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Online news post, June 4, With a couple exceptions, Utah leaders decry SCOTUS Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling

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Shooting the Watchdog

Utahns should be shaking in their boots, but instead, they’re forcing their heads deeper into the sand. Lulled by the illusion that their president is a flag-bearer for the Christian Right, they seem to have an unalterable penchant to ignore Donald Trump’s bad behavior and irrationality, hoping that the ongoing nightmare will end. That mindset might well reflect Utah’s powerful religious teachings, which virtually make it a sin to question leadership. There has been no time during the history of our country when its most precious institutions were in greater danger. While waiting with bated breath for a productive Robert Mueller probe, the election interference by Russia is just one issue of many. Certainly, any verified collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign would constitute a treasonable act. Unfortunately, that year-long investigation has also become a major distraction from other critical issues. The reality is, that Trump’s actions strike at the very core of our democracy. For the eyes of a trained journalist, there is one threat to democracy I fear most: Trump’s ongoing muzzling of the press and his blatant blockade of reliable information. Utahns, along with the 35 percent of other Americans, might rationalize that Trump’s bull-in-the-China-shop leadership is harmless (as long as he doesn’t start pushing buttons). While terrorists strike fear into our hearts, the most serious threats to our nation’s security come from within. Trump has shown a frightening disrespect of the law and for the constitutional provisions which were designed to safeguard our freedoms. Among them, is the Constitution’s

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. guarantee of a free and unrestrained press. Not surprisingly, all dictators in modern times have employed two important measures, and Trump, being a keen observer of history (joke), has been no exception: While George Washington is squirming in his grave, our President is becoming crude-but-adept at his use of propaganda and censorship. Recently, he has begun to exclude legitimate news sources—including the AP and CNN—from observing the workings of government, while creating an endless stream of the same type of fakery he so vocally condemns. The constitutional guarantee of a free press is one of our most cherished possessions—and one of our gravest concerns. That freedom was the first one to fall in Hitler’s Third Reich, Stalin’s “Reign of Terror,” and, more recently, the regimes of Saddam Hussein, Putin and Kim Jong-un. These ruthless tyrants squelched truth, keeping the populace immersed in a sea of propaganda. There seems to be only one factor that threatens Trump’s brassy bravado; one single thing that really scares him: Trump fears nothing more than the truth. The plentiful supply of unsavory disclosures about him—one repugnant revelation after another—has given him a reason to attack all credible news sources. While Trump’s assault on the press has intensified over time, it is certainly nothing new. His anti-press railing began long before he was elected. Early in his campaign he coined a new moniker for any reports that held him in a dim light: “fake news.” During that period, Trump did everything possible to destroy the credibility of the press and limit its right to publish the truth. He publically roasted print, web and TV journalists for reporting his misbehavior, and advocated that press credentials should be revoked for those who opposed him. This, of course, should have been no surprise to those who knew the man for what he is. It seems there’s a consensus among mental healthcare professionals: a toxic narcissist, perhaps, with a borderline

personality disorder. Some have dared call him a sociopath. Typical of people with his type of character defect, Trump considers all critics to be his enemies. That’s tragic. To the normal person, criticism spawns self-discovery; self-discovery leads to personal introspection; introspection helps to create a better human being. Were Trump capable of using criticism constructively, he might actually be able to rise above his faults. Despite outcries, Trump seems more committed than ever to restrain and muzzle the press. He listens only to those who applaud him and vilifies those who question his wisdom. Many Utahns might applaud Trump for his blurring of the boundary between religion and government. They might also rally around his decision to defund Planned Parenthood. While the rah-rah rises to a deafening din, it serves only to smoke-screen Trump’s insidious attack on our constitutional freedoms. His proclamation of his own Christianity is merely a hollow masquerade. Very much an echo of the most ruthless demagogues of our world, Trump is systematically destroying the institutions that have ensured democracy’s survival. I was taught that a free press is the “watchdog of society,” but, with gun-in-hand, Trump seeks to kill that great safeguard of our political system. Attributed to Joseph Smith, Mormonism’s first prophet, the White Horse Prophecy was quoted, in part, by a long series of church leaders. Its substance was that “the Constitution of the United States would hang by a thread” and that it would be the Mormon elders who would save it from “utter destruction.” Well, Utahns, Joseph Smith seems to have been right about the Constitution being in trouble, but it can only be saved one vote at a time. CW

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Solutions Not Problems

KOREA’S FUTURE—AND OURS

What if everyone decided to look for solutions instead of problems? Let’s start with South Salt Lake, which finally approved a permit for a homeless shelter. The Deseret News ran a photo of the site with a sign saying “Stand up for South Salt Lake, say no to a homeless shelter in our neighborhoods.” Big sigh. The idea all along has been to disperse the crowded homeless population in the Rio Grande area, making enforcement and services easier in small chunks. That the plan ran into opposition is an understatement. Now, South Jordan has adopted an anti-camping law designed to keep those undesirables away from the Jordan River. You might ask why the momentum goes to isolating the homeless at a safe distance rather than creating safe places to house and help them. Yes, it would be in your neighborhood.

With the whiplash negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea, no one knows whether nuclear war is on the horizon. Get a better understanding of the region and its bumpy relationship with the United States at Future of Korea. While there will be no talk of Little Rocket Man or Dotard, experts will discuss “political, security, economic and financial issues within the Korean Peninsula and how they pertain to U.S.-Korean relations,” the event’s Facebook page says. And you might just find out what our future holds, too, in this rocky relationship. Jewett Center for the Performing Arts, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, 801-832-3270, Thursday, June 7, 7-8:30 p.m., free/registration required, bit.ly/2LdFIiB.

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Dark Is Good

Utah is home—at least for the moment—to some of the world’s most spectacular parks and monuments. The question is whether anyone can witness the immense beauty of the night sky, which is being blocked out by light. The University of Utah has been taking steps to dampen the brightness, replacing 1,800 of 3,000 outside fixtures with lower intensity lights and hoods that direct the light down, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Sound familiar? Then-Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson tried to move the city in that direction in 2006, but bright lights beat out darkness, probably because of fear. There’s plenty of research about the benefits of darkness. City lights are killing migratory birds, and astronomy blogger Joe Bauman mentioned the cost of wasted light. The battle against light pollution is nothing new, but it needs to switch into high gear.

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MARCH FOR CHILDREN

Confused about where 1,500 immigrant children have gone? You’re not the only one. Whether or not you support deportation, you should stand up for the rights of families and recognize the inherent risks of separating children from their guardians. See this effort for what it is: a draconian fear tactic to dissuade illegal immigration. It has shown the United States to be nothing short of the Evil Empire. Not all of these children are “missing,” though some have fallen into the hands of human traffickers because of the new “100 percent policy,” criminalizing all who come into the country without documentation. Join the dissenting hoards around the nation at SLC: Where Are the Children to find a more humane path for children. Wallace Bennett Federal Building, 125 S. State, Thursday, June 14, 6-8 p.m., free, bit.ly/2J7woMv.

Wildlife Be Damned

As the Trump administration continues its scorched-earth policy on regulations, sage grouse and prairie dogs be warned. U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop wants the birds to be kept off the endangered species list, and conservationists worry that any previous collaboration on wildlife protection is a dead issue, according to High Country News. Admittedly, some wildlife can be wildly annoying, and can create hard-fought battles over domain. In one instance, a national parks worker was cited for moving prairie dogs from around water sources, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Also, the BLM now has new marching orders that decrease the management area for sage grouses with a watch-them-decline strategy, according to the Deseret News. It looks like wildlife preservation is becoming victim of the administration’s anti-regulation movement, and compromise in all things is out of the question.

Join KRCL 90.9 FM and the University of Utah in discussions about immigration and welcoming newcomers to your neighborhood. At Breaking Fast Together in the Month of Ramadan, you’ll take part in a community iftar bringing Muslims and non-Muslims together for a shared meal. “The U.S. is home to nearly 34 million lawful immigrants and another 11 million people who are undocumented,” the website says. A panel discussion will help you understand the commonalities that undergird all people, and celebrate our differences. Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, Saturday, June 9, 5-9 p.m., free, bit.ly/2kDwVLw.

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Now that Bill Cosby has been found guilty, it seems possible President Trump could issue a pardon, letting Cosby off scot-free. Congress has the authority to override a presidential veto. Couldn’t we also give Congress the ability to override a presidential pardon? —Curious in Indy

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I see where you’re going there, Curious, but the scenario you’ve cooked up won’t work. Presidential pardon power extends only to federal crimes, whereas Cosby was convicted under the state law of Pennsylvania. It’s simply not the president’s jurisdiction. This might come as some surprise to the current officeholder, who last year tweeted that “all agree the U.S. President has the complete power to pardon.” Who wants to tell him? But OK, let’s play this one out. Say Cosby had been convicted on federal charges, and say Trump, motivated by whatever feeling of kinship, pardoned him. For Congress to block such an action would require not just a law but an amendment to the Constitution. The power of executive clemency derives from Article II, Section 2, which permits the president “to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States”; an 1866 Supreme Court decision affirmed that it “cannot be fettered by any legislative restrictions.” If you’re looking to challenge a presidential pardon, then, don’t call your congressperson—call your lawyer, because the real action is in court. Take Donald Trump’s first pardon: that of Joe Arpaio, the longtime Arizona sheriff who made a personal brand for himself out of civil rights violations. In 2011, Arpaio was ordered by an Arizona judge to stop racially profiling Latino drivers; in 2017, a second judge found him in violation of the earlier order and convicted him, in a bench trial, of criminal contempt of court. A month later, the president handed Sheriff Joe a get-out-of-jail-free card. We’ll pause here to consider the wellestablished conventions surrounding the pardon: it’s typically given, after consultation with the Justice Department, to people who, having admitted guilt and expressed remorse, petition the president for mercy. Alternately, a pardon may be issued when the president deems it in the public good, the most famous example being Ford letting Nixon off the hook for Watergate. So Trump’s already swimming upstream here: he didn’t talk to anyone from Justice beforehand, Arpaio remains defiant, and it’s hard to see what broad benefit follows from a symbolic embrace of white supremacy. Still, conventions aren’t laws, and none of the above makes the Arpaio pardon legally invalid. Where things get interesting is in the fact that Trump pardoned Arpaio not for any old offense but specifically a contempt conviction. He wasn’t extending mercy so much as second-guessing how a federal judge—i.e., a representative of a theoretically coequal branch of government— runs her courtroom. And that might be

