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Via Instagram Asylum seekers are supposed to apply for asylum in the “first safe country” they enter which, except for Mexicans, is not the USA.

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Opinion, June 7, “Shooting the Watchdog”

It is extremely tragic that so many people in Utah are so stupid.

… Can’t wait till he’s out of there.

KC JULANDER Via Facebook

Give me a break. He will be hated and turned on in a nanosecond by the “they are taking our public lands crowd,” am I right? A conservative person will always be hated by the left no matter what that person does.

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It’s not the sand they’re forcing their heads up …

Then he should proclaim acts of mob violence against homosexuals an act of terrorism after the pride incident if he’s that serious.

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Dine, June 7, Robin’s Nest

Personally, I think he found out how bad people feel about him and he is trying to suck up. He is a crazy old man that needs to just stfu.

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Online news post, June 14, “Orrin Hatch: LGBTQ Hero?” Hell no!

CATHERINE MATTHEWS Via Facebook No, but I do give him credit for recognizing one of the most atrisk groups in the state.

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Walk Out to Stand Up

In light of much debate about teacher walkouts and strikes, what is it that is making teachers leave the profession? The Utah Education Association and local school districts have recently negotiated new pay scales for starting teachers. Of course the low standard of salary compared to the amount of education, licensure, professional development and endorsements that most teachers have is definitely one of the many reasons that make the profession of School Teacher such a difficult one to maintain. Teachers are known for their giving nature. They give their time, before and after school, on

weekends and over holidays to meet the needs of their students. They give their money, to supply their classrooms with engaging resources and supplies to meet their students’ needs. They give support to students and their families in endless ways such as feeding kids, listening to their stories and worries, providing a space where they feel important and safe, all while attending to their academic needs and making sure they master the State Standards … Oh, and one more thing: Now they must also be prepared to take a bullet. The systematic drainage of teachers’ time, money, energy and emotions attributes to high teacher turnaround in schools. This, however, is old news. A powerful motivation behind teacher walkouts is also the result of decades of being taken advantage of by a system that has preyed upon the ‘nature’ of their mostly female

workforce. Well, it is time for those who have been silent and kept their heads down for the sake of their students to speak up. The #metoo and TIMES UP movements have brought the conversation of equality and underrepresentation in the workplace into the spotlight. Teachers care. They care about their students and they have hope for their futures. Being complicit to a system that does not respect their efforts and abilities sends a damaging message to young female students. It is time to stand up and change the system. And by the way, Teachers are still willing to take a bullet for their students.

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Eat Goat

When I used to get the daily paper delivered to my home, the first thing I’d do was check on how my favorite baseball teams had done the night prior. First, to the American League East to determine if the New York Yankees had won their game, then to the National League Central to learn how badly the Chicago Cubs lost theirs. For most of my life, our Earth spun without chaos as the Yankees mostly won and the Cubs mostly lost. In the past decade, though, the Cubs started winning. As happy as I was for them and as a former Chicago resident living within walking distance of Wrigley Field, I sensed something was amiss. It was a good thing that the famous Sam Sianis curse had finally lifted and the Cubs eventually became World Champions, wasn’t it? Uh, maybe not. For the unwashed, Sianis was a Chicago tavern operator who loved the Cubs. His joint on lower Michigan Avenue, the Billy Goat Tavern, was near both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times offices, thus notorious for housing all sorts of newspaper and political characters. Sam owned a goat named Murphy. On game four of the 1945 World Series, he took Murphy to the ballpark to watch his beloved Cubs and you know what? Fans near to him complained and Sam and Murphy were asked to leave. Furious, Sam (perhaps armed with a Greek evil eye) laid a curse on the team. The Cubs lost the World Series. That wasn’t the end of it. They’d keep on losing for 71 years. Meanwhile, Sianis gained fame when his tavern became the inspiration for the famous Greek Diner sketch on Saturday Night Live. All was well in the world until 2016. That fall, the Cubs

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overcame a 3-1 defeat against the Cleveland Indians and rallied to a World Series victory. The baseball world went nuts. Who couldn’t cheer for the lovable Chicago Cubs? Well, not counting the residents of those great apartments on Waveland Avenue that now have their view of Wrigley blocked by giant electronic billboards … progress, bah! The final game was played on Nov. 2, 2016, and the curse was finally lifted. But, wait. Just one week later, another dark horse won. Donald Trump, born just one year after Sianis delivered his curse, overcame 70 years of his own failures and was pronounced the winner of the 2016 presidential election. Despite a life defined by strings of bankruptcies, five draft-dodging military deferments, three marriages, a sexual bimbo-rama crossing multiple continents, no hair to speak of, a vocabulary purchased at a low grade private school, ego-validating hobnobs with C-grade personalities, dependency on Russian banks for funding, surrounding himself with a moat of ambitious legal and financial morons, and so on, Trump defeated the only person on the planet who could lose to him, Hillary Clinton. America has us Cubs fans to blame or thank for President Trump. He should be thankful to the Windy City—had the Cubs lost any of those three final games, he could not have become president. That’s how curses and karma work. But, ever ungrateful, Trump dumps on Chicago every chance he gets. That’s not a reflection of Trump being unaware of karmic curses—he is, and we know that because even he is acutely aware that if he had no money, he’d have no friends. Rather, it’s a reflection of his full disdain for all things Barack Obama. Big O is a Chicago guy. The city is collateral damage as a result. So is the rest of the world. Trump has a very simple game plan. Undo everything Obama. It’s like the man saw only one movie in his life (and

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misunderstood, that, too). In the 1932 Marx Brothers flick Horse Feathers, Groucho Marx reflects his own presidential philosophy in the song, “I’m Against It.” The second verse goes, “Your proposition may be good, but let’s have one thing understood: Whatever it is, I’m against it. And even when you’ve changed it or condensed it, I’m against it.” That, right there, is the Trump Doctrine. That’s how future historians will define this era of American life. At a time America desperately needs a Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt or Reagan, we instead get an Adams—as in Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the president of Huxley University (played in the movie by Marx). Wagstaff also hired complete idiots to do his bidding. He’s Trump with a funny bone, ever distracting attention, always covering his mistakes with one even greater, ever fudging the truth. One might say that Trump stole the Wagstaff playbook if not for that sniggling fact that Groucho was a clever wordsmith and Chico and Harpo were harmlessly funny. As near as can be determined, Trump has never uttered a clever phrase nor laughed out loud in his entire life. Sad. He’s a liar and the press lets him lie. When he’s not lying he’s winging it. His own staff has no idea what he’ll do or say next. Yet, he has plenty of support. There’s no point in regarding them as hicks, dummies, fascists or racists. Not spoken, but Hillary had plenty of stereotypes in her own camp. We’ve come to express our political support the same way we support the Yankees or Utes—by hating the Red Sox or Cougars. We root for our team and despise the other guys. When the Cubbie curse lifted, the Trump curse arose. There is but one solution: Tonight, I’m going to barbecue a goat. You’re welcome. CW Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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We were going to say, “OK, he’s a sonofabitch,” but then commenters beat us to it, calling him an “a-hole” and a “jerk.” That’s Rocky Anderson, former SLC mayor and probably not the man you want to work for. But let’s talk #realnews. That some selfrespecting women would not want to work for him is probably not front-page news. A couple of former city employees, including former City Councilwoman Deeda Seed, won judgments for working in that “hostile environment.” That was in 2005. Anderson isn’t mayor anymore and wasn’t accused of sexual improprieties. Just because The Salt Lake Tribune has a story doesn’t mean it’s worth Page One and two inside pages, with people singing his praises or denigrating his style. Inside, on page B3, is the story, “Former Mormon Primary teacher charged with sexual abuse.” Who do you think had a bigger impact?

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Jay Evensen of the Deseret News had a great argument for having more kids. Really. Think Social Security, the labor force, paying off the national debt—stuff like that. He thinks we should find a way to encourage having more children, and of course, raising them well. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Utah has seen a steady increase in population since 2011, and is expecting a wave of people by 2050, for whatever reason. There is a critical lack of affordable housing, home prices are out of sight and rentals are sending people farther into the suburbs. Mega-mansions are not the answer and high-rise living is becoming an expensive option that isn’t for everyone. The rush to bring in big businesses and people is more about money and less about quality of life, the air and the water supply. Utah needs to start thinking systemically—now.

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The organic activism that followed the Stoneman Douglas shootings in Florida shows that youth can have an impact. If you are between 14 and 19 years old and want to have your voice heard, join the Youth Leadership and Activism Conference. It’s about grassroots organizing—no adults allowed. Conference organizers hope to see all students, especially those of color, LGBTQ, low-income, undocumented and other marginalized youth attend. It’s apparent that the future of the country rests with the young, and their activism is our hope. University of Utah College of Social Work, 395 S. 1500 East, 801-581-6192, Saturday, June 23, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/2Jsz0ET.

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Too bad Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn’t in town. We know he’d like to visit World Refugee Day in a celebration of the diversity welcomed by our country. Or not. Yes, Sessions has now said people fleeing domestic or gang violence have no right to seek asylum in the United States. Still, many have—some 60,000 refugees had settled in the state in 2016. Utah, which has a long history of welcoming refugees, will be acknowledging their contributions. There will be a citizenship ceremony, a Spice Kitchen food festival, games and a global market. Fairmont Park, 1040 E. Sugarmont Drive, Saturday, June 23, 10 a.m.4 p.m., free, refugee.utah.gov.

