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Rejoice! Our rockin’ annual celebration of all things local music is here. Cover photo by Enrique Limón, inspired by John Colombo.

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Music editor When it came to picking this week’s spotlight recipient, the answer was clear. From Sugar House to the world, and armed with a physical music collection that rivals that of a Sam Goody (remember those?), Harward is the authority on the local scene. His favorite part of the gig? “All the free newspapers. I’m killin’ it.”

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From the story: “Oscar the hawk peers down with the gravitas of a sentinel at a slowly approaching Subaru on a recent Wednesday morning. His talons are clutching the highest crossbar of a worn but functional cattle shoot [sic] at least 12 feet above the ground.” It is, of course, illegal to shoot hawks. It’s also illegal to shoot cattle. Shoot … chute. Shoot! Oh, them tricky homophones!

News, Feb. 15, “Reefer Radness”

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Hits & Misses, Feb. 15, “Put on the Red Light”

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Blog post, Feb. 16, “Romney Finally Makes It Official”

There is just way too much money in politics. You look at the Trump White House and it is all about filthy rich white men. These men do not serve the average person; they serve the money and their personal goals for more money. Where does Romney fit into this?

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Paul Ryan made his endorsement for Romney tells ya all you need to know. He is a RINO … Utah doesn’t see him as a defender of the Constitution or an upholder of citizen rights, so, nah, next.

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You can disagree with Mitt on policy points all day long. Fact remains that Mitt is a genuinely good dude and we need genuinely good dudes in Congress now more than ever.

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RICKY JOE MONTOYA Via Facebook There are plenty of good dudes from Utah that have a deep understanding and appreciation for Utah’s values that exist just beyond a religious tie. Why are we outsourcing such an important position?

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Blog post, Feb. 20, “Trump Backs Romney. But for How Long?”

Romney is just a power hungry money junkie bored of counting all of it.

I wonder when Romney’s for free media blitz is going to end. Did media decide whether Trump’s for-free media blitz was bad for this country or just good for business? I see a repeat on Romney.

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On Trump’s Parade “The sight of a drill will give me a thrill, I thrill at the skill of everything military, For I love a parade.”

—Harry Richman Donald Trump might have been humming Richman’s familiar tune last summer after watching a military parade in Paris commemorating Bastille Day and the French Revolution. Trump enjoyed the two-hour spectacle. In fact, he had such a swell time, he wants to stage something comparable in Washington this year—just bigger and better, of course. Like so many other surprises the Trump presidency has produced, we find ourselves on unfamiliar ground. It has been years since military units have marched down Pennsylvania Avenue. The last parade, which marked the end of the Persian Gulf War, was in 1991. Such displays of military might are more common in other countries. Who can forget the images of dour Soviet leaders watching tanks rolling through Red Square in the annual May Day parade? Not the Supreme Leader of North Korea! Kim Jong-un has taken a page from the Soviet playbook, parading ranks of goose-stepping soldiers and missiles on wheeled launchers through Pyongyang. Showcasing U.S. military might is not part of our tradition. We tend more toward Athens than Sparta. Our leaders don’t own ceremonial uniforms. In 1970, Richard Nixon ordered military-style uniforms for the White House guards. Impressed by the look of European palace guards, Nixon put the Secret Service in white, double-breasted uniforms, with gold braid, brass buttons, and German police-style hats. The uniforms were denounced. They were boxed up and sold to a high school band in Iowa.

To break with tradition requires a compelling reason. The point of a big military parade in Washington, according to the president, is to honor the soldiers, airmen and sailors who bear the burden of the national defense. Trump says he loves the military, but his past behavior casts doubt on his sincerity. His treatment of the Gold Star families of Sgt. La David Johnson and Capt. Hamayun Khan was appalling. Trump’s medical exemption from the Vietnam-era draft has earned him such sobriquets as “draft dodger” and “Cadet Bone Spurs.” Referring to the bone spurs on his heels in 1968, Trump told The New York Times, “It was not a big problem, but it was enough of a problem.” Trump’s desire for a parade in Washington has drawn mixed reviews. The New York Times called it “Mr. Trump’s Lousy Parade Idea.” Rich Lowry, editor of The National Review, wrote, “A military parade once in a while is a healthy thing.” In the Wall Street Journal, Ronald Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan called it a “ridiculous and embarrassing idea.” I think it is a bad idea, too. Not so much because it could cost as much as $30 million, but because a parade would come at the expense of those it purports to honor. Thousands of service members would be jerked around for two or three days so Trump and his cronies could demonstrate their love of the military by sitting on a weatherproof, bulletproof reviewing stand, waving and smiling. Here is another way of thinking of it: You decide on a party to celebrate your grandparents’ wedding anniversary. It will be in their backyard. Nana and Gramps set up chairs and tables, buy the food, make potato salad, ice the PBR and chardonnay, barbecue the burgers and supervise the kids in the rented bounce house. At the end, you and the rest of the grandkids pose for a Christmas card photo. Soldiers contend with two kinds of parades: a street parade like the annual Pride Parade and a regimental parade in which units are arrayed on a sweep of lawn the size of a soccer pitch. The latter has been an annual event for the

Utah National Guard for 60 years. Its Governor’s Day ceremony puts upwards of 4,700 soldiers on display willy-nilly. I was a soldier once. I marched in many parades. I didn’t love any of them. The only good to be said of a parade is that it isn’t as bad as a guard post on a windy, winter night. Unless you have a seat on the reviewing stand, a parade is drudgery. Trump’s parade would necessitate preparation, rehearsals, inspections and hurry-up-and-wait interludes for as many as 10,000 service members. If weapons are involved, the hassle factor rises. A rising wet-bulb temperature is also problematic. Just because a parade is counterproductive doesn’t mean that the commander-in-chief’s impulse to honor the military isn’t worth embracing. For too long, Americans have had a “reverent but disengaged attitude toward the military—we love the troops, but we’d rather not think about them,” observed journalist James Fallows. So let’s think of that 1 percent of the population enduring successive combat tours while the rest of us loll on the couch. Here are five ways Trump could improve their circumstances: n Extricate the military from the interminable wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. End the expensive conflicts with the “soft power” of diplomacy. Beef up the State Department instead of allowing Rex Tillerson to gut it. n Ensure the Veterans Administration is a world-class, service organization. n Make climate change an urgent, homeland security concern so as to foreclose wars fought over water and food. n Get Melania to continue the “Joining Forces” program begun by Michelle Obama and Jill Biden so that military families continue to receive wellness, education and employment assistance. n Tell the Pentagon: “On second thought, I don’t love a parade.” CW Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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It started out as a win for restaurants. The Legislature decided that most patrons apparently know when they’re going into a restaurant, so those letter-sized signs announcing “This is a restaurant, not a bar” can go. Not so with bars, however. You just can’t trust parents to leave their kids at home when they go out bingedrinking. But while some rejoice at the changes, KUTV Channel 2 found another perspective—this one from the Cliff Dining Pub in Draper. As a club, it could bring in 40 percent of its revenue from alcohol sales. Now, the Legislature says restaurants can’t get more than 30 percent. Oh, and they probably will have to add a Zion “wall.” You’ve got to love those clueless legislators and “the crazy alcohol-related bills that create these hurdles and really jeopardize our future,” said Cliff co-owner Wendy Moler-Lewis.

IN ONE WEEK, YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

This annual event comes at a particularly poignant time—following the tragic school shootings in Parkland, Fla., and just before the Legislature adjourns for the year—probably without addressing gun control. Hosted by the Utah Office of Multicultural Affairs, Multicultural Youth Leadership Day at the Capitol 2018, wants students in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades and others to understand the importance of the legislative process and how becoming informed citizens can change their lives and the communities in which they live. Think about it: guns for teachers and in schools. These are the issues you can influence. Utah State Capitol, 350 N. State, 801-245-7210, Wednesday, March 7, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m., free, bit.ly/2ENdnB3.

Stifling Discourse

Yes, we know that lobbyists have long had a bad rep, especially since the Citizens United decision opened the money floodgates. But especially to the citizen legislature, lobbyists play an important part in explaining the details of an issue. Now, the horseman of the apocalypse Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, wants to gag lobbyists from local governments and universities if they want to speak about public lands issues. And Rep. Val Peterson, R-Orem, wants to prevent some state employees and agencies from “taking a public position on legislative action.” Besides not wanting to be contradicted, these lawmakers are seeking to stifle public discourse, good information and of course, the First Amendment. Meanwhile, they want to take over the public lands.

CITIZEN REV LT MULTICULTURAL YOUTH DAY

If you ever wondered about the Utah psyche, wonder no more—and listen to the House floor debate over SB138—Sex Change Amendments. Maybe you give props to Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, for even venturing into the social miasma of sex in Utah, but you really have to wonder why legislators can’t have a little faith. That’s faith that parents and those people seeking to change their gender are not making this decision lightly. What they sought in this bill was a change in status on their birth certificates. Weiler talked about his upbringing—in the Brady Bunch manner. He never thought about transgender people, never knew any, or so he thought. Weiler choked up talking about the vulnerability of a neighbor’s child and the family’s struggle. Then there was Sen. Lyle Hillyard, R-Logan, who also worried about how he’d explain the trans world to his mother. That’s the Utah mentality, and why the bill hasn’t been a slam-dunk.

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Like World War II’s iconic “Rosie the Riveter,” newly minted Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera, 55, is a plucky woman in a traditionally man’s job. Last August, county Democrats appointed Rivera to fill the vacancy left by Sheriff Jim Winder, who resigned to become Moab’s chief of police. She’s the mother of three and grandmother of five. The county’s first female and Latina sheriff— who heads the sprawling Unified Police Department—is seeking a term of her own this November.

What attracted you to law enforcement?

I have always wanted to be a police officer since I was a little girl. My father watched cop shows on TV and I wanted to be just like them—helping people.

You rose through the ranks, correct?

I started my law enforcement career at Weber State University Police Department in 1993. [After joining the sheriff’s office], I made sergeant in five years, then lieutenant after 15 years, chief after 22 years and sheriff after 24 years in law enforcement.

What were those early struggles like as a teenager?

As a teenager, I became pregnant at age 14. The culture back then in Latino families was to get married if you became pregnant. I married my son’s father at 14; he was 16. I had my son when I was 15 and the struggles began. I had to drop out of school to support my child and worked the onion fields to earn money … I was on public assistance for a few years until my husband at the time turned 18. Then, he got a job at Hill Air Force Base and we no longer needed assistance. When I was old enough, I also got a job at Hill and we were able to support our family.

Any advice to women interested in a law-enforcement career?

Pursue your education first. Always remember that just because it is a male-dominated field you can do it, too. In order to be it—you have to see it. What I mean by this is you have to see yourself in the future in order to pursue your goals and dreams.

What’s currently your biggest challenge?

The biggest challenge right now is recruiting enough resources to do the job. We are short on manpower in corrections and the Unified Police Department.

What are your long-term goals for the department?

FEMINISTS UNITE

Yes, there are still feminists in the world—and they’re mad as hell. As part of Women’s History Month, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the City Library are offering a community dialogue “around gender, activism, and art.” Feminists Unite! Building Community through Art & Activism will offer sessions led by artists and educators, and opportunities to make art yourself or tell your story. They will also be taking ideas for a community mural to be created in April. Best yet, you will hear about how you can make feminism a part of your life. Sugar Space Arts Warehouse 132 S. 800 West, 801581-7332, Wednesday, March 7, 6:308:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/2EORSvG.

GOING BEYOND TOKENISM

Yes, this month is all about women, but it’s also about all kinds of women in all walks of life and how they influence society, not to mention the history of our nation. Beyond Tokenism: Centering Women in our Histories of the Nation will delve into the domestic and public work of women and their contributions to social institutions. “It gives us a truer picture of the nation’s history, in all of its conflict, change, and complexity,” organizers say. This free lecture will be given by R. Marie Griffith, director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, and the editor of the Center’s journal, Religion & Politics. J. Willard Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium, Level 1, 295 S. Campus Drive, 801-581-8558, Thursday, March 8, 7-9 p.m., free, bit.ly/2E6Gef9.

To encourage police and the community to work together more closely. I also want to decrease the gang violence that is going on in the county; it has become more violent and the gang members are starting at a younger age. Another goal is to provide the most effective policing without it costing communities so much. I believe the unified-police model saves cities money by sharing resources among the cities.

