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Cover story, p. 13 A year into his run with City Weekly, the Payson native has too found his voice. “I love sharing stories from those in our midst who are often overlooked,” the crossword-puzzle aficionado says of his role.

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So just regular dung, then?

“In this past political season, Democrats acting as party hijackers unfairly labeled a candidate for party chairman as a sexual predator.” The author describes multiple women— some with a paper trail of reporting the misconduct and others with corroborating witnesses—as being unfair and hijackers. Way to victim-shame there!

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Opinion, Oct. 12, “Grand Gestures”

In passing through Utah as a tourist, picked up the City Weekly, and I’m writing to compliment you. The North American Indian didn’t do too well when encountering the European Christian invaders. I think the Indians have a solid case, and I’d award them damages if a jury judging by what befell them when the European Christians arrived. Really, no question in my mind. At the same time, the Indians were constantly battling each other. Tribal warfare was the rule and not the exception. That occurred all over North America, Central and South America. Again, the worst of these warring groups was the genocide perpetrated on these Native peoples by the European Christians. These same European Christians then brought human beings from Africa for the sole purpose of enslaving them as human slaves or indentured farmers or decided treating their people as lesser forms of humanity. This isn’t to say these imported slaves weren’t captured and sold by other Africans or that African

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tribes fought each other like the Indian tribes did or the European Christians were constantly fighting each other. It could be said the history of the world can be defined by these perpetual wars that have plagued humankind. So what am I writing all this for? Just to say the Indians and Afri- One man’s de ath cans aren’t any more has activists q uestioning moral, peaceful or loving than their Euro- gains in law pean Christian coun- enforcement terparts. The worse policy. of these internecine warriors were the By Dylan Woolf Harris Arab countries with some of them being slave traders. So why should we change the purpose of Columbus Day? The facts remain—as you pointed out—we aren’t dealing with a black or white situation. Columbus Day celebrates Italian-Americans and there is no day to celebrate other ethnic groups who suffered terribly at the hands of Europeans. Those Europeans, viewed as lesser human beings by fellow countrymen (mainly Christian Protestants), don’t have a day but the Italians did get one. Why? Politics of the time. We can all live with this “injustice” to the other Europeans and maybe to the injustices done to Hispanics, Asians and other groups, but it is always good to know the full truth of matters. Now, there were also some photos and stories on BLM (Black Lives Matter). There have been some egregious, unfair and murderous actions by police. But on the whole, they are miniscule in the overall application of police to society. Police are charged with keeping the proverbial law and order in a society. They are not psychologists or psychiatrists, they are not social workers, lawyers, babysitters or human rights advocates. They are human and

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make mistakes; the biggest being hiring mentalities who judge all other human beings by a few in a group to cover all in that group. That’s a human trait, but to infer that BLM target police as a dragon slayer of blacks is a grave disservice to your readers. ... All a person has to do is follow the direction of police; that should ensure they are not murdered, whatever their color. Regardless, some people will still be unfairly murdered. Police forces are a human enterprise, and they will make mistakes. Same goes for the military killing civilians, aka “collateral damage.” But, in the overall scheme of things, let’s not forget there is plenty of gray color on these issues; not everything is black or white. I’m being redundant; [author Aspen Perry] wrote an excellent Opinion piece. The best to her in her journalistic career!

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The Jiggle Factor

is coming to the megaplex for a third time—and this iteration from Warner Brothers features an all-girl cast. William Golding’s classic novel, written in 1954, is about a group of prep-school boys marooned on a tropical island and their descent into savagery. Like The Chocolate War, it depicts male aggression in a very bad light. I read Lord of the Flies in 1962, and it proved to be a turning point in my life. In the fall of 1962, I was a senior at Highland High School. Gary B. Johnston was my English 12 teacher. Gary B, as we called him behind his back, looked like Pee-wee Herman. He wore dark suits, skinny ties and dark-rimmed, Clark Kent glasses. He reeked of cigarettes because he chainsmoked Marlboros in the faculty smoking room whenever he had free time. He loved poetry—especially Wordsworth and Keats—and had his reluctant students composing haikus not long after Labor Day. After that, we wrote essays, one after another, as a run-up to the 20-page research paper that would dominate the second semester. But by then, I had a steady girlfriend and a part-time job, and between the two, there was little time for books. When the day came to commit to a topic, I had none. I went to Johnston after school, and after some dissembling, I asked him for suggestions. Write about the portrayal of mankind’s capacity for evil in Lord of the Flies and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, he said. A few months later, bleary-eyed after typing all-night, I handed him the paper. I had read the books, done the research, compiled footnotes and bibliography. The result was a middling, first-draft paper, but that flirtation with Golding and Conrad led to a love affair with literature and a fling as an English 12 teacher years later. The announcement of an all-girl Lord of the Flies movie set off a firestorm in the Twittersphere, The New York Times reported. The most interesting tweet came from writer Roxane Gay: “An all-women remake of Lord of the Flies makes no sense because the plot of that book wouldn’t happen with all

It was the age of “jiggle TV” when actresses Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith wore bikinis or wet t-shirts or décolleté gowns as they solved crimes in a weekly detective show called Charlie’s Angels. The show was mentioned in a Q&A session at Fitchburg State University with Robert Cormier, an author Time called “the teenage laureate.” Many of the questions he answered were about his widely acclaimed—but often banned—novel The Chocolate War. The book is the story of an all-boys Catholic high school and how its annual fundraising project, selling boxes of chocolates, goes violently awry. Published in 1974, The Chocolate War remains a mainstay of middleand high-school English classes despite its No. 3 position on the American Library Association’s list of 100 banned or challenged books between 2000 and 2009. Its critics complain about profanity, sex, blasphemy, misogyny—the usual stuff. That day at Fitchburg State, Cormier talked about his day job as a journalist and his nighttime avocation—writing fiction. Between 1963 and his death in 2000, he published 15 novels. Most were marketed to young adults. One question got him talking about the screen rights to The Chocolate War. He had sold the rights early on, he said, but subsequently learned that the movie version of his book would have an all-girl cast. With Charlie’s jiggling angels in mind, he asked that the movie remain faithful to the book. His objections fell on deaf ears. Stymied, he bought back the screen rights. (A movie was made in 1988 but flopped at the box office.) I recently read in The New York Times that Lord of the Flies

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women.” If Golding were still alive, he would have “liked” what she wrote. He was often asked the why-not-girls question. His response was consistent over the years. “If you scale down human beings, scale down society, a group of little boys are more like a scaled-down society than a group of little girls would be,” he said in one interview. Lest that be construed as valorizing males, Golding added, “Women are far superior and always have been.” “Though many differences between boys and girls tend to be overstated, boys do tend to be more physically aggressive,” Dr. Pamela Davis-Kean, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, told The New York Times. “Some of the novel’s scenes of physical violence probably wouldn’t align with how girls would settle their issues.” My experience correlates with Davis-Kean’s. Women have been harmonizing society since before the time of Lysistrata’s war-ending sex embargo. It is hard to imagine what the moviemakers hope to gain with such a consequential change in the Golding novel. Could it be the titillating possibilities afforded by a bunch of nubile girls stranded on a beach? Stephen King’s new book, Sleeping Beauties, explores the same themes as Golding, Cormier and Conrad. What happens to a society when women are absented? According to the promotions for King’s book on Amazon, the women go to a “better place where harmony prevails and conflict is rare” while “the men, left to their increasingly primal urges, divide into warring factions.” Permit me to channel Cormier’s concern for the integrity of his novel in the age of jiggle TV: An all-girl, Lord of the Flies movie bastardizes a literary classic for no good reason. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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The Deseret News asks a good question: Does Utah cannabis research provide answers or is it just a smokescreen? It’s not like a lot of research hasn’t already been done, but Utah thinks it can do better—maybe. While it’s acknowledged that medical marijuana helps epileptics, the Utah study looks at chronic pain and brains. People are skeptical. Two bills to legalize medical cannabis stalled in the 2016 Legislature. Nothing happened this year, either, but there’s a gung-ho initiative to put the issue on the ballot. The whole debate is stupid, as a 12-yearold epileptic from Colorado is demonstrating by suing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who wants to ultra-criminalize pot. New York just added PTSD to the list of ailments that can be treated with medical marijuana. But let’s study it some more—or maybe scrutinize the brains of imbibers with .05 percent BAC instead.

Free Meals

While Congress bickers over how to repeal health care for just about everyone, Utah children still go hungry. Nine million children nationwide and 19,000 in Utah depend on the Children’s Health Insurance Program, whose funding remains in turmoil. Meanwhile, Utah is moving ahead with an anemic Medicaid expansion that certainly won’t cover the 170,000 kids who depend on it. Utah Sen. Jim Dabakis plans legislation next session, but undoubtedly it’s doomed. So it’s good news that the Utah Food Bank is sending out mobile school food pantries to at least 67 schools, according to the Deseret News. The Food Bank says some 392,000 Utahns might miss a meal each day and 1 in 6 children don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Now, at least they’ll know when the pantry will roll by.

Public Transit

Never let it be said that Utah isn’t good at recycling. We do it with politicians all the time. Former Lt. Gov. Greg Bell is set to become the next chairman of the embattled Utah Transit Authority. This is happening before the next Legislature considers what to do with the agency, a hybrid government-private enterprise that struggles to put its customers first. The Salt Lake Tribune, reports that the agency is at least looking at which routes are most needed and in demand. Meanwhile, former UTA board member and likely scapegoat Terry Diehl skated federal charges alleging fraud. Lawmakers aren’t likely to bring UTA into the government fold, though, because there’s still money to be made in the private sector. Just ask Diehl—and House Speaker Greg Hughes.

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What goes up, must go down … and just about nothing embodies this axiom like a roller coaster. For a quarter century, Mark Cheney has tended the iconic wooden White Coaster at Lagoon in Farmington. The 74-year-old talks about the amusement park’s Grand Dame—and some of her other newer mechanical siblings.

Isn’t the Lagoon roller coaster one of the oldest rides anywhere?

It was built in 1921, and designed by John Miller of Coney Island fame. There are only five coasters in the U.S. that are older.

Why is it called the “White Coaster”?

It was painted white for many years. It is gradually turning brown as the painted white boards are replaced with treated wood that will last much longer. This wood was not available when the coaster was first built.

What is its height and speed?

The roller coaster is 60 feet high. Its average speed is 30 mph. It accelerates and pauses intermittently in order to play with the riders’ sense of motion. This creates its unique mental thrill.

Why do you think it’s still popular?

Lagoon has worked hard to preserve its unique original geometry, which is responsible for the mental and physical thrill of the riders’ body mass in motion.

Is it safe?

Yes. Rider safety on the coaster has been continually upgraded over the years. The safety restraints are the equal to Lagoon’s most modern rides. A carpenter walks the entire length of the roller coaster every day during the season to make certain that it is safe. I did this for many years.

Is it an anachronism in the era of more modern rides?

All rides tend to do the same thing. Some just do more of it or less of it. The White Coaster still does what it was designed to do and does it particularly well. The coaster has received the A.C.E. Classic Coaster Award.