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STRAIGHT DOPE Inside Out The outside shape of mammals is symmetrical: limbs, eyes, ears and nostrils arranged on either side of a central axis. Why are the contents of the abdomen arranged asymmetrically? —Emy Amstein

Take a look at a car sometime, Emy. As seen from the sidewalk, nearly all the elements are laid out symmetrically, but pop the hood and it’s a free-for-all in there. And to an overwhelming degree, animal physiology has shaken out the same way. Natural selection doesn’t work from blueprints, of course. In effect, though, the operating principle for human and most other animal bodies seems to be that symmetry prevails where it’s useful, but no further. In creatures as in Chryslers, external bilateral symmetry—a trait shared by 99 percent of the world’s animal species—just makes sense. Most obviously, it’s good for locomotion: it helps us walk, run, swim, or fly in a straight line, pivot quickly and reliably, etc. But there are plenty of further theories about the adaptive nature of the external body plan, as it’s called: some relate to partner selection (a more symmetrical appearance could imply better genetic well-being), others to self-defense (symmetrical placement of the eyes means that a prey animal doesn’t have a blind side). Once within the abdominal cavity, however, aerodynamics and attractiveness count for zilch. It makes for a more efficient body to have the inner workings crammed in as compactly as possible, symmetry be damned, and in fact that’s how they evolved. Again, it’s the same as with cars: on the outside it’s about interfacing with the environment; inside, it’s about optimized use of space. But there’s another question here: what causes the organs to actually grow asymmetrically in the developing body? Bilateral symmetry is the default condition for most organisms, the state we all start out in. The nascent human embryo is symmetrical, and remains so until . . . something happens: first the heart makes its way to the left and develops asymmetrical features of its own; the liver and stomach rotate into place on the right and left respectively; and so forth. This process, known as left-right symmetry breaking, is directly observable in the viscera at around six weeks, but how it all gets going was something that had been bugging scientists for ages. As one developmental biologist put it to The New York Times regarding the difference between left and right, “I know what it is, you know what it is, but how does the embryo learn what it is?” Only in the last couple decades has anyone been able to zero in on an answer. Symmetry breaking seems to originate in an embryonic region called the node; in mice (subjects of the key research into this topic), the node is a notch on the embryo’s outer surface where the cell walls are lined with hairlike structures called cilia. Typical cilia just wave or whip back and forth,

but, as reported by Japanese scientists circa 2005, these nodal cilia twirl around clockwise, and they’re attached to the cell wall at a slight tilt, and together that’s enough to direct the fluid surrounding the embryo in a leftward direction. It’s still unclear exactly what happens next: it might be that some unidentified molecule in the fluid acts as a chemical trigger that’s distributed unevenly over the embryo, or the embryo might react to the directional force of the flow itself. But either way, certain key genes are then expressed on the embryo’s left side but not the right, and the organs begin their asymmetric growth. Anything going haywire with symmetry breaking, therefore, can result in abnormal development, as demonstrated in experiments from 2002: embryonic mice with nonfunctioning cilia grew organs situated at random; when other mouse embryos were exposed to fluid pumped in the wrong direction, their left-side-specific genes wound up expressed on the right side of their bodies. These are, as you might guess, serious medical issues, making this all a fairly important line of inquiry. Figuring out the mechanics underlying the symmetrybreaking process will help doctors understand human congenital afflictions like heterotaxy syndrome, in which left-right troubles result in organs being doubled, misshapen, or nonexistent. This can manifest as any of various malformations of the heart, in conjunction with other defects like asplenia (no spleen, which is supposed to be on the left side) or polysplenia (spleens on both sides); misaligned intestines; or annular pancreas, where the pancreas wraps around the small intestine and chokes off the passage of food. The symmetry-breaking problem you’d want, if you had to have one, is what’s called situs inversus totalis, in which organs develop in the chest and abdomen in a perfect mirror-image configuration. Here, because everything is correctly formed and positioned relative to everything else, it’s really no big deal in terms of down-theroad complications. In fact it can go undetected until a doctor does a stethoscope exam, at which point the double-takes ensue. If you’ve always figured that at least your heart’s in the right place, it can be a real shocker to find out it’s not. n

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there should be a discussion to determine who participates in the parade, based on a set of “fair and agreed upon criteria that will be applied across the board.” “I think the important aspect of this is it’s being open to dialogue, it’s being open to understanding the realities of a [nonprofit] organization, and being open to what those people who are living on the fringes are experiencing,” Moolman says. “It’s a balancing act.” As for the issue of representation on the center’s board, the South Africanborn Moolman calls that a “tricky question. What does diversity look like that is not tokenism?” He hopes a public dialogue has made people think about becoming board members, since there’s an open call for board members on the Pride Center’s website. Moolman says he initially felt the letter’s wording seemed confrontational, but once he talked with the group, he saw “the care for the center that was there, that was not articulated in that letter.” McDaniel says she has no qualms with the perception that she forced a dialogue. “This isn’t the first time the conversation has been started with the Pride Center,” she says. “We’re just moving this conversation out from behind closed doors because there was no progress being made. There were maybe some people nodding their heads, but no one was doing anything,” she says. Although the Utah Pride Festival is over, celebrations continue across the country for the remainder of June. “I think it would be really cool to see other Pride Festivals start to have these conversations,” McDaniel says. “People need to start speaking out more, sharing ideas about how to start these conversations.” CW

allowing Chase and Wells Fargo to be sponsors, it was important to allow the banks to participate so they could celebrate their LGBTQ employees. “Part of the Pride Movement has been, as Harvey Milk said, for people to ‘Come out, come out,’” Moolman says, emphasizing that the more people and organizations participate in Pride celebrations, the better. Moolman ended up marching with Queers Divest on the parade route. “Him marching with our group says a lot about him,” McDaniel declares. The group staged a die-in—a demonstration in which participants lie on the ground, as if they’re dead—a few blocks into the parade, to underscore how the banks are allegedly killing members of their communities with their economic policies and funding of companies that engage in environmentally harmful practices. Carl Moore, chairperson for Peaceful Advocates for Native American Dialogue & Organizing Support and Salt Lake City Air Protectors, offered a prayer song during the demonstration. Although not a member of the queer community, Moore says he participated because “when it comes to marginalized people, it’s important we stick up for each other.” McDaniel acknowledges that many of the letter’s authors are white, but “it’s our duty to call out white supremacy when we see it … People in these marginalized communities are doing this work all the time; they’re just living this experience. I just think it’s really important, whatever privilege you have, you need to use that privilege to make the world a better place for people who can’t speak for themselves, or are exhausted from speaking for themselves all the time.” Moolman says it’s too early to know whether the banks will be included in next year’s festivities. He acknowledges

More than 40 people and seven organizations signed the letter before the authors—most of whom are Caucasian, as noted in the letter—sent it to Pride Center leadership and local media. As of press time, 118 people have attached their name to an online petition. Utah Pride Center executive director Rob Moolman met with Queers Divest members the week of Pride—local media called him for comment, McDaniel says, so the center “had to pay attention. They couldn’t ignore it”—and heard them out, offering them a spot in the parade ahead of Chase Bank and Wells Fargo. “One of my roles as executive director is to make sure I am listening constantly, and trying to learn more about the important issues that affect both our communities and other marginalized groups, and to try to understand practical ways we should, or could, step in,” Moolman says. Moolman called the banks and discussed their options. Wells Fargo released a statement to City Weekly saying the bank remains “committed to Utah Pride and other local and national LGBTQ organizations, and we look forward to collaborating with them to explore how we best partner moving forward.” JP Morgan Chase replied with a similar sentiment, and added that they “believe that reducing inequality and creating widelyshared prosperity requires collaboration of business, government, nonprofit and other civic organizations,” adding that they aim to “maintain a culture that provides equal opportunities to all, and treats all of our employees, customers and members of our communities with equal dignity and respect.” Moolman stresses that corporations have made “incredible strides” in terms of their internal policies and support of the LGBTQ community, and that, aside from the financial benefit of

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usy week be damned, Hillary McDaniel knew it had to be done: the letter needed to be read. “It wasn’t just something to wait until after Pride and say, ‘We’ll do it next year,’” McDaniel, the Utah Pride Festival’s entertainment director, says. “We feel like the corporations we’re talking about really only care about the LGBT community during Pride Week.” Addressed to “Utah Pride Center Leadership and Whom it May Concern,” the letter calls on the center to “immediately divest from Chase Bank and Wells Fargo as well as retract their parade entries for the 2018 Pride Center and the indefinite future.” Alleging the financial institutions engage in discriminatory lending practices, the one-page message states the banks “have a history of exploiting communities of color, propping up companies that monetize the destruction of our environment, defy and reject indigenous sovereignty and exploit the poor and undocumented.” The letter also calls for more diversity on the center’s board of directors. If more people of color or members of indigenous communities had been on the board, McDaniel says, “these corporations wouldn’t be in the parade.” “It’s important to source our community funding from the community, and what represents the social justice interests of the community, not simply those folks who are economically empowered or members of racial majorities,” Jocelyn Johnson, the Pride Festival’s march and rally director, says. “When it was announced Chase and Wells Fargo would be in the parade, I just looked around and thought, ‘Why isn’t anyone outraged?’” McDaniel says. “When you’re trying to fight oppression, getting money from the oppressors is sort of a short-sighted strategy.” The letter’s evolution was quick: Calling themselves “Queers Divest,” McDaniel and five other members of the LGBTQ community wrote, sought feedback and sent the letter—all in a three-day time span—to the Pride Center’s leadership the Tuesday before the festival. “This was just a way to start a conversation,” McDaniel says.

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In a debate over city documents, the Jordan River Restoration Network’s years-long battle over GRAMA and its cost could come to an end. By Ray Howze | rhowze@cityweekly.net |

The problem: Those documents never were released. The sticking point: Waiving the city’s GRAMA fees—estimated in the hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars—to provide the documents.

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The quest: Thousands of records Salt and his group, the Jordan River Restoration Network, are seeking under GRAMA regarding construction of the now-operational Regional Athletic Complex in North Salt Lake.

On a recent afternoon, Salt sits inside a local cafe, sipping a 16-ounce coffee. His smartphone remains in his chest pocket. What’s more noticeable, though, is what’s missing from the tabletop—notes, documents, a laptop, perhaps. For the next 90-minutes, Salt recounts—all from memory—15 years of the sports complex’s history and details of the legal battle with Salt Lake City for public records. At the heart of Salt’s pursuit is GRAMA , also known as the Government Records Access and Management Act. It’s the state’s public-records law and details how the public can request documents with the aim of transparency and accountability. However, the law contains a few caveats regarding fee waivers.

GRAMA generally pops up in news when outlets such as City Weekly request documents. However, it’s not just for media. The public, such as Salt and his environmental-advocacy group, can make any types of requests they like. For Salt Lake City government entities, those requests jumped from 2,390 in 2014 to 14,202 in 2017. Salt’s case, however, is only one of a handful that end up going to trial— much less make it all the way to the state’s highest court. Salt believes his lawsuit could set a precedent for future public records requests, whether cities grant them and whether they’ll charge a fee for those requests. Thousands of dollars have also been spent on lawyers for both sides. He also admits his lawsuit is somewhat moot. Between the time of the 2010 request and March

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Whether the conversation’s about the Jordan River or developments on the Great Salt Lake, his name almost always pops up—the recent Northwest Quadrant debate comes to mind. But on and off for the past 15 years, Salt has been on a different crusade that’s gone all the way to the Utah Supreme Court.

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“If Salt Lake City wins this case, this will set precedent for all other government entities, whether it be a city or county or state agency.” —Jeff Salt

of this year when the Supreme Court heard the case, the athletic complex has been built and many have moved on. Except for Salt. “If Salt Lake City wins this case, this will set precedent for all other government entities, whether it be a city or county or state agency,” Salt says. “They can use this same strategy to stonewall and prevent the public from gaining access to documents about sensitive or controversial projects—it could be requests for police records; it could be requests for an expensive public project.” The city called the Jordan River Restoration Network’s request “voluminous.” It originally consisted of three single-line spaced pages seeking all sorts of information and included 21 separately numbered requests, some with as many as 15 sub-parts. As part of GRAMA , requesters can claim the records are meant for the public’s interest, as Salt did, and ask for a fee waiver. In addition, Salt’s request included the words “nonprofit organization, information for public good and education, not used for profit.” If the government agency agrees, the fees required to produce those records can be waived. However, when it came to JRRN and SLC, it was a little more complicated than that, partly because of the dearth of records requested. “ We wanted everything because we wanted to understand what the hell is going on here,” Salt says. “ We wanted to share that information … so we could mobilize the public to participate in the upcoming hearings.” City council hearings, attended by Salt and JRRN, started back in 2003. JRRN claims they wanted to know everything that went into the center’s site selection in addition to what already had been made public. The land previously was owned by the state and lies along a Jordan River floodplain. Additionally, they wanted to know about the city’s alternative-site analysis. Salt says JRRN wanted to know more about why other sites, such as one in West Jordan, were not selected. “ We wanted any site plans, any studies, any engineer drawings, budgets,” Salt says. “ We wanted emails between elected officials and lobbyists and the Utah Youth Soccer Federation and Real Salt Lake.”