constitutionally troublesome. The scope of executive clemency hasn’t been fully hashed out, and one open question is what happens when the president, in exercising his or her power as enumerated, bumps up against some other part of the Constitution. In an article last November, legal scholar Kimberly Wehle offered the hypothetical of a president effectively invalidating a new law by preemptively pardoning anybody who might later break it. That wouldn’t fly, Wehle contended, as it would infringe the delineated authority of Congress to make laws in the first place. Trump’s action in Arizona is analogous— or at least that’s the argument made by critics, including a group of House Democrats, who in an amicus brief claimed the pardon represents “an encroachment by the Executive on the independence of the Judiciary.” The judge in the case subsequently refused to grant Arpaio’s post-pardon motion to get his conviction thrown out, leaving the former sheriff in legal limbo: he’s been pardoned by the president, but the court won’t clear his record. Arpaio has appealed, raising the possibility of a higher court overturning the president’s pardon on the grounds that he overstepped his authority in issuing it. That’d be an extraordinary development, but one suspects l’affaire Arpaio won’t be the only constitutional strain this particular prez puts on his pardon authority. As various investigations into Trumpworld heat up, another Democratic representative has introduced a constitutional amendment that would curtail a president’s ability to make the move that anyone can now see coming: namely, to pardon the president’s own family members, campaign aides, appointees, or other staff, thus relieving them of the pressure to testify to any executive misdeeds. The amendment—which stands not a snowball’s chance of going anywhere, of course—also proposes to take care of the big orange elephant in the room, prohibiting the president from pardoning himself. Could he do so under current conditions? Jury’s out. The last real word we got was a 1974 memo from the Office of Legal Counsel, dated three days before Nixon announced his resignation, concluding that the president doesn’t have the authority: “No one may be a judge in his own case.” But that’s an untested proposition that frankly may not remain untested for much longer. Buckle up. n

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Count My Vote’s ballot initiative campaign came up just short, but that could still change. BY RAY HOWZE rhowze@cityweekly.net @rayhowze1

ake it to court. After months of gathering more than 130,000 verified signatures, backers of the Count My Vote ballot initiative plan to appeal a ruling keeping them off the November ballot. Just last week, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox’s office announced that while the Medical Cannabis Act and Independent Redistricting Commission will be on November’s ballot, Count My Vote—or the Direct Primary Election Act—had an insufficient number of signatures. It was a crushing blow to a group that poured millions of dollars and years of work into helping cement 2014’s Senate Bill 54 into law. SB54 allows candidates to get on a ballot through the caucus system or by gathering signatures, like Provo’s John Curtis did last year. But how did we get here? Five months ago, Count My Vote executive chairman Rich McKeown told City Weekly he was confident they would gather enough signatures. They did. But they also faced a formidable opponent—Keep My Voice—that was adamant about maintaining the caucus system. The group, bankrolled by Entrata CEO Dave Bateman, was able to convince enough people to remove their names, effectively keeping Count My Vote just hundreds of signatures away from its goal. Tactics included everything from robocalls asking people to remove their names to accusations of misinformation campaigns from both sides. It was what some, such as Count My Vote executive director Taylor Morgan, described to The Salt Lake Tribune in early May as “dirty and deceptive tricks.” At stake: control of Utah’s Republican Party. “This was not unanticipated that we would end up in court on this,” McKeown says. “Unlike the other initiatives, we really had a super aggressive group going after this and they were able to remove enough signatures that it invalidated the ability for the lieutenant governor to declare that we would be on the ballot.”

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Keep My Voice officials filed a lawsuit against Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox’s office following the ballot initiative deadline in May. Utah’s rules for ballot initiatives allows time for people to request signature removals and for people to campaign for those removals. Count My Vote supporters came up 570 signatures short in three of the required 26 senate districts. McKeown says they have until June 15 to file an appeal with the Utah Supreme Court. McKeown adds they want to find out if there were any inconsistencies in invalidating almost 28,000 signatures that were thrown out. Nearly 4,000 of those were removed because they didn’t match voter records. “This is a process that is filled with subjective decisions,” he says. “So, every signature on a petition has to be verified and validated. This process, it was never contemplated there would be four initiatives that would get through simultaneously or that the county clerks would have to deal with that many [signatures].” He says Count My Vote will see if there was any human error or an “introduction of bias” in the process. The ballot initiative campaign has already experienced some human error. The Utah County Clerk’s office misplaced thousands of signatures packets for Count My Vote in mid-May. The explanation: They were put in the wrong pile. But the Count My Vote vs. Keep My Voice fight doesn’t end there. Keep My Voice has already filed a lawsuit against the lieutenant governor’s office accusing it of handling signature removals

inappropriately and not enforcing “antifraud provisions.” Keep My Voice’s director, Brandon Beckham, tells City Weekly he sees what Count My Vote has done as a “way to dismantle the caucus system.” “We expected that when we’ve been involved in this for four-and-a-half, five years almost,” he says. “It hasn’t changed—same actors, same tactics and it just so happens this time, though, they have some people who are heads of agencies in government, which is disconcerning.” Beckham cited members of the Legislature who sponsored SB54 and have pushed for election reform. Former Gov. Mike Leavitt and former First Lady Norma Matheson also have been longtime supporters of Count My Vote. Cox’s office said it could not respond to City Weekly’s request for comment citing the ongoing litigation. Keep My Voice initially started out by filing its own initiative earlier this year but did not have enough time to collect the thousands of required signatures. Knowing that, they moved to the signature-removal process, where Beckham says they “came across a lot of cases of forgery.” “I’m very confident in saying about 20 percent to maybe 25 percent of the people whose names are on that petition actually intentionally signed knowing what it was,” he says. “The rest is garbage—that’s why it’s so easy for us

to go get signature removals.” Keep My Voice advocates claim they met with a lot of people who told them they didn’t know the whole scope of the petition they signed. Beckham says “it’s not hard” and “it’s just telling them the truth, giving them the facts.” But McKeown sees those tactics, including the robocalls, as “deceitful.” Beckham, though, like McKeown, says he would like to see more regulation in the initiative process. “There needs to be some accountability, there’s just no accountability,” Beckham says. “When a guy goes to get a signature from a person, he should be required to say certain things to the voter; he should be giving them a receipt for the signature so they know they’re on this petition and what they signed; there should be some type of language on the receipt that says you can remove your signature by this day and so forth, and there’s nothing.” That lack of regulation has now led these two groups to court. “The problem with this legislation is you can never be certain you’ve gotten enough signatures,” McKeown says. “The difficulty and complexity of this statute is there is no certainty for those trying to get on the ballot. Despite the fact we have this overwhelming majority of people in the state that believe positively about this, you have a small sliver of a small minority that are able to derail and disenfranchise the vast majority of Utah voters.” CW

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“I don’t have a safe place. There is no safe place where I can go,” a middle-aged Salvadoran woman calmly told Salt Lake City immigration court judge Christopher M. Greer through a translator during a hearing in early May, hoping he’d grant her and her children’s asylum applications. “There’s no safety in any form,” she continued. The woman’s 17-year-old son (City Weekly was asked not to name any members of the family as a condition of observing their hearing because, as one of their attorneys said afterwards, the mother is “terrified to leave her home”), testified that members of the gang M-18 would harass him on his way to school when he lived in El Salvador, demanding he give them money three or four times a week. “One time I didn’t have any money on me, and that’s when they took my shoes,” he said. The woman’s 20-year-old daughter had her first interaction with the gang when she was 13, when a member named Nelson pushed her against a wall and forceably kissed her. The man kept harassing her after the kiss, she told Greer, even when she

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came to the U.S., settling into a new life in Maine for six months before moving to Utah in 2008. A decade into his American Dream, Al Hachami’s weekends are now spent fishing at Utah Lake, cooking kebabs or playing soccer with friends and going on trips to Lagoon. “It’s like Disney World,” he says of the Farmington amusement park.

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“We were afraid for our family. It’s kind of like you’re a traitor, you know, because you’re working with a foreign country,” he says, but he believes in what he did: “Imagine if there was no interpreter at that time. So who’s going to help the Iraqi army?” It took a few years to apply and be approved for refugee status, but Al Hachami eventually

New hobbies aside, it’s still hard living so far from his home in south Baghdad. “I miss my family,” Al Hachami says. “I feel, like, kind of lonely.” His job helps him feel less alone. As a lead case manager for Catholic Community Services of Utah (CCS), Al Hachami helps people like him: refugees who recently moved to the United States, leaving behind their countries—and often their families— because they fear for their lives. He assists recently arrived refugees to get benefits and jobs and to understand their new reality in a strange, foreign country. “It’s hard for everybody to leave home,” Al Hachami says. “I feel like they are a part of my family.” As a member of Utah’s surprisingly large international community, Al Hachami also knows and works with a number of individuals and families who’ve applied for asylum. Although their application processes can sometimes be a bit shorter than people applying from overseas for refugee status, Al Hachami says there’s a crucial issue facing those seeking immigration relief from inside U.S. borders: “They have to prove too many things to the government [in order] to be granted asylum.”

halid Al Hachami knows that if he goes home to Iraq to see his family, he’s going to have trouble getting around. “I have to be careful, you know,” the 39-year-old says. “I cannot go alone by myself outside.” Al Hachami served as a “connection” between the U.S. military and the Iraqi army from 2003 to 2007, translating information from Arabic to English so the two forces could communicate.

