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A decade after it was first proposed, no one seems to know what the Lake Powell Pipeline is going to cost. Cover illustration by Derek Carlisle

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Editorial intern Rhodes, currently a senior at the U double-majoring in journalism and gender studies, has written for our music and A&E sections. “I have learned so much in such a short amount of time,” she says of her stint with us. “The City Weekly staff is one-of-a-kind; there are some rad journalists I look up to and aspire to be.”

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I was raised LDS and went to church until I was 20. After I turned 21, I tried drinking as I was curious about getting drunk. I didn’t start smoking cannabis until 22, and for a year and a half I smoked every day. It helped with pain in my right shoulder and arm, depression, anxiety (I can’t keep a conversation without turning into a deer in headlights and stop talking), sleeping and eating habits. This amazing herb is sleeping and pain medication all in one without having to worry about mixing this and that and without the warnings “don’t take more than eight doses in a 24 hour period” or “eat something before you take this or it’ll cause liver damage.” I was arrested for having THC metabolite in my system, less than a gram of bud in my car and drug paraphernalia. Up until I was arrested, I never had problems with cannabis— in fact, quite the opposite. It opened doors to a place to live, amazing friends and relief from what was ailing me. Now, I have to take time away from work to go to a class instead of making money; I have to pay fees instead of buying healthy food; I can barely get by; and I have a criminal record because the justice system is backward. The church sent out an email urging the voters to vote no on Prop 2, using the excuse, for example, of youth use going up as a scare tactic for members, and when you’re in the church you follow what they say blindly because “it’s what God wants.” I called and wrote the governor of Utah reminding him what his job is: to represent the people, not the church which quite frankly is the mafia of Utah—they run everything. I am still waiting for his reply. I don’t expect this to make it into an edition of City Weekly, but I am an advocate for the

On Trump’s “Invasion” Claim

On Oct. 29, President Donald Trump took to Twitter, warning that a migrant “caravan” approaching the U.S.-Mexico border was “an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!” On Nov. 18, as the caravan reached Tijuana, Mexico—he reiterated the “invasion” claim: “the U.S. is illprepared for this invasion, and will not stand for it.” As a popular conservative radio host frequently reminds us, “words mean things.” It’s perverse to characterize a migrant “caravan”—a group of civilian non-combatants, many of them women and children, moving from one place to another in search of safety, freedom and livelihood—as an “invasion.” Is the morning commute of millions of workers into every major American city an “invasion?” More than one in 10 Americans move each year—often across city, county, even state borders. Are they invaders? An invasion is a violent military operation. Moving from Tegucigalpa to Topeka to find a job and rent an apartment isn’t anything like that. But Trump used the word, and even promised a military response. So, for the sake of argument, let’s take him seriously. There’s a war on at the border, at least in his fevered imagination. The United States is signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, under which “[e] ach State Party undertakes not to use riot control agents as a method of warfare.” If the confrontation at the San Ysidro border crossing is indeed combat to defeat “invaders,” then the use of tear gas (CS gas—a chemical weapon banned under the Convention)

on the “caravan” members on Nov. 26 was a war crime. The victims were on the Mexican side of the border. Mexico is a party to the Rome Statute, which means that crimes committed on its soil— regardless of the nationality of the perpetrators—come under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. It’s unlikely that the court can bring the perpetrators (which would include the entire chain of command which authorized the use of CS, up to and including President Trump) to trial and impose due punishment, as the U.S. declines to recognize the ICC’s jurisdiction. What the court can do is investigate the incident and, if it determines that a war crime was committed in a territory under its jurisdiction, issue Interpol “Red Notices” requiring states which do recognize its jurisdiction to apprehend the perpetrators and hand them over for trial if the opportunity to do so presents itself. The practical effect of such an action would be that neither President Trump nor any of the other responsible individuals would be able to travel outside the U.S. without fear of arrest. Ever. This should be a “teachable moment.” Words do indeed mean things, and a when a president uses a word mendaciously and for political advantage, the obligations and consequences attached to that usage should follow.

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Online news post, Nov. 21, MormonLeaks publishes documents alleging sexual abuse of a minor by an LDS church patriarch

Power corrupts and this “church” has way too much of both.

DIANE BURT Via Facebook

I’d like to find out more about the church’s knowledge of abuse in the Boy Scouts by leaders sometime between the years of 1979 and 1983 in the Glendale area.

JENNIFER DANYEL Via Facebook

The [LDS] church told City Weekly that they “[don’t] confirm or comment on anything from MormonLeaks.” But they have commented twice and confirmed once. I suspect the PR department was not consulted before the confirmation. Regardless, it’s nice to actually have this on the record.

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Climate Change Alert

Anyone who thinks the midterm Senate elections were fair, simply isn’t thinking. The dirty tricks of (mostly) Republican election officials were responsible for the disenfranchisement of millions of voters on the basis of unnecessarily picayunish signature matching or the unfortunate situation of not having an official street address. The number of disallowed votes was staggering, and that alone had the potential for corrupting the election process. That’s awful stuff, but the election meddling, mostly on the basis of race and income, is only part of the problem. Those of us who have spent our lives believing in a government of the people, by the people, for the people, are facing the daunting, uncomfortable reality of a greatly-flawed U.S. political system. Regardless of what the founding fathers envisioned, today, they rest uneasily in their graves, wondering if their dreams will survive. They never fathomed that greed would overpower the Constitution, that votes would be shamelessly bought by the country’s special interests, that the nation’s justice and court system could become a punitive arm of the executive branch, and that race and religion would provide the criteria on which to base exercise of constitutional guarantees. Nor did they even imagine that their country could be headed toward a ruthless autocracy, led by a substandard president who is no more than a common thug. Those patriots who nurtured our country’s first breaths were by no means perfect, but I’d be willing to

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. bet not one of them could be the boorish, pussy-grabbing, monster who sits in our White House today. The protections set up by those men should have foreclosed the risks of a morally-and-socially-bereft, rabid ruler who fails to measure up even to the lowest leadership standard, and who manipulates the workings of government to serve only himself. He is a toxic narcissist, a term that was yet un-coined in the 1700s—though history had already suffered dearly from their existence. Every society has had its share of what I call—for no better word— evil. Men (and women) who have no conscience, lie with a charming glibness, feel empathy for no one, and fear truth as the unbearable witness of whom and what they really are. Alexander the Great, Henry VIII, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler are a few examples. All have left destruction and pain in their paths. As if horrendous leadership isn’t enough of a curse on Americans, we also face an alarming specter—the individual citizen’s place in elections being drowned-out by a truly shocking reality—that the popular vote, the very core of a democracy, means essentially nothing. We’ve seen it over and over, candidates who are elected without the winning numbers. Elections like the 2016 presidential election and the 2018 midterm are making it abundantly clear that the American voter is only a small cog in a cumbersome, complex, and frighteningly fallible mechanism, and that our system’s design makes it dangerously vulnerable to catastrophic failure when a narcissist is at its helm. One of those vulnerabilities is the screaming question, “How can voters show such remarkable strength, dramatically tilting the balance of the House while being soundly trounced in the Senate race? One would logically believe that, since the anti-President Donald Trump numbers exceeded his allies by more than 6 million, the Senate results would have corresponded with the House thrashing.

It doesn’t seem to make any sense, but that’s the way the founding fathers formed our government. Somehow, they totally reneged on the value of the individual vote, instead making the majority subject to the minority’s political agenda and allowing an electoral college to usurp the power of the people. Additionally, the system is rigged to marginalize and devalue voters in the heavily populated industrial states, while embracing the worth of voters who just happen to live in mostly-rural communities. Wisdom seemed to dictate that the little states would be heard; it was done to ensure that they were not overrun by the big ones, but it also gave small voices excessive power. That’s contrary to the premise of majority rule. Trump’s continuing control of the Senate, despite a popular Democratic majority of millions—should be a concern for everyone. While the promises of draining the swamp are still echoing in our minds from Trump’s mostly-noise, self-aggrandizement in the 2016 campaign, it seems that, much like rising sea levels due to elevated world temperatures, the political climate is causing the slime to get deeper. Like his appointments of foxes to protect the hen house, he has given the gators the job of patrolling the swamp. This is true of Trump’s musical-chairs cabinet, and even more important, it has totally compromised the Supreme Court’s ability to decide America’s most important constitutional questions. Just an afterthought: Think how much better off America would be today, if Fred and Mary Anne Trump had simply exercised pro-choice. Yes, there really are some babies that should never have been born. CW The author is a retired businessman and a former U.S. Army assistant public information officer. He lives in Riverton with his wife, Carol, and one mongrel dog. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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PUBLIC LANDS RALLY

Have you heard of the Emery County Public Land Management Act, yet another congressional attack on our wilderness? Join the Young Womxn Demonstration for the San Rafael Swell. Among the many concerns, the bill, sponsored by Rep. John Curtis and Sen. Orrin Hatch, leaves 900,000 acres of wilderness-quality lands unprotected, facilitates coal mining and conveys 10,000 acres of public land to the state, authorizing entrance fees and likely encouraging more crowding. “After speeches, rally participants will hand deliver a letter expressing our concerns as well as the postcards you all have signed within recent years to Gov. Gary Herbert asking him to be on the right side of history when it comes to protecting Utah’s wild lands,” the event’s Facebook page says. State Capitol, South Steps, 350 N. State, Thursday, Dec. 6, 9:45 a.m.-noon, free, bit.ly/2DRb27j.

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Sex Ed Be Damned

Not to belabor the point, but—sex. More specifically, sex education. Buried deep in the Deseret News story on sex offenders being released from prison is the reason they are there in the first place: “What we found is that our offenders lack some of just the basic concepts in sex education and human sexuality and personal boundaries,” the Utah Department of Corrections’ Victor Kersey said. We know you probably think he’s talking about illegal aliens or poor people from another planet, but he’s really talking about you and your neighbors. Utah needs to get over its misguided and puritanical belief that sex education is teaching kids to do it like rabbits. Something’s not working. Rape was up 11.36 percent last year, and the 15-to-19 age group accounted for the most arrests for rape from 2013 to 2017. Think about it, and call for comprehensive sex ed in Utah.

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This Land is Whose?