Over the years has it had any famous passengers?

Yes! My parents courted at Lagoon beginning when my mother was 14 years old, all the way through its early years and the Big Band era. It’s certain that many celebrities who came here to entertain rode the coaster. Currently, there is a John Miller Wooden Coaster Fan Club that flies in periodically. They spend a couple of days on the park riding the coaster again and again.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Brain Power Do supergeniuses still exist? The world has more people, so there should be more Newtons and Einsteins than ever, but I can’t think of many today like that. —Wesley Clark, via the Straight Dope Message Board Wesley, honestly. Have you never heard of Stephen Hawking? He’d rank high on any list of supergeniuses. And of course there can be only one superdupergenius, namely me. Still, times being what they are, I can appreciate wanting more depth on the supergenius bench. To understand why the breed is rare, let’s look at supergeniuses of the past. Newton and Einstein were geniuses pretty much by acclaim, up there with other favorites like Shakespeare, Galileo and Beethoven. And how about Charles Darwin? He basically created our modern understanding of evolution—giving us, in natural selection, a sui generis theory that could only have issued from a singular mind. Right? Well, no. Another guy came up with roughly the same idea, independently of Darwin, around the same time; the two subsequently co-published a paper. But despite some latter-day attempts to correct the historical record, few today have heard of poor Alfred Russel Wallace. Darwin, moreover, was by his own account no great thinker. The insights for which he’s known are surely genius, but the man himself? Frankly unimpressive. As a 2009 article in Genetics put it, “In his style and from what we can deduce of his mental processes, he does not fit the image of ‘genius’ that we have inherited from physics and mathematics.” What I’m getting at is that whatever we’re calling “genius” is a blurry concept that comprises not just smarts but creativity, timing and star-making PR. In its original formulation, genius was thought by the ancient Romans to be a unique talent everyone was born with. More recently, IQ testing has led it to be associated with quantifiable intelligence, though one doesn’t guarantee the other. Just ask William James Sidis, once considered by some the smartest man ever. (I wasn’t born yet.) Sidis, who went to Harvard at age 11, produced no great work and died in obscurity in 1944, at 46. Einstein was the complete package: high IQ, exceptionally creative and productive— famously, in a single year he produced four papers that changed physics forever. You’ve stumbled on a point of some anxiety in the sciences today, where future Einsteins aren’t assured. Why not? A few ideas: The disciplines are settled. The supergeniuses we recognize today created their fields (Galileo) or revolutionized them (Einstein). Psychologist Dean Keith Simonton argues that for a century no disciplines have been created wholesale, but rather combined with existing fields into hybrid forms: astrophysics, biochemistry. “It is difficult to imagine that scientists have overlooked some phenomenon worthy of its own discipline,” Simonton writes. “Future advances are likely to build on what is already known rather

than alter the foundations of knowledge.” It takes more work to do that building. The lower-hanging fruit having been picked, would-be supergeniuses now must spend more time acquiring the background knowledge needed to make higher-order discoveries. A 2005 study of noted inventors and Nobel laureates found the mean age for making significant discoveries had increased six years over a century. The implications of today’s discoveries are more abstruse and so get less public exposure. Einstein’s work led to the atom bomb. Today, consider the Higgs boson, the socalled god particle—key to understanding the universe. Incredible stuff? Yes. Immediately consequential? No. Science today demands teamwork . One guy theorized the existence of the Higgs, but it took thousands of very smart people nearly five decades to prove it. As our pursuits get more complex, that’s increasingly what discovery looks like: teams of experts searching doggedly for answers, rather than one big brain flying solo. And as much as the singular genius has given us, he’s increasingly anachronistic. You’ll notice everyone mentioned here is a white guy, a trend the lone-genius trope does nothing to disrupt. A recent poll of 2,000 academics found that fields where scholars explicitly equated success with brilliance (rather than, say, hard work; philosophy being the egregious example) conferred Ph.Ds on far fewer women and people of color than fields (like psychology) in which respondents were less hung up on sheer intellect. Another survey asked subjects (civilians, not profs) to rate the impressiveness of discoveries described as either having occurred “like a light bulb” or having been “nurtured like seeds.” The participants considered light-bulb-type ideas more impressive unless the discovery was made by a woman—in which case nurturing scored higher. The way the authors see it, these results comport with “gendered stereotypes of genius as male”—we expect men to have the classic “Eureka!” breakthroughs, with women seen as better off tending their little intellectual gardens. But such biases aren’t advancing the overall enterprise of discovery. Supergeniuses, then, might be on their way out, but we’ll make do without them—in fact the towering intellects of legend might not be particularly well suited to the present day. Most, anyways. I’ve got no plans to retire. Send questions via straightdope.com or write c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago, Ill, 60654.

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form of organizing or civil resistance stands to become a crime.” The threshold for conspiracy is so low that two journalists, Aaron Cantú and Alexei Wood, are still facing charges after being arrested while covering the protest. Wood is part of the group who demanded a speedy trial and so goes to court this week. Sporting long hair, all-black attire and a leather wide-brimmed hat, Wood might have looked a bit like an outlaw at the hearing, but he was arrested and charged with conspiring because he was livestreaming the protest. “The chilling effect is obvious,” he says. “It took me months to go document another protest. Even the most, like, ‘Grannies Against Trump’ thing, I didn’t want to go to. I was traumatized. Absolutely traumatized.” Come May Day, he says, he reached a breaking point. “I was like, ‘Fuck it, this is what I do. This is my beat. This is what I’ve done for years,’” Wood says. “I didn’t do anything wrong. I live-streamed myself from beginning to end, and the entire world can decide whether I incited a riot … it’s out there for the whole world to decide, and I’m glad it is.”

categories based on their alleged involvement in planning or participating in the riot. He is in Category 2, which Kerkhoff has referred to in court as “planners.” “Dylan Petrohilos said, ‘Come with me if you want to talk about black bloc. I am black bloc,’” Kerkhoff said in court, citing the infiltrated planning meeting. “Black bloc” is the essence of a large part of the J20 case. It is a political strategy in which wearing identical clothing and face masks allows a group to move collectively through the city in protest, mimicking the black flag of anarchism and making it harder for police to identify individuals, which is why the government is using clothing as evidence of conspiracy. Isaac Dalto, Petrohilos’ friend who is also included in Category 2, says the government is using his affiliation with Industrial Workers of the World union, for whom he organizes, as evidence of conspiracy. “Because they went to legitimate, above-ground union meetings about forming a union in their workplace, their Google calendars say IW W, and that’s being used against them to prove membership in this criminal conspiracy that we’re alleged to be part of,” Dalto says. “Conspiring to commit lawful acts is not a crime. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s called organizing,” he adds. “That’s the real danger of this case to democracy and dissent in this country—that any

conspiracy—a move that would make co-conspirators’ statements admissible in court, despite hearsay rules. Prosecutor Jennifer Kerkhoff cited statements made on the “It’s Going Down” podcast as evidence of conspiracy. At one point, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Lynn Leibovitz surmised that appearing on a podcast required planning. Thus, if Petrohilos was planning to talk about the protests, perhaps the existence of the podcast was evidence of conspiring, the judge theorized. Paul Hernandez, a member of the It’s Going Down editorial collective says the call is suspect as best. “Saying that coming on a podcast recorded for public consumption to talk about a public demonstration is evidence of conspiracy, is like saying that someone writing a column in High Times is proof that they are in a drug cartel,” Hernandez writes in an email. “The State is trying to make the case that anyone that attends a demonstration or protest is thus involved in a conspiracy.” All the prosecution needed to establish was a conspiracy to commit any crime, including “conspiracy to disrupt public congress.” This could apply to any protest at any time. “This is a fundamental attack on the right to organize,” Petrohilos says. Petrohilos is not among those who stood trial this week. The prosecution classed all of the defendants into four

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house. “I had [the flag] flying outside my home because Trump was elected and there was a belief he was a fascist ... so we had this idea that we needed to bring back the moniker of antifascism,” Petrohilos says at a bar while discussing the Washington, D.C., Riot Act case with other protestors arrested during Trump’s inauguration. When D.C. police Petrohilos’ home in April, the flag was the first thing they confiscated. They also took seven small black flags, copies of The Nation and In These Times magazines, as well as a banner emblazoned, “Kiss Capitalism Goodbye.” These items are now evidence in the so-called J20 case. The first mass trial began this week. Most defendants were arrested Jan. 20, when a protest (which the government has deemed a “riot”) resulted in several broken windows. Officers threw more than 70 “non-lethal” grenades, sprayed dozens of canisters of pepper spray and cordoned off around 200 people in a “kettle,” flanked by riot police and walls on all sides. And though the Department of Justice claims that Petrohilos conspired to plan the riot, he wasn’t arrested that day. In fact, he says he wasn’t even there. But, the fact that the government claims he discussed the J20 protest on a podcast—and was recorded at a planning meeting by undercover police and the far-right sting video site Project Veritas—has put Petrohilos at the center of what could be the most important political-conspiracy trial of a generation; one that could change the way we think about our data and other records of our actions. Almost any statement made by Petrohilos about the day’s protest was at play in what was to be the final hearing before the trials. The Nov. 9 hearing was intended to establish the fact of the

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The 28th Annual Native American Holiday Arts Market December 2 & 3, 2017 Saturday: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm Sunday: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Vendors will be offering both traditional and contemporary Native American goods including jewelry, pottery, paintings and more.

When you look up into the sky, do you see stars? Do you see lots of stars? Probably not because of all the light pollution from our electrified world. Take a break to support the efforts of Wasatch, Jordanelle and Deer Creek state parks to become certified dark sky parks during Dark Skies, What’s the Hype? Learn why it’s important and healthy to see the stars, why dark skies are disappearing and how you can help preserve them. Organizers promise a dark sky presentation, “starry treats, a chance to win a telescope and some star gazing with the Salt Lake Astronomical Society.” Wasatch Mountain State Park Visitor Center, 1281 Warm Springs Road, Midway, 435-654-1791, Friday, Nov. 17, 6-8 p.m., free, bit.ly/2mbfmpV

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The legend of Joe Hill is as much about Utah history as it is a testament to protest and labor organizing. It’s as relevant today as it was when Hill was alive. The Joe Hill Organizing Committee hosts Joe Hill Day 2017: History & Art in Action, commemorating the life and influence of organizer, activist and songwriter Joe Hill, who was executed in Salt Lake City in 1915. Do you want to learn resistance tactics? This is the place, featuring a series of workshops and presentations on topics such as The IWW Now, The Joe Hill House of Hospitality, Utah Radicalism, Radical Cartooning with Pat Bagley and A Century of Changing Resistance Tactics. A musical and spoken-word celebration of Hill is also scheduled at the Beehive Social Club. Salt Lake Public Library, 210 E. 400 South, Saturday, Nov. 18, noon-5 p.m., free, bit.ly/2iK1GNz; Beehive Social Club, 666 S. State, 7-10 p.m., suggested donation $10, bit.ly/2hgHGBP

