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Cover story, p. 13 “While reporting this story, I learned the LDS Church is an institution whose influence is not as pervasive in my hometown or in the cities I’ve lived since moving away,” the Philly native says. “That helped me learn a lot about my new home, seeing that more than half of Utahns are counted as members of the church.”

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[Author Ray] Howze’s excellent GRAMA article recites Salt Lake City’s view that the city is inundated by mountains of irrelevant public information requests, presumably by busy-bodies who have nothing better to do. Public requests to Salt Lake City increased from 2,390 in 2014 to 14,202 in 2017. Based on my personal experience, that increase is the result of city policy. The city, following the state government’s lead, started prohibiting any contact with any city employee, other than for routine business contacts—except through a written GRAMA request. This policy is the cause of the increase in written requests. In the old days, you could simply call up a deputy department director to find “what the hell is going on,” as Jeff Salt put it, and to determine what narrow GRAMA request might be needed (if any). Now, citizens are relegated to blind fishing expeditions, that often involve receipt of inapplicable documents that were not responsive to the citizen’s inquiry. Try to find out what the cost overruns are at the Salt Lake City International Airport or the process by which the airport authority increased the project size from $2.2 billion to $3.4 billion without voter approval. One solution to this problem would be resurrection of an improved version of the monthly Salt Lake City Municipal Record, a free publication that at least from 1912 to the late 1920s, provided an overview of city operations. In an improved internet distributed version, each city department would be required to make a quarterly report of its operations, major accomplishments, and most importantly, all

future major activities, proposals and plans. Thus, citizens would have the opportunity to really become involved on a proactive, prospective basis in the city’s major plans, instead of just showing up to give window-dressing citizen input on pre-decided matters. The current system of ad hoc public meetings with community council input—combined with the abuse of the GRAMA process that has degraded direct public oversight into a secrecy state—just doesn’t cut it in our modern digital era. The trope that we have a Republican form of government in which our elected representatives should be able to do major projects with voting restricted to electing them, also doesn’t provide enough confidence in our modern government.

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Wow, amazing! Homeless people everywhere. Let’s bring in more we can’t afford. Left wing lunatics should be required to pay double taxes. Sign up at your next march.

Online news post, June 26, Mayor Biskupski, I Am an Immigrant unveil public art installation

Online news post, June 21 “A Piece of Mormon History” DIANE PERRY Via Facebook

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Except 80 percent of asylum seekers don’t qualify, and activists never should have encouraged them to show up at the border. Most are like the Time magazine cover girl’s mother. Multiple deportations and paying a coyote to care for her young daughter. Let’s demand the cowards in Congress fix a broken system rather than keep exploiting illegal immigrants for political gain. Via Facebook

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An ugly, racist history.

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Because we do such a great job with the homeless already …

Only religion relies on bigotry, misogyny and racism, lack of empathy and lack of compassion. Religion poisons everything, nothing is immune— from the stars in the sky to the monoliths on Earth—giving religious people the false sense of superiority, which gives them carte blanche to judge every aspect in every facet of the human condition. Evil.

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Online news post, June 27, “Primaries See Democrats Ahead by Small Margins”

Doubt it. The majority votes with familiarity, nothing will change politically or policy

As an immigrant myself, I sincerely hope I get one of the nice participation trophies she is handing out. Maybe a cupcake, too. I’m not singing “It’s a Small World” though.

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Nope. This isn’t a liberal filth state.

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It doesn’t matter how many brown people you keep out, the demographic shift in progress is inevitable. And all those young, brown Americans are paying attention to how Republicans treat brown people. But you just keep right on shooting off your mouth while shooting yourself in the foot. I believe in free expression enough to allow you to take enough rope to hang yourself.

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Headlines Matter

Even though I’ve been publishing newspapers and magazines for more than 30 years, it’s only recently I’ve become enamored with headlines. It’s not as if I didn’t like them before, but today’s headlines are ever more relevant because they sway the value needle when it comes to judging what’s worth reading. For many years at this newspaper, we prided ourselves on writing clever headers. Former Snark Editor, Bill Frost, was particularly good at writing headlines that were sure to pique the interest of City Weekly’s smart, clever and persnickety readership. Frost was hired during the editorial reign of Christopher Smart, but other than the several times he came to my home to watch W WF with my son and his daughter, I don’t recall seeing him very often. He would say it was because I was always at Port O’Call. I would say it was because he was always playing mental chess with Ben Fulton and I didn’t want to interrupt. No matter. Bill was forever at the ready with something perfectly appropriate to affix at the top of a story. For evidence, check out the Ocho headlines he wrote right after the 2016 presidential election. Among them you’ll find gems like “Donald Trump Clinches Win; Nation Clenches Pussies,” and “And He’s Not Gay. Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That.” Outside of his eventual calling to the corporate world, Frost might still be headline writing except for one simple disruption: Google. Google didn’t like nor understand the concept of wit. To attract a reader’s eye in print, Frost might have written an attention-grabbing headline that

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had little or nothing to do with the story itself. Of course, there was a connection to the story—but it was nuanced, comical or wry. That was a problem, because if you Google search for oranges, one of our old headlines might show up, but you’d then find the story really was about apples. What that meant is that for a time, we wrote knockout headlines for print, but dumbed them down online. Only if you relate to the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, is that a good thing. Inventiveness took a hit online in regards to newspapers and other journals; now, the business of moving eyeballs has become both scientific and stale and also nearly irrelevant. People who laugh out loud while reading a story in City Weekly or anywhere else are outliers. If that’s not so, just look what happened to The Onion. Today’s Onion is a CliffsNote version of its former self. Today, if we want to find amusement online, we go to our Twitter or Facebook feeds where our friends wonder why Keith Stubbs hasn’t noticed and booked them into his Wiseguys comedy clubs. Trouble is, most of them are neither funny nor clever, and are mostly just adding lipstick to an already worn out meme. So, in a bass-ackwards way, social media reveals the value of what used to be the bailiwick of honestly clever people like Frost. Headlines matter. They can tease or tempt. They can reveal or revolt. They have always been there to pull us into a story or prompt us to move onto another one. Like all alternative newspapers, we grew to view our headlines part and parcel with our text—we had to draw attention to not only the story it rode above, but also to ourselves. I’m proud to say we never wrote a single headline that read, “Mystery illness sends Murray man to hospital”—a better headline would have been, “Publisher hospitalized after eating his own words”—but we wouldn’t have

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written that one either. We aren’t a paper of record like the two dailies (maybe we should be, though, considering our circulation is bigger.) Boring headlines are nearly standard in those papers. That’s not an indictment, it’s just a fact that there’s not many ways to write a “Wow!” headline about a car accident. Well, you can, but you’d end up pissing off either the cops or the victims or both. So, newspapers are left to write headlines like this one from the Monday Salt Lake Tribune, “Gov. Chaffetz? Former Utah congressman leads field of potential 2020 Republican candidates for governor.” That headline would never have run in any newspaper prior to the internet. Too long. Can’t put it in 72-point type. Doesn’t blare. As well, after reading the headline, why read the story itself? It’s revealed everything I need to know about the upcoming governor’s race—Chaffetz is in the driver’s seat. If Spencer Cox is a threat, I can wait to find out tomorrow. So, I’m off to the next headline, “LGBTQ students wanted to start a club. Three years later, BYU still hasn’t decided if the group will be recognized.” Hmmm. If I can get what I need just by reading the headlines, then why subscribe? With website space not an issue, headline writing has morphed into mini tweets—all I need to know or have time for is condensed in a couple hundred characters. Next, someone will tweet those stories. No matter that the story might not be read, the news message is circulating but without the “value.” The question is whether people should subscribe to a paper via a paywall or not, because the answer is, so far, paywalls won’t work so long as the headline is the story, and that story is free. CW

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

High Anxiety

The good news is that you can’t just blame the LDS Church’s culture for causing kids’ angst—at least not for all their anxiety. The U.S. Census Bureau, according to a Deseret News report, estimates at least onefourth of teens suffer from an anxiety disorder. Why? Well, it’s for a lot of reasons including societal pressure, school and even politics. A new University of Utah study just adds confusion to Utah’s unusually high teen suicide rate. It could be the altitude. Low atmospheric pressure diminishes the brain’s oxygen levels, and affects the body’s levels of mood regulator serotonin. In fact, suicides in high altitudes are three times higher than at sea level. Moving is not realistic, so researchers are looking at more effective treatments for teens living in mountainous regions. Tolerance and understanding might also play a part.

Renewable Savings

Coal has become the clarion call of the Republican resurgence, but the Sierra Club is having none of it. In a commissioned study, the environmental organization concluded that PacifiCorp could save ratepayers “hundreds of millions of dollars” by quickly replacing coal-fired units with renewable-energy sources, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. The study notes that prices are low now for renewables. Utah could show some backbone, like Oregon, which passed an aggressive clean energy bill requiring two utilities to phase out coal by 2030. It’s not as if Utah isn’t doing anything. Aware of the growing number of electric car owners, it’s partnering with Rocky Mountain Power to create an electric-vehicle corridor along I-15, the Deseret News reported. It’s all about the future, RMP says. But for now, coal still is king.

Rocky Times

Rocky Anderson isn’t happy—at least not with City Weekly. Never mind that we called out The Salt Lake Tribune for its garish coverage of an apparent management style dispute with some female staffers in Anderson’s law office. The Trib saw fit to run a front-page story and a double-truck inside to give friends and foes a platform to disparage or glorify the bombastically articulate and ever passionate former mayor. Inside the local section, the Trib placed a shorter story about a Mormon Primary teacher’s sexual abuse. There was no editorial equality. But yes, we said Anderson could be a son of a bitch. You know, he was Salt Lake’s SOB for years while he helped the city carve out a moral high ground and stop pollution coming into the city. He told City Weekly “I am sorry you have fallen for the false narrative about my treatment of employees,” and that we “jumped on the bandwagon with The Tribune.” In fact, we did just the opposite.

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HOMELESS YOUTH DINNER

Homelessness is not bound by age. You can help feed young people who have no safe options by joining an ongoing effort to provide meals at the Volunteers of America Youth Homeless Center. On the first Friday of each month, VOA opens its arms to the community and asks people to bring in food or just come in to help serve. An added benefit to joining the Homeless Youth Dinner is the youth themselves. You can get to know them, interact with them and discover that they’re just people. Youth Homeless Resource Center, 888 S. 400 West, 801-364-0744, Friday, July 6, 5-7 p.m., free, bit.ly/2Mx0kDg.

WHAT’S UP WITH TRANSPORTATION?

Do you wonder if Utahns will ever give up their cars, or at least clean them up? Utah Foundation is talking about The Future of Transportation at a breakfast meeting where you can hear about an advanced electronic vehicle charging project, developing technologies, new transit and transportation ideas, as well as legislation aimed at selfdriving cars. Yes, we’re talking about the self-driving cars that have had a few “accident” issues. You might even be able to test-drive an electric vehicle after the event to get a feel for the road of the future. Mountain America Expo Center, 9575 S. State, Sandy, 801-3551400, Tuesday, July 10, 8 a.m., free, bit.ly/2KpYFBX.

