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OPINION Where Is the Love?

Mia Love, for all her lofty rhetoric, is but another of the swamp creatures who are thriving in Washington’s murky depths. Shouting through her megaphone and doing her Team Trump cheerleading routine, she has embraced the Christian Right “values” while totally forgetting the admonition of the “do unto others” essentials of charity, integrity and love. Considering her humble beginnings, she, of all people, should have a profound empathy for the plight of others, yet she has shown a surprising callousness to the pressing human issues facing our nation today.

Love’s father, Jean M. Bourdeau, acknowledged, in a 2012 interview that he was only able to reunite his family—two children were left behind in Haiti—after Love was born in the U.S. in 1975; yet she was one of the congressional representatives who suffered from the cat-got-your-tongue-syndrome over the tragic and cruel separation of thousands of children and babies from their families at the border with Mexico.

Oh, yes, Love finally spoke up about it as any caring mother should, but not until weeks had passed and there had been a general outcry from multi-denominational religious and civic leaders and aghast child advocates. Far too late, she jumped on the bandwagon only because it would have been an embarrassment not to have done so. She now vocally decries Trump’s application of immigration policy, and has pushed to end the cruelty. Yet, she still supports deporting other anchor babies to their countries of origin.

Love’s deplorable, lengthy inaction on the kidnapping debacle puts into question whether she actually possesses a beating human heart. That seems to be just one of the essentials she lacks. For some reason, I was under the impression that all the swamp creatures were vertebrates, but Love has been spineless along with most of her congressional pals.

Each time it starts to look like she might have a genuine interest in promoting the happy lives of fellow Americans, Love’s true colors bleed through her charming façade. Her recent push to make it easier for Utahns to borrow money is simply the prostitution of her congressional position to the moneyed interests of our financial institutions. Doing away with all the protections of the Dodd-Frank legislation, she has been an instrumental proponent for the passage of a bill that essentially throws poorer Utahns to the wolves.

After the 2008 financial meltdown, which some estimate took more than $17 trillion from the American middle class, the passage of the Dodd-Frank legislation provided important controls and oversight of the financial industry, and particularly the payday-loans sector. Those predatory lenders support Love and are generously funding her reelection campaign—something the hotly-contested Citizens United decision made possible. (Legislative bribery is now perfectly legal.) Love’s service to the lowest class of lending institutions is invaluable, but it is not in the best interests of her constituents.

While she claims to have served Utahns by making loans more easily available, Love has somehow forgotten that it is a matter of sound banking practices for lenders to first determine if the borrower has the ability to repay.

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Instead, she is only adding to the misery of the more than 45,000 Utahns who, unable to meet their obligations, default on their payday loans each year. If she considers looser lending practices to be a blessing to Utahns, she might as well send a little arsenic to each of her loyal supporters.

Now, add dishonesty to the growing list of Love’s flaws.

In a brochure funded by taxpayers she recently published a claim about the Small Bank Holding Company Relief Act: “This will be the most significant bipartisan action taken by Congress this year, and Love sponsored several key provisions in the bill.” She placed that quote directly under the masthead of the Deseret News, with the obvious implication that the quote came from that newspaper’s own editorial staff. Not so.

The quote, in fact, came from an editorial-opinion piece

by Scott Simpson and Howard Headlee, who essentially are lobbyists for Utah’s financial industry. Love can kick and scream, trying to defend her use of the Deseret News moniker, but what she did was, at worst, an outright lie, and, at its kindest assessment, an intentional deception. But why not?

The White House has made lying fashionable.

In a nutshell, Love’s charming use of her color and religion don’t compensate for her heartless-spineless-dishonest-self-serving actions. It’s time to call her on her bad behavior, and the November midterm election is the time to do it. CW

Michael S. Robinson Sr. is a retired Utah businessman and Vietnam-era Army assistant public information officer. He lives in Riverton with his wife, Carol, and one mongrel dog. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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For years, the Inn Between has occupied a small space on the city’s west side. Now, the facility that houses homeless clients at death’s door has purchased a former nursing home in an east side neighborhood. It has more room, more possibilities, and, of course, more pushback in a neighborhood fearful of the homeless.

So, the Inn Between is opening its doors in hopes of opening minds with a Third Anniversary Block Party to celebrate its three years of helping the homeless die with dignity. Food, music, games and a waterslide all are meant to bring the neighborhood closer to an understanding of the Inn Between’s mission.

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The Inn Between, 1216 E. 1300 South, 801-410-8314, Friday, Aug. 17, 5:308:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/2KF00Rq.

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You might know that Frida Bistro has changed its fare, but did you know it’s changed its purpose? Owner Jorge Fierro decided to reconnect with his Rico roots, making the restaurant a little less high-end and more down to earth. Now called Rico Cocina y Tequila Bar, it’s making its mark in the community it serves.

Now, once a month on Tuesdays, Feed the Homeless: The Burrito Project opens its side door to anyone interested in rolling burritos to distribute to the homeless. If more restaurants and customers would make small efforts like this, Utah’s homeless situation would be much less critical. Rico Cocina, 545 W. 700 South, 801-983-6692, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 5:307 p.m., free, bit.ly/2nrJTxj.

HYDRATING THE HOMELESS

If you’re homeless, there’s often no way to escape Utah’s unforgiving heat. Through Operation Hydration, the Rescue Mission is encouraging homeless clients to stay in its chapel, where it is cooler than outside, and where bottles of cold water, hats, sunscreen and other basic needs are available. “Most do not have access to clean cold water,” the Rescue Mission’s Facebook page says. “Without relief, many of our homeless friends will suffer from sunburns, dehydration, heat exhaustion and even heat stroke.” Utah’s weather is relentless in summer and winter, and until Salt Lake County devises a realistic plan, the Rescue Mission is often the only refuge for those left without means. You can help by donating financially or items that will make the mission a success. Rescue Mission of Salt Lake, 463 S. 400 West, 801-355-1302, ongoing beginning at 1 p.m., free/donations accepted, bit.ly/2M5gsjr.

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Stair Masters As a Canadian company stakes its mining claim at Grand Staircase-Escalante, conservationists are ready to push back.

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onservation groups are ready to challenge potential mining within former boundaries of Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument after a Canadian mining company announced that it is looking to start extracting minerals in the area.

The revelation that Vancouver-based Glacier Lake Resources had acquired the post producing Colt Mesa copper mine in former Grand Staircase drew the ire of three organizations. Conservation Lands Foundation, Grand Staircase Escalante Partners and Society for Vertebrate Paleontology said in a news release they are “evaluating any and all remedies” to stop the threat of mining in boundaries of the former monument.

Brian Sybert, executive director of Conservation Lands Foundation, says that any mining in the area that was cut from the Grand Staircase would be illegal. “ We believe it would be illegal because Trump’s proclamation is illegal and lacks any authority,” Sybert says.

Conservation Lands Foundation is among organizations that filed a lawsuit against President Trump’s proclamation that cut Grand Staircase by about 900,000 acres.

The lawsuit, currently pending in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, argues that the president does not have the power to unprotect scientific resources on public lands that have already been granted protection, and that the president’s statement that the same resources can be protected within smaller boundaries is factually incorrect.

Before any land is disturbed in the area that was cut off from the monument, the lawsuit challenging Trump’s proclamation should be resolved in court, Sybert says.

Originally at more than 1.9 million acres, Grand Staircase was the largest national monument in the country when it was designated by President Bill Clinton in 1996.

On Dec. 4, 2017, Trump signed the executive order that reduced the monument almost in half, angering conservation groups and Native American tribes.

David Polly, the president of Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, says only Congress has the authority to remove special protections from historic, archaeological and scientific resources on public lands.

Under the Antiquities Act of 1906, Congress delegated to presidents the authority to protect special and historically significant areas by conferring national monument status. Polly argued that Congress hasn’t given presidents the authority to unprotect national monuments.

In its June 13 announcement, Glacier Lake Resources said it acquired the Colt Mesa property where it intends to mine the Circle Cliffs area east of Boulder for cobalt and copper.

As many as 13 new dinosaur species have been discovered in the Kaiparowits Plateau.

Kimberly Finch, communications director for the Bureau of Land Management’s Utah State Office, says that “acquired” isn’t a correct term.

Between Feb. 5 and June 19, 2018, four mining groups had recorded claims with the BLM’s Utah State Office on public lands recently excluded from the Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument.

The BLM’s Utah State Office has not yet received any notices or operational plans for these claims, Finch says.

“The BLM has not received a mining plan of operations from any entity regarding these mining claims or for the Colt Mesa copper mine to date and the field office has not received a notice from any entity regarding the commencement of exploration.

We will process any plans of operation and notices under the current laws and regulations,” Finch writes in an email.

Satvir Dhillon, president and executive director of Glacier Lake Resources, said in a news release that surface exploration work will start this summer on the Colt Mesa property and drill permitting will be “initiated shortly.”

Dhillon didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Paleontology

The area cut off from the monuments supports a delicate desert ecosystem and a landscape enclosed in cliff walls, rich in Triassic era fossil fuel deposits, conservationists say.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, paleontologists Rich Cifelli and Jeff Eaton found fossil-bearing rocks belonging to the Cretaceous geological period that were not represented anywhere

else in what later became the monument.

“Because these fossils are tiny, delicate and unique and because they occurred in some of the geological units that were most vulnerable to destruction by mining, they were an important reason that the monument was created. Fossils in other parts of the monument showed the potential of the whole area for science, and they were a key motivator for the creation of the monument in 1996,” Polly says.

Many of the early mammal sites discovered by Cifelli and Eaton were cut out of the monument, Polly says. All of the Permian and almost all of the Triassic areas likewise have been stripped of protection. The cuts also include some of the important Cretaceous units. The Cretaceous is the last period of the Mesozoic, ending with the asteroid impact that caused the extinction of the last dinosaurs.

Most of the Cretaceous rocks in the monument make up the fabric of the Kaiparowits Plateau, a roughly triangular 1,650-squaremile landform that extends from the town of Escalante almost to the border with Arizona.

Polly says that 13 new dinosaur species have been discovered there, including relatives of the three-horned Triceratops.

Eaton, who is now retired and lives in Tropic, Utah, says that the Kaiparowits Plateau first came under threat in the late 1980s when the Andelex coal mine was proposed in the area.

At the time, he wrote then-Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt about protecting the area. In the early 1990s, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance asked Eaton to prepare a document for its court case against Andelex. Along with two other curators at the Utah

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“ We believe it would be illegal because Trump’s proclamation is illegal and lacks any authority.”

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Museum of Natural History, he put together “There technically isn’t a route for any a document emphasizing the unique palecompany to pursue movement on a claim within the lands excised from the Grand ontology, archaeology and natural environStaircase until a new management plan is ments of the plateau. approved and in place, so we don’t believe “It was that document that was incorpoanything other than a claim can happen, for rated into the proclamation for the Grand the time being, however, we’re living in unStaircase-Escalante National Monument. I usual times where the standard rules don’t had no advance knowledge of the monument seem to apply, so we are remaining vigilant,” being created and was never contacted by the Croft says in an email.

Department of Interior. Also, our document reNot everyone shares the same concern. ferred specifically to the Kaiparowits Plateau Garfield County Commissioner Leland Poland ultimately the monument included far lock dismissed conservationists’ claims about more than the plateau,” Eaton said in an email. the dangers of mining as “nonsense,” and At the time when the monument was cresays that environmental issues would come ated, little was known about dinosaur fossils up in the environmental-impact statement, in the region, Eaton said. With the monushould any mining proposals move forward. ment size reduced, he’s concerned that van“I support mining. There are areas that dalism, poaching, or ATVs will pose probneed to be mined and there won’t be an enlems for bone sites such as those containing vironmental effect,” Pollock says during a dinosaurs, turtles and crocodilians. phone interview.

Although some protections still are in With BLM managing areas that had been place, conservationists say that they are not cut off from the monument, Pollock says as strong as those offered by national-monprotections are still in place. ument status.