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stove, the Sethunya clan often slept in the same room, with the parents in a bed and the children on floor mats. She learned to sing her dolls and younger siblings to sleep. The household placed a premium value on education. Under her parents’ tutelage, she became fluent in Latin, as well as English and Sesotho—the native tongue of the Basotho people. At home, her father required the children to listen to the BBC’s afternoon radio news broadcast. “He’d say, ‘Did you listen to the news?’ If you said yes, he’d say, ‘Tell me what it said. What did it talk about?’ We were supposed to report,” Sethunya recalls. Her mother used to sing folk songs while Sethunya learned how to crochet and knit doilies, afghans, hats and scarfs. Her mother was also a skilled cook and passed down culinary knowledge, like what spices to include in dishes for healthy guests versus those who were ill. “I had great role models growing up,” Sethunya says. Her favorite outdoor spot was the seedbed, where she watched her mom rotate and change the soil with compost. The garden was divided into five plots— one for each child. “Our parents challenged us to put anything in the soil. That was our land to work with. During the harvest season, we would sell the vegetables to the neighbors,” she says. She learned to turn the soil and then take a sickle and carefully cut patches of moss to cover the budding plants. “To watch the seedlings, this was so amazing,” she says. “To transplant the seedlings into the plots, my mom would always tell me, you need to be careful to transfer the roots, so you don’t shock them.” Like those vegetables, Sethunya would one day be uprooted—transplanted to a new environment. Her experience reflects one common among immigrants. Settling into a new land, she straddled customs and cultures, and tried to find a place among people, many of whom can’t relate to the trauma that shaped her psyche.

ong before she picketed at Weber State University, before she took the LDS Church to court, before a masked gunman threatened her life, before she was shackled by ICE agents and a lifetime before she sang opera to sublimate her anxiety, Victoria Sethunya used to wander into a barren grassland—terrain called the veldt—and dig for edible roots. Sethunya’s home country is Lesotho, a former British colonial enclave surrounded on all sides by South Africa. It gained independence in 1966—the year before she was born. It was against the backdrop of an infant nation—a political tinderbox racked by poverty and crime—where Sethunya lived out her childhood in the manner universally recognized by school children: she tried to fit in with her peers; her parents imposed household rules; she developed schoolyard crushes. Her family lived in a village suburb of Maseru, the capital city, near enough to the countryside that she and her closest grade-school friend, Ntsoaki, could occasionally escape the bustle and find snacks in the untrammeled dirt every once in awhile. “We’d take sticks and dig up some roots,” she says. “My favorite one was monakalali. This is a tuber. It looks like a little onion; it’s sweet, and it leans more alkaline.” Afterwards, Sethunya and Ntsoaki waded into the river to wash up and exfoliate their bare feet against the smooth stones resting on the river’s floor. Her vivid memory belies other darker moments of trauma she would one day flee. Now a resident of South Salt Lake, she traces her journey to Utah. The second of five children, Sethunya was raised by a cinematographer/ composer/sound engineer father, who worked at the local radio station and a special-education teacher mother, who graduated from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. They lived in a brick home covered by a corrugated roof. Heated by a wood

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Brewing beer and asking questions

Her father, Cletus, had deep political ties. Sethunya learned later in life that he, an avid member of the national party, hid away in a tree at times for his safety. And her mother, she says, was the victim of a random stabbing in the streets of their town. All the while, Sethunya tried to be a kid. Growing up, she was short for her age, making it hard to make friends with other children who often thought she was younger than she actually was. Standing in a primary school choir, she noticed the other students had sprouted up like beanstalks around her. “I don’t think that I fit in in most groups,” she says, looking back. “I think maybe I was a little bit self-conscious.” Ntsoaki was an exception. In the winter, Sethunya ran to Ntsoaki’s house before school in time to see her friend’s mother brewing beer, called joala, in large cast-iron caldrons. While she waited for Ntsoaki to get ready, Sethunya would place a rock close to the fire. The heated rock made an effective handwarmer that Sethunya carried the rest of the way to school. Raised Catholic, Sethunya attended a parochial school. Regardless of her difficulty finding friends, Sethunya flourished academically. She retains vivid memories of her teachers: Mr. Graham, who would give each student a problem. They were tasked with walking through each step of the equation in front of the class and told to explain their reasoning. The classroom, she says, was an extension of her studious household. In the evenings, she tried to return home before dark, a rule imposed by her father. “These are not safe communities. There are people on the street trying to rob you for money, violence, getting stabbed on the street, rape,” she now says. At the time, Sethunya wasn’t aware of the dangers lurking in the neighborhoods, but only of the admonishment from her father. She would witness the threats firsthand as she grew older and more political. “We took education so seriously,” she says. “I think this is where I developed my habit to ask questions. Here, I know I offend so many people just by asking questions.” Sethunya was a well-behaved student, though not without rebellious streaks. She remembers disparaging a teacher whom she didn’t believe was providing a quality education. “He was supposed to be teaching us integrated science, but he was reading. I raised my hand, ‘I said, ‘You’re reading. You’re not teaching.’ I said, ‘We can all read.’” She started passing notes to the other students, complaining about the instructor. When the teacher spotted it, he demanded Sethunya give up the paper. Instead of complying, she recalls hopping over desks, imitating a monkey as the teacher ran off to the principal’s office. Her punishment: read in the library, which Sethunya found amusing. “This is where I started reading about Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy.” As Sethunya began to blossom into a young adult, she became involved with a group called the Young Christian Student—a youth wing of the African National Congress, the political party that rose to prominence during apartheid South Africa. The late and revered South African President Nelson Mandela was an ANC member when he was elected in 1994. “This is a different type of Christianity,” Sethunya explains, “because this was a type of Christianity that mandated justice. It’s not the tone of Christianity that I see in most places.” Members of the YCS immersed themselves in discussions about equality, social and economic justice, and they dissected oppressive systems. They asked questions, like, “What happens when a government forgets the people that put it in power?” It was in this setting where a young man from another village caught Sethunya’s eye. The two began corresponding through the mail. Slowly, the letters stopped coming, though. She suspects one of her siblings tampered with the mail, and destroyed letters from her boyfriend. In the end, it didn’t matter, because Sethunya met another guy, a bit older than her, who caught her eye at a YCS meeting. “I was nervous that maybe he would consider me too young,” she says. But he didn’t, and the two began seeing each other. Sethunya quickly realized this was the man she would one day marry.

Marriage

He was a school principal near the capital city, but she was attracted to his political acumen and his fight for social justice. Their relationship progressed, and one day, her boyfriend’s parents visited her father’s house. It was to discuss lobola—the payment of money or goods by a groom’s family to the bride’s in exchange for their daughter. That day, Sethunya’s father presented a bill to her future in-laws, but, breaking from tradition, she refused to allow it. “We just left,” she says. “If this is going to be a transaction, then that makes me a commodity, and I’m not.” Lobola, she also notes, makes women feel trapped in abusive relationships because their in-laws, in essence, paid for the bride. “Everybody was pissed at me,” she says, adding that even though her father was educated and enlightened, he supported the dowry tradition because of the money. Husband and wife would later formalize their union with a Christian wedding, though her family—still stung by her refusal of lobola—did not attend. The couple soon gave birth to a daughter. But the honeymoon didn’t last. Over time, the relationship grew stale. She moved to a place closer to pharmacy school where she was enrolled, about a 40-minute drive from the school where her husband worked. The physical space exacerbated an emotional divide. Sensing distance from her husband, Sethunya turned to her Catholic priest for guidance. It wasn’t just that a female student-teacher visited her husband more than seemed necessary, she explained, or the jewelry she found in the car that wasn’t hers. It was also her husband opting to stay at the school during the week instead of returning home to sleep. He rationalized it: He said he had a lot of work to do. The necklace was left innocently by his assistant, and the teacher needed extra help. Not to worry. But she did. In the dead of night once, while pregnant with their second child, she drove around until she found her husband at a party at one of the teacher’s houses. The female student-teacher was there with him, as was another woman—and the confidante priest who blessed their marriage. “I was almost in tears,” she says. “It was 2 a.m. They’re partying with alcohol, and the priest was there. That’s how I left the Catholic Church.” Trying to play it cool, her husband told the priest they would have to chat again soon, and he followed her home in his Toyota Corolla. From there, things only worsened. A few months later, as she and her brother drove a construction worker home, Sethunya suddenly noticed her husband driving aggressively behind her, waving a metal object. She suspects he was intoxicated. The same erratic behavior manifested another night, when he dragged her out into the barren desert—a similar spot to where she used to unearth roots. She ran back to the village and to her father’s home, she says. Despite the turmoil, she finished school and became a pharmacy technician. One evening, while working alone in the Queen Elizabeth II Pharmacy, she opened a dispensary shutter to see a dark pistol and a face wrapped in cloth. She lunged to the side, slammed the wooden window shut and flipped down a metal pin to lock it. Sethunya remembers dashing to the pharmacy’s rear doors to make sure they were locked, too. “I called Maseru charge [police] office. No answer,” she says. She then tried the CID, “an equivalent to the FBI in the U.S.” Nothing. In desperation, she dialed an emergency number, and talked to the operator all night hoping to stay safe. “The entire evening, a drum is beating in my chest and incessant lightning is striking at the back of my head,” she recalls. After that traumatic night, she requested a transfer but was denied. Instead, the police offered an escort, but Sethunya was still terrified. She didn’t know whether the assault was random, or tied somehow to her husband, or retaliation for her politics.

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Securing a student visa, Sethunya moved to Ogden and enrolled in a bachelor’s program at Weber State University hoping to breeze through. “I remember asking one of the professors why I would have to study how aspirin works,” she says. “The human anatomy hasn’t changed. The chemical hasn’t changed. Why can’t I just take a test to show what I know?” WSU, however, didn’t reciprocate her prior training, and she wasn’t allowed to test out of any courses. Still, she continued going to class over the next four years and earned a degree in English with a minor in chemistry. Because her immigration status was tied to her schooling, she decided to further her education by earning a master’s degree in criminology. But before she graduated, Sethunya was alerted that her records were missing. She inquired at the administration office. “Everyone was saying, ‘Let’s see what can be done. Let’s figure it out. Let’s talk about it,’” she says. “That, for me, meant you lost your immigration status. For them, it was an administrative conversation; for me it was handcuffs.” Sethunya began protesting outside the WSU administration building, picketing with signs. She couldn’t help but think that the problem would have been fixed promptly for a person of a different race and ethnicity. “Even African people have goals,” she says. “Even a black woman has goals.”

Once relocated though, even as a member of its predominant faith, Sethunya experienced “otherness.” A black woman in a whitewashed state, she believes some people paraded her about to show off their own exotic tastes, while others were unnaturally suspicious of her. Once, she says she was stopped by cops in Salt Lake City’s Rose Park neighborhood for driving 5 mph under the speed limit. Not speaking about this incident specifically, Salt Lake City Police Detective Greg Wilking says police have reasons to pull over motorists for driving too slowly. “Mostly it may be an indication of impairment,” he writes in an email. “Someone going too slow on the freeway could be a safety hazard. Someone who suddenly slows down once an officer is behind them indicates some sort of guilt. Not against the law but suspicious.” In another episode in Morgan, she says she was badgered by a woman, who demanded to know who she was and what business she had in town. Though she didn’t respond, Sethunya was walking to have her photo taken at Barr Photography. “She told me if I didn’t answer her, she was going to call the police.” The aggressive woman followed her, Sethunya remembers, and only eased after she witnessed Sethunya going to the photo studio. Matt Barr, the studio owner, remembers Sethunya being upset about the street encounter. He cautions, though, that Morgan generally has been welcoming to people of all backgrounds, but grants that there are “bad apples” in all neighborhoods.

