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Thanks to videoteleconferencing, Salt Lake City immigration court judges can decide the fates of immigrants held in a detention center 856 miles away.

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Meant to lighten backed-up workloads, teleconferencing has made immigration hearings that much more impersonal.

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Cinema, p. 35 The Southern California native spent his 20s in Utah, attending BYU (where he founded The Garrens Comedy Troupe) and writing for The Daily Herald, where he reviewed a couple hundred theater productions—most of which were Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

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SLC has amazing ethnic food of every flavor except pizza, lol. There’s, like, three places I know of that will pass for decent ’za: Este Pizza Co., Rusted Sun Pizzeria and Settebello.

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I hope this works. I am really getting tired of getting out of their way like I am the problem.

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The scooters are great and super convenient!

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Sure. Let’s focus our time and our energy on the infinitesimal scooter issue that affects virtually no one, instead of the gargantuan homeless problem that affects virtually everyone.

Sadly, this has been a hallmark of Biskupski’s entire administration. Instead of fixing the roads, she’d rather spend her time and our tax dollars renaming them.

Instead of actually addressing the homeless problem in downtown SLC, she’d rather just push them out of downtown and into the surrounding neighborhoods.

JARED LEE

Thank God. Fuck those scooters.

from driving their cars in the bike lanes.

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Please don’t let them get rid of these. Don’t pamper the whiners. Make guidelines, but don’t let the party pooper suit-and-tie business people fuss about it and ruin it for everyone else. [There’s] too much of that in the world as is.

Bike routes on roads like 700 East are not safe. The popularity of these scooters should be a wake-up call to a growing demand for alternative transit in SLC. Make it safe for everyone. The pros of these scooters can’t go unnoticed. Alternative transit is a good thing.

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Thank goodness. When I moved here four months ago, these [scooters] were a pain for pedestrians in downtown San Diego—especially on weekends. Glad to see initiatives being tackled in SLC.

I mean, I’m more worried about the homeless people I have to dodge in downtown.

The scooters are hardly the problem.

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Why not rather focus on creating a safe bike lane, so scooter riders don’t feel like they have to ride on the sidewalk?

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For Our Babies

About a year ago, City Weekly decided to hold a medical cannabis conference. It would be Utah’s first ever. Six months ago, it got a name, Utah Cann (utahcann.com), and a home, the Mountain America Credit Union South Towne Expo Center. And on Oct. 19-20, the convention’s doors will open to introduce Utah to a new era of medical cannabis education. That all said, and disclaimer proclaimed, yes, I’m biased as hell in support of medical cannabis.

If you believe the same, I’ll see you at Utah Cann.

More than 25 years ago, our first Gay Pride parade stretched only a few blocks, with paltry supporters along the downtown route. Then, some of the Mormon faithful broke ranks and began marching with their gay family members, rather than relegating them to lives of omission and scorn; notably among them, Gary and Millie Watts who very publicly supported their gay son, Craig.

A movement was born when the Watts’ were chosen as grand marshals of the 1999 Gay Pride parade. We can be proud of the thoughtful and compassionate Mormons who support an equality-based Utah society.

It was evident then that the church at Temple Square (or LDS or Mormon—I’m confused and I’m sticking to what my grandmother said she was, a Mormon) was on the wrong side of a historic movement. Now, in regards to medical cannabis—the Proposition 2 witch hunt and subsequent “compromise” bill—they are on the wrong side again. Not only have general opinions softened about medical cannabis, but young people raised in that particular faith are inclined to think and live independently.

Let’s do some math: On the bright side, according to gender-study experts, around 10 percent of any population is comprised of LGBTQ individuals. Thus, so are Mormon families.

Now, another movement is swelling.

Not 10 percent of Utah’s population, but near 100, will, during their lifetime, be affected either directly or through a family member by the pain of cancer, a different maddening disease or from blowing out a knee at

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Brigham Young University. They will watch their soldiers coming home with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and others will endure lifestyle trauma that triggers PTSD in them, too. Take a look around. Do you have a neighbor with an autistic child or parent in geriatric care? Epilepsy maybe, or Tourette’s? People diagnosed with depression or anxiety who are prescribed addictive little white pills to make it go away? Did your carpet-layer knees lead to opioid addiction? Do you recall a life lost to overdose?

All Utahns have a need for the single medicine that a growing number of patients, physicians and medical studies suggests gives benefit to all of the above— cannabis. So, why the hubbub? Well, the simple answer is fear—we’ve all been taught that marijuana is a gateway drug to even worse drugs and that users are hippies who hate America, crazy bikers who love America, societal misfits and people who have just lost their way and therefore, need … drum roll: religion.

The “opposition” as they woefully call themselves (who opposes health?)—is a cabal of identical faces comprised of the dominant religion, business leaders, so-called medical experts and moralists. The dominant religion is very concerned for one reason: They have lost control of this issue and want to salvage their piece of it by saving face now. Meanwhile, in the background, the stage is being set to control the legal cannabis networks that’ll enrich all of those opponents over the next few decades.

You think liquor makes a buck? Wait until you see what legal cannabis does. It’s fair to say less than 100 percent of all Utahns consume liquor. Comparably, we all medicate.

The opposition wants us to think they are working hard to get it right, yadda yadda. They won’t. Since 1968, they haven’t gotten liquor right. Trusting them to turn a new leaf in regards to medical cannabis is like trusting a mountain lion to tend your children.

That’s what happened last week, when Proposition 2 representatives (just two groups) and opposition leaders met behind closed doors, then gathered for a photo-op

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with the Governor to reveal their retooled initiative. But where were other proponent allies? I don’t know Connor Boyack of Libertas and I barely know D.J. Shanz of the Utah Patients Coalition. That day, they looked like a platter of fried eggs. It’s not a compromise, fellas. It’s a delay.

It’s a way to split support for Proposition 2.

So, what’s next? Come to Utah Cann. We’ll match our medical experts against the war machine of the Utah Medical Association. We will mano a mano their business “leaders” with our cannabis business “experts.” Want to square up? We know plenty of religious faithful who stand for Prop 2. I’d like House Speaker Greg Hughes to be there. I like Greg—anyone who’s met him would. Over breakfast recently, I told him he was on the wrong team on medical cannabis and urged him to change sides. He asked why.

I said, “Well, Greg, the people pushing you can be known as champions of doing the right thing, get cross-aisle support and grab some Democratic voters, or they can be known as baby killers. What’s it gonna be?” His blue eyes said, “Woah!”

Labels aren’t fair, but they’re powerful. It’s harsh, but that’s how I feel, especially because the opponents have presented lie after lie about this issue from the start.

They debase persons who use or need to use medical cannabis. They deride motives and ignore hurt. Waiting, wringing their hands, callously setting up rubrics that delay even one person—one baby—the medical relief that families are breaking laws to obtain by driving to Nevada or Colorado is criminal. It’s also unjust and immoral. The time to put fear and ignorance aside is now. Enough with the photo ops; our health should be apolitical.

Many believe the “compromise” bill was intended to negatively affect voter turnout during the Nov. 6 election.

Go out and vote and let your voice be heard. The will of Utahns cannot be silenced. Get educated at Utah Cann.

Do it for our babies. CW

THE OPPOSITION WANTS US TO THINK THEY ARE WORKING HARD TO GET IT RIGHT, YADDA YADDA. THEY WON’T.

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Who do you think will show up? So often, office-holders and candidates are too arrogant to get down and dirty with the masses. At Face 2 Face with Utah Youth, a Candidate & Issues Forum, get to know the candidates and issues in an interactive lecture style with questions and answers. The Utah Women of Color Council has sent out a blanket invitation to “any representatives, senators or candidates interested in sharing their positions on key ballot issues or their candidacy overall.” This nonpartisan social advocacy group is part of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and strives to elevate the voices of voters ages 17 to 25. Salt Lake County Council Chambers, 2001 S. State, Ste. N1100, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2-5 p.m., free, bit.ly/2RurWMw.

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Yeah, don’t worry about all the deals going on around ballot initiatives. You still have the power of the polls, and it’s not a bad idea to find out what you’ll be voting on. Unpacking the Initiatives: Redistricting Reform will go into the pros and cons of gerrymandering with a panel of national experts and the homegrown Better Boundaries group.

While the Legislature moans and groans about taking away its power, this ballot initiative simply gives an independent advisory commission a chance to weigh in before representatives decide which constituents they want in their districts.

This is one of a series of discussions on three ballot initiatives, which include Medicaid expansion and medical cannabis. Centre Stage, Sorensen Student Center, Utah Valley University, Orem, 801-613-2439, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 6:45-8:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/2y09xPz.

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Join young people across the nation for #TurnoutTuesday every Tuesday until the election and call for moral leadership at all government levels. All you need do is find a way to encourage eligible voters to think about how they will cast their ballot. “And when you complete your mission every Tuesday, post pictures on social media with the hashtag #TurnoutTuesday so the world can see!” MFoL’s website says. There are suggestions of how to protest on the March for Our Lives website. For Tuesday, Oct. 16: Create artwork and posters that advertise “Election Day/ Nov. 6” to plaster around your school and in storefront windows. Make sure to post your designs in areas with high levels of foot-traffic, or where voting might not be a priority, MFoL advises. Every Tuesday until Nov. 6, free, bit.ly/2OGneMZ.

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Judge Wad-duped

Hold tight because we have at least two more years of the Trump administration’s goal of taking the public out of public lands. Now, it looks like a federal judge will be riding a UTV along disputed roads in Kane County. Good thing that Kane has been hard at work fixing up the roads, which are meant to remain unmaintained, environmental groups say. But Kane is going to get its way with the judge— and maybe the roads—when U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups takes an entourage on a curious site visit. It gets more curious because Waddoups, apparently out of fear for his life, closed a hearing and sent a Salt Lake Tribune reporter packing. We get that public lands are a contentious issue in Utah, but the frightened judge might want to think twice about who’s dangerous and who’s carrying the guns on this trip. And how about letting the public know what’s happening to their lands?

Let Us Vote

Let’s talk deals and dealmaking. Everyone knows that’s the way you cook in politics. Still, when the voters speak, shouldn’t politicians listen? At one point, Utah voters were looking at the possibility of six initiatives on the November ballot. Remember that the Legislature has made it difficult—and they hoped impossible—for citizens to get initiatives on the ballot. How’d that work for them? Not too great this time around, when four actually passed muster and three will be on the ballot. That includes medical cannabis, Medicaid expansion and redistricting. Legislators managed to mollify the backers of a tax to fund education and now have a question asking about a gas tax instead. Then they and the LDS church turned to medical cannabis, which scares them worse than booze pops. So, they cut a deal to fix the law if the initiative passes.

While they didn’t need a deal for that, they must have felt it important to disparage the long, hard work of ordinary citizens to get it on the ballot. It’s still there. Vote for it.

Mormon No Mo’

You can’t argue with the word of God, but you can wonder what He’s thinking. We will no longer hear the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Nope. It will be just The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square—like that’s the only tabernacle in the world. But God, or Joseph Smith, or someone didn’t like all the Mormon-speak and now the once-revered Nephite prophet is being sent to the back of the bus. Rebranding has been something of a fad since the millennium, and it’s had a bumpy ride.

The Washington Post noted that critics are calling Weight Watchers’ rebrand to WW a disguise for the diet culture. Dunkin Donuts to just Dunkin? Well. A national branding expert, the Trib says, likes the choir rebrand because “losing the religious word in the choir’s name makes it more universally accessible.” Just like any secular choir.

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Not all are happy with Salt Lake City’s new junk cleanup program. Three months in, staff says kinks are being ironed out.

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had to arrange for another truck to collect it. But Coulam says she told the office ahead of time.

“I listed that TV and I had a discussion with someone on the phone. She was very nice, but I said, ‘This is one of those old projection TVs,’ and she said, ‘That’s fine, we’ll take it,’” Coulam recalls.

“I have the list that I sent and they approved it. The TV was on the list. I don’t know why those men didn’t know that.”

Coulam says she was very happy with the rest of the service. When she called, she received an appointment two days later. But she had to reschedule. “I’m an old woman and it takes me time to round up the family,” she says, and the process to arrange a new date wasn’t difficult.

“Under the old system, it would be too early in the spring or too late in the fall, but being able to schedule it is perfect,” she beams.

Allen and others in the Waste & Recycling Division cite a chance to cut down on illegal dumping—people leaving trash on other properties—as another pro.

Whether Call 2 Haul cuts down on that problem, though, might not be known until next year. In July and August, the city recorded 159 illegal-dumping complaints, according to the numbers most recently available. That number was down from 245 during the same months in 2017. Allen says his agency is still fine tuning the system, but he’s happy with the progress after three months.

“It may not look like it does today or the year after, but I think for the most part, it’s meeting the needs of the majority of the residents and it’s addressing the main two issues we had with the environmental-impact and the illegaldumping aspect,” he says.