Others say the mere staked mining claims The Paleontological Resources Preservademonstrate the danger that mining poses tion Act of 2009 prohibits collecting all verto the area. tebrate fossils on public lands for any reason “That is a clear and present threat. To say other than scientific. It requires that vertethat it is protected is inaccurate,” Sybert says. brate fossils from federal lands go into a pubA mining claim, however, is not an aplic repository such as a museum where they proval to explore or develop a mine. To stake can be studied and enjoyed by everyone. a mining claim, an interested party must reExploitable minerals are often found in cord their claim with the local county office the same bedrock units that contain the and then record their claim with the BLM most important fossils, Polly says. For exUtah State Office within 90 days. ample, he says coal is a type of fossil made “A claimant may undertake exploration up of plants from ancient swamps. The rare activities causing surface disturbance of 5 mammal fossils lived on the borders of those acres or less, 15 days after they file a notice swamps so the rock units that bear the verwith the BLM. The proponent must also post tebrate fossils are sandwiched in the layers a financial guarantee/bond that bear the coal. Other before exploration can beexamples include uranium, gin, which ensures they will copper and titanium. reclaim all surface disturShould mining take place bance,” Finch says. in the area that was cut off Any exploration activifrom Grand Staircase, Polly ties disturbing more than notes the fossils could be de5 acres, or any actual minstroyed in sites that have not ing operations require the been excavated and the geoproponent to submit a plan logical context could be lost of operations to the BLM, in sites that already have. which initiates an environ“Both are important to mental analysis under the science because paleontoloNational Environmental gists and geologists revisit Policy Act which also insites time after time to recludes public involvement, confirm original observa— Brian Sybert, Finch says. Before any options and to collect new data, Conservation Lands erations can begin, the proespecially previously imposFoundation executive director ponent must post a bond to sible data that can now be ensure that they will reclaim collected because of new all surface disturbance. technology. Scientists often choose to work Still, Polly says, it’s “a murky area” whethinside the boundaries of the monument beer mining in the area is currently legal. cause the sites will be permanently protect“The situation not only puts the monued, thus ensuring that the scientific process ments’ fossil, archaeological and other recan continue into the future,” Polly says. sources at risk, but it puts these companies and their stockholders at risk because they Nicole Croft, executive director of Grand stand to lose their investments if they have Staircase Escalante Partners, says that her been misled into thinking that their claims organization submitted a letter to the court are legal. Trump’s proclamations were not requesting to be informed of any groundthought through and they are bad for Amerimoving activities within 48 hours of the BLM cans no matter how you look at it. Canadiapproving them. ans, too,” Polly says. CW

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BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

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Big money. We don’t like it in politics, but, oh, how we take it. The Deseret News, in a huge Sunday front-page spread, bemoans, “The money behind Utah’s marijuana initiative.” This would be shocking were it not for the obvious slant. While the Marijuana Policy Project might have spent $218,000 to pass the initiative, there is only passing mention of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You know, it doesn’t like it. But Walter Plumb, Drug Safe Utah president, got plenty of ink. He’s donated $112,000 and is forming a group to donate more to defeat the November ballot initiative. “Big marijuana is attacking our culture, no question about it,” he said. The Salt Lake Tribune, on the other hand, reported on a long list of donors to all causes, topped by the way-right Dave Bateman, who also saved the Utah GOP from bankruptcy. Looks like Utahns need to be convinced they are conservative.

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Sandy resident Vaughn Pulsipher talks a lot about the “visceral hatred” toward Donald Trump by the media, liberals, and, oh yeah, everyone knows the “media” are crazy libs. Pulsipher, in a letter to the Deseret News, cited Pew polling that found “92 percent of all newscasters and editors are Democrats, liberals and voted for Hillary Clinton.” That we couldn’t find any such polling, or that it might have been misconstrued, doesn’t matter. It’s the “belief.” Pew does say more than half of Americans think there’s bias in the news. But The Washington Post notes that conservatives tend to get their “news” from commentators and websites. What is clear, according to WaPo, is “at least in the last decade … that journalists are leaving both parties, finding themselves more comfortable as unaffiliateds.”

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Damn China. They’re not taking all of our recylables anymore, and that just makes America trashy. So instead of looking for solutions, Salt Lake City has simply said throw it out. And the Weber School District, according to The Salt Lake Tribune, is cutting back on its recycling program. Too expensive, officials say. At least Granite and Salt Lake districts are holding their own and still recycle in schools.

The Las Vegas Sun ran a story on ways to reduce plastic use at home, and Mic even suggests keeping a “plastic log.” Even Austin, Texas, despite a Supreme Court ruling against a plastic bag ban, has moved toward voluntary compliance and businesses there offer compostable cups and utensils. NPR’s 1A ran a piece that urged people to consume less. But with the outsized Huntsman Corp. presence in Utah, banning plastic would be difficult at best.

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Meet the young Utahns working to save the lives of people from across our gun-loving state.

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Responsible firearm owners: Ermiya Fanaeian and Elizabeth Love know what you’re thinking—they don’t want to take your guns. “ We all support the Second Amendment, we just don’t want criminals to have guns,” Love, an 18-year-old recent West High School grad, says.

Fanaeian, also 18, who just graduated from the Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts, is more explicit: “ We are not for repealing the Second Amendment in any way, shape or form.”

Fanaeian and Love participated in the Road to Change event in Sandy last month, during which an audi-

ence member asked if, under their proposals, he would be allowed to use his weapon to defend himself or loved ones.

Love said yes, March For Our Lives Salt Lake City’s mission does not conflict with gun owners defending themselves.

Love says the National Rifle Association is manipulating people into thinking that the reform movement is made up of a bunch of gun-hoarding, rightsviolating young adults. “It’s not easy to turn people against what we’re actually proposing, so they’re trying to reframe the debate into something that it’s not,” she tells City Weekly.

Love says what they’re advocating is likely to be looked upon favorably by people who exercise their Second

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lawmakers pass bills that will make the country a safer place for all.

That movement took root nationwide, including here in Utah. What follows are interviews with a handful of locals who are engaging in the debate from varying sides. They are parents and teenagers, poets and lawmakers, activists and student journalists. But most importantly, they’re all standing up for their rights. And they’re not sitting down any time soon.

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An all too familiar scene followed— people spoke out, some calling for thoughts and prayers; some for legislative changes. But then something unusual happened. Student survivors of the massacre started advocating for themselves and their teenage peers.

They kicked off a movement that highlights intersectionality, one which emphasizes that shootings don’t just happen in schools. And they demanded that

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ix months ago, on Feb. 14, a tragic set of actions changed thousands of lives in Parkland, Fla. A man carried a gun into what should have been a safe space—in this instance a school, though similar situations have played out in movie theaters, churches, neighborhood parks and people’s homes across the U.S.—and committed an act of terrorism, ending the lives of 17 people between the ages of 14 and 49.

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Amendment rights—better mental health support in schools, universal background checks of prospective firearms purchasers, using due process to take guns from people who might be a threat to themselves or others and a “No Notoriety” campaign in which the media is encouraged to follow protocols that inform the public but don’t glamorize the heinous acts of shooters. But people opposed to any and all reform, Love says, often ignore that her peers aren’t just talking about school safety. “ We’re also talking about movie theaters, churches, offices, grocery stores, the streets—everywhere that there is gun violence.”

And then there’s the relationship between firearms and self harm, which accounts for the majority of annual gun deaths in the country. Citing research from Everytown for Gun Safety, Love says those who try to end their lives using a gun are successful the overwhelming majority of the time. Attempted suicide survivors, however, often die by other causes. “It’s very important that people survive suicide attempts, and firearms don’t allow space for that,” Love says. “ What people don’t understand about gun reform is it’s a multifaceted issue with multiplicities and complexities,” Fanaeian, a transgender youth activist, says, emphasizing the intersection of queer identities and gun violence. “Gun violence disproportionately affects marginalized communities the most.”

There’s a reason, Fanaeian suggests, that older generations might find it hard to understand the reasoning behind the movement. “They do not realize that feeling when you’re sitting in school, having to check where to hide or where to escape.”

“There were always kids at our school we would look at, and we would worry they would become the next school shooter,” Love says.

Fanaeian and Love, both of whom are executive organizers of the local March For Our Lives chapter, aren’t new to championing gun reform. “For me, the catalyst was Newtown [Conn.] when I was in seventh grade,” Love says. When she got older, she interned with the Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah, eventually organizing the rally at the Utah Capitol after the Florida shooting. Fanaeian has been politically active with LGBTQ movements and organizations for the past four years, experiences that led her to gun reform.

Now, the recent high school grads are helping select the next leaders of the local March For Our Lives movement. Love plans to continue the fight from New York City, where she’ll be attending Columbia University this fall. She plans on working on reform at the federal level, because universal background checks would be weakened if some states had laxer laws than others.

Staying local, Fanaeian plans on attending the University of Utah, where she’ll continue her advocacy. “I’m certainly not going to stop organizing any time soon,” she says.

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Saida Dahir’s earliest memory involving guns and her academic pursuits happened during second or third grade. An armed gunman had robbed the bank near her school, and students were evacuated by a SWAT team. Two years later came the Sandy Hook shooting, in which a man shot and killed 20 children between 6 and 7 years old. The emergency drills started shortly thereafter, Dahir remembers, making the unthinkable a reality.

“Ever since we were kids, mass shootings have kind of followed us,” Dahir says. “ We’ve had to grow up far quicker than we were supposed to.”

She started speaking out in favor of gun reform when she was in eighth grade.

“I’m from the Somali community [which] has a very hard time with gangs,” Dahir, who came to the U.S. in 2003 from Kenya, says. Now a 17-year-old student at Salt Lake City’s Academy for Math, Engineering and Science, Dahir thinks the Parkland shooting was a catalyst—nationwide and in Utah.

“People always had these thoughts that this was not right, but no one really took the first steps in this long, long overdue race,” Dahir says. “ We had the biggest march in Utah history for the March For Our Lives,” she adds, as people young and old came out to support students tired of fearing for their lives while learning in their classrooms.

Although their viewpoints appear at odds, Dahir thinks there’s overlap between proponents of gun reform and people worried their firearms will be taken away.

She says she, too, talked to members of the Utah Gun Exchange at last month’s Road to Change panel. Some of them were her peers, her fellow classmates.

“There’s a lot of common ground. These people don’t want to see people die, but they don’t want their rights taken away,” Dahir says, emphasizing that local gun reformers are pro-Second Amendment. Ultimately, Dahir thinks the opposing sides want the same thing. “ We just want to cause less hurt in this world,” she says.

Dahir was one of the founding members of March For Our Lives Salt Lake City.

She’ll be on the executive team next school year, planning more marches and public events that could include her own unique form of activism.

“Somalia is known as the land of poets,” Dahir says. She started writing poetry around second grade, mostly about her own personal feelings—“I used to want to be a musician. Then I realized I couldn’t sing,” she says. Once the first draft of President Trump’s so-called “Muslim Ban” came out during Dahir’s freshman year of high school, her poetry became political. She’d never heard political poems or spoken word before, so this was a space Dahir felt she could make her own.

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Collin Thorup started learning about guns before his eighth birthday. His mother, Tina, says another son of hers, now 3 ½, fired his first gun—a BB —when he was 2.

Lessons start when the children are young so they can understand basic rules of gun safety like “Don’t point them at people,” or “If you see a gun, walk away and come say something.”

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Eric Markewitz worked under Elizabeth Love at the Red and Black, West High’s student newspaper. Love, an editor-in-chief mindful of her activism, would often assign Markewitz the political coverage. “It would not have a lot of journalistic integrity if she was the one writing the articles,” Markewitz says.

Markewitz, 18, a recent grad who will attend the University of Puget Sound, covered two March For Our Lives-related events at his high school—a walk out and a march to the Capitol, writing in his report on the latter that his peers had joined the “Largest Youth Protests Since Vietnam.”

“I kind of wanted to preserve the energy and feel of how it felt to be there,” Markewitz says. “It felt like young kids were doing something meaningful and powerful, and people were listening.”