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“I remain working there, waking up expecting to be shot. Really, just waiting for my burial or [if I could] run,” she says. So she opted to run. Unsure if the gunman was a political operative, someone connected to her husband, or a random robber, she could no longer stay. After she and her then-estranged husband divorced, Sethunya decided, like the state’s forefathers, that Utah was the place. Her journey to the Beehive State began in 1994, when she met two young men with “the same first name” who altered her life trajectory. Political unrest coupled with a fractured marriage, had left her paranoid. So when she saw a pair of white men approaching her one day, dressed in suits befitting a government agent, she turned to dash the other way, but not before one of them was able to call out, “We are priests!” she says. They were Mormon missionaries. At first skeptical, she soon was enthralled by the idea that God would make himself known through perceptible signs. She started taking the discussions and was baptized. The LDS Church also gave her a sense of purpose. Utah’s former Gov. Norman Bangerter served as a mission president in South Africa, which oversaw church activities in neighboring Lesotho, as well. Sethunya says he asked her to work with the missionaries, translate the discussions and also help the young men and women stay in safe areas. With newly formed religious ties, Utah felt like a plausible spot to start life anew with her three children. Immigrating to the U.S., she settled in Bluffdale.

“Our parents challenged us to put anything in the soil. That was our land to work with. During the harvest season, we would sell the vegetables to the neighbors,”

The university says after it noticed that the records of some international students hadn’t been transferred to a new software program, it sent out instructions to fix the problem. The school outlined a list of ways the problem could be resolved. “To the best of our knowledge, Ms. Sethunya is the only student who did not follow the steps outlined,” writes Allison Barlow Hess, WSU public relations director via email. “There is absolutely no basis for the claim of discrimination,” Hess continues. “The university provided each international student the same information. When that advice was not followed, the university went to great length to help Ms. Sethunya resolve this matter.” Sethunya unsuccessfully sued the school. Although she lost in court, she earned her diploma, which was backdated to match her graduating class. Following college, she moved to Millcreek. There, she made friends with a troupe of poets performing at Greenhouse Effect Coffee and Crepes’ open-mic sessions.

Her day in court

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While the Weber State debacle was resolved, her immigration woes were not. One afternoon, she was approached by immigration officers, handcuffed and driven to a downtown Salt Lake City office. She asked whether the men had warrants. They did not, she recalls them responding. After a few hours, they cut her loose but told her she would need to appear for a hearing in immigration court. As her court hearing approached, the poetry community showed up with other protesters in the Salt Lake City courtroom. “We were there for emotional support,” poet RJ Walker says. “We were there to support her so that she didn’t feel so afraid. How terrified would you be? This system is a goliath. Having to stare down that is really intimidating. We were there to let her know that we supported her.” The poets and protesters were swiftly kicked out of the courtroom, but Sethunya was able to successfully argue her case. The episode left a sour taste in her mouth and affected the way she viewed Mormons who worked as college administrators or judges.

On Mormonism and transparency

“This is a doctrine that justified the oppression of the black people. I felt like the Mormon doctrine was in concord with racism.” —Victoria Sethunya

Living in the heart of Mormondom, Sethunya discovered aspects of her faith that had been glossed over during her conversion in her homeland. At the forefront, she was unnerved by the revelation that until 1978, black people were barred from holding the LDS priesthood, a designation that prevented them from serving in high positions or performing sacred rituals. “That bit of information should have been exposed,” she says. “Tell the whole story.” The LDS Church, she reasoned, had the resources to provide poor countries like Lesotho with volumes of information, but it didn’t. She was also disappointed by the way she thought Mormons conducted themselves in church versus their roles in government. She saw homes broken apart because a child identified as LGBTQ, for example, which contradicted her understanding of family values. And Sethunya concluded that racism stems from LDS scripture. The Book of Mormon explicitly states that God punished a segment of early American settlers (who Mormons believe were the Hebrew ancestors of modern Native Americans) by changing their

skin pigment. “This is a doctrine that justified the oppression of the black people,” she says. “I felt like the Mormon doctrine was in concord with racism.” In 2008, Sethunya received a letter from the law firm of Kirton & McConkie informing her that her church welfare assistance was terminated. “Your aggressive behavior and attempts to manipulate Church leaders have created disturbances and violated Church policies,” the document stated. Furthermore, the letter banned her from attending church functions at a nearby ward, or trying to contact LDS General Authorities. Sethunya was disillusioned and she decided to leave the faith. In 2013, she filed suit against the church, alleging that a former bishop violated her privacy by having in his possession her family medical records. She claims she asked her doctor for documents, but instead of giving them to her, he passed them along to her bishop. Attorney Benson Hathaway who represented the church declined to comment, but added that the court record speaks for itself: Sethunya’s claims were dismissed.

An immigrant voice

Through the trauma, the battles and the contention, Sethunya has chiseled a resilient spirit. She smiles widely when she speaks her mind. Now, Sethunya has a master’s degree in criminology, and with a U visa, her immigration status is secure. She substitutes in Granite School District and teaches ESL classes on her own. She’s looking forward to her 50th birthday. Hardships, as is their nature, continue to ebb and flow—she recently got laid off from a job with a financial institution—but through her journey, she’s learned to sing as a way to cope. Sethunya draws on musical talent nurtured in her homeland. On Sundays, she often sings in a local church choir. A recent Wednesday night, she sat at the end of a semicircle with the sopranos in the basement of a Presbyterian church, practicing with nine other choir members. Sethunya, wrapped in a blanket and holding sheet music, sang softly. “My PTSD was so aggressive I couldn’t contain it,” she tells City Weekly. “I had to find a way to let that out. In this country, you cannot show your emotions.” Sethunya paid a retired performer $3 an hour to teach her how to sing opera. She also sought lessons from a music teacher at Weber State. “Learning how to sing opera was one of the most difficult things to do on my own,” she says. Music has also been a way to connect Sethunya with her family. Sethunya brought her father, Cletus, to the U.S. in 2009 to be closer to her and her three children. Her parents had separated years before; but as devout Catholics, they never divorced. Her mom stayed in Lesotho, but Sethunya says their relationship is still close.Before he died in 2013, Cletus worked on a requiem with Sethunya’s eldest, her daughter. Sethunya says she was too heartbroken to sing at his funeral. “I was shattered,” she says. Last year, Sethunya and her 23-year-old daughter entered an online “American Protégé” singing contest. Sethunya was invited to sing at Carnegie Hall in December 2016. With nerves tingling, Sethunya went on stage before the 500 or so audience members, and sang the requiem she was unable to perform three years earlier. “I was so fulfilled,” Sethunya says. “I was feeling human again.” CW

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The Dude abides in Ogden once again at the annual LebowskiFest on Saturday, Nov. 18, at Peery’s Egyptian Theater. Urban Achievers from across the Wasatch Front can gather for a costume contest at 7:30 p.m. (the 2016 contest is pictured above), followed by a showing of the cult classic 1998 Coen brothers film The Big Lebowski at 8 p.m. Be on time because, in the words of John Goodman’s character, Walter Sobchak, “Life does not stop and start at your convenience.” “This is the fourth year that we’ve held the festival, and every year it continues to grow,” says Ryan McDonald, who is on the board of directors for the Egyptian Theater Foundation. “Just like in years past, we’ll be dressed in costumes and have some exciting prizes.” One of those prizes is a rug that really ties the room together, along with other goods provided by local businesses. The $13.50 ticket cost includes a $1.50 theater restoration fee to help preserve the historic venue. There’s also bowling before the main event at the Ogden Fat Cats, but remember, “This is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.” Bowling is not included with the festival ticket and all lanes are first come first served. After the movie, the after-party moves down the street to Funk ’n’ Dive (2550 Washington Blvd., 801-621-3483, funkanddive.com), “Ogden’s only five-star dive bar.” Produce your festival ticket stub for free entry, where you can then enjoy specials on—you guessed it— White Russians. (Geoff Griffin) Ogden LebowskiFest @ Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Nov. 18, costume contest 7:30 p.m., screening 8 p.m., $13.50; bowling @ Fat Cats, 2261 Kiesel Ave. No. 1, 5:30 p.m. bit.ly/2hnI84U

John Cleese is a genius. It’s that simple. If you’ve ever witnessed his work with Monty Python including their feature films, or watched an episode of his short-lived BBC series Fawlty Towers, then you know that’s only stating the obvious. Cleese might not have invented the dry, deadpan humor that defines British wit, but he and his Python partners helped turn it into an art form, while gleefully sharing it with the world at large. Any individual possessing that particular blend of satire, cynicism and savvy is bound to be both clever and complex. Cleese is no exception, and he’ll likely demonstrate those qualities when answering questions written by audience members following a special screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. As a preview of what to expect, check out the Monty Python YouTube Channel, which features videos of Cleese responding to attendees’ inquiries. He offers this critique of religion: “The founders of religion are always extraordinarily intelligent people. Extraordinarily intelligent people are not literal-minded. The great problem with religion is when what was supposed to be taken metaphorically is taken literally, and what you get is complete nonsense.” And then there’s this: “If you are very, very stupid, how can you realize how stupid you are?” That might seem harsh, but as Cleese admits, “All humor is a matter of opinion.” Our opinion is that Cleese is very, very funny indeed. (Lee Zimmerman) John Cleese Live: Monty Python and the Holy Grail @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, Nov. 19, 7 p.m., $35-$275, artsaltlake.org

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Dave Attell once said in an interview with The A.V. Club that he never considered himself “famous famous.” Well, with an HBO special, writing contributions to Saturday Night Live and three televisions shows, he’s reached that level of fame, all the while becoming a household name in stand-up comedy. If you’ve ever had trouble sleeping, then you’ll definitely remember Attell’s legendary late-night Comedy Central show Insomniac. Attell visited Salt Lake City in 2004, poking fun at our weak beer and knocking a couple back with then-Mayor Rocky Anderson. Well, he’s on the road again, and one of his stops is Salt Lake City. Named by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 25 funniest people in America, Attell’s sets are not for the faint of heart—his jokes are best enjoyed by audiences who find laughter in awkward sexual encounters and drug use. But beyond the dirty jokes and booze-driven routines, there is another side to Attell that we seldom see: his work with the National Military Family Association. He has also held benefit events for military families in the past, including one with fellow comedians Jim Gaffigan and Jeffrey Ross helping raise the spirits of veterans and their kin. “The good of comedy is that you get to create a world with every sentence,” Attell said during a Nerdist podcast interview. “It’s the power of words and active imagination.” With flu season around the corner, laughter is the best medicine. So leave your political correctness at the door, and get ready to laugh yourself to tears. (Rachelle Fernandez) Dave Attell @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Nov. 17-18, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $25, 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com

