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OPINION

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR.

A Lesson on Slimy Lubrication

Somehow it’s no surprise. When you’ve elected a slimeball president, it’s only logical that more slime will follow: Slimy cabinet members, slippery-as-snot legal counsel, sleight-of-hand strategists—and, now, a Supreme Court justice worthy of the most sobering lawyer jokes. Unfortunately, it’s no knee-slapping funny matter. If Chicken Little proclaimed today that the sky was falling, I’d have to agree that the little clucker was likely right. Donald Trump’s slogan has been “Make America Great Again,” but his actions are crumbling the strength of our democracy. The Kavanaugh disaster is a new low. It is undoubtedly the greatest con-job ever run by a U.S. president. The confirmation of the lying-elitist-boozer-brawler Brett Kavanaugh is another sledgehammer blow to the foundation of a great nation. It could not have happened if the president and Senate hadn’t fed a king’s feast of lies to the American people. If integrity had ruled, the truth— whatever it turned out to be—would have been faithfully sought. There were no pressing deadlines and there was no reason to rush the confirmation process. Despite the promising notion that two or three senators might actually possess consciences, total moral abdication ruled the day. No American was stupid enough to believe the president’s statement that he was giving the FBI free rein. Instead, he hog-tied the investigation, and made sure the disgusting sexual allegations were never probed. The Justice Department’s apolitical and impartial purpose was severely compromised.

Let’s just say, for the sake of innocent naiveté, that Kavanaugh’s past wasn’t full of bad behavior. The sexual improprieties are, at least for the moment, not proven. But Kavanaugh himself gave the Senate and the entire nation big reasons to stop the confirmation. He refused to answer many key questions (it should have ended right there), sniveled like a 2-year-old demanding a Binky, fabricated a series of lies in an attempt to discredit Democrats and showed us the same “righteous anger” that caused him to attack a fellow patron in a bar and get one of his buddies thrown into jail. Kavanaugh’s performance was reminiscent of the proven lie-under-oath pattern that marred his confirmation to the federal bench 12 years earlier. His presence and bearing were not Supreme; he was pathetic, vicious, out of control and everything a justice shouldn’t be—enough to convince the American Bar Association to issue an official statement of his unfitness for the job and inspire more than 2,400 law professors to condemn his nomination. Kavanaugh’s confirmation was no accident; it was carefully strategized. Trump rightly believed that he had a handle on the whole affair. No matter what, his golden boy would prevail. Kavanaugh had been diligently preemptive in his own campaign to make sure his friends would lie for him; he called every one of his high school and college pals asking them not to reveal his past. Not so surprising, all his (obviously brain-damaged-amnesiac) witnesses—to both his sexual assault and his character—hid at the local pub until the drama was over. Even though this wasn’t a criminal hearing, his witness tampering and suppression of evidence are reprehensible. Time will tell, but there is certainly good cause to disbar and remove Kavanaugh, not only from his new job but from ever pronouncing another verdict on anything. He is a prejudiced, dishonest, elite bigot, not a balanced and reverent assessor of right and wrong.

Presidents aren’t supposed to nominate SCOTUS justices on the basis of personal and party loyalty; nominations are expected to be about the appointee’s ability to make rational, fair and impartial decisions—ones that we and our children will be living with for years to come. Instead, Trump stiffed the American people with a shoveit-down-our-throats assault. My guess is that many of our fellow citizens are shaking their heads right now wondering, “How can it be?” The answer is no mystery. We are confronted with the ghosts of Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler and Mao and the historic realities that destroyed nations and threatened our world. What we face is the horrifying merger of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of our government and the muzzling of the watchdog journalism. Could the patriots who paved the road to an American nation with their blood ever have foreseen how the Constitution could be erased so easily by a narcissistic would-be-king? We’re almost there, folks. While not very pretty, slime is an effective lubricant, ensuring that anything not bolted down will end up a victim of gravity. The morally defective Trump White House and a self-serving Senate have worked their evil; the Constitution is sinking in the swamp. Every girl and woman and every religious and sexual minority is facing decades of persecution at the hands of an imbalanced court determined to run an agenda most Americans do not support. And once again, the big corporations and the very rich are laughing themselves silly. Their man Trump has created an eccentric Supreme Court—one that will only work for the rich, the powerful and the privileged. Americans—especially women and minorities—need to remember what happened. The midterms are a chance to help even up the score. CW Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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Do you need help processing everything that’s going to be on the ballot this year? You’re not alone. There’s a lot to vote on besides the candidates, such as questions, propositions and constitutional amendments. Don’t get lost in the noise. The Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association Utah Chapter’s (APAPA-UTC) 2018 Candidates & Issues Forum is one of the most ambitious voter education forums attempted in the state, meant to empower and organize the Asian American, Native American, Latino, African American and Pacific Islander communities. This year, West Valley City became the first minority-majority community in Utah, and yet that demographic has some of the lowest rates of voter turnout. Attendees are encouraged to bring their mail-in ballots for some hands-on training while having their questions about voting answered. Karen Gail Miller Conference Center, 9750 S. 300 West, Sandy, Saturday, Oct. 20, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., free, bit.ly/2yca2pw.

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We know. This is one of those issues that looks unsolvable: homelessness. Still, it’s worth the effort to understand and move forward with workable solutions. The 15th Annual Homelessness Summit offers ways to inform local stakeholders about programs and partnerships available. “Our speakers will inspire and encourage your efforts in: using the housing-first model, strengthening your understanding of supportive services and enhancing your knowledge of workable solutions in coordinating resources,” the event’s website says. There is also information on the frustrating “ever-changing funding requirements.” Sheraton Salt Lake, 150 W. 500 South, Thursday, Oct. 25, 7:30 a.m.-4:20 p.m., $35, bit.ly/2Ecmxak.

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You’ve probably heard that journalism is dying, or something along those lines. For sure, you’ve heard about #fakenews and the Failing New York Times from our thirdgrade reader in the White House. Now, the Shrinking Salt Lake Tribune runs a frontpage story with massive implications, but alas, only one side of the argument. “$1.4 Billion Railroad Pitched to State,” the headline blares. The subhead says supporters like the new route because it’s cheaper than previous proposals. This is about, of course, transporting oil from the Uinta Basin to maybe Colorado because of jobs and higher prices and, frankly, corporate welfare. The only critic you’ll find is not in the story itself, but rather the comments. Sen. Jim Dabakis suggests maybe schools or housing could use some money. But that’s not going to happen here, where oil, gas and coal are king—and they really need taxpayer money.

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fiscal year, El-Deiry adds. CCS and IRC offer two-year case management services. The organizations help the new Americans integrate into the culture by connecting them with language services and providing them with job training and guidance on career advancement. The goal is to help them become productive members of society. A slashed budget means both agencies have to do more with less, requiring them to provide the same two-year case management with fewer staff members. “We’ve been extremely conservative in our hiring,” El-Deiry says. Numbers and budgetary realities are helpful for context, but they make abstract how much pain these policies can cause. Real people like Osman are the ones affected by Trump’s “America First” chest-thumping. “There are thousands of cases like Sadia’s children who are in limbo,” Batar says. Ridwana and Fuhad dominate Osman’s thoughts every day. When she wakes up, they’re there. When she eats, they’re there. When she gets home from work, they’re there. A phone line and a video connection don’t make it any easier for Osman to watch her boys grow up from the other side of the world. Osman says she has a good life here. She has a job and drives a car, perks she says she didn’t have before. She’s made Salt Lake City a home, but she still sees her boys everywhere she looks, an agonizing reminder that a part of her is still in Uganda. “To have my kids away from me makes me crazy,” she says. CW

refugee influx. “The more people that welcome and support this group of individuals helps us to be better, bigger people because we’re helping people who were in this negative experience,” she says. Dipika Dulal says she was the first Nepalese refugee resettled in Utah when she came to the States around 2008. “I thought the only country in the world was Nepal,” the 20-year-old says of her wide-eyed first days on U.S. soil. A decade later, she’s gone from barely speaking any English to studying business at the University of Utah. Her father, who also resettled in Utah, still sends money back home to people he knows are struggling to make ends meet. “I feel like that’s what we should do, just help each other out,” she says. “We’re just here to better our lives. There’s nothing wrong with that.” Natalie El-Deiry, acting executive director of the IRC, says the U.S., and particularly Utah, has historically been “a sort of beacon for refugees.” But the Trump administration did not resettle the maximum number of refugees it proposed admitting last year, raising questions that it will hit its historically low ceiling over the next 11 months. “We’re certainly hopeful this is not the new normal,” El-Deiry says. Fewer refugees means less money for CCS and IRC, since each agency’s endowment is tied to the number of arrivals they resettle within state borders. “We lost over half of our funding already,” Aden Batar, CCS’ director of migration and refugee services, says. The IRC laid off five staffers in its 2017

administration started its “extreme vetting” without adding more staff, so federal workers have to spend more time weighing each person’s visa application. But the slowdown means longer waits for displaced persons trying to come to the U.S. The boys are technically Somali refugees, and they are not barred from entering because of Trump’s travel ban, as they have a “bona fide relationship” with someone in the country. The more scrupulous screening process is a part of a larger set of policies that is slowing the number of foreign citizens the U.S. admits annually to a trickle. Last month, the Trump administration announced it would resettle a maximum of 30,000 refugees over the following year, the lowest cap in history since President Jimmy Carter signed the Refugee Act of 1980. Utah’s two refugee resettlement agencies—Catholic Community Services and the International Rescue Committee—have aided far fewer refugees in the time since Trump took office. The nonprofits resettled a combined 424 people for the 2018 fiscal year, which ended Oct. 1. That’s a 65 percent decrease from the number of refugees the agencies resettled in 2016, the last full year under the Obama administration. Studies indicate refugees pay $21,000 more in taxes than what they receive in benefits over their first two decades in the country. But Parekh suggests Utahns lose out on something more intangible than a dollar amount by not having as large of an annual

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o long as she has the money to make the international call, Sadia Osman stays up late every Sunday speaking with her two sons, Ridwana and Fuhad Bana. Her shift at a North Salt Lake manufacturing facility starts before the sun comes up most Mondays, but 10 p.m. Sunday is the best time to ring up her boys, because it’s morning in Uganda. Even more special than the telephone talks, is when she saves up the cash for the 12- and 17-year-olds to travel 130 miles from the Nakivale refugee settlement to Kampala, Uganda’s capital, where they use the city’s Wi-Fi to communicate with their mother over a video feed. A WhatsApp visual chat is the closest Osman has come to laying eyes on her sons in six years. “Most of the time I don’t talk to them,” she says. “I just cry.” Osman is a Somali refugee who moved to New York from Uganda in 2012. She was given permission to come to the U.S., but her ex-husband, the boys’ father, was not. He told her they could all leave Uganda together, or they would all stay as a group. Splitting up the family wasn’t an option. “In Africa, men have the power,” Osman explains. So she left the boys behind. She hasn’t seen them in person since. And she’s been trying to bring them to the U.S. for half a decade. Ridwana and Fuhad’s application to join their mother in Salt Lake City has been approved by multiple federal entities. Now, the fate of their case rests with the American embassy in Uganda, where federal officials will conduct background checks and interviews. Their never-ending wait for a family reunion is a result of President Donald Trump’s national security policies. Asha Parekh, director of refugee services for the Utah Department of Workforce Services, says the Trump

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the extent to which those who govern are bound by law, saw the second-greatest declines (64 countries out of 113 dropped). This is where the U.S. saw the greatest deterioration, World Justice Project stated in a news release. “While all sub-factors in this dimension declined at least slightly from 2016, the score for lawful transition of power—based on responses to survey questions on confidence in national and local election processes and procedures— declined most markedly,” the news release stated. The U.S. also scored notably poorly on several measurements of discrimination. “With scores of .50 for equal treatment and absence of discrimination (on a scale of 0 to 1), .48 for discrimination in the civil-justice system, and .37 for discrimination in the criminal-justice system, the U.S. finds itself ranked 78 out of 113 countries on all three subfactors,” World Justice Project stated. The four Nordic countries—Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden—remained in the top four positions. New Zealand, Canada and Australia were the only Top 10 countries outside of Europe. “The WJP’s 2017–2018 Rule of Law Index received scant attention from U.S. corporate media,” Project Censored noted. The only coverage they found was a Newsweek article drawing on The Guardian’s coverage. This pattern of ignoring international comparisons, across all subject matter, is pervasive in the corporate media. It severely cripples our capacity for objective self-reflection and selfimprovement as a nation.