Luke, however, isn’t so sure. “I don’t know many people who are going to be cleaning their garage when there’s snow on the ground.” CW

department averaged about 30 requests daily in September and is currently getting about 15 to 20. The department is staffed to handle up to 70 pickups per day. Allen says there were no complaints from the Environmental Protection Agency regarding stormwater contamination from the program, but the changes are meant to be proactive and eliminate that possibility.

Previously, residents sometimes would put a mattress outside and then place yard waste on top of it. That waste could end up in storm drains and, later, the Jordan River. Additionally, Allen says, the mattress recycler wouldn’t accept the mattress because it was “contaminated.”

Along with the city’s stormwater monitoring program, the state’s Department of Environmental Quality monitors levels of oxygen, among other details, in the Jordan River. Jeanne Riley, the Division of Water Quality’s stormwater section manager, says the department “doesn’t know” of any connection between stormwater contamination and the city’s cleanup program, but contamination is “definitely an issue we’re concerned with.”

“I could see if you’re doing the Call 2 Haul program and you’re getting pickups faster, there’s less material in the streets,” Riley says. “We do see during storms that oxygen levels are affected in the Jordan River, but we’re still trying to better understand the dynamics of how that impact occurs.”

Organic matter such as grass clippings can end up in the Jordan River, settle in the riverbed, break down over time and deplete the water’s oxygen levels, according to the division. That’s something the city hopes to avoid.

Residents like Coulam, though, are happy with the service, despite a mixup regarding her TV. City employees say they weren’t expecting a TV and couldn’t take it in their vehicle. So, they

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cil last month. District 1, which encompasses northwest Salt Lake City, had 381.

The councilman says he heard complaints about restrictions on which items the city would pick up, as well as residents having a hard time contacting someone to schedule a date.

Under the new rules, residents must list all materials they plan to discard.

There’s a good reason, Allen says. Certain items, like a TV or a mattress, require a special vehicle. The city no longer uses one truck for everything. Allen says the changes are designed to increase the amount of waste they can recycle.

“No. 1, we want to make sure the material you’re putting out is compliant … [that] you’re not putting out hazardous material or unacceptable material,” Allen says. “And No. 2, we want to try to divert as much of that material through recycling—we’re recycling tires, mattresses, we’re doing a lot of the appliances and metal-type stuff—that we would schedule with a different truck so it can be recycled.”

Standing near another pile down the street from Coulam’s house, Allen and the drivers notice a metal ladder, which they didn’t know would be in that particular heap. Instead of putting it in the truck, they call for another vehicle specifically designated to accept metal.

“Construction material,” as Allen describes it, is another prohibited item.

This encompasses items such as drywall and wood used for building. They also ask that small items be placed in some sort of container like a box or a bag to help prevent the trash from ending up in the city’s drainage system. If the rules are violated, the city will try to contact the resident and leave a note describing the non-compliance issues and the next steps to prevent future incidents.

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wo broken doors, rotten wood, an old projection TV and other debris litter the street outside 71-year-old Farrina Coulam’s house in her East Liberty Park neighborhood.

Meanwhile, a front-end loader grabs the material and puts it in a nearby truck.

“You guys are wonderful,” Coulam says to the city employees as she stands on her front porch. “Thank you so much. My garage is now clean.”

The trash outside houses like Coulam’s is a common sight—in the spring. For 30 years, Salt Lake City operated a neighborhood cleanup wherein residents could place old furniture, yard waste and other junk on the street.

It was designed to save residents a trip, or multiple trips, to the dump. This year, the program changed. Today, residents like Coulam must call in, schedule a pickup date and list what material they’ll put outside, altering the whole “spring cleanup” idea.

Proponents of the new “Call 2 Haul” method tout its year-round availability and its role in reducing illegal dumping and stormwater contamination. But the rollout hasn’t come without its glitches—and its critics.

When the program launched this summer, residents sought appointments in droves. Some were told they’d have to wait as long as three months before the pickup. Lance Allen, the city’s waste and recycling director, says personnel were fielding more than 100 calls per day in June and July, which created a backlog. District 6 Councilman Charlie Luke soon received dozens of complaints from unsatisfied constituents.

“I was not a fan of the direction from the beginning,” Luke says. “This is one of the more popular and successful programs the city offers and I, frankly, didn’t understand or believe that we needed to change it.”

In July and August, Luke’s eastside district amassed 342 collection appointments, the second-highest in the city, according to data presented to the coun-

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as all the other times they’d seen him in court—the family members could wave hello, but they couldn’t hug or talk with him.

After a lengthy Bible study, Romero took a seat in the Washington courtroom around 8 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. With the guard, his attorney and family all present, Romero looked into a camera and appeared via video in Immigration Judge Christopher Greer’s courtroom in Utah.

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Since July 9, immigrants like Romero who are detained in the Tacoma detention center have been appearing in the Salt Lake City immigration court— technically located in West Valley City—via a video-teleconferencing, or VTC, feed. Such technology is a critical part of the Department of Justice’s strategy to cut the immigration court

backlog in half by 2020. An Executive Office for Immigration Review fact sheet states that VTC saves immigration judges travel time, helps them to hear more cases and allows them to help out their counterparts stationed in other courts with more sizable backlogs.

Data suggests that Tacoma’s immigration court has fewer pending cases than Salt Lake City’s. According to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a nonpartisan database maintained at Syracuse University, there are 1,028 pending cases in the Tacoma court, compared to 2,641 here. Smaller caseload notwithstanding, there’s a critical distinction between the cases brought before the judges in each court: the immigrants in Tacoma are locked in a detention center as they await a judge’s ruling on whether they can stay in the

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or five months, Antonio Romero Ramirez’ days followed the same routine. He’d wake up at 5 a.m., when the guards at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., turned on the lights. He’d do push-ups and play basketball for an hour or so, then attend a Bible study group organized by fellow detainees. He’d eat lunch around 11:30 a.m., then go to another religious gathering in the afternoon.

He’d hang around the phones in the early evening to make sure he’d be able to talk to his wife once she got off work, then he’d find a way to kill a few hours before going to bed so he could wake up the next day and start over.

But Sept. 17 was different. That to Tacoma from their home in Monday was the one he’d been Idaho so they could sit behind the waiting for, the day his monoto- 48-year old and his lawyer, Luis nous, lonely hell would seem- Cortes, and await the judge’s rul’d only seen Romero ingly end—an immigration judge ing. They would rule on his case and de- a handful of times since April, cide whether he’d be sent back when he had been transferred to Mexico, a country he hadn’t from jail to the immigrant detenlived in since 1987, when he’d tion center, a costly consequence first emigrated to the U.S. at age for driving drunk and causing an 17. Romero’s mother, wife and accident the previous month. The daughter made the 13-hour drive same rules applied that morning

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U.S. Before taking over the Tacoma docket, the majority of cases heard by the local court’s three judges involved immigrants who were not in detention facilities, since federal immigration authorities have a lim- Romero’s Sept. 17 trial didn’t start on time. Forty-five minutes passed ited capacity for detention in Utah. As an EOIR spokesperson previously as the counsel for the Department of Homeland Security tracked down a told City Weekly, resolving the cases of people who are detained is EOIR’s copy of his medical history—an agonizing last-minute delay for someone who’s been waiting for five months to hear whether he’d have to “highest priority.”

Despite VTC’s practicality, the added workload might put the Salt Lake leave his family behind. Cortes tried to calm his client’s nerves during City judges at risk of not meeting Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ stan- the delay, making small talk and trying to keep his spirits up as Romero dards. The unexpected Washington hearings required local court of- cried softly.

Washington attorneys received orders earlier in September from Judges ficials to postpone between half and two-thirds of the Utah cases so David Anderson and Phillip Truman stating lawyers must submit all evithat judges can preside over a Tacoma docket for the rest of 2018. All the judges should hear Utah cases in 2019, but the next few months dence to the Salt Lake City court 14 days before a hearing. “Absent good will likely put them off track to meet their “performance metrics”— cause shown, the Court has discretion to not consider exhibits as evidence Orwellian for “quotas.” Between Oct. 1, 2018, and Sept. 30, 2019, each if they are filed after the deadline,” the order reads.

But that doesn’t mean that all paperwork is received on time. In animmigration court judge must complete 700 cases in order to be given a other hearing, Judge Greer thanked a Tacoma attorney for not bombard“satisfactory” rating on their performance evaluations.

It’s not mathematically possible, however, for the Salt Lake City judges ing the court with last-minute evidence. “That makes you one of the few to meet this requirement if they were to continue hearing Tacoma cases. people who have not come in with a stack of papers in your hand,” the Currently, judges presiding over the Tacoma docket conduct one hear- judge said. “I thank you for that.”

“The immigration courts are very antiquated,” ing in the morning and one in the afternoon for four Cortes explains, because only seven courts are opdays every week, then have one hearing on Friday erating a pilot program that allows attorneys to file mornings. Stretched over the entire year, those paperwork electronically. Current policies require judges would complete, at best, nine cases per week, Washington attorneys to submit evidence to the Taan annual pace of 468, well short of the new recoma court first, which then is physically sent to quirements. (Those numbers also don’t take into Utah. Also, Tacoma’s policy requires lawyers submit account the 10 holidays each federal employee enevidence 10, not 14, days before a hearing. Different joys every year, or the maximum 13 sick days or 26 rules are in place for different courts, and hearings days of personal leave they’re allotted.) are often delayed because of missing evidence.

But the best-case scenario is not realistic because Once the papers were located, Romero gave testidelays and postponements are not uncommon. Over mony about his three convictions between 1998 and four days of VTC hearings last month, at least five 2018 for driving under the influence. Romero told the cases were pushed to a later date because of techjudge he became unraveled after his father died last nical difficulties, a judge taking leave at the lastyear. He’d sit in his car up to three times a week after minute or because an immigrant posted a bond and work and drink a few beers and listen to music. The was released from detention. It was rare for hearstress of owning his own business and coping with ings to begin at their 9 a.m. scheduled time due to the loss of his dad was too much at times. “Somemissing paperwork or technical glitches. times, I just want to be alone,” he told the judge.

In order to reach their annual quota, judges would Explaining the most recent DUI, Romero said he need to complete more than 13 cases per week, asdrank 12 beers with two friends last March before suming they worked all 52 weeks in a year and getting on a turnpike to drive home. He testified that didn’t have any days off. he was swerving and caused an accident, resulting in Internal emails suggest Salt Lake City immigraserious damage to his and the other driver’s car. tion court judges and personnel are aware that the He cried as he told Greer this last DUI was differTacoma VTC cases will affect their ability to meet ent than the others. Between jail and the immigration the quotas. “As you can imagine, resetting six —NWDC RESISTANCE ORGANIZER detention center, he’d been locked up for six months. months’ worth of cases for two judges in a threeMARU MORA-VILLALPANDO “Look at me. I lost my freedom, I lost my family,” judge court is having a significant impact on the Romero pleaded. “I was using the beer trying to make SLC dockets and our ability to meet the performance measures,” reads an email chain obtained by City Weekly that shows cor- the pain go away.”

Cortes submitted documents to the court that detailed Romero’s ties respondences sent between Alec Revelle, the administrator for the Salt to the U.S. and contributions to his community. The evidence paints a Lake City immigration court, and officials in Tacoma.

Asked to come up with a way to keep the Salt Lake City immigration picture of a family man and responsible business owner, noting that one judges, or IJs, on track to meet the metrics, Revelle wrote that the local of his three U.S.-born children is delaying her graduation from the Unijudges had told him they could complete three cases per day, one more versity of Idaho so her father can attend the ceremony, and his mother than they were hearing at the time of the emails. He also suggested and siblings all live here, not in Mexico. The paperwork also details the each judge hear Tacoma cases one less day per week. “This would allow sacrifices Romero has made to keep his concrete business afloat, how his the same number of cases per week to be set for each IJ for the Tacoma employees were supported during economic downturns while Romero docket (actually more) and also allow some time for the two SLC judges “took nothing—all as measures to keep his business and his crew going.”

Greer acknowledged Romero’s positive contributions to his family and to devote time to their SLC docket,” Revelle wrote. employees. But his DUIs were spaced out—1998, 2007 and 2018—and the He declined to comment on the emails.

Almost a full month later, Daniel Daugherty, assistant chief immi- last one was the most dangerous. Someone could have died. What if he gration judge for Denver and Aurora, Colo.; Las Vegas and Salt Lake allowed Romero to stay in the U.S. and he drives drunk again in a few City, wrote back with a five-word response. “1 and 1 is good,” he wrote, years?

Greer called for a short recess. Romero’s future would be unclear for a meaning that the existing morning and afternoon schedule was adefew minutes longer. quate. Revelle’s suggestion wouldn’t be followed.

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In the same email exchange between Salt Lake City and Tacoma immigration court officials, Revelle proposed scheduling two morning pro se Tacoma cases, or those in which immigrants don’t have an attorney.

For a variety of reasons, these cases are typically decided faster than those where immigrants are represented, Crayk says.