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would travel in groups of friends and family members. “He always wanted to touch me,” she testified. Before leaving El Salvador, the family tried to hide in another relative’s home, but a gang member eventually called the house and asked for the mother, shattering their illusion of safety. Wherever we go, they will find us,” the daughter told the judge. Their father is still in El Salvador; the gang often asks him where his family is hiding, his daughter testified that morning. M-18 told him the family “left owing us something,” in the daughter’s words, but he refuses to tell the gang where they are. The father pays the gang an undisclosed amount—he won’t tell his family how much, the daughter said, because he doesn’t want them to worry—so his family can stay safe almost 3,000 miles away. “He’s paying so that they allow him to continue living,” the daughter told the judge as she started crying. Greer ended the hearing by saying he’d issue a written decision within 30 days, requiring the family to wait a few more weeks before they’d know their fate. As of June 5, Greer had not yet issued a ruling on their asylum applications. Greer is one of three judges currently chipping away at the Salt Lake City immigration court’s estimated 2,698 pending cases. That number does not solely represent the number of asylum applications pending in the Utah court, the only of its kind in the state: Judges’ duties include presiding over immigrants’ initial appearance in court and issuing rulings on their applications for asylum or withholding or cancellation of removal. Judges also hear cases from Montana and Idaho through a video feed, allowing them to issue rulings from their West Valley City benches on the cases of immigrants residing in three states. Ultimately, judges are tasked with answering two questions, as Judge Phillip M. Truman told respondents appearing during a master calendar hearing on May 8: Did the respondent violate U.S. immigration law? If so, is there any legal reasoning that would allow the respondent to stay in the U.S., despite the violation? “Just because you violated the immigration law doesn’t mean you have to go back,” Truman told a 29-year-old Peruvian man making an initial appearance in his courtroom. (This story is solely about asylum cases; a future one will detail applications for cancellation of removal, which, like asylum applications, require attorneys to reach a high legal burden in order for their clients to be allowed to stay in the country.) In mid-May, City Weekly reported on an asylum seeker who said she’d been accosted in her home country due to her former partner’s ties with a drug cartel. Greer said in open court he denied her request because, among other reasons, “general conditions of civil unrest do not provide a basis for relief.” Her case is not unusual. In order to qualify for asylum, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, applicants have to show they’re

“a refugee who is unable or unwilling” to return to their country of origin because “of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.” But it’s very difficult to argue there’s a connection between belonging to a particular social group and being a victim of persecution, immigration attorney Jonathan Z. Paz says. “This is very gray for the judges; it’s very gray for the appellate court; it’s very gray for the district court, if it gets to that level; it’s very gray for our clients and it’s gray for us,” he explains. “You’re trying to find a group of people that isn’t defined by the color of their skin, or their gender, or their race, or something that they believe in. You’re trying to find a group of people based on something that they do, something that they participate in.” Attorney Adam Crayk says it’s difficult to successfully argue asylum cases when respondents are from Central America because their claims of persecution are often based on gang-related activity. “That nexus is really hard to establish, so it’s making it literally unattainable in a lot of scenarios,” he says. Jonathan Bachison, an Ogden-based attorney, says the thousands of people fleeing Central American countries are doing so “because of rampant gang violence that is just out of control.” The trouble is, he says, “the only form of relief they can apply for is asylum. But most of their cases are losers from the get-go. It doesn’t mean they’re a loser, but their case will never get approved because they can’t show they’ve been discriminated against for one of these very well-defined grounds,” meaning they’re unable to show their persecution stems from “things that are fundamental to the individual that the individual cannot change.” Bachison suggests the high burden is necessary because if it were lower, “the United States would have to take in [citizens from] every country in the world because all the Third World countries have social unrest.” If laws allowed for general civil unrest to be grounds for the granting of asylum, Bachison says, “everybody could just come and say, ‘I’m the victim of a crime, let me in, I should get asylum.’ That’s essentially what they’re all trying to do, but the thing is these cases are not unsympathetic … I’ve had a lot of people who’ve had family members who were just killed.” That high legal burden means the majority of asylum applications are denied. According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a nonpartisan database maintained at Syracuse University, David C. Anderson, the only Salt Lake City immigration court judge for whom data is available, denied 75 percent of the 212 asylum cases he heard between the 2012 and 2017 fiscal years. In that time frame, judges at the Salt Lake City court denied asylum applications more than 80 percent of the time. Nationwide, judges denied 52.8 percent of asylum applications over the same period.

Paz, who practiced law in California before he started practicing in Utah in January, questions why “judges in certain states grant very little asylum cases,” noting that judges in states like California often grant asylum more often than those whose benches are in more conservative-leaning states. “It’s not because the people with the good asylum cases are going to California,” he says. Minutes after a judge denied the applications of a client and her 10-year-old son, Paz suggested that part of the reason judges deny asylum so often is because they’re wary to create case law by approving an application due to an immigrant belonging to a particular social group, like being a government employee or a business owner. “Once he creates it, maybe other judges are going to latch on, or other people are going to propose those same groups, and they’re going to point to him,” Paz said in the quiet hall outside the courtroom. Immigration attorney Marti Jones has another way to describe it: “We’re in a bitch of a situation.” Jones stresses that a key difference between refugees resettled in the U.S. and people applying for asylum is the former are invariably determined by an international body known as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; stateside, asylees apply for immigration relief on an individual basis, unlike people deemed “refugees” by the UNHCR. Refugees, Jones says, are resettled in the U.S. primarily based on their belonging to a group or being of a certain nationality. The problem, Jones says, is it’s “bitchingly difficult,” if not “virtually impossible,” for immigrants from countries like El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala or areas off the Mexican coast—countries and regions with high levels of criminal violence perpetrated by gangs or cartels—to prove they are targeted individually, as opposed to being victims of collateral damage as a result of civil unrest. What really “gets [Jones’] goat,” she says, is how “we craft ‘good’ immigrants and ‘bad immigrants,’” and refugees are often put in the first group because they waited in refugee camps before being resettled. As if refugees came to America “the right way”— common phrasing for people opposed to any undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.—while people from Guatemala or El Salvador are nothing more than “illegals.” “Screw that,” Jones says. “The people fleeing violence in Mexico and Central America merit just as much the designation as refugees.”

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For a state and city that are both more than 60 percent white, Utah and its capital are more diverse than people think, Moana Uluave-Hafoka and Fatima Dirie say. As the full-time staffers at the Office of Diversity and Human Rights, a division of the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office, Uluave-Hafoka and Dirie partner with local organizations that help refugees and immigrants seeking asylum or some other immigration benefit that will allow them to

