really disturbing.” Clawson also explains that she leans on the power of an operatic score to help establish a mood that doesn’t require literal translation of text. “Especially for Puccini, that’s right about the same time music is being used almost like film scores, telling you what’s going on,” she says. “Just like in a horror film when those strings get going, you know something bad is going to happen. The orchestration in an opera does

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orty years ago, when a fledgling would-be opera company in Salt Lake City made Puccini’s La Bohème its first production, it might have felt like an obvious choice. In addition to being one of the most popular works in the operatic canon, it’s also a story of struggling young artists doing what they do for pure love of creating, and with no guarantee of financial reward. Now that Utah Opera is an established institution, however, the production is bound to have a different meaning. For this rendition’s director, Kathleen Clawson, that meaning is about resilience. “Great art survives,” Clawson says. “Great art is spunky, and demands its place.” Thinking about a work’s meaning is naturally part of a director’s job, as is the task of making that meaning accessible to an audience—especially in an art form where the story is being sung, and in a language unfamiliar to most of the attendees. Clawson—a faculty member at the University of New Mexico, returning to Utah Opera after overseeing the 2015 production of Tosca— believes that there are many ways in which her choices for a production can overcome those potential barriers. One of those key ways for Clawson involves an element that would seem relatively simple: the translated supertitles for the Italian lyrics. Where many productions make use of existing translations, Clawson says she creates all of her own titles “because I then use those words when I’m directing, so that we’re all on the same page. You might think that phrase means [only] what it means to you, but if I say ‘this is what is happening at this moment,’ everybody on stage has the same picture.” As an example of how such translations can matter, Clawson describes a production of Tosca she once attended, and a scene involving the title character seeing that her

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Virginia Webb: Wildcats, Wagons, Wives and Wardens Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Oct. 6, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Laurie C. Tye: The Animal in Me, Too! Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Oct. 7, 2 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Susan Kite: Power Stone of Alogol Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Oct. 10, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

Inspired by a year spent in rural Spring City, Utah—adjusting to being a newlywed and expectant mother—BYU-trained artist Natalie Kaye Stallings explores aspirations and the nature of womanhood with Microscopic Sovereign in the Gallery at Library Square (210 E. 400 South, slcpl.org) through Nov. 3.

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Wicked-er Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, through Nov. 4, desertstar.biz

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A Tale of Two Cities Center Point Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, through Oct. 28, dates and times vary, centerpointtheatre.org An American in Paris Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Oct. 10-15, times vary, broadway-at-the-eccles.com (see p. 20) Arsenic and Old Lace Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, Oct. 6-23, FridaySaturday & Monday, 7 p.m., drapertheatre.org Forever Dead Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, through Nov. 4, Friday-Monday, 7:30 p.m., theobt.org Forever Plaid Hale Center Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Nov. 15, MondaySaturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinees, 2 & 4 p.m., hct.org God’s Favorite Rose Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, through Oct. 8., times vary, artsaltlake.org Heart of Robin Hood Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, through Oct. 14, Monday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinees, 2 & 4 p.m., hct.org Hello Dolly Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, through Nov. 18, Monday-Saturday, times vary, haletheater.org How to Fight Loneliness Anes Studio Theatre, 195 W. Center St., Cedar City, through Oct. 14, times vary, bard.org La Bohème Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, through Oct. 7-15, dates and times vary, utahopera.org (see p. 21) Mamma Mia Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, through Oct. 21, times vary, tuacahn.org An Enemy of the People The Wherehaüs, 175 E. 200 South, through Oct. 7, Wednesday-Sunday, 7:30 p.m., riotacttheatre.com Surely Goodness and Mercy Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through Oct. 15, times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org Wait Until Dark Heritage Theatre, 2505 S. Highway 89, Perry, Oct. 6-28, Friday, Saturday & Monday, 7:30 p.m., heritagetheatreutah.com

9th West Farmers Market International Peace Garden, 1000 S. 900 West, through Oct. 29, Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 9thwestfarmersmarket.org Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 350 W. 300 South, through Oct. 28, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org Tuesday Harvest Market Pioneer Park, 350 W. 300 South, through Oct. 31, Tuesdays, 4 p.m.dusk, slcfarmersmarket.org Sugar House Farmers Market Fairmont Park, 1040 E. Sugarmont Drive, through Oct. 25, Wednesdays, 5-8 p.m., sugarhousefarmersmarket.org

Repertory Dance Theater: Sanctuary Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Oct. 5-7, 7:30 p.m., rdtutah.org (see p. 20) Odyssey Dance: Thriller Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. President’s Circle, 801-5881-7100, Oct. 6-30, days and times vary, odysseydance.com (see p. 20)

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CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Dynamics of the Changing Bonneville Salt Flats S.J. Quinney College of Law, 383 S. University St., Oct. 5, 12:15 p.m., law.utah.edu Scientist in the Spotlight: Decoding Climate History From Rocks & How We Store Body Fat Natural History Museum of Utah, Naturalist Lab, 301 Wakara Way, Oct. 6, 2-4 p.m., nhmu.utah.edu Great Salt Lake: Birds, Water and People Westminster College Gore Auditorium, 1840 S. 1300 East, Oct. 10, 6 p.m., greatsaltlakeaudubon.org Diné on Bears Ears Panel Discussion S.J. Quinney College of Law, 383 S. University St., Oct. 11, 7 p.m., law.utah.edu

October Winds and Song: Choral Arts Society of Utah & Utah Wind Symphony Jordan High School, 95 Beetdigger Blvd., Sandy, Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m.; Eisenhower Junior High, 4351 S. Redwood Road, Taylorsville, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m., casu.org World Golden Memories International Tour Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-689-8700, Oct. 6, 7 p.m., egyptiantheaterogden.com Weber State University Symphony Orchestra Val A. Browning Center, 1901 University Circle, Ogden, Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m., weber.edu

COMEDY & IMPROV

Christopher Titus Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Oct. 8, 7 p.m., 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com Jordan Makin Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Oct. 6-7, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Norm Macdonald Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 6-7, 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 20)

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Craig Harline: A World Ablaze The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 5, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Emily Clark: Art Triumphant Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Oct. 7, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Jennifer A. Nielsen: Deadzone The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 7, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Lindsay Eagar: Race to the Bottom of the Sea The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 10, 6:30 p.m., kingsenglish.com

Oktoberfest Snowbird Resort 9385 S. Snowbird Center Drive, Snowbird, Saturdays & Sundays through Oct. 15, snowbird.com