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Global Decline in Rule of Law as Basic Human Rights Diminish According to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2017–2018, released in January 2018, a striking worldwide decline in basic human rights has driven an overall decline in the rule of law since October 2016, the month before Donald Trump’s election. Fundamental rights—one of eight categories measured—declined in 71 out of 113 nations surveyed. Overall, 34 percent of countries’ scores declined, while just 29 percent improved. The U.S. ranked 19th, down one from 2016, with declines in checks on government powers and deepening discrimination. Fundamental rights include absence of discrimination, right to life and security, due process, freedom of expression and religion, right to privacy, freedom of association and labor rights. “All signs point to a crisis not just for human rights, but for the human-rights movement,” Yale professor of history and law Samuel Moyn told The Guardian the day the index was released. “Within many nations, these fundamental rights are falling prey to the backlash against a globalizing economy in which the rich are winning. But human-rights movements have not historically set out to name or shame inequality.” This reflects the thesis of Moyn’s most recent book, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World. Constraints on government powers, which measures

ake news is not a new thing. Now more than ever, critical media education—more so than censorship, blacklists, privatized fact-checkers or legislative bans‑is the best weapon against an ongoing fake news invasion. This week’s cover-art theme works on two levels, which makes things more complex than might appear at first glance. First, the famous Orson Welles radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds on Oct. 30, 1938, used a number of dramatic devices to present the drama as though it were an actual crisis in progress. It became an example of the potential power of fake news in the radio era. “The broadcast became legendary for allegedly leading to widespread panic throughout the United States,” the editors of Project Censored noted. That narrative about widespread panic is actually a more long-term form of fake news, as Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow have documented in a series of articles over the past decade. Both the audience size and degree of panic have been significantly inflated, they explained. They cited two main factors: newspaper editors, who saw radio as challenging their media dominance, and an influential media study, whose top-line conclusions were at odds with some of its data. Ready? Let’s go.

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“Open-Source” Intelligence Secrets Sold to Highest Bidders In March 2017, WikiLeaks released Vault 7, a trove of 8,761 leaked confidential CIA files about its global hacking programs, which WikiLeaks described as the “largest-ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.” It drew significant media attention. But almost no one noticed what George Eliason of OpEdNews pointed out. “Sure, the CIA has all these tools available,” Eliason wrote. “Yes, they are used on the public. The important part is [that] it’s not the CIA that’s using them. That’s the part that needs to frighten you.” As Eliason went on to explain, the CIA’s mission prevents it from using the tools, especially on Americans. “All the tools are unclassified, open-source, and can be used by anyone,” Eliason explained. “It makes them not exactly usable for secret agent work. That’s what makes it impossible for them to use Vault 7 tools directly.” Drawing heavily on more than a decade of reporting by Tim Shorrock for Mother Jones and The Nation, Eliason’s OpEdNews series reported on the explosive growth of private contractors in the intelligence community, which allows the CIA and other agencies to gain access to intelligence gathered by methods they’re prohibited from using. In a 2016 report for The Nation, Shorrock estimated that 80 percent of an estimated 58,000 private intelligence contractors worked for the five largest intelligence gathering companies. He concluded that “not only has intelligence been privatized to an unimaginable degree, but an unprecedented consolidation of corporate power inside U.S. intelligence has left the country dangerously dependent on a handful of companies for its spying and surveillance needs.” Eliason reported how private contractors pioneered open-source intelligence by circulating or selling the information they gathered before the agency employing them had reviewed and classified it, therefore, “no one broke any laws.” As a result, according to Eliason’s second article, “People with no security clearances and radical political agendas have state-sized cyber tools at their disposal, [which they can use] for their own political agendas, private business and personal vendettas.” Corporate media reporting on Vault 7 sometimes noted, but failed to focus on, the dangerous role of private contractors, Project Censored pointed out—with the notable exception of a Washington Post op-ed in which Shorrock reviewed his previous reporting and concluded that overreliance on private intelligence contractors was “a liability built into our system that intelligence officials have long known about and done nothing to correct.” World’s Richest 1 Percent Continue to Become Wealthier In November 2017, Credit Suisse released its Eighth Annual Global Wealth Report, which The Guardian reported on under the headline, Richest 1% own half the world’s wealth, study finds. The wealth share of the world’s richest people increased “from 42.5 percent at the height of the 2008 financial crisis to 50.1 percent in 2017, or $14 trillion (£106 trillion),” The Guardian reported, adding that “The biggest losers … are young people who should not expect to become as rich as their parents.” “[Despite being more educated than their parents,] millennials are doing less well than their parents at the same age, especially in relation to income, home ownership and other dimensions of well-being assessed in this report,” Rohner Credit Suisse Chairman Urs Rohner said. “We expect only a minority of high achievers and those in high demand sectors such as technology or finance to effectively overcome the ‘millennial disadvantage.’” “No other part of the wealth pyramid has been transformed as much since 2000 as the millionaire and ultra-high net worth individual (known as UHNWI) segments,” the report said. “The number of millionaires

has increased by 170 percent, while the number of UHNWIs (individuals with net worth of USD 50 million or more) has risen five-fold, making them by far the fastest-growing group of wealth holders.” There were 2.3 million new millionaires this year, taking the total to 36 million. “At the other end of the spectrum, the world’s 3.5 billion poorest adults each have assets of less than $10,000,” The Guardian reported. “Collectively, these people, who account for 70 percent of the world’s working-age population, account for just 2.7 percent of global wealth.” “Tremendous concentration of wealth and the extreme poverty that results from it are problems that affect everyone in the world, but wealth inequalities do not receive nearly as much attention as they should in the establishment press,” Project Censored noted. “The few corporate news reports that have addressed this issue—including an August 2017 Bloomberg article and a July 2016 report for CBS’ MoneyWatch—focused exclusively on wealth inequality within the U.S. As Project Censored has previously reported, corporate news consistently covers the world’s billionaires while ignoring millions of humans who live in poverty.” How Big Wireless Convinced Us Cell Phones and Wi-Fi are Safe Are cell phones and other wireless devices really as safe as we’ve been led to believe? Don’t bet on it, according to decades of buried research reviewed in a March 2018 investigation for The Nation by Mark Hertsgaard and Mark Dowie. “The wireless industry not only made the same moral choices that the tobacco and fossil-fuel industries did, it also borrowed from the same public relations playbook those industries pioneered,” Hertsgaard and Dowie reported. “Like their tobacco and fossil-fuel brethren, wireless executives have chosen not to publicize what their own scientists have said about the risks of their products ... On the contrary, the industry—in America, Europe and Asia—has spent untold millions of dollars in the past 25 years proclaiming that science is on its side, that the critics are quack and that consumers have nothing to fear.” Their report comes at the same time as several new developments are bringing the issue to the fore, including a Kaiser Permanente study (published December 2017 in Scientific Reports) finding much higher risks of miscarriage, a study in the October 2017 American Journal of Epidemiology finding increased risk for glioma (a type of brain tumor) and a disclosure by the National Frequency Agency of France that nine out of 10 cellphones exceed government radiation safety limits when tested in the way they are actually used—next to the human body. As The Nation reported, George Carlo was a scientist hired by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association in 1993 to research cellphone safety and allay public fears, heading up the industry-financed Wireless Technology Research project. But he was unceremoniously fired and publicly attacked by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association in 1999 after uncovering disturbing evidence of danger. Carlo sent letters to each of the industry’s chieftains on Oct. 7, 1999, reiterating that the Wireless Technology Research project had found the following: “The risk of rare neuro-epithelial tumors on the outside of the brain was more than doubled … in cellphone users”; there was an apparent “correlation between brain tumors occurring on the right side of the head and the use of the phone on the right side of the head”; and “the ability of radiation from a phone’s antenna to cause functional genetic damage [was] definitely positive ...” Carlo urged the CEOs to do the right thing and give consumers the information they need to make an informed judgment about how much of this unknown risk they wish to assume, especially since some in the industry had repeatedly and falsely claimed that wireless phones are safe for all consumers, “including children.” The Kaiser Permanente study involved exposure to magnetic field non-ionizing radiation associated with wireless devices as well as cellphones and found a 2.72

times higher risk of miscarriage for those with higher versus lower exposure. Lead investigator De-Kun Li warned that the possible effects of this radiation have been controversial because, “from a public health point of view, everybody is exposed. If there is any health effect, the potential impact is huge.” “The wireless industry has ‘war-gamed’ science by playing offense as well as defense, actively sponsoring studies that result in published findings supportive of the industry, while aiming to discredit competing research that raises questions about the safety of cellular devices and other wireless technologies,” Project Censored summarized. “When studies have linked wireless radiation to cancer or genetic damage, industry spokespeople have pointed out that the findings are disputed by other researchers.” This is the exact same strategy used by the tobacco and fossil-fuel industries described in the 2010 book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. While some local media have covered the findings of a few selected studies, Project Censored notes, “the norm for corporate media is to report the telecom industry line—that is, that evidence linking Wi-Fi and cellphone radiation to health issues, including cancer and other medical problems, is either inconclusive or disputed ... As Hertsgaard and Dowie’s Nation report suggested, corporate coverage of this sort is partly how the telecom industry remains successful in avoiding the consequences of [its] actions.” Washington Post Bans Employees from Using Social Media to Criticize Sponsors On May 1, 2017, The Washington Post introduced a policy prohibiting its employees from criticizing its advertisers and business partners, and encouraging them to snitch on one another. “A new social media policy at The Washington Post prohibits conduct on social media that ‘adversely affects The Post’s customers, advertisers, subscribers, vendors, suppliers or partners,’” Andrew Beaujon reported in The Washingtonian the next month. “In such cases, Post management reserves the right to take disciplinary action ‘up to and including termination of employment.’” Beaujon also cited “A clause that encourages employees to snitch on one another: ‘If you have any reason to believe that an employee may be in violation of The Post’s Social Media Policy … you should contact The Post’s Human Resources Department.’” At the time, the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, which represents the Post’s employees, was protesting the policy and was seeking removal of the controversial parts in a new labor agreement. A follow-up report by Whitney Webb for MintPress News highlighted the broader possible censorship effects, as prohibiting social media criticism could spill over into reporting. “Among The Washington Post’s advertisers are corporate giants like GlaxoSmithKline, Bank of America and Koch Industries,” Webb wrote. “With the new policy, social media posts criticizing GlaxoSmithKline’s habit of making false and misleading claims about its products, inflating prices and withholding crucial drug safety information from the government, will no longer be made by Post employees.” Beyond that, Webb suggested it could protect the CIA, which has a $600-million contract with Amazon Web Services. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos purchased The Post four months after that contract was signed. “While criticism of the CIA is not technically prohibited by the new policy, former Post reporters have suggested that making such criticisms could endanger one’s career,” Webb noted. He added that in 2013, former Post writer John Hanrahan told Alternet, “Post reporters and editors are aware that Bezos, as majority owner of Amazon, has a financial stake in maintaining good relations with the CIA—and this sends a clear message to even the hardest-nosed journalist that making the CIA look bad might not be a good career move.”