Markewitz felt his reporting should include more than just each speakers’ remarks and the size of the crowd. “I kind of wanted to preserve the energy and feel of how it felt to be there,” he says.

The speeches were engaging, but Markewitz says they were largely just repeating what they’d already heard on the news. What was more interesting to him was talking to people in the crowd about why they had come. “I feel like most students are pro-2A , especially in Utah,” Markewitz says, referring to the Second Amendment. “I think for students it’s not really seen as ‘ Taking our guns,’ it’s more, ‘Kids are dying in the classroom and we need to do something.’”

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bear arms. “It was kind of unsettling,” Markewitz recalls. “Someone open-carrying [a weapon] and yelling at you is a really scary kind of feeling.”

Markewitz says his reporting suggests prominent March For Our Lives SLC organizers and members aren’t campaigning to take everyone’s guns, contrary to popular and national opinion. “Most of them seem like they don’t necessarily want a gun themselves, but don’t see why another person can’t own a gun,” he says. “A lot of them are pretty strong pro-gun activists, and the whole point is they’re trying to create a movement where everybody is on the same page.”

Unsure what he wants to study in college, Markewitz could see himself being a professional journalist someday. Regardless of his career path, he learned a valuable lesson from his coverage—“It’s really easy to get caught up in the moment.”

He watched as opposing sides’ arguments devolved from substantive debates into shouting matches, unproductive engagements predicated on personal attacks. “It’s so depressing to watch,” he says. “They’re not doing anything meaningful. They’re just bickering, and it’s not helpful.”

Markewitz says student newspaper and television station journalists fulfill a vital role in the March For Our Lives era. First, they shouldn’t just be rewriting news releases or parroting national coverage. And they must remain objective and find ways to localize their reporting while still showing that “students do awesome things and can make a difference.”

Before he graduated, Markewitz spent some time in West High School’s newspaper archives, where he found issues that dated back decades. “It kind of showed you what it was like back then,” he says.

Poring over those old copies, Markewitz saw snapshots of his fellow alumni— ghosts of graduated classes long past. He glimpsed what it was like to be a high schooler in Salt Lake City in previous decades, and he could visualize the priorities of students who attended West High long before he did. “ You basically try to capture that year of school, that graduating class,” Markewitz says, explaining his philosophy on high school journalism and summarizing what he learned in the archives. “ You capture their whole energy.”

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realized maybe the way I could change the world was through poetry,” Dahir says.

“I feel like I’m combining two things I love: activism and art. It’s called ‘Artivism.’”

“I never knew what activism was until I started writing poetry,” she adds.

Since then, Dahir’s performed spoken word at gun reform rallies and at news conferences held to honor immigrants and refugees. The subjects vary, but her work has the same themes. “The general message for my poems is that even though things are hard right now, we’re working extra hard to make them better,” she says.

Dahir has a blog called “The Walking Stereotype.” She named it after herself, a Muslim Somali refugee and a black woman. She knows she can be identified by any of those things—the color of her skin, the hijab she wears—but one identity is important to her above all else.

“If someone was going to recognize one thing of all of those things, I want them to recognize my poetry,” Dahir says, “and I want them to recognize me as a poet.”

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“ We want them to understand how to even utilize a toy gun from the very beginning,” Tina says. “My daughter, she loves going out shooting with us, and thinks it’s a great opportunity to have time with the family.”

The Thorups didn’t have guns in the home until 12 years ago, when Tina’s brother-in-law, a police officer, recommended they get firearms to protect themselves. Over time, they started to use them as a recreational activity, a tradition that’s become a way for them to bond.

Tina’s “all for guns,” but her opinions differ from her son’s. “ Want guns, don’t want guns, that’s fine. I don’t have an opinion on it, but he does.”

Collin, a 16-year-old student at Hunter High School in West Valley City, is a member of several guns rights organizations, including Teens for the Republic and March For Our Rights. He’s organized or participated in a handful of public demonstrations expressing his support for the Second Amendment, and he routinely speaks to local media about what he calls the “political side” of owning and purchasing firearms. “ Without the political side, you can’t have the fun side,” he says, referring to “shooting crazy guns.”

“Growing up in elementary and junior high, everyone liked guns, they were the cool thing and stuff. Once this started happening, everyone switched to, ‘Guns are bad and no one wants them,’ and they all want them gone now,” Collin says. After all, when his parents and grandparents were younger, they had rifle racks on their trucks and their schools had shooting ranges.

“I think it’s a societal change,” he says.

In an attempt to foster public dialogue, Collin plans on soon starting a podcast that will feature conversations between him and reform advocates. “ We all want safety. None of us want these mass shootings to happen,” he says.

Collin suggests classes on responsible gun ownership and information sessions on how to legally purchase a firearm and acquire a concealed-carry permit. “If we could teach children and teens and kids who are uninformed about that, incidences would go down much more,” he says.

For her part, Tina sees her role as being a supportive parent, regardless of whether she sees eye-to-eye with her son. Both of Collin’s grandmothers have views that contrast with his, but one still supports him and goes to his rallies. But the other, Tina says, refuses to engage with Collin on the subject and doesn’t support his political messaging.

“That’s where I have my concerns, is, support your kids, support them in what they’re believing, support your family,” Tina says. “He wants to become a political voice for this and become an activist. And I am 100 percent for that. I think it’s fantastic that’s what he wants to do, and, how can I support him in being able to do that?”

Like any parent, Tina worries about Collin. She knows he gets threatened for publicizing his views, and it’s alarming to her how public-facing his mission is. “Rolling Stone just quoted him,” she says. “It’s scary to have these kids so out in front like they are.”

Concerns aside, it’s been “mind-boggling” for Tina to learn so much about Collin “as a human being” and not just see him as her child.

“My kid is thinking as an adult in many ways. Yeah, he still has a lot to learn, and experience goes a long way, but his heart is in the right place,” Tina says. “He’s willing to have a conversation, so I should as well.”

Rep. Angela Romero has been advocating for gun reform for 26 years, first as a teenage member of the Utah Coalition of La Raza and then as the Democratic representative of District 26 in the Legislature. “I have family members in particular who got caught up in the system because a gun was used in the commission of a crime,” she says, referring to a cousin sentenced to 65 years in federal prison because of mandatory-minimum sentencing. “Sixty-five was lenient,” Romero says before asking broader questions about such laws—Do the punishments always fit the crimes? Who do these penalties impact, really? “ We’re not talking about the underlying issue, the systemic issue, which is why do people use guns to hurt others?” Romero says. “If you go back and you look at these mass shooters and you look at guns used in urban settings, you’re looking at hurt people who, in turn, hurt other people.”

Romero separates gun violence into three topics: Urban, domestic and mass shootings. Imagine a Venn diagram, each category distinct but overlapping in some way with the other two. Each requires distinct policies to address their root causes, but there’s at least one thing that could help all three.

“I think the commonality for all of these three issues is access to mental-health professionals,” Romero says, but that’s just one piece of the puzzle. “Not everybody has equal access to the same opportunities. Until we talk about equality in terms of equity, we’ll still have gun violence.

Take, for instance, urban violence, in which city residents in communities of color use guns to harm one another. Romero says analysis of this type of bloodshed frequently fails to take systemic issues into account and neglects to understand that, “No one wakes up and says, ‘I want to hurt people.’”

“How does lack of opportunity, how does that all play out on who picks up a gun and who’s criminally prosecuted for gun violence?”

Romero asks. In other words, poverty, disparities in educational opportunities, lack of access to resources compared to higher-income areas—this all contributes to gun violence in urban settings.

“Historical trauma plays a huge role in where we are as communities today,” Romero says.

Cautioning against viewing Parkland as the beginning of youth activism on gun reform, Romero says young people have been speaking out for a while. “I think we had more media attention because it impacted not only communities of color, but it impacted white youth,” she explains. “It just hasn’t been highlighted like it is now.”

Romero says she hasn’t been in touch with the local March For Our Lives chapter. “They haven’t ever reached out to me, and I haven’t ever reached out to them,” she says, but in the past she has worked with student activists, and been involved in a few of their events.

“I’m glad that young people in Utah and across the country are pointing out this is not just about mass shootings—this is about urban violence,” Romero says. “Some of us in communities of color have been talking about intersectionality for 20 years, before intersectionality was cool.”

“I’m grateful for them being advocates,” Romero says of area teens and young adults seeking reform and understanding it’s a complex issue that cannot be disentangled from history. But she’d also welcome whomever wanted to join a cause that’s been important to her for almost three decades. “I could care less what the person’s age is,” Romero says. What’s important is their resolve, their commitment to understanding the issues and their willingness to work together to make their schools, relationships and communities a safer place for all.

“It always amazes me when adults say, ‘This is our future.’ They’re our present,” Romero says of politically active teenagers either dismissed as naive kids or considered to be investments that will eventually pay dividends.

“I understand from lived experience that people write you off because of your age,” she says. “ What makes my voice stronger than their voice?” After all, she was their age when she started advocating for reform. CW

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In her two novels—2008’s The Last Cowgirl and 2013’s The Ordinary Truth, both winners of City Weekly Artys Reader’s Choice awards— Utah author Jana Richman mined a rich sense of local geography and history to tell stories about families and the impact their surroundings has on their lives. But Richman is also an accomplished non-fiction writer, from her memoir Riding in the Shadows of Saints to New York Times editorials. And at her best, she’s always exploring the way people are shaped by their world.

Finding Stillness in a Noisy World finds Richman meditating on a life that has taken her from Utah’s West Desert to New York, from the urban life of Salt Lake City to the isolation of Escalante. In so doing, she contemplates big-picture issues like observing the effects of climate change, and the way humans keep attempting to exert control over the natural world, even in their well-intentioned efforts to bring back into balance environments that were altered by human activity in the first place.

Mostly, however, she tells personal stories that ring with the efforts of one woman to find the kind of place in which she can feel at home.

Whether considering if her desire for solitude is a virtue or a fault, spending a chapter on many different kinds of walking or pondering the sensuality of dirt, Richman makes the landscape a character, a companion that sometimes challenges her and sometimes provides comfort. Join her on her funny, lyrical, honest journey through that landscape. (Scott Renshaw) Jana Richman: Finding Stillness in a Noisy World @ Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, 801-328-2588, Aug. 16, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com

Although The Clash, the Ramones and even the Sex Pistols had some success in breaking down the barriers between punk and the mainstream, it wasn’t until Berkeley-based upstarts Green Day started selling millions of albums that the masses caught on. Green Day reached the pinnacle of success with 2005 punk-rock concept album American Idiot, which not only reaped massive sales but critical kudos and a Grammy for best rock album Still, nothing could have prepared the public for what came next: a Broadway adaptation that followed the lead of Jesus Christ Superstar and The Who’s Tommy by imagining a musical born from rock ’n’ roll rebellion. With a book by Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and director Michael Mayer, music by the band and lyrics from Armstrong, the narrative revolves around disillusioned young people who find themselves wholly disconnected from society. Inspired by the events that transpired following the Iraq War, American Idiot earned two Tony Awards, a Tony nomination for best musical and a Grammy nod for Best Musical Show Album.

“American Idiot is a great show for this moment because it does not shy away from anxieties about everyday life,” said Alicia Washington, founder and co-director of Good Company Theatre. “The characters in the show grapple with the mess of trying to buck against a system that feels rigged against them. Ultimately, though, there is a sense of hope for the future embedded in the rebellious, punk energy of the music and the show.” (Lee Zimmerman) Green Day’s American Idiot @ Good Company Theatre, 2404 Wall Ave., Ogden, Aug. 16-27, 8 p.m., $20-$25, goodcotheatre.com

Once upon a time, there was a land in despair.

For upon that land, there was a great thirst, crying out to be quenched. These were the dark days before Utah had a beer festival, a grand weekend celebration of grain, hops and the mystical art of turning them into a glorious beverage.