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It’s a unique opportunity for an audience to see four decades of an artist’s career represented in one evening. As choreographer Bill Evans (above right) describes Repertory Dance Theatre’s Top Bill program, “It spans from 1970 to 2015, a 45-year span of choreographic work. You see something about a person’s progression over almost half a century.” The idea for a retrospective of Evans’ work began in 2015, when he was creating “Crippled Up Blues” for the company’s 50th anniversary season. RDT Artistic Director Linda Smith, Evans and the company’s dancers eventually settled on a program of five pieces—including “For Betty” (1970), “Suite Benny” (1987) and “Crippled Up Blues”—in addition to a tap solo by Evans himself. “Suite Benny,” set to big-band classics by Benny Goodman, provided Evans with a chance to do something he says he rarely considers: revising an already-existing work. “When I was here in 1987, [RDT] had a particularly physically powerful group of dancers, and I kind of got carried away with that,” he says. “But when I looked at the context of the piece I started to make, I saw that I got sidetracked from my original intent. I see now with wiser eyes.” Evans is also guiding interested civilians through some “Suite Benny” choreography during a special “Dinner, Dancing & a Show” event before the Nov. 17 performance. “I think everybody is a dancer,” Evans says. “As soon as you start to move for rhythmic pleasure, it becomes dance.” (Scott Renshaw) Repertory Dance Theatre: Top Bill @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801355-2787, Nov. 16-18, 7:30 p.m., $15-$35; Dinner, Dancing & a Show, Nov. 17, 6 p.m., $20-$40, rdtutah.org

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he world of creating computer animation—entire universes manufactured inside a mainframe—might seem far from live-action filmmaking. But there are analogs for a surprising number of real-world film production jobs—including designing clothing. What Draper native Emron Grover does as a cloth artist for Pixar Animation Studios isn’t quite the same as the job of a live-action costume designer, in more ways than existing exclusively in virtual space. Rather than creating the look of the character’s clothing in terms of color and design, it’s his job to make the clothing on computergenerated characters behave the way it would behave on a physical body. It’s a unique sub-section of the computer animation world— and it’s a career path Grover almost didn’t follow. Although he grew up painting and drawing, “I kind of had the idea that maybe it’s not going to be a career,” Grover said during a recent publicity tour to Utah promoting Pixar’s new feature, Coco. Instead, he had an idea while in high school that he wanted to pursue movie visual effects as a career.

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“I just assumed I needed to learn how to code,” Grover says, “so I went the computer-programming route [in my first year at BYU] … I enjoyed it, but thought, ‘I’m not sure that’s what I want.’” The timing of his LDS mission turned out to be perfect. When he returned, Grover learned about the BYU Animation Program, which has subsequently produced award-winning short films and become a respected feeder school for animation houses like Pixar and DreamWorks. “I came back a week before school started, planning to take art classes and get into graphic design,” Grover says. He “met a friend who was in the animation program, and I said, ‘There’s an animation program?’ I found out about it and was like, ‘That is the thing that I wanted to do.’” Grover has now worked at Pixar for 10 years, on features including Up, Brave, Inside Out and Finding Dory. His focus has been in the cloth department, where his computerscience background and his artistic interest prove crucial. “At Pixar, we have research engineers who are just incredible minds in computer programming and development,” he says. “Then we have character animators and artists who have almost no technical ability. In [the cloth department], we kind of sit in the middle, using both sides of the brain.” The role of the cloth artist is to simulate the physics of the way clothing moves, with that cloth rendered as a bunch of connected triangles. The character beneath the cloth is also rendered in geometric shapes, and the interaction between the cloth and the character, as Grover describes it, is “a physics engine—a mass spring system, where every triangle is connected and based on mathematical parameters, like how much it can bend, or stretch in a certain direction. My job is feeding the simulator instructions for how this particular piece of clothing should fall.”

When the “person” wearing those clothes is a cartoon character, of course, there can be unique physics to simulate. “In animation,” Grover says, “characters do crazy things. We need to make it so that when a character jumps, the cloth doesn’t just fly off and explode. It’s more like theatrical costuming, where we have to glue and tape it in just the right place so that it doesn’t move.” For Coco, those dynamics were complicated by the fact that several of the main characters in the story—much of which is set in the Día de los Muertos-inspired Land of the Dead—are skeletons. The distinctive requirements for how clothing would behave with nothing but bones underneath required the creation of an entirely new version of a “collision detection system”—the program that tells the cloth how to react when it makes contact with a point of the character’s body. “We’re always doing little research projects, especially with our main characters,” Grover says. “We’re always trying to be preemptive, and discover what the animators might want to do.” Sometimes, however, being the person who responds to the creative needs of an artist means improvising. Grover describes such a situation involving one of Coco’s main characters, a skeleton named Hector. “Originally, when we were designing him, we put suspenders on him, a connection between the upper half and bottom half,” Grover says. “We kind of made a deal that we wouldn’t break him in half. Well, the very first shot we got into, the animator comes to me and says, ‘I kinda want to break him in half.’ Well, all right, let’s do it. When we came to a time where the animators wanted to break him apart, how can we cheat about when he’s got his suspenders up or down?” Like we said: It’s not quite the same as the job of a liveaction costume designer. CW

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LITERATURE Local artists (Todd Powelson’s digital painting “The Fifth World: Incarnation” is pictured) explore the inner self, the mysteries of consciousness and the bliss of connecting with the divine in the group show Seeing the Sacred at Urban Arts Gallery (137 S. Rio Grande, urbanartsgallery.org) through Dec. 3, with Gallery Stroll reception Nov. 17, 6-9 p.m.

PERFORMANCE THEATER

Aida Hale Center Theater, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, Nov. 17-Jan. 20, times vary, hit.org A Bundle of Trouble Hale Center Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, through Nov. 30, days and times vary, hct.org Christmas Vacation: The Polarized Express Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, Murray, 801266-2600, through Dec 30, desertstar.biz Clybourne Park Westminster College Jewett Center Courage Theater, 1840 S. 1300 East, through Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m., westminstercollege.edu Festival of 10 Minute Plays Mercury Theater and Event Center, 591 S. 300 West, Provo, through Nov. 18, 7 p.m.; matinee Nov. 18, 2 p.m., utahnewworkstheatreproject.org Guys and Dolls Egyptian Theatre Co., 328 Main, Park City, 435-659-9371, Nov. 17-25, 8 p.m., parkcityshows.com Hello Dolly Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, through Nov. 18, MondaySaturday, times vary, haletheater.org The Ice Front Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, through Nov. 19, times vary, artsaltlake.org

Star Ward Christmas Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, 801-355-4628, Nov. 17-Dec. 23, 7:30p.m., theobt.org The Weyward Sisters Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, through Nov. 18, times and dates vary, pygmalionproductions.org White Rabbit Red Rabbit Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, through Dec. 2, times and dates vary, tickets.utah.edu You Never Can Tell Babcock Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, through Nov. 19, dates and times vary, tickets.utah.edu

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Ballet Student Showcase Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, Nov. 16-18, times vary, dance.utah.edu Body Logic Dance Co.: Without a Roof Sorensen Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, Nov. 18, 1 & 7 p.m., bodylogicdance.com RDT: Top Bill Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Nov. 16-18, 7:30 p.m., rdtutah.org (see p. 17) Wasatch Contemporary Dance: Blue Skies Underground Social Hall, 65 N. University Ave., Provo, Nov. 17-18, times vary, wasatchcontemporary.com

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Amber Cantorna: Refocusing My Family The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Nov. 16, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Bruce Bell: Tune in Tomorrow: An Adventure in Retro-Radio The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Nov. 21, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FESTIVALS & FAIRS

LebowskiFest Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m., bit.ly/2hnI84U (see p. 17)

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Bob Woodward Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu Books and Bridges: Jane Austen and Persuasion Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Nov. 16, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Down the Rabbit Hole Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org

SEASONAL EVENTS

Christmas in the Wizarding World The Shops at South Town, 10450 S. State, Sandy, through Jan. 31, shopsatsouthtown.com Luminaria: Experience the Light Thanksgiving Point, 3003 N. Thanksgiving Way, 801-7682300, Nov. 20-Dec. 30, thanksgivingpoint.org

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

14th Annual Glass Art Show Red Butte Garden 300 Wakara Way, through Dec. 17, redbuttegarden.org Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., Nov. 17-Jan. 12, heritage.utah.gov Artist/Dad Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, Nov. 17-Jan. 12, heritage.utah.gov Cities of Conviction UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Jan. 6, utahmoca.org Cookie Allred: The Color of Places Corinne and Jack Sweet Library, 455 F St., 801-594-8651, through Dec. 20, slcpl.org David N. LeCheminant: Morning Walk Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Jan. 5, slcpl.org Drew Grella: I Would Rather Wear a Cape Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Jan. 5, slcpl.org Holiday Group Exhibit Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, No. 125, Nov. 17-Dec. 15, accessart.org Holiday Group Show David Ericson Fine Art, 418 S. 200 West, Nov. 17-Dec. 15, davidericson-fineart.com 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 Jerry Hardesty: Doublespeak Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, 801-594-8680, through Dec. 29, slcpl.org Jimmi Toro: Kindle a Light Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Ave., Park City, through Nov. 26, kimballartcenter.org Karen Horne: Ballet To Tango Exploring the Art of Dance Horne Fine Art, 142 E. 800 South, 801-533-4200, through Dec. 23, hornefineart.com Kristina Lenzi: Alien Matters Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Jan. 5., slcpl.org Las Hermanas Iglesias: Here, Here Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, through Jan. 28, umfa.utah.edu Lesly Abalos-Ambriz: 24: Is This Lesly? Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, 801-5948623, through Dec. 27, slcpl.org Sarah Malakoff: Second Nature Granary Art Center, 86 N. Main, Ephraim, through Jan. 26, granaryartcenter.org Seeing the Sacred Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., through Dec. 3, urbanartsgallery.org (see above left) Winter Group Show Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, Nov. 17-Jan. 12, phillips-gallery.com

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ack in 1999, I shared my favorite roast turkey recipe with City Weekly readers, and since then, I’ve been gratified by the positive responses from those who’ve tried it. So, with Thanksgiving lurking just around the corner, here again is my can’t-miss turkey recipe for your holiday meal (or any other time). Enjoy! I prefer unbasted, natural, free-range birds. If you buy a frozen turkey, let it defrost in the fridge for two or three days. If you purchase one with a little plastic popup timers, they’re unreliable, so use a meat thermometer to test if the turkey is fully cooked. Brining the night before cooking helps ensure the turkey will be moist and tender. The process makes a noticeable difference in the texture and flavor of the meat, too. Dissolve 2 cups kosher salt or 1 cup regular table salt in 2 gallons of cold water in a clean bucket, large stock pot or lobster pot. Place the turkey in the pot and refrigerate, or keep in a very cool place (40 degrees or lower) for 8-12 hours. I brine on Thanksgiving Eve and put it out in the cold garage. In the morning, I remove the turkey from the brine and rinse it thoroughly inside and out to remove all traces of salt. The problem with cooking most large turkeys is that by the time the dark meat is done, the breast is typically overcooked and dry. Here’s how to help remedy that: After the turkey is defrosted, but still in the fridge, fill a large Ziploc bag with ice cubes. Lay the ice pack over the breast in the refrigerator, like saddlebags. The ice will keep the breast cooler than the rest of the bird. Keep the ice pack on the breast until