Warden-Hertz estimates that between 80 and 90 percent of the detainees in the Northwest Detention Center lack lawyers—making it harder to win their cases. It’s also more difficult for detainees to access an interpreter in the detention center versus when they’re in a courtroom. And it is harder to file an application for people who don’t speak English.

“Less and less attorneys are willing to do detention work,” Cortes

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Utah’s judges aren’t the first out-of-state arbiters to use VTC technology to help alleviate the load on Tacoma’s court. Tim Warden-Hertz, directing attorney of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project’s Tacoma office, says immigration judges from Oregon, Colorado, San Francisco and San Diego have also heard Tacoma cases via VTC. “Cases have generally been able to move more quickly,” he says, allowing for detainees to get a day in court—and potentially get a ticket out of detention—faster than if they were waiting to plead their cases in person.

According to a study in Northwestern University Law Review, almost one-third of immigrants attended their immigration court hearings via video in 2015. VTC usage has risen along with the number of detained immigrants awaiting their day in court. In a recent story, Mother Jones reported there were 114,000 VTC hearings in 2017, a 185 percent increase over the past decade.

Leonor Perretta, a West Jordan-based immigration attorney and a liaison between EOIR and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, thinks trying cases over VTC can be helpful for some attorneys and their clients. “A lot of times, you get better judges than who you would normally get,” she says. She doesn’t see VTC as a “huge issue,” but it can pose one glaring problem: “The worst limitation is the technology.”

A 2017 independent report commissioned by the DOJ found that “faulty VTC equipment, especially issues associated with poor video and sound quality, can disrupt cases to the point that due-process issues may arise.” It also noted judges can have difficulty assessing body language, establishing eye contact or analyzing other nonverbal forms of communication.

“It’s probably really hard for the judges,” Warden-Hertz says of their ability to observe immigrants’ subtle cues over a video feed.

Technical delays are common in the Salt Lake City court. In four consecutive days of City Weekly observing VTC cases, connection issues delayed the start time of at least one hearing, and required one

judge to reschedule another to a different date, further prolonging the immigrant’s detention. Lawyers say delays in speech and translation, blank screens, out of sync audio and video are recurring issues. “You name it, it can happen,” Salt Lake City-based immigration attorney Adam Crayk says.

The Northwestern University Law Review study found that immigrants who appeared via video were more likely to be deported than in-person respondents, not because of judicial bias, but because detained immigrants were more likely to give up on their case due to “depressed engagement with the adversarial process.”

Crayk can see where that mindset comes from.

“When a client is looking at a video camera and getting no human treatment, that does, in reality, diminish their fighting spirit,” he says.

“It’s dehumanizing.”

Attorneys are affected, too. Lawyers who regularly argue in front of immigration court judges develop a rapport over their repeated in-person interactions, immigration attorney Marti Jones says. Presenting cases over video makes it harder to establish that connection.

“You’d like to think that judges are impartial, but relationships matter,” she says.

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publicizes detainees’ living conditions in an effort to “shut down the detention center and stop detention and deportation in our state.”

Her descriptions are grim. She says detainees repeatedly voice the same concerns: antagonistic guards who encourage those locked up to fight each other; potentially contaminated drinking water; exploitative labor practices where detainees are paid $1 a day if at all for cooking, cleaning or doing laundry; discrimination against those who don’t speak English; delayed access to medical care; and skin rashes developed from bedding, uniforms and underwear. “When they call us, it’s very obvious how desperate they feel,” Mora-Villalpando says.

Excessive ennui is also coupled with confusion and anxiety about impending court dates. “A physical day is pretty much sleeping,” Mora-Villalpando says. “That’s pretty much it.”

Cortes says Romero is one of the lucky ones. It only took him a few months to get scheduled onto a docket. “Some people languish in there for a really long time,” he says. The attorney has another client who is suffering from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder who has been in detention for five years.

Fortunate or not, Cortes says Romero had made up his mind: “He would rather go back to somewhere that he has nothing, than sit in detention any longer.”

After weighing the facts for five minutes, Greer re-entered the courtroom to issue his ruling. He started off by listing Romero’s mistakes—almost killing someone in an alcohol-induced car crash, the criminal convictions— all facts that Greer could use to justify ordering Romero removed from the U.S. Cortes said later that all this made him worry Greer was going to rule in favor of deportation. Trying to gauge how things might pan out for his client, Cortes tried to read Greer’s body language through the video feed. It was a mostly futile exercise. “It was a little fuzzy so I couldn’t really tell at the time how he was looking,” Cortes says. “I just kind of had to go off his tone.”

But then Greer cited Romero’s exercise regimen—he’d lost 30 pounds since he was first Regardless of the outcome in Greer’s courtroom that day, Romero had dedetained—and newfound religious devotion as cided he was done fighting. If the judge adjusted his immigration status, positive attributes, and noted he thought Romero he’d walk out of the detention center with a green card. He’d be eligible understood the significance, and potento appeal if he lost, but he’d likely have tial consequences, of his DUIs. “It’s my to remain detained—a demoralizing hope the path you’re on now is a path prospect considering the quality of you can continue,” Greer said. The life ahead. judge granted Romero’s petition. He “It’s pretty bleak,” Cortes says of would be released that night. He’d get his client’s life within the center’s a green card. And for the first time in walls. In his telling, the Northwest nearly half a year, he’d be back home in Detention Center doesn’t offer any Idaho with his family. programs or educational opportuFor an instant, the court’s strict rules nities to detainees, and unlike in barring physical contact were ignored. prison, people don’t know the day The family shook Romero’s hands and they’re going to be released. Impatted his shoulders, moments of intimigrants are left to their own demacy they hadn’t been allowed in past vices in a space that doesn’t provide hearings. Greer watched through the a lot of opportunities. Interminable video feed as Romero, his mother, wife periods of boredom set in, punctuand daughter all cried in the Tacoma ated by the demoralizing news that courtroom. another detainee has lost their case, Cortes got choked up after the rulthat they’ll be deported and, potening, too. He came to the U.S. from tially, separated from their families Mexico in 1989, when he was just a for the rest of their lives. few months old. He sees himself in his — IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY LUIS CORTES Maru Mora-Villalpando talks clients, making cases like Romero’s on the phone with about 25 center somewhat personal. “When families detainees a day. An organizer for get to stick together,” Cortes says, “I NWDC Resistance, Mora-Villalpando think that we’re all better off.” CW says her Tacoma-based group doesn’t provide legal support, but notes, because lawyers have less time to prepare for trial than if their clients weren’t held in an immigration center. He adds that there are only seven available attorney visitation rooms in the Northwest Detention Center, to meet the needs of about 1,700 detainees. “It’s not uncommon I’ll go in there and there’s a two- or three-hour wait to see a client,” he says.

Also a part of Revelle’s emails was an assertion that he’d increase the time for master calendar hearings for the lone Salt Lake City judge still hearing Utah cases. Such hearings are often the initial appearances for immigrants served a “Notice to Appear” by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Generally, between 30 and 40 immigrants are scheduled to appear before a judge who will ask them if they need time to find an attorney or wish to file an application for immigration benefits that would allow them to legally remain in the country. If more people are scheduled for a master calendar hearing, that means there are more chances that someone on the docket will not show up. The judge could then order the absent immigrant’s removal in absentia, in effect bringing them closer to the 700-case completion quota. The number of such deportation orders has increased in recent years, as 40,579 people were ordered removed in absentia in 2017, an 89 percent increase from 2008.

Crayk is frustrated by the recent “huge numbers” in master calendar hearings involving Utah cases. “We’re running 71 through today, and the other day we ran 100 through,” he says one afternoon in September. He says larger master calendar hearings overburden the court’s staff and require interpreters to translate for several hours straight.

Those hearings have loose schedules, since each person on the docket must appear before the judge, one at a time. Crayk says attorneys show up at the start of the hearing, but there’s no telling when their clients’ names will be called. That’s problematic for lawyers who bill by the hour. “Unscrupulous attorneys can just wait for a case to be called and make 900 bucks just sitting here,” he says.

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Don Coscarelli: True Indie with Phantasm screening He landed his first studio distribution deal when he was still a teenager, and his 40-plus-year career as a filmmaker has included one of the most iconic horror franchises ever. Yet that same career has also been filled with challenges and setbacks—the rollercoaster existence of an independent filmmaker.

In his new memoir, True Indie, director Don Coscarelli—best known for the Phantasm series and cult favorites like The Beastmaster and Bubba Ho-Tep—chronicles his journey from Southern California teenager to screenwriter/ director, including plenty of the bumps along the road independent artists face trying to get money to create work. His anecdotes cover how he managed to do a lot with a little, as well as the frustrations of dealing with interfering producers and unsupportive distributors. Via email, his advice to aspiring indie filmmakers is “you must be resolute in having a meaningful story … and have the perseverance and tenacity to endure years of hard work with little promise of reward.”

Thursday’s appearance combines a book signing with a screening of Coscarelli’s 1979 supernatural horror classic Phantasm, which marked a turning point for a director who had started out making small, intimate dramas. “The harsh business truth forced me to mix things up,” Coscarelli says. “I once heard a movie folk legend: ‘Horror films always make money.’ Since I grew up adoring horror and genre films, it became simple arithmetic: I loved horror films + horror films make money = I will make a horror film.” (Scott Renshaw) Don Coscarelli: True Indie, plus screening of Phantasm with Q&A @ Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., $20-$50, slfs.org

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Stories come in many shapes and forms. From books to movies to music, stories exist all around us constantly, especially in this digital age when we can access so much at the tap of a touchscreen. With so many narratives at our fingertips, it can be easy for individuals to feel their stories are ignored.

Giuliana Serena, founder and now “beekeeper” of The Bee: True Stories from the Hive, knows that stories are everywhere, and she knows some tend to get more attention than others. She created The Bee to provide regular evenings of storytelling shows, occasionally curated in advance.

Most nights, however, prospective storytellers in the audience drop their names into a hat, then 10 are selected at random. Each person who puts their name in the hat stands an equal chance of being called on stage to tell a true story, no longer than five minutes, relating to a predetermined theme. This month’s topic is Aging, promising a fascinating range of perspectives on the complex subject of growing old.

Attending and enjoying a showcase of The Bee requires only a willingness to be open to whatever emerges during the course of the evening.

Stories can be sad, or humorous; they might end happily or stop abruptly. So long as the storyteller makes a connection between their tale and the theme meant to inspire them, whatever they discuss—without engaging in hurtful, hateful language—is fair game.

If you can’t get tickets this time around, never fear. The Bee event takes place the second Thursday of every month. (Casey Koldewyn) The Bee: Aging @ Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., $15, 21+, thebeeslc.org

How can you make one of the world’s greatest love stories even better? Set it to music.

Utah Opera sings about what it’s billing as the “Worst. Honeymoon. Ever.” when they present five performances of Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet from Oct. 13-21. The performances are sung in French—of course a great love story is sung in French!—with English subtitles. Feel free to show up in either your Team Capulet or Team Montague jerseys and paraphernalia.

William Shakespeare wrote the beloved play about star-crossed teen lovers in the late 16th century, and French composer Charles Gounod premiered an operatic version of the love story in 1867. His masterstroke has the two leads sing four duets together. The last is sung— spoiler alert!—in the tomb as Juliet awakes while Romeo is dying. For this Utah Opera run, Anya Matanovic sings the role of Juliet, while Joshua Dennis is Romeo.

Romeo and Juliet marks the first of four productions Utah Opera is staging for its 2018-19 season. Rachel Portman and Nicholas Wright’s The Little Prince will run in January 2019, Mozart’s The Magic Flute will be presented in March and the season will finish in May with Bellini’s Norma. The company will also celebrate the Leonard Bernstein centennial in November with two performances of his opera Candide with the Utah Symphony at Abravanel Hall on Nov. 9 and 10. (Geoff Griffin) Utah Opera: Gounod’s Romeo & Juliet @ Capitol Theatre, 50 S. 200 West, 801355-2787, Oct. 13 & 19, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 15 & 17, 7 p.m.; Oct. 21, 2 p.m.; $15-$108, utahopera.org

Nothing is as fascinating as the ongoing conjecture about the possibility of life on other planets.

For some, it’s inspired optimism, a hope that there might be others who are more advanced and eager to share the secrets of the universe.

Others might be wary, having been weaned on sci-fi yarns about aliens who are only interested in enslaving the Earth. If that’s the case, President Donald Trump’s wall will likely fail to keep that breed of aliens out.

The fascination about otherworldly inhabitants could be driven by the belief that life might be better elsewhere, and that the tragedy and travesty here on Earth was avoided by wiser beings with a more knowing sense of heart and humanity.

Leave it then to the eminent Neil deGrasse Tyson to provide a viable connection with the cosmos and a veritable universe of possibilities. An acclaimed astrophysicist, lecturer and humanitarian, he’s helmed the board of the Planetary Society, hosted a syndicated radio program dubbed Star Talk, advocated for further space exploration, served as President George W. Bush’s adviser on the future of aerospace exploration, and—take a breath—been the recipient of some 20 doctorates and NASA’s Distinguished Public Service Medal.