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from Google searches,” Anderson said. “The World Socialist Web Site reported that Google’s new search protocol is restricting access to leading independent, left-wing, progressive, anti-war and democratic rights websites. The estimated declines in traffic generated by Google searches for news sites are striking.” There were declines for alternet.org (63 percent), democracynow.org (36 percent), counterpunch. org (21 percent), consortiumnews.com (47 percent), mediamatters.org (42 percent) and theintercept.com (19 percent), among others. On top of that, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi pointed to much broader stifling of alternative views: “Two years ago, remember, the American political establishment was on the ropes…. “From Trump to Bernie Sanders to Brexit to Catalonia, voter repudiation of the status quo was the story of the day. The sense of panic among political elites was palpable…. “Two years later, the narrative has completely shifted. By an extraordinary coincidence, virtually all the “anti-system” movements and candidates that so terrified the political establishment two years ago have since been identified as covert or overt Russian destabilization initiatives…. “We’ve jumped straight past debating the efficacy of democracy to just reflexively identifying most antiestablishment sentiment as illegitimate, treasonous and foreign in nature,” Taibbi wrote. “Many people suffer when lies are reported as facts, but it seems that corporate media are the only ones that profit when they reinforce blind hostility—against not only Russia but also legitimate domestic dissent,” Project Censored noted.

office (5.8 percent); and Trump administration scandals and stumbles (11 percent).” Well and good. But is this propaganda? At Truthdig, Norman Solomon wrote: “As the cable news network most trusted by Democrats as a liberal beacon, MSNBC plays a special role in fueling rage among progressive-minded viewers toward Russia’s ‘attack on our democracy’ that is somehow deemed more sinister and newsworthy than corporate dominance of American politics (including Democrats), racist voter suppression, gerrymandering and many other U.S. electoral defects all put together.” Also true. But not so much propaganda as Project Censored’s broader category of “news abuse,” which includes propaganda and spin, among other forms of “distraction to direct our attention away from what we really need to know.” To fully grasp what’s involved requires a more complex analysis. On the other hand, the censorship of alternative journalistic voices is far more clear cut and straightforward. In a report for Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, Robin Andersen examined Russiagate-inspired censorship moves by Twitter, Google and others. A key initial target was Russia Today. “RT’s reporting bears striking similarities to alternative and independent media content, and that is why letting the charges against RT stand unexamined is so dangerous,” Andersen noted. In fact, the government’s intelligence report on RT included its reporting on the dangers of fracking as part of its suspect activity. Beyond that, the spill-over suppression was dramatic: “Yet in the battle against fake news, much of the best, most accurate independent reporting is disappearing

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Russiagate: Two-Headed Monster of Propaganda and Censorship Is Russiagate a censored story? Well, not exactly. This entry seems to reflect a well-intentioned effort to critically examine fake news-related issues within a “censored story” framework. It’s important that these issues be raised—which is one reason why I suggested above that Project Censored add “fake news” as a new analytical category to examine annually along with its censored stories list, “junk food news” and “news abuse.” What Project Censored calls attention to is important: “Corporate media coverage of Russiagate has created a two-headed monster of propaganda and censorship. By saturating news coverage with a sensationalized narrative, Russiagate has superseded other important, newsworthy stories.” As a frustrated journalist with omnivorous interests, I heartily concur—but what’s involved is too complex to simply be labeled “propaganda.” On the other hand, the censorship of alternative journalistic voices is a classic, well-defined Project Censored story, which suffers from the attempt to fit both together. In April 2017, Aaron Maté reported for The Intercept on a quantitative study of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show from Feb. 20 to March 31, 2017, which found that “Russia-focused segments accounted for 53 percent of these broadcasts.” Maté wrote: “Maddow’s Russia coverage has dwarfed the time devoted to other top issues, including Trump’s escalating crackdown on undocumented immigrants (1.3 percent of coverage); Obamacare repeal (3.8 percent); the legal battle over Trump’s Muslim ban (5.6 percent); a surge of anti-GOP activism and town halls since Trump took

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Regenerative Agriculture as the ‘Next Stage’ of Civilization The world’s agricultural and degraded soils have the capacity to recover 50 to 66 percent of the historic carbon loss to the atmosphere, according to a 2004 paper in Science, reversing the processes driving global warming. A set of practices known as “regenerative agriculture” could play a major role in accomplishing that, while substantially increasing crop yields, according to information compiled and published by Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association, in May 2017. “For thousands of years we grew food by depleting soil carbon and, in the last hundred or so, the carbon in fossil fuel as well,” food and farming writer Michael Polin wrote. “But now we know how to grow even more food while at the same time returning carbon and fertility and water to the soil” Cummins, who’s also a founding member of Regeneration International, wrote that regenerative agriculture offers a “world-changing paradigm” that can help solve many of today’s environmental and public-health problems. As The Guardian explained: “Regenerative agriculture comprises an array of techniques that rebuild soil and, in the process, sequester carbon. Typically, it uses cover crops and perennials so that bare soil is never exposed, and grazes animals in ways that mimic animals in nature. It also offers ecological benefits far beyond carbon storage: it stops soil erosion, re-mineralizes soil, protects the purity of groundwater and reduces damaging pesticide and fertilizer runoff.” In addition to global warming, profound economic and social justice concerns also are involved. “Out-of-touch and out-of-control governments of the world now take our tax money and spend $500 billion ... a year mainly subsidizing 50 million industrial farmers to do the wrong thing,” Cummins wrote. “Meanwhile, 700 million small family farms and herders, comprising the 3 billion people who produce 70 percent of the world’s food on just 25 percent of the world’s acreage, struggle to make ends meet ... The basic menu for a Regeneration Revolution is to unite the world’s 3 billion rural farmers, ranchers and herders with several billion health, environmental and justice-minded consumers to overturn ‘business as usual’ and embark on a global campaign of cooperation, solidarity and regeneration.” If you’ve never heard of it before, don’t be surprised. “Regenerative agriculture has received limited attention in the establishment press, highlighted by only two recent, substantive reports in The New York Times Magazine and Salon,” Project Censored wrote. Congress Passes Intrusive Data Sharing Law Under Cover of Spending Bill On March 21, House Republicans released a 2,232-page omnibus spending bill. It passed both houses and was signed into law in two days. Attached to the spending provisions that made it urgent, “must-pass” legislation was the completely unrelated Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act of 2018, also known as the CLOUD Act. “The CLOUD Act enables the U.S. government to acquire data across international borders regardless of other nations’ data-privacy laws and without the need for warrants,” Project Censored summarized. It also significantly weakens protections against foreign government actions. “It was never reviewed or marked up by any committee in either the House or the Senate,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s David Ruiz wrote. “It never received a hearing ... It was robbed of a stand-alone floor vote because Congressional leadership decided, behind closed doors, to attach this unvetted, unrelated data bill to the $1.3-trillion government spending bill.” Congressional leadership failed to listen to citizen concerns, Ruiz wrote, with devastating consequences:

“Because of this failure, U.S. and foreign police will have new mechanisms to seize data across the globe. Because of this failure, your private emails, your online chats, your Facebook, Google, Flickr photos, your Snapchat videos, your private lives online, your moments shared digitally between only those you trust, will be open to foreign law enforcement without a warrant and with few restrictions on using and sharing your information, privacy and human rights,” concluded Robyn Greene, who reported for Just Security. “The little corporate news coverage that the CLOUD Act received tended to put a positive spin on it,” Project Censored noted. “[A glowing Washington Post op-ed] made no mention of potential risks to the privacy of citizens’ personal data, [and a CNET report] highlighted the liberties that the CLOUD Act would provide corporations by simplifying legal issues concerning overseas servers.” Because of this failure, U.S. laws will be bypassed on U.S. soil. Greene noted that the CLOUD Act negates protections of two interrelated existing laws. It creates an exception to the Stored Communications Act that allows certified foreign governments to request personal data directly from U.S. companies. “This exception enables those countries to bypass the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty process, which protects human rights by requiring foreign governments to work with the Department of Justice to obtain warrants from U.S. judges before they can access that data for their criminal investigations,” Greene explained. “The version of the bill that was included in the omnibus does include some improvements over the earlier version to help to mitigate the risks of bypassing the MLAT process … two changes [that] are important improvements … many of the other changes to the bill are only partial or ineffective fixes to problems privacy advocates, human-rights advocates and even a former high-ranking official at the U.S. State Department have raised ... Several other concerns have been left entirely unaddressed.” “While the bill sponsors did try to address some of the concerns that have been raised, the improvements are not enough to shift the balance so that the CLOUD Act will be a boon, rather than a threat, to privacy and human rights,” Greene concluded. Indigenous Communities Around The World Are Helping to Win Legal Rights of Nature In March 2017, the government of New Zealand ended a 140-year dispute with an indigenous Maori tribe by enacting a law that officially recognized the Whanganui River, which the tribe considers their ancestor, as a living entity with rights. The Guardian reported it as “a world-first,” though the surrounding Te Urewera National Park had been similarly recognized in a 2014 law, and the U.S. Supreme Court came within one vote of potentially recognizing such a right in the 1972 case Sierra Club v. Morton, expressed in a dissent by Justice William O. Douglas. In addition, the broader idea of “rights of nature” has been adopted in Ecuador, Bolivia and by some American communities, noted Mihnea Tanasescu, writing for The Conversation. The tribe’s perspective was explained to The Guardian by its lead negotiator, Gerrard Albert. “We consider the river an ancestor and always have,” Albert said. “We have fought to find an approximation in law so that all others can understand that from our perspective treating the river as a living entity is the correct way to approach it, as in indivisible whole, instead of the traditional model for the last 100 years of treating it from a perspective of ownership and management.” But that could be just the beginning. “It is a critical precedent for acknowledging the Rights of Nature in legal systems around the world,” Kayla DeVault reported for YES! Magazine. Others are advancing this perspective, DeVault wrote: “In response to the Standing Rock Sioux battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Ho-Chunk Na-

tion of Wisconsin amended its constitution to include the Rights of Nature. This is the first time a North American tribe has used a Western legal framework to adopt such laws. Some American municipalities have protected their watersheds against fracking by invoking Rights of Nature.” “[If the New Zealand Whanganui River settlement] was able to correct the gap in Western and indigenous paradigms in New Zealand, surely a similar effort to protect the Missouri River could be produced for the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River nations by the American government,” DeVault wrote. The same could be done with a wide range of other environmental justice disputes involving Native American tribes. Tanasescu described the broader sweep of recent developments in the “rights of nature,” noting that significant problems have resulted from the lack of specific guardianship provisions, which are integral to the Whanganui River law. “By granting natural entities personhood one by one and assigning them specific guardians, over time New Zealand could drastically change an ossified legal system that still sees oceans, mountains and forests primarily as property, guaranteeing nature its day in court,” Tanasescu concluded. “A few corporate media outlets have covered the New Zealand case and subsequent decisions in India,” Project Censored noted. “However, these reports have not provided the depth of coverage found in the independent press or addressed how legal decisions in other countries might provide models for the United States.”

FBI Racially Profiling “Black Identity Extremists” At the same time that white supremacists were preparing for the “Unite the Right” demonstration in Charlottesville, which resulted in the murder of Heather Heyer in August 2017, the FBI’s counterterrorism division produced an intelligence assessment warning of a very different—though actually non-existent threat: “Black Identity Extremists.” The report appeared to be the first time the term had been used to identify a movement, according to Foreign Policy magazine, which broke the story. “But former government officials and legal experts said no such movement exists, and some expressed concern that the term is part of a politically motivated effort to find an equivalent threat to white supremacists,” Foreign Policy reported. “The use of terms like ‘black identity extremists’ is part of a long-standing FBI attempt to define a movement where none exists,” said former FBI agent Mike German, who now works for the Brennan Center for Justice. “Basically, it’s black people who scare them.” “It’s classic Hoover-style labeling with a little bit of maliciousness and euphemism wrapped up together,” said William Maxwell, a Washington University professor working on a book about FBI monitoring of black writers. “The language—black identity extremist—strikes me as weird and really a continuation of the worst of Hoover’s past.” “There is a long tradition of the FBI targeting black activists and this is not surprising,” Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson told Foreign Policy. A former homeland security official told them that carelessly connecting unrelated groups will make it harder for law enforcement to identify real threats. It’s so convoluted that it’s compromising officer safety, the former official said. “The corporate media [has] covered the FBI report on ‘black identity extremists’ in narrow or misleading ways,” Project Censored noted, citing examples from The New York Times, Fox News and NBC News. “Coverage like this both draws focus away from the active white supremacist movement and feeds the hate and fear on which such a movement thrives.”