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Sharks in the Monongahela might still be a few centuries off, Mark, but your readiness to go full Lorax on the road-salt issue is commendable. I’ll be happy to supply you with a few shorter-term problems to worry over, with fewer teeth but frankly just as dire. First, the scope of the situation. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, ice control accounted for 43 percent of all salt consumption in 2015, by far the biggest slice of the national salt-use pie. That breaks down to about 25 million tons we’re shaking out onto our roads per annum. Where’s it all go from there? Well, the first stop is roadside soil and vegetation. You’re not wrong to be worried about the trees: salt spray injures evergreen needles and deciduous buds alike, turning them brown and thus decreasing their photosynthesis capacity. Salt in the soil winds up in tree roots as well, where it essentially fills them up, leaving less room for other nutrients like potassium and calcium. Or say the roadside plant in question is milkweed, its leaves plump with sodium, which subsequently gets ingested by monarch butterflies. Research from 2014 found that consuming saltier plant matter increased muscle protein activity in male butterflies and eye size in females. These effects may be beneficial to a point, but road salt seems to be a high-value treat for animals who don’t otherwise encounter lots of sodium, and if butterflies get too much it can kill them. Birds are also subject to salt poisoning, but they’re at more immediate risk too: to get at that delicious salt they alight on the road, aka where all the cars are. (A fatal attraction for finches, in the words of one 2005 report.) Outcomes can be similarly grisly for deer and moose, who see de-iced roads as an all-you-can-eat salt lick. Roadways being designed to repel water and drain it off, salt readily makes its way into the local streamflow, which is where the most serious trouble begins. A paper published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explored the effects of road salt on 371 North American lakes, noting that we’re looking at a double-barreled problem: the continued use of salt for de-icing, plus sprawl—we just keep producing more roads. Having a mere 1 percent of the nearby ground asphalted

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over, the study found, is enough to gradually bump up a lake’s salt content, putting it in danger of long-term salinization. As you might imagine, excess salt in lakes and rivers disagrees with the constitutions of the various fauna living there. Great enough concentrations of NaCl have been shown to shrink the body size of rainbow trout and mess with the male-female ratios of wood-frog tadpoles. Sodium chloride was the focus in this analysis, but magnesium chloride and other salts are used on roads too; each has its own environmental effects, none particularly salutary. The PNAS paper predicts that if the current road-to-watershed pipeline persists unabated, “many lakes will exceed the aquatic life threshold criterion for chronic chloride exposure” within 50 years, which is to say we’ll get a grim cycle of declining biodiversity, disrupted food chains, and overall ecosystem malfunction; in the most serious cases, too much salt chokes off oxygen levels in freshwater bodies. This isn’t just some abstract problem of the natural world, either—these are our fisheries we’re talking about. And then sometimes humans have their own road-salt troubles. You’re aware of the situation in Flint, Mich.: the city switched its municipal water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River, whose alreadypolluted H2O corroded lead-lined water mains, leading to widespread illness, lower fertility, and at least a dozen deaths—a shameful and utterly avoidable tragedy whose prolonged nature has had nothing at all, I’m sure, to do with the demographic makeup of those affected. Anyway, the problem with Flint River water was multifaceted; this is an industrial town, after all. But one contributing corrosive was road salt, washed into the river after it was used to de-ice frozen bridges. Oh, and about drinking water: road salt’s in there too. That 50-year threshold predicted by the PNAS study is also the point at which the taste of salt becomes perceptible in tap water, though a few locales are already reporting a distinct saline flavor flowing from their pipes come the winter season. On one hand, this is bad news for people on restricted diets, but on the other, hey—no need to salt your water for pasta anymore. It’s pre-seasoned right out of the faucet. n

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Pairs of rabbits are on display in cages at Riverton High School for the first Utah Rabbit Breeders Convention.

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At the Utah Rabbit Breeders Convention, attendees aim to make bunnies a viable farm-to-table option. BY DYLAN WOOLF HARRIS dwharris@cityweekly.net @dylantheharris Rabbit: the other other white meat. Or perhaps red. Inside a classroom at Riverton High School, two adults are talking about whether rabbit meat is red or white as they peer into wire cages where pairs of rabbits wiggle their noses, smelling scents imperceptible to the humans around them. It was the first Rabbit Breeders Convention, held last Saturday, where more than 80 participants gathered to learn about raising rabbits as livestock. If you’ve paid any attention to food production and farmers markets, it’s clear that a preference for local ingredients has burgeoned, and some growers are making a case that rabbit meat is a sustainable, efficient and under-appreciated protein option. “It’s high in protein. It’s lean—low in fat, lower in calories than the other meats. Health-food people call it a ‘power food,’” says Steve Jensen, a middle-aged rabbit

breeder from Herriman who organized the event with help from Utah State University. Jensen’s parents have been cooking rabbit meat since the 1970s (definitely a white meat, they say. Later, however, a lecturer says rabbit can be categorized as a red meat for inspections.) He and his family run Lapin Farms and have become experts in the industry. Rabbits are cute and cuddly, rabbit breeders agree, so it’s challenging for some people to get over the image of Peter Cottontail in their casserole. But once they do, they’re in for a treat, the breeders contend. “Chicken tastes a lot like

rabbit,” Jensen affirms. But don’t snack on the roadkill or bunny your uncle shot among the sagebrush just yet—it might be infected with trichinosis. After a lunch break, Noel McSpadden, a meat inspector, gave a lecture on state regulations that govern rabbit slaughter. “We ensure that it’s properly labeled, unadulterated and passed all the inspections,” he says. Vernon Parent is a Utah State University extension associate professor, who is familiar with livestock trends. “A lot of populations nowadays are getting more into the DIY thing. They’re raising their own chickens, and they’re raising their own rabbits—not as a pet, but as meat,” he says. “And pound for pound you can raise more meat in rabbits for feed given than you can for beef. It’s a more efficient animal.” With one male and two females (known as bucks and does), breeders can yield 180 pounds of meat in a year. In the last few years, articles about America’s growing appetite for rabbit meat have appeared in a range of publications, including The Atlantic and huffingtonpost.com. A post on livestrong.com, a site which focuses on health, nutrition and positive living, breaks down the nutritional value in rabbit. “Rabbit meat is relatively low in fat; each 3-ounce serving has 6.8

grams of fat, which accounts for 37 percent of the calories,” states health author Nicki Wolf. “Compared to beef and pork, rabbit is the clear choice—3 ounces of beef has 18.3 grams, and 3 ounces of port has 8.2 grams.” A serving of rabbit can satisfy almost half of a person’s daily protein (about 25 grams of a recommended 56 grams, depending on gender and weight), it offers a punch of vitamin B-12, and rabbit contains an antioxidant-producing mineral called selenium, Wolf goes on to explain. In the city, diners can order rabbit in a few restaurants, such as Avenues Bistro on 3rd (rabbit pot pie) and Provisions (pappardelle with braised rabbit). Not everyone is thrilled about the rabbit breeding movement, however. A national rabbit advocacy organization called the House Rabbit Society recognizes rabbits for their intrinsic value, and the group isn’t too timid to jump into a political battle—last year, for example, HRS petitioned California to pass a law that banned pet stores from selling non-rescue cats, dogs and rabbits. House Rabbit Society did not respond to City Weekly’s request for comment on rabbit meat, but the organization addresses the topic on its website. “HRS members and volunteers live and share our lives with rabbits, and know what incredible creatures they are: intelligent, curious, willful,

funny, affectionate, greedy and even destructive. So to think that millions of our cherished rabbits are being raised and slaughtered in factory-like conditions, with very little government oversight, for human consumption every year is highly disturbing,” it states. For the last five years, Kevin Jenson has raised rabbits in the Uinta Basin. It’s been a hard row, he says. And so, he attended Saturday’s conference to learn how he could improve his operation. Feeding rabbits has posed a costly challenge. Jenson has about 60 does, but he’s hoping to scale up his production. A few years ago, he says, he built a mobile pen without a floor. His idea was to herd his rabbits into the pen, and let them eat his lawn. Every day or so, he would relocate the cage on top of a new patch of grass. “That worked real well for a couple of days,” he says. “Then they started to dig.” One morning, he went to his yard to find a hole so deep that he couldn’t reach his arm to the bottom. With that experience in mind, Jenson signed up to attend a class on rabbit pens. The convention also offered courses on recipes, breeding cycles and the difference between pets and livestock. Bottomline, convention organizer Jensen says, “We’re helping people get into rabbits.” CW

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Springer hops on board and conducts a Q&A with a trio of top-of-theirgame concert promoters, the behind-the-curtain wizards who book, run and settle shows in our clubs, theaters and arenas (p. 20). Inclusiveness is the name of the game, and in the interest of supporting all aspects of the scene, Springer also looks at karaoke and the journey of two local empty orchestra conductors who have recruited, trained and unleashed 17 karaoke jockeys into the wild now responsible for 20-plus weekly theme nights (p. 18). So, where do we go from here? That is as uncertain as Orrin Hatch in a rap battle. I will say that City Weekly’s commitment to the scene is stronger than ever. Be it on our ink-stained pages or across our digital platforms, we’ll continue to zoom in on the big picture to uncover, in detail, what’s going on in local music and who are the folks behind it who keep it tuned. Because, if we tend to it, SLC’s scene will blow up, resulting in brilliant days (and tunes) for all.

n last year’s Local Music Issue, I reflected on my experiences in the Salt Lake City music scene as both a fan and journalist over the past 25 years. I predicted continued growth, and that, as with all local music scenes, ours would become more important in the future. I remain convinced of this—except for one thing. A persistent complaint among local musicians is that the SLC scene is apathetic and impenetrable, plagued by cronyism and conflicting priorities. And because of this, some of our best bands seek more fertile ground elsewhere. In the late ’90s and early aughts, local bands decamped to Portland. Today, they exile to Austin, Nashville and New York City. So, the question is: How do we retain and foster locally grown talent? Perhaps the solution is a clean start—to greet the scene with new eyes and ears—so that we might appreciate anew its scope and undeniable quality. To that end, in this issue, we offer a back-to-basics tour of some of the major music venues (p. 16) and access some of the most active musicians’ thoughts on the scene (p. 23). We also observe a fly-on-the-wall conversation between three of SLC’s most prolific MCs as they discuss their experiences in local hip-hop (p. 21). City Weekly music and now dining columnist Alex

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ALL ACCESS

“I’ll tell you what I’ve learned/ If you water it/ and care for it/ your love will grow/ just like a rose/ and the tide will surely turn/ … / these are brilliant days.”

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DIG YR SCENE

City Weekly’s all-access tour of the local music microcosm. Part of it, anyway. By RANDY HARWARD

On a crowded double-decker bus outside City Weekly HQ, there is a squelching sound as the tour guide, standing on the upper deck, grabs the mic ...

ood evening, everyone. My name’s Randy and I’ll be your tour guide and bus driver on the steering-wheel of steel. We’ll start the maiden voyage of the City Weekly AllAccess Local Music Tour in just a moment. First, please rise for the ceremonial song, Frankie Smith’s “Double-Dutch Bus.” There’s a double-dutch bus coming down the street/ Moving pretty fast/ So kinda shuffle your feet/ Get on the bus and pay your fare/ And tell the driver that you’re going to a doubledutch affair! Whoooo! That song always gets me pumped. There should be a VIP swag bag under your seats. It contains (expired) coupons to local merchants, a fidget spinner, drink tickets (hope you like Pabst!), one of my friend Nicole’s awesome cookies (I will gladly eat this if you’re a diabetic) and a respirator. Also, you’ll notice a nametag with your “Double Dutch Bus” name. For the duration of the ride, you will be known as either Rebecca, Lolita, Veshawn, Dawn, Bilzarbra, Milzary, Bilzetty, Kilzam, Tilzommy, Tilzerrance or Bilzobby. Now, I try not to play favorites, but Bilzobby? That’s my man. He (or she) gets an extra drink ticket. You’ve probably had a long day checking out Temple Square and Salt Lake City’s fine collection of fast-food franchises and strip malls. Or, if you’re local, working. This is where we get to the good stuff—What’s that, Bilzobby? You see only 11 venues on the itinerary? What happened to “all access?” That’s why I like you; you’re funny. It’s called “All Access” because you all get to access this bus. One last thing: I don’t have my CDL license. So, if we get pulled over—be cool.

Our first stop is located directly across the street. The Gallivan Center (239 S. Main) was the longtime home of the Twilight Concerts Series. You’ll be pleased to know that, for 2018, TCS is coming home. Every Thursday night you’ll get to watch a well-curated bill consisting of a touring headliner and one of our great local bands. Don’t worry, fans of the Excellence in the Community free concert series—those will happen on Wednesdays throughout Twilight’s summer run. Site of Historical Significance: The Zephyr Club As we journey to our next stop, take note of the building at 301 S. West Temple. It’s the withering husk of the Zephyr Club—perhaps the greatest local music venue the scene could still have if it weren’t for what we call, colloquially, “some bullshit.” It’s been shuttered since 2003. Out here on the far west side of downtown is the Metro Music Hall (615 W. 100 South). It’s the only place in town where you can see ferocious black metal bands in corpse paint, fierce drag queens in high-arcing eye shadow, and fresh hip-hop acts with live graffiti artists (in the popular monthly event Hip-Hop Roots). In addition to that, expect to find some incredible shows by legends like Gary Numan and New Order’s Peter Hook. Many shows have local openers—and even headliners. Now, let’s check out The Depot (400 W. South Temple). This Live Nation-owned club is similar in layout to the Zephyr—but bigger. So are some of the touring acts that rock this room (My Morning Jacket, Sylvan Esso, Ghost). Sometimes you’ll get to see big local acts like Talia Keys open for George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic. Yes, Kilzam, it is called The Depot because it’s in a train station! Toot-toooot! Anyone up for hitting a record store? In only four years,

Diabolical Records (238 S. Edison St.) has become one of SLC’s favorite record stores and live-music venues. They provide a place for local bands of all ages and varieties to build an audience and sell their records. It’s also a great place to check out cool bands and see fringe underground acts like Nobunny and Tatsuya Nakatani while digging through some of the best curated crates in town. Another thing: Even you can play a gig at Diabolical if you register for their semi-annual Bandemonium, where local musicians and laypeople make music together in ephemeral ad hoc bands. Dust off your tambourines and join the fun! Site of Historical Significance: The Spot Where A Guy That Looked Like Jack White Jaywalked Celebrity sightings are common during the Sundance Film Festival. While in line for a screening at the Broadway Theatre (111 E. 300 South) in 2007, I saw a man who looked just like the whitest stripe cross the street only 20 feet from the crosswalk. WTF, right? Just a few blocks east of here is another music-friendly venue, The Urban Lounge (241 S. 500 East). The hip little room you see before you is one of the biggest 21-and-up live-music clubs in town, hosting several shows a week by touring and local acts. You’ll find a little of everything here, including tons of hip-hop (the esteemed Talib Kweli, locals like Concise Kilgore and Zac Ivie), culty strangeness (Acid Mothers Temple), indie rock (Built to Spill), metal (The Sword) and novelty acts (Metalachi), along with monthly themed tribute nights. Next door to the Urban is its companion biz, Rye Diner & Drinks. Sartain & Saunders (the concert promoting group owned by Will Sartain and Lance Saunders that also owns the Metro), began booking singer-songwriters and bands late last year.