Tyson brings with him a program of special interest and importance, one he’s titled ”The Search for Life in the Universe.” It covers a myriad of possibilities for finding intelligent life in the universe. We can only hope that the search will someday extend to finding more intelligent life here at home. (Lee Zimmerman) Neil deGrasse Tyson @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m., $50-$75, artsaltlake.org

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we’re connecting all these parts of the web in their brains. … Literally every day, we’re out there trying to figure out and adjust to feedback.”

The ongoing process of improving the guest experience is only one part of the way Evermore will evolve on an almost daily basis. Some buildings on the property remain to be completed, and Bretschneider describes an expansive vision for a clock tower, a manor house, an armory and other future components of this world. Story experiences are expected to change with the seasons, from the current Halloween-themed Lore offering to other tales that will be more appropriate for the winter holidays, or for spring. Shipley even notes that the cast members have begun recognizing return visitors, turning guests’ specific experience in the park into something that can be carried over into subsequent visits.

It’s understandable, then, that after five years developing Evermore, Bretschneider

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n this quaint, Old World village, faeries and goblins stroll among humans, and a fire imp sits trapped unhappily in a cage.

Children pet a baby dragon, and ghosts haunt a churchyard. It’s all in a mysterious, faraway place called … Pleasant Grove.

On Sept. 29, Evermore Park celebrated its official ribbon-cutting, inviting visitors into a theme park that leaves rides and rollercoasters behind in favor of interactive theatricality. Guests become not just part of the detailed world of this village, but part of its story.

Evermore is the vision of founder and CEO Ken Bretschneider, financed almost entirely by himself and his wife from the millions he made selling his internet startup. It’s a vision informed by a troubled childhood, one where he sought a refuge.

“As a kid, I thought life was really bad, because I grew up in an abusive home,” Bretschneider says, “so escapism was really important to me. I found solitude and meaning in those places. It shaped me [so] that in my adult life, I wanted to contribute and create those kinds of things.”

That artistic, creative spirit took many forms over the years—including visual arts and video-game design—before Bretschneider made his fortune founding the online security company DigiCert. But the most direct progenitor to Evermore came when Bretschneider and his family began creating a seasonal haunted house out of their Lindon home. That experience became so popular that, by 2013—when it

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included a Victorian graveyard haunt in an adjoining field—they pulled in 11,000 visitors.

“When we hit this number of people, I said, ‘We can’t keep doing this,’” Bretschneider recalls. “So I stopped, but I got this idea of, ‘You know what, I need to build this. I need a place where I can create these storytelling adventures.’”

To help realize his vision for a park that would revolve around a storytelling experience, Bretschneider found Chief Creative Officer Josh Shipley, a 21-year veteran of Walt Disney Imagineering.

Shipley worked on Disney park experiences like the refurbishment of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, Hyperspace Mountain and the introduction of Marvel Comics characters to the theme parks. Yet at a time when Shipley and his wife were thinking about the empty-nest phase of their lives, it was exactly the ways that Evermore would be unlike Disneyland that he found appealing.

“What was being created here wasn’t a theme park, but a theatrical environment,” says Shipley, whose background is in theater.

“I had asked Ken if he was going to be pursuing any [intellectual property], and almost apologetically, he told me no. He thought that would be bad for me. But that was actually the real hook. That’s what I want to be in.”

With Shipley on board, the Evermore creative team then set about assembling the physical “stage” for their adventures—an entire town with a tavern, mausoleum, an elven village and an encampment of itinerant vendors including fortune-tellers. That town would then be populated by actor-performed characters, allowing for either free-form interaction or a more structured quest-type adventure.

That unique design—one where the guests’ own initiative becomes key in the kind of experience they will have—also becomes a challenge when guests might be used to theme parks where experiences like rides are uniform and consistent every time. “Now that we are open, and we have people coming in and consuming what we put out for them, are we asking them to drink from a firehose?”

Shipley wonders. “There are a lot of characters, a lot of quests, a lot of things you can chase after, and we take it for granted that

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The ever-shifting artistic approaches to the portrait are explored in an exhibition of 24 Utah artists (including Bailey Genevieve Hatcher, whose “Identity Issues No. 11” is pictured) in Body and Soul at Kimball Art Center (1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, kimballartcenter.org), through Nov. 4.

PERFORMANCE THEATER

The Addams Family The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, Oct. 12-Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m., zigarts.com Eurydice Good Co. Theatre, 260 25th St., Ogden, Oct. 12–Nov. 4, dates and times vary, goodcotheatre.com Frankenstein Pioneer Hall, 1137 W. 7800 South, West Jordan, through Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m., sugarfactoryplayhouse.com A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through Oct. 21, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org Gounod’s Romeo & Juliet Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Oct. 13-21, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org (see p. 20) The Jawbone’s Daughter Wasatch Theatre Co., 124 S. 400 West, Oct. 12-13, 8 p.m., wasatchtheatre.org The Rocky Horror Show The Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, through Oct. 27, dates and times vary, grandtheatrecompany.com The Scarlet Pimpernel Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Nov. 24, dates and times vary, hct.org Wait Until Dark Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., hct.org The Wolves Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through Nov. 11, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org

DANCE

An Evening of Dance with Peter Chu Peery’s Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Oct. 13, 4 p.m., egyptiantheaterogden.com Odyssey Dance: Thriller multiple locations, through Oct. 31, dates and times vary, odysseydance.com Utah Ballet Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, through Oct. 20, dates and times vary, tickets.utah.edu

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake: Trio Con Brio Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu West Jordan Symphony Fall Concert Viridian Events Center, 8030 S. 1825 West, West Jordan, Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m., westjordansymphony.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Cash Levy Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, Oct. 12-13, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Cash Levy & T.J. Miller: Cashing In Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Oct. 13, 4:20 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Jordan Makin Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, Oct. 12-13, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com T. J. Miller Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Oct. 11, 7 p.m.; Oct. 12-13, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Adrian Todd Zuniga: Collision Theory Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Oct. 15, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs: The Darkdeep Provo City Library, 550 N. University Ave., Provo, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Amy Beatty: Dragon Ascending Provo Library, 550 N. University Ave., Provo, Oct. 12, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Brian Kershisnik: Looking for Something: Selected Paintings The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 13, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Christian McKay Heidicker: Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Oct. 12, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Deborah Eden Tull: Relational Mindfulness The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 12, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Don Coscarelli: True Indie and Phantasm Tower Theatre, 876 E. 900 South, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., slfs.org (see p. 20) Dylan Thuras: The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 16, 6 p.m., kingsenglish.com

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SPECIAL EVENTS FALL EVENTS

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 Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 350 W. 300 South, Saturdays through Oct. 20, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org Wheeler Sunday Market Wheeler Farm, 6351 S. 900 East, Murray, Sundays through Oct. 28, slco.org/wheeler-farm

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The Bee: True Stories from the Hive Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, Oct. 11, 6 p.m., thebeeslc.org (see p. 20) Gary Trudeau Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m., ecclescenter.org Lynn Weston: Unique Stories of the Yellowstone Wolf Reintroduction Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Oct. 17, 7 p.m., westernwildlifeconservancy.org Mikel Vause: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The

Ars Moriendi: The Art of Dying Bountiful Davis Art Center, 745 S. Main, Bountiful, through Nov. 2, bdac.org Back to School Special Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through Oct. 12, accessart.org Body and Soul Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, through Nov. 4, kimballartcenter.org (see p. 22) Daniel Everett: Security Questions UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Jan. 12, utahmoca.org Design Arts Utah 2018 Showcase Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through Oct. 21, visualarts.utah.gov Fire and Light Local Colors of Utah Gallery, 1054 E. 2100 South, through Oct. 15, localcolorsart.com John Berry Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, through Oct. 13, modernwestfineart.com Kandace Steadman: Utah Art Reimagined Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Nov. 30, slcpl.org Linnie Brown: Retrace A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, through Nov. 3, agalleryonline.com Lynn Nichols: Moments in Time Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Oct. 19, slcpl.org Marisa Morán Jahn: Mirror / Mask Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Dec. 9, umfa.utah.edu Paul Reynolds & Deborah Durban Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, through Nov. 16, saltlakearts.org Ryan Ruehlen: Georhythmic Drift Music UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Nov. 3, utahmoca.org Shadow Realms Urban Arts Gallery, 116 S. Rio Grande St., through Nov. 4, urbanartsgallery.org Site Lines: Recent Work by University of Utah Art Faculty Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Jan. 6, umfa.utah.edu Tactilis Salt Lake Community College South City Campus, 1575 S. State, through Nov. 9, slcc.edu Trent Alvey and Jan Andrews: On the Border of Realism Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through Nov. 2, visualarts.utah.gov Utah Travels Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, through Oct. 17, culturalcelebration.org Working Hard to Be Useless Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through Dec. 29, utahmoca.org

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GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Alt Press Fest Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Oct. 13, noon-5 p.m., slcpl.org Mestizo Institute of Culture & Art Quinceañera Bash Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 616 E. Wilmington Ave., Oct. 13, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

Oktoberfest Snowbird Resort, Highway 210, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, through Oct. 21, Saturdays & Sundays, noon-6:30 p.m., snowbird.com

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Righter of Wrongs Weber State University, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, Oct. 17, 1:30 p.m., weber.edu Neil deGrasse Tyson Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m., live-at-the-eccles.com (see p. 20) Ralph Nye Lecture Series: Mark Russell Weber State University, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, Oct. 11, noon, weber.edu Realities of Diversity Speaker Series: Maria Hinojosa S.J. Quinney College of Law, 332 S. 1400 East, Oct. 17, 7 p.m., mariahinojosa.uw.org Tracey Smith: Fake News Weber State University, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, Oct. 17, 12:30 p.m., weber.edu Wasatch Speaker Series: Madeleine Albright Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., wasatchspeakers.com Women in STEM: Stories Weber State University, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, Oct. 27, 12-2:30 p.m., Ogden, weber.edu

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Castle of Chaos 7980 S. State, Midvale, through Oct. 31, dates and times vary, castleofchaos.com Fear Factory 666 W. 800 South, through Oct. 31, dates and times vary, fearfactoryslc.com Harvest Festival Wasatch Charter School, 1458 E. Murray Holladay Road, Holladay, Oct. 13, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., wasatchfamilyfoundation.org The Haunted Forest 6400 N. 6000 West, through Oct. 31, dates and times vary, hauntedutah.com Haunted Hollow Galena Hills Park, 12500 S. Vista Station Blvd., Draper, Oct. 15, 6-8 p.m., draper.ut.us Nightmare on 13th 300 W. 1300 South, through Oct. 31, dates and times vary, nightmareon13th.com Pumpkin Nights Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, through Nov. 4, 5:30-10:30 p.m., pumpkinnights.com Scarecrow Festival Homestead Resort, 700 N. Homestead Drive, Heber City, through Oct. 31, times vary, gohebervalley.com Scarecrow Festival Thanksgiving Point, 3900 N. Garden Drive, Lehi, Oct. 15-20, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., thanksgivingpoint.org

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walls are crowned with intricately carved designs; and the dutiful sushi chefs behind the bar move like sharks who have just zeroed in on their prey.

It’s quite a bit to process when visiting for a quick lunch—my grumbling, sushicraving stomach just wanted a fix, but my fantasy-saturated brain couldn’t help but pretend I had stumbled onto

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The space is quite unlike any other downtown restaurant I’ve visited. One step over the threshold and the bustle of State Street seems to melt away, while you enter what feels like a different time and place. Vibrant crimson chandeliers taken from the Dale Chihuly sketchbook hang from the ceilings like cryogenically sealed fireballs;

doesn’t leave you hungry, either.

As far as sushi goes, the best way to experience the vast menu is to fast for a few days and go bonkers with Sapa’s all-you-can-eat option ($28.95). It’s a ritual that takes place Monday through Thursday from 5 to 6:30 p.m., but it’s the only way you can experience true sushi enlightenment. When you go, some standouts include the spicy yellowtail and the sunset roll. But maybe that’s just because I’m a sucker for sushi rolls topped with paper-thin slices of lemon.

There aren’t many sushi places I’d recommend braving during lunchtime downtown, but Sapa’s beautiful interior and equally beautiful take on Asian fusion are welcome distractions from stale, fluorescentlit workdays. CW

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ou know that if a restaurateur debuts by building an Asian fusion bistro out of 100-year old teahouses shipped from Vietnam, you’re in for something special. The restaurateur in question is Mai Nguyen, who founded Sapa Sushi Bar & Grill (722 S. State, 801-363-7272, sapabarandgrill.com) in 2009 as the beachhead for her ever-expanding culinary empire.

at home with Sapa’s interior design choices, and the food within perfectly complements it. Meals are fresh, beautiful and leave you pleasantly awestruck. Sapa’s massaman is of the rich, stew-like variety, which pairs well with the thin slices of beef swimming around within. The short ribs are grilled to perfection and offer a minimalist alternative to the jacuzzi of flavors characteristic of the dish.