asylees are “technically the same,” except refugees apply overseas while asylees apply after they’ve already entered the U.S. Dirie says there is often confusion as a result of all the labels—refugee, immigrant, asylum seeker—assigned to people not born in the U.S. who are trying to make a new life here, but “all the things they’re seeking at the end is the same … finding that opportunity and chasing the American Dream.” Not to mention, each group faces similar challenges, like accessing transportation or learning English. Batar notes that immigrants are often ”traveling freely,” in pursuit of better opportunities for themselves or their families, while refugees tend to be “forced out” of their home countries, but he concedes that many people coming to the U.S. from Central America are fleeing persecution and other “inhumane conditions.” “An essential question would be, ‘what were the forces that pushed you to come here?’” Uluave-Hafoka says. Refugees are often forced to flee their countries because of war, “[but] if we also took a closer look [at] undocumented immigrants, or immigrants in general, they may be attracted to an idea of the American Dream, but there’s also social, political and economic forces that are pushing them out of their home and ancestral lands, which they necessarily wouldn’t have left unless they had to, [to] gain opportunities in order to survive. “And then geographically, [refugees and asylum-seekers are] being placed in similar areas because of the socioeconomic opportunities within the United States,” she says. “It wasn’t by divine design that Fatima and I ended up in the same neighborhood. These are neighborhoods that are historically and traditionally disenfranchised, and have lower standards of living, therefore we were put in the same place, so then [immigrants and refugees] start to experience the same level of oppression in different types of ways because you’re geographically housed in the same area.” In addition to refugee resettlement, CCS also works with immigrants who are applying for asylum. Batar says he’s seeing a lot of what legally stay in the U.S. “People who are not from Salt Lake City do not reattorneys practicing in Salt Lake City’s immigration court have described: alize how many immigrants and refugees do live here, and they also don’t “We have been seeing a lot of cases being denied. That’s what we’re hearunderstand it’s been going on for decades,” Uluave-Hafoka says. ing across the board,” he says of asylum cases. Having known each other since high school, Uluave-Hafoka and Dirie Uluave-Hafoka calls the asylum application process a “last resort. Nogrew up in Salt Lake City’s Glendale neighborhood, despite that Dirie was body really goes through that. They would rather go and come back,” since born in Somalia. “I would not have met Fatima had we stayed on our sides sometimes leaving the U.S. and returning can be cheaper than paying of the globe,” Uluave-Hafoka says. thousands of dollars for a legal battle that can take years to be decided. The demographics of Uluave-Hafoka’s neighborhood changed based on “It’s a difficult process to go through,” she says. the year and what was happening in the world at that time, she says; one “[It’s a] very, very, very lengthy process,” Batar says of applying for asyyear she might have seen an influx of Somali refugees, the next Kosovo lum and appealing a denial, which immigration attorney Crayk says hapAlbanians. “We were all having these interactions on a global scale, but pens “every time, pretty much.” it was all in this city,” Uluave-Hafoka explains. “If you grew up here, you According to TRAC, respondents in Salt Lake City’s immigration court were experiencing all that was happening in the United States right in this wait an average of 508 days between when the feds issue them a notice to little, tiny Salt Lake City town.” appear in court and when a judge issues a ruling Catholic Community Services of Utah and on their case. Then comes the appellate process, the International Rescue Committee are the which Crayk estimates can take between 18 and two agencies that help resettle refugees in Utah. “Some folks 24 months, though decisions can come sooner. Aden Batar, CCS director of migration and refuAside from the similarities in the definitions of gee services, says 65,000 refugees have been rehave been sitting their groups, and the shared challenges they face settled in the state since the late 1970s. when trying to assimilate in the U.S., individuals According to numbers provided by Batar, CCS in refugee camps and families resettled as refugees by organizahelped resettle 632 refugees in its 2016 fiscal year, almost three-quarters of whom were Burfor more than 20 tions like CCS and those applying for asylum share a crucial emotion: Fear. “Believe me, nomese, Afghan, Congolese, Iraqi or Somali. In its following fiscal year, CCS helped resettle 412 years, some have body came to the U.S. without any reason,” Al Hachami says. refugees, a 34 percent decrease from the previBoth groups are also asked to do the same ous year. This fiscal year, CCS has helped resettle been waiting for thing: wait. 135 refugees, the majority of whom are from the “Some folks have been sitting in refugee Congo, Somalia or Eritrea, underscoring imone year, maybe camps for more than 20 years, some have been migration attorneys’ comments that individuals waiting for one year, maybe two,” Batar says of from Central American countries are more likely two.” those CCS has helped resettle. to apply for asylum rather than be resettled as a Whether waiting on a judge’s ruling on an asyrefugee. (CCS did help resettle one refugee from —Aden Batar lum application or to be resettled in the United El Salvador this fiscal year, but Batar says they States as a refugee, prospective asylees’ and refcould have applied overseas through the U.S. emugees’ lives are on hold as they wait to see when—or if—they’ll be granted bassy. “It’s not one of those typical places where we get refugees,” he says.) a fresh start. The organization’s goal was to help resettle about 400 refugees during Although arduous, Jones suggests that time can sometimes be helpful. this fiscal year, which even then would have been a big decrease from its “People are terrified to go home. They have no other alternative but to fight 2016 numbers. “I don’t know if we will have 300,” Batar says, noting that for more time,” she says, stressing that buying time is not the sole reason it appears the “extreme vetting” favored by the Trump Administration is her clients apply for asylum. As families like the Salvadoran mother and slowing to a trickle the number of refugees CCS has helped to start new her children await judges’ rulings, maybe things back home will change lives in the Beehive State. just enough so their lives won’t be in danger should they need to return. Or The Utah Department of Health’s website defines a refugee as, “somemaybe “home” is now here in Utah, and the time they spend here waiting, one who has been forced to flee their country because of persecution, war, hoping to be granted asylum is nothing more than a buffer between when or violence,” noting these individuals have “a well-founded fear of persethey fled and when they return, strangers in the land in which they were cution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or memborn. bership in a particular social group.” That definition is similar to the one “It’s a tangled, tangled, messy web,” Jones says. provided by the DHS on its asylum application. 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Comedians Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson are all too aware of the stigma attached to openly talking about sex. In so many places—though especially so in Utah, where the general consensus on sex is “don’t do it unless you’re married”—conversations about sex are often met with discomfort at the least. In recognition of that fear, Hutchinson and Fisher have spent years performing together under the stage name Sorry About Last Night to challenge everything we were (and weren’t) taught about sex, mostly on their popular podcast Guys We F***ed. They know about people’s fears of sex talk anywhere outside the bedroom. They know about the fear that exists even in the bedroom. On the podcast, the two not only discuss sex, but also the complicated narratives that have followed it, as well as why those narratives are harmful. They might even discuss sex itself with people they’ve had sex with. From conversations about where to find sexual partners, to double-standards for men and women when it comes to sex, these conversations are impressively not painfully awkward, but instead hilarious, while also educational. Fisher and Hutchinson bring this skill for sex talk on tour with the “Guys We F***d Live Experience.” The show takes all the brilliance of their (as they call it) “feminist, sexy, anti-slut-shaming” podcast and turns it into a form for audiences to appreciate in person. Prepare to learn about sex in ways you never thought you could—and do it while laughing. (Casey Koldewyn) Corrine Fisher & Krystyna Hutchinson @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801532-5233, June 8-9, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20, 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com

In City Weekly’s 2002 Literary Issue, Salt Lake City resident James A. McLaughlin took first place in the fiction category for an unsettling snippet titled “Southern Gothic ca. 2001.” A different version of that episode appears in McLaughlin’s new novel Bearskin, but the story’s journey to publication goes back even farther than 16 years. In fact, according to McLaughlin, Bearskin originated nearly 25 years ago, when he was in an MFA program at the University of Virginia. The earliest version originated from an anecdote shared by McLaughlin’s cousin, about picking up a hitchhiker who described finding mutilated bear carcasses. “It was a terrible first novel, so I set it aside,” McLaughlin recalls. “In 2007 or 2008, a friend from that program said, ‘You should go back to that, there’s something there.’ So I dug it out, converted it from Word Perfect to Word, and just stripped everything out except the place and the bear carcasses.” That revised version follows biologist Rice Moore, hiding out from vengeful Mexican drug cartels as caretaker for a remote Virginia forest preserve when he discovers poachers killing bears for the Asian black market. And he found the narrative’s best approach by embracing genre elements he hadn’t initially considered. “I had been sort of snooty: ‘I’m an MFA,’” he says with a laugh. “I was kind of in the middle of this when Cormac McCarthy came out with No Country for Old Men. That’s a straight thriller set-up. So I thought, ‘Let’s push [Bearskin] into a thriller, and have some fun with it.” (SR) James A. McLaughlin: Bearskin @ The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, June 12, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

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Any launch of a new theater company is an auspicious occasion. Sisyphus Theatre Co., the newest addition to Salt Lake City’s thriving arts scene, makes its debut with French philosopher, playwright and novelist Jean Paul Sartre’s dark comedy No Exit, a meditative tale about three strangers brought together in Hell and forced to ponder what awaits in eternity. Still seeking salvation, they realize that the scourge of damnation comes with keeping company with others. “No Exit has such relevance right now,” says Sisyphus founder Megan Chase. “We’re kind of in this absurd political climate. It felt very timely.” The play’s director, Meighan Page Smith, offers an anecdote of her own. “When we did the read-through, my husband came with me. When they get to the famous line, ‘Hell is other people,’ he was like, ‘OK, I’m totally on board with this.’” Chase says Sisyphus intends to distinguish itself from the start. “We have lots of musicals around here, but not lots of stuff that’s a little bit different,” she suggests. “Fluffy musicals are great, but I wanted to provide something else, and also, more roles for women.” Not surprisingly, the company’s name itself is a statement. “There’s an essay by Albert Camus about Sisyphus, and it works really well with No Exit,” Chase explains. “It’s this whole metaphor for theater, rolling this rock uphill only for it to roll back down, then repeating the process. I thought that was a perfect way of describing the theater process, and life in general.” (Lee Zimmerman) Sisyphus Theatre Co.: No Exit @ Rose Wagner Studio Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, June 7-9, 7:30 p.m., $10, artsaltlake.org

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Stephen Brown launches a multi-platform storytelling experiment with Something Really Big: Part II. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

tephen Brown recognizes that there’s something playful about titling his new performance Something Really Big: Part II, since there hasn’t actually been a Part I yet. But when you’re trying something completely new, sometimes everything doesn’t come together in exactly the order you originally planned. The artistic director of SB Dance, Brown has been choreographing and creating inventive multimedia work for 20 years. He also realizes that the environment for artists is different in a world where people have near-infinite entertainment options at their fingertips. “Recently I was like, ‘Holy shit, I’ve never had to sell a ticket in my life; now I have to go out there,’” Brown says. “And that’s a new reality.” As one way of confronting that new reality, Brown has conceived a work titled Something Really Big with a goal of exploring it through a wide variety of storytelling delivery systems. This first production— the one titled Part II—is live musical theater and dance. Another component might be a video installation; still another could be webisodes following the ongoing adventures of the characters introduced in Part II. “It’s like with journalism,” Brown says, “there’s this hard copy thing that a few people still like. But there are other things

I look at on my phone, and other things I consume through all these different platforms. Could I tell a story through all of these things at once? I love the idea that there’s something you could present over multiple mediums.” The basic narrative of Part II, for which Brown created the script, involves multiple characters all looking for their own “something really big,” spanning multiple genres and time periods. One segment, involves a private investigator in 1936 Berlin; another follows a pair of goddesses in the ancient world; still another involves someone launching a food truck called The Consensual Cannibal. The band Minx provides live music, in an intimate performance for audiences in the three-quarters round of only around 80 people. Yet while in some sense this is a “traditional” musical theater piece, it’s also designed for some outside-the-black-box staging creativity. Three performances are scheduled for the Rose Wagner Center, but a fourth performance on June 14 takes place at a still-to-be-announced pop-up location, sent to SB Dance email list subscribers. “This particular show is meant to be played in numerous spaces, … something that’s not as dependent on traditional proscenium theatricality,” Brown says. “A traditional prop for theater and dance is a chair. … I want to use a car as a prop. I have this idea that we pull up in three cars, the musicians get out of one and set up, we use another as a stage, then all pack up and drive away.” While the performance is part of an expansive universe Brown is envisioning, he emphasizes that he’s attempting to create individual components that work on their own as well. “I’m trying to make them individually thematically compact enough to be satisfying,” Brown says, “but when you see a movie and there’s something interesting, you go to watch another thing the director made, or learn more about it. It’s more like I want to say, ‘If you want to dig deeper, you can go here.’” For now, Brown says he’s keeping his