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Asylum 49 140 E. 200 S., Tooele, through Nov. 4, days and times vary, asylum49.com BooLights! Hogle Zoo, 2600 E. Sunnyside Ave., Oct. 6-27, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., hoglezoo.org Castle of Chaos 7980 S. State, Midvale, through Nov. 4, days and times vary, castleofchaos.com Fear Factory 666 W. 800 South, 801-6923327, through Nov. 4, days and times vary, fearfactoryslc.com Haunted Hollow 150 S. 1900 West, West Haven, through Oct. 31, days and times vary, hauntedutah.com Nightmare on 13th 300 W. 1300 South, through Nov. 4, days and times vary, nightmareon13th.com Strangling Brothers Haunted Circus 632 E. 1500 South, American Fork, through Nov. 4, days and times vary, stranglingbrothers.com

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Al Ahad: The Hijab Project UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Nov. 18, utahmoca.org

Ali Mitchell: Oil Fields Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts, 631 W. North Temple, Ste. 700, through Oct. 11, facebook.com/mestizoarts Anastasia Dukhanina Redman Gallery, 1240 E. 2100 South, Floors 6 & 7, through Oct. 31, redmangallery.com Art2Go Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through Oct. 13, accessart.org Cabinet of Curiosities: Strange Objects From the Staff of the City Library Main Library Special Collections, 210 E. 400 South, Oct. 9-Nov. 17, slcpl.org Cary Griffiths: Reprise Art at The Main, 210 E. 400 South, through Oct. 14, artatthemain.com Cities of Conviction UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Jan. 6, utahmoca.org E. Clark Marshall: Of Stone and Substance Art Access Gallery, through Oct. 13, accessart.org Eileen Vestal: Love Letter to Italy Sweet Library, 455 F St., through Oct. 21, slcpl.org Fahimeh Amiri and Students: Children’s Expression Through Painting Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Oct. 13, slcpl.org Ilse Bing Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Dec. 31, umfa.utah.edu Jaime Salvador Castillo & Michael Anthony Garcia: whereABOUTS UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Dec. 9, utahmoca.org Jimmi Toro: Kindle a Light Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Ave., Park City, through Nov. 26, kimballartcenter.org Justin Watson Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, through Nov. 17, saltlakearts.org Justin Watson: |human| Nox Contemporary Gallery, 440 S. 400 West, Ste. H, through Nov. 10, bit.ly/2jP10tU Las Hermanas Iglesias: Here, Here UMFA, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Jan. 28, umfa.utah.edu Laura Erekson Atkinson: Builders Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Nov. 3, slcpl.org Lexi Johnson: Second Hand Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, through Nov. 10, slcpl.org Logan Sorenson: A Land Further North: Images from Iceland Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, through Oct. 26, slcpl.org Malicia Dominguez: The Golden Cage Anderson Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, through Nov. 9, slcpl.org Matt Kruback and Naomi Marine: prima facie Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through Nov. 10, visualarts.utah.gov Natalie Stallings: Microscopic Sovereign Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Nov. 3, slcpl.org (see above left) Photo Alt. Group Photography Exhibition Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, through Nov. 17, saltlakearts.org Rebecca Klundt, Liberty Blake and Elise Ostraff Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, through Nov. 17, saltlakearts.org Strangely Enough Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., through Nov. 5, urbarnartsgallery.org Tina Vigos: Seeking Grace Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East, through Oct. 21, slcpl.org Tom Horton Photography Red Butte Garden, 300 Wakara Way, through Oct. 8, redbuttegarden.org Utah Native American Artist Exhibition Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, through Oct. 12, culturalcelebration.org Vincent Mattina: Altered States Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Nov 10, slcpl.org

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SQUAW VALLEY | ALPINE MEADOWS, CALIFORNIA Athletes: JT Holmes, Jonny Moseley, Errol Kerr Equipment: Skis During a season of record snowfall in Squaw Valley, professional skiers Jonny Moseley, Errol Kerr, and JT Holmes rack up their fair share of snow days skiing deep powder and carving corduroy. As JT puts it, “it’s a humbling experience to have mother nature be that powerful; it really puts you in your place.” While the guys are blown away by an abundance of snow, they also reflect on their individual journeys as athletes and the importance of passing on their passion for the sport to the next generation.

VAL D’ISÈRE, FRANCE Athletes: Lexi duPont, Amie Engerbretson, McKenna Peterson Equipment: Skis, paragliders Intricate systems of chairlifts, tunnels, and trams; limitless terrain with stunning lookouts over Italy; and an unparalleled après scene define the alluring ski town that is Val d’Isère, France. Tradition runs deep in this historic ski spot where Jean-Claude Killy made some of his first turns, and athletes Lexi duPont, Amie Engerbretson, and McKenna Peterson are here to find out what this grand lifestyle in the Alps is all about. As Amie puts it, “it’s less about bagging laps or seeing how much vert you can ski,” and these ladies are here to honor that. MUSTANG POWDER LODGE – MONASHEE MOUNTAINS, BRITISH COLUMBIA Athletes: Scotty Arnold, Jeremy Jensen, Neil Provo, Ian Provo Equipment: Powsurfers, snowcats Pro athletes Scotty Arnold and Neil and Ian Provo have mastered steep lines and terrain parks, but the fundamentals of balance and turning become the focus when they head to Mustang Powder Lodge to powsurf the deep snow and steep trees of British Columbia’s Monashee Mountains. With powdersurfing, there are no bindings so “to even make it down the hill is an accomplishment,” and the guys are reminded of that feeling of first learning to snowboard, ski, skate, or surf. For Grassroots Powdersurfing founder Jeremy Jensen, that’s why powdersurfing is the “fountain of youth”—it can make even the most talented athletes feel like a kid again.

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GLACIER COUNTRY, MONTANA Athletes: Tyler Ceccanti, Collin Collins, Keith Curtis Equipment: Snowmobiles, skis, dogsled Professional skier Collin Collins dubs Western Montana’s Glacier Country “the mecca of all meccas,” and he’s not wrong. Pieced together by huge pillows, massive cliffs, insane lines, and endless untapped terrain, these abundant zones offer something for everyone to play on. While Collin Collins and Tyler Ceccanti navigate the backcountry on planks, world-class snowmobiler and hill climb champion, Keith Curtis, ascends and descends the face of these slopes on his snowmobile.

NEW ZEALAND Athletes: Seth Wescott, Rob Kingwill Equipment: Snowboards, helicopter It’s no secret that athletes Seth Wescott and Rob Kingwill have mastered the art of snowboarding, but sometimes even the pros are reminded of the sheer power of a mountain and the unconditional respect that it requires. In New Zealand, the guys carve and float on steep slopes and complex terrain of Aoraki / Mount Cook and tap into “that edge where you feel like you might die, but at the same time it’s those moments when you really truly feel alive.” While it’s a fine line to ride, these are the moments they keep coming back for.