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Road, West Valley City) is your kind of joint. It’s been Utah’s premier country-and-western bar for decades. Once upon a time, they booked touring bands, but now it’s mainly locals— like Colt.46, Rail Town and Wild Country—playing mostly covers of country and classic rock tunes, with an original or two. Passengers, please put on your respirators as we approach The Great Saltair (12408 W. Saltair Drive, Magna). Overlooking a lake that famously smells like twice-baked farts, Saltair was originally a resort where church officials could babysit young Mormons lest they do anything fun. Interestingly, it burned down twice. Now it hosts concerts and EDM festivals like Das Energi. It’s also where yours truly and immortal local music figure Clayton Scrivner (The Rodeo Boys) met Dio. Site of Historical Significance: The Spot Where Donny Osmond Lost His Flower As legend goes, it was a beautiful day on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. The sun glinted off of Donny’s blinding white smile, and his preternaturally fresh breath partially eclipsed the lake stank. Then he ran into his old Sunday-school teacher, LaDerek Eliza Carlisle—and as Donny and the fam once sang, they called it puppy love. Although some local music historians argue it was doggy-style. Oh, I guess we’ll never know... And that’s the last stop, passengers. I want to thank you for choosing the City Weekly All-Access Local Music Tour. We know you have a choice in—aw, damn, we’re out of gas. And the bosses at CW sent a text saying I’m way over budget on this deal and to expect no further funding. I suggest we all move down to the lower deck for the night. You don’t wanna sleep under the stars with all these seagulls. We should also huddle together for warmth. Bilzobby, do you prefer to be the big or little spoon?

Say, Milzary—you look old. Don’t get mad; so am I. If you hanker for music of the “classic” variety, Liquid Joe’s (1249 E. 3300 South), tucked behind Harmons near Brickyard Plaza, is where you’ll find hair metal (Enuff Z’nuff, Slaughter), oldschool funk and soul (Zapp, Evelyn “Champagne” King), cover/tribute acts (’80s champions, the Spazmatics), cult bar bands (Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers) and crazy awesome shows like Oingo Boingo Dance Party (Boingo minus Danny Elfman) and Guided by Voices. It’s also a bastion for the city’s rock en Español scene. Site of Historical Significance: The Spot Where Tony Holiday Sold His Soul No, SLC’s current blues king did not give up his soul at the now-razed Crossroads Mall in exchange for those considerable harmonica and songwriting talents. He simply forgot his wallet at the Arby’s drive-thru. It was rush hour, he hadn’t had breakfast or lunch that day, and the drivers queued behind him were honking like assholes. Then came a mysterious stranger who offered to cover Holiday’s $8.73 bill—for a price. The moral of this story? Don’t do business when you’re hangry. On your left is that very Arby’s (4673 S. 900 East). Some bands achieve success and blow all their money. Others invest it, creating another revenue stream in case things go pear-shaped—which is known to happen in the music business. Can anyone guess the band I’m talking about? Congratulations, Tilzerrance! It is, in fact, long-running local band Royal Bliss whose Neal Middleton and Taylor Richards co-own and operate The Royal (4760 S. 900 East) alongside Kelly Peterson. Check ’em out for a little of everything: folk, country, blues, rock, reggae and hip-hop. Dawn, I dig your belt buckle. I’ll bet you like to scoot yer boots on the weekend. The Westerner (3360 S. Redwood

On our way out of downtown SLC, we visit another heir to the Zephyr throne: The State Room (638 S. State). This jewel is run by the same guys who bring us the perennial summer concert series at Red Butte Garden. The State Room’s similarity to the Zephyr, however, isn’t in the layout (there’s tons of seating and no balcony) but the programming. They book anything as long as it’s good— but expect mainly singer-songwriters like (Margo Price, Todd Snider), jam bands (Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Mokie), rock bands (Fountains of Wayne, Hell’s Belles) and dexterous instrumental virtuosos (Victor Wooten, Eric Johnson). Nestled at the back of a dead-end alley like a live-music Narnia, among private homes owned by seemingly very tolerant people, is Kilby Court (741 S. Kilby Court)—another S&S venue. Yes, Bilzetty? No, S&S doesn’t own every venue in town. Not yet, anyway. But it’s not like they’re buying up local media. Besides, Kilby is special—a place for younger music fans that, by order of The Man, can’t get into clubs. It gets pretty sweaty in this crackerbox concert hall, but you can still hear pretty well while cooling off on the courtyard benches. As we begin to make our way out of downtown to explore local music in more suburban parts of town, here’s another … Site of Historical Significance: Remember the Alamo! We used to call 843 S. State “The Spot Where Starmy’s Mike Sartain Whizzed on an Alamo Rental Car, Which Is Kinda the Same as the Alamo Mission, Which Makes Him Kinda the Same as Ozzy.” On some nights, you can still see him galloping around town, barking at the moon, being an embarrassment to his promoter brother. As you might surmise from the signage, this is actually an Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

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Secret Sauce

How one local company unites Utah’s karaoke culture. By Alex Springer

ot long ago, would-be karaoke superstars wandered from sports bar to brewpub following a loosely organized schedule of events where they could test their song-spewing mettle. These wandering tribes continued to stoke the fire that came from unapologetically singing hits from the ’70s and ’80s in front of a group of inebriated strangers, but they were lost and unorganized. Utah’s karaoke scene needed a leader. While Todd “Sauce” Farris is quick to dismiss his role in galvanizing Utah’s karaoke scene, it’s easy to see that his work with ZimZam Entertainment has redefined how we do karaoke nights here. Farris and his business partner, Ryan Zimmerman, built ZimZam because they fell in love with karaoke culture and how it helped them navigate the more difficult aspects of life. “I got divorced 18 years ago, and I went out to karaoke to forget my worries,” Farris says. His first karaoke stint took place at the Atchafalaya Club in Provo, a historic nightspot that was demolished to make way for construction of the Utah County Convention Center. A high school buddy and former bandmate, Brian Ferre, agreed to sing with Farris since it was his first time. They performed under the name Fry Sauce—the name of Farris’ high school band, and became karaoke regulars. That’s how Farris met Zimmerman. “He would always ask my buddy and me who was Fry and who was Sauce, which was how I got the nickname.” Farris and Zimmerman soon became professional karaoke DJs, better known in the industry as KJs. When their boss packed up and moved to Texas, the pair took over his karaoke empire. “It wasn’t really about me wanting to be a karaoke DJ, it just kind of fell into place,” Farris says. In less than a decade, Farris and Zimmerman have created one of the most popular karaoke companies in the state. ZimZam employs 17 contract KJs and hosts 23 shows a week stretching from Spanish Fork to Ogden. Farris himself can be found running karaoke night at Leatherheads Sports Bar in Draper every Wednesday and Friday, which is where I first meet up with him. With its open seating and built-in stage that’s seen the likes of hair metal luminaries such as Warrant and Whitesnake, Leatherheads is an ideal spot for karaoke fans to pursue their alcohol-enhanced dreams of rock superstardom. ZimZam supplies the speakers, hardware and its huge library of karaoke-approved songs. “This can be the expensive

part if you want to build a big library,” Farris says. Using sites like sunfly.com and karaoke.net, ZimZam buys the legal rights to use every song in their library. “Sometimes we’ll get people who bring in their own disc or want us to play a song from YouTube, and we don’t do that. We only use songs that we’ve paid for,” Farris says. Traditionally, Farris kicks off each karaoke night with his own performance. He revved the crowd up with a rendition of “Even the Losers” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Farris is a big dude—he could easily pass for a bouncer, so he’s got great stage presence. And years of karaoke have helped him develop considerable vocal chops. It’s not long before a list of performers billing themselves as Teddy Bear, Ben Jammin and Sweet Baby Jesus start filling up the queue screen at the front of the stage. “There will be anywhere from 20 to 35 singers on a given night, and I’ll know about two thirds of them,” Farris says. “We have people who will come here and to Club 90 on weekdays.” He nods to a couple at the next table. “These guys are friends that I’ve met here. We’re going to Cancun together this summer.” Ben Jammin and Sweet Baby Jesus are among the group of regulars singing at Leatherheads. When he’s not belting out tunes by Elvis Presley and letting his blessed brown locks sway with inhuman energy, Sweet Baby Jesus goes by Garrett Walker. He’s a KJ himself and, like Farris, came to karaoke nights to ease the pain of a divorce and got caught up in the culture. “It’s a way to make yourself vulnerable, which is why I like being a KJ,” Walker says. “If I can talk someone into doing something fun that they wouldn’t regularly do, it’s a successful night.” The bodaciously bearded Ben Jammin (Benjamin Franklin Taylor) nods in agreement. Tonight, he treated the crowd to Bob Marley’s “Could You Be Loved,” and is a self-proclaimed fan of the Iron Lion. “I’ve done about half of the Bob Marley songs,” he says. “For me, I love coming out and singing new songs all the time—especially songs that are a little obscure and different.” Farris’ guiding principle with ZimZam is to help people have a good time and forget their worries. It’s clear from the smiling singers and spectators that he’s accomplishing that. The wandering souls who just want to throw a few back and sing their hearts out in front of some understanding strangers can fearlessly unite under the rejuvenating power of song.

Make Room for New Rooms

4 new venues where you can hear and play live local music.

ive-music fans are always happy to see new venues pop up. It’s not that we get sick of the same rooms or demand a change of scenery; it’s just a sign of a healthy scene. Here are three new SLC headliners (plus one Ogden opener) that are getting us excited. Avant Groove

Lake Effect

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Ogden’s newest joint is located in the space that once housed D&R Spirits, and is owned, operated and booked by singer-songwriter Sam Smith (Samuel Smith Band, Pig Eon). This week—Feb. 28 through March 3—is all about women (thank goddess). Make way for Sarah Anne DeGraw, Melody Pulshiper and Morgan Whitney (March 1), Pixie & the Partygrass Boys (March 2) and Talia Keys and The Love (March 3). 2430 Grant Ave., Ogden, 801-903-3671, facebook.com/theyeshell

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A popular stop for morning-after breakfast following killer shows at its conjoined sister, Urban Lounge, Rye started booking shows in November. Moving forward, it will host everything from singer-songwriters to metal bands. Upcoming concerts include: John Allred (March 1), Kosmo & Aftrhrs (March 8) and Eldren (March 21). 239 S. 500 East, 801-364-4655, facebook.com/ryeslc

Although it takes its name from the Great Salt Lake’s less-than-pleasant odor, this slick new bar books local acts ranging from Advent Horizon’s Rylee McDonald to soul powerhouse Joshy Soul & the Cool to DJ Chaseone2 at least three days a week. Comin’ up this week: Scott Foster (March 1), Bonanza Town (March 2) and the Will Baxter Band (March 3). 155 W. 200 South, 801-532-2068, lakeeffectslc.com

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Salt Lake City needed a new jazz club and the Avant Groove filled that void in July 2017. This new venue bills itself as a jazz club and martini bar, but you’ll hear a bit of blues, too. Look for owner John Vecchi’s band the Elastic Quintet to perform standards and deep cuts by the likes of Charlie Hunter, Frank Sinatra and John Coltrane among numerous others. 122 W. Pierpont Ave., 801-953-0433, avantgroove.com

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Promo Confidential

Local concert promoters dish on their dream jobs. By Alex Springer

ltough marketing and search-engine optimization might not seem like the most rock ’n’ roll terms to throw around, live music as we know it would be hard pressed to exist without them—especially today. Local music venues will always have their regulars, but when asses need to be put in seats, it’s all down to the promoters. It’s thanks to them you know when your favorite band comes to town, and the band gets to play to a psyched-up crowd. It might sound like a dream job for music lovers—and let’s face it, it totally is—but a gig promoting concerts is filled with long days hitting the pavement and long nights finalizing poster designs and distribution strategies. At the end of the day, the responsibility for making sure an artist comes to Utah and leaves wanting to come back adds up to a lot of pressure for the invisible heroes of our local promotion scene. Despite their busy schedules, promoters Trent Falcone (Live Nation), Daren Piccoli (The State Room, Red Butte Garden Summer Concert Series) and Will Sartain (Kilby Court, Urban Lounge, Metro Music Hall) take a minute to give us the rundown of what life as a concert promoter is really like.