The Complex The $15.3-million facility at 1900 West and 2200 North initially was approved in a bond election in 2003. It took years before the facility was completed, and required an additional $7.5-million pledge from former RSL owner Dave Checketts. The complex consists of 16 fields that can host soccer, youth football, rugby and lacrosse events. The project faced a number of hurdles in completing the project. A September 2015 Salt Lake Tribune report cited “political jockeying, bickering and various lawsuits [that] slowed the process to a grinding halt.” In 2010, lawyers for JRRN filed a complaint regarding the city’s bond that had been approved eight years prior. In January 2011, city attorneys filed a petition asking a judge to validate the bond, but JRRN officials contended city residents and taxpayers were not given adequate notice of a February 2011 hearing when a judge gave the bond the final OK. Karthik Nadesan, JRRN’s lawyer at the time, said the notice should have been printed in the Deseret News or The Salt Lake Tribune instead of the Intermountain Commercial Record, according to a 2011 Deseret News report, which also called JRRN’s move an “unorthodox lawsuit.” “ What it means is the people of Salt Lake City did not have the opportunity to show up and invalidate the bond—none of them knew there was a hearing,” he told the D News. The bond was validated, and seven years later, the project is complete and fully functional. At one point, JRRN had four active lawsuits against the city and one against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Salt and his group was interested in knowing more. If the city was going to complete the request, though, city employees would have to search as many as 12 departments and 58 employees’ files, according to court documents.

The Request Salt Lake City gets thousands of GRAMA requests each year. Some, according to city spokesman Matthew Rojas, can be completed in about 15 minutes, the amount of time which the city is legally required to waive fees. If they find out a request will take significantly longer, that’s when things can get tricky. “Requests that are significantly large or require a tremendous amount of staff time to compile the information—and oftentimes some information needs to be redacted because there’s personal information in there—that takes time,” Rojas says during a phone interview. “In those situations, we do ask the requester to pay the small fee.”

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Campbell was asked by JRRN to be an expert witness during a 2014 trial. However, he notes, the court did not allow him testify, citing his lack of a law degree. He did write a multi-page opinion on the case, though, that outlines how SLC’s decisions could create a “chilling effect” for other public-information requests. “This, to me, sends the wrong signal to anybody, saying, ‘ Well, Salt Lake did this,’” Campbell tells City Weekly. “ To me, this sets the wrong example or precedent as far as, ‘ Yes, maybe [appealing the fee waiver] won’t help you in court, but it does lend credence to whomever—anyone from the local mosquito abatement to Salt Lake County.’ It’s going to say this is where we stand.” The state’s Supreme Court could release its ruling any time in the coming months. Whether it’s considered a “win” for the city or the public might not be as much of a concern now, since the complex is up and running, but both sides say they’d appreciate having a little more legal input on how a city decides whether to waive fees. Margaret Plane, an attorney with the city who has previously worked on the case, says they would certainly “welcome more legal guidance” in granting fee waivers. This case just might do that. Or, possibly muddy the waters more. “ We think this [decision] will send a chill factor in the public and prevent them from moving forward and trying to get access to records,” Salt says. “If you have to go to district court and pay for lawyers, that’s another disincentive for the public. “In this case, the strategy is the city sued us, so we had to come up with lawyers. So, who, normally, would have tens of thousands of dollars to pay lawyers if you get sued in order to get records that you’re looking for? It’s an impediment

After the convoluted series of appeals, the city and JRRN finally made it to the state Supreme Court, which is now debating much of these prior court and board decisions and other questions raised. “The value [in this case] is what did the best legal minds in the state of Utah have to say about our law and its interpretation and its application in public access cases with fee waivers and just the idea of public interest,” Campbell says. “That’s what I would be looking for, because I’m hoping that we have some language in there that could bolster [the public’s] cases in the future to the State Records Committee or a local government to say, ‘Hey, this is what the Supreme Court said.’ That’s always good, right?”

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The city charges $11 per hour, Rojas says, for the longer GRAMA requests. That money goes into the city’s general fund and is meant as a way to “recoup the city’s time spent” on the request, he says. JRRN asked for a fee waiver, saying that releasing the documents was in the public’s interest. The city’s own records appeal board, which is no longer in place, ordered the city to release the records and waive the fee. It also allowed the city up to 45 days to retrieve the records—an extra 30 days. This decision left both parties unhappy. They both appealed. “As a general proposition, release of documents concerning plans for the athletic complex would have benefited the public, and not any one person,” according to a 2015 Findings of Fact from Salt Lake’s 3rd Judicial District Court. Under previous city administrations, a no fee-waiver policy was in place. But, as Joel Campbell, a former Deseret News staffer and current journalism professor at Brigham Young University, pointed out, that policy was not well understood. “ While there may be disagreement about whether the soccer complex should be built, there should be no disagreement about the public interest in records and the justification for a public-interest fee waiver, albeit a partial one,” Campbell wrote in a 2010 piece for the Trib. “ To be sure, if Salt Lake City officials really believe in transparency, they will match their actions with their words.” “The judge ruled that our request was over the top,” Salt says. “[It was] the biggest request the city had ever received and that it was too much of a burden on the city to copy all of these documents, so the fee waiver was denied.” GRAMA’s statute also says, “A government entity may fulfill a record request without charge and is encouraged to do so when it determines that ... releasing the record primarily benefits the public rather than the person.” According to the court’s Findings of Fact, “The process follwed in this case by SLC to reach ts decision [to deny the fee waiver] was less than ideal.” However, citing the city’s policy to use its discretion in granting the waivers, the Findings of Fact also stated, “It is not for the Court to second-guess the exercise of SLC’s reserved discretion unless the totality of the circumstances shows the denial to be unreasonable.” During the appeals, the city produced about 6,500 physical documents for JRRN. The city also requested a $200 deposit when it denied the fee waiver initially. Salt said accepting the $200 fee would set a precedent for future requests from his group.

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to access to public records and that conflicts with the legislative intent of GRAMA .” A lot of JRRN’s legal work is done pro bono, Salt says. Campbell’s opinion also lists a number of reasons the city should have considered a fee waiver for all of the records, including: government-owned land was involved in the case; the development raised important environmental issues; the nature and size of the project warranted extraordinary public scrutiny; and the use of tax dollars and associated economic risk was implicated in the project. Any story about GRAMA wouldn’t be complete without mentioning two other high-profile cases. First, there’s the Deseret News v. Salt Lake County case from the late 2000s where the newspaper sued the county to obtain a report on sexual harassment allegations against a county clerk employee. The state Supreme Court decided there was a “legitimate public interest” to release the report. A few years later in 2011, Utah lawmakers tried to cripple GRAMA with 2011’s failed House Bill 477—a piece of legislation that would have exempted the Legislature from GRAMA as well as increased fees for records requests and removed language that promoted openness. That bill was inspired by Kevin Tolton of Alta, whose 2002 case involved 250,000 records, tens of thousands of dollars in fees and numerous appeals until it landed in 3rd District Court. The case was finally dismissed in 2009 when Tolton didn’t bring up any more challenges, but questions lingered about how a small city like Alta should handle such voluminous requests. Even before HB477, the Tolton case sparked proposed changes to GRAMA . For example, in 2005, a committee considered a proposal to allow cities to deny requests it deemed “harassing or otherwise unreasonably increasing the workload or causing unwarranted expense.” To the benefit of open records advocates, none of the efforts to modify the law succeeded. But some people intimately familiar with GRAMA say this recent row between Salt Lake City and JRRN hasn’t moved the needle much. Salt Lake attorney Jeff Hunt, who worked with open

records advocates on HB477 and has a long history with First Amendment and media law around the state, says that while his firm, Parr Brown, Gee & Loveless, did not take on the case, that’s “not saying it’s not important.” “ You don’t want the public to be priced out of public records,” Hunt says. “That’s the concern with fee waivers that are unreasonably denied … it becomes a real issue when you’re trying to get information for the public to get information for the public interest and you can’t get it because you can’t afford it.” Salt says for the most part, his group has been alone. No media organizations attended the oral arguments in March. No other environmental groups have expressed interest, too. But he says he’s still worried an unfavorable ruling could send a message for future GRAMA requests. “It’s really about the public’s right to know how government is being run,” Salt says. “That’s part of GRAMA—that there is a constitutional right for the public to know how their government is being run and decisions are being made and how money is being spent. That’s why we made the request in the beginning and that’s still our primary fight.” While Rojas says the city recognizes the need to be transparent, he also understands a minority of the requests can take a long time and they want to know how to best respond to them. “Our own city policy is to have a lower [hourly] fee,” Rojas says. “ We want to balance transparency and public access to this information, which is a valid need, with being able to compensate the city for time spent while city employees are going through that information.” Rojas also points out that if they took the 15 minutes necessary to respond to a request (the time it is supposed to waive), and combine that with the more than 14,000 requests the city received last year, it comes out to about 88 weeks of work. He says the city tries to work with requesters to limit what they’re looking for and make it easier to produce. Oftentimes, the city tries to turn those requests around in two weeks. “It’s not a matter of it being free,” Rojas says about the larger requests. “At the end of the day, the city is not recouping a tremendous amount of money

when we’re charging and it’s well below what it’s costing the city to fill it—we do want to get these out in a timely manner.” JRRN, Salt says, wasn’t sure exactly what to ask for; hence, why they asked for as much as possible. These fishing expeditions are where requests often can become “voluminous.” As Campbell wrote in his 2014 opinion for the court, JRRN “did not have an obligation to ‘narrow’ its records request. “It has been my experience as a records requester, that requesters often can’t narrow their request because they don’t know the records that exist in the first place,” Campbell writes. “Salt Lake City was asking JRRN to participate in an impossible game of ‘guess what we have and then narrow your request of the unknown.’” Campbell also points out these citizen-advocate groups are important for the public moving forward as newsroom sizes shrink. With smaller newsrooms, residents like Salt will need to stay vigilant. “The issues are still important in our state because if a citizen’s group—sometimes the media has a little more caché—but if a citizen thinks something bad is happening in their neighborhood, for example, on the west side, I have a hunch that some people out there are going to want to file GRAMA requests about what the state’s up to and what’s going on with the prison and the whole west side development,” Campbell says. “If I live out there, I ought to be able to file this request and not get this response. “I hope for the future, have we learned anything from it? [Mayor Jackie] Biskupski and her team is on the outside looking in, but what about the state, the Legislature?” Documents regarding the prison relocation and the Northwest Quadrant are two topics groups similar to JRRN could request under GRAMA in the coming years. If they find themselves in a similar situation to Salt’s—a more than seven-year court battle—this ruling due sometime in the coming months could be a deciding factor, he says. “If we win, we win big for everyone,” Salt concludes. CW