BEARTOOTH PASS, WYOMING-MONTANA Athletes: Kalen Thorien, Michael “Bird” Shaffer Equipment: Speed wing, motorcycles, skis, car and camping trailer The Beartooth Highway is a nearly 70-mile route that winds its way through Wyoming, Montana, and into Yellowstone. Every spring the gate to Beartooth Pass is opened and die-hards make the pilgrimage to ski the snow that has accumulated through the winter. Professional skiers Michael “Bird” Shaffer and Kalen Thorien bring along everything they need to do some winter camping on the pass. Leaving the car and trailer behind, they approach their lines by motorcycle. Once on the descent, the “Bird” proves he can actually fly, and these two adventurous spirits make spring turns down the rugged peaks that envelop this classic American highway’s alpine tundra landscape.

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STEAMBOAT, COLORADO Athletes: Arielle Gold, Taylor Gold Equipment: Snowboards, skis, snowcats In Steamboat, you train through the night if you want to be an Olympian, and siblings Arielle and Taylor Gold have done just that. The snowboarding duo throw down under the stars in their native ski town, as they fuel one another to push their limits of riding and live out their dreams of Olympic pursuit. Meanwhile, by day, Steamboat’s mountain operations works behind-the- scenes to make the mountain thrive, and prep the NASTAR race course for the next generation of world-class ski racers.

SILVERTON, COLORADO Athletes: George Rodney, Ty Peterson Equipment: Helicopter, skis, horses, sleds Nestled in southwestern Colorado, Silverton was originally a hotspot for mining silver. Nowadays, the small town sees some of the state’s greatest snowfall and hosts some of its wildest terrain. It’s a tiny town, rough around the edges, with colorful characters and a mountain defined by its single chairlift and expert-only skiing and riding. With technically the entire mountain considered out-of- bounds, professional skiers George Rodney and Ty Peterson discover some of the deepest stashes of their season.

NORWAY / FERNIE, BRITISH COLUMBIA Athletes: Linda Haaland, Kevin Giffin, Marcus Caston, Kaylin Richardson Equipment: Skis, snowcats, dynamite Mountains plunge into the sea, snow-covered peaks pierce the clouds, and toddlers learn to ski before they can walk. Welcome to Norway. The history of skiing runs deep in this setting that native ski patroller Linda Haaland is proud to share with Canadian ski patroller Kevin Griffin, as well as pro skiers Kaylin Richardson and Marcus Caston. As they tour this stunning landscape—where you’ll find a fjord on your left, a farm on your right, and a steep line straight ahead—these patrollers from different ends of the world learn that no matter where you’re from, “the magic of a mountain pulls people in, wherever you go you fall in love with it, and the more places you get to go, the more you realize that everyone is just like you.”

JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING Athletes: Tommy Moe &amp; family, Jess McMillan, Rob Kingwill, Griffin Post Equipment: Skis, snowboards Jackson Hole’s iconic tram, or Big Red as the locals call it, pumps 100 people straight up to skier heaven every ten minutes and opens its doors to 4,000 feet of continuous vertical terrain. Locals Tommy Moe, Jess McMillan, Rob Kingwill, and Griffin Post lead the way around the mountain that Jess McMillan describes as “rough, ragged, comforting, and inviting all at the same time.” Beyond the dreamlike days of deep powder with fresh refills and your pick of endless expert lines, you’ll find some of the most educated ski bums in the world and an authentic mountain spirit where animals and people coexist. It’s like-minded people who are “doing whatever it takes to be able to ski day in and day out” in Jackson Hole.

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his fall, the annual tradition is back to salute the start of winter. The world’s biggest name in snowsports cinema—Warren Miller Entertainment—celebrates its 68th ski and snowboard film with downhill thrills, global adventure and a nod to those that taught us to slide on snow. Snow riders are a family—one big tribe comprising of many smaller ones. Familial rites pass down through generations. Skier roots grow deep in high mountain soil. Line of Descent celebrates just that, the lineage of legendary athletes through a multi-generational cast of skiing’s icons and fresh faces, including Tommy Moe, Jonny Moseley, JT Holmes, Lexi duPont, Seth Wescott, Kalen Thorien, Marcus Caston, Jeremy Jensen, Griffin Post, and more. This year, Volkswagen joins the most esteemed name in winter sports films as the presenting sponsor of the Line of Descent U.S. film tour. The partnership builds on the heritage and passion associated with both the Volkswagen and Warren Miller brands. Volkswagen’s partnership will grow authentically well into 2019, elevating the event experience that is the Warren Miller institution and marking the beginning of every winter season. Ride along on a stunning cinematic journey as we travel near and far, descending some of North America’s deepest lines in Jackson Hole, Montana, Silverton, Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, and Steamboat. From powsurfing to splitboard, motorcycle, dogsled or snowmobile, watch as athletes chase winter along the Beartooth Pass, the French Alps, New Zealand, British Columbia, and Norway. “This season, we explore how skiers are shaped by picking up a pair of skis for the first time,” notes Warren Miller’s veteran producer Josh Haskins. “More often than not, it’s family who introduces us to the sport or steers us on the path towards an ongoing passion—be it a ski bum lifestyle, a professional career or simply the desire to pass on the same feeling to the next generation. There is a kinship unlike any other in the ski community, and Warren Miller is the elder, bringing generations of skiers and riders together for 68 years, and this year is no different.” Since 1949, ski families have cheered the official kickoff of winter with the ski film company that started it all. As the family grows, the traditions grow richer. Volkswagen Presents Warren Miller’s Line of Descent will premiere worldwide in three locations on October 13, 2017, including Salt Lake City, UT, Portland, OR and Bozeman, MT. Screenings will then sweep across the U.S. from the Pacific Northwest to the East Coast from October to January. Tickets are now on sale at Sports Den in Salt Lake City, Alpine Sports in Ogden, Cole Sport in Park City, and Play It Again Sports in Orem. Film attendees will enjoy lift ticket and gear savings from Warren Miller resort, retail and partnered brands and also be entered to win nightly prizes like swag and ski vacations. Local show dates and times can be found on warrenmiller.com.

MCKENNA PETERSON Current favorite piece of gear? K2 LuvBoat 105 - The ultimate one ski quiver. What is your number one goal in skiing/riding right now? To be constantly exploring something new, something different. It’s important to branch out of your comfort zone. Best advice you were ever given? Keep your hands forward. Where do you draw your inspiration from? My family, my friends and the mountains.

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What is your greatest fear? Monotony. Best moment filming with WME this year? Dancing on a table, still wearing my ski boots, after an epic day of skiing around the Alps with Amie and Lexi – it’s always a good time with those two.