As one of my visits to Sapa took place during an early autumn rainstorm, I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to try some of their pho. Sapa’s menu includes the real deal in all its tripey glory, but I’ve come to realize that I prefer my pho sans guts.

Instead, I went with a small bowl of the steak and meatball pho ($10).

I’m never going to eat enough pho to consider myself an expert—recipes are as diverse as the chefs who prepare this traditional noodle soup— but I’m confident in declaring that Sapa’s iteration is pretty damned good. Its beef flavor profile is slightly lighter than other phos I’ve known, but that lightness makes it ideal for a lunchtime visit. Bottom line: It doesn’t weigh you down, but it also

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a far-off temple from some forgotten dynasty. There’s plenty here for the eye to savor and digest, but that’s just a psycho-sensual appetizer. The menu is fully stocked with staples from all over Asia. I spotted a few curries, a full lineup of pho and let’s not overlook their extensive selection of sushi rolls. In short, more than enough to satisfy the taste buds in the same way the décor eases the eyes.

Judging from my experience, it’s not a bad idea to shoot for an early meal. Sapa is a lunchtime juggernaut—its primo location, swanky atmosphere and copious amounts of sushi make it ideal for the businesslunch crowd, and the place gets absolutely packed shortly after noon.

Lunch is also a great time to sample the non-sushi parts of the menu if raw fish isn’t your thing. Dishes like massaman beef ($12) or short ribs ($13) arrive in thoughtfully packaged bento boxes, with each smaller box containing potstickers, a few California rolls and a flavorful salad with sesame dressing.

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Moonstruck Witches Dinner

Witchfest is already underway at Gardner Village (1100 W. 7800 South, West Jordan)—visitors have been enjoying the shopping center’s creative, familyfriendly Halloween transformation since mid-September. As part of the festivities, a new event called the Moonstruck Witches Dinner has been added to the repertoire. During the weekends of Oct. 12-13 and Oct. 26-27, witches of all stripes can attend a private dinner event hosted by Archibald’s Restaurant. The gastronomical ghoulishness includes a buffet-style meal featuring dishes like Chalice Chicken and Pendulum Potion Punch. There are two-time slots per evening—one at 5 p.m. and one at 7 p.m.—and advance tickets can be purchased at gardnervillagetix.com for $32.50. If there’s one thing I know about witches, it’s that they never turn down a reasonably priced buffet, so it’s a good idea to get tickets beforehand.

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CHILE Athletes: Francesca Pavillard-Cain, Brennan Metzler Equipment: Skis, helicopter In a world that is contently changing, there is one spot nestled in the Chilean Andes that never seems to change. Famous as the place that skiers and snowboarders go to chase winter, Portillo is a skier’s summer paradise. Francesca Pavillard-Cain and Brennan Metzler team up to tackle some of the Southern Hemisphere’s best terrain alongside fellow PSIA instructors at Ski Portillo. An ode to Warren’s beginnings as a ski instructor, Pavillard-Cain and Metzler reflect on the significance of passing the knowledge of skiing and snowboarding on to new generations to enjoy the lifelong magic of snow-riding in the mountains. And it never hurts when there is a heli-skiing payoff.

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The Wiegele experience is so unparalleled that it has Kingwill saying, “Mortgage your house, or do whatever it takes, to come back to Wiegele world.”

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KAYLIN RICHARDSON

MARCUS CASTON Nicknames?

K-Dogg, K-Rich, K-Dizzle, Big K Where did you grow up? I grew up right outside Minneapolis in Edina, MN and crushed all 175 vertical feet of Hyland Hills, under the lights after school, until I made the US Ski Team at 16.

Current home mountain? Deer Valley Resort in Park City, UT. Best moment filming with WME this year?

Skiing Red Mountain with the locals, it is massive and they knew all the hidden spots!! I also thoroughly enjoyed watching Dennis Risvoll nonchalantly throwing backflips constantly. Whenever we were skiing down a run I kept him in my periphery just in case. I almost veered off into the trees twice while marveling at his gyro-scoping skills on the unassuming side of a cat track!

How did Warren Miller the man influence your skiing/riding career?

Warren Miller ignited our imagination. He opened up a world that, before him, was for a very small company of adventurers, eccentrics, and perhaps, depending on your definition, borderline vagrants. He created a lifestyle that so many of us still pursue with passion today. He made it possible…

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Nicknames?

My name is Marcus, but most people call me Marcus Birthplace?

Salt Lake City Home Mountain?

Snowbird.

Best way to spend your down days?

If i’m at home I go climbing, if i’m traveling I love to go be a tourist and see something new.

What was your first job? I worked summer fun activities up at Snowbird. I rotated between various activities before discovering my talents operating the zip line. I spent 10 hours a day in that tower playing air guitar to ACDC and getting a sunburn.

Best moment filming with WME this year?

Probably filming eating amazing Swiss cheese dishes How did Warren Miller the man influence your skiing/riding career?

As every skier, I grew up watching Warren Miller movies. His vision shaped everything I saw and knew growing up.

AMIE ENGERBRETSON Where did you grow up?

I grew up in Tahoe City CA and skied at Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows Current home mountain?

Alta/Snowbird.

Best moment filming with WME this year?

The northern lights were as strong as I’ve ever seen them on our last night in AK. We stayed up late and jammed to the Dead and watched the show.

How did Warren Miller the man influence your skiing/riding career?

He must be one of skiing’s most influential people of all time. I can’t imagine that any other skier has been able to reach as many people as he has. I am certain that without Warren, the sport would be different than it is today. I am also certain that his films influenced a lot of the people I was influenced by. Major impact…

Nicknames?

Kitty Kat Jones (at least I wish people called me that....)

Where did you grow up & where did you grow up skiing?

Truckee, CA and Squaw Valley Current home mountain?

Squaw Valley Best moment filming with WME this year?

One night of our trip we loaded up in the heli after dinner at about 8pm and headed for the “Gold Coast,” an area out on the Arctic Sea that gets incredible sunset light. As we flew over the fjord the mountains were turning bright pink and the sun was hovering above the horizon. We skied a few of the most scenic and beautifully light lines of my life, all with an ocean view. It was so colorful, I felt like I was skiing in a water color painting. We skied until about 10:30pm that night and those runs will be burned in my memory forever!

How did Warren Miller the man influence your skiing/riding career?

Warren Miller created a lifestyle around skiing that revolved around sharing rather than competing. For me, I have always loved to ski but have not been very competitive. The joy of creating an entertaining piece of art in the form of a ski film is the reason that I am a professional skier. I love skiing and exploring new places but I also love the chance to share that experience with people from all over the world and hopefully inspire them to go out and ski/explore as well. I will always be thankful to Warren Miller for being the first to create, share and live such an amazing lifestyle, paving the way for people like me to do the same.

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Brewers have been enjoying their whiskeys for a good decade or so, imparting their special bourbon and rye blends into ales all over the West. High West should at least give it try themselves.

Well, I guess they did. Looking to their brothers and sisters at Ballast Point Brewing, the two Constellation Brands-owned entities decided upon a different approach to their first beer. They found it in an obscure style of lager from the days before Prohibition, calling it Western Standard and billing it as a “sessionable, barrel-aged lager.”

Western Standard Saloon Lager: This 5.2-percent beer pours a dark copper hue,

with a head that starts strong but fizzles to a thin cap that dissipates quickly. The lager itself has many of the qualities you’d expect from the pre-Prohibition style, full of adjunct aromas like corn and syrup, but also with sweet notes of wet cedar. Upon first sip, it’s a different story. The High West barrel part of the beer punches right at your palate like Alec Baldwin at a paparazzo. It starts with creamy vanilla and campfire marshmallows; the rye whiskey component comes in next, reining in the sweetness. Oak takes over at mid-point and hangs on like Indiana Jones behind a Nazi troop transport. The nice drying quality from the wood keeps the beer from becoming overly sweet and cloying. The mouthfeel is light, but I hate to call it thin. If you’re going to compare it to other barrel-aged ales, I can understand the temptation; however this beer fits perfectly within the style that was intended.

Overall: Western Standard’s strengths are its complexity and drinkability. It has far more character than any of its kin in the market, and it manages to deliver a pleasant bourbon sweetness that’s not full of dry tannin flavors. If you’re into crushability with extra dimensions, give this a try.

Western Standard will only be available in stores in Minneapolis, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Park City.

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Kevin Davis. This beer takes its cues from central Bavaria, but from there, it’s all Salt Lake City. Poured from one of Red Rock’s German-sourced 500-milliliter bottles, this 4-percent beer produces an amber-tinged brown liquid with a good three-fingers of thick, tan-colored head. Aromatic notes of bananas, pear, clove and a touch of JuicyFruit are noticeable up front. After resting a bit, distinct sweet apple notes emerge, with toasted bread and ginger peppering up midpalate sensations. Lemon and some grassy bitterness carry you into the end, where you’re met with a surprisingly atypical amount of fruity notes. The beer is fairly dry, especially for a dunkle, but doesn’t come off

as thin. Lightly tart as wheat beers often are, this quality accentuates the added lemon peel, which makes for a nice long finish. As the beer warms a bit, a touch of dusty cocoa flavor starts to come out, but only just a hint.

Overall: This is a tasty dunkelweizen; although not a prototypical example. I like the balance it strikes between fruit and phenolics, however, definitely making it an enjoyable brew, with a tartness that makes it quite easy drinking.

The Western Standard Saloon Lager should be in DABC stores any time now, with Red Rock’s Fallen Dunkel hitting Harmons grocery stores tout-suite as well. As always, cheers! CW

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Ryan Gosling (center) as Neil Armstrong in First Man Like most of the missions it depicts, the film is technically top-notch, Linus Sandgren’s cinematography and Justin Hurwitz’ sweeping musical score leading the way. Also like the missions, the movie drags in the middle as a sense of repetition creeps in. You wouldn’t initially think of it as an effects-heavy film, but the sequences set in space and on the moon are uncannily convincing, even better than the ones Stanley Kubrick faked 49 years ago (kidding). The supporting cast is full of familiar faces like Kyle Chandler, Ciarán Hinds, Patrick Fugit, Lukas Haas, Shea Whigham, Ethan Embry and Corey Stoll. The latter plays Buzz Aldrin, who was a bit of a jerk, or at least comes off that way when the movie is about Armstrong.

Biopics about people who were stoic and inscrutable are risky, as there often isn’t enough available information about them to flesh out a movie protagonist. First Man and Gosling’s performance avoid that problem by giving Armstrong an arc that, accurate or not, provides satisfying resolution to his character. Scenes of people around the world celebrating what America has achieved on behalf of all mankind—minus the Soviets; this was to spite them, not help them—are a reminder that for all our manmade divisions and quarrels, we are one world that reached out and touched another one. And that’s pretty awesome. CW

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yan Gosling is a handsome man, but it’s his profile that’s most aesthetically pleasing. We saw a lot of it in Drive, where he sat behind the wheel of a car and was often photographed from the passenger seat, and we see it again in First Man, where he’s a test pilot in a cockpit.

Gosling’s pilot, like his driver, is a man of few words who keeps his emotions under wraps. But unlike the driver, the pilot has a name: Neil Armstrong.

First Man—which reunites Gosling with La La Land director Damien Chazelle—is a biography of Armstrong covering the decade-long journey that ended with him on the moon (well, that ended with him coming back from the moon).

Adapted by Josh Singer (Spotlight) from James R. Hansen’s book, the film handles the biopic tropes with better-thanaverage success, shedding light on a man who was a household name, but whose private nature made him an enigma to the public. It runs long, with restlessness setting in during the midsection, but Chazelle handles the climactic moon landing itself with breathless, meticulous cinematic skill.

Armstrong is an aeronautics engineer— an “egghead” in one observer’s estima-

tion—and fearless test pilot when, in 1962, he’s chosen for NASA’s Project Gemini, a steppingstone toward the Apollo moon missions. It’s the height of the Cold War “space race,” and the Soviets have been beating America to all the benchmarks.

It’s imperative, therefore, that we get to the moon first, because if they get there first, well, then, that would be bad, because ...

(The movie does not finish that sentence.)

Armstrong, his wife, Janet (Claire Foy) and their little boy move to Houston, having already lost a daughter to cancer; Armstrong’s new co-worker Ed White (Jason Clarke) lives across the street with his wife, Pat (Olivia Hamilton). The wives bond over the stress of being married to astronauts; Armstrong and White would describe themselves as friends, but Armstrong never talks to White—or anyone—about his feelings, particularly about the death of his daughter, which affected him deeply.

Years pass quickly in movie terms, as Chazelle hits the highlights of the Gemini missions and Armstrong’s role in them. He emerges as a thoughtful scientist with steel nerves, saving his own life or the lives of others on more than one exciting occasion.

But there are tragedies he cannot prevent, as space-exploration buffs no doubt recall.

As time passes and casualties mount—and America is mired ever deeper in Vietnam and other societal unrest—people start to ask: Is going to the moon worth all the money and lives it’s costing?

The answer can only be yes, right?