City Weekly: First of all, how did you get into the concertpromotion industry? Trent Falcone: I got involved with a local punk rock promoter back when I was in high school. I wanted to get involved with shows, so I helped him do everything from hanging posters around town to loading in band gear on show days. I did anything and everything to get my foot in the door. From there it just evolved into a real career. Darin Piccoli: I volunteered at the Telluride Jazz Festival in 1991 and was intrigued by the behindthe-scenes of the business. I’ve always been a passionate music and concert lover, so my path was set. I saw Maceo Parker on New Year’s Eve back in 1993 in Newport, R.I., gave his manager my number on a cocktail napkin, and booked him the next spring in Durango, Colo., which was a sold-out show. Will Sartain: When I was 18, I asked Phil Sherburne, then-owner of Kilby Court, if I could volunteer for the venue. I had seen about 50 shows in the past year and I was beginning to become obsessed with live music. He let me know that they did not do volunteers, but if a paid position opened up he would let me know. It just so happened that his

main employee was let go the next week. He called and asked if I could do sound and door that night. Then he asked if I could do it the next seven nights. I never looked back and here I am, 15 years later. CW: What do you wish you knew about the business beforehand? TF: That once you work in this business, you won’t want to do anything else. And you should take better care of your hearing! DP: That if you want to succeed, you need to be in it for the long haul. Living show to show is not healthy. WS: Hindsight is 20/20 right? I don’t wish anything like that. Learning is part of the fun. No success without some failure. CW: What’s the typical experience that goes into booking, marketing and settling a show? TF: There is no typical experience when it comes to marketing a show. I’ve been in the business for over 25 years and every show requires thought and a real understanding of what you’re selling. You have to spend time learning about the band, listening to their music and finding the people that purchase their tickets.

Having a passion for music is a must if you’re going to convince people to spend their time and money on your show. I guess the only real thing all shows have in common is that you can never expect the same thing twice. DP: The biggest takeaway is that concert promoting is atypical. No two shows are alike. WS: I’m being a bit vague, but we try to be fair, thoughtful and considerate in all aspects of our business. CW: This is a tough business. What’s made you stick with it for so long? TF: To be honest, luck. I’ve had the good fortune of meeting the right people at the right time. Part of my success can be attributed to growing the relationships that helped me get to the next level. I’d like to think that my absolute love of music has something to do with it as well. It makes your job much easier when you love what you’re doing and what you’re trying to promote. DP: Stubbornness. Some strategy and research helped, too. WS: Trying to do things the right way, learning from my mistakes—lots of mistakes— and constantly trying to do a better job.

CW: Any particularly wild nights on the job? TF: There are too many to mention. The ones that I could mention, nobody would believe. Every show has something about it that sticks with me forever. That moment when the house lights go off and the crowd starts to react to the band coming on stage is the best part of every show. DP: I plead the Fifth. WS: The wildest nights were the nights when I was a kid and I had no idea what I was doing. I don’t think I want to divulge anything specific.

CW: If you weren’t doing this, what would you be doing? TF: The only thing better than this would to be the person standing on the stage. I suppose I’ll try my hand at being a standup comic if this doesn’t work out. DP: Honestly, I don’t know. I started in 1994 while I was in college. I’ve had various jobs through the years but have been a full-time promoter since 2000. WS: That’s funny. Haven’t thought about that in a long, long time. I would love to say I would be running some other kind of business, but I really don’t know.

Three of Utah’s top hip-hop emcees assess the scene. By Randy Harward

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Group” in City Weekly’s Best of Utah Music 2015, leading to an appearance on America’s Got Talent. McIntosh has his show and separate production and promotion businesses. In the beginning, they noticed a Utah stigma—that homegrown rhymesayers are perceived as cartoonish and “wigger-ish,” as McIntosh puts it, within and beyond the state’s borders. But that perception is dying off. “Sometimes we thought that was kind of a hindrance, [people] not taking us seriously,” Dago says. “At the same time, we thought it proved to our benefit, like, ‘Yeah, this is cool. This is Utah and this is kinda the sound.’” It’s not a sound so much as a strategic aesthetic. In a state where half the population is pious and prudish, dirty or gangsta rap isn’t very marketable. Knopf says local hiphop acts have to offer something different that appeals to the most people. To that end, Dago and Knopf keep their lyrics clean, like many underground/conscious hip-hop acts. “Being family-friendly opens a lot more doors,” Knopf says. “When I changed my name from Atheist to Rhyme Time, it was just for that reason.” “It definitely opened tons of doors when I was doing a positive movement [as opposed to harder gangsta themes],” McIntosh adds. Like any scene, Utah hip-hop has its ups and downs—sometimes it’s poppin’, sometimes it’s sleepy. Right now, these emcees see a lot of talent around them, whether it’s the acts they came up alongside, like HoL founder/in-demand producer Chance Lewis, hard-touring hustler gLife, Concise Kilgore, Swell Merchants, Dine Krew and Cig Burna or the emerging new guard. “I love this new era of rappers,” Knopf says. The three men run down a list of impressive young acts in the scene: Zac Ivie, Shanghaii, Underground Ambitionz (managed by Knopf), Brutal Turn, Burnell Washburn and James The Mormon. Knopf points to Ivie and Washburn as two particularly impressive figures making great music and also working hard to elevate the local hip-hop scene—Ivie with his Get It Write label and workshops, and Washburn with his popular monthly event Hip-Hop Roots. Although they see Utah’s as an active, supportive scene where “everybody just helps each other out,” they know it might never be a hip-hop mecca. And music remains a tough business. “We know there’s some serious musicians and talent in this state,” Dago says. “You go see shows and you’re like, why is this not a thing?” That’s the rhetorical refrain of almost any artist in any scene. Sure, it’d be great to make more money doing what they do—and they’ll never stop trying. But they know all they can do is keep making the best music they can, doing it for the love. And if the scene blows up, great. Knopf asks Dago if he and his Numbs bandmates ever thought about leaving Utah. “Nah, not really,” he replies. “We kinda like it here.” “I love it here,” Knopf says.

n the back corner of geek-themed coffee shop Watchtower Café sit three noteworthy local emcees. You know Mark Dago from Numbs, one of Salt Lake City’s most successful and long-running hip-hop acts, not to mention Rotten Musicians and his solo career. Scott Knopf burst onto the local hip-hop scene as Atheist, soon joining House of Lewis before changing his name to Rhyme Time. Lloyd A. McIntosh, aka LAM, is the co-founder of Self Expression Music, a solo artist, producer, radio host (ALT 101.9’s Friday TurnUp with DJ LAM) and concert promoter. With a combined 50-plus years of experience among them—all of it in Utah—they’re uniquely qualified to assess the state of local hip-hop. They’re also friends, so it doesn’t take long for them to fall into an easy, comfortable conversation that traverses their individual and shared experiences in the scene, as well as their thoughts on the up-and-coming youngbloods within it. With a steady, almost intense gaze framed by his trademark beanie and perma-stubble, Dago speaks calmly and thoughtfully. He moved to Provo from New Jersey in the late ’80s, making fast friends with the crew that would become Numbs. He recalls their beginnings rapping over instrumentals at now-shuttered Provo dance club Palace. “We would write all week long at school, and then we’d go down there and just try and impress people,” Dago says. Like many new artists, he says Numbs was naïve. When they went to record their first track, they didn’t know it was a BYOB—bring your own beats—kinda deal. “We just assumed that you walked into a studio and they handed you a beat and you were off and running.” Fluffy-headed Knopf wears a T-shirt for the 1982 cult horror film Basket Case—a symbol of his proud geekiness. He started rapping in 2009, when he moved to Utah from San Francisco. Bored and friendless in a new city, he showed up to a Tuesday-night rap battle held by U92—despite never having written or rapped in his life. He lost the battle, but kept coming back. A native of West Valley City, McIntosh started rapping at his church as a youngster. Later, he was the brash, young quasi-hoodrat who thought he had to look and sound hard to be real. He recalls running into another local rapper, Adverse, in seventh grade: “He said, ‘Yo, I heard you rap.’ I was like, shiiiiit, fool—kinda gangster-ish, right? Yeah, I rap—what?” They traded verses, and Adverse destroyed him before giving him advice and inviting him to a rap battle, marking Mcintosh’s official entry into the local hip-hop world.. Dago, Knopf and McIntosh have all enjoyed some success without leaving Utah. All three have licensed songs to films, television shows, commercials or videogames. Numbs played nightly for two weeks straight during the 2002 Winter Olympics and were courted by two major labels, Atlantic and Tommy Boy. Knopf and House of Lewis won “Best Rap

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Elisar Soueidi (solo, ex-Brain Bagz, ex-Dream Slut) SLC is filled with talented musicians who are all usually supportive of one another. A big problem in the scene is that there are not enough places to play, not just for locals, but also smaller touring bands. Local music fans, I urge you to go see bands you might have never heard of, and stick around a show even after your buddies’ band has played. Go out and support the musicians that dedicate a lot of time and energy into making this scene alive. We don’t get paid—your support and presence are what keep us going! Three bands you should see: Hoofless, The Nods, Payout Beast

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Michelle Moonshine (solo, Buffalo vs. Train) The music scene in Salt Lake is thriving, with many great artists, venues and supporters. Since starting out seven years ago, veteran musicians have nurtured me and other newer musicians. That’s a beautiful and important quality for a music community to have. Though Salt Lake is a hotbed for music, it doesn’t seem to get the visibility of scenes in other cities, like Portland, Austin, Nashville and Seattle. It can be difficult to break into national circuits and, unfortunately, many of SLC’s talented artists have had to move to these cities to try to make steps forward. Three bands you should see: Matthew & The Hope, Sarah Anne DeGraw, Marny Proudfit

Jeremy Devine (The Nods, 90s Television, Chirp) Salt Lake City is known to be a very polarized city culturally and the local music scene reflects that in some ways. Large venues are a bastion of the greater cultural shift occurring in the city recently. However, I feel like there should be more support in places with less clout. I would love to see more house shows throughout the city or other events in places not normally hosting music. Try asking your local pizza parlor if they want to cut a show in on some weekend, or maybe try posting up in the amphitheater of your local park or mall. Three bands you should see: Goop, Nasty Nasty, Radio Blonde

David Payne (Red Bennies, Lord British/ Falchion B, Jazz Jaguars) When I was young, all local bands played repeatedly on weekends at any of five bars downtown because each bar had a peon—never an owner of the bar—who had to fill up the calendar with their friends’ bands, so scenes exploded. But all those clubs either vanished or evolved, and now it looks to me like there is very little local music infrastructure at all, outside of some individuals’ desperate efforts to curate that art in the underground spaces. It’s worse than I’ve ever seen. I imagine that if it was easier to sell alcohol (the only moneymaker in the equation), then more individuals could decide how to foster local art. Three bands you should see: Durian Durian, Brain Bagz, Pigimichi

Secily Saunders (Winter Grain, SLUG Soundwaves, Rock Camp for Girls Provo) Someone came up to me after a recent gig and gave me insight and humility. “I did not expect this from Salt Lake,” he said. “I’m from Nashville and you’d fit right in there.” It made two things evident: Outside of Salt Lake, Utah still has a pretty big stereotype to overcome (all Mormon, no grit, art, etc.) and inside Salt Lake, we aren’t an anomaly. We’re hustling, crafting and recrafting our songs, trying out the best fit for our instrumentation, booking gigs that show versatility, and creating well-produced and excellently engineered music. This compliment applies to any of the bands I’ve come across. Salt Lake is a thriving center of music and that’s really energizing for me. Three bands you should see: Tishmal, Mia Grace, Tiny Home

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Jim Norton is a cantankerous kind of fellow. That’s been the case ever since he made his mark as part of that irreverent shock-jock radio show Opie and Anthony. Both outrageous and outspoken, he’s starred in seven comedy specials, appeared on several popular TV series, recorded four comedy albums, authored two best-selling books and currently co-hosts The Jim Norton and Sam Roberts Show on Sirius XM and the podcast UFC Unfiltered with Jim Norton and Matt Serra. “I love [both radio and stand-up], but was doing stand-up first,” Norton says via email. “The focus has to be much more pinpointed in stand-up. The best part of combining them is that I’m mediocre at both, so people tend not to get their expectations up.” Norton’s a busy guy, but he keeps up with current events, though his tirades about gun control, Islamic extremists, the ordeal of airport security and ex-girlfriends can court controversy. “I never think it’s controversial. It’s just jokes and opinions,” Norton says. “Criticism is fine, as long as people refer to me as Mr. Norton or Sir before they tell me I suck. … The onstage me is much braver, and snitches on the offstage me,” he admits. “I tell all my dark secrets onstage, then hate myself for blabbing it when I’m done.” Still, with all the darkness in the world, one has to wonder how Norton still finds ways to cast it as comedy. “I’ve never been accused of spreading anything but darkness,” Norton replies. “So that question makes me have hope that someone finds me joyous.” (Lee Zimmerman) Jim Norton @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-582-5233, March 3, 7 & 9:45 p.m., $25, wiseguyscomedy.com