For nine years now, that despair has been lifted every August. The City Weekly Utah Beer Festival gathers more than 50 local and national brewers—from Fisher, Kiitos, Roha, Squatters, Wasatch and Uinta to Sapporo, Guinness and Samuel Adams—giving attendees a chance to sample specialty offerings of stouts, IPAs, wheat beers, Pilsners and more.

“By coming to the Utah Beer festival this year,” City Weekly marketing manager Samantha Smith says, “not only are you supporting local brewers by sampling more than 200 beers and ciders, but you also are supporting local news organizations, local food trucks and local merchandise vendors, including outdoor gear companies. … Every year the Utah Beer Festival gets bigger and better, and I can’t wait to show everyone how we’ve improved and expanded.”

Even if you’re not a beer-drinker, you can enjoy great local music from Starmy, Daverse, Rumor Has It, The Vitals and more. Plus, proceeds from ticket sales go toward efforts to educate the public about the importance of a free press in a time when the press is under attack, while also providing internship and scholarship opportunities for aspiring journalists. Let us quench your thirst for information— and quench your actual thirst, as well. (SR) 9th Annual Utah Beer Festival @ Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, Aug. 18-19, 2 p.m.-8 p.m., $5-$30, utahbeerfestival.com

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David Cross: Oh Come On David Cross has had such a long, successful career in film and TV that it’s easy to forget his origins are actually in stand-up comedy. Cross cut his teeth in the booming Boston stand-up scene of the mid-to-late 1980s. He’s continued to perform and tour as a comedian on a semiregular basis for the past 20-plus years, even after reaching greater success with his roles in Mr. Show with Bob and David, as never-nude Tobias Fünke on Arrested Development and as the voice of Crane in the animated Kung Fu Panda franchise.

Cross’ comedy—an acidic, often confrontational blend of absurdist observational humor and provocative, irreverent political commentary (mostly the latter)—feels more of-the-moment than ever in the Age of Trump.

However, his most recent Netflix special, 2016’s Making America Great Again, treated the then-Republican-nominee as the sort of harmless joke many comedians were making him out to be at the time—a decision Cross regretted so much after Trump’s election, he subsequently pledged 100 percent of the revenue from sales of the album to the ACLU. On his new Oh Come On tour, he seems to have learned a bit from his mistakes, claiming in a recent Forbes interview that his new Trump-oriented material will be “more about [Trump’s] fans,” because “that’s what’s still going to be relevant 10 years from now.” Cross also reports his new material covers “hardhitting stuff that no one is talking about,” such as “the difference between dogs and cats ….

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reflects Holmstrom’s life of adventure and his mysterious end—he died from a gunshot wound, a suspected suicide. Using the music and other relevant historical materials—“I sent the choreographers stories and photos of the people, things that will help them create the piece,” Longoria says— the company choreographers got to work.

“Some of the dances [have turned out] abstract and take more from the music, which is already telling the story. Some are more literal,” Longoria explains.

Reflecting on the piece for Holmstrom, a trio with one male and two female dancers, Longoria adds, “I can see Buzz in this one.

There is a point where they are partnering him, and I can see when it becomes his relationship with the river. It’s kind of sad.”

While Longoria acknowledges that not everyone has the means or the will to take a trip down a river, both she and Weiss hope that through The River Speaks Plainly, they can transmit the deep love and connection they, and many others, have felt with nature while on the water. “There is a part of us as humans, as beings in nature, that needs the river. It feeds that unknowable part of the soul,” Weiss says, looking out into space. “It’s hard to explain.” CW

The song influenced by Holmstrom is a complicated one, Weiss says. “It starts out a happy little bluegrass number in E major, and ends in minor.” That progression

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Holmstrom, who is one of the subjects in the ballet, was a pioneering river-runner in the 1930s. Now mostly forgotten except within river running circles, Holmstrom attracted endless media attention during his solo runs of the West’s greatest rivers, especially during his 1,100 mile solo navigation of the Green and Colorado rivers, through the Grand Canyon, in a handmade wooden boat.

Journals he kept between 1936 and 1938 became the book Every Rapid Speaks Plainly in 2003, which inspired the ballet’s title.

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bout a quarter million people run the Colorado River’s Grand Canyon each year and, last March, Sarah Longoria was part of the early season rush into the canyon wilderness. Many people enter the river with its Class IV+ rapids looking for adventure, physical challenge and respite from the fast pace of modern life. Longoria, while certainly enjoying these aspects of the river, rode the canyon with an artistic mission in mind.

As the director of Salt Lake’s Municipal Ballet Co., Longoria was there to absorb everything she could about the river—sights, sounds and stories—in preparation for her company’s late-summer production, The River Speaks Plainly, at Fisher Brewing Co. (Longoria’s husband, Colby Frazier, is a Fisher business partner). For most classical companies, basing a ballet on the stories of the Colorado River would be a highly unusual concept—but for Municipal Ballet Co., it’s par for the course. It’s not just their story ideas that are unconventional (they once did a ballet based on an intergalactic comic book story), it’s also their choice of music. They’ve performed with local bands Holy Water Buffalo and Color Animal. Likewise offbeat is their choice of spaces like the Clubhouse on South Temple and the McCune Mansion.

The idea for The River Speaks Plainly, Longoria says, started in 2016 when, while choreographing the Nutcracker adaptation River of Rosewater, she commissioned an original bluegrass take on Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker suite from local band Pixie and the Partygrass Boys. To initiate the brainstorming process, Longoria invited Pixie vocalist/guitarist/mandolin player Ben Weiss to her home for a meeting. The two had not previously met, but Weiss recalls that first meeting as a small stroke of serendipity.

“There were kayaks all over the house and boating guides on the shelves,” says Weiss, who worked for a time as a boating guide in Moab. Weiss instantly felt a connection.

After the success of River of Rosewater, Longoria and Weiss decided they should collaborate on an original piece. The subject wasn’t difficult to decide on. “We tossed around the idea of doing it about rivers, and at first we started by looking at [the book] The Emerald Mile [by Kevin Fedarko],” Weiss says. Eventually, the two landed on the Grand Canyon, and the stories of those men and women who put the river on the map—

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Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts christens its new home—in the Sugar Space Arts Warehouse (132 S. 800 West) with a multimedia display of digital images, stencils, painting and murals by artist/educator Miguel Galaz titled Roots, Culture, Education, through Oct. 5.

PERFORMANCE THEATER

Biloxi Blues Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, Aug. 17-18, 8 p.m.; Aug. 19, 6 p.m., parkcityshows.com Disney’s Newsies Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Sept. 1, dates and times vary, hct.org The Drag An Other Theater Co., Provo Towne Centre, second floor, 1200 Towne Centre Blvd., Provo, through Aug. 18, dates and times vary, anothertheatercompany.com Green Day’s American Idiot Ogden Amphitheater, 343 25th St., Ogden, Aug. 16-27, Thursday-Monday, 8 p.m., goodcotheatre.com (see p. 18) An Iliad Randall L. Jones Theater, 300 W. Center St., Cedar City, through Oct. 9, dates and times vary, bard.org The Marvelous Wonderettes Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, through Sept. 8, dates and times vary, grandtheatrecompany.com The Merry Wives of Windsor Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre, through Sept. 8, dates and times vary, bard.org My Son Pinocchio Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Sept. 8, dates and times vary, hct.org A Night of Classical Theatre George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Theatre, 131 Main, Aug. 17-18 at 8:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Oliver! Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, through Sept. 1, dates and times vary, zigarts.com Othello Anes Studio Theatre, 195 W. Center St., Cedar City, through Oct. 13, dates and times vary, bard.org Saturday’s Voyeur 2018 Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through Sept. 2, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org Trial By Jury and Other Gilbert & Sullivan Favorites Sorensen Unity Center, 1383 S. 900 West, through Aug. 18, 7 p.m., facebook.com/motleywanderingminstrels Thoroughly Modern Millie Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, through

Aug. 24, dates vary, 7 p.m., drapertheatre.org The Prince of Egypt Tuacahn Amphitheater, 1100 Tuacahn Drive, Ivins, through Oct. 20, dates vary, 8:45 p.m., tuacahn.org Wait Until Dark CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, through Sept. 1, dates and times vary, centerpointtheatre.org

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Municipal Ballet Co.: The River Speaks Plainly Fisher Brewing Co., 320 W. 800 South, Aug. 22-23, 8 p.m., municipalballet.com (see p. 19) Utah Summer Dance Festival Columbus Center, 2531 S. 400 East, Aug. 18, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., utahsummerdancefestival.com

COMEDY & IMPROV

David Cross Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Aug. 22, 8 p.m., tickets.utah.edu (see p. 18) Moshe Kasher Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Aug. 17-18, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Travis Tate Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Aug. 17-18, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Zoltan Kaszas Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Aug. 17-18, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Amber Tamblyn: Any Man The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Aug. 22, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com An Evening with Utah Romance Writers of America The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Aug. 16, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Jana Richman: Finding Stillness in a Noisy World Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Aug. 16, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com (see p. 18) Keira Drake: The Continent Barnes & Noble University Crossings Plaza, 330 E. 1300 South, Orem, Aug. 18, 2 p.m., barnesandnoble.com Leta Greene: How to Embrace Your Inner Hotness Barnes & Noble Jordan Landing, 7157 Plaza Center Drive, West Jordan, Aug. 18, 1 p.m., barnesandnoble.com

By Jim Burton - Rocky Mountain Raceways As racing fans settled into their seats at Rocky Mountain Raceways’ annual twoday monster truck show known as “Clash of the Titans, it was pretty easy to pick out the local guy. It was longtime RMR racer Ron Duncombe, who also happens to be a Young Automotive Group spokesman.

Racing on what was essentially his home turf, Duncombe – “Dunc” to his thousands of friends – came up with some hard luck, going out in the first round both days. Each time he came up a blink short of victory.

Those two narrow losses didn’t sit well with him, and yet he left people cheering, especially in the moments following the Sunday’s freestyle contest.

When Duncombe finished his freestyle routine, he climbed down from his cockpit and acknowledge the cheering fans. He even broke into a little dance, which the crowd seemed to love.

“From there I was pretty hooked,” he said.

At that point he was closely involved with Maverik’s “Grab the Tab” campaign that gave lucky winners a sweet prize package that of course included a “monster truck.”

Not actually a Monster Truck like Bigfoot or Gravedigger, but most definitely a big truck. The grand prize winner was announced during intermission at Clash of the Titans. All that time hanging out with Monster Truck racers put Dunc in the right place at the right time.

After the Maverik “Grab the Tab” promotion came to an end, Dunc found himself in a board meeting with folks from popular local convince stores. He said that in the meeting someone asked, “OK, what’s next?”

“I said, ‘ You guys know what I want to do, I want to drive a REAL Monster Truck,’” he responded. “That was just on a whim, thinking they would never go for that.”

Well, to Dunc’s pleasant surprise, the Maverik team went all in.

“They said, ‘Can you get us one,’” he said.

Dunc’s connections went into high gear and before long he was on a redeye flight to Florida, where he soon met his new Monster Truck.

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“I got some seat time in the truck and the rest is history,” he said.

“No, I destroyed that one at RMR,” he said with a chuckle. “This one’s a new one.”

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SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

9th West Farmers Market International Peace Gardens, 1060 S. 900 West, Saturdays and Sundays through mid-October, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 9thwestfarmersmarket.org Big Cottonwood Canyon Market Brighton Resort, through Sept. 2, Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., bccflea.com Cache Valley Gardeners’ Market Historic Cache County Courthouse, 199 N. Main, Logan, Saturdays through Oct. 20, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., gardenersmarket.org Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 350 W. 300 South, Saturdays through Oct. 20, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org New Roots of Utah Neighborhood Farm Stand Valley Regional Park, 4013 S. 700 West, Saturdays through mid-October, 1-3 p.m., slco.org Park City Farmers Market Silver King Resort, 1845 Empire Ave., Park City, Wednesdays through Oct. 25, parkcityfarmersmarket.com Park Silly Sunday Market Main Street, Park City, Sundays through Sept. 23, parksillysundaymarket.com Sugar House Farmers Market Fairmont Park, 1040 E. Sugarmont Drive, Wednesdays through September, 5-8 p.m., sugarhousefarmersmarket.org Tuesday Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 350 W. 300 South, Tuesdays through Oct. 17, 4 p.m.dusk, slcfarmersmarket.org Wheeler Sunday Market Wheeler Farm, 6351 S. 900 East, Murray, Sundays through Oct. 28, slco.org/wheeler-farm.