Chazelle doesn’t really make a strong case for it, other than presenting the culmination of the mission with reverent awe, but if it was all a boondoggle, then this story is depressing and ironic, not inspiring. But it seems a misstep to raise the “Is it worth it?” question, then act like it’s rhetorical.

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NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE BB.5 A priest (Jeff Bridges), a singer (Cynthia Erivo), a vacuum cleaner salesman (Jon Hamm) and a pissed-off young woman (Dakota Johnson) walk into a hotel lobby, and they all wind up in one of those gritty, twisty, jokey crime-dramas that proliferated 20 years ago in the era of the Tarantino clones. Writer/director Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods) sets his story of people with mysterious motives at a run-down resort on the California/ Nevada border—as in, the border runs down the middle of the place, which hints at some of the forced gimmickry on display. The script is loaded with unexpected, even startling turns, and nearly every cast member gets at least one juicy scene—including Chris Hemsworth, who shows up late to be menacing and conspicuously shirtless. But this 141-minute tale is all sizzle and no steak, teasing at serious questions Goddard is never really interested in exploring when he can fall back on surprise gunfire. Even after 20-plus years, the Tarantino clones haven’t figured out that all the violent virtuoso flashiness works best with one hand on a real moral compass. Opens Oct. 12 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Scott Renshaw COLETTE BB There’s always something dispiriting about seeing the life of a revolutionary artist turned into a conventional cinematic biography, and that’s more or less what you get in this

profile of Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley), the French author and performer whose stories of a modern French girl named Claudine—ghost-written for her husband, literary entrepreneur Henry “Willy” Gauthier-Villars (Dominic West)—became an eyebrow-raising sensation in turn-of-the-century France.

There are some tartly funny turns of phrase in the script— credited to Rebecca Lenkiewicz, director Wash Westmoreland and Westmoreland’s late partner, Richard Glatzer—and West turns in a lively performance as the bon vivant Willy. There’s simply a predictable, rote quality to the chronological story, which in theory tracks Colette’s evolution from simple country girl to openly bisexual celebrity with a transgender lover (Denise Gough), but misses that arc as Knightley never seems anything less than supremely confident. The French countryside is lovely, and audience members get to applaud Colette standing up for herself as the real author of the Claudine stories, but this is a life story that demands direction with more edgy vitality, rather than the patina of middlebrow respectability. Opens Oct. 12 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR FIRST MAN BBB See review on p. 35. Opens Oct. 12 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEEN BB Like the 2015 original, this sequel might share a name with the popular R.L. Stine series of supernatural tales, but its real DNA is pure Hollywood. In the town of Wardenclyffe—home to one of Nikola Tesla’s most significant experiments, as we’re reminded repeatedly—middle-schoolers Sonny (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and

Sam (Caleel Harris) discover a book while scavenging in an abandoned house, and unwittingly set loose living dummy Slappy and a slew of other creatures on Halloween. Rob Lieber’s script offers a few faint hand waves to actual character issues like Sonny and Sam being bullied, or Sonny’s older sister Sarah (Madison Iseman) experiencing both college-application writer’s block and boy troubles. But mostly it’s another Jumanji-esque tornado of CGI menaces—like a bowl full of Gummi Bears metastasizing into giant-size sugary beasts—that need to offer enough challenge to fill out 90 minutes. It’s moderately diverting matinee stuff, never particularly clever nor particularly dumb, and certainly never particularly scary. When the biggest potential threat is whether or not Sarah will get into an Ivy League school, it’s hard to look at it as anything more than first-world terrors. Opens Oct. 12 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—SR GOSNELL: THE TRIAL OF AMERICA’S BIGGEST SERIAL KILLER [not reviewed] Fact-based drama about the investigation of unethical abortion provider Dr. Kermit Gosnell (Earl Billings). Opens Oct. 12 at Cinemark Jordan Landing. (PG-13) JANE AND EMMA [not reviewed] Fact-based story of the friendship between Joseph Smith’s wife Emma and a free African-American woman in 1844 Illinois.

Opens Oct. 12 at theaters valleywide. (PG) THE OLD MAN & THE GUN BBB “This story, also, is mostly true,” reads the title card at the

beginning of David Lowery’s film, as if we’ve just joined a folksy storyteller mid-session. Robert Redford plays a gentlemanly septuagenarian bank robber circa 1981 who calls himself Bob but is really Forrest Tucker. He meets effervescent widow Jewel (Sissy Spacek) to whom he confesses his identity, while a cop (Casey Affleck) takes an interest in the case. Adapting a magazine article by David Grann, Lowery doesn’t treat Forrest and his cohorts (Danny Glover and Tom Waits) like hardened criminals, nor is he interested in making a “heist” movie. Glover and Waits aren’t given much to do, which is a shame, while Affleck plays a low-stakes version of a hard-boiled cop with a grudge. If this is Redford’s final role, it’s a fitting, smiling swan song with gentle reminders of some of his past work. When Forrest tells Jewel he’s never ridden a horse, we assume he’s lying—not because Forrest is untruthful, but because Forrest is also Robert Redford.

The casting adds a satisfying additional dimension to an already humorous, amiable story. Opens Oct. 12 at theaters valleywide.

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CURRENT RELEASES BLAZE BBB.5 Director Ethan Hawke profiles Blaze Foley (Ben Dickey), a countrymusic singer-songwriter whose compositions were recorded by stars like Merle Haggard and John Prine, but who never himself found success in his lifetime. Some of the usual suspects are involved— including alcoholism—which would have made it easy to fall victim to cliché. But in adapting the memoir by Foley’s wife Sybil (Alia Shawkat), Hawke employs an achronological structure that weaves between timelines in a way that’s not just unconventional, but enthralling. Dickey, a non-professional actor, does remarkable work as Foley, capturing a lively raconteur who’s also a haunted, isolated soul. Where many films of this kind would emphasize the moment when people know they’re listening to creative genius, here we see performances where musicians are mostly ignored, with characters wandering out of frame as songs play in the distance. (R)—SR

SMALLFOOT BBB How will parents feel about an animated adventure where the message is “reject well-meaning religious dogma when it foments division?” In a Himalayan community of yetis, Migo (Channing Tatum) encounters a human “smallfoot,” which rocks his world-view since yetis are taught that such creatures do not exist. Migo eventually befriends a TV nature-show host (James Corden) despite their language barrier, but the narrative focuses on how Migo and the rest of his community process empirical information contrary to their faith. The visual world-building feels thin at times, along with characterizations like the chief priest’s rebellious daughter (Zendaya). But a couple of catchy musical numbers and solid physical comedy keep the energy level high enough to be satisfying, while the story offers young viewers a much-needed lesson in realizing that facing reality is the only way to make the world better. (PG)—SR

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A STAR IS BORN BBB Writer/director/star Bradley Cooper takes a distinctive approach to the previously-thrice-told-tale about the romance between a boozy music star (Cooper) and his discovery, aspiring singer/ songwriter Ally (Lady Gaga). It’s clear fairly early on that Cooper has a distinct concept for building the personalities of these characters, digging more deeply into their backstories and their connection than any previous incarnation. That approach makes the most of Lady Gaga’s natural talent as a lead actor, in a performance full of rich body language. The strong start, however, gives way to a doughy middle third that loses narrative momentum, while Cooper’s climax takes the more psychologically grounded approach to a natural conclusion that doesn’t work the way it did in the glossy melodrama of earlier versions. The unique vision for this story that makes it good is inextricable from the reasons it’s not quite great. (R)—SR

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VENOM BB.5 “Guilty pleasure” certainly applies to this Marvel Comics-inspired tale of Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), an unemployed investigative reporter who winds up hosting a powerful, symbiotic alien organism called Venom. Hardy’s performance is twitchy even before Eddie has another consciousness inside his head, but once he’s infected, the movie turns into a bizarre hybrid of The Incredible Hulk and All of Me, built on the inappropriate comments of the Venom-voice and Hardy’s unhinged physicality. It’s all dumb stuff, even by comic-book-movie standards, with director Ruben Fleischer blowing nearly all of his action energy on one massive chase through the streets of San Francisco, and a third act that turns into the obligatory CGI donnybrook that plays like a kid smashing his action figures together and making explode-y noises. But does the weirdness deliver a few incredulous laughs?

Guilty as charged. (PG-13)—SR

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NIGHT SCHOOL B.5 Night School has, at most, four laughs and one heartwarming speech—a crummy ratio for 111 minutes. Teddy (Kevin Hart), trying to get his G.E.D. so a buddy can hook him up with a finance job, attends night school, where hard-ass teacher Carrie (Tiffany Haddish) is determined to make him learn. So far, so good.

Unfortunately, there’s too much Hart, not enough Haddish, and she’s left to (mostly) play the straight man. The supporting players—including Romany Malco, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Taran Killam—get the wacky stuff, while Hart and Haddish are left holding the plot bag. This is what happens to a cut-and-paste-job

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THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS BBB.5 Horror schlockmeister Eli Roth turns his hand to kiddie scares, and offers entry-level spookiness for budding fright fans. When a newly orphaned grade-schooler (Owen Vaccaro) is sent to live with his weird uncle (Jack Black), he discovers a haunted house, a witchy neighbor (Cate Blanchett) and mysteries galore. A few unexpectedly clever gross-outs—jack-o’-lantern vomit!— and some deeply unsettling-though-still-PG-creepy imagery meets sweetly old-fashioned eerie foggy cemeteries in a fantasy retro 1950s that’s just a little bit steampunk. There’s a lot of stuff crammed into this little movie, but somehow it all works together, particularly thanks to the cast. While Blanchett vamps it up deliciously, Black tones down his mania, and they meet in a comic middle that is perfectly pitched. Someone in Hollywood demanded, “Get me the next Harry Potter!” Dang if they didn’t get pretty close. (PG)—MaryAnn Johanson

script with six credited writers, kids: You get a movie that doesn’t know what it is, and takes forever to get there. Stay in school, and learn to write better movies than this one. (PG-13)—David Riedel

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very band has a calling card. For some, it’s their ability to grind on tour; for others, it’s their social media following. Some focus on hyping up their live energy, while others worry about cultivating their YouTube views and streaming numbers. The focus for Salt Lake City quartet The Pour, however, is decidedly more traditional: writing creative original music, playing tight, hard-rocking shows and producing polished records that jump effortlessly from funk to prog-rock to jam band and back.

Such genre-hopping is exactly what Matt Calder (bass and vocals), Jeremy Whitesides (guitar and vocals), Jesse Howerton (keyboards) and Nate Barkdull (drums) want to be known for. They occasionally cover Pink Floyd songs and cite Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis and Radiohead as influences. But there’s plenty to love on their 2010 full-length debut and their new EP, which they’re celebrating with a release show at The State Room on Saturday, Oct. 13. Some songs feature a honky-tonk shuffle, some start and stop with pop concision and some run nine minutes with extended instrumental interludes. “We all like too many different kinds of American music to fit into any niche,” Whitesides says.

Ranging in age from their mid 30s to early 40s, each member of The Pour brings deep music bona fides to the table. Calder and Whitesides met in 2007, after Calder had built up credentials as a one-man band and Whitesides had accumulated significant studio experience. The duo recorded The Pour’s debut album in 2010 with former drummer Jon Olsen, tracking the 10 original songs in warehouses, living rooms, closets and bathrooms. Still, it sounds like a professionally recorded affair. “We decided early on that we wanted things to be polished,” Calder says.

The Pour went on hiatus in 2011, but in 2016 Calder and Whitesides reunited with two new members: Howerton, who had worked as a full-time keyboardist in Asheville, N.C., for five years before moving to Salt Lake City in 2009; and Barkdull, who had paid his dues working in studios near and far, including at Los Angeles’ esteemed Westlake Audio. Both say that joining The Pour gave them a new window on professionalism. “These guys are meticulous,” Barkdull laughs. “This is definitely the most challenging music I’ve ever played in my life.”

The Pour’s forthcoming EP reflects that scrupulous attention to detail. Each band member contributed writing ideas from his home studio via a round-robin of Google Drive files—and like he did on the 2010 release, Calder handled most of the mixing and engineering. But The Pour’s frontman credits everyone for their collective efforts (“I rely on their ears,” he says) while saving the highest praise for a surprising production method. “The best mixing console in the world is your car,” Calder laughs. “That’s our secret weapon. We listened to tracks in our cars, because we knew if we could get the songs to sound good on our crappy two-inch JBL speakers, it would sound good anywhere.”

That DIY nature is embodied in The Pour’s newest development: a hand-wired, custom-built light rig that Calder constructed. “It might sound cliché, but Matt really is a mad scientist,” Whitesides

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Left to right: The Pour’s Nate Barkdull, Jeremy Whitesides and Matt Calder and Jesse Howerton . says. “He’s singing, playing bass and controlling our whole light show with his feet.” Synced up with the music, the rig lends a visual aspect to the band’s exploratory sounds. “It’s just another element of expression,” Howerton says. “That’s our goal: to combine technology with the live experience to create something new.”