A Whole New World of Alan Menken: An Evening of Songs and Stories Alan Menken probably provided the soundtrack to most of your childhood, even if you weren’t aware of it. While non-Broadway fans might have trouble placing his name, the music he’s created for classic movie musicals like Aladdin and Enchanted are household staples. With just his voice and piano, Menken brings more than 30 years of musical hits to Utah in his one-man show A Whole New World of Alan Menken: An Evening of Songs and Stories. His Broadway and Disney hits make up the bulk of the over two-hour program, but Menken also shares stories from his personal life and working career that helped shape the songs so many kids grew up loving. Menken got his theatrical start in the early 1970s, but his real success would come a decade later with the dark comedy offBroadway hit Little Shop of Horrors. On the strength of this play alone, Disney recruited Menken to write the music for 1989’s The Little Mermaid, which kickstarted the Disney animation renaissance. After a few years away from film to focus on Broadway productions, Menken has returned to Disney to assist in co-composing new songs for the live-action versions of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Little Mermaid. If you’re looking to save a little on tickets and have nine other Disney-loving friends or family members, group pricing is available. The event is family friendly, though the minimum age to attend is 6 years old. (Kylee Ehmann) A Whole New World of Alan Menken: An Evening of Songs and Stories @ de Jong Concert Hall, Brigham Young University, Provo, 801-422-2981, March 7-8, 7:30 p.m., $45-$85, arts.byu.edu

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Utah is the home of the Sundance Film Festival, but that doesn’t mean we need to wait until people are old enough for edgy fare to introduce them to cinema literacy—and to the idea that “kids’ films” aren’t limited to the latest mass-marketed CGI studio feature. The Utah Film Center’s annual Tumbleweeds Film Festival for children and youth offers ageappropriate films that help teach younger viewers about documentaries and works from other countries, while also providing workshops that give potential young filmmakers a boost. The 2018 program showcases 14 features and three short-films programs, covering every imaginable family-friendly genre and tone. The opening night feature, director Micah Barber’s Into the Who Knows! (pictured), tells the story of a 10-year-old boy with an imaginary fox for a best friend, who is sent to summer camp by his concerned parents but escapes to begin a great adventure. Animated offerings include the Chinese fantasy Big Fish and Begonia and the Norwegian stop-motion comedy Louis and Luca – The Big Cheese Race. Tumbleweeds also provides an inclusive way to introduce young viewers to films in other languages—even if the little ones are two young to read on-screen subtitles. Assisted listening devices provide narration by “subtitle readers,” allowing everyone to be part of screenings from all over the world. Then, as a break from the screenings, kids can sign up to experience virtual reality, or learn about how Hollywood movies make sound effects and special effects makeup with hands-on opportunities to make movie magic themselves. (SR) Tumbleweeds Film Festival @ multiple locations, March 2-4, times vary, $10 opening night, $6 regular screenings, 10-ticket passes $50, utahfilmcenter.org

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his seems like a difficult play to distill into a synopsis,” I say to playwright Jenifer Nii over the phone, talking about her new work The Weird Play. “How do you summarize what it’s about?” Silence. Silence. Then, finally: “You can tell by the long pause that I haven’t really found the answer to that question.” Some creative works aren’t easy to simplify, but what makes them hard to market can also be what makes them fascinating. The world-premiere of The Weird Play—a co-production of Plan-B Theatre Co. and Sackerson Theatre Co.—finds Nii wrestling with issues that have troubled her over the past year-and-a-half, as well as with the things she still wanted to accomplish as a writer. “As I was thinking about my next project,” she says, “I made two lists. One was about things I was insecure about, or didn’t think I’d done well from a technical perspective; the other was things I didn’t feel I understood, questions that might be interesting to explore in the theater. “Over the last year and a half in particular, I live in a country that is going through some pain,” she adds. “As I was looking around, I thought, ‘Gosh, love. I think we might be forgetting.’ … I was just seeing an excess of meanness, and a dearth of compassion. On a micro-scale, I was just trying to figure out how to be less mean—to myself, and to others.” An idea as simple yet complicated as love then became the foundation for The Weird Play, which includes three characters identified only as One, Two and Three. The idea, according to Nii, was to track the idea of a romance from its initial infatuation to a later deepening of emotion. And the more universal that idea could be made, the better. As part of that attempt at universality, Nii was careful not to define the characters’ demographic identities too narrowly. Only the character of One was written specifically as female, and no age or ethnicity is specified for any of them. While the cast for this production is made up of two caucasian women and an African-American woman, the initial reading for Plan-B’s playwriting lab found the same characters played by a woman, a caucasian man and

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an African-American man. “When I was trying to figure these characters out,” Nii says, “it seemed strange to call them Sally and Stan and Craig. I didn’t want it to be limited at all by what all names connote, or by gender, or by ethnicity.” Director Alex Ungerman agrees that the ways in which The Weird Play is hard to pin down also make it appealing. “One of the biggest things that stood out to me is how highly stylized it is, and how it can be interpreted on multiple levels,” he says. “A creative team could produce this 10 different ways. We made some decisions, but audience members are going to walk away, and it might be one thing to one audience member, and something completely different to another.” Ungerman also notes that the “love” Nii refers to as central to the play isn’t even necessarily just about romance between two humans. “On one level, this is a story about two people in love,” he says, “and on another, it’s about one person’s relationship with God, or with an institution like a church. This script is incredibly relevant right now in a state where people have complicated relationships with religion, and shifting ideas about that relationship.” Nii appreciates what Ungerman has brought to The Weird Play and recognizes that for a text this full of potential interpretations, the collaboration with all of the artists—on the stage and behind the scenes—becomes part of a unique creation. That doesn’t mean she isn’t also curious,

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should there be future productions of The Weird Play, what it might look like with a completely different cast. “It is presumptuous and horrible of me to even think beyond a premiere,” Nii says with a laugh, “but … I would love to also see what would happen if you cast a 50-year-old man as Two. Or if you happened to have an all-Asian cast. What would that do to the vibe, and how might it change people’s interpretations?” For now, there is this production, and an invitation to audiences to give themselves over to a work where the title alone clues you in to its distinctiveness. “I was thinking of calling it Three, and so many other things that just felt so frou-frou and pretentions,” Nii says. “I kept thinking, ‘It’s just this weird play. What am I going to call this thing that’s just this weird play?’” It was Plan-B’s artistic director Jerry Rapier that offered the solution, Nii says: “Jerry said, ‘Just call it that.’” If you’re going to make something that’s not easy to describe in a sentence, it’s best just to embrace that. CW

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The Beautiful Game Babcock Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, through March 4, times vary, utah.edu Bye Bye Birdie Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, through March 10., times vary, empresstheatre.com Cash on Delivery Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through March 17, dates and times vary, hct.org Footloose Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, through March 17, dates and times vary, theziegfeldtheater.com Hir Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through March 11, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hale Center Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through March 31, dates and time vary, hct.org i Pioneer Theater Co., 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, through March 3, times vary, pioneertheatre.org Disney’s The Little Mermaid CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, through March 24, Monday-Saturday, times vary, centerpointtheatre.com The Little Mermaid Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 500 North, Orem, through April 14, dates and times vary, halecenter.org The Nerd Theater at Mount Jordan, 300 E. 9400 South, Sandy, through March 3, FridaySaturday, 7:30 p.m., sandyarts.com Passion Good Company Theatre, 2402 Wall Ave., Ogden, through March 3, Saturday-Sunday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 4 p.m., goodcotheatre.com The Seagull Noorda Theatre, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, March 1-10, dates and times vary, uvu.edu The Sound of Music Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, through March 4, times vary, broadway-at-the-eccles.com Spring Awakening Westiminster College Courage Theater, 1840 S. 1300 East, March 1-10, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., westminstercollege.edu

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moreESSENTIALS Cameron Morgan: In Praise of the Ephemeron Watchtower Cafe, 1588 S. State, March 3, 7 p.m., watchtower-cafe.com John Heminway: In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, March 1, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com (see p. 25) Kate Moore: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, March 6, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Kenneth Wright & Sarah Jane Wright: Lola Dutch The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, March 3, 11 a.m., kingsenglish.com Rachel Hartman: Tess of the Road The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, March 5, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Rachel Hartman: Tess of the Road Barnes & Noble, 330 E. 1300 South, Orem, March 6, 7 p.m., barnesandnoble.com Sarah M. Eden: Ashes on the Moor Viridian Center, 8030 S. 1825 West, West Jordan, March 7, 7 p.m., slcolibrary.org Steven and Ben Richardson: A 3-D Tour of Latter-Day Saint History Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, March 2, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com

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Rio Grande Winter Market Rio Grande Depot, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through April 21, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Gypsy Wisdom Psychic Fair Crone’s Hollow, 3834 S. Main, March 3, noon-5 p.m., bit.ly/2GywdIr Simple Treasures Spring Boutique Legacy Events Center, 151 S. 1100 West, Farmington, March 7-10, simpletreasuresboutique.biz Tumbleweeds Film Festival Multiple locations, March 2-4, utahfilmcenter.org (see p. 25)

TALKS & LECTURES

A Whole New World of Alan Menken: An Evening of Songs and Stories de Jong Concert Hall, Brigham Young University, March 7-8, 7:30 p.m., arts.byu.edu (see p. 25) Dr. Hugh Herr UVU Classroom Building Lecture Hall (CB 101A-B), 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, March 7, 1 p.m., uvu.edu

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

306 Hollywood Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, through March 14, modernwestfineart.com Art of Infertility Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, No. 125, through March 9, accessart.org Bill Reed: Jupiter’s Belts Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 S., 801-363-4088, through March 10, times vary, artatthemain.com Bob Hope: An American Treasure Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through April 28, culturalcelebration.org Chauncey Secrist: Icons: Assemblages Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through March 6, slcpl.org Cory Dumont Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, 801-594-8623, through April 26, slcpl.org

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Curtis Olson J GO Gallery, 408 Main, Park City, through March 29, jgogallery.com Desire Lines UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through May 26, utahmoca.org Earl Gravy: Home Bodies, Away Teams UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through May 13, utahmoca.org Elizabeth M. Claffey: Matrilinear Granary Art Center, 86 N. Main, Ephraim, through May 11, granaryartcenter.org Epicenter: Our Futures Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, March 2-July 1, umfa.utah.edu Eric Overton: Monument UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through March 17, utahmoca.org Escalante Stories Day-Riverside Library, 801-594-8632, through March 14, slcpl.org Fahamu Pecou: DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, 3964 W. Campus Drive, Ogden, through April 7, weber.edu/shawgallery (see p. 27) George Beard: Mormon Pioneer Artist With a Camera Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through March 2, visualarts.utah.gov Go West! Art of the American Frontier from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through March 11, umfa.utah.edu Inner Echoes Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., 801-230-0820, March 6-April 1, urbanartsgallery.org Jenny Floor Photography: Animal Love Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through March 2, slcpl.org Joseph Paul Vorst: A Retrospective LDS Church History Museum, 45 N. West Temple, through April 15, history.lds.org Just Love Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, through March 3, pioneertheatre.org Justin Watson: Permadeath UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through March 3, utahmoca.org Katie Paterson: salt 13 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, 801-581-7332, through May 20, umfa.utah.edu Matt Flint: This Wilderness Gallery MAR, 436 Main, Park City, through March 16, gallerymar.com Merritt Johnson: Exorcising America UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through May 12, utahmoca.org Nathan Florence: Toward Home Modern West Fine Art, 177 W. 200 South, through March 10, modernwestfineart.com Nicole Pietrantoni: Alas, Alack Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, through April 15, kimballartcenter.org Once Upon a Time Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., through March 4, urbanartsgallery.org Peter Ruplinger: Custom Stained Glass Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, 801-594-8611, through March 15, slcpl.org Sugar-Coated Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, March 2-April 14, saltlakearts.org Thomas B. Szalay: Images from Timeless Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through March 31, slcpl.org Trent Alvey & Claudia Sisemore: What I Did on my Summer Vacation Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, March 3-April 13, slcpl.org World of the Wild Art Show Hogle Zoo, 2600 Sunnyside Ave., 801-584-1700, through March 3, hoglezoo.org

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booth, sit at the bar or pop a squat at the counter for some top-notch people-watching, there’s not a bad seat in the house. Bar seating offers a closer look at Boltcutter’s impressive array of whiskey, tequila and mezcal,

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Like its neighborhood colleagues, Boltcutter’s interior revels in the minimalist, metro-chic setting of Gallivan Avenue. It’s a small space that typically fills up during lunch and dinner hours, but whether you get a

t wasn’t long after I became a lifelong fan of Buds and its creative lineup of plant-based deli sandwiches that I learned about owners Alex Jamison and Roxy Carlson’s next conquest. In a nutshell, the pair had grand designs to open a vegan Mexican restaurant where they would combine the street-food charm of tacos al pastor with their talent for meatless mimicry. The concept became Boltcutter (57 E. Gallivan Ave.), which joined the business-lunch mecca of Gallivan Avenue in early 2017. Using hearty meat alternatives like tempeh, seitan and jackfruit, Boltcutter has redefined a food genre that was built on copious amounts of meat and cheese.

but the foundational aspect of any good plate of nachos comes from the chips. These are made in-house, giving them the thickness needed to excavate each layer. They’ve also been hit with a kiss of lime, adding an unexpected bite of citrus every so often. The extra $2.50 for a scoop of barbacoa jackfruit is a bit steep, even if jackfruit happens to be my most beloved meat substitute. Despite its proximity to several eclectic eateries on Gallivan Avenue, Boltcutter still has its own little niche. It’s fast enough to get some tasty, plant-based Mexican favorites during your lunch break, but also hip and welcoming enough for those looking for a downtown destination. Score yet another victory for Utah’s vegan and vegetarian community— along with those of us who just like good food. CW

Boltcutter’s plant-based Mexican food spices up Gallivan Avenue.