A land grab by any other name is simply a land grab—unless you call it the Emery County Public Land Management Act of 2018. That sounds benign enough until you look at the purpose: “To establish the San Rafael Swell Western Heritage and Historic Mining National Conservation Area in the State of Utah, to designate wilderness areas in the State, to provide for certain land conveyances, and for other purposes.” Yes, mining and conveyances. Neither the Grand Canyon Trust nor the Ute Indian Tribe think this is a good idea. Rep. John Curtis and soon-to-be-retired Sen. Orrin Hatch cooked up the scheme, though the Utes think it’s another of Rep. Rob Bishop’s “deceitful tactics.” Support for Utah public lands appears to be growing. Some 20 elected officials have signed amicus briefs to oppose the shrinking of national monuments. In the people vs. the extractive industries, the people’s voices are getting louder.

Party Extremism

If you’re a Democrat, you probably don’t care, but the Republicans are simply having a come-apart—still. It’s all about SB54, the law that allows candidates to gain ballot access by gathering signatures, potentially avoiding Utah’s incestuous convention-caucus system. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that “right-wing groups” want the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case. First, not all the signers were right-wingers. The Green Party of Utah also wants SB54 gone, and is siding with the Eagle Forum, among others. The question is two-fold: Should political parties be able to decide how their candidates are picked and/or should states be able to make that decision? If it’s overturned, candidates will once again be at the mercy of party extremists. Maybe that’s what Utah wants.

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Personal air-quality monitoring devices could explode in popularity once inversion season hits.

Bo Call shows off a filter from one of the state’s machines. He says his monitoring devices are more precise, but, “We don’t have one on every street corner. PurpleAir, you can have all over the place.”

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in the tinfoil hat-wearing community to think there’s funniness afoot. “There was some belief there was some vast conspiracy where the state was lying about the data,” Kelly says. “That was not true.” But that doesn’t mean mass market monitors are junk. “The measurements are imperfect, but they’re good relative measurements,” Kelly says. “If your monitor says that PM levels are going up, they’re going up. If it says they’re going down, they’re going down.” Dybwad stands by his product. He says employees with the state’s Division of Air Quality will look at PurpleAir data from time to time, and fire departments and school districts in California use the monitors to gauge when they should close schools. “It seems to be useful to a whole lot of people.” That data gives Utahns an idea of where they should run or cycle during stretches of bad air quality. The monitors could even be helpful to school teachers weighing whether to send students outside for recess, or for policymakers looking to gauge air quality in their neighborhoods and parks. “If you’re the mayor of a city, and you want to know where the high spots are in your city, it doesn’t matter what the actual number is,” Call says. “You just want to know that it’s relatively higher here, as opposed to over here.” Call says the state’s tried and true monitoring systems can peacefully coexist alongside direct-market sensors. In fact, they could help Call and his peers if a large number of them picked up out-ofthe-ordinary readings in a location that doesn’t have an official monitoring station nearby. “And the air isn’t the same everywhere, so it’s useful to have them,” he says. “I think having some information is better than no information. That said, I think you have to be careful, that some information doesn’t always equate to excellent information.” CW

PurpleAir monitors.” But the privately owned monitors do have some drawbacks, according to Kerry Kelly, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Utah. To correctly calculate the pollution concentration using them, Kelly says citizen scientists need to apply a “correction factor” that varies by location and season. “They’re a good relative measure in the winter, but they tend to overestimate particle concentrations,” she adds. Plus, Call says the citizen and state monitors score their readings differently. The numbers on the PurpleAir map are based on the Air Quality Index, while the state reports the concentration of PM 2.5 in the air. “The biggest problem falls in that we report in the actual measurement, and other people get reports of AQI, but they leave off the units,” Call says. That discrepancy can make things perplexing for lay people who aren’t aware there’s a distinction between the way the numbers are packaged. PurpleAir users can toggle the data representation on the map between the PM concentration measurements and the AQI scale, but Call says many people don’t know about that function. “The confusing thing is mostly that people get used to hearing the data in one way or the other.” Call sees this is a marketing strategy to package data in a way that differentiates sensor manufacturers from their competition. “It’s not providing scientific data. It’s a business model to sell stuff,” he says. “Ours is a scientific model to provide data to the public and the regulatory, regulated community.” On a recent November afternoon, PurpleAir’s AQI measured in the Greater Avenues was between 61 and 72. Converting the same data to raw PM 2.5, the numbers read between 17 and 20 micrograms per cubic meter of air. In other words, there are multiple ways to measure air quality, leading to some

of Environmental Quality spokesperson Donna Kemp Spangler says. The phenomenon is particularly problematic in the Salt Lake Valley in winter months, thanks to the mountain ranges that require cities and suburbs be built within its bowl-like shape. More people are also moving to the Wasatch Front, further exacerbating air quality issues. “Utah has a growing population,” Spangler says. “Each year we get more people here, more people driving, and that creates a challenge.” Especially worrisome in inversion season is Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM 2.5), inhalable particles about 30 times smaller than the width of a piece of human hair. “Even a small amount of this particulate pollution is harmful for your health,” Spangler says. That’s where the monitoring devices come in. Standing on the roof of a monitoring station at a school in Salt Lake City’s Rose Park neighborhood, Bo Call points at different pieces of state-used equipment and estimates its cost. “This instrument right here, this is $17,000,” the monitoring manager for the Utah Division of Air Quality says. “We have a filter robot that was a quarter-million [dollars] that weighs these things, and a guy whose full-time job is to just weigh filters.” His point is that the state’s equipment comes with a hefty price tag for both the technology and the infrastructure required to support it. The instruments Call and his team use are certified by the Environmental Protection Agency. Data can be gleaned from the state systems that show whether Utah is in compliance with EPA regulatory standards. “These aren’t designed to have in everybody’s house or everybody’s backyard,” Call says, explaining there are 10 such stations in the Salt Lake Valley, from Ogden to Brigham City and Bountiful to Midvale. “In that same space, there’s probably hundreds of

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ome things in Utah are inevitable. That draught beer you ordered will be disappointingly weak, the dominant church will meddle in state affairs and the Great Salt Lake will stink up surrounding cities and towns once the rain comes. And in the winter, the air quality could be hazardous to our health. This inversion season, tell Mother Nature to screw off, and take back control of your life! Do you plan your wintry days around whether you can safely breathe outside? Interested in helping your neighbors gauge whether they can send the kids outside? There’s a product that might interest you. Draper-based PurpleAir sells tools to monitor the air quality near people’s homes, schools and parks so they don’t have to depend on state-provided data. “The state sensors are few and far between,” Company founder and CEO Adrian Dybwad says of the roughly two-dozen units spread throughout Utah. “Air quality can vary widely over a short distance.” Since the company’s inception in 2015, some 250 people have each forked out about $250 for a sensor. The devices estimate different sizes of particulate matter in the air and upload the data to a map every 80 seconds, providing a near real-time picture of how dangerous it is to be outside. “The goal is to enable private citizens to take part in monitoring air quality and to enable them to share the data,” Dybwad says. “Anyone can get involved. They just get a sensor and they put it on their house.” The PurpleAir device could be helpful over the next couple months, but it’s important to understand the limitations of the data the devices gather, and how it compares to the state’s monitors. Our old friend inversion occurs when cold air gets trapped under warm air, ensnaring pollutants closer to the ground’s surface—where city residents live and breathe. Harmful chemicals emitted from cars, fireplaces and industrial plants get caught under the warm layer, making the air quality worse. “When it gets really cold, and there’s snow on the ground, and there’s no storms in sight, inversion is going to start to build,” Utah Department

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a decade after it was first proposed, no one seems to know what the pipeline—with 140 miles of buried pipe and five pumping stations between Lake Powell and St. George—is going to cost, much less how it will impact local water rates. Communications from within Utah’s state water agencies, obtained during this investigation, suggest officials purposefully withheld those details from the very taxpayers who might ultimately be saddled with the bill. Federal officials also seem wary of the state’s scanty financial information. In September, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission declined to take action that would have exempted the state from more rigorous financial scrutiny. Despite this, the state Division of Water Resources “remains fully committed to this project,” according to division director Eric Millis. As pressure mounts over the project’s fate, Lozada has been consumed with trying to discern how the pipeline will impact the residents of Washington County, the intended recipients of its water. And in the process, he’s made enemies. His research has become mired in a back-and-forth with Jeremy Aguero, a rival economist in Las Vegas whom the Washington County

early a decade ago, Gabriel Lozada, a man with a wiry frame and waves of steelgray hair who looks exactly like the mathematician he is, set out to answer what he thought was a relatively simple question: Could Utah’s proposed Lake Powell Pipeline—a plan to carry Colorado River water to southern Utah—live up to the state’s rosy forecasts of growth and prosperity? Or was it more likely to tank Washington County’s economy? And of even more significance, if the pipeline doesn’t go according to the plan, could all of Utah’s taxpayers be saddled with the bill? Lozada, a theoretical mathematician at the University of Utah and a pro bono consultant for the Utah Rivers Council, suspected that government officials were overstating the pipeline’s benefits and ignoring its potential costs. So he began building a mathematical model of its possible impacts on Southern Utah residents. While proponents argued that the project was necessary to stave off water shortages, Lozada warned that it might trigger an economic crisis. But how could he be sure? Even today, more than

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Who knows what else is wrong with the model? They’re not transparent about it, so I can’t see what’s wrong. — Gabriel Lozada Water Conservancy District hired to conduct its own cost analysis. His conclusions are very different from Lozada’s. Where Lozada predicted a 500 percent increase in water rates—amounting to about $370 more per person, per year—Aguero originally promised Washington County could fund the pipeline for just $25 per person per year, an increase of less than 27 percent. Aguero pointed out errors in his rival’s math, which Lozada corrected. The U mathematician now believes the water district’s plan to triple its water rates—potentially increasing residents’ costs by more than $300 per year—might, just barely, pay for the pipeline. But he doesn’t believe residents will pay such prices without buying dramatically less water—negating the need for the pipeline. And he has grown increasingly frustrated by the county’s unwillingness to reconcile the two rival models and publish a single accurate number. Although Lozada has released his work, Washington County has not disclosed details behind Aguero’s analysis. “Who knows what else is wrong with the model?” Lozada says. “They’re not transparent about it, so I can’t see what’s wrong.” Aguero has also been reluctant to stand by his conclusions. In June 2016, when a state records committee forced him to release a PowerPoint presentation created for the water district regarding his $25-a-year model, he disowned it. The $25 figure, he said, was merely a placeholder in an interactive exercise intended to spur discussion about how the public would prefer to pay for the pipeline. The real model, he claimed, did not exist in a format that could be released. He later told local journalists the average resident’s water bill would increase by just $52. Aguero did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this article. It’s not just the cost that is obscure; it’s also unclear who’ll pay the bills. Historically, water projects of this scale were constructed with federal funds. But those dollars have largely dried up, and residents of northern Utah—who continue to outnumber their southern counterparts by a wide margin—oppose a state subsidy for the project. That would leave Washington County to pay for a billion-dollar-plus pipeline essentially by itself. County officials believe the expense will be worth the risks once they realize their vision for a more vibrant community with jobs and a quality of life that will keep their children nearby. But it’s those very descendants who could end up saddled with billions of dollars in debt should the increased cost of water cause local growth to stall.