Stand-up comedy is hard enough; now imagine having to depend on someone else to share the timing so the jokes don’t fall flat. Of course, if you’re going to attempt such a thing with an on-stage partner, it helps if you have that “twin thing” going for you. St. Louis natives Jason and Randy Sklar have spent nearly 25 years building a varied comedic career in which their shared goofiness is greater than the sum of their goofy parts. In acting gigs, they often share appearances, as they have on shows ranging from Grey’s Anatomy to It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia to Better Call Saul. They have also woven their love of sports into many of their jobs, including regular guest-host spots on the nationally syndicated Jim Rome Show or their late, lamented ESPN series Cheap Seats, in which they provided Mystery Science Theater 3000style commentary on vintage sports clips. But they’re still at their finest when sharing a stage, doing stand-up routines that make the most of their back-and-forth, “finish each other’s sentences” banter. Their gift for playing off of each other is evident in a YouTube clip from Nerdist’s “Set List,” in which comics are required to improvise jokes based on topics provided on the spot. A prompt of “New STD Kickstarter” leads into a raucous routine. “The Kardashians are like America’s herpes,” Randy begins; “we have to lie to Europe about them.” “And hope that Europe doesn’t get the Kardashians. Because if they did, we’d be like, ‘Shit, look at Canada, that wasn’t us.’” (Scott Renshaw) The Sklar Brothers @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, June 22-23, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $20, wiseguyscomedy.com

WWE Live SummerSlam Heatwave Tour It’s easy to dismiss professional wrestling as low-brow entertainment. The over-the-top costumes, the cartoonish villainy and heroism, the fact that the fights and outcome are choreographed—it all adds up to baffle those unfamiliar with the culture of WWE. So, what is it that draws thousands upon thousands of WWE fans to see big-budget performances like the WWE Live SummerSlam Heatwave Tour coming to West Valley City’s Maverik Center? Well, it’s likely the level of performance commitment required to blend reality and fiction inside and outside the ring—a process known in the professional wrestling world as “kayfabe.” Or, as the philosopher Roland Barthes once put it, “Wrestling is not a sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of Suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.” This might be a bit melodramatic. But it does seem to get to the heart of what makes professional wrestling so popular, even when we know it’s all an act. Fans can see some of their favorite rivals battle it out, cheer the heroes and boo the heels in the Heatwave Tour. Featured in this year’s performance are a slew of superstars, all from the WWE Raw programming, including former WWE Raw Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss, the athletic and occasionally demonpossessed Finn Bálor and the villainous Roman Reigns (pictured). Doors open at 6 p.m. and parking is $10 per vehicle. (Kylee Ehmann) WWE Live SummerSlam Heatwave Tour @ Maverik Center, 3200 Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-988-8800, June 23, 7:30 p.m., $20-$105, maverikcenter.com

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If you’ve seen one circus, haven’t you seen them all? Not necessarily—and no matter how many you’ve seen, they never fail to dazzle and delight. Cirque Italia is no exception, and with their latest presentation, Water Circus, they’ve emerged as one of the most stunning circus spectaculars yet. Offering incredible pyrotechnics, aerial acrobatics, creative choreography, clowns, contortionists, jugglers, skaters, lasers and even delightful dinosaurs—but no captive animals—it’s performed on a stage with a giant tank filled with 35,000 gallons of water. Featuring 30 talented international performers, it’s one of two aquatic-themed productions the company brings annually to some 50 cities in the U.S. alone, entertaining nearly two million people along the way. Founded in 2012 by Manuel Rebecchi, an Italian entrepreneur descended from a family of circus performers, Cirque Italia touts its transformative technology and what the promoters promise is high-end entertainment. The twohour spectacle showcases performers from the United States, South America and Europe, in a Vegas-style show dropped right into Utah. “Cirque Italia is such a unique experience,” says Morgaine Rosenthal, a high-wire performer and operations assistant. “The wide variety of acts from all over the world, all under our beautiful blue-and-white big top and performing on our amazing water stage, creates a mesmerizing universe for each and every audience member. It’s a magical setting that the whole family will enjoy.” So take some time to feel like a kid again. (Lee Zimmerman) Cirque Italia Water Circus @ Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, June 21July 1, dates and times vary, $10-$40, one child admitted free with each adult ticket, cirqueitalia.com

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What do you get when you combine a fundraiser for a local health organization, adult beverages and laugh-out-loud comedy, all in the month of June? Liberty, Laughs and Libations, where Planned Parenthood serves up an evening of signature cocktails, beer and cider, with jokes delivered by Emmy- and Grammynominated actor/comedian Tig Notaro. “This is a new kind of event for us; we’ve never done something this big, or brought in a well-known name like Tig Notaro before,” says Katrina Barker, communications and marketing coordinator for the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah. An as-yet-unannounced musical act joins Notaro for the main event, with both performances included in the $50 ticket. An additional $25 gets you access to that aforementioned alcohol, in addition to desserts and live music by Pixie and the Partygrass Boys at a pre-show reception. “It’s going to be a fun party, so I recommend coming to the reception,” Barker says, specifying that the event is perfect for “anyone who wants to laugh, have a good time and support Planned Parenthood.” On a more serious note, Barker explains, “All the money raised from this event will go directly to helping Planned Parenthood do political advocacy work here in Utah.” Which is work, she says, “we can’t do alone. We hope Utahns will come together for this fun night of laughs and libations to celebrate the important work Planned Parenthood does in Utah to help us all live our best lives.” (Casey Koldewyn) Liberty, Laughs and Libations w/Tig Notaro @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801355-2787, June 21, 6:30 p.m. reception; 8 p.m. show, $50-$75, artsaltlake.org

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Change of Art After 42 years, Utah Arts Festival keeps looking for ways to grow and evolve.

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fter more than 40 years as an annual summer institution, it would be easy for the Utah Arts Festival to settle into a comfortable rhythm. According to festival executive director Lisa Sewell, however, the only thing you can count on never changing about UAF, is that it will never stop changing. “We’re always trying new things,” Sewell says. “Is it challenging? Yeah. Would it be easy to do the same-old same-old? Well, yeah. But that would be really boring, and I wouldn’t still be here 23 years later. … Every year, there’s new angles and new ways to do things.” That doesn’t mean the festival is starting from scratch every year. Most of the components familiar to regular attendees are still in place. Booths showcase the work of 175 visual artists in every imaginable medium. Stages feature live performances by local musicians, dance organizations, comedians and spoken-word artists. The library auditorium hosts the Fear No Film shortfilm programs. Food trucks and stalls offer a sampling of wonderful local cuisine. Yet while the basic infrastructure remains consistent, there are also ongoing efforts to expand the idea of what falls under the festival’s mission, whether that’s the addition of the Urban Arts yard several years ago, or the growing presence of technology and “maker” opportunities. And there’s also an understanding that, in a world of ever-growing entertainment options at our fingertips, it might be necessary to make creative marketing decisions to reach every possible audience. That was part of the incentive for changing the nightly music headliners on the amphitheater stage—which had been included in festival admission in previous years—into a program called Arts Fest Amplified, with $25 tickets for acts like indie band Gomez, EDM DJ A-Trak, hip-hop artists People Under the Stairs and soulrock outfit St. Paul and the Broken Bones. While Sewell notes that the additional ticket charge is in part a way to budget for higher-profile acts than the festival might have been able to land previously, the change also gives UAF an opportunity to market specifically to the concert-going arts consumer. “It’s thinking outside the box as an organization,” Sewell says. “When we’re pre-selling—and a lot of concert-goers pre-buy tickets—with those we’re sending out information about the festival. They

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can see, ‘Oh, it’s not just going down to see Gomez in the evening, I can go and see all of this great art.’ It will be interesting for us, after the festival is over, to integrate the database of the concert people into our regular database, and kind of compare and contrast, to see how our audience has grown, new blood for us to talk to.” Additional opportunities to expand the arts audience come from visual artists who might catch the eye of younger attendees. Erik Jensen of West Valley City creates mixed media pieces from recycled computer keyboard keys; Todd Perkins of Denver, Colo., makes custom guitars, including one shaped like Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon; returning audience award-winner Justin Hillgrove of Snohomish, Wash., paints images including culturally familiar characters like Mario Bros. According to marketplace co-coordinator Matt Jacobson, recognizing the appeal of such artists factors into the way booths are situated, so there’s a chance to expand the reach of another artist. “[Hillgrove is] right in tune with this generation,” Jacobson says. “They flock to his booth. … It’s nice to know we have those kinds of artists who have that kind of draw. So maybe you put a wood artist next to that, … because they’re going to spill right in and go, ‘This is cool, I had no idea.’ … [Perkins’ Millennium Falcon guitar] is in the festival guide, somebody’s going to see that and go, ‘Oh, let’s look at this guy.’ And right next to him, let’s put a classically trained oil painter.” Nurturing the next generation of arts-

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lovers is always part of UAF’s mission, and Sewell hopes that attendees who might not otherwise experience a ballet performance or go to an art gallery keep that interest going into the rest of their year. “I talked to some friends of mine who brought their grandkids, and their grandkids finally get to see ballet, just sitting there mesmerized,” Sewell says. “That’s the hope we have, that you’re going to take that kid now and integrate them in some experience with art beyond their experience with the festival.” Expand and engaging that audience means always thinking of new ways to keep the festival vital, and provide experiences that get people out of their chairs and out to Library Square. “From my perspective,” Sewell says, “I’m always excited about how every year it’s different, and there are new things to explore. I’ve had some feelers out for other large spectacle acts, one that’s on my radar for 2019 and they’re going to be amazing. It’s like, ‘I’m already done with this year; let’s move on to 2019.’” CW

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In what must be a massive understatement, Jet Car racer Mark Stevens recently said driving one of those land-based, fire-breathing rocket ships is “a rush.” Uh-huh. Last month at Rocky Mountain Raceways an event known as “May Madness” rumbled to life with not only Summit ET Series racing on the Young Kia Drag Strip, but also NHRA Nostalgia Funny Cars, Top Dragster and Top Sportsman cars and of course, Jet Cars. Let’s face it, most of the above race cars will cause a person’s heart race to rise as they fire off the starting line. Likewise, the bigger, louder and more ferocious cars – the Jet Cars, included – draw all sorts of gasps, giggles and did-you-see-that expressions of unabashed joy. In other words, they’re “a rush.” Jet Cars are a huge draw at RMR. Aside from the occasional mechanical issue, they never fail to thrill the crowd. They came to RMR once this season, but they’ll be back for “Horsepower Heaven” on July 21. Stevens was asked what it’s like to blast off in a Jet Car, and he correctly noted that it’s a rush. He was also asked if he ever has any fear as he’s strapped inside his ride. “Not much fear, just a lot of respect for (the car’s power),” he said. Racing veteran Tony Franco, owner and driver of the Lucas Oil “Muy Caliente” Jet Car, also used the word “respect.” “Know your limitations,” he said, noting that his first pass at “May Madness” ended with him shutting his car down early. “When you get comfortable with the track and you know what you’re doing and looking for, then give it a little bit more if you’re up to it,” Franco explained. “If you’re not, shut it off. There’s always tomorrow. The last thing you want to do is hurt yourself or your opponent. We all have to go to work Monday.” Franco summed up Jet Car racing in two sentences. “We’re here to have fun, we’re here to show off,” he said. “Yeah there’s a little more competition when we have of other competitors we race against, but other than that it’s all about family life.” Franco also made a concerted effort to mention the young fans that come out to Jet Car shows. “It’s keeping the crowd happy, keeping the kids happy,” he said. “That’s our future. They’re our future. Without the kids, we’re nobody, we wouldn’t be here.”