wonders here. In addition to the weighty burritos, Boltcutter has an arsenal of tacos that are meatless plays on classic interpretations. Curious about what plant-based chorizo and fish tacos ($8 for an order of three) taste like, I gravitated to the chorizo potato and the Baja tacos. Of the two, the chorizo potato was more successful—it’s packed with a delicious tofu scramble, and the veggie chorizo performed admirably. While the look of the Baja taco was a nearperfect representation of a fish taco, the beer-battered tempeh lacked the deep-fried crunch that I was hoping for. Like the Sin Carne Burrito, the tacos’ seasoning felt a bit too safe— getting a little crazy with some grilled corn or chipotle could really elevate some of these dishes. As I have a long-standing commitment to nachos ($10, $12.50 to add barbacoa jackfruit), that was how I concluded my second visit to Boltcutter. As soon as this plate of housemade tortilla chips, pico, black beans and vegan cheese sauce hit the table, I had a feeling that I was in for something special. The toppings are all excellent—each one complements its counterpart well—

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which glitter in the sunlight like stained-glass windows in a Spanish mission. The interior design choices are very modern, and I found myself wondering why there isn’t more color on the walls—Mexican food has a long and vibrant history, and I’ve come to expect restaurants that serve up such hallowed cuisine to do so with a bit more flair. I knew this place takes its burritos seriously when I saw them carted out on what look like miniature cookie sheets. Short and stout— maybe around 6 inches long,—they are clearly stuffed to capacity. As carne asada has been a fixture of nearly every Mexican meal I’ve ever eaten, I thought starting off with the Sin Carne Burrito ($8) would be the best way to experience a meatless alternative. The layers within are spot on—each bite assembles a good ratio of brown rice, refried beans, pico and seasoned seitan. The romaine lettuce adds a bit of crunch, but felt overall superfluous. The real hero of this burrito is the seitan, which has the texture and seasoning of carne asada—though I do think the chefs could crank up the dial just a touch when it comes to spiciness. A bit of heat would do

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When one Italian restaurant reopens its doors, another one closes for good. A visit to Sea Salt (1709 E. 1300 South) revealed that the restaurant has officially shuttered its doors after a seven-year run in the upscale Harvard/Yale area. According to several Yelp reviews, Sea Salt quietly closed shop just before Valentine’s Day without informing diners who had made holiday reservations via OpenTable. As of press time, it’s still possible to make a reservation—I’ve got one booked for tomorrow night, as a matter of fact. Online chatter is claiming everything from eviction to a routine absorption by Paris Bistro, Sea Salt’s sister restaurant, which remains open. Mangia, I guess? Quote of the Week: “Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” –Frederico Fellini Food matters tips: comments@cityweekly.net

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tah County” and “craft beer” aren’t usually uttered in the same sentence together. When they are, they’re usually accompanied by the name Strap Tank Brewing Co. Since May 2016, the Springville brewery has reawakened a passion for craft beer that Utah County hasn’t seen since the preProhibition era. Now that Strap Tank has established itself with more common styles, it’s time to unleash their prowess with barrel-aged beers. You’d better strap in. Barrel-Aged Stout: Poured from Strap Tank’s teardrop-shaped bottle is a handsome and viscous-looking stout that’s completely opaque when held to the light. The foam sits tall for a while, then eventually

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surprisingly light golden hue— somewhat hazier than Strap Tank’s typical saison. The head retention here is much improved over its Imperial stout brother, with a decent white fluff that lingers, leaving ridiculous lacing from start to finish. Right off the bat, the aroma has hints of green apple and musty wooded funk that gives way to an herbal earthiness from the hops. The taste starts sweet, with notes of unripened peach and bits of lemon. Next, dry chardonnay plays off the sweetness, adding complexity to both beer and wine. In all honesty, chardonnay has never tasted better—sorry, wine nerds. There’s a ton of flavor from the barrel, and it blends perfectly with the yeast funk. Great fruity esters come through as well, and the hop selection lends a nice citrus element that works well with them. A faint hint of peppercorn and spice comes through at the very end, making for a wonderful ale. Overall: The initial sweetness can take one’s tongue aback, but the oak, grape and 11.6 percent alcohol content manage to balance it all out. This is one of those beers that I’d really like to revisit this time next

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year to see how it’s evolved. I’d recommend you do the same. It’s also available to take home or sip at the brewpub. Strap Tank will soon be moving beyond the borders of Springville and add another full and independent brewery in Lehi. They’ll make a nice little pair of boozy Utah County bookends, eh? As always, cheers! CW

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Greek food is not hard to come by in Salt Lake City, and for a quick gyro or Greek salad, Padeli’s is your place. Conveniently located downtown, ordering is simple and smooth, as you choose your item and fill it with your choice of meat or vegetarian-friendly falafel, smother it with one of their signature sauces (the difficult part is choosing traditional tzatziki, creamy mustard, roasted pepper tzatziki, spicy feta or one of their other options), and finish with several of their fresh toppings. Whether you create a wrap, salad or rice bowl, Padeli’s has your Greek craving covered. 30 E. 300 South, 801-322-1111, padelisstreetgreek.com

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This Mediterranean restaurant specializes in paninis and offers a dozen varieties, from the salmon, basil and provolone and the Black Forest ham and Swiss to an avocado and sharp cheddar one. Not hungry for a sandwich? Try a fresh salad, such as the Tuscan or Mediterranean, or snack on antipasti and tapas options like bruschetta, crostinis and cheese and olives. The cool music mix is great, as is the art that decorates the roomy eatery. 57 W. 200 South, 801-364-1401, theolivebistro.vpweb.com

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There’s a satisfying challenge that comes from examining a tray of food and making an executive decision about what is and is not culturally acceptable at a Korean restaurant. As it turns out, the only norm I needed to embrace at It’s Tofu was to have fun. With the spicy pork barbeque combo with veggie tofu stew ($13.95), the appetizing hiss of still-cooking meat and boiling stew accompanied the arrangement, creating a culinary tableau that had me captivated. In addition to a bowl of rice, the dish is served with four small bowls filled with condiments called banchan, which let you customize each bite. The beef hot stone pot ($12.75 or $10.75 as a lunch special) is an artfully arranged mix of veggies—shiitake mushrooms, carrots, bean sprouts and spinach—cooked on top of a bed of rice that gets nice and crispy at the bottom of the bowl. For the full experience, order this dish with a fried egg; stirring the crisp, nearly burnt rice into a mixture of rich egg yolk, marinated beef and cooked veggies creates a flavor and texture sensation that you can feel down to your toes. Reviewed Feb. 1. 6949 S. 1300 East, Midvale, 801-566-9103, itstofu.com

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Red Sparrow tries to have its dumb spy thriller and its gritty realism, too. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

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arly in the espionage thriller Red Sparrow, Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) suffers a catastrophic injury when her pas de deux partner lands on her leg, the kind of Joe Theismann-esque “wait, that’s not supposed to bend that way” event where everyone immediately knows her career is over. Three months later, she’s walking with a cane. A few days later, she’s walking without a cane. A few weeks after that, she’s cross-country running after being strong-armed into joining a training program for elite Russian spies. And at no point does anyone ever stop to consider the possibility that hey, maybe this woman with superhuman healing abilities might be able to dance again after all. Movies have always been full of dumb things that audiences are expected to accept on faith because the premise depends on them. If Red Sparrow were meant to be nothing but a dopey airport-novel of a movie, it might actually be possible to get carried away by the popcorn logic. This adaptation of Jason Matthews’ novel, however, is a movie that leans hard into being gritty, bloody, torture-y and extra-extra-rapey. When you’re making the equivalent of Trigger Warning: The Motion Picture, it’s not a good look to also be saying “lol don’t think about it so much, it’s only a movie.” Without all of that junk, the concept isn’t half-bad. Facing the loss of her Bolshoi privileges—including medical care for her ailing mother (Joely Richardson)—and targeted for elimination after witnessing a murder, Dominika feels she has no choice but to accept the proposal put forth by her uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts), a Russian intelligence officer. That means becoming a Sparrow—one of the secret agents trained in the arts of seduction (stop

laughing) so that they can find and exploit their targets’ emotional weak points. Before long, Dominika has her first big assignment: cozying up to American CIA agent Nathaniel Nash (Joel Edgerton) to determine the identity of the mole within the Russian government who’s feeding Nash information. It’s certainly a timely enough idea to reposition Russia as our primary global antagonist, though there’s a Cold War throwback sensibility to imagining the greatest threat to our security coming from a sexy covert operative rather than social-media troll-bots in a warehouse. Lawrence is the secret weapon for making this come at all close to working— just as she was with a similarly icky concept in Passengers—bringing her steely determination to bear on the enigmatic Dominika. She’s able to sell the fury with which Dominika beats down someone who conspired against her, and the idea that her competitive spirit makes her just as likely to become a great secret agent as a great dancer. What she can’t do is make anyone watching Red Sparrow ignore all the unpleasantness. The humiliations Dominika is required to endure under the tutelage of Matron (Charlotte Rampling) are somehow the least cringe-inducing material here, as director Francis Lawrence—who worked with norelation Jennifer on three of the four Hunger Games films—goes whole-hog for the squeamish points. Dominika endures one actual rape and one attempted rape; a character is discovered dead in a bathtub with chunks of

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flesh carved out; Edgerton’s Nash is on the receiving end of a torture device that flays off layers of skin; Dominika gets a couple of good old-fashioned beatings with a slow build-up that lets us know exactly where the next blow is coming. It’s relentless, and not in a good way. The weird part is that Red Sparrow clearly shares some DNA with unabashedly trashy, stylish genre fare in the Luc Besson tradition, from La Femme Nikita right down to Lucy. You can see it in the purring performances by supporting cast members like Rampling and Jeremy Irons, in set pieces like Dominika’s attempt to play both sides of a potential American informant for the Russians (Mary-Louise Parker), and in the build-up toward the climactic twisty-turny revelations. But a potboiler diversion like that can’t work if it’s expecting you to have fun at the same time that it’s punching you repeatedly in the mouth. Punishing intensity ain’t the vibe for a movie where the crippled ballerina instantly becomes an international super-sexy-spy. CW

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GNOME ALONE [not yet reviewed] Animated tale of a teenager who discovers that her house’s garden gnomes have lives of their own. Opens March 2 at theaters valleywide. (PG)

OSCAR SHORTS At Park City Film Series, March 2-3, 8 p.m. & March 4, 6 p.m. (NR) THE THING (1982) At Tower Theatre, March 5, 7 p.m. (NR) TUMBLEWEEDS FILM FESTIVAL See p. 25. At Rose Wagner Center, Main Library and The Leonardo, March 2-4. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES ANNIHILATION BBB.5 It’s fitting for a story about free-flowing DNA that Alex Garland’s adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s novel combines so many genre classics into something new and fascinating. Biologist/ex-soldier Lena (Natalie Portman) joins a research team into a mysterious phenomenon that is slowly engulfing more and more of the American East Coast. The bulk of the story follows Lena on that expedition with four other women (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson and Tuva Novotny), and it’s wonderful that the team’s demographics are so matter-of-fact. Garland finds sci-fi inspiration everywhere—Tarkovsky, Alien, The Thing—and while some of the “inspiration” feels perilously close to theft, many images and concepts here are indelible. The character and philosophical underpinnings are perhaps too thinly developed, but that still leaves a spectacle generally wondrous to behold. (R)—SR BLACK PANTHER BBB In 2018 America, Black Panther arrives freighted with significance beyond its actual storyline—but co-writer/director Ryan Coogler

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EVERY DAY BB.5 The phrase “unfilmable novel” gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but … well, yeah. David Levithan’s book follows a teenage soul that calls itself A, who wakes up daily with that consciousness inhabiting a different body—a predicament that becomes more frustrating when A falls in love with Rhiannon (Angourie Rice). It’s a fascinating premise for exploring just what it is about a person we fall in love with, but it’s a fundamentally literary premise; the film loses the distinctive interior monologue that makes A an actual character, rather than a succession of young actors. Director Michael Sucsy and screenwriter Jesse Andrews deliver perhaps the best version possible, including a melancholy montage imagining Rhiannon and A’s future together. The profundity of Levithan’s concept simply vanishes when you’re staring A’s many manifestations in the face. (PG-13)—SR GAME NIGHT BBB Add this to the comedy sub-genre People Think They’re Pretending But It’s Actually Real, as shrewd, competitive married couple Max (Jason Bateman) and Annie (Rachel McAdams) find their weekly game night turned into an immersive murder-mystery game with real life-and-death stakes. The reality of the situation becomes clear soon enough, and it’s held together by the cohesive group of characters; they can be snippy with one another, but always revert to affectionate teamwork before the mood grows caustic. You see that basic good-naturedness in the film’s treatment of Max and Annie’s next-door neighbor (Jesse Plemons), a sad-sack police officer established first as an object of scorn, but becomes a sympathetic character thanks to Plemons’ loopy performance. The whole cast has that infectious can-do attitude in an unexpectedly sharp, upbeat action comedy. (R)—ES

NOSTALGIA BBB Director Mark Pellington and screenwriter Alex Ross Perry collaborate on a story that digs provocatively into what physical objects we ascribe value to, and why. The narrative winds through a few different principal characters as they wrestle with the subject: an insurance agent (John Ortiz) whose job is putting a price on objects; a widow (Ellen Burstyn) who has lost her home and most of her possessions in a fire; and a sports memorabilia dealer (Jon Hamm) helping his sister (Catherine Keener) dispose of the contents of their retired parents’ home. The story drifts occasionally into reverie—including Burstyn’s narration playing over images of her trip to Las Vegas like outtakes from late-period Malick— and makes unfortunate use of one of my least favorite tropes (the Post-Trauma Purgative Fetal Position Shower). The performances, however, are uniformly solid, helping Perry explore the complicated reasons people remain attached to the things in their lives, and even the generational shifts that can make some of those things more precious and rare. Surprisingly powerful emotion emerges when pondering what connects us to people and places no longer with us. Opens