GET TO KNOW THE HOMELESS

Certain neighbors of the relocated Inn Between have been raising funds to fight the homeless hospice that has come to their backyard. They’ve amassed some $3,800, because they’re mad (and mistaken) about the so-called danger presented by medically fragile homeless people. Now, they and others have a monthly opportunity at The Inn Between’s Neighborhood Advisory Council to talk to their new neighbors and get to know just what the facility is all about. It’s just good practice to interact with your community. It’s also an excellent way to counter unfounded fears of the homeless. “Information gathered at the NAC meetings helps The Inn Between be responsive to the needs of the community,” the meeting’s Facebook page says. The Inn Between, 1216 E. 1300 South, 801-4108314, Tuesday, July 10, 6-7 p.m., free, bit.ly/2N5OAbV.

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memory loss.”) Another major driver here is Silicon Valley, which is on fire with the idea that the brain can be “hacked” into greater productivity, ideally using drugs that’re easier to get (and tolerate) than prescription-only pills like Adderall. A 2017 Washington Post article profiled one Bay Area entrepreneur who was taking 25 pills a day to give him “the cognitive edge he needs” to do business. I’ll confess I find this all a bit dispiriting. Remember when we used to take unlicensed mind-altering drugs for fun? It’d be tough to make any broad claims for the effectiveness of this stuff, simply because there’s so much of it out there: from Huperzine A, a moss-derived supplement thought to improve short-term memory, to the amino acid L-carnitine, which hasn’t yet been demonstrated to provide meaningful cognitive benefit, though on the plus side it might impart a fishy smell to your bodily secretions. But beyond the merits of any one product lurks a bigger issue: because these are marketed as supplements, they’re unregulated by the Food and Drug Administration. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, or DSHEA, places such products outside the FDA’s ambit—essentially they’re considered food, not medicine. With the uptick in allegedly brain-boosting supplements on the market have come concerns, as with Prevagen, of unscrupulous marketers selling useless or even harmful products to credulous consumers and facing few consequences. Speaking to Wired, a supplements expert from Harvard med school said, “If I were looking for opportunities to make a lot of money while deceiving people, I think going into the brain-supplement business would be real high on my list.” Will they continue to get away with it? No reason to think not. Quincy Bioscience’s strategy on the FTC suit, filed in January 2017, seemed to be to wait it out; the company characterized the plaintiff as an overreaching lame-duck regulatory body that’d be reined in by the Trump administration. The suit was thrown out last September and is now in the appeals process, but the company’s sanguinity reflected that of the supplements industry at large, which was described by one trade website as feeling “bullish” about its prospects under the current antiregulatory regime. In some quarters at least, it’s evidently reassuring to know there’s a snake-oil salesman in the White House. n

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But because they wore black and were perceived to be part of a “black bloc” protest, they were charged with conspiracy to damage property. They each faced more than 60 years. After a year and a half of paying two U.S. Attorneys to prosecute the case and full-time detective and parttime Trump-lover Gregg Pemberton to work it, several defendants have been acquitted on all counts, and the charges against many others have been dropped. This includes those against Elizabeth Lagesse, who taught herself everything possible about the case and went to nearly every proceeding, and filed suit with the ACLU against Washington, D.C.’s, police department. But the real heroes of the column are the alt-weekly papers that ran it and the readers who went along for the ride. I am so grateful to have been able to have a home in each of your cities and towns. And I learned so much from having editors in Colorado Springs or Jackson Hole, Wyo., and so many others. Fellow cohort Mary Finn spent countless hours filing FOIA requests—some of which we are still waiting on (fingers crossed) and editing the column. Brandon Soderberg was a tireless editor and a great friend and collaborator through all this. He and I will be writing a book over the next year, so if you enjoyed the column at all, keep an eye out for it. Till then, much love and grim solidarity. CW

Between the first draft of this column and its final version, five fellow journalists were murdered in their own newsroom, an hour away from mine. Almost every reporter I have ever known has been threatened or maligned at some point, but this has seemingly gotten so much worse under Trump. We don’t need the CNNs and MSNBCs. We need the Annapolis Capital Gazettes and all the small struggling papers that carried this column. And while we’re at it, fuck you, Milo; fuck you, Trump. I learned early thanks to Spy magazine that every good column has heroes and villains. Trump was one of Spy’s main evildoers back in the 1980s, and he was the overarching villain of this column. But there were also all of those who enabled him and who he enabled, especially Michael Flynn, the alt-right goons of Charlottesville and the dark corners of the web, Project Veritas, and the ever-so-silly and sad “western chauvinist”™ frat of the Proud Boys, whose litigious western chauvinist™ lawyer once threatened legal action against papers carrying this column. Foremost, among the heroes of this time are the 230 people arrested during the inauguration protests. My very first column detailed those protests, after I was gassed, pepper-sprayed and almost arrested by a mob of cops with covered faces who ultimately kettled a large group of protesters. Those arrested broke a few windows.

people with the money pulled out. Now, in a city that’ll tally some 300 murders again this year, where we had a major police corruption scandal that will overturn nearly 2,000 cases, where the police commissioner was federally charged and resigned after only 116 days in office, we have no outlet like the paper you are holding. There’s no single place where you can mourn for those murdered, mock the bullshit politicians and celebrate some artistic or culinary innovation or creature comfort quite like a weekly, and our storied city sorely misses it. Art and music scenes everywhere are less cohesive, it seems—hardly scenes at all anymore. New writers aren’t following their passions and learning their chops. People aren’t doing insane experiments like I once did of listening to only local music for an entire year (music editors, take note). The Washington City Paper, an early backer of this column, came dangerously close to death last year; an execution stayed only by the intervention of a rich local dude. The Bezos model seems to work in the nation’s capital, but all markets can’t count on that. Throughout this endeavor, I’ve gotten countless emails from editors saying things like, “Hey man, we love the column, but can’t afford it anymore.” I’ve been on that side of the desk and know what it’s like to come to a similar realization. It’s brutal.

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his is the final Democracy in Crisis column that I’ll be writing. I remember the urgency with which it started—I was super stoned in a Denver hotel room just days after Donald Trump was elected. Editors at various alt-weeklies had been wringing their hands about how to deal with him. Many of these papers had been militantly local during the Obama era— when I was managing editor at Baltimore City Paper, my unofficial motto was “militantly Baltimorean.” But now it seemed that whenever someone picked up their local paper, they’d want to see some news from the alt angle—not that of the Nazi alt-right—but the independent, insouciant and fiercely opinionated voice of the alternative press. More than 70 columns later, either that has changed, or I was wrong-headed from the start. The Trump regime has sucked up so much air from every other story that, while it is wildly important and has implications everywhere, I believe that each of these papers is better served following up on the way Trump’s policies affect their local communities. If it were like the old days and papers were fat and had money, a national column like this would be great. But this is a time of crisis for the press as much as it is for democracy. David Simon, creator of HBO crime drama The Wire, has said that the potential death of newspapers will usher in—or has already ushered—a golden age of corruption because there’s no one left to watch City Hall. Except, of course, for the wretches who work for the paper you’re holding in your hands. A word of advice: Support them now or you’ll forever miss them when they are gone. Since the beginning of this column in January 2017, my own home weekly, the Baltimore City Paper shut down. Former staffers immediately responded with an attempt to start a new venture. We partnered with the non-profit Real News Network and the Washington Blade and founded Baltimore Beat. Four months later, the

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Inside Ryan McKnight’s crusade for transparency within the LDS Church.

he black Dodge Caravan zigzags down scorching Black Canyon and crosses over Hoover Dam into Arizona, a glorious oneparty consent state where Ryan McKnight, a 37-year-old scruffy, tattooed ex-Mormon, won’t have to ask for permission to record his phone calls.

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Before MormonLeaks, before the pointed emails from people who disagree with its cause and before the crusade for transparency, the McKnight family— all six children and their parents are members of the LDS Church—moved throughout the U.S. and South America every two years or so because Ryan’s father, a CIA employee, kept getting transferred. “We were practicing Mormons; lived pretty much a typical Mormon life,” McKnight says. “Las Vegas is the most Mormon place I’ve ever lived. Everywhere else, the Mormons have been an afterthought.” Ethan Gregory Dodge, who works closely with McKnight on the website from his home half a country away, grew up in Provo and was also a practicing Mormon. “Everyone you knew and associated with

was also Mormon,” Dodge, 27, says of his hometown. “If you didn’t do what you were supposed to do, everyone knew.” The two men have spent the majority of their lives in the LDS Church, but they both started to question their faith around the same time. In 2013, McKnight came across online items that challenged what he’d been taught during his formative years. “You just kind of go down this rabbit hole, and you find out that the narrative you’ve been taught your entire life does not match up with what took place,” McKnight says. “It’s the whitest of whitewashing that I’ve ever seen.” What cut deepest, McKnight recalls, were issues revolving around the historicity of the Book of Mormon, institutionalized racism he hadn’t previously comprehended and Joseph Smith’s documented coupling with young women. “The marrying the teenage brides bothered me, but what bothered me even more was the fact that I went 32 years without knowing,” he says. “It was almost like the cover-up was worse than the crime.” That revelation prompted McKnight’s resignation from the church the following year. Dodge started questioning his own affiliation in 2014 after he found out his mother had left the religion. “It was difficult for me because when my mom left, I really had to think about what I believed,” Dodge says. “Then I started thinking about the shame and

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parency within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by vetting and publishing sensitive documents sent in by whistleblowers. According to its website, MormonLeaks’ mission is based on “the belief that increased transparency within the Mormon Church results in fewer untruths, less corruption and less abuse within Mormonism.” Much has been building toward this brief interstate trip: receiving documents and emails alleging recurring sexual abuse between a high-ranking church official and a then-14-year-

old girl in 2009; redacting identifying information of the survivor and her alleged abuser; sitting in a local coffee shop with a laptop—screen facing the wall, to ward off wandering eyes—and organizing the telephone numbers to call once in Arizona. “I’ll be honest with you, I get nervous making calls like this,” McKnight says after parking the van and taking out his laptop. “I only need them to confirm there was an accusation,” he says. “That tells me enough to believe it’s real.” Then he dials.

“I’m just doing it out of an abundance of caution,” he says, pulling into a parking lot on the Arizona side of the iconic engineering marvel. He explains he’s unsure if he’d be allowed to record the telephone conversation he’s about to make were he at home in neighboring Nevada. (He wouldn’t have.) McKnight, who lives in a Las Vegas suburb and on a near-daily basis wears apparel that touts the city’s new professional hockey team, the Golden Knights, is the founder of MormonLeaks, an organization that advocates for more trans-

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“Most people, especially Mormons, think I’m some angry ex-Mormon in a basement who saw an opportunity to hurt the church. That’s not even close to what happened.”

guilt I experienced [growing up], and whether I wanted my kids to experience that.” In the years that followed, Dodge further read up on the church’s history and studied its sacred text. “I felt pretty betrayed,” he says of his reaction to the historical discrepancies between what was true and what he’d been taught, and relayed to others during his mission to Guatemala. “What broke my shelf,” Dodge says—referencing a common saying among Mormons who question their faith and are told by leaders to, in Dodge’s words, “put that book up on a shelf and we’ll deal with it later”—was primarily that culture of shame, Smith’s magical and superstitious worldview, the church’s apparent whitewashing and how the Book of Mormon was translated. In 2016, he formally distanced himself from the church. “People don’t leave the church for the reasons that the church typically pegs them for leaving,” Dodge says of the stereotypes some active Mormons might have of those who stray: lazy people tempted by the devil, salivating to sin. “In reality those kinds of excuses are so insulting to those of us who have left the church because it completely writes off and discounts our entire journey, which to me was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” No longer identifying as Mormon, both men now utilize the expertise they’ve honed in their professional lives—McKnight as a former agent with the Nevada Gaming Control Board and audit supervisor with the Nevada Department of Taxation; Dodge as a cyber security and digital forensics specialist for a private company—to run MormonLeaks and ensure the identities of their sources remain anonymous, often even to them. “We have no way of knowing who these people are who are sending us these documents, unless they go out of their way to tell us,” Dodge says. “It was just a natural extension of my personality and expertise,” McKnight says of founding the portal and his experience in holding Nevada casinos accountable when he was a state auditor. “Most people, especially Mormons, think I’m some angry ex-Mormon in a basement who saw an opportunity to hurt the church. That’s not even close to what happened.”