SCOTTY ARNOLD Current favorite piece of gear? Why? My powsurf, it's the greatest way to get down the mountain. What is your number one goal in skiing/riding right now? I just want to have as much fun and ride as good of snow as I can. Best advice you were ever given? Do what makes you the most happy. Where do you draw your inspiration from? From within, if I am doing something I love to do I am naturally inspired, but if I am forcing myself to do things I don't want to do I will work less hard at it. What is your greatest fear? Balding. But that is already happening. Best moment filming with WME this year? Getting to hang with the boys up at Mustang Powder with great snow and even better soup.

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trast, a trio of enchiladas seems like a steal at $15.95 (more on those later). And, hearty corn chips—specially made for Alamexo by La Flor with quinoa and flax seed for added flavor and texture—are served gratis with an outstanding table salsa of roasted tomatoes, chiles and jalapeños. Lake’s attention to detail led him to try hundreds of tortilla chip brands before finally deciding to have them custom-made to his specifications. I’m not a huge flauta fan, since the stuffed-and-fried flute-shaped entrée can be greasy and heavy. That’s not the case with the delectable flautas con papas y chorizo here ($7.25)—a serving of two corn tortilla flautas stuffed with high-quality, lean homemade chorizo and potato, topped with a rich guajillo salsa, lettuce, crema and jalapeño slices. A second excellent choice is the tlacoyo with green chile sauce, crumbled Oaxaca cheese, lettuce, cilantro, cascabel chile salsa, fresh cilantro and thin radish slices ($7.25). Now, forget what you know about enchiladas if you’re thinking of the standard soggy corn tortillas stuffed with cheese, topped with red or green canned sauce and melted cheddar. That’s not what’s happening here. While some of these enchiladas look like classic examples, others are served in more of an open-face style, and all are outstanding. It’s hard to choose between pork carnitas ones stuffed with wild mushrooms and Oaxaca cheese, or the barbecued short rib enchiladas with Poblano rajas. But if forced, I’d opt for the pollo con pipian verde. This is a gorgeous trio of enchiladas served in a cast-iron skillet, stuffed with shredded chicken and smothered in an avocado-colored green chile and pumpkin seed salsa. It’s a delightful dish. Where the downtown Alamexo is known for sending customers on their way with hot, free after-meal cinnamon-sugar churros, at the cantina you’ll be given buñuelos—fried dough fritters drizzled with local honey— which will cement your already desperate longing to return ASAP. CW

ince its opening in 2014, Matthew Lake’s Alamexo Mexican Kitchen has been a standout Salt Lake City restaurant serving authentic, refined regional Mexican fare. Although it’s far from formal, Lake has desired for some time to open a more casual, no-reservations-required eatery offering the same top-notch cuisine, but in a cantina-type atmosphere. Hence, the recent opening of the Alamexo Cantina. Food here is served family-style—with all dishes arriving simultaneously—rather than in the more classical style of appetizer, salad, entrée, etc. Lake wants to give customers the experience of dining the way they would “in a Mexican market café,” he says. Service is first-come, first-served. Whether you pop in for a margarita and botanas (appetizers) or a full meal, you’ll really love what Lake and his team have done with the place. A feature wall on the east side of the cantina is beautiful in its simplicity: recessed sections for candles, which Lake jokingly says look like catsized mausoleums; food photography by local artist Adam Finkle; an airy, colorful interior that completely opens out onto the neon-lit terrace in warm weather via retractable glass walls that completely disappear when opened. The eatery offers views of the 9th & 9th neighborhood as well as the Oquirrh Mountains. Artist Harry Baldwin painted a mural behind the bar depicting the iconic Espolón Blanco tequila label. If $11.95 seems steep for guacamole, know that you’re paying in part for performance. It’s created fresh at your tableside from ripe Haas avocados, tomato, onion, cilantro and jalapeño. In fairness, prices for the luscious fruit have recently soared; I paid $3 for a single avocado two weeks ago. By con-

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The national tour of master cupcake baking makes a Utah stop this month, as America’s Best Bakers visits the DoubleTree by Hilton near Salt Lake City Airport (5151 Wiley Post Way) on Saturday, Oct. 14, from 6-8 p.m. You can register as a participant for a chance to be crowned Utah’s Cupcake Queen/King, or just as a guest with a sweet tooth who wants to sample the treats. Visit bit.ly/2f Tp6zl for more info.

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Every once in a while, local museums become a place for grown-ups to enjoy after-hours fun in some of the state’s most fascinating venues. On Friday, Oct. 13, from 7-11 p.m., The Living Planet Aquarium (12033 Lone Peak Parkway, Draper, thelivingplanet.com) hosts a “Haunted Aquarium” Sips Under the Sea event, with appetizers and drinks included and costumes encouraged for a chance to win prizes. Cost is $39.95 per person, and tickets are limited. Meanwhile, The Leonardo (209 E. 500 South, theleonardo.org) presents an Oktoberfest-themed Libations at The Leonardo on Thursday, Oct. 12, starting at 6:30 p.m. Proper Brewing Co. will pair its craft beers with food offerings, including some special beer-infused recipes. Tickets are $55 per person or $75 with alcohol included. Leonardo members receive a $15 discount.

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Proper offers a return to the age of herbal ales. BY MIKE RIEDEL comments@cityweekly.net @utahbeer

t’s all about the hops in America’s beer world right now. However, a thousand years ago in continental Europe, the benefit of hops in beer was barely known, due to their geography and availability. Beers from that long-forgotten age were bittered with everything and anything an ancient brewer could get his or her hands on. It wasn’t because they loved the taste of bitters; it was more about making the ales less sweet, along with the various medicinal effects. Today, we refer to this style of beer as a gruit. These modern interpretations rely heavily on spices and berries to add flavors to the brew instead of the steadfast hop. The results can be a somewhat herbal and tea-like beer that has a bit of fruit or spice for balance. It’s also said that gruits can be stimulating apart from the more common alcoholic influences, and can be helpful as