Calder says these enhanced production values give the audience an extra dynamic while also helping the band tighten up tempos and consistencies. “We’re picky—probably too picky—in the studio,” he laughs. “Switching between the studio and the stage keeps us on our toes. Now, we’ve figured out how to build a bridge between the two and bring the same microscope we use on our recordings to the live arena.”

It might sound like a lofty goal for a local band. But a decade after The Pour initially formed—and, in its current iteration, with two years experience playing venues around Salt Lake Valley and recording their first fully collaborative creation—Calder, Whitesides, Howerton and Barkdull have their eyes on a bigger prize. Saturday’s EP release show marks their first headlining gig at The State Room, and in 2019 they hope to crack the regional market in Colorado.

Still, they acknowledge the struggles that any band faces today: balancing their respective work and family schedules, cracking the elusive social media code and developing a consistent fan base with such a diverse sound. “You can define a musical identity or create a container for your art to live in,” Howerton says, “but that can keep you bound and prevent you from learning new things.”

Extending the metaphor, Calder adds, “Have you ever gone to Trader Joe’s and gotten those assorted rice crackers? That’s what a The Pour album is like: everything tastes good, but everything tastes a little bit different.”

Calling The Pour “an evolution and an escape” from their work with other bands, all four members say that no matter what happens, they’re enjoying the ride. “If your goal is to be there, you’re never going to be present here,” Howerton says of the chase for bigger success. “Making good music that we believe in? That box has to be checked for all of us. We’re proud of the integrity of our art.” CW

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Gwar, Hatebreed, Miss May I, Ringworm

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a fighting force was created on planet Scumdogia, and Oderus Urungus (aka Dave Brockie) was born. For more than 30 years, the multi-talented Brockie pioneered gore metal with Gwar, slaying and spraying audiences with stage blood and fake (we assume) semen. Officially debuting in 1988 with Hell-O, a dirty, violent punk album that showcased Gwar’s early strength, they then released second record, Scumdogs of the Universe. But the mythos surrounding this band really begins with 1992’s America Must Be Destroyed, inspired by an incident where the Charlotte police confiscated Urungus’ beloved companion cuttlefish. Over the years, Urungus and Gwar won over pathetic humans left and right, speaking to the rage-filled early 2000s on ’01’s Violence Has Arrived and delivering a politically motivated wrecking ball with ’04’s War Party. Behind the scenes, the ultimate shock-rocker Brockie might

Tove Styrke have been battling addiction. Despite Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe stating Brockie was a “dabbler” and not a “stone-cold junkie,” heroin is not a recreational drug, and an accidental overdose took Brockie’s life on March 23, 2014. Since then, Mike Derks (Balsac the Jaws of Death) and Brad Roberts (Jizmak Da Gusha) have had a rough go finding their groove, but there’s hope for our scumdog warriors yet. Gwar’s first record without Urungus, 2017’s The Blood of The Gods, saw the epic return of Mike Bishop (Blöthar), proving Gwar could still deliver the godawful racket that metal fans love. This Gore, Core, Metal and More tour also includes motivational gospel by Hatebreed, Miss May I and underground hardcore Cleveland legends Ringworm. (Rachelle Fernandez) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $29.50, all ages, thecomplexslc.com

SATURDAY 10/13 Tove Styrke, Au/Ra

Originally a contestant on Swedish Idol in 2009, Tove Styrke has become something of an electro-pop star, albeit one who isn’t

quite up there with the likes of Katy Perry or Lorde—not yet, anyway. Since releasing her debut solo album at age 17, Styrke has opened for both of those megastars, working with the former’s writer/producer Elof Loelv, and covering the latter’s “Liability.” Rolling Stone recently declared her “criminally slept-on” single “Say My Name” the song of the summer. We wouldn’t go that far, but, like most of Styrke’s tracks off new album Sway, it’s a warm, minimal and catchy tune—perfect for driving with the top down.

Propelled by a light, bouncy ukulele riff, it contributes to the flirtatious and playful vibe of Sway, an album she refers to as “a little collection of love stories.” Now that she’s 25 years old and on the cusp of breaking into pop music’s upper stratosphere, it might be a good time to catch her in an intimate venue before she blows up and ticket prices soar.

Styrke’s stop in SLC features support by 16-year-old pop singer Au/Ra, who was born in Spain but raised in Antigua, and seems poised to follow Styrke’s trajectory. (Howard Hardee) In the Venue, 219 S. 600 West, 7 p.m., $16 presale; $18 day of show, all ages, inthevenueslc.com

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Bare-chested young men in their teens brandish state-of-the-art handguns. They’re smoking, they’ve got dreadlocks and they don’t care about anything but their block and their people. Around 2010, these images of Chief Keef and Glo Gang’s infectious antics went viral online and stretched much farther than their home Chicago corner, drilling a new sub-genre of rap into the consciousness of young people worldwide.

Keef has been the subject of multiple court cases, and was even briefly banned from the Chicago city limits; at one point, he was the poster child for the “bad boy” in urban music circles—even more notorious than Chris Brown. Many young people copied Keef’s style shamelessly, without the drug-riddled violent neighborhood or prominent gang culture, giving birth to acts like Slim Jesus and Gmebe Bandz. The shelf life for any hip-hop act is usually short, and it takes hard work and creativity to stay relevant from youth into adulthood. Even then, nothing is promised. That’s why Keef went from sold-out shows and bidding wars at Interscope to not being able to move many records. However, the influence he left on young rappers (whether good or bad) remains; acts like 21 Savage and Lil Uzi Vert credit Keef for their own interest in music. There’s a difference between growing up in a violent situation and putting yourself in violent situations because they seem cool, however, and Chief Keef survived stacked odds to gain prominence in an environment designed to punish the weak. His story is beautiful and grotesque, and shouldn’t be emulated by anyone. Enjoy him for what he is. (Keith L. McDonald) Soundwell, 149 W. 200 South, 9 p.m., $25 presale; $28 day of show, 21+, soundwellslc.com

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by Brooklyn band A Place to Bury Strangers. Oliver Ackermann, Dion Lunadon and new drummer Lia Simone Braswell specialize in skewering rock ’n’ roll stereotypes, mixing industrial noise with punk-rock flourishes. They value chaotic presentation as much as the anarchy inherent in their music’s creation, and fifth full-length Pinned is perhaps the most fleshed-out album by APTBS. Braswell’s charismatic backing vocals provide the perfect contrast to Ackermann’s sneer, and the frontman famously toned down his notorious noise on Pinned, which was written in a regular apartment for the first time in the history of the band, whose deafening aesthetic was incubated at Death by Audio, the now-defunct DIY Brooklyn venue and guitar pedal warehouse. APTBS’ usual paranoia remains, however, especially on the conspiracy-theory breakdown “Execution” and album opener “Never Coming Back,” which builds to a haunting climax of harmonized vocals and Lunadon’s hallmark propulsive bass lines. “That song is a big concept,” Ackermann says in a news release for Pinned. “You’re thinking about that edge of the end, deciding whether or not it’s over. When you’re close to that edge, you could teeter over.” (Nick McGregor) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $15 presale; $17 day of show, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

Tennis’ current Solo in Stereo tour is a bit misleadingly named, since this Denver band is actually a duo.

The selling point here is that the husband-and-wife songwriting team of Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley are performing as a two-piece for the first time, intending to provide fans of Tennis’ retro-pop sound an experience that hews closer to how their music is written and demoed. “The songs won’t be acoustic,” the band says in a news release, “but they will be pared down.” Based on that description, it sounds like an ideal way to wrap your head around the four studio albums and two EPs of warm, lo-fi songs Tennis has produced. Displaying songwriting chops and an affinity for analog sounds on par with 1970s greats like the Carpenters, Dusty Springfield and Fleetwood Mac, Tennis has consistently offered a counterpoint to the cliché of a female musician helping her male partner chase his rock star dreams.

Moore often contributes vocals, guitar, keyboards and drums, and she very much rocks in her own right, despite coming across as sweet and innocent. Singersongwriter Matt Costa, who hails from California and sometimes performs under the moniker Santa Rosa Fangs, opens. (HH) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 7 p.m., $22 presale; $25 day of show, 21+, metromusichall.com

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Both sturdy individuals with a clear fidelity to rugged country tradition, Dale Watson and Wayne “The Train” Hancock make a perfect pairing. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine two Texas troubadours having more in common.

Each reveres the archetypical sound initially established by outlaws like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. They specialize in a style critics call “countrypolitan,” which Watson refers to as “Ameripolitan”: a melange of classic country, rockabilly, Western swing and vintage honky tonk. Watson and Hancock even share the same producer—venerable pedal steel player Lloyd Maines—and mutual admiration for each other. Watson has said in the past, “I like to quote John Lennon. He claimed that originality is really one’s inability to imitate their influences.

My inability to recreate the type of songs that influenced me is my originality. You can’t change what you are. I’m true to the limitations of my abilities.” Granted, Watson might be modest, but it’s a fact that he and Hancock adhere to authenticity, a rare thing in more commercial country realms these days. For his part, Hancock says on his website, “Man, I’m like a stab wound in the fabric of country music in Nashville. See that bloodstain slowly spreading? That’s me.”

These men don’t mince words—they simply relish their roots. (Lee Zimmerman) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $25, 21+, thestateroom.com

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I made my maiden voyage to SaltFire Brewing on either the best or worst day possible. The best because this new force on the local beer scene was just about finished with a remodel of its tasting room; the worst because I was two days too early for the special release of their wet hopped Lupulin Dew. Still, owner and founder Ryan Miller gave me the email newsletter tip, which unlocks early access to limited-edition libations.

SaltFire is required to abide by Utah’s tasting room law—only four 4-ounce pours per person, per day—so this isn’t exactly the best spot to get your serious drink on. But since the servings aren’t on draft, that means they’re high-point favorites like 12 Monkeys Double IPA, Summer Camp Crush New England IPA and Singularity Citra IPA. I also left with a little illumination into the motivation behind the brewery’s spotless operation. Turns out, Miller developed his own manual four-bottle filling machine that’s taken off in microbrewery circles, selling hundreds around the world and funding SaltFire’s start-up. Changing the subject, another patron talked about the drinking laws in his home state of Montana, where brewery connoisseurs are limited to 48 ounces of beer per day, and places not licensed as bars have to close at 8 p.m. The conversation quickly veered to dark money, responsible voting and the makeup of the United States Congress, threatening to go off the rails before we all realized that everybody at the bar seemed politically like-minded. Maybe that four-pour limit is a good thing. (Nick McGregor) 2199 S. West Temple, 385-955-0504, saltfirebrewing.com

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ACROSS

1. Mazda two-seaters 2. Prefix with -scopic

49. Projected onto a screen 50. "Haven't heard a thing" 54. Colleague of Sonia 56. PC key under Shift 57. Oscar winner Kazan 58. Future attorney's hurdle, for short 59. Cut 60. Crackerjack 61. FedEx rival

Last week’s answers

No math is involved. The grid has numbers, but nothing has to add up to anything else. Solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. Solving time is typically 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and experience.

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3. BBC production with Tinky Winky and Laa-Laa 4. "Absolutely, amigo!"

5. Floor 6. Kind of joke 7. Game show?

8. Noggin 9. Having clean hands 10. Disparaging 11. Very clumsy person, in slang 12. Sweetie 13. Relative of "Aargh!"

14. "____ me?"

22. Radioer's word after "Roger" 23. Cereal usually served hot 27. Leading lady?

28. Gossip 29. 1860s White House nickname 31. Gets in way over one's head?

33. Couldn't possibly worry about anymore 36. Drop by 39. "Yeah, right" 40. Authoritatively stated 41. Radner of the original "SNL" cast 42. The Cavs, on scoreboards 47. ____ rancheros

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

1. Welcome sight?

4. Waves, say 10. "Fiddle-faddle!"

15. Fury 16. "Throw the football to me!"

17. Several ages, in geology 18. Home of the Braves: Abbr.

19. Language from which "tattoo" comes 20. Of poor quality, in modern slang 21. Warning! This Judy Garland film contains violence 24. Introductory drawing class 25. Ambulance driver, for short 26. One staying in a lot?

27. Org. that encourages flossing 30. Persons 32. "Ad Astra per ____" (Kansas' motto) 34. Women's ____ 35. Emails discreetly 37. "Zip your lip!"

38. ____-K 39. Warning! This Rob Lowe/Demi Moore film contains some nudity 42. TV series that spawned an exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry 43. Show no modesty 44. Saucony competitor 45. Falsity 46. "Trying to sneak ____ past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster": Joe Adcock 48. Like Keebler workers 51. Fluffy trio?