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Washington County is currently one of the fastest-growing regions in the nation. In recent decades, it’s been discovered by Californians looking for a warm climate with a lower cost of living, and northern Utahns seeking affordable land with milder winters. The quiet desert town of St. George has become a bustling retirement community with a thriving tourism industry. That rapid growth has become Utah’s justification for building a pipeline to provide water, despite a nationwide drop in water use in the last decade, suggesting that a growing population won’t necessarily need more, and Lozada’s anticipation that local residents won’t pay. Before the population explosion, state leaders envisioned the Lake Powell Pipeline as a way to use Utah’s share of the Colorado River to spur economic development in Washington County. Abundant water, they hoped, would attract exciting new opportunities that would inspire local youth to build lifelong careers at home in the rural West. But by now, it’s clear that the pipeline is no longer needed to achieve that vision; Washington County began transforming in the 1980s and ’90s. Amid the growth of the budding county, the Utah Legislature agreed in 2006 to build the Lake Powell Pipeline—with certain conditions. According to the terms of the Lake Powell Pipeline Development Act, the state will pay for its construction, but only if the recipients of

the water, Kane and Washington counties’ water conservancy districts, enter into a contract to purchase it. According to the state statute, the water will be sold at a price that enables the state to reclaim the costs associated with designing and building the pipeline, with interest, over 50 years. According to David Clark, the now-retired state legislator who originally introduced the Lake Powell Pipeline Development Act, the law was designed to emulate the way the Bureau of Reclamation financed large water projects in the past. But since federal dollars are harder to come by today, the act assumed that the state would play the role of the federal government. The act does not, however, Clark said, authorize a state subsidy for the project. Outside analyses have since raised doubts about Washington County’s ability—or plans— to pay for the pipeline in full. Tied to promises that new residents will foot the bill, local leaders have hatched a complicated scheme to raise funds for it. But their plan relies heavily on the county’s continued growth, presenting a nebulous moving target as the pipeline’s costs become increasingly unclear. Water districts have the authority to levy property taxes, and so tax increases to help pay for the pipeline are already planned in Washington County, according to Ron Thompson, a proud descendant of pioneer settlers and the general manager for the Washington County Water Conservancy District. The cost of fees associated with new development in the county will roughly double, and the price of purchasing water from the district—a water wholesaler that sells to the surrounding cities—is expected to triple. Many of these changes have already begun to take effect. Water rates alone will increase enough to generate about $2 billion in revenues, Thompson says, and that by itself could cover the projected $1.1 billion-to-$1.8 billion cost of construction. Critics like Lozada say that Thompson’s figures don’t take into account numerous complicating factors, such as the fact that the water district is also on the hook for the state’s development and permitting expenses, which have already cost Utah tens of millions of dollars and will likely cost even more, given a recent federal ruling that will subject the pipeline to additional government scrutiny. Nor does it take into account interest rates, or the possibility that local growth and demand for water could slow if costs soar. If growth slows, the water district’s projected revenues will fall, potentially trapping the county in a negative feedback loop that could make it impossible for it to repay the debt. Then Utah’s taxpayers will be left holding the bag. But local officials dismiss fears that growth will stall. The price of the average house in Washington County has increased 12 percent in the last year, Thompson says, and people are still moving in. If the average home price has gone up $25,000 in one year, he doesn’t see how adding $8,000 in development fees over the next decade is likely to slow growth. Jon Pike, the mayor of St. George, is similarly unconcerned that the pipeline would cause growth to stagnate. He believes that, even if water rates increase, current residents will be willing to pay. “The measure I look to is, who are the people electing? And they are electing people who are pro-Lake Powell Pipeline,” Pike says. “Anti-pipeline people are not getting elected.”

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Critics of the project fear the public is making decisions based on false promises. As steep as the current price increases might seem, even Lozada’s figures assume the state’s estimated construction cost of just less than $1.4 billion is accurate. But email communications from within the Utah Division of Water Resources, obtained for this story through state

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Despite the funding quagmire, proponents of the Lake Powell Pipeline continue to believe that it’s worth the risk. For all their expressed desire to secure economic prosperity for their children, there is reason to believe it’s not just the fate of Washington County that is at stake. Unlike the states in the Lower Colorado River Basin, Upper Basin states like Utah aren’t entitled to a finite amount of water under the Colorado River Compact. Rather, Utah is entitled to a proportion of the water that is left over after the Lower Basin states—California, Arizona and Nevada—take their share. But given the ongoing aridification of the Colorado River region, it’s not actually clear how much entitlement Utah has left. “The amount of water available in the state of Utah is not known,” Jack Schmidt, who holds the Janet Quinney Lawson endowed chair in Colorado River Studies at Utah State University, says. “And when reference is made to unused allocated water, one cannot assume that water is actually available to be developed.” The possibility that water deliveries from the Lake Powell Pipeline could be cut off or curtailed by shortages on the Colorado presents yet another issue inside the financing conundrum: Washington County is expected to repay the state of Utah by purchasing pipeline water. If there is no water available for sale, Utah does not get paid. But that reality hasn’t tempered the desire of Washington County officials to see their area grow. Development benefits everyone, Mayor Pike says. He hopes his community will attract a tech boom of its own with the promise of plentiful water. “Some people say they want the good old days,” Thompson agrees, “but that’s not what I want.” As state and local officials wrangle over the specifics of who might eventually foot the bill, there’s still a chance that Washington County residents could avoid paying it. Under Utah’s Lake Powell Pipeline Development Act, it’s the state—not the county—that will end up doing so, should Washington County’s efforts to pay fall short. Is that unfair? Thompson doesn’t think so. Growth in Salt Lake City was once made possible by large, expensive water projects funded by a nationwide tax base. If Utah writ large has to raise taxes to pay off multimillion-dollar budget deficits, then so be it, he says. In his mind, it’s Washington County’s turn. ■

delay-related costs continue to pile up. Washington County officials originally hoped to break ground in 2020, but that timeline was removed from the water district’s website after an abrupt series of decisions by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission introduced months of unanticipated delays—and increased the rigor of the analysis the project will undergo at the federal level. Construction costs have also dramatically increased in the state of Utah in recent years—the cost of hiring laborers alone jumped 6 percent between 2015 and 2017, according to state data. Washington County might be able to raise $2 billion dollars by tripling its water rates. But officials’ ongoing game of cost-estimate hot-potato suggests that even $2 billion might not be enough. Because of so many lingering questions about Washington County’s ability—or intent—to repay the state for the pipeline’s ultimate cost, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert created an Executive Water Finance Board in 2017 to vet the project. The board’s work has only just begun, and its members are reluctant to weigh in on the pipeline’s feasibility. But their current projections suggest that the state’s entire tax base might be insufficient to fund it—risking an $80 million annual shortfall that could spur significant tax increases throughout Utah.

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records requests, indicate that it is not. MWH Global, an international water and natural resources consulting firm that has since merged with Stantec, originally put the cost of the pipeline at around $1.3 billion in 2009. But in late 2015, the consulting firm drew up a new estimate that concluded construction costs had escalated by several hundred million dollars during the intervening years. Although the original 2015 estimates have not been released, a revised version of the December 2015 report predicted that the project would cost about $1.5 billion, and possibly as much as $1.9 billion. That potential escalation has not been communicated to the public. Instead, officials often insist that there are currently no cost estimates available. Email exchanges between the project leadership team at the Division of Water Resources and the Washington County Water Conservancy District show that local water managers repeatedly pressured the state and its contractors at Stantec to revise their projections of how much each element of the pipeline would cost. One extended argument, for example, involved the cost of bringing in soil to bury the 140 miles of pipe—Thompson, the leader of the Water Conservancy District, was certain he could find cheaper dirt than what Stantec anticipated paying. After several months of discussion, the contractors begrudgingly agreed to reduce the estimate to a range of $1.1 billion to $1.8 billion—despite the fact that all parties also quietly added some $140 million in extra features to the project during the same time frame, according to a memo circulated in early 2016. Officials with the Washington County Water Conservancy District were particularly persistent in their requests that the state and its contractors reduce the amount they planned to hold in reserve in case of unforeseen costs, which initially accounted for nearly 4 percent of the overall estimate. Despite the lead contractors’ repeated warnings that the large contingency fund would be necessary “based on our experience performing other large water resource programs throughout the U.S.,” state officials ultimately sided with the water district and reduced the contingency fund by 75 percent. Slashing that fund decreased the reported price of the pipeline by tens of millions of dollars and reduced the overall amount Washington County has to prove it can raise. But it also increases the chance that the actual cost will exceed what the county is able to pay—potentially leaving taxpayers statewide on the hook should some aspect of the pipeline prove more expensive than planned. Emails exchanged between state engineers and Stantec staff also show the parties used “significant input and feedback” from the water district to create a carefully crafted picture of Washington County’s costs should the pipeline not be built. Initial drafts suggested constructing the pipeline could cost more than the conservation and “mitigation” efforts that would be required in its absence. Subsequent analyses greatly increased the cost of “mitigation” in the event the pipeline was not built. But as internal emails show, even state employees questioned the accuracy of some components of the new revisions, such as the anticipated cost of using special soil-coating compounds as ground cover if the county didn’t have enough water to support growing thirsty lawns. The capriciousness of the pipeline project has begun to alienate some of its most important allies. Thompson, who sent numerous emails to the state and its contractors demanding revisions to the cost estimates, said he felt the state was biased toward overstating the cost of the project. But he still believes that, with careful management, the Washington County Water Conservancy District can complete the pipeline under budget. Mayor Pike, on the other hand, said he has long suspected that it will cost more than state and county officials have let on. Even if the state’s figures are in the ballpark, Pike said, inflation and other