ERASERHEAD At University of Utah Post Theatre, March 7, 7 p.m. (R)

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GOD’S OWN COUNTRY BBB Johnny Saxby (Josh O’Connor) is given to over-drinking, and lives on a Yorkshire farm with his stroke-hobbled father (Ian Hart) and aged grandmother (Gemma Jones). One morning at a livestock auction, he has sex with a stranger in a bathroom. We infer that the hookup was not his first, but he’s not out of the closet, and not interested in romance—until the arrival of Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu), a swarthy Romanian farmhand Johnny’s dad hires. This raw, tender, at times deeply sensual feature debut from writer-director Francis Lee invites comparison to Brokeback Mountain—sparks fly when Johnny and Gheorghe undertake a multi-day job that requires camping on a remote corner of the property—but it’s less tragic, focused on Johnny’s internal struggle to accept the love offered to him. The most pivotal scenes are wordless (good thing, as it could have used subtitles for a lot of the Saxbys’ dialogue), with natural, unselfconscious performances by O’Connor and Secareanu. Although it’s Johnny’s story, his father and grandmother are not unimportant, as Lee deftly reminds us in a few well-placed moments that make this an above-average gay comingof-age drama. Opens March 2 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—Eric D. Snider

CHAVELA At Main Library, March 6, 7 p.m. (NR)

runs toward that responsibility rather than away from it. He dives into the story of T’Challa/Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), who fights to preserve his hidden kingdom of Wakanda from the threat of mysterious outsider Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan). Coogler takes his time with his world-building, creating a rich sense of Wakanda’s tradition and the women who are just as powerful as the men. And Jordan provides a fascinating villain for this tangled meditation on power and responsibility. The comic-book action rarely takes off in ways that are nearly as memorable, yet maybe that’s a backhanded praise: This movie might think too big to be contained by the package in which it’s being delivered. (PG-13)—SR

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There’s no way that Bay-Area thrashers Exodus, in their salad days, thought that in 30 years they’d be on tour promoting a cartoon about a diabolical canine serial killer named Mr. Pickles. Not that you’d expect objections from the authors of brutal mosh-pit anthem “The Toxic Waltz,” which encourages fans to “aim for someone’s head/ To stain the floor red/ Give someone a kick/ To prove you’re truly sick.” It just seems like the kind of thing metalheads back then would’ve joked about while passing the bong—and then forgotten about. But, holy shit, it’s happening. Same goes for Virginia’s Municipal Waste. But they’ve been together only half as long as Exodus—making them the same age as Mr. Pickles’ master, Adult Swim, so this wouldn’t be such a pipe-dream come true for them. Also, the crossover thrashers behind such opuses as The Art of Partying (Earache, 2007) and Slime and Punishment (Nuclear Blast, 2017) are tight bros with series creators Will Carsola and Dave Stewart, so they probably saw this coming. As for us, the fans? We should be happy, too, because the Thrash-tacular provides so many opportunities to prove we’re truly sick. Not just by cracking skulls with our boots, but also by having our pictures taken in Mr. Pickles’ super-gnar throne. (They decided the doghouse was too much to bring along). Bonus: We also get to take home Adult Swim swag. (Randy Harward) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $20, 21+, metromusichall.com

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Utah sees the same tribute acts all the time: Hell’s Belles (AC/DC), The Iron Maidens, two Pink Floyd acts and at least seven different takes on Led Zeppelin (but whither Lez Zeppelin?). Tributes to the majesty of English arena rockers Queen aren’t as common. Boston-based Queen Nation has visited, and Gary Mullen & The Works—a Scottish take on the band once led by the late legendary Freddie Mercury—performed in Southern Utah at least once. They both have their charms. All four members of Queen Nation don wigs and costumes, while in The Works, only Mullen gets dolled up. The visual aesthetic is a tribute act’s prerogative. Striving for accuracy in the musical performance is of paramount importance; a bad wig or poor physical resemblance to the original artist can be distracting, so some acts don’t even try to cop the look. Others,

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like Gary Mullen & The Works, play to their strengths. In costume, Mullen is a dead ringer for Mercury, moving and singing so much like rock’s greatest showman that you’ll wonder if he’s simply a vessel for Mercury’s essence. Which makes him one killer queen. (RH) Park City Live, 427 Main, Park City, 8 p.m., $32.50-$45, 21+, parkcitylive.net

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After generating a healthy grassroots buzz with eight independent releases under the name Garmonbozia and two more under their new moniker, Portland, Ore., quintet Blitzen Trapper made a big splash on Sub Pop Records. Their third album, Wild Mountain Nation (2007), attracted raves from no less than Pitchfork, the indie arbiter of hip. BT is kinda like the Phish of indie rock: rambling, a little countrified, not afraid to jam on occasion. Their latest collection of a dozen tunes, Wild and Reckless (Vagrant/Lojinx, 2017), calls back to WMN in its title, but where the former had an anthemic, at times punkish energy, the new one is furtive, wistful and much more personal. The song “Rebel” tells a story of West Coast dreams diverted (there’s something of Raymond Carver in here). A notable distance has been traversed from the eclectic optimism of Blitzen Trapper’s early years. And it tracks with the transformation of the mythical, musical Northwest from a cultural utopia in popular imagination to something significantly more human. Nashville country rockers Liz Cooper & the Stampede open. (Brian Staker) O.P. Rockwell, 628 Main, Park City, 9 p.m., $20 and up, 21+, oprockwell.com

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In its promotional material, GlobalFest on the Road heralds a “New Golden Age of Latin Music.” There doesn’t seem to have been an original one, but that’s not such a big deal. Ten years ago, the buzz was all about Latin alternative music, with the Latin Alternative Music Conference growing exponentially and labels like Nacional Records and Arts & Crafts Mexico working to elevate Latinx acts working in rock, metal, punk, rap, reggae, electronica and other popular music genres. So do we need another movement to highlight great music coming from Latin America? Or does the general public need periodic reminders that it not only exists, but isn’t simple exotica? Naturally, and lamentably, it’s the latter. We need organizations like GlobalFest out there hustling for artists

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like Flor de Toloache, New York City’s allwoman mariachi group. And East L.A.’s Las Cafeteras, who purvey a blend of traditional Afro-Caribbean Son Jarocho music, punk, folk and hip-hop, with lyrics that address cultural and political division with poetic grace. In “If I Were President” they sing, “Me gusta la lima, me gusta limón/ Pero no me gusta tanta corrupción.” In English that means, “I like lime, I like lemon/ but I don’t like so much corruption.” This can be taken at face value. It could also mean that where you’re from, who you love, what you think or what you look like doesn’t matter as long as we abandon self-interest and live in harmony. And that means going out and experiencing the beauty of other parts of the world. (RH) Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 7:30 p.m., $20 (youth, family, student and faculty discounts available), all ages, tickets.utah.edu

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DJ-ing is the art of combining disparate musical elements in surprising ways, and doing it real smooth-like. That certainly can be said of progressive, Hawaii-based producer Mr. Carmack. He’s signed to Mad Decent, the record label founded by superstar producer Diplo, presumably because of his knack for melding together hip-hop and dance influences. Check out his Drugs EP (2014) and vibe on how “Nell” knocks hard in a menacing, gangsta-rap sort of way—until some synth arpeggiations bubble up about halfway through, and it becomes a very different track. The beat is still phat, but it’s also kind of pretty. Mr. Carmack’s music is full of head-scratching moments like that, but the transitions from the extreme noises of nightclub-oriented dance music to dreamy ambience are always fluid. Support act Tsuruda, a young DJ/producer out of Los Angeles, has a background in classical music and a penchant for pushing genre boundaries, much like Flying Lotus. His compositions are frenetic, disorienting and often dive into the most abrasive forms of dubstep—you know, the lovely sounds of trash can lids banging together. (Howard Hardee) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $20 presale; $25 day of show, 21+, metromusichall.com

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The Baker Street Blues Band + Hard Times (The Ice Haüs) Betty Who + Pretty Sister + Spencer Ludwig (The Complex) Blitzen Trapper + Liz Cooper & The Stampede (The State Room) see p. 38 Bonanza Town (Lake Effect) Colt .46 (Outlaw Saloon) Crook & The Bluff (Funk ’n’ Dive) Deli Man (Feldman’s Deli) Farmboy (The Westerner) Folk Hogan (The Barbary Coast) Foreign Beggars (Sky) Gary Mullen & The Works performing One Night of Queen (Park City Live) see p. 38 John Waite (Egyptian Theatre) Kyle May (Deer Valley) Lake Effect (Hog Wallow) Metal Dogs (The Spur) Nate Robinson (Legends Park City) Pixie & The Partygrass Boys (The Yes Hell) Poor Man’s Whiskey (O.P. Rockwell) Royal Bliss (The Cabin) Scooter & Lavelle (Downstairs) Skinny Lister + Will Varley

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On a Sunday evening, the 2018 Winter Olympics is on every screen at Lumpy’s on Highland—except for the projection-screen TV in the corner. Gathered around it is a group watching women’s gymnastics (U of U vs. UCLA). One fan, an old carpenter-turned-building inspector named Boyd, tells me he became interested in gymnastics “when my daughter was a little girl.” I ask if he had ever given the sport a whirl. The tall, burly man chuckles: “No, I never even played football. I was too busy working all the time.” What keeps this crimson-andwhite troupe frequenting Lumpy’s isn’t just college gymnastics. Like many Lumpy’s patrons, they’re all about the infamous Lumpy’s football bus that takes fans to Ute games at Rice-Eccles Stadium. “You buy a [$20] ticket, meet up here at the bar, you get a meal and they take you up to the game,” Boyd says. I pull my chair closer to the die-hard Utes fans, and they slowly warm up to me. Boyd’s friend Wade sits next to his wife of 37 years. “My daughter’s a journalist, too,” Wade says, though she’s not currently working for a publication. “She works for a congressman in Indiana,” he says, proudly handing me her business card. I guess if things don’t work out with City Weekly, I’ll try calling her about a job. I could work for a congressman. Totally. (Rachelle Fernandez) Lumpy’s, 3000 S. Highland Drive, 801-484-5597, lumpysbar.com

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9021Yo! (The Union Tavern) Alex Cameron + Molly Burch (Urban Lounge) AZ-IZ + Saphyre Rain + Scarlet Canary (The Barbary Coast) Blitzen Trapper + Liz Cooper & The Stampede (O.P. Rockwell) see p. 38 Bully + Melkbelly + 20 Stories Falling (Kilby Court) Callanish (Feldman’s Deli) Che Zuro (Deer Valley) Colt .46 (Outlaw Saloon) Eidola + Capstan + Andres + Machines of Man + Afterhand (The Loading Dock) Farmboy (The Westerner) Flume + HWLS (Park City Live) Ghostowne (The Cabin) Gleewood (The Spur) John Waite (Egyptian Theatre) LHAW + Rebel Rebel + Hi-Fi Murder + Four 07’s (The Ice Haüs) Live Music on the Plaza Deck (Snowbird) Mavis Staples (Eccles Center Park City) Mix Mob + D Frost + Newborn Slaves + Skumbudz (The Royal) Mr. Carmack, Tsuruda (Metro Music Hall)

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ACROSS

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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.