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a libido aid. Proper Brewing Co.’s Brewmaster Rio Connolly and his crew took up the challenge to make not only one gruit, but two. Here are my impressions of these two very different ancient ales. Proper Gruit: Pours a somewhat hazy walnut color with ruby highlights. The aroma brings notes of soft wheat, along with a moderate tart sweetness reminiscent of herbaceous apricot and mild yeast. Pine and lemon round out the semi-potent scent. The taste showcases the herbs more accurately, starting with cracker-like malts with a touch of peach and pear. Now the herbs begin to assert themselves, as the addition of yarrow spices creates a notable bitterness, with flavors of grass and licorice. The next flavor to emerge from the spice rack is from the Labrador tea; it adds flavors similar to regular black tea, but with more piney bitters. Finally the sweet gale emerges, adding note similar to ginger, mint and rosemary. The blend of herbs isn’t too far off from some of the more mild-mannered European hops, and does a pretty decent job mimicking them. They provide adequate bitterness and flavor to round out the sweetness and yeast profile of this 8.5 percent ABV beer. Overall: With all of the herb additions, it’s far more accessible than I would have ever guessed. Many of the herbs used in lieu of hops generated very similar flavor profiles to hops, and a decent bitterness as well. I’d recommend that anybody inter-

ested in ancient-style ales try a gruit like this one. Grow Wild Gruit: Our second example pours a murky mahogany brown, with a faint tan head that fades very quickly. The nose is intensely herbal with the wild sage taking over entirely. It’s very fresh, but sharp. The taste is a little off the beaten path, with earthy, slightly metallic, herbal flavors shining through. Fresh horsemint takes over from here, adding a bright freshness that is cooling on the tongue. It’s kind of off-putting at first, but becomes more enjoyable as the palate adjusts. Hiding behind the mint is a licorice-like sweetness

and a somewhat bitter and astringent finish. I imagine this is something Tolkien’s Shire folk would go mad for. Overall: Despite the beer’s modest 4.0 percent ABV, it’s still a sipper due to the raw herbal madness that defines this brew’s flavor and aroma—though it could use a bit more malt and yeast phenolics for sweetness and body. This is definitely a brew aficionados should try, and I applaud Proper Brewing Co. for bringing these ancient beers back into the light. These herbalicious ales available right now at Proper Brewing and Avenues Proper. As always, skol! CW

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The SLC location of this California-based company is really three things in one: a store selling myriad types of flavored oils and vinegars, a wine bar and a café/bistro. Here, you’ll find oils infused with jalapeño, basil, blood orange, Meyer lemon, garlic, chipotle and more, plus an array of high-end EVOO (extra virgin olive oil), including some that are smoked. The food menu consists of sandwiches and paninis, flatbreads, salads and small-plate offerings such as ricotta with fresh herbs ($10), peppadews stuffed with Genoa salami and goat cheese ($9), prosciutto-wrapped dates ($11) and the like. Upon being seated, you’ll be presented with gratis sliced baguette-style bread, balsamic vinegar and olive oils for dipping. There are 28 wines to select from—an equal number of reds and whites—most offered by the taste (1 ounce), glass (5 ounces) or bottle. Service is professional and friendly, and even stopping in for just a charcuterie or cheese plate and a sip of vino feels like a mini-getaway. My favorite pairing is the scrumptious and addictive fromage flatbread ($10) with Gruet Méthode Champenoise sparkling brut rosé. Your taste buds will thank you. Reviewed Aug. 24. 602 E. 500 South (Trolley Square), 801-448-7489, weolive.com/salt-lake-city

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f you’re a film critic, it’s a virtual guarantee that at some point during October, somebody will ask you, “So what’s a good scary movie?” Blogs and movie-oriented websites fill their space with such lists, and then it’s left to readers to find them on streaming services, or their public library, or wherever else physical media hangs out these days. Or, you can take advantage of the fact that the Salt Lake Film Society has done all the curating for you, and offers you a place to sit down and share terrifying experiences with a crowd, as God intended. Starting this week, the annual “Tower of Terror” program gets an expanded version that’s more than just weekend midnight monster movies. Themed weeks offer something for a wide range of enthusiasts of scary fare, plus some of the most popular returning features of previous years. Oct. 6-12: Fangoria-Style Horror Week. If you grew up with horror movie fan magazine Fangoria, you know the kind of unapologetically gory stuff that it championed; if you didn’t, it’s possible that another week might be a better one for you. Perhaps the paradigm of the form comes from director Dario Argento, whose 1977 classic Suspiria (Oct. 7, 11 p.m.; Oct. 8, noon) revels in the horrifying discoveries of an American student at a creepy German ballet school. The 1980 low-budget tale Effects (Oct. 6-8, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.) gathers several alumni of George A. Romero zombie movies for the story of a horror-movie crew gradually realizing they’re making a snuff film. For a more recent vintage, there’s something to offend just about everyone in 2016’s Red Christmas (Oct. 6-8, 4 p.m. & 9 p.m.; Oct. 9-12, 4 p.m., 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.), with beloved E.T. mom Dee Wallace overseeing a holiday family gathering where the deformed child she thought she had aborted years earlier—yes, you read that correctly—comes home for vengeance. Oct. 13-19: Ghosts of Japanese Horror. The influence of “J-horror” hit Hollywood big time in the 2000s with remakes like The Ring and The Grudge; here are some of the originals. If you’ve never seen the demented brilliance of Nobuhiko Ôbuyashi’s 1977 House (Oct. 13-19, 2:15 p.m. & 4 p.m.), you owe it to yourself to discover how bizarre a “schoolgirl friends spend a weekend

at a haunted house” narrative can be. Takashi Miike’s 1999 Audition (Oct. 15, 11 p.m.; Oct. 16, noon) begins with a widower trying to find a new wife before turning into something much more cringe-inducing and disturbing. The new kid on the block is 2017’s Temple (Oct. 13, 7 p.m.; Oct. 14-19, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.), with American tourists tormented by spirits in a long-abandoned Japanese temple. Oct. 20-26: 4K Horror Tributes. The classics never go out of style for a reason— and this year, there’s even more reason to recognize two of the greatest horror films ever made, as we lost their respective directors in the last few months. Romero’s 1968 masterpiece Night of the Living Dead (Oct. 20-26, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.) virtually invented the modern obsession with zombies in its stark tale of humans trying to survive an unexplained plague of corpses rising from their graves. Tobe Hooper’s 1974 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Oct. 20-26, 4 p.m. & 9 p.m.) took the real-life tale of cannibalistic serial

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killer Ed Gein and turned it into the introduction of power-tool-wielding maniac Leatherface. Both of these terrifying works of art are presented in new 4K restorations worthy of their status. Oct. 27-Nov. 2: Classic Scares. And speaking of the classics, here are the movies that introduced the world to two of film history’s most iconic murderers. Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece Psycho (Oct. 27-28 & Oct. 31, 2 p.m.; Oct. 29-30 & Nov. 1-2, 2 p.m. & 4:15 p.m.) remains shocking with its nerve-wracking Bernard Herrman score and its tale of a boy named Norman Bates who just really loves his mother. Meanwhile, a mask-wearing, knife-wielding escaped killer named Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield in John Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween (Oct. 27-28 & Oct. 31, 4:15 p.m.; Oct. 29-30 & Nov. 1-2, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.), with a scary-movie score that might have become almost as familiar as Psycho’s. Oct. 13: X96 Double Feature. On the topic of masked killers, Jason Voorhees is the star of this year’s annual X96 event (Oct. 13, 9 p.m.) on an actual Friday the 13th, as 1980’s Friday the 13th shares the bill with 1984’s inaptly named Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (hint: it really, really wasn’t). Oct. 20-31: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again. It wouldn’t be Halloween at the Tower without The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Oct. 20-21, 11:30 p.m.; Oct. 22 & Oct. 29-30, noon; Oct. 27-28 & Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m. & 11:30 p.m.) and its musically mad adventures of an innocent young couple discovering strange experiments at a spooky castle. After so much white-knuckle terror for a full month, it might be nice to cool down with a campier take on a creature feature. CW