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Salt Lake Acting Co.: Pinkalicious: The Musical There are only so many times children can be asked to sit through The Nutcracker or A Christmas Carol: The Musical during the holiday season. As an alternative to this standard holiday fare, Salt Lake Acting Co. (SLAC) presents Pinkalicious: A Musical as its 10th annual children’s production. Based on the children’s book of the same name, Pinkalicious follows Pinkalicious Pinkerton, a girl who eats so many pink cupcakes that she turns pink. With the help of family, a doctor and friends, she learns the importance of eating healthy and of being herself. This performance is targeted toward kingergarten to second-grade students, particularly those from underserved schools who do not have easy access to arts education or professional theater productions. Cynthia Fleming, SLAC’s executive artistic director, says student outreach through their theater program helps improve students’ academic and personal lives. “Personally, I’ve seen theater attendance build confidence in the young students who pass through our doors each year,” Fleming says. “Theater can transcend socioeconomic barriers to truly empower our entire community, as long as we’re mindful to be inclusive, which is a huge priority for my team at SLAC.” In addition to their overall outreach through their children’s programming, SLAC is raising donations for students-in-need at Washington Elementary School during performances of Pinkalicious. The company encourages attendees to donate unwrapped jewelry, hair supplies, sporting equipment, slime, playdough, board games, coloring books, dolls, Barbies, sports team clothing, Minecraft items, remote-control vehicles, bikes, skateboards and gift cards. (Kylee Ehmann) Pinkalicious: The Musical @ Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, 801363-7522, Nov. 30-Dec. 30, dates and times vary, $16-20, saltlakeactingcomapny.org

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Pioneer Theatre Co.: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley There are beloved characters, and there are beloved holiday shows. But it’s not always the case that those two ideas overlap. And for all the nostalgic quality of seeing a familiar favorite with loved ones at this time of year, you might still long for a sense of discovery. It was an attempt to reconcile those two ideas that inspired writers Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon to come up with the concept for Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley while they were road-tripping together from Northern California to Oregon. “What the American theatre really needed was a new holiday play, and a different kind of holiday play,” Melcon said in a 2017 interview with American Theatre magazine. “Part of the reason so many of the holiday shows are done over and over again is because there is a sense of familiarity, and there are beloved characters … What characters are more beloved than Jane Austen characters?” Pioneer Theatre Co. brings Gunderson and Melcon’s play to their stage for the 2018 holiday season, introducing audiences to a unique, family-appropriate sequel to Austen’s Pride & Prejudice. The concept finds newlyweds Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy hosting the holidays for the first time as a married couple, and inviting the whole Bennet family, including Elizabeth’s sisters Jane, Mary and Lydia. There, Mary meets Mr. Darcy’s cousin, Arthur de Bourgh, and the possibility for romance is in the air. Creating new characters and expanding on the personalities of existing ones, Christmas at Pemberley honors Austen’s wit and insight in a brand-new Christmas package. (Scott Renshaw) Pioneer Theatre Co.: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley @ Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-581-6961, Nov. 30-Dec. 15, dates and times vary, $30-$45, pioneertheatre.org

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hen an artist’s process is intuitive and improvisational, it can be hard to know how to anchor a work in a way that connects its various components. For choreographer Dat Nguyen, that anchor came in the form of a practical necessity: coming up with a name for the show as part of a grant application. “Before I even had the first dance, I was applying for a grant, and I wanted them to know what I was working on,” Nguyen says. “In my last show [at the Great Salt Lake Fringe festival], there was a section with a sheep, and one of my dancers was cleaning the sheep. So I just thought, ‘I’ll name the show Will the Sheep Come to Be Cleaned?’ Then the moment I named it, certain emotions came forward, certain ideas came forward. So I could take that into rehearsal and play with it.” Playing with ideas and seeing what works has become standard creative practice for Nguyen, a University of Utah MFA candidate and native of Vietnam. But as he recalls his initial introduction to dance, that wasn’t always the case. Nguyen says that he didn’t even begin dancing until he moved to the United States in 2010, and his introduction to the form led him at first in somewhat conventional directions. “When I started out, I was introduced to … the kind of dance you can easily find on YouTube: very accessible for everyone, very beautiful,” he says. “When I first started choreographing, I would just try to do the most beautiful piece, the most conventional narrative. And just felt like, that’s not me.” What Nguyen came to understand was that his preferred approach was much more free-flowing, connected to the way he understood how his own mind worked. “Sometimes I’d feel like I couldn’t stick to one idea,” he says. “I’d see one idea, then a second idea would jump in. I didn’t understand it, until I started to do a lot of reflection [about my] anxiety and depression. For me, anxiety is like my mind going 100 miles an hour, jumping from one idea to the next, a lot of emotions layering each other. So that’s how I find this collage way of working conveys not just my ideas, but my body experience.” Nguyen talks about working with his dancers as a process that starts not with

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a specific preconceived notion, but instead evolves more from “playing with an idea.” The result, at least in the case of Will the Sheep Come to Be Cleaned?, is work that might incorporate everything from modern dance to jazz, from performed monologues to ambient ocean sounds. It’s easy to imagine such a combination of elements feeling chaotic, but for Nguyen, the process of unifying a program of this kind can be the biggest creative challenge. “It almost feels like 10 dance pieces by 10 different choreographers,” Nguyen acknowledges. “I feel like, the truly creative process is finding transition and stitching them all together. … If you’re doing a visual collage, you might have a bunch of magazines open: ‘I like this image, I like this text. But I don’t know what emotion, eventually, it will create when I put all these pieces together.’ I discuss with my dancers and reflect myself: ‘Should this jazz section go first, or in the middle of the show? If it’s in the middle, what emotion does that create?’ … The true artistic process is how you organize it to make meaning.” Nguyen also recognizes that making that meaning is a process that must take into consideration how the work will play out for an audience, allowing this freeform expression of his own mind to resonate with viewers. “If I just live in my own world, that’s too indulgent, and the art will be disconnected from the audience. What’s the point of making art if there’s no one to share it with?,” he says. “And at the same time, if I just skew it to the audience, I’m separating the dancers and myself from something that’s personal. So it’s all about

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tension: How much do I give the audience, and how much do I take away from them?” While this specific performance is focused primarily on Nguyen’s choreography and his skills as a dancer, Will the Sheep Come to Be Cleaned? reflects Nguyen’s talents and interest in a wide variety of creative forms—theater, visual art, photography, music and video among them. “I have this multidimensional personality,” he says “If I just choreograph a modern dance show for an hour, that’s not me.” Still, there’s that connective tissue provided by something as simple as giving a work a title—and while that title itself might seem abstract, it provided just the right foundation for Nguyen’s wide-ranging creative spirit. “The title is an anchor, because I’m forced to define certain elements, and tie them back together,” he says. “So I’m playing with collage, and this improvisation, but if it doesn’t fit into this grand scheme of the title, then I didn’t use it. I feel there’s a lot of tension between where I force things to happen, and where I allow things to come to me.” CW

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Browning String Trio Browning Center, 1901 University Cir., Ogden, Nov. 30, 7 p.m., weber.edu Dan Waldis and Friends: A Little Jazz With Your Mistletoe Leona Wagner Black Box Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, Nov. 30 & Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., arttix.artsaltlake.org Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Concert Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Nov. 29, 7 p.m., arttix.artsaltlake.org Holiday Concert with the UVU Symphony Utah Valley University, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m., uvu.edu Utah Chamber Artists Christmas Concert Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 Presidents Circle, Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m., utahchamberartists.org Wind Ensemble Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 Presidents Circle, Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu Vivialdi by Candlelight First Presbyterian Church, 12 C St., Dec. 1, 8 p.m.

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Cory Michaelis Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Frank Lucero & Brian Hicks Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, Nov. 30 & Dec. 1, 8 p.m., egyptiantheatrecompany.org Tom Clark Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Whitney Cummings Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

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Ballet Showcase Marriot Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 East, through Dec. 1, times vary, tickets.utah.edu Christmas around the World 800 E. Campus Drive, Provo, Nov. 30 & Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., arts.byu.edu Tooele Valley Academy of Dance: The Nutcracker Jeanne Wagner Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, Dec. 3, 7 p.m., arttix.artsaltlake.org

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Amahl and the Night Visitors & A Christmas Carol The Grand Theatre, 1575 S. State, through Dec. 1, grandtheatrecompany.com Caroline, Or Change Good Co. Theatre, 2404 Wall Ave., Ogden, Nov. 29-Dec. 9, dates and times vary, goodcotheatre.com A Christmas Carol Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Draper, Dec. 1-22, dates and times vary, drapertheatre.org A Christmas Carol Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, Dec. 1-24, dates and times vary, hct.org The Distance of the Moon Wasatch Theatre Co., 1430 Van Buren Ave., through Dec. 22, Fridays & Saturdays, 7 p.m., moon.sackerson.org Elf, The Musical CenterPoint Legacy Theatre, 525 N. 400 West, Centerville, through Dec. 22, dates and times vary, centerpointtheatre.org A Fairly Potter Christmas Carol The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, 855944-2787, Nov. 30-Dec. 22, 7:30pm, zigarts.com Finding Neverland Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Dec. 4-9, times vary, arttix.artsaltlake.org (see p. 16) How the Grouch Stole Christmas Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State, Murray, through Jan. 5, dates and times vary, desertstarplayhouse.com Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberly Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, Nov. 30-Dec. 15, dates and times vary, pioneertheatre.org (see p. 16) The Nutshell! Jeanne Wagner Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, Dec. 1, 1 & 4 p.m., arttix.artsaltlake.org Perfect Arrangement An Other Theater Co., 1200 Towne Centre Blvd., Provo, Nov. 30-Dec. 22, dates and times vary, anothertheater.org Pinkalicious: The Musical Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, Nov. 30-Dec. 30, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org (see p. 16) The Price Is Right Live Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Dec. 1, 4 & 8 p.m., tickets.utah.edu (see p. 18)