A perfectly roasted bird is the word on Thanksgiving Day. you’re ready to put the turkey in the oven. You won’t believe what a difference this simple tip makes. Health experts don’t recommend cooking a turkey with stuffing or dressing in its cavities. But if you must, only stuff right before roasting, since dressing sitting in an uncooked turkey can develop nasty and dangerous bacteria. It’s better to cook your stuffing separately—the turkey will cook faster, and the stuffing won’t be saturated with fat. Here’s my method for cooking a 15-18-pound bird. You can modify the recipe using herbs, rubs, sauces or whatever you’d like. Adjust the oven rack to its lowest position; preheat to 400 degrees. Remove the neck and giblets from the body cavity. (If you brined your bird, you’ll already have done this.) Remove the icepack saddle bags described above. Rinse the turkey with cold water inside and out and pat dry with paper towels. Brush or rub with 3-4 tablespoons of melted unsalted butter. Generously sprinkle inside and out with salt and freshly ground black pepper. (You can also add herbs like thyme, rosemary, etc. at this stage.) Place a quartered onion inside the body cavity. Place the turkey upside down (with the breast facing downward) on a nonstick roasting rack, and put the roasting rack in a large roasting pan. Place the turkey in the oven and cook for one hour at 400 degrees. After an hour, lower the oven temperature to 250 degrees and roast for an additional 1 hour and 45 minutes. Remove the turkey from the oven and flip it breast side up. (I do this with big wads of paper towels.) Baste the breast with pan juices. Increase the heat to 400 degrees, put it back into the oven and continue cooking until the breast registers 160 degrees and thigh registers 175-180 degrees on an instant-read thermometer. This should take anywhere from 45 minutes to 1 1/2 hours, depending on the size of the turkey. Be sure to let the meat rest—and you should do the same—for about 20 minutes before you start hacking it up. The bird will be unbelievably moist and easy to carve. Happy Thanksgiving! CW

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leywines, Russian imperial stouts, barrelaged beers and other big brews that creep up above the 8 percent ABV clouds. If you’ve got the shelf space and the willpower, the following tips might help you get the most out of your beer’s potential. Let’s just get this out of the way: IPAs do not age well. As a matter of fact, the fresher the better with these ales. Unless you like the taste of cardboard, enjoy IPAs young. Schedule: If you’re able to, buy three bottles. The first should be enjoyed immediately. You never know how well a beer will age, and you’ll want a good base comparison going down the road. The second beer should be revisited about a year later, then break out the third bottle whenever you see fit. Barrel-aged: These beers are already aged and become infused with the flavors in the wood. These are some of the more complex beers that will definitely change over time. Bottle-conditioned: These beers have active yeast cultures inside that continually re-ferment the beer for as long as you store it. Refrigeration slows the evolution and extends the beer’s life. Brettanomyces-inoculated: This uniquetasting wild yeast is often used as the main yeast or as an additive. When young, these beers have a funky and doughy barnyard-like flavor that’s raw and potent. With age, however, this yeast strain develops a fruity tartness that, left unchecked, can turn disagreeably sour. This is the beer that will undergo the greatest change in your cellar, so monitor

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Lady Bird chronicles the rocky road of female adolescence. BY MARYANN JOHANSON comments@cityweekly.net @maryannjohanson

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erewith the single authentic movie about being a teenaged girl that our male-dominated entertainment sphere begrudgingly allows us. Last year’s was The Edge of Seventeen; 2015’s was The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird is like those films in that it’s an emotional feast about the audacity, wonder and horror that is female adolescence, the likes of which we oh-so-rarely get to see onscreen. It is a nightmare and an adventure that will resonant with all girls and women, at least in its broad strokes. (If boys and men would like to understand what life is like for girls and women, they could watch these films, pay attention and believe them.) Lady Bird is also as un-like those films jsut as every teenaged girl is from every other teenaged girl. This isn’t the same movie again. It’s magnificently unique, while also being all-encompassingly universal. This is a rare cinematic achievement. If this is our one shot this year, thank the gods and Gerwig that Lady Bird is the glory that it is: so smart, wise, funny and perceptive that it left me happy-sobbing and feeling like Gerwig had seen straight through me and knows me. (Obviously she and I are meant to be new best friends.) Her debut as solo writer and solo director—she has collaborated in both arenas before, including co-writing Frances Ha and Mistress America with Noah Baumbach— is clearly autobiographical in its details. That’s probably why it feels palpably real and honest, and why it has a ring of truth that keeps ringing even if your life’s details are wildly different. Like Gerwig did, high-school senior Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) lives in Sacramento and attends Catholic school. The year is 2002, which makes Christine

just a few years younger than Gerwig, but which also compounds Christine’s adolescent woes by setting her story in the post-9/11 economic downturn. Her dad (Tracy Letts) has lost his job, which leaves Mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse, struggling to support the family. Gerwig finds as much humor as pathos in Christine’s longings— her “favorite Sunday activity” with Mom zings with absurdity and aspiration— which extend to wanting to get the hell out of dull Sacramento and into college somewhere singing with art and culture, like New York. Unfortunately, she’s not a very enthusiastic student. Everything about Lady Bird, in fact, is about looking back at the painful process of growing up with a mix of affection and exasperation. Ronan molds Christine into a wonderful mess, fiercely proud and determined yet also maddening, because her yearning to be true to herself and to sculpt her own identity keeps bumping into the complication that she simply has no idea who she is yet. She’s flailing around trying everything. She auditions different boyfriends: theater geek Danny (Lucas Hedges); too-cool musician Kyle (Timothée Chalamet). She trades in her funky best friend Julie (Beanie Feldstein) for popular Barbie doll Jenna (Odeya Rush). She even renames herself “Lady Bird” just because it sounds interesting and mysterious. I’m not sure she knows what it’s supposed to mean beyond that.

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All that is overshadowed by the primary concern of many a teenaged girl’s life: her relationship with her mother. Christine both craves her mother’s approval and cannot wait to get out from under Mom’s wing; Metcalf is marvelous as a woman going through her own push-and-pull with her daughter. Gerwig absolutely nails the mother-daughter roller coaster, the arguments about nothing that instantly morph into bonding over something silly, and vice-versa. It might be the best thing about the film, the most generous aspect of a movie that is already very generous and forgiving of all its characters’ flawed humanity. A teenaged howl of grief and frustration, a fond memory from the perch of hindsightful adulthood, Lady Bird is a beautiful and bittersweet snapshot of the awful journey that is adolescence—the one that forces us onto the mysterious road to adulthood without a map, without directions and without a clue. How are you supposed to get somewhere when you don’t even know where it is? CW

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NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. DEALT BBB That’s a nice little play on words Luke Korem’s got for a title there: His documentary profile of veteran close-up magician Richard Turner is about someone who works with trickery involving playing cards, but also about how Turner deals with the hand he has been dealt. Turner is completely blind, a fact he believes should have nothing to do with how he is perceived as a practitioner of his craft, and much of the story addresses his determination not to let his disability affect his life. It’s an intriguing character arc, especially as Richard adjusts to his son Asa—his primary guide—heading off to college, forcing him to shift how he thinks about his blindness. But Korem’s determination to take Richard’s “I don’t like sympathy” approach at face value leads to avoiding obvious questions about his professional skills, like “how does a blind man practice card tricks so he knows he’s getting them right?” As a portrait of near-pathological determination, Dealt delivers a compelling story; it also doesn’t do the audience any favors by ignoring the main reason this guy is the subject of a documentary. Opens Nov. 17 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—Scott Renshaw JANE BBB Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture, Chicago 10) understands better than most filmmakers how to give a backwardslooking documentary real cinematic panache, but here’s a rare case where it’s fine letting archival footage do the heavy lifting. The recent re-discovery of hundreds of hours of footage allows a unique entry point into the life of Jane Goodall, who became a celebrated field researcher of chimpanzee behavior in Tanzania despite lacking formal scientific training. Morgen probes a bit into Goodall’s personal life—her childhood, and her eventual marriage to photographer Hugo van Lawick—while taking advantage of present-day interviews with Goodall to provide voice-overs and perspective on her groundbreaking work. The real star here, however, is that old footage, capturing the evolving relationship between Goodall and her chimpanzee subjects, and making those animals vivid characters. That material is so fascinating in its unadulterated form that it doesn’t need any of Morgen’s bells and whistles, in the form of urgent music and montages turning

Goodall’s journals and field notes into a kaleidoscope of words and graphs. The story offers enough drama without the flourishes. Opens Nov. 17 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—SR JUSTICE LEAGUE [not yet reviewed] Batman (Ben Affleck)! Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot)! Aquaman (Jason Momoa)! Cyborg (Ray Fisher)! Flash (Ezra Miller)! Superman? Opens Nov. 17 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) LADY BIRD BBB.5 See review p. 28. Opens Nov. 17 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R) THE SQUARE BB In his previous feature, Force Majeure, writer/director Ruben Östlund presented social satire in which people genuinely wrestled with what their response to a difficult situation said about their character; his Cannes Palme d’Or-winning follow-up seems more interested in scoring cheap points at the expense of hypocritical sophisticates. In Stockholm, modern-art museum curator Christian (Claes Bang) prepares for the opening of new installation about social responsibility, while he deals with the aftermath of getting his pockets picked. Östlund crafts several terrific sequences, including Christian’s awkward interactions with an American reporter (Elisabeth Moss) and a tense set piece in a hallway illuminated by the cascade effect of motionsensor lights. Those individual pieces just don’t add up to a truly powerful statement, however, even as Christian realizes that his attempt to recover his stolen property has had unexpected ramifications. And too few of the broad swipes at art-world types say much beyond “these weirdos, amirite?” An ambitious look at the disconnect between creative statements and real-world behavior falls flat in a movie willing to snicker at the idea that piles of gravel can be art. Opens Nov. 17 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR THE STAR [not yet reviewed] Animated Nativity tale from the point of view of talkative Bethlehem animals. Opens Nov. 17 at theaters valleywide. (PG) WONDER [not yet reviewed] A boy with facial abnormalities (Jacob Tremblay) adjusts to his first year in a public school. Opens Nov. 17 at theaters valleywide. (PG)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS BEST OF LAUREL & HARDY At Edison Street Events, Nov. 16-17, 7:30 p.m. (NR) CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER At Main Library, Nov. 21, 7 p.m. (NR) DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE At Utah Museum of Fine Art, Nov. 22, 7 p.m. (NR) FACES PLACES At Park City Film Series, Nov. 17-18, 8 p.m.; Nov. 19, 6 p.m. (NR) RAISING ZOEY At Main Library, Nov. 16, 7 p.m. (NR)