“Rolling Into Spring” by Italian artist Sofia Bardella (pictured) alter traditional perceptions of quilting in the annual International Art Quilt Invitational Exhibition at Brigham City Museum Gallery (24 N. 300 West, 435-226-1439, brighamcitymuseum.org), through Sept. 1.

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Annie Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, through Aug. 11, dates and times vary, haletheater.org Candy and Dorothy Good Company Theatre, 2404 Wall Ave., Ogden, through June 24, Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 4 p.m., inthenowshows.com Cirque Italia Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, through July 1, Thursday-Friday, 7:30 p.m; Saturday-Sunday, 1:30, 4:30 & 7:30 p.m., cirqueitalia.com (see p. 17) Disney’s Newsies Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, June 25-Sept. 1, dates and times vary, hct.org Mary Poppins Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through June 22, dates and times vary, culturalcelebration.org Matilda Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, through June 29, dates and times vary, tuacahn.org Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella Tuacahn Center for the Arts, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, through June 30, dates and times vary, tuacahn.org Tuck Everlasting Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through June 23, 7:30 p.m., hct.org The Who’s Tommy Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, through June 30, Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinee June 23, 2 p.m., zigarts.com WWE Live Summerslam Heatwave Tour Maverik Center, 3200 Decker Lake Drive, 801-988-8800, June 23, 7:30 p.m., maverikcenter.com (see p. 17) You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, 801-298-1302, through June 30, dates and times vary, centerpointtheatre.org

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American West Symphony Free Pops Concert Sandy Amphitheatre, 9400 S. 1300 East, June 27, 8 p.m., americanwestsymphony.com

Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, through June 23, times vary, artsaltlake.org

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Brad Bonar Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., 801-622-5588, June 22-23, 8 p.m., 21+, wiseguyscomedy.com Free Kittens: A Stand Up Comedy Show Rye Diner & Drinks, 239 S. 500 East, June 22, 7 p.m., theurbanloungeslc.com Liberty, Laughs and Libations with Tig Notaro Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, June 21, 6:30 p.m., ppacutah.org (see p. 17) Ron White Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, June 23, 8 p.m., artsaltlake.org The Sklar Brothers Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, June 22-23, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 17) Steve Treviño Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, June 22, 8 p.m.; June 23, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Gregory Crouch: The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 22, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com J. Scott Savage Hunter Library, 4740 W. 4100 South, June 26, 1:30 p.m., slcolibrary.org Jim DeFelice: West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, June 26, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Liesl Shurtliff: Grump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 E., 801484-9100, June 21, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Poets of the Utah Arts Festival Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, June 22, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Sandra Dallas: The Patchwork Bride The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, 801484-9100, June 21, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

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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 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, through July 8, kimballartcenter.org In Her Own Image Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., through July 1, urbanartsgallery.org International Art Quilt Invitational Exhibition Brigham City Museum Gallery, 24 N. 300 West, Brigham City, through Sept. 1, brighamcitymuseum.org (see p. 20) J. Vehar-Evanoff: Adrift Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, through July 14, modernwestfineart.com Josh Samson: The Identity Project UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Oct. 13, utahmoca.org June Group Exhibition A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, through July 7, agalleryonline.com Laleh Ghotbi: Exploring my Artistic Side Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, through July 5, slcpl.org 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 Mark Santos: The Spirit of Dance Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through July 20, slcpl.org Our Sacred Landscape Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through July 6, heritage.utah.gov Out Loud: Mostly Human UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, 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 Vanessa Romo: The Practice of Standing Still Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, through Aug. 3, saltlakearts.org The Veil SLCC Eccles Gallery, 1575 S. State,through July 13, calendar.slcc.edu Virginia Catherall: Wearable Landscapes Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, through Aug. 3, saltlakearts.org Wren Ross: The Summons Has Reached Us Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, through Aug. 3, saltlakearts.org

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f I had the ability to do so, I’d make sure that every meal I ever ate came with a tall stack of flat carbs like naan, lavash or tortillas. Nothing brings me quite so much culinary joy as getting a generous pile of different flavors, colors and textures and stacking them up on a floppy piece of warm, floury goodness for a nicely composed bite. After learning that Ethiopian food eschews the use of utensils in favor of large portions of injera, a porous, pancake-like sourdough flatbread, I knew I was among kindred spirits. There’s nary a fork to be found at Mahider Ethiopian Restaurant (1465 S. State, Ste. 7, 801-975-1111, mahiderethiopian.com), and that’s a really, really good thing.

repertoire. For those looking to fully embrace the Ethiopian take on communal eating, consider gathering up a few pals who don’t mind getting their hands messy and ordering up the Taste of Mahider ($14.99-$39.99). It’s a bounteous platter of just about everything the restaurant serves up, plated on top of three gigantic slices of injera. It’s a reasonably affordable meal that allows for a quick international sojourn—at least as far as your taste buds are concerned. Keep in mind that feeding others at your table is an Ethiopian tradition that signifies love and endearment, so don’t be afraid to show some affection by stuffing some food in a loved one’s mouth. It’s easy to forget that, in addition to food’s more boring purpose of providing energy for our bodies, it’s also strongly tied to the way our minds process pleasure. There’s something unabashedly pleasureforward about Ethiopian food—the flavors and the interactivity create an experience that allows diners to have fun while experiencing another culture through its cuisine. CW

Fingers are favored over forks at Mahider Ethiopian Restaurant.

adds a tactile level of enjoyment to the entire event. Sure, the bread can get a bit soggy, and any structural weakness in whatever shape you’ve created tends to result in mass spillage, but there’s something liberating about not giving a shit if you get food all over your fingers in a restaurant. While I thoroughly enjoyed everything on my plate, it’s safe to say that I’m more a wot fan than I am an alicha fan. Both the chicken and beef wot were smoky, spicy and unexpectedly comforting. The vegetarian combo was also a home run, offering up smatterings of every vegetarian dish that Mahider has on the menu. Although many of the vegetarian offerings are made of lentils, split peas and cabbage, each dollop has its own party going on. I’m a fan of the gomen, which are spicy collard greens sautéed with onion, and the tikil gomen, tender tossed cabbage. Both of these offered up some textural diversity on a plate that largely consists of puréed legumes. Speaking of which, I would be remiss if I didn’t recommend Mahider for kids of all ages. My 11-month-old daughter was with us, and she was a fan of ater kik, split pea purée cooked with turmeric. I could see kids a bit older than her getting a kick out of a place where you’re expected to eat with your hands. Mahider even has a kids’ menu for parents who’d like to expand their progeny’s culinary

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As diving in to each separate dish is part of Mahider’s charm, their combination meals are a great way to try a little bit of everything before deciding which wot strikes your fancy. My wife and I opted to get the beef-andchicken combination ($11.99) and the vegetarian combination ($9.99) with a starter of sambusa ($2.99). The sambusa comes in pairs, and they’re only a hop, skip and a jump away from the samosa, though their starchy innards seem to favor lentils over potatoes. The lightly-fried pockets of dough are liberally stuffed with filling—beef, chicken or lentil—and they come with a sharp kick to the ass in the form of housemade jalapeño sauce. When our order arrived, I was a bit dumbfounded at the size of the dishes in front of us. The plates were completely enveloped by a pizza-sized slab of injera, upon which the different wots and gomens were aesthetically arranged like oil paints on an artist’s palette. The beef-and-chicken combination comes with samplings of doro wot (a marinated chicken leg cooked in a spicy stew), siga wot (a beef stew simmered in pungent berbere sauce) and siga alicha (another beef stew variant cooked in turmeric). It’s all garnished with some refreshing tomato salad and a housemade cottage cheese called ayib. The experience of tearing off a piece of injera and scooping up bits of everything

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had the pleasure of serving as a judge at the North American Brewers Association’s beer competition last month. One hundred-twenty-three judges analyzed 1,777 beers entered from 253 brewers from all over North America. Utah did extremely well; here’s what medaled from the Beehive State. Bohemian Brewery: Gold—Bohemian Dortmunder: Sweet, lightly-toasted malts/ grains, followed by honey with mild bitterness from the noble hops. Grassy and very light citrus. Crisp and clean. Silver—Bohemian Czech Style Pilsner: Hints of pine shine through. On the taste, it is a clean and crisp drink with a lingering bitterness. It is fairly dry and a bit hopforward for the style. Gold—Cottonwood Common: Starts off

with a mix of caramel and toffee malt notes as well as citrus, floral and earthy hops. There is a bit of spicy breadiness in there as well. Bonneville Brewery: Bronze—Antelope Amber Ale: Toasted grain, bread crusts, toasted nuts, a sort-of doughy malt, plus an apple flavor and nice grassy, floral and earthy hops with a spiciness that is just right. Epic Brewing Co.: Gold—Brainless Belgian-Style Golden Ale: Toasty malt with candy sugar, light under-ripe banana and spicy pepper followed by light floral hoppiness, finished with some boozy warmth. Bronze—Epic Imperial Stout: Roasted malts, slightly burnt smokiness, dark chocolate and coffee, followed by dark fruit sweetness of plum and prunes. Finishes fairly boozy. Hoppers Grill & Brewing Co.: Gold— This is the Pilsener: Herbal hops kick things off and grainy malts follow. The hop tastes turn grassy about halfway through, creating a dry finish. Kiitos Brewing: Bronze—Wheat Ale: A crisp wheat flavor mixed with a light lemon flavor. Some yeast, along with a bit of hay and grass, work their way onto the tongue toward the end. Moab Brewery: Silver—Moab Especial: Light caramel and toasted malts are present with notes of lemongrass. The finish is moderately dry with a dry piney finish. Proper Brewing Co.: Gold—Proper