Snowball: A Night in Oz Leona Wagner Black Box Theatre, 138 W. 300 South, Dec. 2, 5:30 p.m., arttix.artsaltlake.org

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moreESSENTIALS Will the Sheep Come to be Cleaned? Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 132 S. 800 West, Nov. 29-30, 7:30 p.m. (see p. 18)

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Amy Irvine, Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk, Blake Spalding: Desert Cabal Patagonia Outlet, 3267 Highland Drive, Nov. 29, 7 p.m., torreyhouse.com Kathy Kirkpatrick: American Prisoner of War Camps in Southern California Weller Bookworks, 607 Trolley Square, Nov. 30, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Mark E. Smith, Corey Rushton and Annastasia Hirt: Images of America: Salt Lake City Cemetery Weller Bookworks, 607 Trolley Square, Dec. 3, 5:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKET

Winter Market Rio Grande Depot, 270 S. Rio Grande St., through April 20, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org

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Christkindlmarkt This is the Place Heritage Park, 2106 Sunnyside Ave., through Dec. 1, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., christkindlmarkt-slc.com Holiday Market Downtown Artist Collective, 258 E. 100 South, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 23, downtownartistcollective.com Holiday Craft Market Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, Nov. 30-Dec. 19, times vary, saltlakearts.org Luminaria Ashton Gardens, 3900 N. Garden Drive, Lehi, through Jan 5, Monday-Sat.urday, 5-8 p.m., thanksgivingpoint.org Santa Parade Main Street, Lehi, Dec. 1, 5-7 p.m., lehi-ut.gov Simple Treasures Holiday Boutique Golden Spike Event Center, 1000 N. 1200 West, Ogden, through Dec. 1, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., simpletreasuresboutique.biz Utah Brew Fest Impact Hub, 150 S. State, Dec. 1, 6-11 p.m., utahbrewfest.com Utah Winter Faire Davis County Legacy Events Center, 151 S. 1100 West, Farmington, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, times vary, utahwinterfaire.com

LGBTQ EVENTS

Afterglow Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, through Dec. 2, dates and times vary, arttix.artsaltlake.org Miss Vanjie & Ariel Versace Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, Dec. 1, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., jrcslc.com Skyfall SLC Fantasy Night Sky, 149 W. Pierpont Ave., Nov. 30, 11:30 p.m., skyslc.com Red Party—World AIDS Day with Queer Eye’s Tan France Publik Coffee Roasters, 975 S. West Temple, Nov. 29, 6-8 p.m.

TALKS & LECTURES

Energy Sprawl Solutions: Balancing Global Development and Conservation S.J. Quinney College of Law, 383 S. University St., Nov. 29, 12:15 p.m., law.utah.edu Gallery Talks: Site Lines Artists Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, Dec. 5, 1-3 p.m., umfa.utah.edu National Geographic Live: Point of No Return with Hilaree Nelson Eccles Center, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m., ecclescenter.org

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The Opioid Crisis: Paths Forward to Mitigate Regulatory Failure S.J. Quinney College of Law, 383 S. University St., Nov. 30, 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m., law.utah.edu

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Blaine Clayton: Feel the Magic of Watercolors Local Colors of Utah Gallery, 1054 E. 2100 South, through Dec. 18, localcolorsart.com Daniel Everett: Security Questions UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Jan. 12, utahmoca.org Dreamscapes Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Ave., Park City, through Jan. 6, kimballartcenter.org Holiday Group Exhibition A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, through Jan. 1, agalleryonline.com Jeffory Buist: Open Spaces Anderson-Foothill Branch, 1135 S. 2100 East, through Dec. 20, slcpl.org Kandace Steadman: Utah Art Reimagined Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Nov. 30, slcpl.org Kelly Baisley & Virginia Catherall: Sense of Place, Great Salt Lake Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through Jan. 11, visualarts.utah.gov Marisa Morán Jahn: Mirror / Mask Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Dec. 9, umfa.utah.edu Molly Morin: Information Density Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through Jan. 12, utahmoca.org Naomi Owen: Unforeseen Nature Paintings Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, through Nov. 30, slcpl.org Park City Collects III Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Ave., Park City, through Jan. 6, kimballartcenter.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 Photography from the East Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Dec. 2, slcpl.org Ryan Perkins: Parallel Lives, Misremembered Pasts, Revelation, Heartbreak & Lore Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Nov. 30, slcpl.org salt 14: Yang Yongliang Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through June 2, umfa.utah.edu Seeing the Sacred Urban Arts Gallery 116 S. Rio Grande St., through Dec. 2, urbanartsgallery.org Simulacra Urban Arts Galley, 137 S. Rio Grande, through Dec. 30, urbanartsgallery.org Site Lines: Recent Work by University of Utah Art Faculty Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Jan. 6, umfa.utah.edu Small Treasures Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through Dec. 12, accessart.org Statewide Annual Exhibition Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through Jan. 11, heritage.utah.gov Stronger Ties Sweet Branch, 455 F St., through Dec. 22, slcpl.org Tom Judd & Kiki Gaffney: Point of View Modern West Fine Art, 177 E. 200 South, through Jan. 12, modernwestfineart.com (see p. 19) Working Hard to Be Useless UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Dec. 29, utahmoca.org

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Doing so might make people pass on Horn of Africa (1320 S. Swaner Road, 801-9085498). It’s home to accessible and tasty Somali comfort food, and also one of the best places to experience a true gastrocultural history lesson—when

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hile I’ll always be a little romantic about hole-in-the-wall eateries that occupy an unassuming spot within strip malls, they’re sometimes a risky bet—these places are out of the way for a reason. Despite being burned on several occasions, the fact remains: These restaurants are the final frontier for anyone who enjoys a good meal. Sure, Utah’s culinary scene has its share of rock stars and spectacles, but we’d be remiss to disregard the underdogs of Utah’s restaurant culture.

Every item is a solid blend of flavors. I’m pleased to say that, thanks to Horn of Africa, Somali cuisine now includes Philly steak sandwiches ($10.99)—they’re serving up a rendition of the American classic that’s been spiked with Somali spices. While Horn of Africa is a great spot for generous helpings at reasonable prices, it’s also one of those rare places where culinary traditions that originated a long time ago in a country far, far away have arrived in Utah for us to enjoy. Thinking back on the blood, sweat and tears that spawned the Somali dishes that Horn of Africa serves made to order, it’s hard not to reflect on the rich history that this food represents. Plus, it’s not often that you get to eat the history lesson after you’re done learning it. CW

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tation is among the best. If you’re the type of person who gets turned off by pulling meat off the bone, then this and the lamb might not be for you. On the other hand, if your mouth waters at the extra flavor that roasting meat on the bone imparts, I highly suggest giving this dish a try. If meat on the bone is a dealbreaker, rest easy—there’s still plenty on the menu worth sampling. If you’re looking for a pasta dish, the spaghetti and steak ($10.99) is fantastic. They don’t skimp on the pasta—this is a gigantic scoop of spaghetti, thinly coated with marinara and served with well-seasoned slices of skirt steak and roast peppers. There’s not much that doesn’t go well with spaghetti, but I admit that I’ve never thought to eat it with steak until my visit. I also recommend the chicken and rice ($9.99) which combines the same seasoned peppers and meat with a plate of fluffy rice instead of spaghetti. In addition to the cultural deep dive while dining here, the menu doesn’t have a bad dish to speak of.

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easternmost peninsula, made it a valuable target for European colonists. Most every European power had a stake in the area, including Italy. When Italian colonists arrived to set up shop, they made sure to keep a steady supply of pasta coming into the country. So, like many natives who have experienced the receiving end of colonization, the Somali people adopted pastas like spaghetti and fettuccine as the starch component to their meat dishes. Goat happens to be among Somalia’s livestock of choice, so it wasn’t long before they started serving up chunks of finely cooked goat meat atop this Italian staple. Visiting Horn of Africa today— hundreds of years after this cultural exchange took place—essentially means you can partake in a bit of food history that you just can’t get anywhere else. In case my mention of goat meat makes you hesitant, don’t worry—it’s one of the most memorable meat dishes that you’re likely to encounter. I’ve tried goat a few times now, and this interpre-

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Stopping off in Beaver for some cheese curds has always been a must during any road trip to Southern Utah and beyond. Now, the Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) have partnered with the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development to take Beaver’s cheese distribution to a new level. It’s called The Creamery (165 S. 500 West, Beaver), and it’s been designed to celebrate the dairy farmers who have been a part of Beaver for more than 60 years. Visitors can snag their favorite local cheeses and stick around for a bite at The Creamery Kitchen, which offers breakfast and lunch dishes that incorporate as much local cheese as possible—think pizzas and grilled sandwiches. If you’re a fan of fresh dairy and happen to be traveling to or through Beaver, consider giving this place a look.