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NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. BLADE RUNNER 2049 [not yet reviewed] A young blade runner (Ryan Gosling) seeks out the longmissing Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford). Opens Oct. 6 at theaters valleywide. (R)

THE STRAY [not yet reviewed] Fact-based story of a stray dog’s impact on a family struggling to stay together. Opens Oct. 6 at Megaplex Jordan Commons. VICTORIA AND ABDUL BBB.5 Twenty years after 1997’s Mrs. Brown, in which Judi Dench played a newly widowed Queen Victoria who develops a close friendship with a royal groundskeeper, she’s back as the 20-yearsolder monarch who, in the last years of her reign, develops a close friendship with servant Abdul Karim (the absolutely delightful Ali Fazal). A clerk plucked from obscurity and sent from India to England to help in the 1887 celebration of Victoria’s golden jubilee, he’s a real sweetie, and she adopts him as a diverting companion. Director Stephen Frears mines good-natured humor out of the outrageousness of royal existence, but much sharper are the cutting observations on the privilege and prejudice of those surrounding the Queen—including her son, the Prince of Wales (Eddie Izzard)—who cannot abide a commoner so close and influential to Victoria. This true story (“mostly,” an opening card notes wryly), while charming, does not ignore the deeply problematic issues of historical colonialism, and there is a resonance for today, too, almost an admonishment to be more open to learning about other cultures—perhaps particularly the ones that seem extra-foreign and scary. Opens Oct. 6 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson

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CURRENT RELEASES AMERICAN MADE BB.5 Based on the true story of commercial airline pilot turned international criminal mastermind Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), it hits a lot of the same beats as Goodfellas. Seal graduates from petty delinquency to taking spy photos for the CIA, to acting as a bagman in transactions between the Company and Noriega, to becoming a DEA informant. Then comes the Iran-Contra scandal. There’s a certain charm and a lot of humor in how director Doug Liman and Cruise regale us with Seal’s adventures, and therein lies a problem: The tone feels really inappropriate for a movie about this level of corruption from the U.S. government. You can’t even call the film’s attitude cynical; it’s more a winking shrug of acceptance. Made has style galore, including a vintage ’70s color palette—but should it? (R)—MAJ BATTLE OF THE SEXES BBB.5 There’s a necessity to a movie like this that goes beyond its enormous sheer entertainment value. Co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris capture the amusement value of retro-kitsch in their biopic about the infamous 1973 tennis exhibition between Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) without their film being actually kitschy. Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy finds sly humor in how the women’s tour begun by King grows and succeeds; our eye today cannot help but pick out casual sexism that passed unnoticed in 1973. Perhaps the more trenchant history lesson, however—embedded in the romance between the then-married King and her first female lover—is that behind every victory is another campaign for dignity waiting to be started. It’s a bittersweet reminder that not all battles can be fought at once, and that this battle hasn’t yet been won. (PG-13)—MAJ

THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US BBB The Mountain Between Us stars beautiful Kate Winslet and justas-beautiful Idris Elba. Good thing, too, because the plot is so absurd the audience needs beguiling by the stars’ looks. Winslet and Elba also happen to be fine actors, so that takes the curse off this by-the-numbers tale of two victims of a small plane crash surviving in the Rockies in January. One has a huge gash in her broken leg (Winslet’s Alex); the other, cracked ribs (Elba’s Ben). Luckily, Ben is a doctor—always a handy survivor in a plane crash—and

MY LITTLE PONY: THE MOVIE [not yet reviewed] Plucky ponies set out on a quest to save Ponyville from evil forces. Opens Oct. 6 at theaters valleywide. (PG)

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Alex has deep desire to survive so she can return home and marry Mark (Dermot Mulroney, past his heartthrob expiration date). The dangers that befall Alex and Ben—falls off cliffs, cougars, lack of food, 3-foot snowdrifts, co-star Beau Bridges’ hambone accent—amount to nothing because, each night, they keep finding shelter. Even Alex’s fall into an icy pond can’t bring her, or Ben, down. It’s silly and predictable, but—no kidding—it somehow works. Just don’t think about it too much. Plus, it’s a bonus to see Elba in a non-Marvel, non-animated, non-Dark Tower role. Opens Oct. 6 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—David Riedel

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it’s mostly coming off as a network knockoff of HBO’s Big Little Lies, which was no great shakes itself. Yeah, I said it. O.M. Gawd! Who could have predicted that Riverdale (Season 2 premiere, Wednesday, Oct. 11, The CW) would blow up when it debuted back in January? I mean, besides me? (Look it up—I’m on the right side of history here.) The Archie Comics-viacamp-noir teen drama squeezed a whole lotta crazy into its initial 13 hours, culminating in a hysterical maple-syrup/drugtrafficking reveal and the possible murder of Archie’s dad, Fred (Luke Perry). What’s next for Archie (K.J. Apa), Jughead (Cole Sprouse), Betty (Lili Reinhart) and Veronica (Camila Mendes)? Between sexy times, the gang will be tracking a new town threat known as “Sugar Man,” True Detectivestyle. I’m just a wee bit too excited for this. On the other hand, I have zero fucks to give about Dynasty (series debut, Wednesday, Oct. 11, The CW), a needless reboot of the big-haired super-soap that ruled the ’80s. Why not revive a lesser-known show, like the amazing 1985 series Street Hawk, which was pretty much just Knight Rider on a motorcycle, or the 1987 cult crime classic Wiseguy, which presaged TV’s current incest-is-best craze by 30 years? Or, hell, Square Pegs? Anyway: Dynasty is still about clashing Atlanta families the Colbys and the Carringtons, both rich, both beautiful, both overflowing with White People Problems—come on, read the room/country, CW. If ever there were a time for petulant TV billionaires, this ain’t it. Season 2 weeded out the casual observers quickly, but USA is sticking by its breakthrough “prestige series” Mr. Robot (Season 3 premiere, Wednesday, Oct. 11, USA). With Elliot (Rami Malek) laid up after being gunned down, is Darlene (Carly Chaikin) about to feel the wrath of the Dark Army? Will Elliot’s other half, Mr. Robot (Christian Slater), deliver fsociety’s death blow to Evil Corp? What the hell does new-onthe-scene car salesman Irving (Bobby Cannavale) have to do with any of this? Remember that the last episode of Mr. Robot aired long before Nov. 8, 2016, and trust that the new season will deal with the election fallout differently, if not more subtly, than American Horror Story: Cult. CW