Beer: The Belgian yeast hits first with cloves and light banana, followed by some lightly tart hay and grass. The dry finish makes it extremely light and drinkable. Silver—Tripel Stamp: The initial taste is almost banana-like, followed by herbal notes and a nice semi-sweetness throughout. It’s a fairly complex taste. Silver—Mabon: Banana and clove flavors dominate and work well with the sweet malt flavors in the lager’s base. These creamy elements provide a full-bodied feel. Red Rock Brewing: Silver—Secale: Malt forward with some spicy rye and residual fruitiness. These flavors work in concert with the vanilla and barrel flavors from the rye whiskey. It has a spicy and rich finish. Bronze—White Rainbow: This White IPA has strong orange and citrus up front, with a healthy dose of lemon zest and coriander. As you get mid-palate, it becomes slightly spicy and sweet. RoHa Brewing Project: Silver—Kensington: Toasted grains and burnt caramel lead things off, as charred cracker, musty hop notes and citrus rind balance it out. It ends with solid clove undertones. Shades Brewing: Bronze—Kviek No. 1: Sourness dominates the flavor with lemon and herbal notes and berry skins. Some citrus flavors, then piney hops and grain slide in for a dry finish. Silver—Misconception: Redolent of clove and caramel along with citrus and herbal

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genuine love that he inspired because on a young child’s primal level, they knew that this man listened to them and cared about them. This is why you might spend the majority of Won’t You Be My Neighbor? on the verge of tears, and not just because we get obviously heartstring-tugging moments like an episode in which Rogers had a wheelchairbound young boy named Jeff Erlanger as a guest. As perhaps obvious-in-hindsight as it might be to note that conservative commentators attempted to turn Rogers’ “you are special” message into a cause for the wimpification of America’s children, it’s always clear from Neville’s documentary how this ordained Presbyterian minister interpreted his Christian faith as a call to exalt individual dignity. Maybe Rogers wasn’t ready in the late 1960s to allow a member of his cast like the openly gay Clemmons to be seen in a gay bar, but he was an example of the idea that, as one interview subject here puts it, there was “another way of being a man.” The kindly gentleman who told us in times of difficulty to “look for the helpers” would never have had the ego to acknowledge that he was talking about himself. CW

voted to the way Rogers “used time differently,” not just by taking precious air time to change his shoes, but feeding fish, peeling an apple or changing a lightbulb. And there’s a recognition of the way Rogers could subtly impact the perception of his audience, as in a scene from a 1969 show in which he and the Neighborhood’s resident police officer, African-American actor François Clemmons, cool their feet together in the same wading pool. Plus, we see that he spoke to children about things even modern adults have trouble understanding, since the very first episode of Neighborhood involved King Friday building a wall around his kingdom out of fear of change. Beyond all that, there’s the kind of hagiography that feels both weirdly outof-place in cynical 2018 America, and completely earned. Neville paints Rogers as an American hero, one who built that heroism on something as simple as decency, and believing in the fundamental value of a child’s feelings. At the same time, the Neighborhood clips that Neville includes provide a reminder that Rogers’ show itself was often incredibly complex in its respect for the psychology of children. It borders on heartbreaking as we watch Daniel Tiger sing a song about wondering whether he’s a mistake, a selftalk that doesn’t disappear entirely even when someone reassures him of his worth. In archival footage of Rogers’ personal recollections of conversations with children, as well as filmed interactions between Rogers and live audiences of children, we see the

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Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net THE CATCHER WAS A SPY BB.5 When your movie revolves around the enigmatic nature of your central character, it helps to have an actor who’s comfortable with a mostly internalized performance. That’s not exactly the case with Paul Rudd, who stars as Moe Berg, a journeyman major league baseball catcher ca. 1923-1939 whose post-retirement career involved joining the OSS during World War II, and possibly taking on the assignment of assassinating German nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg (Mark Strong). Robert Rodat’s screenplay focuses on the World War II-era material, including a weirdly out-of-place battlefield sequence into the middle of what is otherwise a low-key character study. That character is a potentially fascinating one—a man perpetually out of place as an Ivy League-educated intellectual in baseball, as a Jew, as a closeted gay man—and Rudd does at times capture that discomfort manifested as fierce determination. But while the attempt to stretch his acting muscles is admirable, Rudd never entirely convinces as a guy who survives by keeping himself hidden from everyone. Moe Berg is an enigma, while the guy playing him merely seems quiet. Opens June 22 at Megaplex Jordan Commons. (R)—Scott Renshaw

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over again. If you’ve seen The Lost World: Jurassic Park—the 1997 sequel to 1993’s Jurassic Park—then you’ve pretty much seen this sequel to 2015’s Jurassic World reboot of the franchise. Once again, rich assholes want to “rescue” dinosaurs left behind after the park was abandoned (this doesn’t go well). Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt are somehow even blander this time around, but hey, the sequence in which the island’s volcano goes kerflooey and the panic that sets off among the humans and the dinosaurs to escape it is deliciously intense; see this in IMAX if you plan to see it at all. The promise that this movie was sold on—“Welcome to Jurassic world,” i.e., the dinosaurs are loose and rambling everywhere, no longer constrained on a remote island—is but one of several potentially intriguing sci-fi ideas that this middle-movie exercise in callbacks doesn’t have a lot of interest in exploring. It’s clearly keeping this one in reserve for the next film (currently due in 2021). Still: dinosaurs, right? Opens June 22 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—MaryAnn Johanson THE SEAGULL BBB When you’re working from a classic Anton Chekhov text, with a tremendous cast, it’s hard to screw it up completely. Director Michael Mayer and screenwriter Stephen Karam take on Checkov’s play set in 1904 Russia, as many characters gather at the country home of ailing Sorin (Brian Dennehy)—including Sorin’s sister Irina (Annette Bening), a successful Moscow actress, and Irina’s son Konstantin (Billy Howle), a struggling would-be playwright—for various romantic complications. Saoirse Ronan (as Nina), Elisabeth Moss (as Masha) and Corey Stoll (as Trigorin) are also standouts in a version that sticks close to the source material, allowing the actors to plumb the misery of Chekhov’s heartsick characters. As terrific as many

individual scenes are, however—notably Irina and Konstantin’s shifting dynamic after his suicide attempt—there’s a level on which Chekhov’s intimacy loses some potency in the transition from live theater to the screen (notwithstanding an experiment in filmed theater like Vanya on 42nd Street). You get to see some outstanding performances here by Bening, Moss and others, and now I just wish they’d take this show on the road. Opens June 22 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG-13)—SR WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? BBB.5 See review on p. 29. Opens June 22 at theaters valleywide. (G)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS BEUYS At Utah Museum of Fine Arts, June 27, 7 p.m. (NR) OUT OF MY HEAD At Main Library, June 26, 7 p.m. (NR) RUBEN & ED At Tower Theatre, June 22-23, 11 p.m. & June 24, noon. (R)

CURRENT RELEASES HEARTS BEAT LOUD BB.5 Nick Offerman plays Frank Fisher, a widowed one-time musician now running a Brooklyn record store, facing an impending empty nest as his daughter Sam (Kiersey Clemons) prepares to leave for college in California. Then the song they record together gains traction on Spotify, and Frank has visions of a family band. Offerman shows range as a doting dad trying to recapture a part of his life that seemed long-lost, but nearly everything in cowriter director Brett Haley’s film—except Ted Danson, glorious as a stoner bartender—is so feel-good wispy that it threatens to evaporate before your eyes. Virtually all the energy the movie can muster goes into the original songs, which are catchy enough to convey that the characters have talent. It would’ve been nice to transfer more of that passion to when characters were talking, rather than singing. (PG-13)—SR HEREDITARY BBB.5 First-time feature director Ari Aster tells the story of Annie (Toni Collette), who is dealing with the recent death of her mother when she begins to see spectral apparitions, and her family faces other 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 an exquisite sense of where to put the camera, and sound design allows a seemingly innocuous noise like a clucked tongue to become a harbinger of doom. It gets needlessly exposi-

tory during its climax, and some pacing fat could stand trimming, but it’s worth that extra time to put yourself in the hands of someone who understands how cinema can inspire profound unease. (R)—SR

INCREDIBLES 2 BBB Brad Bird has always been philosophically ambitious as a writer, which can get in the way of his remarkable kinetic chops. This sequel picks up where the original left off, sending Helen/ Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) on a mission to help make “supers” acceptable again to the public, while Bob/Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) serves as stay-at-home dad. The mostly split action offers two distinct arenas for comedy and choreography, and the action sequences snap with Bird’s mastery of a kind of majestic slapstick. It also feels a lot like modern super-hero “same as the first, but more” sequels, as Bird packs the narrative with new characters and sub-plot ideas. He delivers a whole lot of movie, and a lot of it is great—mostly when you can watch Bird’s talents, and less so when he’s trying to make you think about them. (PG)—SR

OCEAN’S 8 BB.5 Sandra Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, who takes the opportunity of parole from prison to plan a jewel heist at the annual Met Gala. Her collaborators includes ladies with all the needed skills—Rihanna as the hacker, Mindy Kaling as the diamond expert, Sarah Paulson as the fence, etc.—but there’s a general thinness to the crew’s personalities, with the notable exceptions of Helena Bonham Carter as a high-strung fashion designer and Anne Hathaway as a narcissistic actress. And while the pieces of Debbie’s plan click together functionally, director Gary Ross can’t manage the effortless, crowd-pleasing slickness needed to make any of the cons that fool on-screen characters actually feel surprising to a viewer. It’s a pleasant diversion, but it’s less a soufflé than a nice plate of scrambled eggs. (PG-13)—SR

TAG BB.5 A raucous, practically slapstick comedy needn’t try so hard to behave as though it’s about something serious. The loosely factbased story involves five life-long friends—Hoagie (Ed Helms), Callahan (Jon Hamm), Sable (Hannibal Buress), Randy (Jake Johnson) and Jerry (Jeremy Renner)—continuing a 30-year tradition of playing tag, with never-been-tagged Jerry the target as they gather for Jerry’s wedding. Elaborate chase scenes ensue, with humor built around Jerry’s ninja-like ability to avoid his buddies, and some quality deadpan delivery by Buress. Given the simple premise, there’s also a weird degree of over-plotting in the script, and an undercurrent that it’s somehow really all about men and the extreme measures needed to maintain close friendships unless physicality and competition are involved, etc. Grown-ass dudes playing tag appeals to arrested adolescence, so maybe don’t also aim for a rationalization of arrested adolescence. (R)—SR

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THURSDAY 6/21 “Regulators! Mount up!” When you hear that iconic Young Guns sound bite at Warren G’s Salt Lake City show, you know oldschool West Coast rap fans are going to hit the dance floor like a herd of cattle. What you might not know is that, way back in 1993, Warren G flipped the rhythm from Michael McDonald’s “I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near)” sample and got “Regulate” on the soundtrack to the 1994 film Above the Rim, leading to one of the most recognizable pop songs ever. Often outshined by compatriots like his stepbrother Dr. Dre, Warren G started his music career in a rap group called 213 with close friend Nate Dogg and cousin Snoop Dogg. Once Snoop’s solo career took off, Warren concentrated on carving out his own career, which has now spanned three decades. His clear tone, simplistic rhyme schemes and funk-laced sound has a large following that’s lasted through countless changes in styles and tastes. In the ’90s, when backpack-wearing lyricists and East Coast purists dominated the rap game, many people vocalized negative opinions of Warren’s “G’ Up sound.” But time has shown that he was much more than just a one-hit wonder—he’s placed his stamp on the genre for generations to come. He continues to tour, and he’s even working on a new documentary, appropriately titled G-Funk. So, grab your posse and saddle up for some retro “Regulate” fun—but do everyone a favor and leave your six shooters at home, hombre. (Keith L. McDonald) Soundwell, 149 W. 200 South, 9:30 p.m., $27.50 presale; $32.50 day of show, 21+, facebook.com/soundwellslc