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Many people consider Deepak Chopra a spiritual prophet for our times—and indeed, in today’s turbulent circumstances, his wisdom is needed more than ever. As a lauded lecturer, teacher, researcher and clinician, he’s become a guide and guru for those seeking solace from an unsettling sense of despair. His advice resonates: “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” No mere pie-in-the-sky philosopher, Chopra (pictured) supports his teachings with an impressive list of credentials. Founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, he’s authored 85 books, which have been translated into 43 languages, many of them New York Times bestsellers. In addition, he’s a board-certified clinician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology and metabolism, a fellow in the American College of Physicians, a professor at the University of California San Diego Medical School and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. That list doesn’t include his many honorariums, innovative programs, adjunct teaching positions and consulting credits. The Huffington Post global internet survey ranked him as the No. 17 most influential thinker in the world, and No. 1 when referring to medicine. Likewise, Time magazine described him as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” With a résumé like his, who else even comes close? (Note to politicos: You need not apply.) Chopra once said, “You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.” Suffice it to say, he follows his own philosophy. (Lee Zimmerman) Deepak Chopra @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m. $35-$165, artsaltlake.org

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In 2005, Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief captured the minds and imaginations of readers all over the world. Narrated by Death, it detailed the horrors of the Nazi regime in World War II Germany, and followed the exploits of a girl named Liesel. The novel won the Michael L. Printz and Australia’s Kathleen Mitchell awards, among other honors. Thirteen years have passed since its publication, but Zusak (pictured) has released a new novel, Bridge of Clay, which he discusses during a visit to Salt Lake City. If you read The Book Thief, you know the lyrical beauty Zusak is capable of filling pages with—the type that you can’t help but keep reading, the type that feels as simple as breathing, as necessary as air. It’s not even a matter of not being able to put the book down; you soon forget you’re holding a book at all. The story of five brothers, a mother who dies and a father who vanishes—leaving the brothers to live an almost feral existence in a suburb of Sydney—Bridge of Clay is a work worth the effort behind its creation. In addition to the 13 years Zusak has been working on it since the publication of The Book Thief, he spent another 10 years composing the story. That story ultimately comes to focus on one of those aforementioned brothers, named Clay, and the bridge he decides to join his father in making when the patriarch unexpectedly returns, in addition to whether that project will help to reunite the family, or drive the brothers apart. In a promotional Q&A, Zusak explains, “In the end, this book is made of everything in me—and maybe I want the reader to feel that. But I don’t expect it. Readers owe me nothing. I owe them everything.” (Casey Koldewyn) Mark Zusak: Bridge of Clay @ Larimer Auditorium, Rowland Hall, 843 Lincoln St., 801-484-9100, Oct. 20, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

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Two resident theater companies at the Rose Wagner Center open their seasons this week with plays speaking to some of the most pressing social issues in Utah. Plan B Theatre’s opening show, Good Standing, focuses on the role of queer folks within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A gay member of the church faces the possibility of excommunication the week after he marries the man he loves. This one-man play features Austin Archer performing 16 roles ranging from the newlywed to the entire Church High Council. In addition to continuing Plan B’s tradition of producing LGBTQ-themed work each season, the Oct. 17 show was coupled with a fundraiser for Encircle, a local LGBTQ family and youth resource center. Pygmalion Theatre Co.’s Tigers Be Still (pictured), meanwhile, addresses mental illness and grief. But don’t worry: It’s a comedy. Sherry Wickman, recently graduated with a master’s in art therapy, attempts to start her life after school amid family mental health issues, work struggles and a literal tiger escaping from the zoo. Utah has one of the highest rates of suicide and depression in the nation, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Women make up a growing portion of these statistics, lending increased importance to Pygmalion’s focus on telling women’s stories through theater. (Kylee Ehmann) Plan-B Theatre Co.: Good Standing @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Oct. 18-28, dates and times vary, $22, planbtheatre.org Pygmalion Theatre Co.: Tigers Be Still @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801-355-2787, Oct. 19-Nov. 3, dates and times vary, $15-$20, pygmalionproductions.org

SATURDAY 10/20

An impending vote on a ballot initiative and an agreement in principle between opposing parties on possible legislation have medical cannabis at the forefront of political conversations in Utah like never before. That makes it one of the most important times to fully understand what this debate is—and isn’t—about, and how it affects the lives of thousands of Utah residents. The inaugural Utah Cann Conference (organized by City Weekly) marks an effort to educate the public ahead of the November election, and to dispel myths and fear-mongering surrounding the use of cannabinoids completely distinct from recreational marijuana usage. While there will be a display floor with vendors and representatives of various organizations, the focus is on educating attendees on the subject: medical experts speaking on the science behind CBD; advocates discussing the social and political challenges of promoting medical cannabis and patients telling their personal stories about the way it changed their lives. An impressive lineup of speakers adds to the impact of that programming, offering a chance for attendees to learn and ask questions. Canadian physician and syndicated columnist David Hepburn provides the keynote speech, while other presentations feature such names as former University of Utah football player and patient advocate Steve Hayes, former Utah State Sen. Steve Urquhart, cannabis entrepreneur Nancy Whiteman (pictured), Project CBD co-founder Martin A. Lee and activist Angela Bacca, who helped draft Proposition 2. Take this unique opportunity to get the complete picture on a contentious issue from those who live and work with it every day. (Scott Renshaw) Utah Cann Conference @ Mountain America Expo Center, 9575 S. State, Sandy, Oct. 19-20, 9:45 a.m.-7 p.m., $20-$200, utahcann.com

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n 2018, political satire seems both essential and impossible. We still need to make sense of the madness erupting daily from our news alerts, preferably with a bit of humor to defuse the tension. But so many of the issues—and people—making headlines feel almost too scary and disturbing to turn into punch lines. Finding that sweet spot ain’t easy. For the Capitol Steps comedy troupe, they’re counting on 35-plus years of experience to help navigate that narrow strait between tragedy and comedy. According to co-founder and writer Elaina Newport, the group was born in 1981, when Newport was a Congressional staffer and she joined forces with several co-workers—including Bill Strauss and Jim Aidala—to provide entertainment for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s office Christmas party. “I had been a piano major in college,” Newport recalls. “We did this show, and it was the early days of Reagan, with songs about Reagan, [former Attorney General] Ed Meese. We thought, ‘Somebody’s going to tell us to stop, or fire us.’” Instead, the musical revue was popular enough that the participants formed Capitol Steps, taking their name from a thentopical scandal involving Congressman John Jenrette allegedly having sex with his wife on the steps of the Capitol building. Newport says that their approach was inspired by the kind of comedy they grew up with. “Bill [Strauss] was a big Tom Lehrer fan,” she says. “I used to steal my brother’s Mad magazines. And I’d hear songs by [song parodist] Allan Sherman. I was probably 7, and I didn’t get them, but I heard people laughing. When you ask a thirdgrader what they want to be, they never say, ‘a political satirist.’” Today, while multiple touring companies perform the Capitol Steps songs and shows, the brain trust remains Newport, Strauss and a few others turning current events into parodies of showtunes and classic pop songs—e.g. the absurdity of the Kim Jong Un regime becomes “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Korea.” “There’s no smokefilled room,” Newport says of their creative process. “There’s basically me, a computer

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and a rhyming dictionary. [Strauss will] sit at his computer and send me something, and I’ll say, ‘Did you think about this joke?’” Before even getting to the jokes, however, there’s the matter of deciding on the targets. According to Newport, Capitol Steps is generally bipartisan in its skewering, with a couple of important caveats. “The party in power is always going to be a little funnier,” she says. “If people think we’re harder on the Republicans now, you should have seen it during the Clinton years. For my personal view, I’m an extreme moderate. We go down the list and go, maybe the first songs in a show will be about Trump, then let’s get to the song about Bernie Sanders.” Part of the difficulty in deciding how to approach certain subjects comes down to tone. As particular issues dominate the national political conversation, it becomes natural for Capitol Steps to want to tackle them, but to do so in a way that doesn’t diminish the seriousness of those issues. “It’s very tough,” Newport acknowledges. “Nuclear war? Not super funny. So what we typically do is, we take on the politicians. They’re public figures, and they’re fair game. A classic example of that was Hurricane Katrina. That was one of our biggest dilemmas; it was not a funny issue at all. But FEMA was fair game. You’re always looking for the person who’s making a serious situation worse.” Another significant factor is the seemingly non-stop deluge of news stories, which can make it impossible for a satirist to keep up. “Things are moving so fast, especially with this president,” Newport says. “I actually had to resort not too long ago to texting a joke [to a cast member] who was backstage about to go on.”

Capitol Steps cast members take on the Trump administration

Capitol Steps often handles such situations by using existing material to address a breaking story. While the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation controversy might only be in the news cycle for a few weeks, for example, the performers can make use of a routine about liberals desperately hoping all of the remaining left-leaning justices hang in there, set to the tune of “Staying Alive.” “We’ve been doing that song since Merrick Garland,” Newport says. “And it will probably work as long as it’s an issue.” Beyond their live shows, Capitol Steps generally releases an annual recording of new material, with Make America Grin Again as the 2018 installment. Newport believes the title of this particular album is relevant in considering why humor matters, even at a time when a lot of folks might feel more like crying than laughing. “People who are arguing with family and friends on Facebook don’t feel like they want to laugh,” Newport says. “We’ve all had fights with good friends recently over politics. So our job is hard. We have real challenges, like ‘Let’s find wigs as bad as somebody’s actual hair.’” CW

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Urban Arts Gallery (137 S. Rio Grande St., utaharts.org) presents a group show by Utah artists (including Alex Maher, pictured) showcasing works representing the spooky spirit of the Halloween in Shadow Realms, now through Nov. 4, with a Gallery Stroll artists’ reception Friday, Oct. 19, 6-9 p.m.

THEATER

12 Minutes Max Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Oct. 21, 2 p.m., slcpl.org The Addams Family The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, through Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m., zigarts.com Anything Goes Hale Center Theatre, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, through Nov. 17, dates and times vary, haletheater.org Eurydice Good Company Theatre, 260 25th St., Ogden, through Nov. 4, dates and times vary, goodcotheatre.com Free reading: Jenifer Nii’s DONNA Plan-B Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, Oct. 24, 7-9 p.m., planbtheatre.org 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 Ghost the Musical Empress Theatre, 9104 W. 2700 South, Magna, through Oct. 20, times vary, empresstheatre.com The Grassroots Shakespeare Co.: Hamlet Castle Amphitheatre, 1300 E. Center St., Provo, through Oct. 31, dates and times vary, grassrootsshakespeare.com Good Standing Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Oct. 18-27, dates and times vary, arttix.artsaltlake.org (see p. 19) Gounod’s Romeo & Juliet Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, through Oct. 21, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org Hauntings Wasatch Theatre Co., 1430 Van Buren Ave., Oct 19-30, dates and times vary, wasatchtheatre.org How I Became A Pirate Scera, 745 S. State, Orem, through Nov. 2, dates and times vary, scera.org Missoula Children’s Theatre: Peter and Wendy South Jordan Community Center, 10778 S. Redwood Road, South Jordan, Oct. 22-27, times vary, mctinc.org Pygmalion Theatre Co.: Tigers Be Still Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, through Nov. 3, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org (see p. 19) Ragtime CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, through Oct. 27, dates and times vary, centerpointtheatre.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 The Secret Garden Utah Children’s Theatre, 3605 S. State, through Nov. 17, dates and times vary, uctheatre.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

Odyssey Dance: Thriller multiple locations, through Oct. 31, dates and times vary, odysseydance.com Salt City Tap Fest Sugar Space, 616 E. Wilmington Ave., Oct. 24-28, times vary, slctap.com Utah Ballet Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, through Oct. 20, dates and times vary, tickets.utah.edu

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

American West Symphony: Heroic Symphony Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 8575 S. 700 East, Sandy, Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m., americanwestsymphony.com American West Symphony: U of U Piano Area Soloists Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu Beethoven Festival: Pianist Stephen Beus Park City Community Chrurch, 4501 Highway 224, Oct. 20, 7 p.m., pcmusicfestival.com Savage Piano Duo UVU Science Building 134, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m., uvu.universitytickets.com

COMEDY & IMPROV

Brendan Schaub Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Oct 19-21, times vary, wiseguyscomedy.com The Capitol Steps: Make America Grin Again The Commonwealth Room, 195 W. 2100 South, Oct. 23, 8 p.m., commonwealthroom.ticketfly.com (see p. 20) Front Row Film Roast: The Sixth Sense Brewvies Cinema Pub, 677 S. 200 West, Oct. 20, 10 p.m., frontrowfilmroast.com