Hit and a Miss

Back at the Arizona parking lot, McKnight’s calls aren’t going well. First, he phones the current president of the mission where the survivor alleges the sexual abuse first took place. “It’s kind of a private matter about one of the sister missionaries,” McKnight tells the person on the other end of the line—hoping this phrasing will get him a call back from the mission president. Next, he dials an overseas LDS office, looking for one of the two members of the Quorum of the Seventy who were involved in the initial abuse investigation. The international calls don’t go through. “I have very little confidence in this number, unfortunately,” McKnight says of the next call: the accused, a former mission and temple president who’d been a patriarch—someone who is ordained to give special blessings—at the time of the alleged abuse. He calls two numbers, neither of which connects him to the right person. Lastly, McKnight tries a couple of numbers he believes are connected to the mission president first told of the abuse allegations last year. The calls don’t go through. Waiting on a callback, McKnight gets out of his car and takes in the spectacular view of the Hoover Dam. He talks about the dam’s history, how security around it has changed following 9/11 (“None of this used to be here,” he says, pointing at barriers erected to keep cars from driving onto the sidewalk) and how he and his wife of 15 years want to take their four children back to the Grand Canyon. Then, McKnight’s phone rings: it’s the first mission president he called—the one who took over the mission following the allegations. McKnight recounts the allegations—how they’d been reported before the official’s time there. Maybe an investigation had commenced once he took over, he inquires. “You telling me about it is the first I’ve ever heard,” the mission president says over the phone. Disappointed, McKnight runs through the possibilities. Maybe the investigation had been concluded before this mission president took over. Perhaps he hadn’t been briefed on the investigation. “And he could be lying through his teeth,” McKnight says. “It doesn’t tell me it’s not real.”

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He then dials his partner Dodge—the two have only met in person twice, primarily communicating over the internet or phone—to tell him about the call. “There was no obvious tone in his voice that implied he was lying,” McKnight says. The pair discuss their remaining options—who else to call, who to contact as a last resort if they can’t confirm the allegations. They decide the leak won’t be published the next day, as originally planned. If they’re going to publish, they agree, they’ll need harder evidence. This is not the first time such accusations have rung inside the church. In March, MormonLeaks released audio and a transcript of Joseph L. Bishop, former president of the Provo Missionary Training Center, admitting to inappropriate actions he had with female missionaries. In response, the church hierarchy released a statement saying in part that “If the allegations of sexual assault are true, it would be a tragic betrayal of our standards and would result in action by the Church to formally discipline any member who was guilty of such behavior, especially someone in a position of trust.” It added that “sexual abuse cannot be tolerated in the Church.” The LDS Church declined a request to comment or be interviewed for this story.

Awake, Ye Leakers, Awake

McKnight’s first leak was well before MormonLeaks ever materialized. In November 2015, he was active in Facebook groups and an ex-Mormon subreddit where he’d post his thoughts and feelings. “I was still pretty much very self conscious—the fact that I had left the church,” McKnight says. That month, McKnight saw someone post in a Facebook group about the now infamous “November Policy,” which, among other things, makes apostates of married same-sex couples and bans their children from certain religious privileges. McKnight’s instinct was to publish the text on Reddit and another Facebook group. It spread like wildfire. “I didn’t realize that I stumbled across this amazing new policy that was quietly being released,” McKnight says. “I wasn’t trying to leak it, though. I didn’t even know what I was doing.”

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Despite explosive buzz and continued media interest, McKnight isn’t swimming in cash. When he isn’t using his wife’s van, he’s driving a 1998 Honda Accord that doesn’t have air conditioning, rendering it basically a sweatbox in the three-digit Nevada summer heat. After receiving public input suggesting they should publish leaks from other religions, McKnight and Dodge founded the Truth and Transparency Foundation, which now houses MormonLeaks and FaithLeaks. Since December 2016, TTF and MormonLeaks have received about $16,280 in donations, McKnight says, which does not include the money he and others doled out to help get MormonLeaks off the ground. McKnight says that because churches—LDS and other religious institutions alike—solicit donations with the intent to cover operating costs, they have an ethical obligation to disclose their financials. “The Holy Grail would be for the church to call me and say, ‘We agreed to do this, to bring Deloitte in and do an annual audit, publish it, would you go away?’ Yeah, let’s talk,” he says. “But that’s not going to happen.” McKnight says the church has little to gain by fully embracing transparency, as ex-Mormons won’t come back to the fold simply because of a more open accounting of how leadership spends its members’ tithes. “Nobody left the church because of transparency. That might have been one bullet point in the list of 100,” McKnight says. “They don’t gain anything by releasing the cleanest set of books ever.” Plus, he says, if people find out the LDS Church has between $400 and $500 billion in total assets, as McKnight believes based on information from his sources, and sets aside about $40 million annually on charitable services, that discrepancy could sway those on the fence about leaving.

Hours after the string of Arizona phone calls, after the sun sets and Las Vegas neon glows in the northwestern sky, McKnight is home and reenergized. “There’s been a development in the case,” he tells me over the phone. “We might have to publish tomorrow after all.” McKnight says he sent a Facebook message to the alleged abuser several weeks earlier, asking to set up a time to talk and the man had just accepted his message request. “What are we going to do here?” McKnight writes after seeing the message had been read. “Should I assume a no-comment from you? Would you prefer to respond tomorrow?” Minutes creep by as McKnight waits for a response. It was a Hail Mary, McKnight had mentioned earlier, “a crapshoot.” Finally, the accused responds. “He said he’d talk to me tomorrow,” McKnight says, pushing the leak’s publishing date by at least a few days. The cloak-and-dagger mission continues the following morning at 5 a.m. White chocolate mocha in hand at a Las Vegas Starbucks west of the Strip, McKnight gets a Facebook message written in Spanish: “About the situation you’re referring to, I can tell you that I didn’t do anything to this individual,” the message reads. “I never abused anybody.” McKnight immediately responds.

“According to the report we have, you told [an elder] that you didn’t do anything and that you don’t know why she would accuse you of these things. Is that your correct position?” McKnight asks. Eventually, the alleged abuser says he’ll talk to McKnight over the phone later that day. He never called.

remove the “Wiki” from their title, McKnight says, which they did the following month, when they published apostle Henry B. Eyring’s paystubs from the year 2000, as well as three other documents. “We disclosed something that never in the history of the Mormon Church had been disclosed,” McKnight says of that leak. “We got all kinds of media coverage.” That spark showed McKnight he was onto something important. “If our content can open people’s eyes to the fact that, ‘Wait a minute. Maybe the LDS Church isn’t as transparent as we thought they were,’ that can lead to really meaningful discussions,” he says. “There’s so many different facets to the power that this information places in a person’s hands.”

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John Dehlin, founder of the Mormon Stories podcast, reached out to McKnight after the post went viral. McKnight helped connect Dehlin with the person who’d originally posted about the policy on Facebook, after which Dehlin took the information to the media. Later that night, McKnight recalls, Dehlin publicly thanked him on Reddit. “Because John made that post,” McKnight says, “I became known as ‘The Leaker.’” From then on, leaks started landing on McKnight’s lap about once a month. Almost a full year later, he created the YouTube channel titled “Mormon Leaks”— “I made it up on the spot,” McKnight says—so he could publish 15 leaked videos. They showed, among other things, church officials talking about whether Chelsea Manning was a “confirmed homosexual” and that former Sen. Gordon H. Smith, R-Oregon, had voted in favor of the Iraq War, in part, because he thought it would be an opportunity for the LDS Church to send missionaries there. “That is really what made everything national news,” McKnight says; The New York Times ran a story quoting McKnight, calling him “the conduit—but not the source—for the leaked videos.” After the wave of publicity, McKnight continued to be bombarded by potential leakers claiming to have information. “I had to piss or get off the pot,” he says. “I had to either go all-in on this or have to be like, ‘Hey guys, this was fun, but I have other stuff to do.’” That momentum ended up connecting Dodge and McKnight. The cyber security expert contacted McKnight after hearing him talk on a podcast about how he’d gotten the videos, leaving him concerned over the whistleblower’s anonymity. “The source was leaving digital fingerprints all over the place,” Dodge says. After reviewing several résumés, McKnight chose to work with Dodge to ensure anonymity and protection of MormonLeaks’ sources. The pair formally launched the website just before the end of 2016. Originally called “MormonWikiLeaks” because someone already was using the mormonleaks.com domain, the site got a good amount of attention, even before they had any leaks to publish. Administrators managing the WikiLeaks Twitter handle asked McKnight to

volunteers it. McKnight declines to talk about the additional methods he and Dodge employ to vet information, but says they look for “authenticity” and how the leak relates to their mission. He also points out they don’t blindly publish everything that’s submitted. “We’re not a tabloid,” McKnight says. The challenging verification process—not knowing who their sources are—makes it hard to confirm the information MormonLeaks publishes. “That’s the heart of the problem,” Feighery says, “If they don’t know where they got it, then how can any journalist come along and reconstruct?” For his part, McKnight says he worries about publishing something that could potentially turn out to be false. “But even then,” he says, “I’m confident in our process that that’s unlikely to happen; and if it does, it would just be an honest mistake that we would have to deal with.”