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Over the past year, English house DJs Ky Gibbon and Matt Robson-Scott have built the foundation for their Kingdom tour one bass-pumping collaboration at a time. After working with artists like NAATIONS, Mikky Ekko and Wyclef Jean, their latest EDM opus—the double-album Kingdom—is complete. To celebrate, Gorgon City is packing up their turntables and leaving the shores of their beloved European club scene with a hard drive full of glittery new material. Opening this leg of the tour, Manchesterbased techno duo Solardo began with gritty, garage-forged dubstep before evolving into an accessible house sound. As this quartet of DJs is used to performing in Europe’s most notable dance venues— Gorgon City just wrapped up a residency at Amnesia in Ibiza—it’s important to give them a turnout that shows just how nasty SLC clubbers can get on the dance floor. (Alex Springer) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $22.50-$30, all ages, thecomplexslc.com

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this year (for a total of five in 2017). They also put a lot of thought into their visual aesthetic, and they have ideas coming out of their gizzards. But is KG et al. the Aussie GBV? While not doppelgängers, the two bands share—in addition to the aforementioned—boundless creativity and a devotion to rock as an art form. GBV nucleus Robert Pollard would certainly dig KG’s current project, a five-album suite, coming out this year. The first two installments—the far-out Flying Microtonal Banana: Explorations in Microtonal Tuning (February) and the absolutely bonkers concept album Murder of the Universe— came in February and June, respectively. No. 3, Sketches of Brunswick East (ATO), is a month old, and it’s an improvisational jazz collab with Mild High Club (Alex Brettin). Kinda makes you think that KG might one day out-GBV GBV. (Randy Harward) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $16 presale; $18 day of show, 21+, metromusichall.com

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This is one of several warm-up gigs before local guitar hero and innovator (and sole master of the cross-necked guitar) Terence Hansen heads out on tour to The Netherlands, Germany, Romania and Austria to promote not one, but two albums. Guru—recorded in 2014 in Oudenhoorn, The Netherlands—focuses on Hansen’s jazzy pop-rock tunes, which merge the citified night-songs of Steely Dan with the breezy yacht rock of Christopher Cross, in songs that deal with “inner struggle, loss, searching, spirituality and existential themes,” Hansen says. This, while the unrepentant shredder finds room to flash his chops in subdued but explosive solos, revealing an interesting junction between soft rock/ smooth jazz class and arena rock flash. City Weekly hasn’t heard Baktun yet, but Hansen teases it as “a mix of instrumental and experimental songwriting—also very esoteric, but with a lot of shredding.” (RH) Wilmington Plaza, 1215 Wilmington Ave., 6 p.m., free, 21+, musicgarage.org

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Your choice will be between what’s flashy and your attention to a comparable break in continuity that affects your own inner terrain, Cancerian—a gray area where two what’s authentic; between feeding your ego and feeding your soul. important areas of your life remain unlinked. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to close the gap. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) A Canadian guy named Harold Hackett likes to put messages in bottles that he throws out into the Atlantic Ocean from his home on LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Prince Edward island. Since he started in 1996, he has dispatched Based in Korea, Samsung is a world leader in selling smartover 5,000 missives into the unknown, asking the strangers who phones and other information technology. But it didn’t start might find them to write back to him. To his delight, he has received out that way. In its original form, back in 1938, it primarmore than 3,000 responses from as far away as Russia, Scotland, ily sold noodles and dried fish. By 1954, it had expanded into and West Africa. I suspect that if you launch a comparable mission wool manufacturing. More than three decades after its launch sometime soon, Aquarius, your success rate wouldn’t be quite that as a company, it further diversified, adding electronics to its high, but still good. What long-range inquiries or invitations might repertoire. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the next 10 months should be an excellent time for you to do you send out in the direction of the frontier? the equivalent of branching out from noodles and dried fish to electronics. And the coming six weeks will be quite favorable for PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) “Intensify” is one of your words of power these days. So are formulating your plans and planting your seeds. “fortify,” “reinforce,” and “buttress.” Anything you do to intensify your devotion and focus will be rewarded by an inten- VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) sification of life’s gifts to you. As you take steps to fortify In my opinion, you’re not quite ready to launch full-tilt into the your sense of security and stability, you will activate dormant rebuilding phase. You still have a bit more work to do on tearreserves of resilience. If you reinforce your connections with ing down the old stuff that’s in the way of where the new stuff reliable allies, you will set in motion forces that will ultimately will go. So I recommend that you put an “Under Construction” bring you help you didn’t even know you needed. If you buttress sign outside your door, preferably with flashing yellow lights. the bridge that links your past and future, you will ensure that This should provide you with protection from those who don’t understand the complexity of the process you’re engaged in. your old way of making magic will energize your new way. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You’re a good candidate for the following roles: 1. a skeptical optimist who is both discerning and open-minded; 2. a robust truth-teller who specializes in interesting truths; 3. a charming extremist who’s capable of solving stubborn riddles; 4. a smooth operator who keeps everyone calm even as you initiate big changes; 5. an enlightened game-player who reforms or avoids games that abuse beauty’s power.

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Seasons change pretty drastically in the capital city this time of year. Colors change, stores are full of holiday crap/décor and many of us run to Lagoon’s Frightmares or a haunted house like Nightmare on 13th. Spooky, creepy times await! But in the world of real estate, I run into my fair share of hair-raising ick all year round. As I’m older and work on a great deal of estate sales of the recently deceased, I often get “first looks” at a property about to go on the market. And on occasion, I’m completely wigged out—even though I’ve been doing this for 33 years. Recently, a client from decades ago (who had since moved out of state) contacted me to sell his brother’s house—we’ll call him Frank. For years, Frank had been somewhat of a hermit in his little home. The landscaping was overgrown and many thought the place had been abandoned. Frank had suffered small strokes, and with each one had lost a little more of his mental capacity. He turned off his water, stopped using the toilet and instead used milk jugs and plastic bags from newspapers thrown on his porch each morning. He didn’t open his mail but just threw it onto the floor. At some point, my client was notified by a local hospital that Frank had a major stroke, so he rallied the family from all over the country to come to the rescue. Sadly, Frank would never be well enough to return home, and thus the property and his possessions had to be sold. Once the relatives arrived in Salt Lake City, we all met at the property. I was given a bit of backstory in advance. Having once worked in the morgue at Holy Cross Hospital during college, I knew to bring Vick’s vapor rub or something else smelly enough to protect our noses from the smell. It took two of us to break down the front door. The stench was horrific. There was a roof leak and much of the foot-deep pile of mail throughout the home was wet and moldy. The family called a local “disaster cleanup” company who bid out the job at $12,000. But luckily, I had another company at hand that did it for $3,000. My subcontractors were able to find his driver’s license and birth certificate, along with some personal possessions and antiques that were later sold at a small estate sale. Frank now lives at a lovely care center. You think your house is a mess? Oh, let me take you on a tour of some of the hoarder houses I see. They are sad evidence of folks with physical and psychological problems—and the stuff of spooky, creepy nightmares for those of us with OCD. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Audacious Kristi Lyn Goss, 44, former administrative assistant to the Garland County, Ark., Judge Rick Davis, went all out when she racked up about $200,000 worth of debt on the county credit card between 2011 and 2016, according to The Hot Springs Sentinel-Record. Among the many items Goss purchased on the county’s account were tickets to Arkansas Razorbacks games, sequined throw pillows and a tuxedo for her dog. Goss pleaded guilty on Sept. 11 to six felony fraud counts; her sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 22. Davis issued a statement at Goss’ arrest noting that he had “inherited” her from a former judge.