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Wrapping your head around the stuffedto-the-gills entertainment programming at this year’s Utah Arts Festival (see p. 18) isn’t easy. With four musical stages at Library Square, unique performance areas like The Library Glass Wall and The Round, and the nightly Arts Fest Amplified series, you could see far-flung live music from noon to nearly midnight all four days. For the sake of brevity, we’ll focus on the Amplified headliners: five acts that run the gamut of what’s hip today and reflect the cornucopia of musical options in Salt Lake City. On Thursday night, rising alt-country star Ron Pope blends his stark storytelling skills (big ups to the poetry of “Twin Falls Idaho”) with his scathing

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Kansas City has been holding a strong musical hand for years. From emo kingpins The Get Up Kids to offbeat favorites like Reggie and the Full Effect and Drugs & Attics to catchy pop acts like Capybara and O Giant Man, the City of Fountains

People Under the Stairs will surprise you. KC’s most famous homegrown artist, R&B wonder woman Janelle Monaé, decamped years ago to Atlanta, while elegant optimist Kevin Morby now lives in California. But Shy Boys are holding things down, specializing in ramshackle pop, unpretentious punk and sensitive rock a la the Midwest’s most famous indie heroes, The Replacements and Hüsker Dü. Brothers Collin and Kyle Rausch front Shy Boys with best friends Konnor Ervin, Kyle Little and Ross Brown, and their lifelong camaraderie comes through loud and clear in every beautifully harmonized power-pop chorus. Shy Boys’ sophomore release, Bell House (Polyvinyl), due in August, tackles the melancholy bliss of domesticity: the Rausch brothers taking care of their aging mother, reminiscing on their DIY punk roots from comfortable digs in the suburbs, rescuing a dog from an abusive owner, getting mugged. In lesser hands, such asinine subjects would easily fall through the cracks of the white-dude-indie-rock firmament. But with the Shy Boys at the helm and blood harmonies in the air, there’s something special percolating up from the Paris of the Plains. (NM) Kilby Court, 741 Kilby Court, 7 p.m., $8 presale; $10 day of show, all ages, kilbycourt.com

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Consider The Milk Carton Kids a throwback to an earlier age, when harmony-laden, guitar-playing duos scaled the pop charts while sharing a fondness for a folk-like finesse. Think Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, The Everly Brothers, Smothers Brothers, Peter and Gordon or Chad & Jeremy. Granted, while those aren’t exactly contemporary comparisons, the particular dynamic duo of Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale clearly has some archival aims in mind. Although similar in style to Simon & Garfunkel, The Milk Carton Kids mine a certain sense of humor that deflates any pomposity or pretentiousness. Indeed, Ryan and Pattengale’s selfdeprecating comments frequently bring those Smothers siblings to mind, sans the silly staged squabbles. Nevertheless, when it comes to making music, The Milk Carton Kids’ close-knit harmonies, softly purred melodies and alluring imagery elevate the duo to the top of the Americana plateau. A steady succession of festival appearances, concerts and albums—Retrospect, Prologue, The Ash & Clay, Monterey and their upcoming effort, the tellingly titled All the Things I Did and All the Things I Didn’t Do—have made them unlikely stars at a time when only volume and verbosity seem

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Jamaican singer/songwriter Protoje comes by his name honestly. His mother, Lorna Bennett, topped the Jamaican charts in the ’70s three times, most famously with an island version of Dusty Springfield’s “Breakfast in Bed.” His father, Mike Ollivierre, was a revered calypso king in his home nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Their son has taken a different track, however, emphasizing reggae’s roots revival. Ever since his first album, 2005’s Lyrical Overdose Volume 1, he’s been hailed for lyrics that address societal injustices, and his upcoming album, A Matter of Time, packs an even stronger punch. Lead single “Blood Money” skewers Jamaica’s corrupt police state, while “No Guarantee” addresses love, hate and jealousy—and the way those emotions reflect our human tendency to engage (or not) with civic political life. Just to keep us on our toes, however, Protoje then dropped “’Bout Noon,” the most romantic jam of his career. “When I get up on Monday, a news story may be on my mind,” he told Billboard in May. “But when I am on tour for two months and I am going home, I’m not thinking about political corruption; I am thinking about seeing my girl.” With frequent collaborator Chronixx, Protoje is redefining the possibilities of breaking into the U.S. market. “How do you even crack that as a reggae artist talking about truth and rights with thought-provoking lyrics?” he mused to Billboard. “It’s very difficult, but I do think there has been progress.” (NM) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $20 presale; $25 day of show, 21+, facebook.com/metromusichall

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Michael Franti is a jam-pop icon with a career that spans decades, and his live shows are basically big dance parties overflowing with peace ’n’ love, the smell of reefer in the air and, of course, “The Sound of Sunshine.” But it wasn’t always this way: Back in the day, Franti was known for his activism, spoken-word poetry and political-leaning musical projects The Beatnigs and The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. He puts out music these days through his solo project, Michael Franti & Spearhead, which mixes pop, funk, reggae and folk. Over the past few years, Franti might have veered too far into the mainstream for the tastes of diehard fans—like on the absurdly catchy single, “Say Hey (I Love You).” But he nonetheless maintains an enthusiastic and far-reaching fan base, transforming his career into one that routinely finds him headlining music festivals around the world. And he has certainly remained outspoken on social justice issues. In 2014, Franti called for peace between police and civilians with the single “Same as It Ever Was (Start Today)” and an accompanying music video featuring footage of the riots in Ferguson, Mo., that followed the shooting death of Michael Brown and the infamous “I can’t breathe!” choking of Eric Garner at the hands of NYPD. Conclusion: Franti’s gone as bubblegum pop as possible, but his music is still packed with socially conscious messaging. Live on a summer night at Red Butte Garden, though, those two strands come together and let everyone set their hips to wiggle and sing along. (Howard Hardee) Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre, 2155 Red Butte Canyon Road, 7 p.m., sold out at press time, all ages, redbuttegarden.org

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Denim jeans, tucked-in tees and Converse were the theme for the evening. No, I’m not talking about Grease’s Danny Zuko or the Pink Ladies—I’m talking about the jangly garage-meets-‘60s-rockabilly band The Blushing Violets. Bar-X was full of cool cats on a recent night, but surprisingly The Blushing Violets’ hip, jazzy music wasn’t what brought drummer Cole Maxwell together with his bandmates: “It was our love for Megadeth and [Slayer’s] Kerry King,” Cole says. Getting to know him and his band, I break the ice about what life is like on the road as a touring band (because every band has a weird WTF moment on the road). Cole describes his in Europe: “The [promoters] were supposed to have the instruments for us, and I showed up and their drums were in pieces,” Cole laughs. “I had to make a drum set pretty much—it was terrible but fun.” Luckily, that wasn’t the case tonight, as The Blushing Violets had Bar-X grooving. After debating if Slayer recently found Jesus and dropped their dark persona, Cole introduces me to Wyatt, another musician/graphic designer. Proudly displaying a Ghost baseball tee, Wyatt and I start chatting about graphic design. “It’s really just raw a lot of the times,” he says. “A blank surface and start some stuff.” That’s how I felt when I first walked into Bar-X: raw and blank. But after getting to know these hip guys, I felt as cool as Grease’s Sandy stubbing out my last smoke and heading into the night. (Rachelle Fernandez) Bar-X, 155 E. 200 South, 801-355-2287, beerbarslc.com

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1. “Eureka!” 2. Person who might sell you an Inverted Jenny 3. Rutgers, e.g. 4. Go unnoticed 5. Singer ____ King Cole 6. “May ____ excused?” 7. Geom. figure 8. Form 1040 fig. 9. Tina’s “30 Rock” role 10. 1982 novel whose opening sentence is “You better not never tell nobody but God.” 11. Not much of a try 12. Judge Judy was appointed to it in 1982 by Ed Koch 13. Rickey Henderson’s 1,406 14. Native American charm made with a willow hoop 17. Neolithic tools 20. Ponzi scheme, e.g. 21. ____ Alto, CA 22. “____ for All

Seasons” 23. Catcher’s glove 38. X’d 39. Writer who coined the term “banana republic” (1904) 40. He won Best Actor the same year that Halle won Best Actress 41. “Say, boss, how about ____?”

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1. Like some poisoning 10. Skeptical rejoinder ... or a comment upon seeing this puzzle’s black squares 12. Describes, as a person or situation 14. “Forgot About ____” (2000 rap hit) 15. When to expect someone, for short 16. Alf and Mork, for short 18. Ocasek of the Cars 19. Aug. follower 20. Program that sends unsolicited messages 24. Dashboard Confessional’s genre 25. There is a “super” one every four yrs. 26. Physician Golgi, for whom Golgi bodies are named 27. Not feel 100% 28. Gasteyer formerly of “Saturday Night Live” 29. Support group for kids of problem drinkers 30. Phone letters for 6 31. Sch. that e-mails application decisions on Pi Day 32. Inhabiting elevated regions 33. One staying in a lot? 34. Cpl.’s inferior 35. Undecided, on a sked 36. Yodeler’s peak 37. “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” woman 38. In 2014, Berkeley, CA became the first U.S. city to approve one 42. Fort Worth campus, for short 43. Suffix with north or south 44. French saint called “The Little Flower” 45. One of two N.T. books 46. Bermuda setting: Abbr. 47. Calls again? 48. Start of a drill sergeant’s count 49. Number of weeks per annum? 50. Opens, in a way 51. Schubert’s “The ____ King” 52. WWII zone, for short 53. Colgate rival 54. GPS offering: Abbr 55. Rembrandt van ____ 56. Actor MacLachlan