52. Pulled off 53. German poet Hartmann von ____ 55. Prefix with -graphic 56. Warning! This Russell Crowe film contains mild language 59. Show on which Key and Peele got their start 62. Bartender's stock 63. Birthday card number 64. Earth tone 65. Actress Ryder 66. ____ Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's birth name) 67. Water sources 68. Bothers 69. Actors Helms and Harris

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My astrological analysis suggests that life is conspiring to render you extra excited and unusually animated and highly motivated. I bet if you cooperate with the natural rhythms, you will feel stirred, playful and delighted. So how can you best use this gift? How might you take maximum advantage of the lucky breaks and bursts of grace that will arrive? Here’s my opinion: be more focused on discovering possibilities than making final decisions. Feed your sense of wonder and awe rather than your drive to figure everything out. Give more power to what you can imagine than to what you already know. Being practical is fine as long as you’re idealistically practical.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): How far is it from the Land of the Lost to the Land of the Lost and Found? What’s the best route to take? Who and what are likely to provide the best help? If you approach those questions with a crisply optimistic attitude, you can gather a wealth of useful information in a relatively short time. The more research you do about the journey, the faster it will go and the more painless it will be. Here’s another fertile question to meditate on: Is there a smart and kind way to give up your attachment to a supposedly important thing that is actually quite burdensome?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In her only novel, Save Me the Waltz, Zelda Fitzgerald described her main character like this: “She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.” That’s a bit too much like fairy-tale wisdom for me to endorse it unconditionally. But I do believe it might sometimes be a valid hypothesis—especially for you Sagittarians in the coming months. Your faith in yourself and your desire to have interesting fun will be even more important than usual in determining what adventures you will have. I suggest you start now to lay the groundwork for this exhilarating challenge.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You Cancerians might not possess the mental dexterity of Virgos or the acute cleverness of Geminis, but you have the most soulful intelligence in the zodiac. Your empathetic intuition is among your greatest treasures. Your capacity to feel deeply gives you the ability to intensely understand the inner workings of life. Sometimes you take this subtle acumen for granted. It might be hard for you to believe that others are stuck at a highschool level of emotional skill when you have the equivalent of a Ph.D. Everything I just said is a prelude to my advice. In the coming weeks, I doubt you can solve your big riddle through rational analysis. Your best strategy is to deeply experience all the interesting feelings that are rising up in you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you ever experience stress from having to be so interesting and attractive all the time? It might on occasion feel like an onerous responsibility to be the only artful egomaniac amid swarms of amateur egomaniacs. I have a suggestion that might help.

Twice a year, celebrate a holiday I call Dare to Be Boring Week.

During these periods of release and relief, you won’t live up to people’s expectations that you keep them amused and excited.

You’ll be free to be solely focused on amusing and exciting yourself, even if that means they’ll think you’re dull. Now is an excellent time to observe Dare to Be Boring Week.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A Chinese proverb says, “Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.” I’m happy to let you know that you are currently more receptive to this truth than maybe you have ever been. Furthermore, you have more power than usual to change your life in ways that incorporate this truth. To get started, meditate on the hypothesis that you can get more good work done if you’re calm and composed than if you’re agitated and trying too hard.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Every year, people discard 3.3 million pounds of chewing gum on the streets of Amsterdam. A company named Gumdrop has begun to harvest that waste and use it to make soles for its new brand of sneakers, Gumshoe. A spokesperson said the intention was to “create a product people actually want from something no one cares about.” I’d love it if you were inspired by this visionary act of recycling, Pisces. According to my reading of the cosmic omens, you now have exceptional powers to transform something you don’t want into something you do want.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life, from its very beginning, is a mystery to you,” writes Gemini author Jamaica Kincaid. I disagree with her because she implies that if you’re human, your life is a complete and utter mystery; whereas my observation has been that for most of us, our lives are no more than 80 percent mystery. Some lucky ones have even deciphered as much as 65 percent, leaving only 35 percent mystery.

What’s your percentage? I expect that between now and Nov. 1, you can increase your understanding by at least 10 percent.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the late 19th-century, American botanist George Washington Carver began to champion the nutritional value of peanuts. His influence led to the plant being grown and used more extensively.

Although he accomplished many other innovations, including techniques for enhancing depleted soils, he became famous as the Peanut Man. Later in life, he told the story that while young he had prayed to God to show him the mystery of the universe, but God turned him down, saying, “That’s for me alone.” So George asked God to show him the mystery of the peanut, and God agreed, saying, “that’s more nearly your size.” The coming weeks will be a great time for you to seek a comparable revelation, Aquarius.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Richard Nelson is an anthropologist who has lived for years with the indigenous Koyukon people of Alaska. He lauds their “careful watching of the same events in the same place” over long periods of time, noting how this enables them to cultivate a rich relationship with their surroundings that is incomprehensible to us Westerners. He concludes, “There may be more to learn by climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.” I think that’s excellent counsel for you to employ in the coming weeks.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Russian philosopher George Gurdjieff taught that most people are virtually sleepwalking even during the day. He said we’re permanently stuck on automatic pilot, prone to reacting in mechanical ways to every event that comes our way. Psychology pioneer Sigmund Freud had an equally dim view of us humans.

He believed that it’s our normal state to be neurotic; that most of us are chronically out of sync with our surroundings. Now here’s the good news, Capricorn. You’re at least temporarily in a favorable position to refute both men’s theories. In fact, I’ll boldly predict that in the next three weeks you’ll be as authentic and awake and at peace as you’ve been in years.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his book The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen describes his quest to glimpse the elusive and rarely seen creature in the Himalayas. “Its uncompromising yellow eyes, wired into the depths of its unfathomable spirit,” he writes, give it a “terrible beauty” that is “the very stuff of human longing.” He loves the snow leopard so much, he says, that it is the animal he “would most like to be eaten by.” I bring this up, Aries, because now would be a good time, astrologically speaking, for you to identify what animal you would most like to be eaten by. In other words, what creature would you most like to learn from and be inspired by? What beautiful beast has the most to give you?

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NeighborWorks America just released a rather fascinating study about national home buying trends. In its sixth annual survey, 92 percent of adults polled said home ownership is an important part of the American dream, but student debt is the predominant obstacle keeping people from purchasing a residence. Millennials and women said homeownership is quite far out of reach given their debt load. That’s not surprising considering the survey also says “school-related debt has ballooned by 130 percent” since 2008, and that “student loans are towering at $1.5 trillion, comprising 42 percent of all consumer debt.”

Let’s break that down: 29 percent of women versus 23 percent of men surveyed are under student debt. Of those women, half “state their debt is a constant worry and 38 percent of debt-holding women personally know of someone who delayed home ownership because of their substantial financial liabilities.” Minority females were found to have more debt than white women.

Buyers ask me all the time how much money they need to purchase a starter home and what first-time-buyer loans are available. There’s not technically a “firsttimer” loan. There are VA loans for veterans with no down payment required; FHA loans, which have a low down payment (say 3.5 percent); and conventional loans that also require zero down. If you have good credit, there are many loan options.

I heard Sam Khater, the chief economist for Freddie Mac, speak a few weeks ago.

His presentation wasn’t very encouraging: “We’ve had interest rate hikes in the past year and we’re going to have more, which means inflation pressures are rising. We have low unemployment in the country but no strong wage growth, and housing affordability is rapidly declining in all major cities.” He predicts we’re heading for a recession around 2020 and that the housing market will slow next year, with price increases nationally averaging about 3.5 to 4 percent. But he believes housing prices will remain strong in the Intermountain West in 2019, with values going up in Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming. “Home ownership rates are dropping due to a chronic lack of supply of homes and condos to purchase,” he said. “Plus, investor buyers aren’t excited that virtually no one is building duplexes, tri- or four-plexes anymore.”

Look around downtown Salt Lake City— all those high-rise buildings going up are apartments for rent, not condos for sale.

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Family Values Laurence Mitchell, 53, gets this week’s Most Helpful Dad award for graciously driving his 15-year-old son and the son’s girlfriend, also 15, to a Port St. Lucie, Fla., park on Sept. 6 so they could “do their thang,” as Mitchell described it. The Smoking Gun reported that when Port St. Lucie police officer Clayton Baldwin approached Mitchell’s car around 11:30 p.m., after the park had closed, Mitchell told him the kids “aren’t out there stealing, they are just having sex. They could be out there doing worse.” When the teenagers returned from the nearby soccer field, Mitchell’s son told the officer they were “just smokin’ and fuckin’.” Mitchell was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor.

Compelling Explanations While shopping at a Peoria, Ill., Walmart on Sept. 20, an unnamed 30-year-old woman filled her cart but also added a few items to her backpack: leggings, pencils, a quart of oil and a “Jesus Calling” Bible. After she paid for only the items in her cart, a loss-prevention officer stopped her before she left the store. Peoria police were summoned, reported the Peoria Journal Star, and the woman explained to them she was hoping the Bible could help her spiritually: “(She) told me that it sounds strange, but she was trying to be more Christian,” an officer reported. She was charged with misdemeanor theft.

Señora de la Candelaria Hospital emergency room in Mojon de Arona, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands on Sept. 15 with extreme pain in her groin area. El Pais reported the doctor who examined her was surprised to find a dead, immature Chinese pond turtle lodged in her vagina. The woman told police she had attended a beach party the night before but could not remember what happened. (Given that the freshwater species is sold in pet shops, it’s not likely that it got there by accident.) Police suspect she might have been the victim of a sexual assault, but she chose not to file a complaint.

People With Issues In what the Porter County (Indiana) coroner later called “a blatant disregard for human life,” two men posted a video of themselves “horseplaying” with a third man, 21-year-old Kyle Kearby, who was slumped over, suffering from an apparent drug overdose, on Sept. 9. The video shows one man tying cords to Kearby’s hands and manipulating his arms like a puppet, and the other pumping Kearby’s chest and moving his mouth while singing “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.” Kearby’s father told The Times his son returned home about 5:30 a.m. and went to bed, but later discovered him not breathing and covered with vomit. He died at a hospital. Porter County Sheriff Dave Reynolds said he does not suspect foul play.

People Different From Us The Martin County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office has received repeated calls about a man in a Stuart neighborhood who conducts chores around the outside of his house in the nude. “I came out Sunday night to put the trash out, and I look over and he is bent over, winding up his hose, and I’m like that is my view of the neighborhood,” huffed Melissa Ny to WPBF TV on Sept.

19. Other neighbors are taking a more measured approach.

“Literally they are the nicest people you’ll ever meet; they would give you their clothes if they had them on to give them to you,” neighbor Aimee Canterbury told WPTV. The sheriff’s department says there is nothing they can do as long as the man is on his own property and not touching himself inappropriately. The nudist declined to be interviewed, saying he and his family are private people.

Bait and Switch Ironman triathlete Jaroslav Bobrowski, 30, of Landshut, Bavaria, was banned Sept. 14 from Running Sushi, an all-youcan-eat restaurant, for eating too much sushi. The Local Germany reported Bobrowski, a former bodybuilder, ate close to 100 plates of sushi, which sent the restaurant into a panic and caused the owner and chef to tell him he was banished “because I’m eating too much.” “He eats for five people,” the owner complained.

“That is not normal.”

Weird Science It’s been a banner year for the spider population of Aitoliko, Greece, according to the Associated Press. Fueled by a huge increase in the numbers of lake flies, which the spiders eat, the spiders reproduced unusually fast and have covered coastal trees, bushes and low vegetation with blankets of thick, sticky webs.

The webs run along a few hundred meters of the shoreline in the western Greek town and, according to residents, have the unexpected advantage of keeping mosquitoes away.

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No Good Deed Tammie Hedges of Goldsboro, N.C., founded the nonprofit Crazy’s Claws N Paws in 2013 to help low-income families with vet bills and pet supplies, so it was natural for her to take in 27 animals displaced by Hurricane Florence in September. Hedges treated many of the animals, found in the streets or surrendered by fleeing residents, with antibiotics and painkillers for fleas, cuts and other ailments. For that, The Washington Post reported, she was arrested on Sept. 21 for practicing veterinary medicine without a license, after an official from Wayne County Animal Services visited the warehouse where the animals were housed.

Kathie Davidson, a volunteer with Claws N Paws, said: “If she hadn’t done what she did, then they’ll be charging her with animal neglect and cruelty. What was she supposed to do?” Hedges was released on bond, and the charges were later dropped.

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Romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy, 68, was arrested on Sept. 5 on charges of murdering her husband, Daniel Brophy, 63, in Portland, Ore., after apparently following her own advice, written in a 2011 essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband.”

In the essay, Crampton Brophy suggests that hiring a hit man is “never a good idea” and poison is traceable. Instead, reported The Oregonian, she allegedly shot her husband on June 2 at the Oregon Culinary Institute where Daniel was a beloved chef. Police did not release a motive, and a neighbor said Crampton Brophy “never showed any signs of being upset or sad.” On Sept. 17, she pleaded not guilty in Multnomah County Circuit Court, and her trial is set for Oct. 26.

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The officer then asked her to step out of the vehicle, which she also refused to do, so he forced her out. “I will own your bank account,” she told him. “I will own your house.” When he asked her name, she responded, “None of your business.” Finally, she was arrested for failing to obey instructions, failing to identify herself and obstruction.

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