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It’s Complicated As Hurricane Irma bore down on Florida in early September, the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office announced that registered sex offenders, who would not be able to shelter with other citizens, “need someplace to go just like any other citizen.” The Tampa Bay Times reported that sex offenders were directed to Wiregrass Ranch High School in Wesley Chapel. Pasco County Sheriff’s spokesman Kevin Doll noted that offenders found in other shelters where children were present were subject to arrest, but said the predator shelter would welcome offenders from other counties. In nearby Polk County, officials were not so generous, telling sex offenders, “If you are a predator, find somewhere else to go,” and announcing that they would be checking IDs at the door and arresting anyone with an outstanding warrant.

Recalculating … Well, it WAS dark … Gabriel Bishop of Sellersville, Pa., put all his faith in his car’s GPS system on the evening of Sept. 9, even as it directed him to follow a bike path running alongside the Lehigh River in Easton. According to lehighvalleylive.com, when the path led under a low bridge, Bishop realized his mistake and tried to back up, but ended up rolling his car into the river. Easton police reported that he was uninjured and received citations for multiple traffic offenses.

Exploitation 101 Jerry Sargeant, 39, of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England, who claims on his website to be able to cure cancer via Skype, has been convicted in Westminster Magistrate’s Court of violating the U.K.’s 1939 Cancer Act, which prohibits advertising services that “offer to treat any person for cancer.” The Daily Mail reports that Sargeant, who calls himself “The Facilitator,” says he discovered his talent for “Star Magic” when he saw a woman’s soul fly out of her body during a car accident in Romania. He also claims to have flown to Alpha Centauri on a spaceship and returned to Earth just minutes later. Sargeant’s healing sessions cost 90 pounds for 15 minutes, but he told police that appointments can go up to an hour because “you can’t put a time on magic.” He will be sentenced on Nov. 8.

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Life Imitates Cartoons The Fremont, Calif., Police Department responded late on Sept. 17 to a Safeway store where 39-year-old Adam Kowarsh, armed with a French baguette, was on a rampage. According to SFGate, workers told Kowarsh he needed to pay for his items and leave the store, but when one employee tried to calm him, Kowarsh responded by pushing him and then hitting him across the face with the baguette. The Safeway employee was unhurt, but Kowarsh was charged with suspicion of battery and a parole violation. No Pain, No Gain Archaeologists in Cambridgeshire, England, have discovered the remains of a nearly 200-year-old colony of utopians espousing “free love and wife-swapping,” according to Metro. The Manea Fen community—established in 1838 by Methodist minister William Hodson, who championed a community free from marriage, money or monogamy—once numbered 150 members, but lasted only 25 months before succumbing to “personality clashes and objections to the practice of free love.” Lead researcher Dr. Marcus Brittain believes “they got the wrong people, they had no labor skills and put in no time and effort, they were drunk, they went into local brothels, and thought they could build a utopia without breaking a sweat.” Least-Competent Criminals Police officers in Surf City, N.C., stopped Zachary Kingsbury, 20, of Lynnwood, Wash., on Aug. 30 and asked him to step out of his car because they had spotted contraband inside. Kingsbury complied, but then took off running, heading toward the beach—and didn’t stop when he hit the ocean. According to the Port City Daily, Kingsbury continued swimming for almost an hour as police tracked him with a drone-mounted camera, which allowed them to also see the shark trailing him in the water. At that point, Surf City Police Chief Ron Shanadan said, the chase “became a rescue operation,” and multiple emergency crews were dispatched to pick up the fugitive. Kingsbury was taken into custody in North Topsail Beach and charged with resisting arrest and possession of marijuana and methamphetamine. n The first rule of thievery ought to be: Draw no attention to oneself. An unnamed driver in Lelystad, The Netherlands, apparently hadn’t learned this rule before he strapped two large lampposts to the roof of his tiny two-door car and drove away from Almere, where police believe he stole them. NL Times reported that officers stopping the man on Aug. 1 smelled alcohol on his breath, but his offenses didn’t end there: His license had been declared invalid late last year, and his car was uninsured. It was unclear what the man planned to use the lampposts for.

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Smooth Reactions A movie stuntman in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, put his skills to work when a potential buyer of his Mercedes Benz tried to take off with the car on Sept. 13. The Telegraph reported that Matt Spooner met the “buyer” and gave a test drive in the car, but the thief wouldn’t get out and started to take off. So, Spooner told reporters, “I ran round to the front and asked him politely to step out. I then ended up on the front of the vehicle and it began to move.” The driver entered

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Compelling Explanations Lisa Faye Stout, 53, came up with an unusual scapegoat for the mess police officers found in her room on Sept. 10 at New Castle, Indiana’s Raintree Inn, according to Muncie’s The Star Press. Vampires had “destroyed everything,” Stout told the officers, who were responding to reports that she had shown up in the hotel bar wearing no pants or undergarments. The front desk clerk also said Stout spit on her and threatened to kill her. As she was taken into custody, Stout spit some more and threatened to “slice” officers’ throats. Stout was charged in Henry County court with two counts of battery by bodily waste, intimidation and criminal mischief.

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Campaign Follies Incumbent mayoral candidate Charles Pender erected his campaign signs in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, and Labrador, Canada, on Aug. 30, but when he woke up on Aug. 31, he found that they had been vandalized—with hot dogs. CBC News reported that someone had cut round holes in the signs and inserted hot dogs to look as if Pender was smoking a cigar. Pender called it “minor mischief” but noted that the signs are expensive. He called the police, but he feels it’s unlikely the frank bandit will be caught. He hopes to turn the incident into a good laugh with a “bun-raiser” later in the election season.

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