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Bark at the Moon Festival 3K, 5K Dog Walk/ Run Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, Aug. 17, 4-11 p.m., utahhumane.org City Weekly Utah Beer Festival Utah State Fairpark, 155 North 1000 West, Aug. 18-19, 2-8 p.m., utahbeerfestival.com (see p. 18) KPCW Back Alley Bash Town Lift Plaza, 825 Main, Park City, Aug. 17, 5-9 p.m., kpcw.org Oktoberfest Snowbird Resort, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, Aug. 18-Oct. 21, Saturdays & Sundays, noon-6:30 p.m., snowbird.com

Buster Graybill: Informalism UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Sept. 8, utahmoca.org Cara Jean Means: Grip: Conversational Portraits on Mental Health Salt Lake Community College Eccles Gallery, 1575 S. State, through Sept. 21, slcc.edu Chiura Obata: An American Modern Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Sept. 2, umfa.utah.edu Cindy McConkie: Run Happy Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, through Sept. 12, slcpl.org Denise Duong J GO Gallery, 408 Main, Park City, through Aug. 27, jgogallery.com Erin Westenskow Berrett: Reclaimed Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, through Sept. 2, kimballartcenter.com Face of Utah Sculpture XIV Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through Aug. 29, culturalcelebration.org Lego City Blocks The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, through Aug. 31, theleonardo.org Marisa Morán Jahn: Mirror / Mask Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Dec. 9, umfa.utah.edu Miguel Galaz: Roots, Culture, Education Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts, Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, through Oct. 5, facebook.com/sugarspaceslc (see p. 20) Nancy Rivera: Impossible Bouquets UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Sept. 1, utahmoca.org Postmodernposh Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through Aug. 31, heritage.utah.gov Recent Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through Sept. 7, heritage.utah.gov Ryan Ruehlen: Georhythmic Drift Music UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, Aug. 17-Nov. 3, utahmoca.org Sel Heidel 777: China Minoyki Art Chapman Library, 577 S. 900 West, through Aug. 30, slcpl.org Summer Group Show Phllips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, through Sept. 14, phillips-gallery.com Trent Alvey: I’m Floating in a Most Peculiar Way Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, through Sept. 21, saltlakearts.org West: The Effect of Land and Space Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, through Aug. 31, modernwestfineart.com Working Hard to Be Useless UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Dec. 29, utahmoca.org

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The Other Place first opened its doors in the mid-’80s. At the time, a diner that served breakfast all day wasn’t a revolutionary idea—every city in the country had a few places like this. But The Other Place not only has a keen sense of its neighborhood, it’s also honed its menu into an efficient hybridization of classic Greek and American cuisine you just can’t get anywhere else. Stick-

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Some of Salt Lake City’s coolest destinations have sprung up along the stretch of 300 South between State Street and 500 East, and the district as a whole embodies an effortlessly hip sensibility.

The Other Place was there before this turn-of-the-century transformation, and its synergy with its more modern neighbors remains proof that cool is a state of mind.

uring a visit to Cabin Fever in Trolley Square, I came across a kitschy coffee table book called Dads Are the Original Hipsters by Brad Getty. It’s a collection of dad pics from decades ago, providing photographic evidence that the elusive concept of what we call hip has already been figured out by our progenitors—we’re just appropriating it and calling it our own thing. That’s the kind of vibe that I got when I visited The Other Place (469 E. 300 South, 801-521-6567).

that as the first meal of the day can seriously alter a person’s trajectory.

The breakfast side dish game at The Other Place has a few ups and downs. The hash browns are the kind of nondescript starch with a golden brown crunch that have been the foundation of diner menus since the dawn of time, and the toast was a tad over-cremated. I was a fan of their pancakes, however. As they’re prepared by the same hands that create béchamel-dense Greek classics like moussaka ($13.95) and pastichio ($13.95), the pancakes here are of the stick-to-your-bones variety, achieving a nearly perfect rate of maple syrup absorption.

While its location within a cool neighborhood definitely contributes to the continued success of The Other Place, that’s not the full story. One of the earliest lessons that I learned about human beings is that simply hanging out with cool people doesn’t make one a cool person. The Other Place has stuck around for more than three decades because it’s had the confidence to stay true to itself over the years. Now that’s what I call cool. CW

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or a slice of French toast. Personally, I love the fact that these additional choices are outlined on the menu— sometimes I get funny looks if I ask for pancakes instead of toast at most breakfast joints.

The House Breakfast ($9.25) was my first pick—its combination of hash brown, eggs and a choice of breakfast meat seemed like a good way to break the ice and my fast. The meat options consist of the usual porcine suspects—sausage, bacon and ham are all there—but since The Other Place has Greek roots, gyro meat is also an option. The House Breakfast is a tried-and-true way to enjoy some early morning staples, though the sliced cheddar and Swiss singles were a bit out of place— shredded cheese tends to blend better—but this is a pretty minor gripe. Melty cheese is melty cheese.

Ordering gyro meat with breakfast was a must for me, so I also tried the gyro omelet ($8.95), which was a bit of a revelation. Full disclosure: This bad boy is definitely a lunch or dinner omelet—don’t go ordering it at dawn’s early light unless you’re hung over. In addition to the spicy slices of lamb nicely distributed throughout the burrito-sized dish, you get feta cheese, tomatoes, green peppers, onions and zucchini. The feta and gyro meat combo is what got me—this flavor tag team packs a fantastic punch, and sometimes getting a wallop like

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ing around as long as it has, The Other Place is a finely tuned machine, fueled by clarified butter, bacon grease and béchamel.

Perhaps the surest sign of the restaurant’s seamless steadfastness in a changing neighborhood is the clientele. I visited on a weekday morning and was surprised to see a well-rounded mix of old-school regulars and younger college students drinking coffee and munching on bacon and eggs. The Other Place no doubt owes a lot to its long-time frequenters, but it’s also a place that my uber-cool, college-bound niece raves about.

Breakfast was on my mind for this particular visit. Diner-style breakfast continues to evoke a measure of nostalgia—like many children of the 1980s, my family was a group of consummate road trippers. Random diners in West Yellowstone or Baker, Calif., were often how we refueled ourselves for another long day of travel. The smell of coffee and hash browns is in my DNA, and it has a Pavlovian effect on my salivary glands.

A look at the breakfast section of the menu reveals a place with no shortage of hearty options. Pretty much any dinner-style cut of meat— steak, pork chops, veal, lamb chops— can be ordered with eggs made to order. Each option comes with a heap of shredded hash browns, and a choice of toast, muffin, one pancake

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Polynesian Cultural Festival

If sampling some spit-roasted pork is one of the things you have yet to cross off of your summer bucket list, then this weekend is your chance. The North Salt Lake Polynesian Cultural Festival is celebrating its fourth year with a two-day event at Legacy Park (1140 W. 1100 North) on Friday, Aug. 17 (4 p.m.-10 p.m.), and Saturday, Aug. 18 (9 a.m.-11 p.m.). In addition to taking in the cultural sights and sounds of Polynesian dancers, music and crafts, the festival hosts over 14 food vendors. Expect to see poke bowls, Kalua pork, barbecue chicken and several varieties of otai, which is a blended fruit smoothie made with fresh mango and pineapple topped with ice cream. Plus, prepare to enjoy free samples of traditional pork cooked on a spit. Call 385-271-4265 or email info@pcfnorthsaltlake.com for more information.

Tuesday Farmer’s Market

August is here, which means it’s time for the Downtown Farmers Market to expand its operation to Tuesday evenings from now until September. In contrast to the Saturday morning market, the Tuesday market is a bit more intimate and reserved. Designed for shoppers on their way home from work or in the mood for a more low-key farmers market experience, the Tuesday market is a scaled-down version of its Saturday cousin. Visitors can still expect the same great local selection, and it’s always a fun weekday jaunt for those who stop by. The Tuesday market is held weekly at Pioneer Park (350 S. 300 West) from 4 p.m. to dusk, every Tuesday night until the end of September.

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As one of the country’s early adopters of the now ubiquitous cupcake shop, Gigi Butler has brought her brand of nationally renowned cupcakes to Logan. Butler started baking cupcakes after years of pursuing a music career in Nashville. Prompted by the popularity of cupcake shops in New York, she opened her first location in 2008. Over the past daceade, Gigi’s Cupcakes stores have popped up in 24 states, and Butler was on hand to celebrate the store’s grand opening with Logan residents. Gigi’s Cupcakes (975 N. Main, Ste. 120, Logan, 435-752-2233, gigiscupcakesusa.com) boasts a slew of Butler’s signature recipes—many of which are gluten free—and it’s sure to be a welcome addition to Logan’s dessert scene.

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Getting Reacquainted Among a slew of new brews, old favorites still stand out.

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Red Rock White IPA: It pours a hazy, bright golden-yellow color, with one to two fingers of fairly dense white head; head retention is good, but eventually reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty, soapy lacing clings on the sides of the glass. The

aroma is comprised mostly of lemon zest, grapefruit, tangerine, coriander, pepper, clove and yeast earthiness—pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast and other spices. The taste starts off with lemon zest, grapefruit, tangerine and mango. From mid palate you get wheat, cracker, light banana and herbal grass to counter the initial hop fruitiness.

As you reach the end, you’re greeted with pear and more earthy yeast notes. The finish is long with fruity citrus hops and pale malt flavors, with a great malt/bitter/ spiciness balance and zero cloying flavors.

The body is medium to light with a very smooth, fairly creamy/sticky mouth feel that’s satisfying. The 4 percent alcohol is well hidden with minimal warming present.

Overall: This is a very nice White IPA style, with all-around impressive robustness, complexity and balance of fruity/spicy yeast, spices, citrus hops and pale malt flavors—very smooth and easy to drink. You can find it right now at all Harmons locations.

Talisman Blood Orange Wheat: When poured, a super hazy orange color emerges, with a one-finger’s worth of head of pure white foam. The head fades quickly at first, but then very slowly, leaving a great level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass and a nice film on the top of the brew. The nose is big with a yeasty and orange citrus

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peel aroma that transitions to notes of lemongrass and herbal perfumes. The taste begins with a good showing of orange and tangerine flavors, along with some tart grapefruit qualities. Accompanying these flavors are notes of a more bready taste with lots of yeast mixed in. As the taste advances, the brew sours up a bit more, with some lemon and more grapefruit coming to the tongue. Along with these flavors comes some grass and herb, leaving an oddly sweet and bitter citrus and hop flavor to linger on the tongue. The finish is semi-dry with cracker and citrusy pith. At 4 percent, the body of this brew is on the average side; in terms of thickness and

creaminess, the carbonation level is on the lower side. The body is also enhanced by the yeasty and wheat flavors.

Overall: A decent brew with a nice blend of sweet and bitter citrus that plays nicely with sweet and tart citrus, plus just enough grass and bread to balance it out. This beer is best served cold, but if you let it warm a little, the fruitier characters from the yeast make it an entirely different citrusy beast.

Both of these beers get a nice enhancement from their individual yeast strain that take them in different directions. I think you’ll find these are both great as quenchers and as educational beers. As always, cheers! CW

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Robin’s Nest

Robin’s Nest was founded on a passion for an all-American favorite: the sandwich. All of the sauces and dressings are housemade, and everything is prepared fresh daily. The menu offers soups, salads and more than 25 sandwiches that are all unique to the restaurant. Try options like the Aloha Oink, with Black Forest ham, provolone and pineapple salsa on ciabatta; or the Rooster Call, with chicken salad, red onion, provolone and sweet honey Dijon. All sandwiches come with orzo pasta or housemade chips, which can be enjoyed inside or outside, right on downtown’s Main Street. 311 S. Main, 801-466-6378, robinsnestslc.com

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Since 1991, this casual eatery has been serving up Mexican dishes with flavor and friendliness.