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focus on Part II, out of simple necessity. And as with many daring artistic projects, the artist himself is still figuring it out as he goes. “Philip Roth would talk about how, as a novelist, you’ve never written this book before, so you’re kind of looking around in the dark, and 90 percent of the time, you feel like a fraud,” Brown says. “Then the last 10 percent, mastery takes over, and it’s like, ‘Oh, I’m really on to something now!’ … For this show, I’m on version 11.1, so there’s been a lot of rewrites, to the point where the cast downloads the script an hour before rehearsal, because if they do it that morning, it might be completely overridden.” The timetable for the other parts is completely uncertain at this point; Brown even suggests it’s theoretically possible the mysterious Part I, a video component, could be shot in time that it plays in the lobby of Part II. The key thing for him is the potential to explore a world, and to do so in whatever way seems to make the most sense for a particular part of this story. “It’s one of those things where there’s a bunch of characters, but I plan to grab that

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character and do something with them, and grab this character and do something with them, then go back to this world again. It’s set up with a rich enough number of levels that I have a lot of things to plug into later on. I’ve got like a million planes circling in the air, trying to land. “I recently talked to a choreographer my age,” he adds, “who told me, ‘I’ve made all the dances I want to make.’ I haven’t. I haven’t even started!” CW

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James A. McLaughlin: Bearskin The King’s English, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-484-9100, June 12, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com (see p. 19) Jess Smart Smiley: Let’s Make Comics! The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801484-9100, June 8, 7 p.m. kingsenglish.com Sabaa Tahir and Renée Ahdieh Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, June 12, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Samuel Miller: A Lite Too Bright The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801-4849100, June 9, 2 p.m., kingsenglish.com

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Corinne and Krystyna Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, June 8-9, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 19) Cory Michaelis Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., 801-622-5588, June 8, 8 p.m., 18+, wiseguyscomedy.com Front Row Film Roast: The Notebook Brewvies Cinema Pub, 677 S. 200 West, June 9, 10 p.m., brewvies.com Jenna Kim Jones Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, June 7, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com John Crist Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, 801-463-2909, June 8, 8 & 10 p.m.; June 9, 7 & 9:30 p.m., 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com Stand and Deliver: A Stand-up Inspired Improv Show Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, June 12, 8 p.m., crowdsourcedlive.com

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, June 8-30, dates and times vary, centerpointtheatre.org Jaks Youth Theatre Co.: Little Shop of Horrors Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, through June 9, 2 p.m. & 7:30 pm, artsaltlake.org Matilda Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, through June 29, dates and times vary, tuacahn.org Monty Python’s Spamalot The Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, through June 9, dates and times vary, grandtheatrecompany.com The Music Man Hale Center Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through June 9, dates and times vary, hct.org No Exit Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, June 7-9, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 19) Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, through June 30, dates and times vary, tuacahn.org SB Dance: Something Really Big, Part II: Ergo Decapiatur Rose Wagner Black Box, 138 W. 300 South, June 9, 15 & 16, 8 p.m., sbdance.com (see p. 20)

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Alyce Carrier: Celebration of the Hand Temporary Museum of Permanent Change, 300 South between 200 West and West Temple, through June 17, museumofchange.org Ancient Nights SLCC Center for Arts & Media, 1575 S. State, June 12-July 10, calendar.slcc.edu Buster Graybill: Informalism UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Sept. 8, utahmoca.org Chapman Library 100th Birthday Historical Photo Exhibit Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, 801-594-8623, through June 28, slcpl.org Charles Keeling Lassiter Bountiful Davis Art Center, 90 N. Main, Bountiful, through June 22, bdac.org Chase Westfall: Control UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Aug. 9, utahmoca.org Chiura Obata: An American Modern Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Sept. 2, umfa.utah.edu Cinematic Landscapes: Utah’s Film Legacy Main Library, 410 E. 200 South, through July 6, slcpl.org Claudia Sisemore: 70’s Color Field Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, through June 8, phillips-gallery.com Ditchbank: Paintings and Ceramics Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200,

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through June 15, times vary, slcpl.org Epicenter: Our Futures Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through July 1, umfa.utah.edu Historias de Ayer y Hoy (Stories of Yesterday and Today) Kimball Arts Center, 638 Park Ave. Park City, June 9-July 8, kimballartcenter.org In Her Own Image Urban Arts Gallery, 161 S. Rio Grande St., through July 1, urbanartsgallery.org Josh Samson: The Identity Project UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through Oct. 13, utahmoca.org (see p. 21) June Group Exhibition A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, through July 7, agalleryonline.com Laura Sharp Wilson: Small Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through July 6, heritage.utah.gov LEGO City Blocks The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, through Aug. 31, theleonardo.org Lenka Konopasek and Sarah Bown Roberts Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, through June 8, saltlakearts.org Mandelman & Ribak Exhibition Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, through June 10, modernwestfineart.com Our Sacred Landscape Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., 801-245-7272, through July 6, heritage.utah.gov Out Loud: Mostly Human UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 801-328-4201, through July 14, utahmoca.org Play On! Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, 1150 S. Constitution Drive, Liberty Park, through June 29, heritage.utah.gov Sarah Bown Roberts: Head Lands Finch Lane Galleries, 1340 E. 100 South, through June 8, saltlakearts.org Seven Deadly Sins: 2018 Spectacle Art Auction UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through June 9, utahmoca.org Teresa Jordan Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, 801-364-8284, through June 8, phillips-gallery.com The Veil SLCC Eccles Gallery, 1575 S. State, June 8-July 13, calendar.slcc.edu Watercolor Walks Draw INC Gallery, 752 Sixth Ave., June 12, 7-9 p.m., drawinc.org

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and bustle of any big-city deli, and its interior décor strikes a clever balance between the rustic-hip refurbished look— a big-ass rolling library ladder set to reach coffee bean dispensers 15 feet above the ground—and the crafty, DIY flourishes artfully arranged on every surface that isn’t accommodating someone’s meal.

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I’m talking about The Robin’s Nest (311 S. Main, 801-466-6378, robinsnestslc.com), which has rightfully earned its place as one of downtown Salt Lake’s most revered sandwich shops. Owned and operated by SLC native Robin Paluso and her family, Robin’s Nest strikes a unique tone among downtown lunch locales. It’s got the hustle

hen taking stock of any American city’s food scene, you’d be hard-pressed to find a food genre as ubiquitous as the sandwich. It’s something that’s available in every gas station and grocery store, and it’s one of those items that quite literally everyone can make for themselves. In short—they were here before we were born, and they’ll be here long after we’re gone. The reason I want to impress upon you the sheer vastness of sandwich options consumers have, is so you can better appreciate how hard it is to make one that inspires dozens of lunchtime diners to waiting in a line that often spills out onto the sidewalk.

shout-out to their combo meals, which are far more than just chips and a drink—though that’s always an option. The side of pasta salad is a refreshingly subtle mix of orzo, pine nuts and shredded basil tossed in olive oil—it somehow manages to complement each sandwich perfectly. Perhaps my favorite part of the combo meal is the fact that it comes with dessert in the form of cookies, brownies or Bundt cakes. Why more places don’t offer dessert with their combo meals is beyond me, and I love that the Nest has that covered. As a dude who has eaten sandwiches far and wide, I feel confident in saying that The Robin’s Nest is playing a game all its own, and it’s working. Not only is their menu spectacular, but their whole vibe emanates nothing but respect for the food they’re making—and the people they’re making it for. CW

In a sea of delis, Robin’s Nest sings its own sandwich song.

($3.25; $4.95), but those who are looking for a bit of sophistication with their gobs of melty cheese should look to the Gouda Smoker ($6.25; $8.25). Working with a foundation of roasted turkey breast, bacon, lettuce and tomato is always a good start, but this sandwich has made me realize that smoked Gouda should occupy a more central role in our grilled cheese zeitgeist. Topping the sandwich off with a housemade garlic barbecue spread resonanates with the smoked flavor of the Gouda and adds a hint of garlicky sweetness for good measure. I don’t often order roast beef sandwiches at delis—I’m a bit particular about how liberally the sliced meat is seasoned, and most places tend to screw it up—but The Cowboy ($5.95; $7.95) is a home run. The roast beef has the slightest hint of black pepper, which enhances the meat’s natural flavor. It also parties quite nicely with the acidic dill pickle and the light bits of fennel seed from the marble rye, which makes the whole thing taste like a classic Reuben by way of the Wasatch Front. It’s a small gripe, but I did find myself wanting just a bit more horseradish to hit me from its accompanying spread. The sandwiches are the stars of the menu, but I have to give a quick

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Service is prompt and friendly, typically delivered by Robin’s son, Josh, who is often handling the front of house orders. Despite the deluge of hungry customers who swarm the deli counter from open to close, his delivery is never robotic or rehearsed—he makes each order feel like you’re about to eat the best thing you’ve ever had. Also, it doesn’t hurt that he’s got the hair and cheekbones of a Gucci model. Perhaps the reason that Josh is always so confident in his delivery, is that the stacked menu on the wall behind him contains some of the most creative spins on classic sandwiches that I’ve ever seen. Like the restaurant’s look, each sandwich has a balanced mix of old-school flavor combined with nuanced, deliberate rule-breaking. For example, The Heritage ($6.25 half; $8.25 full) pays obeisance to the holy trinity of Italian deli—genoa salami, mortadella and capicola ham—but serves it all up with melted provolone and a housemade olive spread packed between two thick slices of sourdough bread. Ask them to throw a bit of balsamic vinegar on that sucker, and you’ll be ready to stand up and sing like Pavarotti. Grilled cheese fans won’t be disappointed with The Grill Me Cheesy

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Perhaps one of the most mysterious structures to pop up at The Gateway during its continuing evolution, The Hall of Breakfast (12 S. 400 West, facebook.com/hobslc) is finally opening its doors to the public. According to its Facebook page, The Hall of Breakfast is an “interactive pop-up experience celebrating everything about breakfast, from the trivial to the transcendent.” The breakfast-inspired art installation kicks off its month-long showcase on Saturday, June 9, where bacon buffs and egg enthusiasts young and old can enjoy the aesthetic beauty of the most important meal of the day. General admission is $20 for adults and $15 for children, and advance tickets can be purchased from showclix.com.