A Continuing Crusade

Glen Feighery, associate professor at the University of Utah’s Department of Communication, draws an obvious comparison to the similarly named, more controversial transparency website WikiLeaks. “MormonLeaks falls into this gray area: ‘Wow, lots of information, looks credible, what do we do with it?’” he says. Though similar in approach, McKnight is quick to disassociate from WikiLeaks. “We go to great lengths to redact names,” he says. “They seem to not redact anything, and not really care about the unintended consequences of that action.” Recalling his time as a journalist, Feighery, who is not Mormon, says reporters would have to share their sources’ identities with their editors, even if they were shielding said identities from the public for the source’s protection. “We had to at least know who they were. Because if we didn’t know who our source was, we had no way of judging their credibility,” he says. Not everything MormonLeaks publishes is from an anonymous source, but Dodge and McKnight both say that if someone sends them documents through SecureDrop, an open-source submission system that allows MormonLeaks to securely accept documents and communicate with their sources, the only way for them to learn the person’s identity is if he or she willingly

The Bullshit Meter

As of press time, MormonLeaks hasn’t published the documents backing the patriarch’s alleged sexual abuse of a minor. McKnight thinks the information is real, but he’s missing irrevocable proof. “I need a little bit more than just my feelings on it,” he says. “We haven’t been able to verify it to the point where we’re comfortable putting our seal of approval on its authenticity.” Previous sexual misconduct allegations and the perceived inaction of church leaders have led to calls for change, prompting the church to update its guidelines for preventing and responding to abuse and adopt new ones for interviewing youth. Sparks of reform, and using information to know whether reform is even needed, is what McKnight says keeps him motivated. “Awareness is power,” he declares. In the weeks ahead, while the two work their day jobs in opposite ends of the country, raise their respective kids and do their best to live normal lives in between, McKnight and Dodge will push forward, chipping away at confirming the most recent sexual abuse claims. McKnight acknowledges it can be tough to balance his truth-teller self with his family’s needs—“I’m Mormon, man!” he jokes about his large brood— but he tries to limit the time he spends on his sleuthing endeavors to when his kids are asleep and his wife is at work. “I don’t sleep,” he says, explaining he usually goes to bed around 11 p.m. and is up by dawn. “I still feel like we’re doing something important,” he says, “and something keeps telling me to keep doing it.” The determination is fitting for McKnight, a self-described “no-bullshit kind of guy.” Asked how the information MormonLeaks releases can help current church members, McKnight’s response is swift. “I can’t tell you how many Mormons go throughout their lives without very many original thoughts, especially if it’s something that’s not fully in line with what they’ve been told in the past,” he says. “It can help them break through—and I don’t mean break through and leave the church—but just break through and have an original thought for once.” He doesn’t know if he ever felt the need for something like MormonLeaks to exist growing up, but times—like attending church in a pre-Word of Wisdom cloud of tobacco smoke—change. “I wish that somebody, before the age of 32, had opened my eyes and explained the church is not as transparent as I thought it was,” he reflects. Even so, McKnight’s built-in BS detector, warped as it was back then, would have probably kicked in. “I would’ve assumed it was just a couple people rabblerousing or making mountains out of mole hills,” he says. “I purposely avoided reading anything negative.” CW KELAN LYONS

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“It would be perfectly reasonable for a person to look at that and say, ‘That’s not acceptable, and I don’t want to donate to a cause like that,’” McKnight says. Transparency pipe dreams aside, McKnight says he’s proud of the more informed conversations MormonLeaks has helped foster, and how the leaks he and Dodge have published have aligned with the group’s— TTF, MormonLeaks and FaithLeaks—three pillars of transparency: finances, policies and statistics on sexual abuse cases, settlements and other legal cases. In addition to being more thoughtful, engaged members of their religion, McKnight says Mormons can take those statistics on sexual abuse to leaders and ask what is being done, allowing church members to advocate for themselves and improve the Christian restorationist church from within. “You’re paying for that with your tithing dollars,” he says. “You’re giving your money assuming they are going to be good stewards of your money.” Inevitably, with public prominence comes backlash. “We get a lot of nasty emails,” McKnight says. No death threats, he clarifies, but they’ll receive messages with “the filthiest, nastiest language in them,” or long singleparagraph messages accusing them of being the devil. “It happened a lot early on,” McKnight says. “I think the longer we’re around, the more seriously people take us.”

Despite his qualms, Feighery says he doesn’t think MormonLeaks is bad. He says it could inspire younger Mormons to demand transparency within the church’s ranks, and it could be an opportunity for media types to employ a little more transparency of their own. “It gives journalists an opportunity to say, ‘This stuff is out there. Hey, public, I’m going to help you make sense of it,’” he says, meaning journalists can explicitly say, “This is what we can verify, and this is what we can’t.” “It never hurts to have information presented to the public,” Feighery says, carving out a caveat for so-called fake news. “Insofar as it appears that good, decent, smart people have looked at MormonLeaks and engaged in a conversation about it, that’s a good thing,” he says.

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The world of gaming is richer and more multifaceted than it has ever been, encompassing everything from vintage board games to cardbased collector games to immersive multiplayer online experiences. Salt Lake Gaming Con aims to celebrate all of those worlds and more over two full days of programming. Like any pop-culture convention, the event includes chances to meet some of the celebrities in the field, including video game voice actors like Christopher Judge, Danielle Bisutti and Jeremy Davies. Panel discussions offer insights into favorite games, and cosplay contests allow guests to turn themselves into realworld versions of favorite characters. Mostly, however, it’s a uniquely hands-on opportunity to be a part of the gaming world, whether that means testing your skills against others at a game you know well, or trying something for the first time. Attendees can settle in at the free play consoles for video games, join up for some live action role-playing with other LARP-ers, get active in the Nerf War Zone or find fellow enthusiasts for a tabletop game. Daily tournaments allow competitors to vie for open titles in games including Warhammer 40K, Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, Star Wars Destiny and Jenga. There’s even a game library where you can check out something you’ve never experienced before. The convention includes a youth area with age-appropriate entertainment including pinball machines, and a vendor floor offering a wide range of games and gear, meaning you’ve got the state’s most comprehensive showcase for those who never feel too old to play. (SR) Salt Lake Gaming Con @ Mountain America Expo Center, 9575 S. State, Sandy, July 6, noon-midnight; July 7, 10 a.m.midnight, $20-$85, saltlakegamingcon.com

Long before Hamilton’s phenomenal success, The Phantom of the Opera reigned on Broadway. In fact, it still reigns. Since its debut in London more than 30 years ago, this popopera musical has been thrilling and seducing audiences. Utahns have a chance to see a new and improved version of the longest-running Broadway show in all its glory as it stops by the Eccles Theater for a two-week engagement. Set during the heyday of the Paris Opera House in 1881, it follows a young performer named Christine Daaé, who is catapulted into the spotlight after the mysterious “Opera Phantom” scares away the company’s diva. But after Christine reconnects with her childhood sweetheart, Raoul, the Phantom tries desperately to control her. It’s a tale of human cruelty, of obsessive love and, strangely enough, hope for a better, kinder tomorrow. This latest tour of Phantom of the Opera includes the music, storytelling and the same costumes that made the original debut of this show such a beloved Broadway classic. However, it is being told on a grander and more elaborate scale than ever before. There are 52 cast and orchestra members, new lighting and pyrotechnics and new staging for some of the play’s most well-known scenes, such as Christine’s boat ride into the Phantom’s underground lair. This production also promises a new twist on the famous scene at the end of the first act. Incorporating new theatrical technology, the chandelier still will lunge over the audience’s heads as it has done for three decades. (Kylee Ehmann) The Phantom of the Opera @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 385-468-1010, July 11-22, dates and times vary, $85-$190, artsaltlake.org

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For 26 years, Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre has been turning Logan into a summer destination for a rich program filled with some of the most beloved works of the classical opera and Broadway musical canon. The actual productions, however, are only part of the story. Under the keen eye of founder and director Michael Ballam, UFOMT once again offers a five-week repertory season that packs four great main-stage shows into one month. Rossini’s comic opera The Barber of Seville— known to a generation of cartoon-watchers thanks to Bugs Bunny—finds the barber Figaro helping the love-struck nobleman Count Amaviva win the heart of his beloved Rosina. Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods turns the characters from fairy tales into a meditation on their dark lessons. The 1991 musical The Secret Garden adapts the classic Frances Hodgson Burnett novel, while the 2015 musical Amazing Grace profiles abolitionist John Newton (played by Ballam), who composed the famous hymn. Yet there’s even more to fill the already impressive schedule. Free 30-minute “informances” provide background context for each show one hour before curtain, while morning literary seminars explore the shows’ design and technical elements. One-night-only concerts include the light-hearted greatest-hits program The Pianists and a centennial birthday celebration of the works of Leonard Bernstein. Throw in the two-night International Opera Competition—where the audience helps pick the winner—and every week offers a unique mix of beautiful tunes and chances to learn. (Scott Renshaw) Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre @ Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan, 435-750-0300, through Aug. 4, dates and times vary, $13-$79, utahfestival.org

Sacramento-born comedian Key Lewis’ manic routines balance energy, improv and storytelling skills, a combination that makes him one of today’s most candid and unassuming entertainers. Sharing narratives about his family life and interracial relationships, he looks at current events through a lens of laughter and honest assessment. “You think you got problems,” he tells his audiences. “I’m half black, half white and I look Mexican.” Not surprisingly, that’s the title of his forthcoming film. Indeed, none of his subjects emerge unscathed. His honest, self-effacing routines allow him to improvise and interact, pointing out the ironies and idiosyncrasies of modern society somewhat absurd, and detailing them in ways that allow audiences to find consensus. He even manages to impart life lessons as well. “Comedy impacts people because we are so uncomfortable,” Lewis says via email. “It’s not the masses that make the world divisive. I believe most of us want to get past it, and laughter sheds light on how these things are everybody issues. Live, Love, Laugh.” A veteran of Marlon Wayans’ Funniest Wins, Starz Network’s StaannDup, Kevin Hart’s One Mic Stand and Bill Bellamy’s Who’s Got Jokes!, Lewis claimed top prize at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Laugh-Off, finished as a finalist in the 2010 Bay Area Black Comedy Competition and took top prizes at comedy competitions in San Francisco, Boston, Seattle and Portland. “The audience can expect the truth based on my personal experiences,” he says. “How I went from not having emotional intelligence to dealing with misguided individuals, to being able to make those incidents funny.” (Lee Zimmerman) Key Lewis @ Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, July 6-7 8 p.m., $15, wiseguyscomedy.com

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ver the course of its short local lifespan, Riot Act Theatre has been devoted to the idea of giving a modern spark to vintage works, like Poor Bastard updating Chekhov’s Ivanov, or Høüses working from Romeo and Juliet. So what is creative director Whit Hertford doing producing The Aliens, a 2010 work by relatively unknown American playwright Annie Baker? “I always do this thing where, if I’m going to program a show, I go, ‘Why this, why now and why me?’” Hertford says. “If the play I’m thinking about doesn’t hit all those questions with a relevance, I can’t just trot out my favorite corpse of a play because it’s like, ‘Oh, I really want to do this vanity project.’” The Aliens is a contemporary tale set in Vermont, where two 30-something friends spend their time hanging out behind a coffee shop, chatting about Charles Bukowski poetry and the bands they want to start. Over the course of the play, a teenage employee of the coffee shop tries to get the loiterers to move along, and instead gets roped into their conversation. The result is something that Hertford describes as a mash-up of Kevin Smith’s Clerks, American indie “mumblecore” cinema and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. The answer to the “why me” part of Hertford’s question is connected to his longtime friendship with actor Austin Archer. The two co-direct the production, and also play the two slacker pals, but their connection goes back to when Archer was the high school prom date of Hertford’s younger sister. “Our early Facebook messages were much more contentious than you might have expected, because we’re like brothers now,” Hertford says. “We had to feel each other out.” Still, Hertford says that Archer wasn’t initially sure about whether he was right for the show. “He said, ‘Do you really think I’m the best fit?’” Hertford recalls. “I said, ‘We hang out and get drunk all the time; we are these guys. We have these conversations.’” And Hertford even relished the opportunity to get on stage himself rather than simply work behind the scenes. “I’ve been acting since I was 4,” Hertford says, “but nobody asks me to act in Salt Lake. I don’t know if it’s because I have my other stuff