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Two stouts with a flavorful but low-alcohol punch. BY MIKE RIEDEL comments@cityweekly.net @utahbeer

tah’s low-point beers can be a tough sell for some. Many beer enthusiasts claim that they’re too weak in body and flavor to be worth their hard-earned dollars. In some cases that might be true, but in the realm of stouts, great things can be achieved with very little effort. Here are some nice examples of low-point stouts that have the necessary oomph without the hammering effect. Proper Brewing Co. Foreign Gentleman Coffee Stout: Predictably, the beer is a solid black color with a gorgeous tanish head, akin to coffee froth, with good head retention. If you love the way coffee

smells, you’re in for a treat. Wonderfully rich coffee smells immediately seize my senses—subtle roast, luscious java and no bitterness. And boy, is it pungent, promising incredible depth of flavor. As promised, coffee is easily the star of the show. This brew delivers bold, diverse coffee character, but believe it or not, the coffee isn’t the prime motivator of this beer. Belgian yeast spices creep in midpalate, bringing complex flavor textures that not only play off of the coffee, but with the roasted malts and the Ovaltine sweetness. This beautifully balanced coffee stout provides a sleek, silky mouthfeel and magnificent softness on the palate; its soft texture counters any coffee harshness, while subtle chocolate malt accents balance out any bitterness. Many coffee stouts suffer from too much acidity; this is not one of them. It’s medium-bodied, with perfect thickness and heft for a 4 percent beer, plus near-ideal carbonation. Overall: There are plenty of interesting flavors happening here, not just coffee. And considering the fact that co-owner/head brewer Rio Connally isn’t a huge coffee fan makes this beer even all more impressive in its execution—really remarkable stuff from a brewery I’m constantly looking to try more of. 2 Row Brewing Roll Out Stout: A standard pour reveals a color that is opaque black and toes the line between flat and

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shiny. On top, the medium-brown colored head yields two fingers worth of active and audibly fizzy foam. The minimal-at-best retention gives way to an uneven splotchy veil of lacing and a thin collar. It’s not a bad looking beer by any stretch of the imagination. The nose is big and enticing with sweet milk chocolate along with notes of lightly roasted coffee beans. A hint of lactose along with raisins and dark fruits begin to emerge, rounding out some of the roastier aspects. Everything one should expect in an oatmeal stout appears in wonderful balance, with nice layers of depth and complexity. Flavors of lightly roasted coffee are first to the party; no actual coffee is present, as far as I know, but it makes for an interesting start. Next, a slightly sweet malt component emerges, creating milk chocolate flavors that immediately start to

fade. As the sweetness fades, roasted malt asserts itself, churning up dark fruit notes along with bitter chocolate that will carry you into the end. This one is on the medium side of light-bodied, with crisp carbonation, and a similarly smooth and creamy taste like the Proper Coffee Stout. Overall: A rock solid oatmeal stout loaded with character and complexity. Its 4.0 percent ABV is right on target for the style, and all the components work well together. The end result is a stout that seems to be a bit more than the sum of its parts. Foreign Gentleman is a seasonal offering from Proper, available right now at its Salt Lake City brewery (857 S. Main). Roll Out Stout is also a seasonal, and can be found at 2 Row’s Midvale brewery (6856 S. 300 West). Don’t forget your growlers, so that you can take some home. As always, cheers! CW

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Located in the historic Rio Grande Train Depot, this downtown mainstay has served up Mexican comfort food and tasty margaritas since 1981. It’s located in a café that was once known as an “air-conditioned coffee shop”—a welcome respite for railroad travelers in the 1900s. Now, it’s home to favorites such as chile rellenos, enchiladas, chimichangas and tacos. If you’re stopping in for lunch, check out their daily lunch specials that include chicken mole enchiladas and the taco loco—a double wrapped taco smothered with chile verde, cheese and sour cream. Just don’t get too full on the chips and salsa before the main course arrives. 270 S. Rio Grande St., 801-364-3302, riograndecafeslc.com

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Gourmandise the Bakery

Making a decision on one of the endless array of delicious desserts can be troublesome at Gourmandise, so why not try two? On the weekends, brunch lines stretch out the door at its downtown location as patrons eagerly wait to sink their teeth into one of the tasty cakes, tarts, breads or breakfast pastries. No sweet tooth? No problem. The café menu includes an extensive list of salads, sandwiches and entrées. Now with two sit-down locations and a to-go spot, it won’t be hard to find those baked goodies. Multiple locations, gourmandisethebakery.com

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Owner and chef Ryan Lowder traveled the world, gathering inspiration, experience and cooking techniques before piecing them together into the gold mine that is The Copper Onion. The hip and welcoming restaurant serves some of the best small plates in town, such as the ricotta dumplings and patatas bravas. For dinner, the melt-in-your-mouth lamb riblets in a balsamic glaze are to die for. 111 E. 300 South, 801-355-3282, thecopperonion.com

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hen Sadie O’Neill moved to Salt Lake City from Los Angeles in October 2017, she knew she wanted to start a band. Armed with an electric guitar handed down from her dad and a notebook full of songs she’d started writing while performing as a solo artist, the 27-year-old just didn’t know how that collaboration would come about. Then O’Neill met 31-year-old Matt Mascarenas, who currently plays with local emo rock favorites Sunsleeper and helmed past projects like Westing and Heartless Breakers. Exchanging music after a random introduction, O’Neill was impressed by Mascarenas’ deep repertoire of post-hardcore and alternative rock material. “At first I wasn’t sure if we had similar enough styles to form a project,” O’Neill says. “He randomly sent me a track that he had produced, though, and I sent him back something I wrote over it, and we were both like, ‘Damn, this is cool.’” After pursuing so many different strains of heavy music, Mascarenas heard something unique in O’Neill’s choir-trained voice, as well, quickly recruiting longtime friends Chase Griffis, 31, and Ken Vallejos, 30, to form City Ghost. “From the start, we had to pay attention to quieting things down to leave plenty of space for Sadie to sing,” Mascarenas says. “In our past bands, Chase, Ken and I figured out the singing as we went along, but Sadie’s got such a killer voice that we wanted to work around it and support her as much as possible.” The feeling was mutual: Within a few months of officially forming in May 2018, City Ghost entered the newly-christened studio at Archive Recordings to lay down their debut EP, When the Lights Go Out. O’Neill combines the searing narrative concision of Hop Along’s Frances Quinlan with an emotive, often-mournful voice a la Erika Wennerstrom of Heartless Bastards. On “States,” O’Neill sings of gardens that won’t grow; on “Caves,” she laments the heavy summer heat of a former lover’s apartment. Bones are exhumed on “Back to the Start,” while the cracks in O’Neill’s voice match the cracks in the dissipated relationship outlined on “Carnival.” But it’s When the Lights Go Out’s closer, “Silver to Gold,” that hits the hardest. “That’s an important one for me,” O’Neill says. “My mental state was at its lowest point when I started writing it, and it was the last song I recorded alone in L.A. before I moved to Salt Lake City. It was also the first song I played for Matt when we met— but with him producing it and the guys playing behind me, it’s taken on a different emotional life. It was an awesome team effort.” O’Neill and Mascarenas chalk up the EP’s sonic success to City Ghost’s experience at Archive Recordings, the new studio recently opened by Mascarenas’ longtime friend Wes Johnson. “We were the first band to officially record at Archive, so a lot of Wes’ excitement bled into When the Lights Go Out,” Mascarenas says. “City Ghost also made it a point to write songs that were straightforward, so we felt unbelievably prepared to record them. It felt really easy—almost too easy. Definitely the most relaxed studio experience I’ve ever had.” Adding to that vibe is beautiful cover art from Denver designer Elias Armao, along with a killer cat-themed poster for City Ghost’s Dec. 4 show at The Urban Lounge, which will also feature T-shirt designs by O’Neill’s mom. That sense of cozy confidence is reflected in

Left to right: Ken Vallejos, Matt Mascarenas, Sadie O’Neill and Chase Griffis of City Ghost the band’s performances, too. Although City Ghost has only played 14 shows together—a handful at The Underground, The Beehive and Kilby Court, in addition to a short West Coast tour supporting Sunsleeper—O’Neill and Mascarenas both say they feel the band is already hitting its stride. “It’s honestly been way less scary performing with a band than solo,” says O’Neill, who occasionally plays by herself at Piper Down and Ice Haüs, where she works part-time, along with HandleBar. “I love City Ghost because everyone’s No. 1 goal is to have fun. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, even if we keep setting ridiculously high goals—playing 200 shows next year, or opening for a big band. Nobody shuts them down, though. We might as well aim high, right?” Along those lines, O’Neill and Mascarenas both say they’ve been working on new material for a full-length in 2019, with O’Neill sticking to her personal brand of emotional songwriting while seeking to incorporate more of the band’s perspective. Their work ethics are admirable, though; when Mascarenas went on tour with Sunsleeper in November, O’Neill challenged herself to write four songs before he got back home, describing their dynamic as one of constantly trying to outdo previous efforts. Mascarenas says that despite their differences in volume and style, that ambition is ultimately what brought him and O’Neill together. “Instead of clashing, our styles meshed really well together,” Mascarenas says, prompting O’Neill to laugh and add, “Now I just have to buy a bigger amp—it turns out the one I got is too small for how heavy our sound has gotten.” After years of struggling to find her footing at home in Los Angeles, that’s exactly the kind of happenstance O’Neill was looking for. You can hear it in every note of When the Lights Go Out, and next week, local music fans can experience it in person at City Ghost’s biggest show to date. “I sort of blindly moved out here last year,” O’Neill says, “but I intuitively knew something cool was going to happen if I did. And now, with the help of Matt, Chase and Ken, I’ve finally found my own voice.” CW

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FRIDAY 11/30 Metallica, Jim Breuer

“Home is the road—home is touring,” founding Metallica member Lars Ulrich told music journalist David Fricke earlier this month. With more than 37 years on the road and 110 million albums sold, one of the most prominent bands in metal’s “big four” has managed to stay together despite getting off to a rocky start. The death of original bassist Cliff Burton was followed by the swift departure of Dave Mustaine once Metallica scored their first real record deal. Influencing everyone from Gojira to Lady Gaga, though, there’s no denying the mark that Metallica eventually made on music (for good and bad). Forget the checklist of Grammy Awards, autobiographies and the documentary Some Kind of Monster (where Ulrich and frontman James Hetfield bicker like a married couple), however: There’s more to these heroes than world domination. Metallica’s volunteer organization All Within My Hands (AWMH) raised $1.3 million for assorted charities at its recent inaugural benefit concert. Named after a track off their St. Anger album, the mission of AWMH is to combat hunger nationwide while supporting community education and workforce training. “It’s something that we have created as a platform to help people in other ways than just our music,” Kirk Hammett told SF Weekly. Hard to believe that these metal maestros are starting the critical conversation about working with America’s food, but volunteerism is a valuable path for metalheads and all Americans alike. In the spirit of the holidays, don’t miss Metallica’s show at Vivint Smart Home Arena—and then don’t miss the chance to go out and give back. Who knows? You might even run into Hammett or Ulrich at the Utah Food Bank. (Rachelle Fernandez) Vivint Smart Home Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 7:30 p.m., $132-$646, vivintarena.com

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Valentine & The Regard, Amalo, Say Hey