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The dream of the ’90’s is alive at Gracie’s (326 S. West Temple, 801-819-7565, graciesslc.com) this weekend as they revisit the era of grunge and gangsta rap with the I Love the ’90’s Bash. Far from just a gathering of flannel shirts and Doc Martens, this particular celebration of nocturnal nostalgia is a full-on bar crawl with downtown pubs such as Quarters Arcade, Johnny’s on Second and Wasted Space on board. Once participants register, they get a souvenir mug for their drinks and participating bars waive their cover charges while slinging some ’90’s-themed drink specials. Registration opens at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 9, at Gracie’s. Check facebook.com/graciesbarslc for an updated list of participating bars.

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eer shouldn’t be difficult. It was never meant to be more than a basic staple to get you through the day while helping take the edge off. But as beer has become more of a luxury, it’s becoming more complicated. With the advent of barrel aging, specialized flavorings and yearlong naps in oak, some beers tend to get a bit … fussy. Now don’t get me wrong: I love complicated every once in a while. But for everyday drinking, simplicity rules. This week’s two beers are simple; they might taste complicated, but that’s just a tribute to their craftsmanship. 2 Row Chasing Haze: 2 Row Brewing has perfection issues when it comes to their beers. Every IPA that comes out of their Midvale brewery has to be better than the last. It’s this internal struggle that guarantees innovation and promotes competition. This Northeast IPA has unleashed more game-changing flavors that will

alter the way people perceive Utah beer. It pours an opaquely hazy medium-orange/ amber color, with two fingers of dense, soapy foam that clings to the inside of the glass. The aroma provides big tangerine, grapefruit, peach, papaya, mango, guava and light pine. Every whiff lights up the senses. The taste doesn’t disappoint, either; a huge fruit salad awaits, combining grapefruit, orange juice, peach and papaya. Once the fruity shock calms down, you’re able to pick out some nice cracker notes barely perceptible through the malt sweetness. From there, the hop fruitiness reasserts itself, adding another course of mango, melon, guava and citrus zest. The finish adds minimal pine, along with some spicy herbal bitterness. Zero warming alcohol is present in this 6.5 percent juice bomb. Overall: This is an incredibly wellconcocted Northeast style IPA. Its allaround amazing complexity, robustness and balance of insanely juicy, with lightly dank hops and balanced bready malts creating a smooth and insanely easy-to-drink beer. It’s an amazing offering, and a perfect style example. Bohemian Lagerpalooza Best of Show Pre-Prohibition Lager: Lagerpalooza is Utah’s preeminent lager-only home brew competition. Every year, Bohemian Brewing collaborates with the best-of-show beer and produces a limited batch to be sold at the brewery. This beer was developed by

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Everything is fresh at this inexpensive, funky eatery, from the tortillas and salsas to the tamales and tacos. It’s been around longer than most local restaurants, and looks like someone transported a taco shack from a Baja beach right into Cottonwood Heights. This cool and kitschy place features cold Mexican cervezas served in glass cowboy boots, and a rockin’ house sound system. The only thing missing is sand. The mahi-mahi fish tacos with cilantro aioli are wildly popular, and the zippy jalapeño-spiked guacamole is addictive. The burritos are good, too, but it’s really all about the tacos here. Flip-flops are optional. 2265 E. Fort Union Blvd., Cottonwood Heights, 801-944-2300, lstaq.com

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“Freestyle Asian cuisine” is what Shabu restaurant owners and brothers Kevin and Bob Valaika call what they do. There’s a lively bar scene where sushi and sake are consumed by happy patrons, and in the dining room, Shabu Shabu is a popular favorite, where customers have the opportunity to play chef: It’s a sort of Asian-style fondue, where patrons dip ingredients (meat, seafood, veggies) from a bento box into an assortment of hot, freshly made broths (Thai coconut or traditional). Effectively, you cook your dinner yourself at your table. It’s a fun way to dine, not to mention delicious. If you’d prefer to have the chef cook for you, try the citrus-plum sea scallops, coconut-crusted tofu or macadamia-crusted mahi-mahi. If you’re so inclined, be sure to try one of Shabu’s signature saketinis. 442 Main, Park City, 435-645-7253, shabupc.com

The Other Place 20 W. 200 S. • (801) 355-3891 Open Mon-Wed: 9am-6pm Thu-Sat: 9am-9pm

This classic, friendly restaurant specializing in Greek and American comfort food has a bevy of longtime loyal customers who come in for the renowned marinated steak and eggs and the seasoned, knowledgeable service team. Generous portions are standard here, whether you’re in the mood for a savory lamb dish, a platter of Greek mezedakia, soup, pasta, a sandwich or a sweet serving of housemade baklava or rice pudding. There are also tasty gyros and kebabs to be had, and breakfast is served anytime. 469 E. 300 South, 801-521-6567

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First Reformed finds Paul Schrader brilliantly tackling his favored themes of faith and obsession. BY DAVID RIEDEL comments@cityweekly.net @daveseesmovies

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Ethan Hawke in First Reformed see it on the big screen, there will be black bars on the sides; that’s intended.) There’s also the film’s setting, upstate New York during a cold, flat, bleak winter. There’s little sunlight; on overcast days, the glare seems as if it will make Toller’s already narrow eyes compress themselves into slits. The sparseness of the locations— Mary’s home is nearly devoid of furniture; Toller’s room has only a twin bed and a desk; even the town megachurch, Abundant Life, is empty whenever Toller visits it—further illustrates the hollowness of Toller’s life, and therefore the ease with which he slips into an ill-advised cause (see also Schrader’s Hardcore for a less polished rumination on a similar theme—or don’t). First Reformed finds Schrader writing about all his favorite themes—obsession, faith and how they can destroy us—with a heretofore-unparalleled command as director. Hawke does the best acting of his career, and he’s equaled by Seyfried, Ettinger and Cedric (The Entertainer) Kyles. It’s the film Schrader’s threatened to make since the 1970s, but has failed to—until now. CW

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possibility of cataclysmic global climate change. When he learns his wife Mary (Amanda Seyfried) is pregnant, he takes his own life rather than bring a child into a decaying and dying world. Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) has counseled Michael to no avail, but their conversation has renewed Toller’s faith. Toller, a bit of an emotional wreck himself—son who died in Iraq, failed marriage, cancer diagnosis—decides to pour his energies into Michael’s cause, studying climate change websites and taking back to his church the suicide vest that Michael was building in his garage. It should come as no surprise that Toller begins to fall to pieces as his obsession grows. And without giving away too much plot, it surprises me that it’s taken Schrader more than 40 years as a filmmaker to show mortification of the flesh on screen in such sectarian fashion. If my description of First Reformed seems morbid, that’s because the movie is indeed morbid. But it’s made with such skill and restraint, with an ending so unexpected and so earned, that it deserves multiple viewings, especially by those of us who have struggled with faith or been consumed by grief or political causes. But there are funny moments: At Michael’s funeral, his ashes are ironically spread from a plastic bag. To accompany Toller’s downward spiral, Schrader and cinematographer Alexander Dynan have composed a film with a boxlike aspect ratio, as if they want you to feel the walls closing in on Toller. (When you

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ith First Reformed, there’s finally a movie that lives up to the hype that has surrounded Paul Schrader since roughly 1976, when Taxi Driver—which he wrote and Martin Scorsese directed—put him on the list of writers to watch. Since then, for each objectively good or even great movie he’s written—Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Affliction, Raging Bull, American Gigolo—he’s pumped out dog shit at more regular intervals. Maybe his spotty track record is a result of studio interference. Schrader’s previous gig as both writer and director on 2014’s Dying of the Light was taken from him by the studio. 2016’s Dog Eat Dog, which he directed but didn’t write, received the most limited of limited releases, and it’s easy to see why: Most film studios don’t want to see some guy’s head blasted off with a shotgun, especially when that exploding head is in the same room as a sleeping baby. (Maybe these studio execs never saw the last 10 minutes of Taxi Driver.) But you should know what you’re getting with Schrader. This is a filmmaker who fires on all thrusters whether the material is wretched or sublime. Take First Reformed, which tackles one of Schrader’s favorite recurring themes: faith taken to such obsessive extremes that it nearly turns his characters mad. It, too, has an exploding head. Fortunately, the head in question is removed from its body off-screen, and is appropriately played for horror and sadness, unlike in Dog Eat Dog, where it’s supposed to be high-sterical. In First Reformed, the head in question belongs to Michael (Philip Ettinger), a young husband consumed with despair over the

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NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net FIRST REFORMED BBBB See review on p. 33. Opens June 8 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R) HEREDITARY BBB.5 Horror as a genre exposes whether or not a director has “it,” and first-time feature director Ari Aster absolutely has “it” in this thriller about a woman named Annie (Toni Collette) who is dealing with the recent death of her mother when she begins to

see spectral apparitions, and her family multiple fresh terrors. Lurking around the edges of Aster’s story are metaphors for parents who fear what they might pass on to their kids—like mental illness—but the thematic stuff is almost incidental. This is simply one creepy-ass piece of filmmaking, as Aster shows off an exquisite sense of where to put the camera so that, e.g., something unspeakable lurks in a dark corner of the frame. And he’s savvy enough at setting up his narrative and sound design so that a seemingly innocuous noise like a clucked tongue becomes a harbinger of doom. Hereditary gets a bit needlessly expository during its climax, and there’s some pacing fat that could stand trimming. It’s absolutely worth that extra time, though, to put yourselves in the hands of someone who understands how cinema can inspire profound unease. Opens June 8 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Scott Renshaw HOTEL ARTEMIS [not yet reviewed]

POINT BREAK At Tower Theatre, June 8-9, 11 p.m. & June 10, noon. (R)