Mark Christopher Lawrence Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Oct. 19-20, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Paul Sheffield Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, Oct. 19-20, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

15 Bytes Book Awards & Reading Weller Bookworks, 607 Trolley Square, Oct. 18, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Amy Irvine: Desert Cabal Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S. 200 East, Oct. 23, 7 p.m., kensandersbooks.com Ars Moriendi: Discussion with Paisley Rekdal and Micah Christensen Bountiful Davis Art Center, 745 S. Main, Bountiful, Oct. 22, 7 p.m., bdac.org Black Lives Matter Utah & Alison Hart: Mostly White Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Oct. 22, 7 p.m., slcpl.org Caitlin Doughty: From Here to Eternity The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 18, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com John Scalzi: The Consuming Fire Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Oct. 20, 2 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Kate Coombs: Monster School The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 20, 2 p.m., kingsenglish.com Laura Rutter Strickling: On Fire in Baltimore: Black Mormon Women and Conversion in a Raging City Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Oct. 23, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Laurie Allen, Cassie Ashton, & Kristen Clay: Haunted Salt Lake City The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 24, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Mark J. Nelson: White Hat: The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Oct. 19, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Markus Zusak: Bridge of Clay Rowland Hall, 843 Lincoln St., Oct. 20, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com (see p. 19) Patrik Sampler & Michael Mejia The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 20, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Sonja Mabel McClure: Shift // Motion Weller Bookworks, 607 Trolley Square, Oct. 22, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com

Sydney Campos: The Empath Experience Golden Braid Books, 151 S. 500 East, Oct. 18, 7 p.m., goldenbraidbooks.com

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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 New Roots of Utah Neighborhood Farm Stand Valley Regional Park, 4013 S. 700 West, Saturdays through mid-October, 1-3 p.m., slco.org

Deepak Chopra Eccles Theater, 131 Main, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m., arttix.artsaltlake.org (see p. 19) Paisley Rekdal Stewart Library, Weber State University, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Oct. 24, 6 p.m., weber.edu Ralph Nye Lecture Series: Lori Goucher Wattis Building, Weber State University, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, Oct. 18, 12 p.m., weber.edu Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Alec Soth Kimball Arts Building, Weber State University, 3964 W. Campus Drive, Ogden, Oct. 23, 6 p.m., weber.edu

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Alexis Rausch: The Sinners We Are Bountiful Davis Art Center, 745 S. Main, Bountiful, through Nov. 2, bdac.org Anne Ruth Isaacson: Narrative Portraiture Michael Berry Gallery, 163 E. 300 South, Oct. 22-Nov. 9 Ars Moriendi: The Art of Dying Bountiful Davis Art Center, 745 S. Main, Bountiful, through Nov. 2, bdac.org Beatrice Teigen: Great Girls of the World DayRiverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, through Nov. 14, slcpl.org Body and Soul Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, through Nov. 4, kimballartcenter.org 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 Downy Doxey-Marshall: The Stitching Years Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Ave., Park City, through Nov. 4, kimballartcenter.org

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Boo at the Zoo Zootah at Willow Park, 419 W. 700 South, Logan, Oct. 19-20, 1-5 p.m. Boo Lights Hogle Zoo, 2600 E. Sunnyside Ave., through Oct. 26, dates and times vary, hoglezoo.org Carnivore Carnival George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park, 1544 Park Blvd., Ogden, through Oct. 27, dates and times vary, dinosaurpark.org Castle of Chaos 7980 S. State, Midvale, through Oct. 31, dates and times vary, castleofchaos.com Fall Harvest Festival American West Heritage Center, 4025 U.S. 89, Wellsville, Oct. 19-20, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., awhc.org Fear Factory 666 W. 800 South, through Oct. 31, dates and times vary, fearfactoryslc.com The Haunted Forest 6400 N. 6000 West, through Oct. 31, dates and times vary, hauntedutah.com Haunted Night at the Museum Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Oct. 19, 6-9 p.m., nhmu.utah.edu Nightmare on 13th 300 W. 1300 South, through Oct. 31, dates and times vary, nightmareon13th.com Pumpkin Festival Jaker’s Jack-O-Lanterns, 950 W. 400 South, Springville, through Oct. 31, harwardfarms.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 North Homestead Drive, Heber City, through Oct. 31, times vary, gohebervalley.com Scarecrow Festival Thanksgiving Point, 3900 N. Garden Drive, Lehi, through Oct. 20, 10 a.m.6 p.m., thanksgivingpoint.org Witch’s Breakfast Thanksgiving Point, 3900 N. Garden Drive, Lehi, Oct. 20, 8:30-10:30 a.m. & 11 a.m.-1 p.m., thankgivingpoint.org

Oktoberfest Snowbird Resort, Highway 210, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, through Oct. 21, Saturdays & Sundays, noon-6:30 p.m., snowbird.com Peru Food Fest University Place Station, 575 E. University Parkway, Orem, Oct. 20, noon-9 p.m. Unity Yoga Festival Krishna Temple, 965 E. 3370 South, Oct. 20, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., utahkrishnas.org Utah Cann Medical Cannabis Conference Mountain America Expo Center, 9575 S. State, Sandy, Oct. 19-20, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., utahcann.com (see p. 19)

JP Orquiz: A Stack of Forms UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Nov. 17, utahmoca.org 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 My Lai Fifty Years After Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through Nov. 9, accessart.org Naomi Owen: Unforeseen Nature Paintings Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, through Nov. 30, slcpl.org Patrick Dean Hubbell: Equus Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, through Nov. 30, modernwestfineart.com Paul Reynolds & Deborah Durban Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, through Nov. 16, saltlakearts.org Plein Air Exhibition Brigham City Museum Gallery, 24 N. 300 West, Brigham City, through Nov. 3, brighamcitymuseum.org Ryan Perkins: Parallel Lives, Misremembered Pasts, Revelation, Heartbreak & Lore Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Nov. 30, slcpl.org Ryan Ruehlen: Georhythmic Drift Music UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Nov. 3, utahmoca.org Science + Art Bountiful Davis Art Center, 745 S. Main, Bountiful, through Nov. 2, bdac.org Shadow Realms Urban Arts Gallery, 116 S. Rio Grande St., through Nov. 4, urbanartsgallery.org (see p. 22) 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 Susan Cramer Stein: Turn of the Tide Local Colors of Utah Gallery, 1054 E. 2100 South, Oct. 19-Nov. 9, localcolorsart.com 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 Whoop Dee Doo UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Nov. 2, utahmoca.org Working Hard to Be Useless UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Dec. 29, utahmoca.org Zachary Bowman: Glow Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Oct. 21, slcpl.org

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in this town is like throwing down a gauntlet. In Utah’s burger hierarchy, the garlic variety comes second only to the pastrami burger, so unleashing your own iteration to the masses is a ballsy move. While Lazy Day’s burger is indeed a stalwart example—it’s got a great, juicy patty served on a challah-like bun—its garlic flavor is a bit too muted to be a real contender for the garlic burger hall of fame. At its core, Lazy Day Café is a breakfast and brunch joint, and they know exactly what they’re doing. The wait staff works hard to create a friendly, neighborhood diner atmosphere, while the kitchen staff whips up some truly amazing flavor combinations disguised as simple comfort food. Next time you’re in Millcreek and in need of some flavorful, higher-end comfort eats, head down Lazy Day’s way. CW

was shocked to learn that Lazy Day Café (2020 E. 3300 South, Ste. 23, 801-953-0311, lazydaycafe.net) opened as recently as 2010. Although it doesn’t yet have a decade under its belt, the place feels like it has been cooking up creative takes on breakfast and Southern comfort food in the heart of Millcreek for generations. While it might still be young in restaurant years, I fully expect to be one of those diners who takes their grandkids here for a big plate of lemon pancakes once I reach that age—if the planet can survive the pack of nut jobs currently at the wheel, that is.

jacks, I’m glad I hopped over to the savory side with the shrimp and grits ($10). It’s a Southern staple that’s tricky to get in these parts, and Lazy Day’s interpretation of this classic suggests an artist in the kitchen. On paper, shrimp and grits is just that—a dollop of corn grits, melted cheddar cheese and a pile of sautéed shrimp. All of the above were indeed present on my plate, but it also came with a helping of crispy bacon, tomatoes and green onion. It didn’t hurt that the entire dish appeared to be swimming in bacon grease, but there was something about the flavor combination created by the party on my plate that struck a flavor balance uncharacteristic of breakfast food. Crisp bacon paired with the velvety grits and the acid of the cherry tomatoes enhanced the flavor of the shrimp. Did I mention that the whole thing was drenched in bacon fat? Because the whole thing was drenched in bacon fat. Any place that serves breakfast all day intends to specialize in that meal, but I was also curious about Lazy Day’s lunch menu. I went with the garlic burger ($9) because having a garlic burger on your menu

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about (you know, the ones who killed Hooters). I was first lured here when I heard about their famous lemon pancakes ($7.50). By that point in my life, I had consumed pancakes incorporated with all kinds of fruit, but lemon was not on the list. As an obsessive completionist when it comes to breakfast food, I zipped over with my wife for a quick Saturday brunch to see what all the fuss was about. For starters, Lazy Day opts for pancakes with more of a rise, creating a velutinous texture that’s a feathery dream. The lemon flavor haunts the porous corridors within, softly kissing your palate with just enough flirtatious energy to keep you diving back into your short stack. In fact, the flavor is so delightfully subtle, I recommend using the housemade buttermilk syrup sparingly. This luxurious mixture is essentially brown butter and caramel, a decadence that tends to overwhelm the understated citrusy taste. To hell with lemonade, I say! When life gives you lemons, make pancakes. While it’s hard for me to visit Lazy Day and order something other than these remarkable flap-

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Those who have never had the opportunity to attend Slow Food Utah’s Feast of Five Senses should take advantage. Slow Food’s event organizers go to great lengths to evoke an almost religious sense of reverence to the food and wine produced in Utah’s backyard, and it’s a spectacular evening for people who take their savoring seriously. Not only are some of the state’s most talented culinary minds present to showcase food tailor made to please your sensory receptors, but proceeds also benefit Slow Food’s micro-grant program that helps small food-based businesses and educational programs get off the ground. The Feast of Five Senses takes place at the Masonic Temple (650 E. South Temple) on Sunday, Oct. 21, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $125 with an optional $25 wine paring. Purchase them at slowfoodutah.org

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Utah Cheese Awards Medal Ceremony

You might not know, but Utah makes a ton of cheese. I honestly wasn’t aware of the sheer volume of cheese from Utah dairies until I ate a lot of it as a judge for this year’s Utah Cheese Awards. The ballots have been tallied, and the medal ceremony can officially take place. Local cheese fans can purchase a ticket to the awards reception along with a cheese plate complete with samples of the competition’s contenders. In addition to cheese, vendors like Chocolate Conspiracy and Creminelli add some sweetness and spice to the menu, and Shades of Pale provides craft beers to complement the spread. The cheesyness takes place at Shades of Pale Brewing (154 W. Utopia Ave.) on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 4 to 8 p.m., with the medal ceremony starting at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $16 and can be purchased at utahcheeseawards.wordpress.com

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In the wake of its successful nine locations along the Wasatch Front, Seattle-based fast-casual pizza joint Mod Pizza (modpizza.com) is hatching plans to open more stores in Utah. Mod’s newest location in Riverton’s Mountain View Village Shopping Center (4578 W. Partridge Hill Lane) opens its doors on Friday, Oct. 19. During the two days prior to Mod’s grand opening, the restaurant is hosting sneak previews of its build-your-own-pizza concept. All proceeds received during this time benefit the Bridge Fund and the Jed Foundation, two nonprofits that fight homelessness and teen suicide across the nation. The sneak previews go from noon to 2 p.m. each day.