Fans of freshly made authentic food rave about Acapulco, where even the tortillas are made inhouse daily. Chow down on enchiladas, smothered burritos, flautas, pozole—you can even get ribs and a cheeseburger. But whatever you decide on, make sure to grab a sweet dessert. And don’t forget to ask about their daily lunch specials. 4722 S. 4015 West, Kearns, 801-964-1553, acapulcorestaurantutah.com

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There’s a nod to France on the restaurant’s menu with three-cheese fondue, as well as New World specialties such as organic Southern-fried chicken, pan-seared sea bass and smoked duck breast and confit leg. Franck’s version of meatloaf is slowly braised pulled pork, veal and chicken in a blueberrylavender sauce. Don’t miss out on their not-sotraditional take on steak: wagyu sirloin steak served with porcini purée, crimini mushrooms and blackberries. 6263 S. Holladay Blvd., Holladay, 801-274-6264, francksfood.com

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Offering about 15 flavors—strawberry, coffee, Oreo, etc.—the eatery allows you to combine any two for an extra 25 cents. Not only that, but Milt’s claims to be the town’s oldest restaurant, established in 1954. So: history. 356 S. Mill Creek Drive, Moab; 435-259-7424, miltsstopandeat.com

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Café Madrid’s longevity as a traditional Spanish restaurant made me think twice about my cynical view on tapas. I ordered the most tapas-y of all tapas—the albóndigas. The combination of veal, pork and beef can be dangerous if your ratios aren’t right, but my first bite yielded a tender, nuanced bit of Spanish gastronomic history. The chilled sopa de ajo ($9)—a creambased, chilled garlic soup—is poured tableside over a bed of red grapes. The garlic is nicely tempered by the creaminess of the soup, and the pop of grapes adds welcome sweetness and texture. The solomillo de buey al queso picón de Treviso ($30) is a grilled beef tenderloin served with root vegetables and slathered in a Roquefort cheese sauce—ideal for the steak lover in your life. Ordering the paella is an event in itself; it’s a slow-cooked endeavor, so if you want a full dish for two ($40), the kitchen staff requires 24-hours notice. With its list of ingredients including heavy hitters like saffron, chorizo and mussels, it manages to maintain a harmony of seasonings that make sure each flavor is properly balanced. Reviewed July 26. 5244 S. Highland Drive, 801-273-0837, cafemadrid.net

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FILM REVIEW

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Crazy Rich Asians blends appealing genre formula and cultural specificity.

BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

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e could begin by pretending it doesn’t matter that it’s been 25 years since The Joy Luck Club, the last time a major studio released a movie primarily by and about Asians and Asian-Americans—but come on. While China’s growing economic power might mean that movies have made incremental improvements in Asian actor representation, mostly to appeal to the Chinese moviegoing market, mainstream movies still generally behave as though America’s demographics look the way they did around 1800. So Crazy Rich Asians is kind of a big deal, in the same way it was kind of a big deal for Black Panther to give African-Americans a super-hero who looked like them.

The tricky part becomes what audiences should expect from a multiplex romantic dramedy about Asian characters. Should Crazy Rich Asians be a conventional piece of genre entertainment that just happens to be about Asians? Or should it be a culturally distinctive story where Asian-ness is intrinsic to its appeal? And is it somehow possible to do both?

Director Jon M. Chu (Now You See Me 2) and screenwriters Peter Chiarelli & Adele Lim do a pretty impressive job of balancing those two demands in their adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s 2013 novel. It opens in New York, where NYU economics professor Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) has no idea that her boyfriend of a year, Nick Young (Henry Golding), comes from one of the wealthiest families in Singapore. But Rachel learns all about the Youngs when they travel to Singapore to attend the wedding of Nick’s best friend, and she discovers that she might not fit in the plans that Nick’s mother, Eleanor (Michelle Yeoh), has for her son.

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know if someone loves him just for himself, to the fish-out-of-water comedy, to tales of someone trying awkwardly to please the demanding parent(s) of their significant other.

“I feel like a villain in a soap opera,” Rachel laments at one point over the perception that she must be a gold-digger, and Crazy Rich Asians certainly traffics in vintage melodrama tropes where a haughty parent tries to thwart a romance because nobody could ever be good enough for their darling child.

But formulas are formulas because they work, and as much as Crazy Rich Asians leans into familiar setups, it generally sticks the landing. Rachel gets the requisite gal-pal sounding board in her nouveau-riche college friend Peik Lin, played by Awkwafina with a perfect sassy spark. Chu’s direction brings energy to the visuals, including a lively montage conveying the rapid spread of Nick’s romantic status via the Singaporean socialmedia gossip tree, and sells opulent lifestyle porn with a breeziness that would make Nancy Meyers take notice. He also nails simpler moments, like a tense conversation between Rachel and Eleanor on a staircase in which the grand dame makes sure to get the intimidating upper step.

Yet this is also a story that makes its cultural milieu matter, and not just in its focus on Asian children struggling to reconcile their own desires with familial expectations. From the punch lines—like a contemporary twist on parents guilting their kids at the dinner table over “starving kids in China”—to Eleanor’s Bible study group

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to a trip to a street-food market, Crazy Rich Asians gives this story a unique flavor that captures how this particular culture influences dynamics that might be familiar from a hundred romantic comedies. You might not understand what’s going on in a mahjongg game late in the movie, but you can tell that Rachel is applying her knowledge of game theory in a way that matters in the place where she finds herself.

It’s a bit of a bummer that the handsome but relatively inexperienced Golding can’t match the charming complexity Constance Wu brings to Rachel, making him more of a fantasy figure than a character. There’s also a subplot involving the unsteady marriage between Nick’s socialite cousin (Gemma Chan) and her insecure husband (Pierre Png) that comes up limp, even if it’s meant to suggest what Rachel might face as an outsider among pseudo-royalty. But satisfying wish-fulfillment stories are part of why we go to the movies, and this one delivers—even fulfilling the wish for a story that’s as singularly Asian as it is recognizably rom-com. CW

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TRY THESE The Joy Luck Club (1993) Tamlyn Tomita Rosalind Chao R

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CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net ALPHA [not yet reviewed] Adventure drama set during the Ice Age, as a primitive human befriends a dog for the first time. Opens Aug. 17 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) CRAZY RICH ASIANS BBB See review on p. 38. Opens Aug. 15 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)

THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST BB.5 Sometimes knowing the source material serves the experience of watching a movie poorly. Desiree Akhavan adapts Emily M. Danforth’s novel, the circa-1993 story diving immediately into high school junior Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) getting caught in a compromising situation with a female friend, whereupon she is sent by her guardian aunt to a Christian residential camp where teenagers work on eliminating “SSA” (same-sex attraction).

In Danforth’s book, that event is the halfway point—after her gradual understanding of her sexual orientation, and the guilt connecting her early experimentation with the night her parents died. None of that character background is present here, and Moretz spends most of the film looking befuddled about everything going on around her—which naturally includes “therapy” that the audience can knowingly chuckle and/or fume over. Jennifer Ehle turns in a nicely chilly performance as the program’s zealous overseer, and several effective scenes capture kids prodded to change who they are before they even understand what that is. Cameron Post simply makes the mistake of throwing us immediately into the efforts to “cure” Cameron, before we know what it is they’re trying to “cure” her of. Opens Aug. 17 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD BBB Here’s the movie version of the 2012 memoir Full Service, in which George Albert “Scotty” Bowers shared juicy details about his decades-long career pimping for Tinseltown celebrities. Shot by director Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor) back in 2012-14, the bawdy documentary shows the 90-year-old

Bowers as a lifelong debaucher and raconteur who, in the 1950s, started using the Hollywood gas station where he worked as a trysting place for closeted actors willing to pay for the privilege of performing oral sex on attractive young men (friends of Bowers, mostly straight). Bowers went on to play a Forrest Gump-like role in behind-the-scenes movie history, arranging same-sex dalliances for Cole Porter, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and scores of others, while sometimes joining in the shenanigans himself. The Hollywood historians interviewed here agree that Bowers’ tales jibe with the documented facts, and the talking heads provide a neat mini-history of Hollywood repression. More interesting, though, are the things we learn in the film’s second half about Bowers’ life, which cast his hedonism in a new light, turning him from a horny old goat into something more sympathetic. Opens Aug. 17 at Tower Theatre. (NR)—Eric D. Snider

SPECIAL SCREENINGS THE BLEEDING EDGE At Main Library, Aug. 21, 7 p.m. (NR) ELECTION At Tower Theatre, Aug. 17-18, 11 p.m. & Aug. 19, noon. (R) MELE MURALS At Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Aug. 22, 7 p.m. (NR) PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING At Main Library, Aug. 22, 2 p.m. (PG-13)

CURRENT RELEASES BLACKKKLANSMAN BBBB Now this is a Spike Lee Joint: searing drama, hilarious comedy, occasional tonal messiness, periodically angry as hell. It’s the

“based on some fo’ real, fo’ real shit” story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), a black undercover police officer in Colorado Springs who becomes a member of the local Ku Klux Klan chapter, assisted by a Jewish colleague (Adam Driver). It’s a testament to Lee’s strengths that he makes all the disparate elements of the story work so well. Lee spends a good deal of screen time showing how draining and dangerous the assignment is for everyone, while the poison of racism bubbles up from under the front-loaded laughs. The movie ends with real-life scenes from Charlottesville in 2017, and even if you already got the point … well, we could all stand to get it again. (R)—David Riedel CHRISTOPHER ROBIN BB.5 Surprisingly, Disney gives one of its most beloved characters a story that’s an odd mix of deeply weird and thoroughly predictable. Here, Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) isn’t A.A. Milne’s son, but instead a harried businessman in post-WWII England who is neglecting his wife (Hayley Atwell) and daughter when he gets a visit from his childhood stuffed animals Pooh (Jim Cummings) and the gang. Yes, it’s the default What Really Matters premise for so much high-concept fantasy, with McGregor gamely trying to find a new note to play for this old song. But then there’s the long, melancholy mid-section, jammed up against a third act filled with frantic chases. The impressive design of the CGI critters leaves bald patches on the aging toys’ fur—an apt metaphor for a movie that tries to combine the edgy with the well-worn. (PG)—SR DOG DAYS B Five different movies attempt to coexist here: two rom-coms, a family drama, a gross-out comedy and a May-December platonic melodrama. Connecting these disparate, equally inert tales?

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MCQUEEN BB.5 The short, tragic life of an artist puts a documentary filmmaker in a challenging position: Is the story about the artist, or about the art? Directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui explore the life of Lee Alexander McQueen, the London-born fashion designer who became a phenomenon in the 1990s while still in his 20s, burning bright until his suicide in 2010 at the age of 40. Archival footage is plentiful, allowing the filmmakers access both to behind-thescenes home video and chronicles of the shows for his most dramatic collections. It’s in the latter area that McQueen proves most compelling, conveying not just McQueen’s controversial exploration of violent images and themes but the way he directed his shows as theatrical spectacle. What’s missing is a stronger sense of McQueen the man; isolated moments suggest his unique status as a working-class guy in a fancy world, but the brief mentions of childhood abuse and possible mental illness don’t bring his life off the runway into focus. When someone says of McQueen that “the darkness created this amazing creativity and genius,” it feels less like earned insight than falling back on tortured-artist cliché.