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MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS B.5 Here’s the biggest mystery of director/star Kenneth Branagh’s lavish period adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel: Why? The film feels like a pretty box of random trinkets—lovely to look at yet practically meaningless. As the suspects in a murder on the moving high-speed luxury train The Orient Express, en route from Istabul to Calais, the impressive cast—Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe, etc.—is underutilized, mostly left to pose in gorgeous 1930s costumes. And Branagh as detective Hercule Poirot struggles to get past the ghost of David Suchet, so recently beloved in the role in the long-running TV series; a fabulous moustache isn’t enough. Without engaging characters, we’re left with Poirot’s puzzlesolving, which here leaps from clue to conclusion with nary any detectiving in between. It’s all a sad cinematic derailment. (PG-13)—Maryann Johanson

WONDERSTRUCK BBB.5 Todd Haynes applies his common theme—people breaking loose from convention—to marginalized children trying to find their place in the world in this charming, magical adaptation of Brian Selznick’s illustrated novel. It starts out as two parallel stories: in 1977 Minnesota, where 12-year-old deaf boy Ben (Oakes Fegley) sets out in search of his father; in 1927 New Jersey, a deaf, lonely rich girl Rose (Millicent Simmonds) journeys to New York to meet silent movie star Lillian Mayhew (Julianne Moore). Haynes cuts back and forth between the two time periods regularly, underlining the parallels in the stories while providing a unique look and feel to each era. Selznick, adapting his own book, has a storyteller’s gift for parceling out information, letting us enjoy the process of discovery. This is a lovely, euphoric tale, made with skill and compassion. (PG-13)—Eric D. Snider

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shit “prophet” Brian David Mitchell. Also good: No sign of Ed Smart. The Only TV Column That Matters™ wasn’t all that impressed with the debut season of Search Party (Season 2 premiere Sunday, Nov. 19, TBS), but everybody else was (100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes? Dafuq?), so obviously I was wrong. The meandering story of a group of selfpossessed 20-somethings (led by Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat) trying to solve the mystery of a missing college roommate felt more like a 90-minute indie flick that should have been buried on Netflix, not a five-hour cable series, but Season 2 appears to be onto something: Instead of resetting with a new mystery, the gang is dealing with the consequences of Season 1, including a “semi-accidental murder.” OK, I’ll try again. The Christmas movies can’t be stopped— hail Santa! In A Gift to Remember (movie, Sunday, Nov. 19, Hallmark), bookstore owner Darcy (Ali Liebert) crashes her bike into handsome professional man Aiden (Peter Porte), sending him into a coma. When he’s rushed to the hospital, the dog he was walking gets left behind, so Darcy sorta-stalks Aiden in order to return the pooch. Her detective work finds him to be the erudite world-traveler of her dreams— but, when Aiden finally wakes up, she learns that he’s just the dog-walker for her fantasy man (and certainly not rich). Will she stick with him? Will Sandra Bullock and the producers of While You Were Sleeping sue? What’s all this have to do with Christmas? After the excellent Legion and The Gifted (and the gawdawful Marvel’s Inhumans), do we really need another X-Men-adjacent superhero series? Marvel’s Runaways (series debut Tuesday, Nov. 21, Hulu) makes a case for itself, even more so than The Gifted, in filling the teen-angst void: Six superpowered friends learn that their parents might be part of a super-villain society; existential crisis and exposition ensue. Runaways, the series, was created and produced by the minds behind The O.C., and takes its sweet time building both its teen and parental characters— but, if you want splashy mutant-abilities displays, you’re going to have to wait. Did I mention that’s better than Inhumans? CW

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Tommy Stinson chooses intimacy with his new duo, Cowboys in the Campfire. BY RANDY HARWARD rharward@cityweekly.net

ne of the many cool things about The Heavy Metal Shop is it’s not all brutality and volume. It celebrates rock ’n’ roll in all its forms. Owner Kevin Kirk books punk bands (Dwarves) and singersongwriters (Michael Dean Damron) for instore performances. He’s also a Cheap Trick fanatic, so it’s a given that he’d dig legendary punk/power-pop band The Replacements. Consequently, it makes perfect sense that he’d book Cowboys in the Campfire, a duo featuring the ’Mats—and longtime Guns N’ Roses—bass player Tommy Stinson. But Kirk isn’t the captain behind this booking; Stinson says the HMS simply fit their gig. “We’re playin’ some pretty wacky places, since we’ve been doin’ this thing,” Stinson says from his home in Hudson, N.Y. He means backyards, boxing gyms, breweries, private homes, studios, salons and other record stores where he and Chip Roberts are performing on their fall tour. “It’s just the two of us, you know?” he continues. Playing these venues makes more sense than performing in clubs, where overhead eats into profit. Stinson’s no stranger to starting small and working his way up. The Replacements played their share of dinky, dirty dives en route to becoming one of the most adored—and criminally under-successful—bands in history. When the ’Mats broke up, he started over with the bands Bash & Pop and Perfect. While they never matched his first band’s profile, critics had nice things to say about the music. And he eventually wound up playing bass in a little band called Guns N’ Roses—a gig that lasted 17 years. That’s the kind of gig many musicians wanna land: The one that lasts forever. But there’s a certain romance to starting over, too; rekindling old flames, discovering ones that burn even brighter or just looking for new creative tinder. During and since Guns, Stinson has released solo albums, restarted Bash & Pop and sustained a three-year reunion with The Replacements. He’s even busked for charity. It’s all good to Stinson, who says he’s never had an idea how his music career would play out. “I didn’t really think about that too much,” he says. When The Replacements started playing clubs on the Minneapolis scene, quickly building their devout following, it felt enough like a rock ’n’ roll fantasy to him. “Whatever that dream would’ve been, it was already sorta happening,” he says. “And I was so young; I really didn’t know shit from Shinola at that age, you know, about what kind of lifestyle a fuckin’ rock star would have.” The realistic aspiration is, of course, sustained employment as a musician. In that sense, Stinson’s certainly experienced the dream, making a living while enjoying variety in his projects. He’s played punk, power pop, alternative rock, hard rock and country. He’s performed alone on tiny stages and with megastars in major arenas. “I try to keep it interesting,” he says, “’cause I can get bored pretty easily doin’ any one thing for so long.” His long tenure with Guns N’ Roses worked out because the band did shorter tours and “I had the flexibility to be able to do that kind of thing.” When Stinson left the band in 2016, it freed him up even more. Since The Replacements reunion fell apart in 2015, he restart-

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Chip Roberts and Tommy Stinson ed Bash & Pop and also reached out to Roberts, aka “Uncle Chip.” Stinson’s uncle by a former marriage, Roberts is a frequent writing partner, having contributed to the new Bash & Pop album, Anything Could Happen (Fat Possum). “We’ve been good buddies for 10 years now—or more,” Stinson says. “We just have a good time playin’ together.” Since neither of them had any summer plans, they launched the country-tinged Cowboys in the Campfire, which they’d been discussing for years. They toured for the first time last spring, playing a mixture of new material and selections from Stinson’s solo and Bash & Pop catalog. “I’ve done the solo thing before,” Stinson says. “That’s got its limitations, obviously, just bein’ alone.” With Roberts, “it’s fun to have someone else to bounce stuff offa.” It’s a fruitful partnership. Stinson and Roberts have generated enough tunes to make a record soon. The sets on their fall tour still draw from the same sources while featuring even more new material. What won’t they play? “There won’t be Replacements or Guns songs in the set, just so you know,” he says, laughing heartily. Reminding people of his marquee credits isn’t what Stinson seeks with Cowboys in the Campfire. The project is about enjoying the one-on-one interplay of a duo in smaller venues that facilitate audience interaction. “When you’re playing arenas and festivals, there’s barriers, you’re kinda far from [the crowd],” he says. “I’ve always found that a little bit disconcerting.” He prefers the intimacy afforded by communing with fans in close quarters, “where you’re right there next to ’em and you can kinda smell ’em.” CW City Weekly sends its heartfelt condolences to Kevin and Angie Kirk, who lost their son Joey unexpectedly earlier this month.

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The spectacularly eccentric beat-maker Flying Lotus (real name Steven Ellison) has dabbled in a wide array of creative projects over his decade-long career. He’s perhaps best known for producing much of the music on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, but has garnered acclaim for his super-weird collaborations with his studio soulmate, bass wizard Thundercat, and his guest spot on Kendrick Lamar’s opus To Pimp a Butterfly (Top Dawg, 2015). Ellison’s also made headlines for his intermittent on-stage meltdowns and his indie-horror flick Kuso, which made most viewers wretch with its relentless, stomach-churning barrage of blood, guts, pus and other bodily fluids, and prompted walkouts during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. FlyLo’s nasty detour into filmmaking aside, he’s been cranking out curious compositions in Los Angeles, pushing the envelope instrumentally outside the rapper-centric world of music production with five studio albums (while occasionally rapping under the alias Captain Murphy). Currently on tour with a totally trippy, laser-heavy 3-D stage show ahead of the release of his as-yetuntitled sixth record, concert-goers can count on a mind-melting—and decidedly strange—live experience. (Howard Hardee) The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 9 p.m. $27 presale; $30 day of show, 21+, depotslc.com

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Morrissey—whom you might know from being, uh, Morrissey, as well as the former frontman of The Smiths—is a global popculture icon, a forefather of modern indierock and alternative music. He’s also a

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polarizing figure: absolutely adored by some for his tongue-in-cheek insights, poetic self-mythology and theatrical lyrical delivery, and reviled by naysayers who just don’t dig his smug preachiness and generally depressing take on human existence. As Moz embarks on a huge U.S. tour to support his forthcoming album, Low in High School (BMG), fans can expect him and his full band to roll out some old hits and fresh tracks such as single “Day Spent in Bed.” Just don’t look him directly in the eyes, lest the gloom possess your soul. (HH) Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 8 p.m., $55-$85, all ages, kingsburyhall.utah.edu

MONDAY 11/20

Joyce Manor, Wavves, Culture Abuse

After releasing You’re Welcome on Wavves frontman Nathan Williams’ Ghost Ramp label, the California indie-surf-emo punks are enjoying a level of freedom and creative exploration that their recently defunct relationship with Warner Bros. Records had denied them. You’re Welcome also comes on the heels of Williams’ series

Flying Lotus of public interviews about his heroin abuse, making the band’s latest album feel like a series of victorious battle hymns. Wavves has always been saturated with the sun-drenched beach punk of their predecessors, and they’re co-headlining this tour with Joyce Manor, another band whose unapologetically catchy rhythms and soaring guitar hooks ushered in the new millennium. After racking up popular and critical acclaim with 2014’s Never Hungover Again and 2016’s Cody (Epitaph), Joyce Manor’s innovative take on bygone emo nostalgia provides the perfect tonal complement to Wavves’ beach punk aesthetic. With the aid of the grungeinfused rock quintet Culture Abuse, it’s a show that promises to unite old farts like myself with the up-and-coming generation of music nerds. (Alex Springer) In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, 7 p.m., $22 presale; $25 day of show, all ages, inthevenueslc.com

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You can feel this dude’s flow: “They call me Yukmouth/ ’cause I don’t brush/ You know, I like my teef like this” and “Got some beef in my teef/ got some chicken, too/ Ouch! That’s a cavity/ Hey! That’s new!” Hold up—It seems as though I’ve confused a Saturday morning educational cartoon character Yuckmouth for Yukmouth, the Grammy-nominated Bay Area rapper who boasts 11 solo albums, six mix tapes and 21 more releases counting collabs (with The Gamblaz, Killa Klump, The Dragons and more) and side projects (Luniz, Thug Lordz and The Regime). With output like that, you can feel his flow, for real. In “Root of Evil,” from his current two-volume release JJ Based on a Vill Story (Smoke-A-Lot), Yukmouth blends conscious concerns with gangsta reality: “Money’s the root of all evil/ bang/ got us killin’ all of my people/ slang/ niggas dealin’ tryna get equal/ pray/ send a blessing to all of my people.” The posters for this gig advertise that Yukmouth is holding a $100 “Big Titty Contest” at the show. It’s legit—and so are my luscious, perky moobs. So go ahead and enter, but you don’t stand a chance. Ima get paid tonight.