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This cozy little spot is easy to miss when you’re cruising through the Central Ninth neighborhood, but it’s definitely a good excuse to stop and smell the loroco (an edible flower native to El Salvador). For novices of Salvadoran food, all roads lead to the pupusa—a pancake-sized corn tortilla typically stuffed with all manner of deliciousness like eggs, rice, beans, cheese, shredded pork, and traditionally topped with a thin tomato sauce and a vinegary cabbage salad spiked with red pepper. Pupusas here run from $1.75 to $2, which is a great deal for the amount of flavor you get. On the entrée menu, the plátanos con crema y frijoles ($6) might be one of the most crave-worthy breakfast dishes on the market—a hefty portion of plantains, sliced and fried to perfection, topped with velvety crema and pinto beans that have been puréed into a sauce of their own. My only gripe is that the menu lacks Salvadoran sandwiches like panes rellenos and pan con chumpe. But, there’s no sense in complaining about what the menu doesn’t have, when what it does have is more than enough to satisfy. Reviewed Sept. 27. 271 W. 900 South, 385-259-0144

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Keeping It Simple

Uncomplicated beers can offer some of the greatest pleasures. BY MIKE RIEDEL comments@cityweekly.net @utahbeer

like simplicity in my beer. Keep the malt and hops at a low roar and you’d be surprised by how enjoyable it can be. Two of my favorite uncomplicated beers fall on either side of the beer fence: one is an ale, and the other a lager. If you explore beers like these, you’ll be happy little beer nerds, I promise. Epic Mountain Mild: It appears quite clear when held to the light. There’s a nice mahogany color with a bit of an orange tint. When oured, a light beige head forms nicely, which dwindles at an average pace and leaves thin specks of scattered lacing on the glass. The aroma has a touch of tobacco-leaf hop character, while mild chocolate notes and darker roasted malts bring out a

mild fruity character with a bit of caramel. The taste is a little nutty at first, then gives way to toffee maltiness and some fruitiness. Ghostly almond/cherry notes, along with a hint of orange peel pop up next. Toward the end, toastier aspects of the malts create a clean charcoal flavor that keeps the ale light and dry. The finish is mostly dry with notes of pine and floral tea, leaving a light feel in your mouth as the carbonation bounces between prickly and creamy. Overall: This is mostly an American interpretation on an English mild ale, but as typically happens when American tastes exert their influence, things become slightly bolder. That doesn’t mean you should think of this as a “bold” beer per se; it provides the right amount of taste at a quenching 4 percent ABV, and never tries to be more than the sum of its simple parts. Bohemian 1842 Czech Pilsner: Back in 2009, Bohemian Brewery made a special Pilsner. The ingredients and the Old-World brewing techniques made this Pilsner so unique. Named 1842, it was a faithful reproduction of the original created by Josef Groll in that same year. From floormalted barley procured from the original genetic line of Hanna barley, down to the long triple decoction brewing process, this beer was designed to be an homage to OldWorld craftsmanship. Needless to say, it was a huge hit, and it helped set a new direction for Bohemian’s future.

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The 1842 Czech Pilsner we have today is not that beer. It’s too expensive to make on the scale that Bohemian requires, but the taste was replicated with modern malts using modern techniques, and the result happily sits in bars and homes all around Utah. It looks great in the glass; there’s a clear straw/gold color, with a touch of orange and very active carbonation. The nose is really nice—the spicy, floral aroma of the Saaz hops pop, and there’s a touch of prominent, expressive grainy malt underneath. The flavor starts out sweet with just a touch of toasted bread. The hops are earthy, adding a hint of spice and grass. The beer fin-

ishes with sweet malt and slight bitterness, with an absence of any alcohol heat whatsoever in this 4 percent lager. Overall: This is a great example of the style, and I hope it finds its way to becoming more appreciated by the Utah beer community. It’s the exact opposite of a big barrel-aged ale. When a brewery nails this style, it feels somehow new and innovative. As you look at the calendar, take note that we’re entering the season of complicated beers. And while you begin to immerse yourselves, remember to keep a little simplicity at hand—just in case. As always, cheers! CW

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FILM REVIEW

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t the risk of stating the obvious: America is kind of a mess right now. We might disagree about the specific ways in which it’s a mess, but that’s part of the problem. More to the point, we don’t even know how to disagree about what the mess is, or how to interact with people in our lives—some of them friends or blood relatives—who seem to have a fundamentally different understanding of where to start cleaning it up. Storytellers, not surprisingly, have been wrestling with this issue a lot over the past few years, but two new films with radically different tones dig specifically into the question of when to raise your voice, and whom you might piss off by doing so. That notion gets a darkly satirical spin in writer/ director/star Ike Barinholtz’s The Oath, which takes the notion of an uncomfortable family Thanksgiving and turns it into a horror film. Chris (Barinholtz) and Kai (Tiffany Haddish) are a proudly liberal couple—he displays a McGovern poster on his office wall, and Geraldine Ferraro’s memoir on his desk—who are resisting signing a “voluntary” loyalty oath to the president with a deadline fast approaching on the day after Thanksgiving. Adding to the tension, as news reports trickle in about violent protests, is the fact that Chris and Kai are hosting Chris’ family, including

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his parents (Nora Dunn and Chris Ellis), his right-leaning brother, Pat (Ike’s actual brother, Jon Barinholtz), and more liberal sister, Alice (Carrie Brownstein). The ensuing family gathering becomes the expected catastrophe of accusations and recriminations, with Chris righteously raging at everyone who has agreed to sign the oath. Barinholtz finds a few solid comedic moments—the influence of social media gets a skewering as Chris’ similarly conservative girlfriend (Meredith Hagner) insists her source of a rumor is reliable because “he’s verified”—but actual laughs are infrequent as The Oath leans into the discomfort of realizing you might share DNA with people, but not values. Events take a violent turn with the arrival of a pair of government agents (John Cho and Billy Magnussen) investigating Chris, forcing the clan to work as something resembling a team. There’s a surprising complexity to the way Barinholtz digs into the tension between the things you claim to believe and the people you claim to love, but it sometimes feels like he’s running around in circles before settling on the fairly depressing notion: We’re all going to be tribal, so it might as well be with our own familial tribes. The struggle faced by Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) in The Hate U Give is in some

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ways less complicated, but also more nuanced. A 16-year-old high school student, Starr splits her life between the primarily black community where she lives and the predominantly white private school she attends. When she’s a passenger in a car with her childhood friend Khalil (Algee Smith) during a traffic stop, where the unarmed Khalil is shot and killed by a white police officer, Starr is confronted with whether to go public with what she saw. Director George Tillman Jr. and screenwriter Audrey Wells do an impressive job of adapting Angie Thomas’ young adult novel, including the creation of a key scene building the connection between Starr and Khalil. There’s a strong cast—the ever-maturing Stenberg, Russell Hornsby and Regina Hall as Starr’s parents, Anthony Mackie as a neighborhood gang leader—to provide the emotional core, ensuring that The Hate U Give never turns into a mere collection of debates about hot-button issues. But those issues are always swirling, and the film generates a prickly, uncompromising energy as it touches on not just police violence against people of color, but also the complexity of code-switching and the question of who is responsible for the fate of black communities. As we watch Starr come to terms with her own ability to fight for change, she also has to ask herself hard questions about who might be included among those she’s fighting against: Her police officer Uncle Carlos (Common)? Her white boyfriend (K.J. Apa) and best friend (Sabrina Carpenter)? Where The Oath finds its moral center in the ties of family, The Hate U Give offers an even richer vision of who we should wrap our arms around, and why. CW

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NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net FREE SOLO BBBB You-are-there adventure documentaries offer the built-in hook of watching someone risk their life; this one soars by providing a terrific portrait of the life that’s at risk. Co-directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (Meru) follow mountainclimber Alex Honnold, as he pursues his dream of free-climbing California’s 3,200-foot El Capitan peak—free-climbing, as in without a rope. The filmmakers provide plenty of rich detail on the dangers of free-climbing and the potential trouble points in the El Capitan climb, and give a meta-level to the narrative by showing Chin and his crew wondering if their presence might affect Honnold’s concentration. But the richest material provides a full sense of Honnold as a person, from the impact of his childhood on his need to pursue achievement, to the effect of his new romantic relationship on his life; there’s even a great bit of insight from an MRI that suggests his brain barely processes “danger” as a concern. The climactic attempt itself only takes up around 20 minutes of the 100-minute running time, but the breathtaking footage does more than simply build tension; it builds to something genuinely emotional. Opens Oct. 19 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—Scott Renshaw

THE HATE U GIVE BBB See review on p. 32 Opens Oct. 19 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13) THE OATH BB.5 See review on p. 32 Opens Oct. 19 at theaters valleywide. (R) TEA WITH THE DAMES BBB.5 Come sit next to Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright and Eileen Atkins and eavesdrop on their witty banter, amiable swearing and grand tales of their stage and film careers. Title fact check: The women are not just dames in the sense of “awesome badass broads,” but Dames in the British equivalent to a knight, titles awarded by the Queen for, in their cases, services to drama. But there isn’t much grand aloofness here, nor any tea consumed during the delightfully droll and snarky conversation director Roger Michell captures among these longtime friends. (There might be some bubbly later in the afternoon.) At Plowright’s home in the English countryside, these legendary women talk and laugh of horrible bullying directors (all men, of course); their self-doubt and lack of courage even after they’d

achieved enviable success; bizarre lines of dialogue and snippets of odd songs from otherwise forgotten plays only they seem to recall; and the peculiarities and indignities of getting old as women, particularly in our culture, which has little use for little old ladies. Needless to say, they smash the stereotype of the “little old lady.” Opens Oct. 18 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—MaryAnn Johanson

SPECIAL SCREENINGS BEHIND THE CURVE At Main Library, Oct. 23, 7 p.m. (NR) JULIET, NAKED At Park City Film Series, Oct. 19-20, 8 p.m.; Oct. 21, 6 p.m. (R) JUSTICE LEAGUE At Main Library, Oct. 24, 2 p.m. (PG-13) THE LODGER At Edison Street Events Silent Films, Oct. 18-19, 7:30 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES 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 run-down resort on the California/Nevada border in the Nixon era, and wind up in one of those gritty, twisty, jokey mid-90s Tarantiono-clone crime-dramas. Drew Goddard’s script is loaded with unexpected turns, and nearly every cast member gets at least one juicy scene, including a menacing and conspicuously open-shirted Chris Hemsworth. But this 141-minute tale is all sizzle and no steak, teasing at seri-

ous questions Goddard isn’t interested in exploring when he can fall back on surprise gunfire. Even after 20-plus years, Tarantino clones haven’t figured out that violent virtuoso flashiness works best with one hand on a moral compass. (R)—SR FIRST MAN BBB Ryan Gosling reunites with La La Land director Damien Chazelle for a biography of Neil Armstrong, covering the decade-long journey that ended with him on the moon. Josh Singer’s script raises the question of “is going to the moon worth the money and lives it’s costing,” and it seems like a misstep to act like it’s rhetorical. But First Man handles biopic tropes with betterthan-average success, and while stories about people who were stoic and inscrutable are risky, Gosling’s performance avoids 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 are a reminder that for all our man-made divisions, we are one world that reached out and touched another one. And that’s pretty awesome. (PG-13)—EDS GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEEN BB Like the 2015 original, this sequel shares a name with R.L. Stine’s books, but its real DNA is pure Hollywood. In the town of Wardenclyffe, middle-schoolers Sonny (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and Sam (Caleel Harris) unwittingly set loose living dummy Slappy and a slew of other creatures on Halloween. Rob Lieber’s script offers faint hand waves to actual character issues, like Sonny’s sister Sarah (Madison Iseman) experiencing college-application writer’s block and boy troubles. But mostly it’s another Jumanjiesque tornado of CGI menaces filling out 90 minutes. It’s never particularly clever, particularly dumb or particularly scary, and when the biggest potential threat is whether or not Sarah will get into an Ivy League school, it all just feels like first-world terrors. (PG)—SR

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HALLOWEEN BB.5 Halloween (2018) is a direct sequel to Halloween (1978), and it erases all of the others—so why did I watch them? Michael Myers killed four people that night, and has been behind bars ever since.

Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is just a random babysitter who survived, traumatized, and has been a fearful wreck ever since, her obsession with safety turning her into a paranoid recluse and ruining relationships with her daughter (Judy Greer) and granddaughter (Andi Matichak). Director David Gordon Green sensitively uses the scenario to explore how violence can ripple across generations, with Laurie as an avatar for all women who seek victory over their personal Michael Myerses—because Michael escapes, of course, and comes after Laurie, pausing to kill random folks along the way, as is his wont. Beautifully shot, the film is only mildly scary, but it has its moments. Moreover, its resolution of Laurie’s story is immensely satisfying, cashing in on the tension built up here and over the last four decades. It might be better as a #MeToo symbol than as a Halloween movie, but it’s not a bad Halloween movie. Opens Oct. 19 at theaters valleywide. (R)—Eric D. Snider

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espite writing and recording a seven-album catalog of original music, Pond just can’t escape comparisons to Tame Impala. After all, the two Australian psych-rock bands share not only a general spirit of experimentation, but also members: Nick Allbrook and Jay Watson, founders of Pond, toured with Tame Impala before Allbrook departed in 2013 and was replaced by another member of Pond, Cam Avery. For all the personnel overlap, the two musical projects are sonically distinct. Pond doesn’t have Tame Impala’s emotional gravity, for one; its default mode is zany stuff like “Heroic Shart” off Man It Feels Like Space Again (2015) or “Xanman” from the tastefully titled Hobo Rocket (2013). And whereas Tame Impala’s records exude the impression of a solitary musician fussing over each and every detail, Pond’s sound more like messy, tequila-fueled jam sessions. Pond’s batshit-crazy vibes are attributable to the songwriting duo of Allbrook and Watson. Take the band’s new eight-minute, three-movement single “Burnt Out Star,” an over-the-top amalgamation of electronic loops, bossa nova rhythms and jam-band improv. It’s a master stroke from an instrumental standpoint, but Allbrook’s boyishly unserious vocal performance makes the overall package seem as mature as an eighth-grader slapping his classmate in the back of the head because he’s bored. “A lot of our songwriting is premeditated, but that song had a lot of jamming,” Allbrook says. “It’s very playful. The first section was a chord progression and loop that Jay came up with on his own, and I did all the lyrics. For the jam, we just got a sequencer and everyone took their turns fucking around over it. I did a vocal thing by looking at random pages of my notebook.” In advance of Pond’s show at The Urban Lounge on Saturday, Oct. 20, Allbrook says the band has a singular mantra: doing whatever “pleases us” in the moment. For example, Watson bounces between playing synthesizer, bass and drums to accommodate the rotating cast of characters who fill out the touring lineup. “Usually, Jay gets sick of playing what he’s playing,” Allbrook says. “We’ll get close with someone who kind of joins the family, and we’re like, ‘Hey, we should get that person on whatever instrument they’re good at,’ and we’ll shuffle Jay off onto another instrument.”

Left to right: Pond’s James Ireland, Joe Ryan, Jay Watson, Nick Allbrook and Jamie Perry Somehow, Pond has stayed on the same path since debuting in 2009 with Psychedelic Mango, an evolution evident all the way up to its forthcoming, as-yet-untitled eighth album. “The songwriting and the instrumentals, they’re always developing and changing. I suppose we’re just continuing,” Allbrook says. “You can probably estimate the sound and vibe of [the new album] if you trace the trajectory of everything we’ve ever made. You can sort of predict what it would land on.” Indeed, “Burnt Out Star” picks up right where Pond’s seventh studio album, The Weather, left off. Especially on the album’s second half, the band repeatedly veers off-road for the sorts of sonic detours that make all of their music so much fun. The Weather did represent a step forward for Pond, however, because they were favoring lo-fi sounds as a stylistic choice; many of the album’s tracks, such as the back-to-back “Sweep Me Off My Feet” and “Paint Me Silver,” are glossy disco jams. (Not coincidentally, The Weather was produced by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker.) Notably, both of those songs feature little to no improvisational noodling, and clock in under four minutes, demonstrating that Pond is fully capable of delivering concise pop hooks. Allbrook explains that “Paint Me Silver” started in the same place as “Burnt Out Star,” but received a different interpretation as the band filled in the blank spaces. “That song was Jay coming up with a loop and chord progression, [then] me coming up with a bunch of lyrics and structuring it around the verse and chorus,” he says. “If it’s a good little thing like that, then it doesn’t really need or want to go much longer than a few minutes. That keeps it succinct. And that seems to be the way most of our songs come up—a chord idea from Jay, lyrics and structure from me, and then glittery sprinkles from the other lads.” It’s been a winning formula going on a decade, and Pond intends to “keep chugging along at our own little pace,” Allbrook says. He’s tight-lipped about the forthcoming album’s title and release date, but hesitantly divulges that Parker returned as a producer. “I’m always reticent to say that,” he says, “because it becomes the headline of every single article about the album.” CW

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It might sound easy to execute, but playing effortless punk rock is not a walk in the park. It requires the right blend of attitude, chemistry and, yes, technique—especially when presented as a solo performer. Luckily, Colleen Green and Cassie Ramone have been plying their respective trades for years, both in full lineups and as one-woman bands. Ramone co-founded influential mid-2000s act Vivian Girls, leading indie rock back from the mainstream precipice and into rawer, scuzzier waters; she also played in The Babies with folk-rock auteur Kevin Morby. Since going solo, she’s worked with weirdo prince Ariel Pink and written a damned fine holiday album, 2015’s Christmas in Reno, in addition to staying busy as a visual artist. Meanwhile, Colleen Green has evolved into a slacker-stoner saint, paying homage to the art of ironic silence and the joy of THC-fueled reverie on album after album of catchy, bare-bones pop-punk. This show promises DIY intimacy, hilarious tales from the road and handcrafted merchandise—a bonanza for anyone who likes to provide direct support to musicians making uncompromising art. (Nick McGregor) Diabolical Records, 238 S. Edison St., 8 p.m., $10, all ages, facebook.com/diabolicalslc

FRIDAY 10/19 Zhu, Tokimonsta

Zhu has probably soundtracked every house party you’ve been to in the past few years. The California producer and singer sparked an obsession not just with his tasteful dance and house music on the Grammy-nominated 2014 hit “Faded” but also with his persona,

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which he kept anonymous until 2016, when his album Generationwhy came out (the man born Stephen Zhu said it was because he wanted to be solely judged on his music). Fast forward to newly released album Ringos Desert, however, and it’s clear Zhu’s talent has only grown. Using synthesizers, pianos, horns and vocals to produce a powerful sound, Zhu creates a high-energy atmosphere with his dominating riffs. His futuristic noise turns any study session, midnight drive or classic house party into a prime movie-like scene. Such cinematic skills have led Zhu to work with popular artists like Skrillex, Tame Impala and Tokimonsta, the latter of whom opens for Zhu at The Depot. Starting in 2010 with her first album, Midnight Menu, Tokimonsta has ridden the ups and downs of success; she started her latest album in 2015 but didn’t finish and release it until 2017, after two major brain surgeries. If you want a taste of what this show will be like, listen to Zhu and Tokimonsta’s collaboration “Light It Up,” which provides a solid mix of both artists’ similar styles. The stellar visuals and driving beats will be the highlight of your week. (Kara Rhodes) The Depot, 13 N. 400 West, 8 p.m., $28.50-$30, 21+, depotslc.com

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Kristine Leschper has never taken the easy path making music as Mothers. Her debut album, 2016’s When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired, pulled from her artistic background to produce a stark folk-influenced gem. But on 2018’s Render Another Ugly Method, she and longtime collaborator Matthew Anderegg compiled a ramshackle collection of propulsive postpunk, surreal psychedelia and visceral artpop that effortlessly references the Elephant 6 influences (namely Neutral Milk Hotel) they picked up during a long stint living in Athens, Ga. Addressing weighty issues like

Colleen Green power, consent, privilege, religion and the complexity of the female body, Leschper sent critics into a tailspin with Render Another Ugly Method, with many criticizing the “calcified misery” and “unsettling discombobulation” of the record’s stop-start, staccato tempos and dynamics. To me, it’s a beautiful listen, however, devastating in its lyrical precision while fascinating in the push and pull of its time signatures and far-flung instrumentation. It sounds defiant now, but in 10 years, we might look back on Render Another Ugly Method as an underappreciated masterpiece. That means you won’t want to miss Mothers’ intimate performance of the record mere months after its release, when the emotions and intensity wound up in it still pack an unnerving punch. (NM) Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court, 7 p.m., $13 presale; $15 day of show, all ages, kilbycourt.com

SATURDAY 10/20

Randy’s Record Shop 40th Anniversary

Although in recent years vinyl has cycled back to hipster popularity, for Randy Stinson, records have always been his lifeblood. From 1959 to 1970, Stinson collected more than 30,000 45-rpm singles; for eight more years, with dreams of owning his own record store, he bought every collection of used 45s he could find, doubling his inventory. On Oct. 13, 1978, Randy’s Record Shop opened on 900 South, and 40 years later it’s still going strong, serving as Utah’s oldest independent vinyl outlet and a lodestar for every other record store that has popped up over the years. On Saturday, Oct. 20, Randy’s holds its semi-annual $2 clearance sale with 10 percent off everything storewide while also hosting a who’s who of local bands and DJs—Lloyd Miller, 90s Television, Sally Yoo,

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MONDAY 10/22

Parker Millsap, Andrew Sheppard

True grit means everything in the Americana world these days, where clear boundaries now separate those toeing the industrydefined mainstream line and those operating independently of Music Row. Oklahoman Parker Millsap falls slightly outside such battle demarcations, focusing more on fiery acoustic folk-rock steeped in the Delta blues than on straightforward country. But on his fourth full-length, 2018’s Other Arrangements, Millsap followed the advice of his fiddle player, Dan Foulks, and branched out, plugging in and producing a platter of pop gold written not just on guitar but also on bass, piano, drum machines and tape loops. Millsap himself has called it “a radio playlist for 45 minutes,” full of Beatles-influenced beauty: “funny, sad and happy moments; multiple tempos; ballads; rock and roll songs.” The 25-yearold singer/songwriter is also unabashed about the album’s focus on love songs; raised in a small-town Pentecostal church, he clearly relishes the opportunity to live in a bigger, brighter, more romanticized world. “There’s less Jesus and more sex on this one,” he told Garden & Gun in July. “The new songs are more direct. I didn’t want to write this record about other people’s problems, or even my problems, really. I just wanted to write good, relatable songs that allow me to turn my amp up, go out and see what happens.” (NM) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $15, 21+, thestateroom.com

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Kamasi Washington, Victory Boyd

Like a true jazz master, this Los Angeles saxophonist, composer and producer pops up everywhere. Kamasi Washington helped arrange Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 masterpiece To Pimp a Butterfly, and contributed strings and horns to Lamar’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning Damn. He’s written and recorded with old-school legends like Stanley Clarke and Gerald Wilson, along with newfangled experimentalists like Flying Lotus and Thundercat. He’s added sonic texture to fire-breathing raps by Run the Jewels, minimalist punk by Mike Muir and homespun country-rock by Ryan Adams—all this while Washington has cultivated an impressive solo career, too. His 2015 triple-album The Epic is a holistic extension of classic works by Ellington and Coltrane, mixing reinterpretations of “Claire de Lune” with shout-outs to African-American heroes like Henrietta Lacks and Malcolm X. This year’s Heaven and Earth puts a new spin on Afrofuturism, presenting contrasted visions of worldly concerns and utopian philosophy filtered through a hip-hop lens. Each of these complex jazz-rap mythologies represents another brick in the wall of Washington’s ongoing artistry, which promises to be as rich and as varied as that of Sun Ra or Miles Davis. (Nick McGregor) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $31.50, all ages, thecomplexslc.com