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going on, or if they think I’m an asshole. Probably a little bit of both.” The Aliens gave Hertford and Archer a perfect vehicle in which to work together, showing off a give and take that Hertford describes as “like a McEnroe/Borg match.” They also opted to take preparation for their characters—who once played in a band together—up another notch. “These guys always talk about how they’re musicians,” Hertford says. “There are a couple songs that we do [in the play]. They’re not good, and they’re not supposed to be good. But almost before we started rehearsals for the play, we said, ‘Let’s get into a rehearsal room with drums and a guitar and just play.’ So we did a couple of house shows as The Aliens. It was really cool to do a meta thing to fortify the bond we have on stage.” The “why this” and “why now” parts prove to be slightly more complicated. On one hand, Hertford acknowledges that a play about three white guys isn’t exactly edgy, “because we don’t need any more of that.” Yet he believes that Baker explores characters who could easily be interpreted as hippie burnouts in a sympathetic and perceptive way as something more akin to “gypsy artists.” “I think it speaks to the forgotten middle class in a way that’s surprising,” Hertford says. “There’s an empathy that Annie wrote, where you see these guys realize their missteps in life. … We live in a country currently that we have a really tough time communicating. And sometimes we don’t value our friendships the way we

Whit Hertford and Austin Archer in rehearsal for The Aliens.

should. It’s about asking bigger questions in a really simple way.” While The Aliens might not fit the profile of the kinds of shows Riot Act has done previously, Hertford believes it absolutely continues his emphasis on the importance of performance. This stripped-down show is also one that involves what he describes as a lot of “structured silences” in a play that explores boredom, which presents its own unique challenge for actors and directors. “It’s high-risk/high-reward,” Hertford says. “If we don’t keep our foot on the gas, that part of the play is going to be death.” With all of that, it still makes sense to be doing this show, right now, even if it’s not the kind of thing Riot Act was doing before. Maybe, Hertford suggests, especially if it’s not the kind of thing Riot Act was doing before: “Any time you have a mission statement, the sooner you can break the rules you’ve created for yourself, the better.” CW

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PERFORMANCE THEATER

Amazing Grace Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan, July 7-Aug. 4, dates and times vary, cachearts.org (see p. 17) Disney’s Newsies Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Sept. 1, dates and times vary, hct.org Into the Woods Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan, July 6-Aug. 3, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org (see p. 17) My Boy Pinocchio Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, July 7-Sept. 8, dates and times vary, hct.org Saturday’s Voyeur 2018 Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through Sept. 2, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org The Aliens Riot Act Theatre, Ember SLC, 623 S. State, July 5-6 & July 8, 7:30 p.m., riotacttheatre.org (see p. 18) The Barber of Seville Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan, through Aug. 3, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org (see p. 17) The Phantom of the Opera Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, July 11-22, dates and times vary, broadway-at-the-eccles.com (see p. 17) The Secret Garden Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S.

Main, Logan, July 7-Aug. 4, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org (see p. 17) The Who’s Tommy Egyptian Theatre, 325 Main, Park City, July 6-29, dates and times vary, parkcityshows.com You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Utah Theatre, 18 W. Center St., Logan, through Aug. 1, dates and times vary, utahfestival.org

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Utah Symphony: Bravo Broadway Deer Valley Snow Park Amphitheater, 2250 S. Deer Valley Drive, Park City, July 7, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Utah Symphony: Disney in Concert: A Silly Symphony Celebration Deer Valley Snow Park Amphitheater, 2250 S. Deer Valley Drive, Park City, July 6, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Utah Symphony: Mozart’s Violin Concerto St. Mary’s Church, 1505 White Pine Canyon Road, Park City, July 11, 8 p.m., artsaltlake.org

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Andrew Hobbs Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., July 6-7, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Kevin Farley Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, July 6-7, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

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VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Ancient Nights SLCC Center for Arts & Media, 1575 S. State, through July 10, slcc.edu Betta Inman Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, through July 14, artatthemain.com Buster Graybill: Informalism UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Sept. 8, utahmoca.org Chase Westfall: Control UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Aug. 9, utahmoca.org Chiura Obata: An American Modern Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Sept. 2, umfa.utah.edu Fuhst/Floating World Urban Arts Gallery, 137 S. Rio Grande St., through July 29, urbanartsgallery.org J. Vehar-Evanoff: Adrift Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, through July 14, modernwestfineart.com Laura Sharp Wilson: Small Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through July 6, heritage.utah.gov

Lauren K. Woodward: Movement, Balance and Refracted Light Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Aug. 18, slcpl.org (see p. 20) Mark Santos: The Spirit of Dance Main Library, Lower Urban Room Gallery, 210 E. 400 South, through July 20, slcpl.org Out Loud: Mostly Human Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through July 14, utahmoca.org Our Sacred Landscape Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through July 6, heritage.utah.gov Plein Air Public Lands: Utah Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, No. 125, through July 13, accessart.org Read the Fine Print DRAW Inc. Gallery, 752 6th Ave., through July 18, drawinc.org Resilience: Art By Survivors of Sexual Assault/Abuse Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, No. 125, through July 13, accessart.org The Spirit of Dance: Photographs by Mark Santos Main Library, Lower Urban Room Gallery, 210 E. 400 South, through July 20, slcpl.org Vanessa Romo: The Practice of Standing Still Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery, 1340 E. 100 South, through Aug. 3, saltlakearts.org

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By Jim Burton - Rocky Mountain Raceways Her driver’s license says 80, but aside from that almost nothing about Donna Vaughn screams, “It’s time to slow down.” Her attitude? Upbeat and adventurous. Her eyes? Bright, cheery and full of life. Her zest for life? Still going strong. Her reaction time? Well, she’s the fastest 80-year-old we can think of.

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During last weekend’s “Fox Hunt” event on the Young Kia Drag Strip, Donna buckled in behind the wheel of her brother’s daily driver and breezed down the strip. She even won a race during Saturday’s Street bracket. “ You know, hitting that gas pedal gave me a … well, I don’t know. It just was shocking,” she said as she chilling out in her brother Pat Shields’ trailer. “I mean, I felt good, this is fun!”

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Even as she made her way to the staging lanes other racers came up to offer support and advice. In particular several motorcycle racers came up to offer wisdom on the ins and outs of reaction time. Donna broke out in her only race Friday, but came back Saturday for another crack at it. She won her first race when her opponent red lit, but she lost her second race after a great effort. As she sat in Pat’s trailer last Saturday afternoon, happily talking about her first drag racing experience, Donna could not have been happier. “I don’t feel 80,” she said with a smile. That’s good because she sure doesn’t act 80 either.

Pat brought her out to the track for last Friday’s Summit ET Series event. He asked if she wanted to do some drag racing and Donna thought that sounded like fun. Behind the wheel of Pat’s car, she took a practice pass to get a feel for the lights and the reaction time.

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merican snack culture is having a cookie renaissance, and I know I’m not the only one who’s embracing it. Cookies are one of the few things we develop a sincere fondness for as children that isn’t absolutely wrecked by the time we hit adulthood. A freshly baked cookie gushing with melting chocolate is as comforting now as it ever was, and that’s something to be truly grateful for. The following is a list of my current cookie fixations, along with where you can find them.

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While it’s true that I was initially drawn to Over the Top Cookies because it appeared to have been named after one of my all-time favorite Sylvester Stallone flicks, I became a regular because of their mad-scientist approach. Their jam is to mix popular candy bars in their dough instead of chocolate chips— though you can also place a solid bet on the house Naked Chocolate Chip ($1.99). I also like the fact you can by all of their cookie varieties in smaller versions, making it easy to try a whole bunch of ’em without getting completely sugared out. Whenever I channel my inner Lincoln Hawk, I turn my hat around and go head-to-head with the LemonLicious. It’s a sugar cookie that’s been doused in lemon icing and baked with bits of Lemonheads candy in the dough, providing a winning mix of tart and sweet. Its supercharged lemon flavor is perfect for these hot summer nights—just add milk. Want a bite? I’ll arm wrestle you for it. CW 1665 Towne Center Drive, South Jordan, 801-495-5920, overthetopcookies.com

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In many ways, we have Chip Cookies to thank for the uptick in purveyors of cookie goodness. They propelled themselves straight out of Utah County and started the state’s very first cookiedelivery service and are expanding like their gigantic, freshly baked goods. With a shop in Salt Lake City and another in Boise, Idaho, the folks behind Chip are riding a cookie-dough wave of success. Yes, the delivery aspect is genius—they cater primarily to those who desperately

need a sugar rush in the middle of the night—but Chip’s cookies are like warm hugs stuffed with chocolate chips. Easily the size of my fist, they come in boxes of four for $10. If you’re wondering why you can’t buy them one at a time, it’s because they’re so soulfilling that you’re compelled to share them with somebody you love—or just pound the lot of them yourself—reveling in the pillowy texture and semisweet goo. Their chocolate chip cookie (pictured) is always available, but they sneak seasonal cookies onto their menu, too. Past examples in-

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There are myriad reasons to visit either of Tulie Bakery’s locations. From their effortlessly hip interior design to their locally sourced ingredients, it’s one of Salt Lake’s coolest bakeries. Having lived fairly close to Tulie’s 700 South location for several years, my wife and I grew fond of going on weekend cookie runs, giving us an excuse to try pretty much everything on the menu. To this day, the item that steals my heart is Tulie’s ginger cookie ($2.50). It’s a far cry from those familiar store-bought, brittle, sandy gingersnaps. The beautifully soft, coffee-colored squares are coated in granulated sugar. Each bite fills your senses with a rich, molasses-y sweetness, followed by the sharp tang of ginger that hits you in the back of the throat. They’re the perfect way to begin a weekend in autumn, letting the deep flavors ruminate on the tongue as orange leaves pepper the ground outside. 863 E. 700 South, 801-883-9741; 1510 S. 1500 East, 801-410-4217, tuliebakery.com

Ruby Snap was perhaps the first place to show Salt Lake that you could build a viable bakery exclusively on cookies. Not only is their menu packed with enough variety to satisfy even the most discerning connoisseur, but they have absolutely nailed it with their pinup-girl-circa-1960 aesthetic. Every time I go in, I feel like I’ve temporarily gone back in time to a romanticized version of America’s past. In keeping with that, all of Ruby Snap’s creations are blessed with the pic and personality of a lovely lady. My vote for belle of the ball always goes to Vivianna ($2.50), a cookie that puts mango and dark chocolate on a citrusdough dance floor and thrusts them into a sexy pasodoble. Granted, their monthly cookie often catches my eye, but there’s something about Viv that keeps me coming back for more. 770 S. 300 West, 801-834-6111, rubysnap.com

a cake—in a nice, deep ramekin that keeps it warm and melty while a pile of ice cream drizzles its way into the dessert. It’s a cookie that eats like a cake, and that is never a bad thing. 212 S. State, 801-224-7334; 9120 S. Redwood Road, West Jordan, 801-5665330, thechocolatedc.com

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Family-owned and operated Taquería Los Lee (2646 S. 700 East, 385-259-0764) has opened its Sugar House doors. They’re currently serving up combo plates consisting of either tacos or gorditas, which are somewhere in between a taco and a Salvadoran pupusa. The space is already looking pretty cozy—they’ve installed a colorful tile mosaic, and I’m digging the framed Mexican lotería cards scattered around the interior. Those familiar with the dearly departed Ali Baba Afghani restaurant will recognize the space, and it’s good to see the quaint little structure getting new life as the tasty taquería.