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EIGHTH GRADE BBB.5 Comedian Bo Burnham’s feature filmmaking debut stars Elsie Fisher as Kayla, trying to change her identity as a nearly invisible, deeply insecure girl during her final week of middle school. While there might be nothing earth-shaking about suggesting that middle school is a psychological hellscape, Burnham’s direction captures the unique challenges of a generation immersed in social media, where popularity is instantly quantifiable. Mostly, though, he commits fully to Kayla as a character, allowing Fisher’s natural charms to permeate a young woman who covers her bathroom mirror in affirmations, yet finds her days filled with reminders that she’s never as funny, desirable or cool as she wants to be. It’s a lovely piece of acting, in which Kayla’s attempt at being friendly with the popular girls fails miserably, but her “nailed it” smile makes you cheer for her anyway. (R)—SR

THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME BB.5 The protagonists are ordinary women who get caught up in international espionage and turn out to be—what are the odds?—pretty good at it. This type of formula action-comedy usually has male leads, but director Susanna Fogel, who co-wrote the script with David Iserson, proves that mediocrity is not bound by gender. Mila Kunis’ ex-boyfriend Justin Theroux reveals he’s a CIA agent and gives her a package to deliver, which she and her kooky-with-a-capital-K best friend Kate McKinnon undertake to accomplish while potentially untrustworthy but dashing CIA spies pursue them. The action scenes are surprisingly good—and surprisingly violent—and the comedy has its moments, but the film leans too heavily on McKinnon to provide levity without always giving her much to work with, and the screenplay uses profanity like a kid who just learned how. (R)—EDS

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THE MEG BBB A movie about a 90-foot-long prehistoric shark has some simple requirements: Don’t take things too seriously, and give us a lot of 90-foot-long prehistoric shark. Director Jon Turteltaub hits most of his marks in a story about undersea rescue expert Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham), who gets pulled into the threat of a killer megalodon when it heads into open water from its deep-sea habitat. Plenty of the pieces seem creaky in isolation—Taylor’s redemption quest; an adorable kid; a romantic interest for Taylor (Li Bingbing)—leading to a script that feels built to check off boxes. But the set pieces deliver the requisite mix of shrieks, chuckles and cringes, including narrow escapes as limbs dangle tantalizingly close to an open megalodon mouth. It’s OK to have one of those movies that only wants to do silly, satisfying summer movie things. (PG-13)—SR

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Center (PMRC) has had a hard-on for Slayer since the 1995 murder of Elyse Pahler by three teenagers who played in a Slayer-like band called Hatred. In 2014, when Leroy Smith III murdered his father Leroy Smith Jr., he blamed Slayer directly, claiming the band was present when a gun was held to his head and satanic thoughts were placed into his mind. Then there’s the scores of fans who selfmutilate the word “Slayer” into their bodies, or the haunting fact that the band’s ninth studio album, God Hates Us All, hit the shelves bright and early the tragic morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

Although the killers in the Pahler case later claimed Slayer had nothing to do with their plot—in 2001, a judge ruled that Slayer’s lyrics were offensive but didn’t incite murder—and the band clearly couldn’t have predicted the tragedy that struck the U.S. on 9/11, the cards remained stacked against them. Despite (or maybe because of) all that anger and blame, metalheads still flock en masse to Slayer concerts. It’s even become a family affair in America, with parents bringing their kids to shows and passing on Slayer records as a treasured inheritance. Perhaps it’s because Slayer empowered those who were deemed “different” or “weird” to start standing up for each other. Yes, you might get kicked or elbowed in the pit, but if you fall down, you’ll get picked up. It might sound corny, but it’s also a metaphor for Slayer’s meaning.

Today, Araya, King, Gary Holt (Hanneman’s replacement) and current drummer Paul Bostaph are long-haired fathers—and even grandfathers—who are finally ready for thrash retirement. This might mark our last chance to receive a bloody nose in the pit or have a whiplash-induced hangover from adrenaline-fueled headbanging to “Altar of Sacrifice” and “World Painted Blood.” But there’s always hope that the band will come out of retirement like Ozzy Osbourne did with Black Sabbath for another “final” world tour. Until then, the metal gods will keep smiling on Slayer and its long history of extreme music. CW

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“I’ve never met that guy. I’ve only met the guy who’s got Slayer carved across his chest.” For nearly 40 years, Slayer has been a household name in heavy metal. But there’s more to The Big Four—bassist Tom Araya, guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman and original drummer Dave Lombardo—than just their music.

Hailing from Huntington Park, Calif., Slayer started when 20-year-old respiratory therapist Araya and three teenage friends wanted to infuse their love of Venom and Mercyful Fate with the speediness of punk rock. “Your first [album], you emulate your heroes,” King said in a 2017 interview with Noisey. “Your second one, you gotta start to find your direction.”

Slayer didn’t really become Slayer, however, until after their infamous third record, 1986’s Reign in Blood, one of the first nonrap records released on Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons’ new Def Jam label. With shorter, faster songs and clearer production, songs like “Raining Blood” gave birth to early thrash, while also including details of brutal Satanic rituals (“Altar of Sacrifice”), as well as a notorious track about the Holocaust (“Angel of Death”) inspired by the real Angel of Death, Nazi physician Josef Mengele.

More than 30 years later, it still gives any self-respecting metalhead goosebumps.

However, all good things must come to an end—after losing founding member Hanneman to liver failure in 2013, Slayer’s reign finally culminates with their suitably named End of Days farewell tour. What else do you say about these legendary American thrash gods? There’s a freakin’ statue of Araya in a Ukrainian zoo, for Satan’s sake. The band has released everything from Slayer comic books to Slayer Christmas sweaters to Slayer bicycles and, yes, countless Slayer tattoos. Like Zombie said, Slayer fans are serious, and they take everything one step further by getting their love for the band inked right into their skin. Browse the internet, and you’ll find countless web forums full of massive back and arm pieces dedicated to the band.

Frankly, it would be insulting to try and encapsulate three-plus decades of aggression, blood, sweat and pentagrams into one story. But Slayer has made a massive impact on my life, too: I’ve got the cover art from their 2006 album Christ Illusion tattooed on my arm. Yes, it’s a tattoo my mom says could lead me to become possessed by the devil, but hey—I really liked that album. That tattoo came in my pre-Iraq deployment days, too, so I have no shame.

Maybe Slayer fans are possessed; the band certainly has a strong cult-like following to back up such a claim.

Has any other band pissed off more parents and Christian groups? After the release of Reign in Blood, mainstream media took the song “Angel of Death” and the band’s highly visible use of W WII memorabilia as proof that Slayer were Nazi sympathizers. Further controversies followed: Parents Music Resource

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to reviews of her band Hop Along’s latest album, Bark Your Head Off, Dog. Whispering, wailing, creaking, ringing, soaring and vibrating all at once, Quinlan will make you feel in your bones every hollered chorus, every sloughed-off turn of phrase and every muttered vocal tic. Additionally impressive is the fact that Quinlan plays guitar while she sings, underlining the dexterous versatility of Hop Along, which includes Frances’ brother, Mark, on drums; bassist Tyler Long; and guitarist/producer Joe Reinhart. Bark Your Head Off, Dog’s nine songs pull from a far wider range of styles than 2012’s folksy Get Disowned and 2015’s punky Painted Shut. “Not Abel” incorporates chamber pop elegance, plunking pizzicato and heavenly harp accentuating Quinlan’s howls before the song devolves into a minor-key rocker. “The Fox in Motion” employs a beat machine for what feels like the first time in Hop Along history, while “Somewhere a Judge” mines ’80s New Wave and ’90s college rock in a surprisingly fresh way. Still, it’s Quinlan’s pipes—and her inimitable narrative perspective—that shine. “How You Got Your Limp” is sonically beautiful, yes, but repeated listens let its incisive lyrics—set in a big-city bar and told from a waitress’ perspective—sink in: “Put that professor into a cab/ Avoiding as best as one can/ The voice of a doomed man/ Condemning his students and my lack of power/ I knew him, I can hear you/ The whole bar can.” The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $15 presale; $18 day of show, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

River Whyless threads—but he also embraces his softer side, rapping about love and “Lucid Dreams,” so far his strongest commercial single. If you haven’t heard of Juice Wrld, don’t worry: Nine months ago, he was a mostly unknown bedroom rapper who routinely made $100 for live performances. In March, he signed a $3-million deal with Interscope, and now he’s on his maiden headlining voyage with mainstream coverage from Billboard and The New York Times under his belt. Since debut album Goodbye & Good Riddance was released in May, Juice Wrld has been on a creative tear, recording more than 100 new tracks that speak to both the highs and the lows of instant fame. “Legends” and “Rich and Blind” were two such standouts, songs that Juice Wrld freestyled on the spot after fellow young Soundcloud celebrity XXXTentacion was murdered in South Florida. “I know this is all a blessing and a surreal opportunity,” Juice Wrld told Pigeons & Planes in April. “[But] I just push forward. I just remember what I’m in it for. I would say everything is just one big adrenaline rush.” The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, $34.50-$147.50, all ages, thecomplexslc.com

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Although Soundcloud continues to churn out new legions of controversial rap stars every day, something about Chicago’s Juice Wrld feels different. The 19-year-old born Jarad Higgins spent as much time soaking up trap gods like Soulja Boy and Future as he did emo-punk bands like Escape the Fate and Panic! at the Disco. He can hit hard, detailing his drug intake and his flashy

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Asheville, N.C., quartet River Whyless might have started life as a folk-inspired newAmericana outfit. But on their latest album, Kindness, A Rebel, they expand their sonic palette to include raw indie rock, shimmery international beats and dark synth-pop. More importantly, the band’s third full-length takes direct aim at America’s current ills: “Born in the Right Country” takes an unblinkered look at white privilege, and “Failing Farm” balances rural menace and utopian hope over shuffling marimbas. Album opener “All of My Friends” is, unexpectedly, of a piece with LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends”— both songs bemoan the loss of compassion, generosity and humility in the country at large while celebrating such characteristics in the insular social circles encouraged by modern society. “War Is Kind” and “Mama Take Your Time” hearken back to River Whyless’ acoustic roots in the Appalachians, while “Another Shitty Party” somehow bottles up our modern-day tribalism and fear into auditory form. But it’s the propulsion of “The Feeling of Freedom” that encapsulates River Whyless’ growth and potential, with rapid-fire drums, Afro-beat guitars and joyous lyrics about “the wind in your face” and “the wind at your back” skittering down a metaphorical highway. As the band describes Kindness, A Rebel in an email to NPR, “It’s both a celebration and perpetuation of the freedom we all have to speak, to disagree, to be both challenged and enriched by our collective differences.”

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friends and family at age 10, he didn’t meet another gay man until he moved to London at age 19—and didn’t fully understand the history of homosexuality until several years later. Sophomore full-length The Thrill of It All achieved the last major accolade Smith had yet to realize—a debut atop the U.S. Billboard 200—and still propels his current tour nearly a year after its release. Vivint Smart Home Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 8 p.m., $22-$122, all ages, vivintarena.com

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Hailing from Phoenix, Ariz., Jared & The Mill have perfected a strain of countryinfluenced indie rock equally rooted in both the South and the Southwest. Yes, there’s plenty of foot-stomping, hand-clapping, shout-along rowdiness on full-lengths like 2013’s Western Expansion and 2015’s Life We Chose, along with 2016 EP Orme Dugas and forthcoming 2018 album This Story Is No Longer Available. Jared & The Mill even famously play in the middle of the crowd, on the venue floor, for each show’s encore.

But there’s also something deeper buried in their best songs. “Soul in Mind” celebrates unabashed individuality with the line “Paint me gold and call me what you like/ Split me up in two and keep the better side/ And I’ll try to be just like that guy.”

Unabashed honesty like that is rare in today’s music world, but frontman Jared Kolesar and his band of brothers bring it.