THURSDAY 10/18 LIVE MUSIC

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FRIDAY 10/19 LIVE MUSIC

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The only thing that eases the pain of summer slowly disappearing is football season—and Mid City Pub & Grill is perfect for game day. What better place to seek refuge from the dreary weather than in a pub surrounded by TVs and cheeseburgers? “This is where I come for sports,” says Keith, who’s in Salt Lake City for a few days on business. I plant myself right next to him because I like his accent; I usually like every Texan I meet. As Keith nonchalantly swipes back and forth on his phone, I ask him what kind of music he has: “I like everything I hear,” he says, sipping his Stella Artois. “This one song I heard the other day was all in Spanish. I didn’t understand a word they were saying but I Shazamed it and ended up buying the song.” We start chatting about everything from gambling to music to mixed martial arts, as patrons weave in and out between bar stools and chairs. Mid City is busy for Monday Night Football, with their fan favorite chicken tenders and pastrami burgers served up left and right. As the bar chatter dies down and New Orleans dominates Washington, I thank Keith for letting me crash his table for the night. These days, sports bars like Mid City Pub & Grill have become a last bastion for face-to-face conversations, as smartphones invade the world so much that, at most bars, you can’t even have a chat and share a beer with a random stranger. For those looking for social interaction and good food on game days (or nights), there will always be Mid City. (Rachelle Fernandez) 7101 S. Bingham Junction Blvd., Midvale, 801-566-0505, midcitypubslc.com

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MONDAY 10/22 LIVE MUSIC

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Job + Picnics at Soap Rock (The Underground) Colony House + The New Respects (The Complex) Harry Lee & The Back Alley Blues (Lake Effect) Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers + Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts (The Depot) Julian Marley & The Uprising + Natural Roots + Makisi (Soundwell) Krooked Kings + Blue Rain Boots (Kilby Court) Parker Millsap + Andrew Sheppard (The State Room) see p. 38

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus author Roberto Bolaño suggests that the world contains more beauty than many people realize. The full scope and intensity of this nourishing beauty “is only visible to those who love.” When he speaks of “those who love,” I suspect he means deepfeeling devotees of kindness and compassion, hard-working serSCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many seekers who read horoscope columns want common- vants of the greater good, and free-thinking practitioners of the sense advice about love, career, money and power. So I hope Golden Rule. In any case, Taurus, I believe you’re in a phase when I don’t disappoint you by predicting that you will soon have a you have the potential to see far more of the world’s beauty. For mystical experience or spiritual epiphany. Let me add, however, best results, supercharge your capacity to give and receive love. that this delightful surprise won’t merely be an entertaining diversion with no useful application. In fact, I suspect it will have GEMINI (May 21-June 20): the potential of inspiring good ideas about love, career, money, Once upon a time you were walking along a sidewalk when a fairy or power. If I had to give the next chapter of your life story a title, floated by and whispered, “I’m willing to grant you three wishywashy wishes for free. You don’t have to do any favors for me in it might be “A Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Practical Magic.” return. But I will grant you three wonderfully wise wishes if you perform three tasks for me.” You asked the fairy, “What would SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1962, when she was 31 years old, Sagittarian actress Rita those three tasks be?” She replied, “The second task is that you Moreno won an Academy Award for her role in the film West must hoodwink the devil into allowing you to shave his hairy legs. Side Story. In 2018, she attended the Oscars again, sporting the The third task is that you must bamboozle God into allowing you same dress she’d worn for the ceremony 56 years before. I think to shave his bushy beard.” You laughed and said, “What’s the first the coming weeks will be a great time for you, too, to reprise a task?” The fairy touched you on the nose with her tiny wand and splashy event or two from the past. You’ll generate soul power said, “You must believe that the best way to achieve the impossible by reconnecting with your roots. You’ll tonify and harmonize your is to attempt the absurd.” mental health by establishing a symbolic link with your earlier self. CANCER (June 21-July 22): You Crabs tend to be the stockpilers and hoarders of the zodiCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Committee to Reward Unsung Good Deeds hereby ac. The world’s largest collections of antique door knobs and acknowledges your meritorious service in the trenches of the Chinese restaurant menus and beer cans from the 1960s belong daily routine. We praise your tireless efforts to make life less to Cancerian accumulators. But in alignment with possibilities chaotic and more coherent for everyone around you. We’re hinted at by current astrological omens, I recommend that you grateful for the patience and poise you demonstrate as you redirect this inclination so it serves you better. How? One way babysit adults who act like children. And we are gratified by would be to gather supplies of precious stuff that’s really useful your capacity to keep long-term projects on track in the face of to you. Another way would be to assemble a batch of blessings trivial diversions and petty complaints. I know it’s a lot to ask, to bestow on people and animals who provide you with support. but could you please intensify your vigilance in the next three LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): weeks? We need your steadiness more than ever. Chinese mythology tells us there used to be 10 suns, all born from the mother goddess Xi He. Every 24 hours, she bathed her brood AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You need a special pep talk that’s best provided by Aquarian in the lake and placed them in a giant mulberry tree. From there, poet Audre Lorde. Please meditate on these five quotes by her. one sun glided out into the sky to begin the day while the other 1. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preserva- nine remained behind. It was a good arrangement. The week had tion. 2. “We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, 10 days back then, and each sun got its turn to shine. But the our deepest cravings.” 3. “You cannot use someone else’s fire. siblings eventually grew restless with the staid rhythm. On one You can only use your own. To do that, you must first be willing fateful morning, with a playful flourish, they all soared into the to believe you have it.” 4. “Nothing I accept about myself can be heavens at once. It was fun for them, but the Earth grew so hot that used against me to diminish me.” 5. “The learning process is nothing would grow. To the rescue came the archer Hou Yi. With his flawless aim, he used his arrows to shoot down nine of the suns, something you can literally incite, like a riot.” leaving one to provide just the right amount of light and warmth. The old tales don’t tell us, but I speculate that Hou Yi was a Leo. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Warning: My horoscopes might interfere with your ability to rationalize your delusions; they could extinguish your enthusi- VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): asm for clichés; they might cause you to stop repressing urges You now have maximum command of a capacity that’s a great that you really should express; and they might influence you to strength but also a potential liability: your piercing brainpower. cultivate the state of awareness known as “playful wisdom.” Do To help ensure that you wield this asset in ways that empower you really want to risk being exposed to such lavish amounts of you and don’t sabotage you, here’s advice from four wise Virgos. inner freedom? If not, you should stop reading now. But if you’re 1. “Thought can organize the world so well that you are no as ripe for emancipating adventures as I think you are, then get longer able to see it,” — psychotherapist Anthony de Mello; 2. started on shedding any attitudes and influences that might “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable,” —poet Mary Oliver; 3. “I like to wake up each morning and not know dampen your urge to romp and cavort and carouse. what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way,” —actor and writer Stephen Fry; 4. “I wanted space to watch things ARIES (March 21-April 19): Humraaz is a word in the Urdu language. Its literal meaning is “secret grow,” —singer Florence Welch.

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It’s that time of year when people do crazy things—like trying to find the scariest haunted house in an attempt to scare the crap out of themselves. I’ll admit right off the bat that I do love a good spook house and an even better scare, and we sure have great ones in Utah. I remember years ago, I had a party right around the time we dinosaurs got the ability to print photos off this new thing call the internet. I researched creepy-looking human anomalies and odd heterosexual things and put photos of them up in my basement under a black light. The Halloween guests could be heard yelling “Gross!” and “Ew!” which made my heart sing, especially since everyone at the party was from the LGBTQ community. I’m a fan of Nightmare on 13th, 320 W. 1300 South, and Frightmares at Lagoon in Farmington. Nightmare traps you for 45 minutes with tactile, visual and audio displays that are truly Disney-esque. You either lead a pack of friends through the rooms and mazes or linger behind in hopes you won’t get shocked or chainsawed first. Frightmares, on the other hand, is a different experience because you can go to Lagoon during the day and work your way into the nighttime scares. The rides are open and the place is decorated to the nines with pumpkins and wandering ghouls. There’s the Malevolent Mansion, a haunted Pioneer Village way back in the dark section of the park, a non-scary straw maze for kids and—new this year—séances. It’s a fully immersive haunted experience. Tickets are in addition to a Lagoon day pass, and showtimes are hourly. There also are haunted houses for adults and kids. Youngsters who are frightened easily can purchase a $1 glow stick, which alerts haunted house employees they shouldn’t be spooked. They can also enter “noscare” zones. In addition, the park doesn’t allow visitors to wear makeup, masks or costumes. As a side note, Lagoon is opening a biergarten next year. They’ve had beer-sales permits for years but this will be the first time the park has sold alcohol since 1979. They’ve allowed beer trucks to park at the RV campground during some holidays and when special groups rent the area. The park began as a swimming area and dance hall and, once upon a time, had quite the saloon. Now, we’ll get to experience a biergarten with steins of local and imported cold brews and beer foods. Beer, served in glass mugs, won’t be allowed outside the garten area. But just imagine a Frightmares' biergarten next year! n

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What? Is That a Problem? The Wagner Funeral Home in Jordan, Minn., made news on Sept. 26 when a judge released the details of a ruling against the mortuary for, among other violations, storing jarred applesauce in the same room where embalming takes place. Joseph Wagner, who runs the funeral home, was just helping out his brother, who owns nearby Wagner Bros. Orchard and needed some extra storage space, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. But the Minnesota Department of Health took issue with the jars being stored adjacent to a hazardous waste container, where blood and other waste from the embalming process are disposed of, and under an emergency shower and blocking an emergency eyewash station. Wagner was ordered to correct the violations and pay a $5,000 penalty.

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Recent Alarming Headline At a Port Orange, Fla., Walmart on Sept. 28, Tracy Nigh and her 8-year-old daughter were taking a break on a bench inside the store when 81-year-old Hellmuth Kolb approached them and asked if Nigh was married. “He didn’t seem like a threat at first,” Nigh told WKMG-TV, but then Kolb started offering to buy the little girl. “The first amount was $100,000, the second amount was $150,000 and then the final amount was $200,000,” Nigh said. “I then said, ‘No, we have to go.’” They rose to leave, but Kolb grabbed the girl’s wrist and kissed it. Nigh alerted store security, and the encounter was recorded on surveillance video. Another woman reported a similar incident. Kolb was arrested and charged with simple battery and false imprisonment. Nature Calls Neither rain, nor sleet ... nor need of a bathroom break could stop a postal carrier from delivering the mail—and so much more—to a Memphis, Tenn., resident. FOX13 reported Sept. 28 that a homeowner’s surveillance camera captured the postman looking around as he walked up the home’s front porch and urinating as he approached the mailbox. He then placed mail inside the box and continued on his rounds, leaving a trail of urine on the porch and steps. The homeowner told FOX13 he still hasn’t touched his mailbox because he is worried what could be on it. A spokesperson for the USPS said they are investigating the incident. Inexplicable An employee at the Manassas, Va., Giant supermarket had a memorable day at work on Sept. 15 when he spotted Michael Dwayne Johnson, 27, in the produce aisle. As the employee watched, Metro News reported, Johnson pulled down his pants, picked up a piece of produce and rubbed it on his buttocks. Then he replaced the produce on the display and pulled his pants back up. Manassas Police charged Johnson with indecent exposure and destruction of property after the store was forced to destroy several pallets of fruit. Police did not release a motive. Send tips to weirdnewstips@amuniversal.com

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Bold Moves Three cheeky raccoons jolted a Toronto, Ontario, Canada, woman awake late on Sept. 18 when they broke into her kitchen. Jenny Serwylo heard noises coming from her kitchen and approached the critters with a broom, which scared away two of the three. But a third wouldn’t budge, barricaded behind her toaster oven and munching on a package of English muffins. “He was like, ‘I’m eating, get out of here,’” Serwylo told the Toronto Star. She tried calling authorities but couldn’t get any help, and her contest of wills with the raccoon lasted for more than a half-hour. “I was growling at him and hissing at him,” she said. As she pointed the broom handle at the animal, it would grab the end and “yank it really hard.” Finally, having consumed all the bread in the kitchen, the raccoon calmly went out the window, which Serwylo locked behind it. Toronto Animal Services spokesperson Bruce Hawkins told the Star that such encounters are unusual, but you be the judge: The city has created a guide for residents about how to deal with raccoon intrusions.

What’s in a Name? In the remote town of Yungar, Peru, two candidates for mayor with remarkable names are duking it out: Local politician Hitler Alba Sanchez, who served as mayor from 2011 to 2014, has been challenged by Lennin Vladimir Rodriguez Valverde. Sanchez told The Independent that his parents had been unaware of the Nazi connection to his name when he was born, but even after realizing its origins, his father liked it because it “sounded foreign.” Peruvians are known for choosing foreign-sounding first names for their children: Last year, Peru’s junior football team featured a player named Osama Vinladen.

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