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Christmas is metal. Think about it: The holiday’s figurehead lives at the top of the world and watches everything we do. He has minions. If we don’t play by his rules, we have to sit and sulk with a dirty black rock while everyone else joyfully opens their loot. And his name is an anagram for “Satan.” Plus, the music is gnarly. Those portentous bells, chilling glockenspiel and uninvited guests with their haunting round-robins and roast-beast breath … shudder. A holiday like that was just begging for the metal treatment, and Paul O’Neill’s festive prog-rock project comes through every year—even this year, only seven months after O’Neill’s passing and four months after losing bassist David Zablidowsky (aka David Z of ZO2, the band featured in the old VH-1 series, Z Rock) in an auto accident. The band elected to continue, once more performing The Ghosts of Christmas Eve show for the third year running—now with extra supernatural membership, which is even more metal. (RH) Vivint SmartHome Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., $43-$74, all ages, vivintarena.com

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It would be easy to categorize The Devil Makes Three as simply a left-ofcenter string band, given their obvious affinity for blues, bluegrass, folk, ragtime, old-time country and other archival elements plucked from American musical tradition. However, that would be missing the point. Reverence for the roots doesn’t negate the irreverence they invest in their delivery, and the consequent insurgent sound. Band members Pete Bernhard, Cooper McBean and Lucia Turino take particular delight in sharing the joys of drink, a preference for partying and a carousing attitude that often belies their more sobering source material. Indeed, if the title of their album Redemption & Ruin (New West, 2016) isn’t descriptive enough, the swagger, attitude and relentless revelry they exude through these grooves ought to seal the deal. All one needs to do is peruse the song titles—”Drunken Hearted Man,” “Champagne and Reefer,” “I Gotta Get Drunk” and “Waiting Around to Die”—to get a sense of how they go about mining their muse. Indeed, that’s been their M.O. from the beginning; with seven albums released over the past 15 years, the Santa Cruz-based band has honed a sound that brings Americana music full circle with unabashedly raucous results. Renegades by any other name, clearly they’re giving the Devil his due. (Lee Zimmerman) The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 9 p.m., $25, 21+, depotslc.com

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“It’s all been a blur since day one,” Mike Sartain says when asked what he recalls about his first night tending bar at The Urban Lounge, which is nothing. “If it’s busy, you’re rockin’ and rollin’, just concentrating on getting the next person their drink. It’s fuckin’ intense.” But drink orders, clinking glasses and high-voltage rock ’n’ roll don’t drown out everything. Even on the crazy nights, Sartain hears and sees a lot. Different shows draw different crowds, so no two nights are the same, and that makes the job an orchard of inspiration for a musician like himself (he fronts the long-running and popular local rock band Starmy). “I’m plucking words and combinations of words from snippets of conversations, or ideas for guitar riffs and drum beats, out of the air constantly,” he says. He also likes to see how good a band is by comparing their albums to their performances. Bartending sharpens his people skills, too. Through interacting with and observing tens of thousands of bar patrons over his 14 years on the job, Sartain says he’s become “a CIA-level” listener, lip-reader and interpreter of body language. “I’ve definitely stopped fights before they happened,” he says. Heightened awareness and non-verbal communication also helping him sense how well a Starmy show is going over, predict how a crowd will react to climactic moments in the set and communicate changes to his bandmates. Sartain’s days schlepping drinks are winding down. He’s semi-retired from Urban Lounge, working only the occasional fill-in shift. But he’s taking some of his skills into the next chapter of his life, as he completes a communications degree at the University of Utah. “Working in a bar and playing in a band naturally led me to studying communications further. It all goes hand-in-hand.” (Randy Harward) Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 801-746-0557, theurbanloungeslc.com

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FLYOVER

BY DAVID LEVINSON WILK

ACROSS

1. What the “G” in GI tract stands for 2. Misbehave 3. Hit the ____

47. “Yeah, r-i-i-ight!” 48. Irish county or port 49. “Casino ____” (First Bond book) 51. “I Fall To Pieces” singer Cline 54. “bye 4 now” 55. “____ hollers, let ...” 57. Smokes 58. High fig. for a hybrid car 59. Maidenform product 60. 180 61. Put a match to 62. Hails from Rocky Balboa

Last week’s answers

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

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I don’t know which necessary to fully cash in on the good fortune that life will make part of my mind I should trust!” If you do hear those thoughts in your brain, Gemini, here’s my advice: There’s no rush to decide. What’s available. healthiest for your soul is to bask in the uncertainty for a while. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the game of basketball, if a player is fouled by a member of the CANCER (June 21-July 22): opposing team, he is given a “free throw.” While standing 15 According to storyteller Michael Meade, ancient Celtic culture feet away, he takes a leisurely shot at the basket without having believed that “a person was born through three forces: the coming to deal with any defenders. Studies show that a player is most together of the mother and father, an ancestral spirit’s wish to be likely to succeed at this task if he shoots the ball underhanded. reborn, and the involvement of a god or goddess.” Even if you don’t Yet virtually no professionals ever do this. Why? Because it think that’s literally true, the coming weeks will be a favorable time doesn’t look cool. Everyone opts to shoot free throws overhand, to have fun fantasizing it is. That’s because you’re in a phase when even though it’s not as effective a technique. Weird! Let’s invoke contemplating your origins can invigorate your spiritual health and this as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks, Capricorn. attract good fortune into your life. So start with the Celtic theory, In my astrological opinion, you’ll be more likely to accomplish and go on from there. Which of your ancestors may have sought to live again through you? Which deity might have had a vested good and useful things if you’re willing to look uncool. interest in you being born? What did you come to this earth to accomplish? Which of your innate potentials have you yet to fully AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1991, Aquarius rock star Axl Rose recorded the song develop, and what can you do to further develop them? “November Rain” with his band Guns N’ Roses. It had taken him eight years to compose it. Before it was finally ready for prime LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): time, he had to whittle it down from an 18-minute-long epic to I predict that starting today and during the next ten months, you will a more succint nine-minute ballad. I see the coming weeks as a learn more about treating yourself kindly and making yourself happy time when you should strive to complete work on your personal than you have in years. You will mostly steer clear of the mindset that regards life as a numbing struggle for mere survival. You will equivalent of Rose’s opus. regularly dream up creative ideas about how to have more fun while attending to the mundane tasks in your daily rhythm. 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Least Competent Criminal Burglary suspect and career criminal Shane Paul Owen, 46, of South Salt Lake, Utah, was on the run from police on Oct. 24 when he dashed into a vacant church. A Salt Lake City SWAT team held a standoff at the church for more than six hours—until Owen called 911 to say that he was locked in the church’s boiler room and couldn’t get out. “Can you hurry?” he asked the dispatcher. “I need to talk to them first so they don’t … shoot me,” Owen pleaded. The Deseret News reported he was booked on outstanding warrants for retaliation against a witness, drug distribution and identity fraud.

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Ironies Workers at a Carl’s Jr. in Santa Rosa, Calif., were busy filling an order for 165 Super Star burgers for first responders to the Fountaingrove area wildfires on Oct. 26 when a grease fire broke out in the restaurant. The fire started in the char broiler and then jumped to the exhaust system. Franchise co-owner Greg Funkhouser told The Press-Democrat the building was “completely torn up. … We made it through the big one, only to get taken out by this.” When the person who placed the order arrived to pick it up, he saw six Santa Rosa Fire Department trucks in the parking lot and left, so Funkhouser handed out free burgers to “anyone around.”

Model Parent Amber L. Schmunk, 28, of Fredonia, Wis., put all her resources to work in concocting a way to get a plastic kiddie pool from one house to another on Sept. 9. Her solution: She had her 9-yearold son climb on top of her minivan and hold down the pool as she drove through Saukville. She must have had second thoughts, though, because according to the Ozaukee Press, she told police the boy was up there for only 20 to 30 seconds before she pulled over and wedged the pool into the back of the minivan. Schmunk said she thought it would be OK for her son to ride atop the car because her father had allowed her to do similar things when she was a child. But officers disagreed, charging her with seconddegree recklessly endangering safety. Justice With a Side of Vocabulary Daren Young, 30, of Kahului, Hawaii, will need a good dictionary and thesaurus for the task ahead of him. On Oct. 27, Second Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo sentenced Young, who violated a protection order taken out by his ex-girlfriend to the tune of 144 calls and texts, to write down 144 nice things about his ex—without repeating any words. “For every nasty thing you said about her, you’re going to say a nice thing,” Loo commanded. The Maui News reported that Loo also meted out two years’ probation, a $2,400 fine and 200 hours of community service. Send tips to weirdnewstips@amuniversal.com

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Anger Management? Katarian Marshall, 24, of New Orleans, La., apparently hit her limit of “fun” at a Chuck E. Cheese in Metairie on Oct. 29 and began “indiscriminately” spraying pepper spray on nearby patrons during an altercation that got out of hand. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office told The Times-Picayune that five adults and two children were treated for exposure to the spray at the scene. Marshall was charged with disturbing the peace by fighting.

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Thinning the Herd In Paris, a 21-year-old “train surfer” was killed on Oct. 24 when he fell to the train tracks after hitting an overhead obstacle. His two friends, who were riding atop a train on Metro Line 6 with him, ran away from the scene, according to The Sun. The three had been attempting the stunt at the Bir-Hakeim Bridge during rush hour. The unnamed victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Ewwwww! Two doctors from the University of Florence in Italy have documented the case of a woman who has been sweating blood from her face and the palms of her hands for about three years. Roberto Maglie and Marzia Caproni wrote in the Canadian Medical Association Journal that the unnamed Italian woman couldn’t identify a trigger for the bleeding, but said times of stress would intensify it for periods of from one to five minutes. After ruling out the possibility that she was faking it, the doctors diagnosed her with hematohidrosis, a rare disease that causes blood to be excreted through the pores. They were able to treat her, but couldn’t completely stop the bleeding. The cause remains a mystery.

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