Sugar House Farmers Market Kicks Off

The Sugar House Farmers Market, your midweek stop for goodies produced in our own backyard, officially opens Wednesday, July 11. Vending takes place every hump day, 5-8 p.m. at Fairmont Park (1040 E. Sugarmont Drive) through September—meaning that between it and the Downtown Farmers Market, you can locally source pretty much everything you want to eat and drink throughout the summer and beyond. In addition to providing a venue for market-goers to meet some of the new green thumbs in the area, the Sugar House market is also a great place to catch live music and pick up a few new pieces of DIY art from SLC creators. A full list of events and vendors is available at sugarhousefarmersmarket.org.

Eat Drink SLC

In the three years since Eat Drink SLC’s inception, it’s grown into one of the Wasatch Front’s most celebrated events. Some say it’s because it draws local food vendors and restaurateurs like Beltex Meats, Copper Onion, Pallet and Normal Ice Cream; others credit the success to the event’s international selection of wine and spirits, while some believe it’s because Tracy Aviary (589 E. 1300 South) is the perfect venue to bring it all together. Regardless of who gets the credit, this annual culinary shindig is one hell of a good time. Not only has Eat Drink SLC helped locals familiarize themselves with Utah’s stellar food and wine scene, but it’s also managed to raise more than $45,000 for local nonprofits. This year’s beneficiary is Neighborhood House, an organization that provides affordable daycare for lowincome families. Mark your calendar for Thursday, July 12 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at eatdrinkslc.com for $90, which covers all the food and wine you can handle, plus a signature wine glass. Cheers! Quote of the Week: “Beer is made by men; wine by God.” –Martin Luther Food Matters tips: comments@cityweekly.net

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he edict, “The King is dead, long live the King!” simultaneously announces the death of the previous monarch and salutes the new one. For our purpose: We acknowledge Saltfire Brewing Co.’s brief five-week reign as Utah’s new brewery, even as we welcome the state’s new newness, Toasted Barrel Brewery. Toasted Barrel was founded by homebrewers Sage Dawson and Lynn Litchfield as a brewery dedicated to sour beers. Proper barrel-aged sour beers can take quite a while to mature (up to a year), so while those beers are napping in oak barrels, Dawson and Lichfield offer more traditional ales. Four Saisons: This beer has a hazy yellow grass color. The aroma brings out earthy and spicy yeast, along with some hints of grainy and caramel malts. Once in your mouth, the flavors turn maltier, with

notes of caramel and graham cracker. From here, the yeast phenolics come into play, a bit more subdued than it is in the nose. The end is slightly earthy with a low dose of bitterness and a semi-dry finish. Overall: This 4-percent beer is rather malty for the style, but has nice aromas and flavors of earthy yeast that will appeal to people who are not typically huge saison fans or those looking to get acquainted with this style. Weisse Man: Pouring a dark straw to light orange, the nose consists of apple, pear and a good dose of tart lemon, but the taste is even more sour than the aroma lets on. There are some unripened berries, prune and a moderate lemony zap. Some hint of wheat bread crust is also present. Toward the end, you get other sour notes that are akin to green apple peel, as it finishes dry and puckering. The mouth feel is fine and a lot smoother than I would have expected, considering the high pH levels. Overall: There are plenty of Berliner weisses out there right now, but this one has an advantage of having a nice yet barely perceivable fruitiness. It’s worth checking out, for sure. Cantaloupe Sour: It pours a nice maize color with some faint orange highlights. The aroma has pleasant green melon, moist bread and apple cider notes, but the melon really sets it apart. The taste starts with cantaloupe—fruity and fresh, with background

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nuances of tart apple cider. Soft wheat notes come in next, with a soft, spicy lemon peel and orange touch rounding out the back end. It’s much less tart than its aforementioned brother. Overall: It might sound gimmicky, but they managed to really pull this one off. The fruity, fresh and wet cantaloupe combines nicely with the tart base. Definitely worth your quatloos! Belgian Dubbel: This offering is dark brown with ruby highlights. It smells like dark fruit, with lots of candied sugar, yeast and solid spice characteristics. The flavors are fruitier than the nose lets on, including some figs and raisins, but they have a distinct spice to them that is almost holiday-

like. The yeast and caramel malt backbone pull it all together. It’s moderately sweet, but the bitterness from some hops keeps it balanced. Overall: This 7-percent ale is malty and spicy with complex phenolic yeast qualities. Toasted Barrel is currently classified as a tasting room and not a bar. That means you are only allowed to have up to 16 ounces per person per day. Their sampler flights, however, seem to cover this restriction nicely. Dawson and Litchfield are waiting for a proper bar license, and 22-ounce bottles of Toasted Barrel beers are also available to go from the brewery’s bottle shop. Welcome to the craft-beer community, and cheers! CW

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don’t know about you, but in the wake of Avengers: Infinity War, I needed a Marvel Cinematic Universe palate-cleanser. Sure, plenty of fans grooved to the story’s massive cast of battling super-heroes, and were shaken by the monumental casualties of the finale—likely temporary though they might be. But the “everything has been leading up to this moment” set-up resulted in a movie that tried to take the inherent frivolousness and reversibility of comic-book narratives and load it down with Significance. How many light-years removed did it feel from 2015’s Ant-Man or last year’s Thor: Ragnarok, in which being a costumed do-gooder could feel like silly, self-aware fun? Director Peyton Reed and a team of writers including star Paul Rudd return for AntMan and the Wasp, and while it’s significant to note that this movie is set chronologically before the world-shifting events of Infinity War, it’s also temperamentally separated from that apocalyptic scenario. There’s a kind of blissful relief in remembering that a super-hero story can be small, personal and not burdened with the fate of all existence. That’s not to say that the events of other Marvel movies don’t play a role in the premise, as Scott Lang (Rudd) finds himself under house arrest at the outset, a consequence of his involvement in the German airfield donnybrook in Captain America: Civil War. Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) are fugitives as a result of their Ant-Man technology being involved in that battle—don’t ask; it feels like a pretty tenuous thread on which to hang a criminal charge—leaving Scott estranged from his one-time partners. But when Scott has a strange dream about his Ant-Man visit to the Quantum Realm, Hank and Hope come to believe that he might hold the key to freeing Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer)—Hank’s wife, Hope’s mom and the original Wasp—from her 30-year

imprisonment there. Ah, but there’s a catch: A mysterious character known as Ghost (Hannah JohnKamen) wants to get her hands on the Quantum Realm-visiting technology, for reasons that are ultimately described in a fairly epic piece of exposition dumping. A shady black marketeer (Walton Goggins) is similarly pursuing the tech, overly complicating a story that seems like it would have been full of sufficient emotional consequence had it simply been a rescue narrative—and indeed, the relationship between Hope and her mother feels fairly shortchanged. If there’s one reliable thing about the MCU movies, it’s that they rarely find the most streamlined way of getting from Punch A to Punch B. This one does, however, usually find the funniest way of getting there. Like the first AntMan, it’s an action-comedy that doesn’t simply toss in a few jokes. The laughs come with regularity, whether it’s from the vaguely ineffectual FBI agent (Randall Park) overseeing Scott’s case, or an absurdist argument over what does or does not constitute a “truth serum,” or most definitely thanks to the return of Michael Peña as Scott’s motor-mouthed prison buddy/business partner Luis. Reed grasps how to craft action sequences that aren’t just kinetically effective—and they are that, even though there’s a sameness to the shrink-grow-kick-shrink dynamic—but can leave you with a goofy smile. Most of all, Ant-Man and the Wasp figures out how to use Paul Rudd in a way that the

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original movie never quite did in its focus on Scott’s ex-con unhappiness over being separated from his daughter. An early montage finds Scott trying to figure out ways to stave off boredom during the waning days of his house arrest, including karaoke and learning to play drums, making the most of Rudd’s loose-limbed charms. He has a sense of comedic timing that’s kind of unfair in someone as conventionally handsome as he is, and it’s delightful to see this movie understand how to use it. If there’s one disappointment connected with how well Rudd’s talents are employed, it’s how much he overshadows Evangeline Lilly, who’s mostly stuck with the angst that weighed down Rudd the first time around. The long wait to finally get a woman in the title of an MCU movie doesn’t yield the best results here, as the story places all the seriousness on Hope and Hank. Everything clicks better when the emphasis is on wit, craziness and the delight of knowing it’s not the end of the world as we know it, and they feel fine. CW

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NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net ANT-MAN AND THE WASP BBB See review on p. 30. Opens July 6 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) BOUNDARIES BB.5 Laura (Vera Farmiga) has vowed never again to see her former drug-dealer father, Jack (Christopher Plummer). Now, Jack has been kicked out of his nursing home, and she has to drive him across three states to leave him with her sister (Kristen Schaal). Mildly wacky road-trip shenanigans ensue, such as Jack selling pot to Buddhist monks. But the indignities to which writerdirector Shana Feste subjects her characters in the name of family dramedy—including Jack’s reliance on adult diapers—verge on the uncomfortable, particularly because there’d be no story if she didn’t. But worse is the utter obliviousness Laura has to maintain about what her father—with the help of her teenaged son (Lewis MacDougall)—is up to. The cast is a delight to spend time with, but they’re more pitiable than a lighthearted story about their inevitable reconciliation should demand. Opens July 6 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson THE FIRST PURGE [not yet reviewed] Origin story behind America’s first 24-hour orgy of consequencefree crime. Opens July 4 at theaters valleywide. (R) WHITNEY BBBB She had a voice like no one had heard before, which helped make

her the undisputed “Queen of Pop” from the late ’80s through the ’90s. She was dead by 2012, aged only 48, her body ravaged by years of drug and alcohol abuse. Now, British filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (Touching the Void) looks back at Whitney Houston’s life and work in this documentary with a keenly journalistic but hugely sympathetic eye, talking to family, friends and colleagues to paint a classically epic portrait of fame, celebrity, talent and demons—one we’re all too familiar with, yet rarely features a woman at its center, and an African-American woman almost never. Macdonald digs up potentially sensational tidbits about Houston’s childhood and her adult life that might help explain why, as someone says sadly, “deep down she was a girl in pain.” Yet he handles them with grace and maintains a dignity on behalf of his subject that, combined with a get-up-and-dance deployment of her music, might bring her a new generation of fans. And rightly so. Opens July 6 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—MAJ

CURRENT RELEASES INCREDIBLES 2 BBB Brad Bird has always been philosophically ambitious as a writer, which can get in the way of his kinetic chops. This sequel picks up where the original left off, sending 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-athome 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)—Scott Renshaw

SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO B.5 In this unpleasant sequel to the 2015 film that grappled with the morality of the drug war, there’s no more grappling—just swaggering, non-introspective federal agents who seem to enjoy killing. The objective is to defeat Mexican drug cartels by pitting them against each other, so shadowy black-ops agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) kidnaps a drug lord’s daughter and blames a rival cartel; when that gets screwed up, Graver and his semi-psychotic associate Alejandro (Benicio del Toro) do more questionable things to fix it. Emily Blunt served as the conscience of the first film, but she isn’t here, and no one takes her place. The fact that nobody questions anything or learns from mistakes might be a potent metaphor for American policy, but any self-reflection or nuance in Taylor Sheridan’s joyless screenplay has been flattened by blunt direction. (R)—Eric D. Snider

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JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM BB.5 If you’ve seen The Lost World: Jurassic Park, you’ve pretty much seen this sequel to Jurassic World. Once again, rich assholes want to “rescue” dinosaurs left behind after the park was abandoned; once again, it doesn’t go well. Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt are somehow even blander this time around, but the sequence in which the island’s volcano goes kerflooey, setting off panic among humans and dinosaurs trying to escape, is deliciously intense. The promise this movie was sold on—i.e., 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. Still: dinosaurs, right? (PG-13)—MAJ

UNCLE DREW BB Turning an ad campaign into a feature film is a sketchy enough proposition, but what if you remove the only thing that made those commercials entertaining? In a series of Pepsi Max spots, NBA star Kyrie Irving secretly dons old-age makeup and dazzles oblivious schoolyard basketball players. Here, Irving’s septuagenarian alter-ego Uncle Drew is a Harlem street-ball legend, convinced to round up his old team by a sadsack coach (Get Out’s Lil Rel Howery) seeking redemption. Drew’s teammates are similarly played by hoops stars under mountains of prosthetics, and the “getting the band back together” vibe is amusing for a while. But amiability only goes so far once the underdog-sports-movie plot kicks in, and everyone on-screen knows the oldsters are actually great players. Also: Never waste Tiffany Haddish, and act like we’d rather watch Reggie Miller try to be funny. (PG-13)—SR

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message against the NRA: “I was compelled to take it directly to the source of the problem, this gun lobbying group, instead of trying to wade through all the conservative folks who wouldn’t otherwise hear the message.” Calling herself a “Second Amendment liberal,” her commonsense arguments are ready-made to cut through the partisan muck. She believes in gun ownership and gun laws, along with stricter enforcement of such laws. “People who don’t really want to understand me or feel threatened by my stance say I’m anti-gun, even though I’m not,” she says. “Wanting people to stop at stoplights doesn’t mean you’re anti-car. The same way I want people to obey traffic laws, I want people to obey gun regulations. All it took was one guy with a bomb in his shoe and now millions of us have to take our shoes off every time we enter an airport. And yet, since Columbine, we’ve done very little to stop gun violence.” Breaking down the velocity, range and killing power of a bullet fired from a handgun versus a bullet fired from an AR-15 while bemoaning the fact that the NRA never seems to step in and defend the gun rights of marginalized groups, Shamaya definitely knows that of which she speaks. An avid reader and “sadistic scribbler,” her expertise is evident. “What I say is meant to provoke,” she says. “I’m not afraid to stand by it. I just make sure I know what I’m upset about.” But she’s optimistic about the coming November midterm elections. “I don’t think Trump and his regime know what they’ve started,” Shamaya says. “They’ve reawakened the American spirit, which is not based on a monarchy or a bloodline. It’s based on an idea—that all are created equal and equally deserving of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There’s no asterisk about what gender, orientation, race, religion or creed you have to be. It just says ‘all.’ That’s what we’re fighting for.” CW

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tep Shamaya is intense. As a songwriter, as the frontwoman of her synonymous metal band and as an activist, the California native has famously built a career around strident positions. Whether it’s on LGBTQ issues, on veganism, on political agitation or on issues of social justice, you always know where you stand with Otep. Take, for instance, her forthcoming album, Kult 45. On the lead single “To the Gallows,” she motivates her base with “a song for the heretics/ to resist the dictatorship.” She calls Donald Trump a “traitor” and a “morally corrupt demagogue” before grinding through this chorus: “Blood on your hands/ Blood on your suit/ Does your necktie/ Feel like a noose?/ We’ll walk you to the gallows/ You can choke on the truth.” “I’m pretty fearless about confronting that which is false or misleading,” says Shamaya, who describes herself as a “loud-mouthed lesbian radical” standing up for America’s working class and marginalized groups. “Once we started to see all the traitorous things that Resident Chump started doing after being put in office—the trampling of our Constitution and our civil liberties—I knew I needed to write about what’s happening.” Co-produced with guitarist Aristotle Mihalopoulos, Kult 45 is polished and professional while properly capturing the full Otep band’s legendary live energy, which Shamaya calls “spiritual intercourse.” Taking on gender inequality, rape culture, newly resurgent American hate groups, evangelical hypocrisy and gun violence, the songs on the album edge away from the nü-metal tag critics once bestowed upon them. Instead, Kult 45’s fast, heavy sound is rooted in that most political of hardcore bands: Rage Against the Machine. Like Rage, Otep examines the broadly intersectional state of activism and agitation. “The Resistance is exclusively inclusive,” she says. “Seeing the way that all these things come together is empowering. This is the ugly side of America, detaining asylum-seekers and ripping their children away from them for a misdemeanor offense and then quoting the Bible to try and justify it without finishing the verse where the same guy saying it’s Biblical to follow the laws is put to death for not following the law.” Never one to shy away from provocation, Shamaya outlines the way that our current state of affairs pales in comparison to the genocide of Native Americans, to the transatlantic slave trade and to the Japanese-American internment camps that dotted the Mountain West (including Utah) during World War II. “When people today say, ‘That’s not America,’ well, that’s a falsehood,” she says. “We have a long history of stealing children away from their parents and Resident Chump is just the latest despot doing it. His regime is cruel and corrupt, and it all comes from the fact that, until he became president, Trump spent his whole life feeling powerless. Now he can finally live out his fantasies of being cruel.” It’s hard to contain Shamaya’s rage in just a 20-minute interview, but when asked to riff on another subject near and dear to her heart, she chose gun violence. The second single off Kult 45, “Shelter in Place,” arrived in the world with a very vocal and very direct

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Thievery Corporation is the shared brainchild of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, two world music aficionados who joined forces in a Washington, D.C., nightclub in 1995. Across 10 studio albums, they’ve dabbled in downtempo electronic music, lounge, reggae and bossa nova, but the style doesn’t really matter so long as it induces nodding heads and tapping feet. Basically, they’re all about smooth grooves—the less offensive, the better. Indeed, critics often decry Thievery Corporation’s tranquil productions as sterile and characterless. Yeah, there’s a bit of truth in that. But not everything has to rock or bump. The group’s latest, Treasures from the Temple, would make a good soundtrack for a dinner party or bar where the music’s quiet enough to carry on a conversation. But don’t let that discourage you from attending their Ogden Twilight show. In a live setting, Thievery Corporation is fully capable of infusing songs with more energy than the chilled-out recorded versions. Opening is Kishi Bashi, an experimental solo artist who founded Brooklyn rock band Jupiter One and served as a recording and touring member of indie darlings Of Montreal. Bashi creates complex and jubilant fusions of electronic and classical elements that drive ahead with straightforward rock rhythms. (Howard Hardee) Ogden Amphitheater, 343 E. 25th St., 5 p.m., $10 presale; $15 day of show; $50 VIP, all ages, ogdenamphitheater.com

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There really isn’t a word to describe the genre of music that Salt Lake City band Visitors creates. If I had to come up with a convoluted phrase, I would say it sounds like Glassjaw and Letlive had a love-triangle baby with Chino Moreno, then that baby grew up on prog rock and had an obsession with reverse evolution. However, there is no designer baby, and (apparently) no knowledge of how biology works on my part. But there’s more to these five guys than meets the eye. Musicians are created not by following the rules, but by breaking them. As “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott once said, “The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.” Visitors strays away from any comfort zone or rulebook on their debut album, Crest, which serves as a sequel to 2017 EP Vortices, A Foreword. As the self-taught quintet states, Crest is “a

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work of fiction” centered around a person on the brink of a psychotic break. With singles like “Pollyanna,” which is equal parts melodic and chaotic, the band captures listeners’ attention, reminding us that we are all going through this together. For seven years, Visitors has cultivated an energetic stage presence and continues to evolve their musicianship while growing their fanbase on the West Coast and beyond. For anyone who isn’t hung up on labels and craves music that is honest and different, this show is for you. Visitors enlists Sacramento veterans Middle Class Rut and San Francisco’s Black Maps to celebrate the Crest album release. (Rachelle Fernandez) Club X, 445 S. 400 West, 8 p.m., $14 presale; $16 day of show, 21+, clubxslc.com

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Music created en plein air is a joy—a celebration of the senses that heightens music’s social nature and inevitably captures the spirit of the people creating it. So it goes with Mexican-American band La Santa Cecilia, which recorded its most recent album Amar y Vivir across five days spent performing in the streets, bars and parks of Mexico City. With songs touching on cumbia, bossa nova, boleros and countless other Mexican folk traditions, it’s impossible to resist the

Thievery Corporation soul pouring forth from lead singer Marisoul Hernandez, accordionist and requintero Jose Carlos, bassist Alex Bendaña and percussionist Miguel Ramirez. While their 2013 album Treinta Dias won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album, Amar y Vivir can’t be beat. The performances are near flawless, reflecting the musicians’ innate expertise. Music videos for songs like “Leña de Pirul” capture curious onlookers letting La Santa Cecilia’s mixture of heartbreak and triumph wash over them. And, with July 4 in the rearview and the United States’ southern border still convulsing over migrant detentions, family separations and sped-up prosecutions, the rockabilly-conjunto mash-up “México Americano” comes as a revelation. Marisoul sings, “Por mi madre soy Mexicano/ Por destino soy Americano.” If you need a translation, it’s “From my mother I am Mexican/ By destiny I am American.” In other words, patriotism means different things to different people. But with music as our common language, we can all come together. (Nick McGregor) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $25, 21+, thestateroom.com

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Jeremy Enigk was way ahead of his time. Back in 1996, his album Return of the Frog Queen didn’t make much sense. How could you marry British folk and American punk? Symphonic chamber pop and squiggly prog rock had yet to meet. Surrealist lyricism wasn’t really a thing. Two years before Neutral Milk Hotel’s 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea became a North Star for the freaks and geeks who grew up into the indie rock cognoscenti, there was Enigk’s conceptual Return of the Frog Queen. The fact that Enigk also served as the lead singer and guitarist of Seattle’s post-hardcore heroes Sunny Day Real Estate shouldn’t come as a surprise; the punks were always way ahead of their time. They just didn’t go off the rails quite like Enigk did when Sunny Day Real Estate burned up in their own successful stratosphere and saw their 21-year-old frontman go deep down a Fairport Convention-inspired rabbit hole with a 21-piece orchestra. Flagrant theatricality and orchestral experimentation, ringing falsettos and finger-picked acoustic ditties—Return of the Frog Queen had it all and then some. The esoteric lyrics seem fabulist, even nonsensical, but they brilliantly