Northern Utah band Valentine & The Regard’s extensive discography spans genres. More than 20 albums and singles released since 2014 bounce between bare acoustic guitar paired with singer-songwriter melodies to distressed, jangling guitar rock. The band’s characteristically short songs are volatile and experimental, but almost all are characterized by Mike Maurer’s probing, melancholy lyrics and lo-fi, fuzzy guitar. Maurer’s latest album, Only She Knows/All is Vanity, was released in October. “It’s just me and an old nylon string guitar into a cassette recorder and some weird iPhone effects,” Maurer says. Songs like “The Whole Family Is Concerned” demonstrate the band’s signature ethos, with lyrics that begin, “I’m a nervous kid/ Concerned with what I did/ Please God help me/ I’m broken/ I’ve stolen everything.” Such strife is aided, however, by pleasant strumming and a bit of harmonica, all of which adds up to a warm, atmospheric sound. Maurer started making music when he was 15, and a decade later, he’s still at it, now with the addition of his wife Julie Maurer on drums and occasional vocal support (she lends a pop-punk sensibility and spoken-word lyrics to Girlfriends); their friend Collin Jiron also contributes on guitar. Valentine & The Regard releases records on Maurer’s label, ForeverKittenRecords, which he also started when he was 15. He’s signed several local bands to the label, including Amalo and Say Hey, indie artists who will provide support at this show. It’s a ForeverKittenRecords showcase that Maurer says fans of Say Hey shouldn’t miss as they’ve got a special announcement to share. (Naomi Clegg) Kilby Court, 748 W. Kilby Court, 7 p.m., $7, all ages, kilbycourt.com

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Louisiana’s Thou operate a little differently than most bands. First, they vehemently eschew the sludge metal categorization usually applied to their brand of dense, doom-ridden sonic heft. Each of their full-length albums arrives accompanied by an assortment of EPs; this year, that included separate explorations of drone noise, acoustic folk and grunge rock to build up to the release of Magus, a 75-minute journey through brutal riffs from guitarists Andy Gibbs and Matthew Thudium and psychosomatic lyrics from enigmatic frontman Bryan Funck. Magus’ news release describes it as for fans of “alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony [and] reason as disease.” Ready to dive in? Thou transcends heavy metal tropes, though, examining such bleak perspectives from an intellectual standpoint of constant engagement with fans, critics and fellow musicians. “Even within a 10-minute Thou song, it’s impossible for me to write a completely wellarticulated, balanced, nuanced take on these grandiose issues,” Funck told Stereogum in August. “It’s much easier, and a lot more fun, for me to just take an extreme point of view … and then take the opposite approach on another song. If you’re a well-balanced person, that’s just what you deal with in your life: finding that balance between all these different extremes. Thou as a whole is really what’s trying to say something, not one song or album

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WEDNESDAY 12/5 Minus the Bear, Tera Melos

Indie rock bands come and go, but Seattle’s Minus the Bear made it 17 long years before announcing this summer their pending dissolution, one last EP (Fair Enough) and a celebratory farewell tour. The journey here wasn’t always easy, either. Celebrated in the early 2000s for their spiky, rhythm-rich take on blue-collar Pacific Northwest rock, by 2010 they were derided for taking a turn toward slick, overproduced pop. Of course, electronic elements were always a part of Minus the Bear, all the way back to 2001’s debut EP, This Is What I Know About Being Gigantic. Those blips and bloops remained secondary on the 2007 LP Planet of Ice, though, with listeners and critics gently accusing Dave Knudson, Cory Murchy, Alex Rose and Jake Snider of getting stuck in a tired indie-rock rut. Three years later, Omni went for the radio-friendly jugular, dialing down the angular guitar riffs in favor of funk-inspired sheen and Daft Punk-style mainstream saturation. (Do we need to mention that it didn’t work?) Still, 2012’s Infinity Overhead charted higher than any album in Minus the Bear’s storied discography, and Fair Enough feels like a return to early form—and a goodbye wave that brings the band’s run to a respectable end. “Sometimes it feels like a natural time to step away,” Knudson told Stereogum in July in a joint interview with Snider, who added, “We want to keep the band’s legacy intact and go out while we’re still doing well.” (NM) The Complex, 536 W. 100 South, 8 p.m., $24.50, all ages, thecomplexslc.com

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9th East + The House Cats + Jeff Dillon and The Revival + Muninn (The Rad Shack) Blazin Aces (Outlaw Saloon) Breezeway (ABG’s) Cypress Spring (Brewskis) DJ Kyle Haze (Downstairs) Draize Method + Magda-Vega (Ice Haüs) Farr Gone + Oregon and the Trees + Upside (Kilby Court) Joe McQueen Quartet (Lighthouse Lounge)

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Conner Youngblood’s 2013 single “The Warpath” is a creepy mix of reverb-washed whistling, swells of synthesizer and the sound of a guitar strumming somewhere deep in the woods. Youngblood’s soft, subtle voice is stacked in octaves and treated with enough delay to sound hyper-real; the overall effect is simultaneously ambient and intimate, like immersing yourself in a strangely beautiful sound world. That’s fairly representative of the Dallas-born, Nashville-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist’s broader body of work, including his full-length debut Cheyenne, which dropped on Counter Records in August. Grounded in folk music, sometimes complete with fingerpicking and mournful lap steel guitar, all the instruments Youngblood plays are layered and manipulated with studio magic to the point where none of them sound of this world. Even acoustic piano is rendered ethereally, the boundaries of the sound made fuzzy and indistinct—not unlike Youngblood’s lyrical subjects. For example, the mesmerizing single “Pizza Body” features the refrain, “Oh, you wanna be somebody,” but it sounds like he’s singing, “Oh, you wanna pizza body.” What does it all mean? You’ve got me. When you dig deeper into the music and pay attention to a particular element, you see that it’s the sum of the parts that sounds amazing—astounding, really—evoking complicated emotions that aren’t easy to pin down. Youngblood is the rare artist who paints in broad strokes, but still leaves you with an impression of people, places and things that aren’t really there. (Howard Hardee) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $19, 21+, thestateroom.com JT Draper (HandleBar) L.O.L (Club 90) Mark Owens (The Westerner Club) Matt Calder + Morgan Whitney (Lake Effect) Metallica + Jim Breuer (Vivint Smart Home Arena) see p. 32 Nate Robinson (Park City Mountain) The Reverend and the Revelry (Harp and Hound) Repulse + Warden Buffett (Gold Blood Collective) RoxShow feat. The Joe Rock Show (The Royal) Six Feet in the Pine + Christian Mills Band (Hog Wallow Pub) Steven Page Trio + Wesley Stace (The State Room) Sweater Beats + Bo York (Urban Lounge) Triggers & Slips (Garage on Beck) Whistling Rufus (Sugar House Coffee) Will Baxter Trio (Ruin)

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Mark Owens (The Westerner) New Primals + RADE + Alpine Loop + Invictus Omega (The Rad Shack) Operation Hope Toy Drive feat DJ Juggy + DJ Stario (Downstairs) The Proper Way (Park City Mountain) Plum Stickie (Johnny’s on Second) Rage Against The Supremes (The Spur) Random Rab + Brodyizm + Enderr (Urban Lounge) Riding Gravity (Hog Wallow Pub) Salt (The Union) Spazmatics (Liquid Joe’s) Tommy Emmanuel + Jerry Douglas (The Commonwealth Room) Valentine & The Regard + Amalo + Say Hey (Kilby Court) see p. 32 Will Baxter Band (Umbrella Bar)

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A Mormon, a tourist and the antichrist walk into a bar. Sounds like an awful joke—or maybe the most lit weekend ever. Weekend or not, Main Street is full of diverse crowds: some making the commute home, some making the commute to happy hour. On a recent night, I chose the latter, ending up at the White Horse, named after a character in the Book of Revelations that Billy Graham was rumored to have called the “antichrist.” With the spirit of the Holy Ghost and some holy water in my flask, I head into the busy bar. After a fellow patron’s enticing charred artichoke catches my eye, I order a Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar along with said artichoke. That’s when I meet Sabrina. A future supervisor for an online Utah company by day and swing dancer by night, Sabrina obliged me with conversation. I quickly learned she was a prospective resident of Utah, and I felt it was my civic duty to give her the deets on all the secret hiking spots, swing dance bars and local craft beers, so help me God. “Try the Kiitos Coconut Stout,” I say, and to my surprise she orders it. Sitting back and watching Sabrina sip, I wait for her approval, not unlike a creep. “Not bad,” she says. Sabrina then tells the bar patrons she flew from Seattle to the Beehive State for an interview, and immediately White Horse bartender Caleb offers words of support. Whether you’re from out of town or a self-proclaimed antichrist, who doesn’t love meeting new people over Coconut Stout, along with some of White Horse’s famed creamed spinach with bacon and absinthe? (Rachelle Fernandez) 325 S. Main, whitehorseslc.com, 801-363-0137

David Halliday & the JVQ (Gracie’s) Open Blues Jam (The Green Pig) Open Blues Jam hosted by Robby’s Blues Explosion (Hog Wallow Pub) Open Mic (The Cabin)

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TUESDAY 12/4 LIVE MUSIC

City Ghost + Sunsleeper + Andrew Goldring + Vincent Draper & The Culls (Urban Lounge) see p. 32 Daniel Torriente (The Spur) Mixtape (Ragan Theatre) Winter Battle of the Bands (Velour)

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Karaoke (Tavernacle) Karaoke That Doesn’t Suck (Twist) Karaoke w/ DJ Thom (A Bar Named Sue) Karaoke w/ Zim Zam Ent. (Club 90)

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Atreyu + Sleep Signals + Ice Nine Kills + Memphis May Fire (The Depot) Conner Youngblood (The State Room) see p. 36 Dylan Roe (Hog Wallow Pub) Elliot and Gabriel (Venue) Hayley Kirkland + Company B (Gallivan Center) Live Jazz (Club 90) Minus The Bear + Tera Melos (The Complex) see p. 34 Noire + Holygram + The Rain Within (Metro Music Hall) Winter Battle of the Bands (Velour) White Panda + Caye (Soundwell)

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Areaoke w/ DJ Casper (Area 51) Karaoke (The Wall at BYU) Karaoke w/ B-RAD (Club 90) Karaoke w/ Spotlight Entertainment (Johnny’s on Second)

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h, the holiday season! Carols, bells, mistletoe and so on and so forth. And, for most of us, entertainment traditions that can go back as far as we remember. Whether it’s watching A Charlie Brown Christmas and Rudolph every single year, or awaiting that Christmas Day broadcast of The Sound of Music, people connect memories of the winter holidays to favorite stories—for any number of reasons. This year, City Weekly contributors share the movie-(or TV-)watching that, for them, has become unexpected “it’s just not Christmas without [fill-in-the-blank]” holiday comfort food, beyond obvious favorites like It’s a Wonderful Life. So settle in with a cup of eggnog, and share with us what stories make your season shiny and bright. MaryAnn Johanson: I was 9 years old at Christmas 1978, and it is beyond impossible that I did not watch The Star Wars Holiday Special when CBS broadcast it that season. I was a complete Star Wars nut; The Force was strong with me. Of course I watched it. And yet, I have absolutely no memory of it from that time. Watching it again as an adult, it is plain why: It is so incredibly awful that obviously my grade-school brain, in an attempt to protect my fragile innocence as well as my burgeoning geekdom, blocked it, lest I re-experience the trauma. Even today, and far more cynical in my fandom, my mind never fails to boggle at its 1970s variety-show kitsch done up Star Wars-style. The “guest stars” of this one-off include Bea Arthur, Art Carney, Diahann Carroll, Harvey Korman and the Jefferson Starship (oh yes, this is a musical). It’s all such an absurdly, perfectly twisted parody of 70s pop culture that if it did not exist, someone would have had to invent it. As a joke. Instead, it exists, lurking in the bootleg corners of fandom, as a real thing that was once honestly and sincerely offered. It is a genuine Christmas miracle.