12. “That suits me to ____” 13. Jamie of “M*A*S*H” 18. Expo 19. Sounds heard at the start of MGM movies 23. “Dianetics” author ____ Hubbard 24. Street ____ 25. Player with the most seasons (10) on a World Series-winning team 26. Studio sign 27. Like about 45% of human blood 28. Anticipatory time 29. Start of el año 30. Early ____ 31. Their maximum scores are 1600 32. Hemsworth of “The Hunger Games” DOWN 36. Kool-Aid alternative 1. Whitecap formation 37. Three-foot 1980s sitcom 2. “____ the jackpot!” character 3. N. Car. neighbor 38. Tired (out) 4. YouTube full-screen mode exit key 40. Company for which Rudolf 5. Starts back at page one Nureyev once danced 6. Hand-holding event 41. Like some Gulf War dem7. College military org. onstrations 8. Peacemaker’s goal 43. Age, and not try to hide it 9. Painter’s deg. 44. Go here and there 10. “Friday the 13th” sequel subtitled “Jason 45. “Three Billboards Outside Lives” ____, Missouri” (2017 11. Doubter’s question

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

1. Abes ... or, read another way, a component of 17-, 25-, 42- or 56-Across 7. 33 1/3, for an LP 10. Cotillard won Best Actress for playing her 14. “Now that makes sense!” 15. Palooka 16. “The Thin Man” pooch 17. Battleship game piece 20. Business appt., often 21. Pass 22. Whiskered, fish-eating creature 23. Peterson of 2003 news 24. Cleveland athlete, familiarly 25. Hunters with rough hair 32. “Jay ____ Garage” (Emmy-winning auto series) 33. The “Y” of YSL 34. Actress Long of “Boyz N the Hood” 35. Neighbor of Turkey 36. Not live 38. Kim Kardashian ____ 39. Singer Grande, to fans 40. Trendy smoothie ingredient 41. Openings at a day spa? 42. 1943 Otto Preminger film 46. NPR’s website ending 47. Instrument with a flared bell 48. Ragu rival 51. Abu ____ 53. Fannie or Ginnie follower 56. They show you where you’ve been 59. Queen in “Frozen” 60. New Year’s ____ 61. Ace the exam 62. “____ 101” (Emmy-nominated Nickelodeon sitcom) 63. Surg. locales 64. Well-dressed, photogenic male

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As you make appointments in the coming months, you could re-use calendars from 2007 and 2001. During those years, all the dates fell on the same days of the week as they do in 2018. On the other hand, Pisces, please don’t try to learn the same lessons you learned in 2007 and 2001. Don’t get snagged in identical traps or sucked into similar riddles or obsessed with comparable illusions. On the other other hand, it might help for you to recall the detours you had to take back then, since you may thereby figure out how to avoid having to repeat boring old experiences that you don’t need to repeat. ARIES (March 21-April 19): On Sept. 1, 1666, a London baker named Thomas Farriner didn’t take proper precautions to douse the fire in his oven before he went to sleep. Consequences were serious. The conflagration that ignited in his little shop burned down large parts of the city. Three hundred twenty years later, a group of bakers gathered at the original site to offer a ritual atonement. “It’s never too late to apologize,” said one official, acknowledging the tardiness of the gesture. In that spirit, Aries, I invite you to finally dissolve a clump of guilt you’ve been carrying, or express gratitude that you should have delivered long ago, or resolve a messy ending that still bothers you, or transform your relationship with an old wound—or all of the above.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Appalachian Trail is a 2,200-mile path that runs through the eastern United States. Hikers can wind their way through forests and wilderness areas from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia. Along the way, they might encounter black bears, bobcats, porcupines and wild boars. These natural wonders might seem to be at a remote distance from civilization, but they are in fact conveniently accessible from America’s biggest metropolis. For $8.75, you can take a train from Grand Central Station in New York City to an entry point of the Appalachian Trail. This scenario is an apt metaphor for you right now, Cancerian. With relative ease, you can escape from your routines and habits. I hope you take advantage!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the coming weeks, you could reach several odd personal bests. For instance, your ability to distinguish between flowery bullshit and inventive truth-telling will be at a peak. Your “imperfections” will be more interesting and forgivable than usual, and might even work to your advantage, as well. I suspect you’ll also have an adorable inclination to accomplish the half-right thing when it’s impossible to do the perfectly right thing. Finally, all the astrological omens suggest that you will have a tricky power to capitalize on lucky lapses. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): French philosopher Blaise Pascal said, “If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.” American author Henry David Thoreau declared, “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” I would hesitate to offer these two formulations in the horoscope of any other sign but yours, Scorpio. And I would even hesitate to offer them to you at any other time besides right now. But I feel that you currently have the strength of character and fertile willpower necessary to make righteous use of such stringently medicinal magic. So please proceed with my agenda for you, which is to become the Smartest, Feistiest, Most Resourceful Lover Who Has Ever Lived. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The state of Kansas has over 6,000 ghost towns—places where people once lived, but then abandoned. Daniel C. Fitzgerald has written six books documenting these places. He’s an expert on researching what remains of the past and drawing conclusions based on the old evidence. In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you consider doing comparable research into your own lost and half-forgotten history. You can generate vigorous psychic energy by communing with origins and memories. Remembering who you used to be will clarify your future. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s not quite a revolution that’s in the works. But it is a sprightly evolution. Accelerating developments might test your ability to adjust gracefully. Quickly shifting story lines will ask you to be resilient and flexible. But the unruly flow won’t throw you into a stressful tizzy as long as you treat it as an interesting challenge instead of an inconvenient imposition. My advice is not to stiffen your mood or narrow your range of expression, but rather to be like an actor in an improvisation class. Fluidity is your word of power.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s the Productive Paradox Phase of your cycle. You can generate good luck and unexpected help by romancing the contradicLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is 2018 turning out to be as I expected it would be for you? Have tions. For example: 1. You’ll enhance your freedom by risking you become more accepting of yourself and further at peace deeper commitment. 2. You’ll gain greater control over wild with your mysterious destiny? Are you benefiting from greater influences by loosening your grip and providing more spaciousstability and security? Do you feel more at home in the world ness. 3. If you are willing to appear naive, empty or foolish, you’ll and better nurtured by your close allies? If for some reason these set the stage for getting smarter. 4. A blessing you didn’t realize developments are not yet in bloom, withdraw from every lesser you needed will come your way after you relinquish a burdenconcern and turn your focus to them. Make sure you make full some “asset.” 5. Greater power will flow your way if you expand your capacity for receptivity. use of the gifts that life is conspiring to provide for you.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): No one can be somewhat pregnant. You either are or you’re not. But from a metaphorical perspective, your current state is a close approximation to that impossible condition. Are you or are you not going to commit yourself to birthing a new creation? Decide soon, please. Opt for one or the other resolution; don’t remain in the gray area. And there’s more to consider. You are indulging in excessive in-betweenness in other areas of your life, as well. You’re almost brave and sort of free and semi-faithful. My advice about these halfway states is the same: Either go all the way or else stop pretending you might.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Committee to Fanatically Promote Taurus’ Success is pleased to see that you’re not waiting politely for your next turn. You have come to the brilliant realization that what used to be your fair share is no longer sufficient. You intuitively sense that you have a cosmic mandate to skip a few step—to ask for more and better and faster results. As a reward for this outbreak of shrewd and well-deserved self-love, and in recognition of the blessings that are currently showering down on your astrological House of Noble Greed, you are hereby granted three weeks’ worth of extra service, free bonuses, special treatment and abundant slack.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You can’t find intimacy—you can’t find hom—when you’re always hiding behind masks,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz. “Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You run the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.” I can’t imagine any better advice to offer you as you navigate your way through the next seven weeks, Virgo. You will have a wildly fertile opportunity to find and create more intimacy. But in order to take full advantage, you’ll have to be brave and candid and unshielded.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE CITY DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189901220, JUDGE KENT HOLMBERG. CASCADE COLLECTIONS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. MICHAEL BYINGTON AND TANYA MARSH, DEFENDANTS. THE STATE OF UTAH TO MICHAEL BYINGTON: You are summoned and required to answer the complaint that is on file with the court. Within 21 days after the last date of publication of this summons, you must file your written answer with the clerk of the court at the following address: 450 S State St., Salt Lake City, UT 84111, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff ’s attorney Chad C. Rasmussen at 2230 N University Pkwy., Ste. 7E, Provo, UT 84604. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. This lawsuit is an attempt to collect a debt of $9,791.94. /s/ Chad C. Rasmussen

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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE CITY DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 159903409, JUDGE ANDREW H STONE. CASCADE COLLECTIONS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. GUADALUPE SALAZAR AND PHOENIX TAGGART, DEFENDANTS. THE STATE OF UTAH TO GUADALUPE SALAZAR: You are summoned and required to answer the complaint that is on file with the court. Within 21 days after the last date of publication of this summons, you must file your written answer with the clerk of the court at the following address: 450 S State St., Salt Lake City, UT 84111, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff ’s attorney Chad C. Rasmussen at 2230 N University Pkwy., Ste. 7E, Provo, UT 84604. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. This lawsuit is an attempt to collect a debt of $3,427.18. /s/ Chad C. Rasmussen SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE CITY DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 179915029, JUDGE ROYAL I HANSEN. CASCADE COLLECTIONS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. JARVIS NEZ, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO JARVIS NEZ: You are summoned and required to answer the complaint that is on file with the court. Within 21 days after the last date of publication of this summons, you must file your written answer with the clerk of the court at the following address: 450 S State St., Salt Lake City, UT 84111, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff ’s attorney Chad C. Rasmussen at 2230 N University Pkwy., Ste. 7E, Provo, UT 84604. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. This lawsuit is an attempt to collect a debt of $10,153.15. /s/ Chad C. Rasmussen SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE CITY DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 189901421, JUDGE ROYAL I HANSEN. CASCADE COLLECTIONS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. GARY GONZALES, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO GARY GONZALES: You are summoned and required to answer the complaint that is on file with the court. Within 21 days after the last date of publication of this summons, you must file your written answer with the clerk of the court at the following address: 450 S State St., Salt Lake City, UT 84111, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff ’s attorney Chad C. Rasmussen at 2230 N University Pkwy., Ste. 7E, Provo, UT 84604. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. This lawsuit is an attempt to collect a debt of $3,009.59. /s/ Chad C. Rasmussen

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Why Not? Terran Woolley of Hutchinson, Kan., got a bright idea after he read the bylaws and requirements to become the state’s governor. “I was reading some stories about the young teenagers that were entering the governor’s race ... and I thought, ‘I wonder if ... Angus could run,’” Woolley explained to KWCH-TV. Angus is Woolley’s wirehaired vizsla, a four-legged, furry friend of the people who Woolley said would promise soft couches and a “completely anti-squirrel agenda” if elected. Alas, on Feb. 12, the Kansas secretary of state’s office dashed Angus’ dreams when it declared that despite the fact that there are no specific restrictions against a dog being governor, Angus would be unable to carry out the responsibilities of the office.

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Ewwwww! About a week after an 11-year-old boy scraped his elbow while playing in a tidal pool on a California beach, pediatricians treating him for the resulting abscess removed a small, hard object and were surprised to discover a live checkered periwinkle marine snail, according to United Press International. Dr. Albert Khait and his colleagues at Loma Linda University wrote in BMJ Case Reports that a snail’s egg had apparently become embedded in the boy’s skin when he scraped it. The mollusk later hatched inside the abscess. Dr. Khait said the boy took the snail home as a pet, but it did not survive living outside its former home. Blimey! Michelle Myers of Buckeye, Ariz., suffers from blinding headaches, but it’s what happens afterward that until recently had doctors stumped. Myers, who has never been out of the United States, has awakened from her headaches three times in the last seven years with a different foreign accent. The first time it was Irish; the second was Australian, and both lasted only about a week. But Myers’ most recent event, which was two years ago, left her with a British accent that she still has. Doctors have diagnosed her with Foreign Accent Syndrome, a rare condition that usually accompanies a neurological event such as a stroke. Myers told ABC-15 that the loss of her normal accent makes her sad: “I feel like a different person. Everybody only sees or hears Mary Poppins.”

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Freak Animal Accident A helicopter crew contracted by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources in Wasatch County to track and capture an elk hit a snag of sorts on Feb. 12, according to KUTV Channel 2. As the crew lowered the aircraft to less than 10 feet above the ground to cast a net over the elk, the animal jumped and hit the tail rotor of the helicopter, causing it to crash. Mike Hadley with DWR said helicopters are used to “capture and collar hundreds of animals every winter and we’ve never had this happen before.” The two crewmen walked away with just scratches and bruises, but the elk was killed. The Stuff of Nightmares Frank Lyko is a biologist at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg with a narrow field of study: the marbled crayfish. But as Dr. Lyko and his colleagues report in a study published Feb. 5, there’s more to the 6-inch crustacean than meets the eye. Until about 25 years ago, this species didn’t exist, The New York Times explains. One single, drastic mutation created a whole new species of crayfish—one that could clone itself. Since then, it has spread across Europe and to other continents and threatened native varieties. The eggs of the crayfish all produce females, which do not need to mate to produce more eggs. Dr. Lyko’s DNA research offers new insights into why most animals have sex, because there are so few examples of sex-free species (they don’t last long). He admits that the marbled crayfish may last only 100,000 years. “That would be a long time for me personally, but in evolution it would just be a blip on the radar,” he said.

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Update News of the Weird reported in September on the giant “fatberg” lodged in the sewer system beneath the streets of London. The huge glob of oil, fat, diapers and baby wipes was finally blasted out after nine weeks of work. On Feb. 8, the Museum of London put on display a shoebox-sized chunk of the fatberg, the consistency of which is described by curator Vyki Sparkes as being something like Parmesan cheese crossed with moon rock. “It’s disgusting and fascinating,” she told the Associated Press. The mini-fatberg is enclosed within three nested transparent boxes to protect visitors from potentially deadly bacteria, the terrible smell—and the tiny flies that swarm around it. The museum is also selling fatberg fudge and T-shirts in conjunction with the exhibit, which continues until July 1.

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New World Order A new golf course at The Retreat & Links at Silvies Valley Ranch in Seneca, Ore., will take “the golf experience ... to a new level” in 2018, owner Scott Campbell announced in early February to the website Golf WRX. This summer, golfers will be offered goat caddies to carry clubs, drinks, balls and tees on the resort’s short seven-hole challenge course, McVeigh’s Gauntlet. “We’ve been developing an unprecedented caddie training program with our head caddie, Bruce LeGoat,” Campbell went on, adding that the professionally trained American Range goats will “work for peanuts.”

Least Competent Criminals Kenneth R. Shutes Jr. of New Richmond, Wisc., bolted from a midnight traffic stop on Feb. 6, but he didn’t make it far before having to call 911 for help. The Twin Cities Pioneer Press reported that Shutes got stuck in a frozen swamp in rural Star Prairie and, after about an hour, became unable to walk as temperatures dipped to minus 8 degrees. Fire and rescue workers removed Shutes from the wooded area, and he was later charged in St. Croix County Circuit Court for failing to obey an officer, marijuana possession and obstructing an officer. Shutes told a deputy he “needed an incident like this because he was making poor decisions in his life.”

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