Fellow Sun City rockers Lydia do the same on new album Liquor, elevating singer Leighton Antelman’s emotionally strained vocals to top billing alongside Matt Keller and Justin Camacho’s cinematic, bluesinfluenced riffs. Liquor pushes the band’s boundaries even farther, absorbing electronic experimentation and a dark lyrical slant. Get to this show early for opener Cherry Pools’ pitch-perfect summery pop. In The Venue, 579 W. 200 South, 7 p.m., $18 presale; $20 day of show, facebook.com/inthevenue

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Damon McMahon’s music has always valued feeling over forthrightness, twisting the knob on vocal inflections and psych-folk beats to make something spiritual. But Freedom, McMahon’s fifth album as Amen Dunes, floods the soundscape with sunlight, clarifying both the hooks and the words with sparkle and shine. McMahon spent three years meticulously building Freedom from scratch, employing the help of Italian producer Panoram, New Jersey guitar savant Delicate Steve and Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs to build a new model for Amen Dunes. It’s one that’s both tragic—McMahon used his mother’s cancer diagnosis as a creative starting point—and transformative, flirting with radio-friendly pop one moment and rebellious goth-rock the next. Freedom pays tribute to both surfers (“Miki Dora”) and saints (“Calling Paul the Suffering”), finding inspiration in worldly and heavenly realms. That aligns with McMahon’s longstanding love of cosmically transcendent electronica—and his newfound ability to translate that love into something more classically accessible. (Nick McGregor) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $15, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant,” wrote French author Honoré de Balzac. I think that’s an exaggeration, but it does trigger a worthwhile meditation.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re in a phase of your cycle when you have maximum power to raise your appreciation of elegance, understand how it could beautify your soul, and add more of it to your repertoire. So here are your homework meditations: What does elegance mean to you? Why might it be valuable to cultivate elegance, not just to enhance your self-presentation, but also to upgrade your relationship with your deep self? (P.S.: Fashion designer Christian Dior said, “Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity.”)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of us imagine medieval Europe to have been drab and dreary. But historian Jacques Le Goff tells us that the people of that age adored luminous hues: “big jewels inserted into book-bindings, glowing gold objects, brightly painted sculpture, paintings covering the walls of churches and the colored magic of stained glass.” Maybe you’ll be inspired by this revelation, Virgo.

I hope so. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you can activate sleeping wisdom and awaken dormant energy by treating your eyes to lots of vivid reds, greens, yellows, blues, browns, oranges, purples, golds, blacks, coppers and pinks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my reading of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be prime time to vividly express your appreciation for and understanding of the people you care about most. I urge you to show them why you love them. Reveal the depths of your insights about their true beauty. Make it clear how their presence in your life has had a beneficent or healing influence on you. And if you really want to get dramatic, you could take them to an inspiring outdoor spot and sing them a tender song or two.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her book Yarn: Remembering the Way Home, Piscean knitter Kyoko Mori writes, “The folklore among knitters is that everything handmade should have at least one mistake so an evil sprit will not become trapped in the maze of perfect stitches.” The idea is that the mistake “is a crack left open to let in the light.”

Mori goes on to testify about the evil spirit she wants to be free of. “It’s that little voice in my head that says, ‘I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.’” I’ve quoted Mori at length, Pisces, because I think her insights are the exact tonic you need right now.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The prettier the garden, the dirtier the hands of the gardener,” writes aphorist B. E. Barnes. That’ll be especially applicable to you in the coming weeks. You’ll have extra potential to create and foster beauty, and any beauty you produce will generate practical benefits for you and those you care about. But for best results, you’ll have to expend more effort than maybe you thought you should. It might feel more like work than play—even though it will ultimately enhance your ability to play.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author and theologian Thomas Merton thought that the most debilitating human temptation is to settle for too little; to live a comfortable life rather than an interesting one. I wouldn’t say SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A blogger who calls herself Wistful Giselle has named the that’s always true about you, Taurus. But I do suspect that in the phenomena that make her “believe in magic.” They include coming weeks, a tendency to settle for less could be the single the following: “illuminated dust in the air; the moments when most devitalizing temptation you’ll be susceptible to. That’s a seedling sprouts; the intelligence gazing back at me from why I encourage you to resist the appeal to accept a smaller a crow’s eyes; being awaken by the early morning sun; the blessing or punier adventure than you deserve. Hold out for the energy of storms; old buildings overgrown with plants; the ever- best and brightest. changing gray green blue moods of the sea; the shimmering moon on a cool, clear night.” I invite you to compile your own list, GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Scorpio. You’re entering a time when you will be the beneficiary “I’ve learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was of magic in direct proportion to how much you believe in and are supposed to be learning.” So says the wise and well-educated novelist Margaret Atwood. Judging by your current astrological alert for magic. Why not go for the maximum? omens, I think this is an excellent clue for you to contemplate right now. What do you think? Have you been half-avoiding any SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Since 1969, 8-foot-2 Big Bird has been the star of the kids’ TV teaching that you or someone else thinks you’re “supposed” to show Sesame Street. He’s a yellow bird puppet who can talk, write be learning? If so, I suggest you avoid it even stronger. Avoid it poetry, dance and roller skate. In the early years of the show, our with cheerful rebelliousness. Doing so might lead you to what hero had a good friend who no one else saw or believed in: Mr. you really need to learn about next.

Snuffleupagus. After 17 years, there came a happy day when everyone else in the Sesame Street neighborhood realized that CANCER (June 21-July 22): Snuffy was indeed real, not just a figment of Big Bird’s imagina- Sometimes you make it difficult for me to reach you. You act tion. I’m foreseeing a comparable event in your life sometime like you’re listening but you’re not really listening. You semisoon, Sagittarius. You’ll finally be able to share a secret truth or consciously decide that you don’t want to be influenced by anyone except yourself. When you lock me out like that, I become a private pleasure or unappreciated asset. bit dumb. My advice isn’t as good or helpful. The magic between us languishes. Please don’t do that to me now. And don’t do it CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Activist and author Simone de Beauvoir was one of those to anyone who cares about you. I realize that you might need to Capricorns whose lust for life was both lush and intricate. “I protect yourself from people who aren’t sufficiently careful with am awfully greedy,” she wrote. “I want to be a woman and to you. But your true allies have important influences to offer, and be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work I think you’ll be wise to open yourself to them.

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Really, Librans are some of the most eccentric people you’ll ever meet, but you might not know it unless they trust you enough to take their masks off around you.” Spurred by Sebastian’s analysis, here’s my advice to you: I hope you’ll spend a lot of time with people you trust in the coming weeks, because for the sake of your mental and physical and spiritual health, you’ll need to express your full eccentricity.

much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish.” Even if your longings are not always as lavish and ravenous as hers, Capricorn, you now have license to explore the mysterious state she described. I dare you to find out how voracious you can be if you grant yourself permission.

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My friend Jeffrey White started making 8-by-40-foot homes out of shipping containers about a decade ago in the Glendale neighborhood. His “Sarah House” had a combo living room and dining area, a bedroom, bathroom and another small area. As I recall, Salt Lake City didn’t like his building plans and he ended up asking for forgiveness rather than permission.

Now, White is an old hat at building minihomes. He owns UBuild Container Homes, which helps clients design and build their own affordable places to live.

In Seattle, The Block Project is trying to end homelessness by placing a Block home in the backyard of one single-family lot on every residentially zoned block in the entire city. These homes are only 125 square feet, but they are solar-powered and self sufficient, and provide a nice space where a person can live out of the rain.

Eighty-three shipping containers are coming to Salt Lake City to house lowincome folks in the first phase of a threepart project. Eco Box Fabricators is buying containers that have traveled the world and transforming them into low-income apartments that will certainly make a dent in our pathetic affordable-housing inventory. The first group of homes is six stories’ worth of containers on top of containers. It will be assembled on the site of the old Devil’s Daughter at 533 S. 500 West. The average cost of building one apartment in Salt Lake hovers around $250,000, but Rod Newman, the owner of Eco Box, says he’ll be able to build a high rise at easily half the cost of a regular steel building.

There’s already a wait list for the apartments, and KUER 901. FM reports that the builder is hiring workers who want to live in the spaces he’s erecting. Many are coming from anti-poverty group circles.

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According to United Press International, the startup company, founded by faculty members from the University of Tsukuba, will print a titanium plate with the names of the betrothed and put it, along with a few hundred other plaques, in one of a series of small cubes to be released into space from the International Space Station.

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A weird in-air experience for passengers traveling from the Canary Islands in Spain to the Netherlands on May 29 ended tragically. The Transavia flight was forced to land in Faro, Portugal, after passengers began fainting and vomiting in reaction to the overpowering smell of another passenger, 58-yearold Russian rocker Andrey Suchilin. “It was like he hadn’t washed himself for several weeks,” Belgian passenger Piet van Haut said. CBS News reported that Suchilin had sought medical attention in Spain and was given antibiotics for an “ordinary beach infection.” Taken to a hospital in Portugal, his condition deteriorated, and he was diagnosed with tissue necrosis. Doctors induced a coma and performed several surgeries, but his wife reported on his Facebook page that he died on June 25. The airline assured fellow passengers that “there has been no risk of infection.”

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Bright Ideas Jeffrey Jacobs, 37, thought he had a great thing going. Last year, when a tree fell on his White Plains, N.Y., home, he told the owner of a tree service (and big hockey fan) that he was the owner of the NHL’s Boston Bruins, reported The Hour. Impressed, the tree service owner sent a crew in the midst of a storm, then billed the actual club owner, 78-year-old Jeremy Jacobs, $5,100 for the service. Police in nearby Wilton, Conn., heard about the deception when they received a call in May from security officials at a company chaired by the Bruins’ owner. The story sounded familiar: In November, Jacobs had been pulled over in Wilton, and he told officers he owned the Bruins in an effort to get out of the ticket. On July 20, Jacobs was pulled over for using his phone while driving in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., sent back to Wilton and charged with criminal impersonation.

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Just Say No Brody Tyler Young, 25, was arrested in a Nashville, Tenn., McDonald’s on July 23 after spending “all day” locked in the women’s restroom, dancing naked, doing jumping jacks and hitting the wall. According to WFFA TV, when officers managed to enter the restroom, they found Young locked in a stall, smelling of “chemical fumes, as if he had been huffing.” Young was taken into custody and charged with public intoxication and public indecency.

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Kyle McAleer, 20, a Chicago Cubs fan from Iowa, adopted a goofy “rally cap” idea from former Cubs player Starlin Castro a few years ago—a plastic bucket. But no one’s laughing now: As McAleer and his family watched a game from seats under Wrigley Field’s manual scoreboard on July 24, a 6- to 8-inch metal pin fell out of the board and onto McAleer’s head, where he had only moments earlier secured the bucket. Although he suffered a cut requiring five staples, McAleer is crediting the bucket for saving his life: “It might have fractured my skull. It definitely could have been fatal.

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Sign of the Times Just after midnight on July 22, a couple in Palo Alto, Calif., were awakened in their bedroom by a 17-year-old burglar with a garment obscuring his face. Instead of demanding money or jewelry, though, the intruder asked for their Wi-Fi password. According to The Sacramento Bee, the homeowner forced the teen out of the home and called police, who tracked him down a block away and arrested him for felony residential burglary. Police later determined it wasn’t the teen’s first attempt at connectivity. Less than an hour earlier that night, a prowler had summoned a woman from her home to ask for access to her Wi-Fi network also. She told him to go away, and he rode off on a bicycle—which she realized the next day he had stolen from her backyard. She called police, who recovered the bike near where they had arrested the teen.

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During a July 23 debate among mayoral candidates in Key West, Fla., Sloan Bashinsky, a perennial contender, took a minute to answer a call from God. “Hello? What? God?” Bashinsky said, speaking into his cellphone. According to FLKeys News, it wasn’t the first time he’s heard from a higher power: “I have said every time I ran, I ran because God told me to run,” Bashinsky explained.

“I think anyone who wants this job is insane.” Bashinsky has a law degree from Vanderbilt University and was once among the island’s homeless. He joins six other candidates on the ticket.

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Painesville (Ohio) Municipal Court Judge Michael Cicconetti has a reputation for serving up unusual sentences, and he delivered again on July 24 when 18-year-old Bayley Toth appeared in his courtroom. Toth was convicted of two misdemeanor criminal mischief charges for toppling a portable toilet at Painesville Township Park in June, among other things. Cicconetti sentenced him to 120 days in jail, but suspended it in lieu of Toth shoveling ... manure at the Lake County Fair. “You act like an animal, you’re going to take care of animals,” Cicconetti told Toth. The News-Herald reported Toth will also have to perform 40 hours of community service and pay restitution for damage to the park.

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