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For more than a century, Harlem has been a hotbed of creativity. Since he first exploded on the hip-hop scene, rapper A$AP Ferg has represented his roots, tracing his streetwise artistry back to the Harlem Renaissance and its long list of heroes: Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston and Harry Belafonte, just to name a few. Ferg also traces hip-hop’s style and slang to Harlem dignitary Dapper Dan, whose 125th Street shop defined the highflying era of custom apparel. Dan’s tailormade Gucci-print outfits became gangster chic, and he even hosted a Mike Tyson fight in his store, paving the way for young Harlemites like Ferg to see their homes as launching pads. Ferg represents Harlem in his own way, mixing trap chants with introspection while holding true to the core lyrical values of a storied neighborhood steeped in hip-hop heavyweights like Big L, Puff Daddy, DJ Red Alert, Doug E. Fresh and Cam’ron. Oh, and there’s Ferg’s own crewmate, A$AP Rocky, around which the whole A$AP crew revolves. But Ferg has started standing on his own. The 29-year-old is in his prime as an MC, and there’s no doubt he’ll deliver a high level of energy to make this make-up date (originally scheduled for last fall) a memorable show. Add booming 808 drums and catchy hooks from supporting acts IDK, Buddy and DJ Juggy, and that Ferg charm should light up the room. (Keith L. McDonald) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $30, $85-$125 VIP, all ages, thecomplexslc.com

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Paul Thorn is a true Southern gentleman—a singer, songwriter and former boxer whose level-headed attitude hides a hint of humor along with a solid sense of reverence. With respect to his blues roots, Thorn provides a mix of honesty, humility and happenstance, making him one of today’s more distinctive traveling troubadours. It’s also instilled in him an everyman attitude that his devotees have quickly come to admire. His self-effacing approach is flush with both charm and amusement, ensuring that Thorn’s performances put a full emphasis on entertainment. His music is imbued with a decidedly spiritual perspective—scope that photo in front of a church, no less—and his latest album, Don’t Let the Devil Ride, simulates a kind of merry revival show that finds him shunning Satan with energy and enthusiasm. Thorn touts that spirit on tour with a full live ensemble in tow; in Salt Lake City, the show is presented by Pat’s BBQ, and even comes with a buffet option for those really looking to relish the Southern vibes. Thorn himself plays the role of a perky preacher—never stern, always engaging and full of the sass and spunk that has characterized his playful approach from early on. He sings of lessons learned as a child, often surrounded by wild relatives, an assortment of characters he later dubbed his “pimps and preachers.” Credit their influence and experiences with making him one sharp Thorn indeed. (Lee Zimmerman) The Commonwealth Room, 195 W. Commonwealth Ave., 8 p.m., $25; $45 with dinner, 21+, thecommonwealthroom.com

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If you blink while driving down 300 South, you might miss Junior’s Tavern. Luckily, the bar’s giant sign is a dead giveaway. It was at this dark, jazzy tavern where I met Jesse, a health care worker who specializes in occupational therapy. Jesse aids men and women in rehabilitating from traumatic brain injuries and strokes. He described Junior’s Tavern as his “old stomping grounds,” and seemed impressed by my understanding of occupational therapy vs. any other form of physical therapy. “That’s hands, right?” I ask him. “Kind of,” he replies. “It’s upper extremity stuff—more about task accomplishment.” As we continue to chat and sip our beers, Jesse gets comfortable enough to share a very personal yet triumphant story. “One of my patients had a midbrain stroke,” he says. “It’s like someone’s trapped inside their own body.” He continues explaining how challenging it is for a stroke patient to isolate movement in the fingers: “It’s very complex. So the last day I was working with him, his wife was there, and he starts bringing his shoulders up. He goes into supination and just isolates both middle fingers.” I started laughing so loud the bartender was probably wondering what the hell my problem was. “He gave everyone the bird,” Jesse says. It was a proud moment at work for him, and I can understand why. After months of therapy, Jesse’s work had an impact on this man. We can all only wish we’re half as cool as him. (Rachelle Fernandez) Junior’s Tavern, 30 E. 300 South, 801-322-0318, juniorstavern.com

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): An open letter to Cancerians from Rob Brezsny’s mother, Felice: I want you to know that I played a big role in helping my Cancerian son become the empathetic, creative, thoughtful, crazy character he is today. I nurtured his idiosyncrasies. I made him feel secure and wellloved. My care freed him to develop his unusual ideas and life. So as you read Rob’s horoscopes, remember that there’s part of me inside him. And that part of me is nurturing you just as I once nurtured him. I and he are giving you love for the quirky, distinctive person you actually are, not some fantasy version of you. I and he are helping you feel more secure and well-appreciated. Now, I encourage you to cash in on all that support. As Rob has told me, it’s time for you Cancerians to reach new heights in your drive to express your unique self. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The ghost orchid is a rare white wildflower that disappeared from the British countryside about 1986. The nation’s botanists declared it officially extinct in 2005. But four years later, a tenacious amateur located a specimen growing in the West Midlands area. The species wasn’t gone forever, after all. I foresee a comparable revival for you in the coming weeks, Leo. An interesting influence or sweet thing that you imagined to be permanently defunct might return to your life. Be alert!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you somehow growing younger? Your stride seems bouncier and your voice sounds more buoyant. Your thoughts seem fresher and your eyes brighter. I won’t be surprised if you buy yourself new toys or jump in mud puddles. What’s going on? Here’s my guess: you’re no longer willing to sleepwalk your way through the most boring things about being an adult. You might also be ready to wean yourself from certain responsibilities unless you can render them pleasurable at least some of the time. I hope so. It’s time to bring more fun and games into your life. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Twentieth-century French novelist Marcel Proust described nineteenth-century novelist Gustave Flaubert as a trottoire roulant, or “rolling sidewalk”: plodding, toneless, droning. Meanwhile, critic Roger Shattuck compared Proust’s writing to an “electric generator” from which flows a “powerful current always ready to shock not only our morality but our very sense of humanity.” In the coming weeks, I encourage you to find a middle ground between Flaubert and Proust. See if you can be moderately exciting, gently provocative, and amiably enchanting. My analysis of the cosmic rhythms suggests that such an approach is likely to produce the best long-term results.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You remind me of Jack, the 9-year-old Taurus kid next door, who took up skateboarding on the huge trampoline his two moms put in their backyard. Like him, you seem eager to travel SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Have you entertained any high-quality fantasies about faraway trea- in two different modes at the same time. (And I’m glad to see sures lately? Have you delivered inquiring communiqués to any prom- you’re being safe; you’re not doing the equivalent of, say, having ising beauties who might ultimately offer you treats? Have you made sex in a car or breakdancing on an escalator.) When Jack first long-distance inquiries about speculative possibilities that could be began, he had difficulty in coordinating the bouncing with the inclined to travel in your direction from their frontier sanctuaries? rolling. But after a while he got good at it. I expect that you, too, Would you consider making some subtle change in yourself so that will master your complex task. you’re no longer forcing the call of the wild to wait and wait and wait? GEMINI (May 21-June 20): From the day you were born, you have been cultivating a knack SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If a down-to-earth spiritual teacher advised you to go on a five-day for mixing and blending. Along the way, you have accomplished meditation retreat in a sacred sanctuary, would you instead spend mergers that would have been impossible for a lot of other peofive days carousing with meth addicts in a cheap hotel? If a close ple. Some of your experiments in amalgamation are legendary. friend confessed a secret she had concealed from everyone for If my astrological assessments are accurate, the year 2019 will years, would you unleash a nervous laugh and change the subject? bring forth some of your all-time most marvelous combinations If you read a horoscope that told you now is a favorable time to cul- and unifications. I expect you are even now setting the stage tivate massive amounts of reverence, devotion, respect, gratitude, for those future fusions; you are building the foundations that innocence and awe, would you quickly blank it out of your mind and will make them natural and inevitable. What can you do in the coming weeks to further that preparation? check your Instagram and Twitter accounts on your phone?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Is there any prize more precious than knowing your calling? Can any other satisfaction compare with the joy of understanding why you’re here on earth? In my view, it’s the supreme blessing: to have discovered the tasks that can ceaselessly educate and impassion you; to do the work or play that enables you to offer your best gifts; to be intimately engaged with an activity that consistently asks you to overcome your limitations and grow into a more complete version of yourself. For some people, their calling is a job: marine biologist, kindergarten teacher, advocate for the homeless. For others, it’s a hobby, like long-distance-running, bird-watching, or mountain-climbing. St. Therese of Lisieux said, “My calling is love!” Poet Marina Tsvetaeva said her calling was “To listen to my soul.” Do you know yours, Libra? Now is an excellent time to either discover yours or home in further on its precise nature.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Allergies, irritants, stings, hypersensitivities: sometimes you can make these annoyances work in your behalf. For example, my allergy to freshly-cut grass meant that when I was a teenager, I never had to waste my Saturday afternoons mowing the lawn in front of my family’s suburban home. And the weird itching that plagued me whenever I got into the vicinity of my first sister’s fiancé: If I had paid attention to it, I wouldn’t have lent him the $350 that he never repaid. So my advice, my itchy friend, is to be thankful for the twitch and the prickle and the pinch. In the coming days, they might offer you tips and clues that could prove valuable.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The ancient Greek poet Sappho described “a sweet-apple turning red high on the tip of the topmost branch.” The apple pickers left it there, she suggested, but not because they missed seeing it. It was just too high. “They couldn’t reach it,” wrote Sappho. Let’s use this scenario as a handy metaphor for your current situation, Virgo. I am assigning you the task of doing whatever is necessary to fetch that glorious, seemingly unobtainable sweetapple. It might not be easy. You’ll probably need to summon extra ingenuity to reach it, as well as some as-yet unguessed form of help. (The Sappho translation is by Julia Dubnoff.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A typical working couple devotes an average of four minutes per day to focused conversation with each other. And it’s common for a child and parent to engage in meaningful communication for just 20 minutes per week. I bring these sad facts to your attention, Capricorn, because I want to make sure you don’t embody them in the coming weeks. If you hope to attract the best of life’s blessings, you will need to give extra time and energy to the fine art of communing with those you care about.

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What Is Art? As part of the Dark Mofo art festival, Australian performance artist Mike Parr, 73, entered a steel tomb below busy Macquarie Street in Hobart on June 14, where he meditated, drew and read as traffic flowed overhead for 72 hours until his release on June 17. Parr had water but no food, and oxygen was pumped into the box. His performance was promoted as a “response to 20thcentury totalitarian violence,” according to The Guardian, but the piece didn’t speak to everyone. “I don’t take anything away from it at all,” said Carolyn Bowerman from Townsville. “I’m just amazed that someone would put themselves through this and go to this much effort.” In a previous performance art piece, Parr hacked at a prosthetic arm with an ax before a shocked audience.

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Czech This Out Czechoslovakian president Milos Zeman called a news conference on June 14 in Prague, where Zeman instructed two firefighters in protective gear to incinerate a huge pair of red underpants as reporters watched. The underwear had been hoisted during a 2015 protest at Prague Castle, replacing the presidential flag and symbolizing Zeman’s close relationship with Russia and China. Zeman told reporters, according to the Associated Press: “I’m sorry to make you look like little idiots, you really don’t deserve it.” Zeman’s longstanding difficulties with the press include an incident last year when he waved a fake machine gun at them.

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