MARY SHELLEY BB.5 There might ultimately be a message of female empowerment in this biopic about Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, but it still feels like rote prestige drama for too long. The focus is on just two years in the life of Mary (Elle Fanning), as she’s sent away to Scotland in 1814 at the age of 16, meets married poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth) and proceeds on an unconventional, sometimes tragic path toward the publication of Frankenstein. Director Haifaa Al-Mansour (Wadjda) crafts a strong foundation for Mary’s independence and rebellious streak—built on the feminist writings of her late mother—and Fanning’s performance makes it clear that this young woman is nobody’s victim. Yet while Al-Mansour finds some visual spark in the montage focusing on the writing of Frankenstein, full of exploding ink droplets, too much of the rest of the narrative succumbs to the biopic trap of ticking off Wikipedia entry bullet points. When a feverishly lurid version of this origin story like Ken Russell’s Gothic exists, you can feel the need for a jolt of electricity. Opens June 8 at Ogden’s Art House Cinema 502. (PG-13)—SR

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MOUNTAIN BBB Jennifer Peedom follows up her marvelous doc Sherpa with a very different perspective on the most soaring elements of our planet’s geography. It’s a meditative contemplation on the allure, mystery, provocation and danger of the world’s highest peaks— as places, but also as ideas. The perceptive, poetic narration, voiced by Willem Dafoe, is full of beauty—the “siren song of the summit”; “the mountains we climb are the mountains of the mind”—but also snark. We see show-offy extreme athletes who helicopter up mountains and snowboard down avalanches, for the Instagram likes and the lulz, highlighting how we are “half in love with ourselves and half in love with oblivion.” There’s an intriguing thread to the narrative that peters out too quickly, about how our cultural relationship to mountains has changed over recent history, from places to be afraid of and avoided to places we embrace and challenge ourselves in. But that’s a minor quibble. The stirring score by violinist and composer Richard Tognetti helps create a wonderfully visceral cinematic experience that thrills the senses and provokes the intellect. Opens June 8 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—MaryAnn Johanson

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Near-future story of a members-only medical facility serving the criminal underworld. Opens June 8 at theaters valleywide. (R)

OCEAN’S 8 [not yet reviewed] A thief (Sandra Bullock) puts together an all-woman team to pull off a jewel heist. Opens June 8 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME At Main Library, June 12, 7 p.m. (G)

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ADRIFT BBB It begins in medias wreck, as 24-year-old Tami (Shailene Woodley) awakens on a foundering pleasure boat in the middle of the Pacific; the narrative then alternates back and forth between Tami meeting and falling for Richard (Sam Claflin) in 1983 Tahiti, and survival attempts after a massive hurricane. The result of this achronological narrative choice is a story that focuses on the relationship between two wandering, lost souls who have found each other, as director Baltasar Kormákur (Everest) conveys the stark reality of Tami and Richard’s situation without making the experience a grueling procedural, while the screenplay avoids a foot-tapping wait for the inevitable tempest and its aftermath. Add a performance by Woodley that captures everything from grittiness to abject despair, and you’ve got a disaster story that gives you a reason to care about who lives or dies. (PG-13)—SR

BEAST BBBB A vulnerable woman, a violent man: We’ve seen this dynamic onscreen countless times before, but there’s nothing predictable about the electrifying feature debut of writer-director Michael Pearce. Moll (Jessie Buckley), a grown woman still living with her parents on the Channel Island of Jersey, meets Pascal, who’s a little bit dangerous, a little bit exciting. Could Pascal be responsible for the dead teenage girls local TV news keeps going on about? Pearce hews so intimately to Moll’s perspective that we are inevitably on her side, but maybe we shouldn’t be, as we slowly learn about some terrible behavior in Moll’s past. Beast keeps us endlessly on edge, wondering just what to make of Moll, maybe even to whom the title might refer. If we enjoyed a broader range of messed-up women onscreen, she might not feel so revelatory a character. (R)—MAJ

UPGRADE BBB In the near future, Grey (Logan Marshall-Green) is left a quadriplegic after a carjacking in which his wife is killed. Then semimad computer genius Eron Keen (Harrison Gilbertson) offers to implant a computer chip in Grey’s spine that will allow him to walk again—and before you can say, “I know where this is going,” the A.I. chip is helping Grey avenge his wife’s death. What Upgrade lacks in originality—you’ll spot plot points cribbed from The Terminator, Robocop, Brazil and Colossus: The Forbin Project—it makes up for in nifty fight scenes that culminate in super-nasty, sometimes nauseating violence from writer/director Leigh Whannell (Saw). It also has some sharp visual tricks up its sleeve to alleviate feelings of déjà vu and help you forget MarshallGreen is a poor man’s Tom Hardy (and Gilbertson a poor man’s Dane DeHaan). (R)—David Riedel

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Caroline Rose mixes the personal and political on genre-bending, multitude-containing Loner. BY NICK McGREGOR music@cityweekly.net @mcgregornick

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on). “You can’t really tell if I’m jealous of the man or the woman [in ‘Animal’],” Rose says. “But it’s still relatable—and if I’ve experienced it, chances are somebody else will have experienced something really similar. When you’re writing, it really has to come from an honest place or else people can tell right away that it’s not legitimate.” Surprisingly, Rose says it isn’t exhausting to put so much of herself on the line—even if Loner’s drawn-out life cycle did wear her down. “It wasn’t easy putting this record out. I would never say it was un-fun, but the process was really daunting. I tried to collect songs written over the course of several years that represented all the different sides of me as a person into a composite that sonically blended a bunch of genres. That made it difficult to create a cohesive album where all the songs sound like they arrived at the same party together.” Still, Rose’s self-described “bricolage” approach works, both on record and on stage. Nearly all of her North American shows since Loner’s February release have sold out, and after another quick run across the U.S. in June (including her first headlining date ever in Salt Lake City), she’ll head off on a maiden voyage to the U.K. and Europe. “I’m still kind of pinching myself that things are going so well,” she laughs. CW

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lthough it took Caroline Rose four years to write, record and produce her sophomore full-length album, Loner feels very much of this moment. Hyperkinetic songs about catcalling, capitalism and unchecked misogyny burst from the record’s seams, chewing up considerable creative ground. “Money” revs its gothabilly into overdrive, “Getting to Me” orchestrates its heartbreak over symphonic R&B, “Soul No. 5” improbably blends street rap and surf rock and “More of the Same” bounces along on burbling synth-pop. In short, Loner is a far cry from Rose’s early work in the rootsy Americana vein. Handling nearly all of the songwriting and instrumental duties while mixing and engineering the record with producer Paul Butler, Rose says Loner is the most accurate documentation of her own schizophrenic personality. “I wanted to create something that really felt like the whole me,” she says. “All of the different mood swings, the humor, the sadness, the sarcasm and the joy.” Rose’s aesthetics contain multitudes, too. Decked out head to toe in red, she’s set Loner’s standout singles to kaleidoscopic mini-movies in which she portrays multiple characters while enlisting fellow queer, body-positive and non-binary friends to add visual power to her skewering of stereotypes. The most recent video, for “Bikini,” mixes the flamboyant absurdism of Almodóvar (blank-faced women smiling while they fumble with their instruments) with a manic game-show-host-on-shrooms lounge singer (played by Rose) imploring the ladies to “Put on this little bikini/ And dance!” “I often have those kinds of visuals in mind when I write a song,” Rose says. “And after three months of touring, it’s translating well to the live stage, too. I can control the narrative of how I want to portray the songs and portray myself.” Rose and her band spent months working on the live show, taking notes how to improve their performances. “The main thing is that we go to lengths to make sure the live show is a completely different experience than listening to the record—a lot more thrashy and spontaneous,” she says. “That brings the album to life far more.” Of course, there’s no shame in riding high on the laurels of glowing reviews from The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and Out. “It’s incredibly validating to know that the hard work that went into Loner is paying off,” Rose says. “I’m knocking on wood right now, but I have yet to see a bad review. And that’s crazy because I was out of the game for four years trying to figure out exactly how to build my music career and my identity.” Although Rose says she’s managed to exert complete creative control over the artistic side of her burgeoning career, she does express frustration at the way certain business dealings have unfolded. “It never ceases to surprise me how both annoying and error-prone the music industry can be,” she says. “My eyes are much more open to making sure that I have full control over how my career is dictated to the audience.” The audience is responding, too. Rose regularly receives intense personal messages about fans’ reactions to songs like “Jeannie Becomes a Mom” (about an unplanned pregnancy) and “Animal” (about the all-consuming jealousy of watching an old flame move

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Samba is Brazil’s version of American jazz and blues—a mishmash of art forms based on black culture that was adapted from rural roots and updated for the increasingly urban 20th century. When migrants from the northern Brazilian state of Bahia flooded into Rio de Janeiro, samba exploded in both popularity and stylistic nuance, spawning samba associations that soundtracked Brazil’s thriving Carnival culture. Like jazz and blues in the United States, samba was originally derided as primitive and unworthy of critical acclaim. But wildly popular bands like Grupo Revelaçáo, which formed in Rio’s Engenho Novo neighborhood of favelas in 1991, brought the irresistible rhythm to the masses, earning the quintet deals with international major labels like BMG and Universal Music and record sales north of 10 million units. So why is it so hard to find reliable information en Inglês about Grupo Revelaçáo on the internet? Even the band’s translated Wikipedia page lists its members’ names simply as David, Mauro Júnior, Rogerinho, Sérgio Rufino and Beto Lima. Playing the acoustic guitar, banjo, tantan and pandeiro while singing samba’s signature impassioned vocal harmonies, Grupo Revelaçáo is the real deal—Brazilian music not for The Life Aquatic hipster crowd swooning over Seu Jorge’s David Bowie covers, but instead Brazilian music for Brazilian audiences hungry for an authentic taste of home. As event organizers Brazucas Fest SLC claim, “This concert will be a turning point to the Brazilian event market in Utah.” Get in on the ground floor and dance the night away. (Nick McGregor) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $35, 21+, thecomplexslc.com