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suggest you ignore the temptation to shop around for new heroes and champions. It would only distract you from your main assignment in the coming weeks, which is to be more of a hero and champion yourself. Here are some tips to guide you as you slip beyond your overly modest self-image and explore the liberations that might be possible when you give yourself more credit. Tip No. 1: Finish outgrowing the old heroes and champions who’ve served you well. Tip No. 2: Forgive and forget the disappointing heroes and hypocritical champions who betrayed their own ideals. Tip No. 3: Exorcise your unwarranted admiration for mere celebrities who might have snookered you into thinking they’re heroes or champions.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Members of the Dull Men’s Club celebrate the ordinary. “Glitz and glam aren’t worth the bother,” they declare. “Slow motion gets you there faster,” they pontificate. Showing no irony, they brag that they are “born to be mild.” I wouldn’t normally recommend becoming part of a movement like theirs, but the next two weeks will be one of those rare times when aligning yourself with their principles might be healthy and smart. If you’re willing to explore the virtues of simple, plain living, make the Swedish term lagom your word of power. According to the Dull Men’s Club, it means “enough, sufficient, adequate, balanced, suitable, appropriate.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the Georgian language, shemomechama is a word that literally means “I ate the whole thing.” It refers to what happens when you’re already full, but find the food in front of you so delicious that you can’t stop eating. I’m concerned you might soon be tempted to embark on metaphorical versions of shemomechama. That’s why I’m giving you a warning to monitor any tendencies you might have to get too much of a good thing. Pleasurable and productive activities will serve you better if you stop yourself before you go too far.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “A waterfall would be more impressive if it flowed the other way,” Irish writer Oscar Wilde said. Normally, I would dismiss an idea like this, even though it’s funny and I like funny ideas. Normally, I would regard such a negative assessment of the waterfall’s true nature, even in jest, to be unproductive and enfeebling. But none of my usual perspectives are in effect as I evaluate the possibility that Wilde’s declaration might be a provocative metaphor for your use in the coming weeks. For a limited time only, it might be wise to PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Please do not send me a lock of your hair or a special piece of your meditate on a waterfall that flows the other way. jewelry or a $100 bill. I will gladly cast a love spell on your behalf without draining you of your hard-earned cash. The only condiVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Stage magicians might seem to make a wine glass hover in mid- tion I place on my free gift is that you agree to have me cast the air, or transform salt into diamonds, or make doves materialize love spell on you and you alone. After all, your love for yourself is and fly out of their hands. It’s all fake, of course—tricks per- what needs most work. And your love for yourself is the primary formed by skilled illusionists. But here’s a twist on the old story: magic that fuels your success in connecting with other people. I suspect that for a few weeks, you will have the power to gener- (Besides, it’s bad karma to use a love spell to interfere with ate effects that might, to the uninitiated, have a resemblance another person’s will.) So if you accept my conditions, Pisces, to magic tricks—except that your magic will be real, not fake. demonstrate that you’re ready to receive my telepathic love spell And you will have worked very hard to accomplish what looks by sending me your telepathic authorization. easy and natural. And the marvels you generate will, unlike the ARIES (March 21-April 19): illusionists’, be authentic and useful. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you have cosmic permission to enjoy extra helpings of waffles, crêpes, panLIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming weeks will be a favorable time to accentuate and bran- cakes and blintzes. Eating additional pastries and doughnuts is dish the qualities that best exemplify your Libran nature. In other also encouraged. Why? Because it’s high time for you to acquire words, be extreme in your moderation. Be pushy in your attempts more ballast. You need more gravitas and greater stability. You to harmonize. Be bold and brazen as you make supple use of can’t afford to be top-heavy; you must be hard to knock over. If your famous balancing act. I’ll offer you a further piece of advice, you would prefer not to accomplish this noble goal by adding girth as well. My first astrology teacher believed that when Librans to your butt and gut, find an alternate way. Maybe you could put operate at peak strength, their symbol of power is the iron fist in weights on your shoes and think very deep thoughts. the velvet glove: power expressed gracefully, firmness rendered TAURUS (April 20-May 20): gently. I urge you to explore the nuances of that metaphor. You’re slipping into the wild heart of the season of discovery. Your curiosity is mounting. Your listening skills are growing SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If I were your mom, I’d nudge you out the door and say, “Go more robust. Your willingness to be taught and influenced play outside for a while!” If I were your commanding officer, and transformed is at a peak. And what smarter way to take I’d award you a shiny medal for your valorous undercover work advantage of this fertile moment than to decide what you most and then order you to take a frisky sabbatical. If I were your want to learn about during the next three years? For inspiration, psychotherapist, I would urge you to act as if your past has no identify a subject you’d love to study, a skill you’d eagerly stretch further power to weigh you down or hold you back, and then I yourself to master, and an invigorating truth that would boost would send you out on a vision quest to discover your best pos- your brilliance if you thoroughly embodied it. sible future. In other words, my dear Scorpio, I hope you will flee your usual haunts. Get out of the loop and into the open spaces GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize that will refresh your eyes and heart. for Literature in 1969. Four of his works were essential in earning that award: the play Waiting for Godot, and the novels SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sex education classes at some high schools employ a dramatic Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable. Beckett wrote all of exercise to illustrate the possible consequences of engag- them in a two-year span during the late 1940s. During that ing in heterosexual lovemaking without using birth control. time, he was virtually indigent. He and his companion Suzanne Everywhere they go for two weeks, students must carry around survived on the paltry wage she made as a dressmaker. We a 10-pound bag of flour. It’s a way for them to get a visceral might draw the conclusion from his life story that it is at least approximation of caring for an infant. I recommend that you possible for a person to accomplish great things despite having find or create an equivalent test or trial for yourself in the com- little money. I propose that we make Beckett your role model for ing days. As you consider entering into a deeper collaboration the coming weeks, Gemini. May he inspire you to believe in your or making a stronger commitment, you’ll be wise to undertake power to become the person you want to be no matter what your financial situation might be. a dress rehearsal.

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Salt Lake City and Utah have made so many Top 10 lists in the past few years it’s hard to keep track of how speshul we really are. Well, here’s a prize we might not want to share with folks thinking of moving here: According to reviews.org, SLC has the most property crime per 1,000 people. The site took FBI crime data from 2016 and looked at cities and towns with the least and most property crimes. What is a property crime? It can be anything from vehicle break-ins to burglary, larceny and stolen cars. Reviews.org removed car crimes and towns with less than 100,000 people from the mix to come up with its list of the best and worst cities to own or rent a property. Here are the results: 1. Salt Lake City with a rate of 75.4 crimes per 1,000 people; 2. Springfield, Mo., at 74.88; 3. Spokane, Wash., at 67.58; 4. Little Rock, Ark., at 63.23; 5. Pueblo, Colo., at 57.33; 6. Tucson, Ariz., at 54.95; 7. Albuquerque, N.M., at 54.88; 8. Fort Lauderdale, Fla., at 53.59; 9. Tacoma, Wash., at 53.02, and 10. Tallahassee at 52.07. On the flip side, the 10 cities with the least amount of property crime are 1. Lakewood Township, N.J.; 2. Yonkers, N.Y.; 3. Cary, N.C.; 4. Edison Township, N.J.; 5. Naperville, Ill.; 6. Sterling Heights, Mich.; 7. Allen, Texas; 8. Rialto, Calif.; 9. Simi Valley, Calif.; and 10. Santa Clarita, Calif. Neighborhoodscout.com reports that my chances of becoming a victim of a property crime in Salt Lake City is 1 in 11. For Utah as a whole, it’s 1 in 34. I have friends with the SLCPD and UTA Police, and they say that most property crimes are opportunity crimes. We leave our cars and homes unlocked. We leave stuff in our cars in plain sight for criminals to steal. Packages are stolen from porches. We’re going to keep seeing an uptick in crimes because of population growth. And although Salt Lake City hopes to add a lot more cops in the next few years, citizens will continue to be victims of property crime. Vehicle break-ins are one of the top crimes downtown. I remember a few years back, my cop friends talked about a gang targeting cars around Vivint SmartHome Arena. They knew drivers were going to be gone for several hours and they had time to steal from both locked and unlocked cars. Hey, we’re all in a hurry these days. Don’t leave anything visible in your car. Go as far as opening up your jockey box to show it’s empty. Put valuables in the trunk or take them with you when you go to that concert, ball game or shop to avoid becoming a statistic. n

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Precocious On May 20, as a handful of adults enjoyed the swings at Angel Park in southwest Atlanta, two children walked up and asked to use the swing set. The adults agreed and started to walk away, reported The (Macon, Ga.) Telegraph, when the boys, about 6 and 12 years old, pulled out rocks the size of baseballs and what appeared to be a black handgun. They threw the rocks, hitting one man on the calf and causing an abrasion, according to Atlanta police. The older boy held the gun and pointed it at the adults, who ran away as the boys ran in the opposite direction. Earlier in May, two children were reported for an alleged armed carjacking in the same neighborhood.

Crime Report Three men were arrested on May 20 after stealing a 25-footlong shed from a foreclosed property in Lebanon, Maine, and dragging it down the street behind their pickup truck, according to the Portland Press Herald. Matthew Thompson of Lebanon, Timothy James of Pembroke, N.H., and Robert Breton of Milton, N.H., were spotted in the act by a concerned citizen,

n Patrick Gillis, 18, a senior at Highlands High School and a volunteer firefighter for the Pioneer Hose Fire Department in Brackenridge, Pa., told police he “just wanted to respond to a fire” on May 21, when he was arrested for starting a blaze in a vacant duplex where he used to live. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that witnesses told investigators Gillis was seen at the home before the fire started, then returned as a firefighter to help put it out. He admitted to setting a piece of paper on fire and putting it in the microwave, then leaving. The Allegheny County Fire Marshal’s Office estimated damage at $150,000, and Gillis was charged with arson.

Bright Ideas Toronto police constables Vittorio Dominelli, 36, and Jamie Young, 35, had to call for backup in January during a raid on a marijuana dispensary after allegedly sampling some of the evidence. CTV News reported the officers called for help after they began hallucinating, one eventually climbing a tree. In a May 23 news release, Toronto police announced the two officers had been suspended and now face criminal charges in the incident.

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n A senior prank went unexpectedly wrong for high school student Kylan Scheele, 18, of Independence, Mo., when he was slapped with a three-day suspension on May 23 and barred from participating in graduation after putting his high school up for sale on Craigslist. Scheele said it was meant to be a joke. “Other people were going to release live mice ... I thought, let’s do something more laid back,” he told Fox 4. The ad for Truman High School listed attractive amenities such as newly built athletic fields, lots of parking and a “bigger than normal dining room.” A lawsuit filed against the school district by the ACLU of Missouri failed to reduce the punishment.

Still Creepy Before Chuck E. Cheese was a thing, it was ShowBiz Pizza, complete with the Rock-afire Explosion Band, an animatronic combo that is still the stuff of nightmares. On May 24, the Rock-afire Explosion Band was reunited at a new arcade bar in Kansas City, Mo., also called Rock-afire. The band’s inventor, Aaron Fechter of Creative Engineering in Orlando, Fla., refurbished the band members with new masks, skin and costumes, and the playlist is set to include old standards as well as more contemporary hits. Bar owner James Bond was a huge fan of the band as a child: “You didn’t know whether they were fake or real,” he told The Kansas City Star. Least Competent Criminal Rowdy Lapham, owner of Old to Gold Hardwood Floors in Grand Rapids, Mich., arrived at work May 21 to find that someone had broken in. Surveillance footage showed that around 2 a.m. the day before, a burglar had thrown a rock through his store window, apparently tempted by the “gold” bars stacked in the window. Unfortunately for the thief, the bars are promotional items made of foam rubber and stamped with the store’s logo, reported WZZM TV. The squeezable bars are meant for stress relief, employee Nick Butler said, supporting the company’s motto of “stress-free flooring. ... I think this falls under you can’t fix stupid.” Send tips to weirdnewstips@amuniversal.com

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