FRIDAY 6/8

The Atlas Moth, Mustard Gas and Roses, Heretic Temple, Pinewaller

No, not just any atlas moth—The Atlas Moth. Putting “the” in any title makes it, well, official. Otherwise, if you search “atlas moth,” you’ll end up with a giant confused moth that wants to be a butterfly (but don’t we all?). Chicago’s dream-sludge/post metalers The Atlas Moth (again, not the insect) continue to spread their wings and evolve their musicianship, making the band’s moniker a perfect fit. Metalheads and extreme music devotees strive for new inspirational tunes to jam out to, and thankfully The Atlas Moth delivers a breath of fresh air for the underground crowd. They pay tribute to film noir and historical cults on their most recent album, the four-years-in-the-

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making Coma Noir, produced by the great Sanford Parker of Prosthetic Records. The band dances on the brink of darkness and spirituality, easily producing the most underrated metal album of the year thus far. Although Coma Noir reigned supreme on Billboard’s Top New Artists and Current Hard Music Albums charts, the band has mainly served as co-headliners with bigger names in rock and metal. But 2018 is apparently the year of the moth, with The Atlas Moth delivering a gnarly lineup to the West Coast, teaming up with L.A. wasteland indie rockers Mustard Gas and Roses, who bring an avant-garde style to the stage in support of their 2016 album Becoming. So come for the moths and stay for the tunes. (Rachelle Fernandez) The Loading Dock, 445 S. 400 West, 6:30 p.m., $12, all ages, loadingdockslc.com

Zeds Dead, Bro Safari, Spag Heddy, Armnhmr, Shlump, Lick

If you dig electronic dance music, Salt Lake City is the place to be this weekend, when the second annual Deadbeats Tour rolls into The Great Saltair. EDM heavyweights Zeds Dead have rocketed to mainstream success during the past two years, translating their triumphant Toronto-based thump into worldwide exposure thanks to big hits

Grupo Revelação like “Too Young,” which features lyrics from both Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo and trap superstar Pusha T. That hearkens back to Dylan Mamid and Zachary Rapp-Rovan’s early days as insular cross-pollinators, mixing hip-hop, bass and alternative rock into a spooky, sumptuous EDM blend. But Zeds Dead possess far more than just an ear for hooks: The duo released it 2016 debut album Northern Lights on its own Deadbeats imprint, adapting the label to today’s nonstop touring environment. The Deadbeats Tour presents a mini-festival in each city, patterning itself off the Mad Decent Block Party spearheaded by mega-producer Diplo (another Zeds Dead collaborator). Along with Zeds Dead, this stop features Bro Safari, Spag Heddy, Armnhmr, Shlump and Lick, along with interactive fan elements like the Deadbeats Arcade, live graffiti art, food trucks, merchandise pop-ups and more. How big of a deal is this tour? A month after this show, The Deadbeats ship heads to the fabled Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado for two consecutive shows. (NM) The Great Saltair, 12408 West Saltair Drive, 8 p.m., $35, 18+, thesaltair.com

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For the past 15 years, Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog has produced its own particular version of fuzzed-out, psychedelic-tinged indie rock. But now, in an effort to master subtle dynamics, they’ve eased into a softer, slower sound on their new album, Critical Equation, which allows more room for their unique instruments and voices. A live energy permeates the record, as well, due in part to working with producer/engineer Gus Seyffert in Los Angeles. With Seyffert helming the project, Dr. Dog was able to take a hands-off approach and focus on playing as an ensemble rather than wading deep into enginerering minutiae, which guitarist/vocalist Scott McMicken is famous for back in his Philadelphia studio. Seyffert also lent Critical Equation a rich pre-rock ’n’ roll aesthetic that’s more in line with Frank Sinatra and old-time cinema. For example, the third track on the album, “Buzzing in the Light,” is a gorgeously rendered dreamscape over which co-vocalist Toby Leaman waxes poetic on the mysterious depths of the universe. It’s a slow and spacious song, and also a good indication of Dr. Dog’s new sound. How this new approach translates to

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the live setting is another matter, however. Dr. Dog’s shows have always been louder, more expressive and generally more ampedup versions of their records, but you can expect the band’s upcoming gig in SLC to be a lot less sweaty than on previous tours. That’s because they’ve committed themselves to creating emotionally powerful but sonically chilled-out tunes. (Howard Hardee) The Depot, 13 N. 400 West, 8 p.m., $26 presale; $28 day of show, depotslc.com

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Bluegrass bands from Colorado are a dime a dozen in these Americana-obsessed days. But Golden’s Thunder and Rain present a different take on the age-old formula: mix trad grass, modern folk, classical chops and heaping helpings of pop, then watch as audiences connect on an emotional level. Originally formed when guitarist and vocalist Erinn Peet-Lukes moved from Brooklyn to the Rocky Mountains, Thunder and Rain coalesced over the next few years around the considerable talents of Ian Haegele (upright bass), Chris Herbst (dobro and lap steel), Dylan McCarthy (mandolin) and Natalie Padilla (fiddle). Last year’s full-length Start Believing was written by Peet-Lukes and former band member RP Oates, but its high-gloss sheen should lead to greater success. Early reviews for Start Believing reference touchstones like Dixie Chicks and 10,000 Maniacs, which used roots in country and folk to catapult themselves to a more marketable echelon. Thunder and Rain are poised for a similar jump—if a band that spent two summers working on a dude ranch in Wyoming can put out a record this polished on their own, imagine what they could do with some major-label support? For now, Utahns can experience Thunder and Rain on their June tour, which kicks off with a stop in Rye Diner & Drinks’ intimate listening-room environs. (NM) Rye Diner & Drinks, 239 S. 500 East, 6 p.m., $10, all ages, ryeslc.com

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With a psychedelic sensibility planted somewhere between Sun Ra and Son Volt, The Flaming Lips have long been Oklahoma’s best-known band, bequeathing the Sooner State with its own unlikely phenomenon. Led by the intrepid Wayne Coyne, the Lips’ fame is mainly due to their stunning mix of unceasingly compelling melodies, progressive posture and celebratory onstage presence. Both on record and in concert, the band teeters between the brilliant and the oblique, delivering strange lyrics and stranger song titles while Coyne regularly encases himself in a bubble that carries him over adoring crowds. It’s an oddly insurgent attitude, buoyed by a dedicated fan base and a slew of critical kudos—among them three Grammy nods and a BRIT Award—accrued during the upward ascent of a 35-year career. Indeed, landmark albums such as Clouds Taste Metallic (1995), The Soft Bulletin (1999) and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002) attest to The Flaming Lips’ remarkable prowess. Even so, their penchant for unpredictability makes them hard to nail down; apart from the aforementioned references, elements of early Pink Floyd, Soft Machine and Robyn Hitchcock often enter the mix. They’re certainly one-of-a-kind—weird, wonderful and never given to compromise or commercial considerations. No wonder, then, that The Flaming Lips continue to fire up a collective cheer, kicking off Ogden Twilight’s 2018 summer series. (Lee Zimmerman) Ogden Amphitheater, 343 E. 25th St., 5 p.m., $10 presale; $15 day of show; $50 VIP, 24tix.com Cowboy Karaoke (The Cabin) Karaoke (Willie’s Lounge) Karaoke w/ Johnny Irish (The Union Tavern) Karaoke w/ DJ Benji (A Bar Named Sue) Karaoke w/ Zim Zam Ent. (Funk ’n’ Dive) Live Band Karaoke (Club 90)

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In light of this grace cling too fiercely to your dignity, because that would interfere period, I have some advice for you, courtesy of author Anne Lamott: “You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. with your full enjoyment of the cathartic cosmic gift.) You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, a little was then.” Surrender to the sweetness, dear Aquarius. extra egotism might be healthy for you right now. A surge of super-confidence would boost your competence; it would also PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): fine-tune your physical well-being and attract an opportunity Between you and your potential new power spot is an imaginary that might not otherwise find its way to you. So, for example, 10-foot-high, electrified fence. It’s composed of your least chariconsider the possibility of renting a billboard on which you put a table thoughts about yourself and your rigid beliefs about what’s giant photo of yourself with a tally of your accomplishments and impossible for you to accomplish. Is there anything you can do to a list of your demands. The cosmos and I won’t have any problem deal with this inconvenient illusion? I recommend that you call on with you bragging more than usual or asking for more goodies Mickey Rat, the cartoon superhero in your dreams who knows the difference between destructive destruction and creative destructhan you’re usually content with. tion. Maybe as he demonstrates how enjoyable it could be to tear down the fence, you’ll be inspired to join in the fun. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming weeks will be a favorable time for happy endings to sad stories, and for the emergence of efficient solutions to ARIES (March 21-April 19): convoluted riddles. I bet it will also be a phase when you can According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you would be perform some seemingly clumsy magic that dispatches a batch wise to ruffle and revise your relationship with time. It would be of awkward karma. Hooray! Hallelujah! Praise God! But now healthy for you to gain more freedom from its relentless demands; to listen to my admonition, Libra: The coming weeks won’t be a declare at least some independence from its oppressive hold on you; good time to toss and turn in your bed all night long thinking to elude its push to impinge on every move you make. Here’s a ritual about what you might have done differently in the month of you could do to spur your imagination: Smash a timepiece. I mean that literally. Go to the store and invest $20 in a hammer and alarm May. Honor the past by letting it go. clock. Take them home and vociferously apply the hammer to the clock in a holy gesture of pure, righteous chastisement. Who knows? 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Your underpants situation is a symptom of the bigger able exercise and reverential sex. Such veneration is always recomforces at work. Don’t worry about those bigger forces, though. mended, of course—but it’s especially crucial for you to attend to Ultimately, I think you’ll be glad for the renewal that will emerge this noble work during the next four weeks. It’s time to renew and revitalize your commitment to your soft, warm animal self. from the various turnabouts. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Mars, the planet that rules animal vitality and instinctual enthusiasm, will cruise through your astrological House of Synergy for much of the next five months. That’s why I’ve concluded that between now and mid-November, your experience of togetherness can and should reach peak expression. Do you want intimacy to be robust and intense, sometimes bordering on rambunctious? It will be if you want it to be. 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