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Scott Renshaw: The 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street is justifiably revered as a holiday classic, with Edmund Gwenn as the department-store Santa named Kris Kringle convinced he’s the real Saint Nick; my wife refuses to make it through a December without experiencing the charming moment when Kris speaks to a little girl in her native Dutch. Yet, I’ve become inexplicably attached to the 1994 incarnation of Miracle on 34th Street, with Richard Attenborough as Kris and Mara Wilson taking on the Natalie Wood role of a cynical youngster getting a glimpse of Christmas magic. Much of that has to do with Wilson, who—between this movie and Danny DeVito’s Matilda—was one of the most naturally adorable child actors of my lifetime. I can’t even point to a specific moment like that little-Dutch-girl encounter that gives me the Yuletide feel-goods. There’s just something about Wilson’s smile that captures everything good and true about a time that can be so full of stress and anxiety. David Riedel: Look, I dig A Christmas Story as much as the next guy born and raised in Indiana. But aside from maybe catching The Bishop’s Wife, I’m burned out on Christmas flicks. This year, I’d much rather watch something silly and easily digestible, the holiday-viewing version of comfort food. So that’s why I’m super psyched that I just purchased the entire 10-season box set of the original Beverly Hills 90210 on eBay. That’s right: The paragon of cheesy ’90s teen/early 20s dramas contains nine Christmas-themed episodes (the bastards didn’t make one the first season). Will I start with “It’s a Totally Happening Life,” the third season tale in which Brandon (Jason Priestley) and the gang are nearly killed in a bus crash, but are ultimately saved by a couple assbag guardian angels It’s a Wonderful Life-style? Or maybe

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“Walsh Family Christmas” from season two, in which Steve (Ian Ziering) journeys to New Mexico to find his birth mother? Or maybe season eight’s “Santa Knows,” featuring future two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank! Or the season six episode when Clare (Kathleen Robertson) tells Steve she’s wearing mistletoe on her garter. MY GOD, THERE ARE TOO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM. Guess I’ll have to watch them all! Eric D. Snider: I had no particular Christmas movie traditions until the mid2000s, when Will Ferrell’s Elf got stuffed down my chimney. Other perennial favorites (A Christmas Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, yada yada) had their charms, but watching them always felt like watching a religious pageant: more ceremonial than entertaining. Elf—the story of a human baby named Buddy raised by Santa’s elves who goes to New York City in search of his father—is drop-dead funny and unabashedly wholesome (the worst thing an elf can call someone is “cotton-headed ninny-muggins”), with a gentle message about What’s Really Important. The supporting performances are great—Ed Asner as Santa, James Caan as Buddy’s real father, Bob Newhart as his adoptive elf dad, Zooey Deschanel as the department store employee he falls in love with—but it’s Ferrell’s completely committed performance that sells it. Buddy’s bottomless optimism, enthusiasm and naïveté would become cloying if Ferrell ever winked at the audience, ever showed a glimmer of “This is kinda silly, isn’t it?” But he doesn’t. Buddy believes he’s an elf—and more importantly, Ferrell believes that Buddy believes it. Sincerity goes a long way, especially at Christmastime. CW

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THE POSSESSION OF HANNAH GRACE [not yet reviewed] The graveyard shift at a morgue takes a creepy turn when one of the corpses won’t exactly stay dead. Opens Nov. 30 at theaters valleywide. (R)

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LIFE AND NOTHING MORE BBB It’s not exactly intuitive that a particularly sensitive and insightful perspective on the 21st-century African-American experience would come from a Spanish filmmaker. Writer/director Antonio Méndez Esparza oversees the largely-improvised story of a northern Florida single mother named Regina (Regina Williams) trying to care for her 14-year-old son Andrew (Andrew Bleechington)— who is already on probation as the narrative begins—as well as a 3-year-old daughter. Esparza sets the events around the 2016 presidential election, but fortunately doesn’t hammer too hard on the notion that this is somehow a meditation specifically on Trump’s America. Indeed, Regina and her friends specifically note their belief that nothing will change in their lives no matter who is elected, and the largely episodic narrative emphasizes this notion of simply trying to make it from one day to the next. The sections focusing on Andrew ultimately are a bit less successful, despite exploring complex topics like racial profiling and fatherless black teens. Williams, meanwhile, poignantly captures a flawed but loving mother, with every turn making it harder to see how she can find happiness for her family or for herself. Opens Nov. 30 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—Scott Renshaw

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CURRENT RELEASES CREED II BBB Here’s an attempt to evoke nearly all 40 years of the Rocky saga, and somehow, it mostly works. Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) faces the challenge in both his head and in the ring of fighting Viktor Drago (Florian Munteanu)—son of Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), who was responsible for Apollo Creed’s death during a fight. The script—co-written by Sylvester Stallone, who, of course, returns as Rocky Balboa—tries to keep a lot of balls in the air, including Adonis’ relationship with Bianca (Tessa Thompson). But while director Steven Caple Jr. lacks the prowling dynamism of Creed’s Ryan Coogler behind the camera, there’s a solid emotional core in people trying to make peace with the legacy of the past. The strong performances by Jordan and Stallone make this a nostalgia trip that’s also interested in moving forward. (PG-13)—SR

GREEN BOOK BBB New York, 1962, a true story: Tony “Lip” Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) needs a job, so he agrees to drive African-American pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) around the Deep South on a eight-week performance tour. Yes, it’s yet another tale of American racism told primarily through the eyes of a white person discovering just how terrible racism can be. What snatches it from condescending awfulness is the wit, charm and complexity with which Don and Tony are drawn, and the gorgeous performances by its stars. Mortensen is all big, expansive movement and even bigger brashness; Ali is all tiny, precise actions and deep emotional reserve. They’re a true odd couple, and the common ground they find during their trip is as much about personality as it is about race. It’s a familiar tune, but it’s played with virtuoso style. (PG-13) —MaryAnn Johanson

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET BB.5 When animated features create fantasy worlds, and connect those worlds to our own, it can bring some baggage. This sequel moves Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) from arcade games to the World Wide Web, which means encountering characters and situations built on our understanding of how the online universe works. Plenty of those gags land, even if visual representations are sometimes as obvious as they are technically impressive, and the central plot provides a unique expansion of the two main characters. But the central concept—Vanellope’s growing desire to find new challenges—falls flat in a franchise sequel built on cross-promoting other Disney properties. Smiling corporate synergy is still corporate synergy, and while the charm of a fantasy often comes from its ability to transport you, Ralph Breaks the Internet mostly aims to transport you to disney.com. (PG)—SR ROBIN HOOD (ZERO STARS) Ugly, garish and anachronistic, this umpteenth iteration of the classic tale lacks in anything we expect from a Robin Hood story: fun, romance, virtue. There’s only shiftless rich kid Lord Robin of Loxley (a charmless Taron Egerton) reluctantly playing vigilante in order to impress wannabe world-changer Marian (Eve Hewson). If the visual and cultural “aesthetics” are bizarre—this looks like it’s taking place in Epcot Center—then its action sequences are even worse. The attempt to gin up “redistribution of wealth” as a catchphrase is one notable lowlight of the script, though there’s also a lot of jaw-droppingly awful on-the-nose discussions of politics (including cartoonish villainy from an unwatchable Ben Mendelsohn as the Sheriff of Nottingham) and plenty of monologuing about evil plans. This movie should be outlawed, banished to the woods forever. (PG-13)—MAJ

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FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD BB This latest “Wizarding World” prequel from J.K. Rowling and director David Yates finds dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) recently escaped from custody, and racing Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) and company to track down powerful wizard Credence (Ezra Miller). The story leans hard into Grindelwald as a Trump-like populist despot, with scenes of him spewing creepy rhetoric at a rally. But as an over-correction from the instantly-evaporating bombast of the last film, Rowling emphasizes portentous questions linked to characters like Dumbledore (Jude Law) and Lita Lestrange (Zoë Kravitz). Yates’ big set pieces are satisfying enough, but no matter how hard Fantastic Beasts wants to ride the coattails of viewers’ love for Harry Potter and friends, there’s no way to manufacture an emotional connection to characters who were just fine as obscure entries in a Potterverse wiki. (PG-13)—SR

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Every year the bird known as the Arctic tern experiences two summers and enjoys more daylight than any other animal. That’s because it regularly makes a long-distance journey from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back again. Let’s designate this hardy traveler as your inspirational creature for the next eleven months. May it help animate you to experiment with brave jaunts that broaden and deepen your views of the world. I don’t necessarily mean you should literally do the equivalent of circumnavigating the planet. Your expansive adventures might take place mostly in inner realms or closer to home.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground,” writes author Judith Thurman. I’m guessing you will experience this feeling in the coming weeks. What does it mean if you do? It might be your deep psyche’s way of nudging you to find an energizing new sanctuary. Or perhaps it means you should search for fresh ways to feel peaceful and wellgrounded. Maybe it’s a prod to push you outside your existing comfort zone so you can expand your comfort zone. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Venice, Italy, consists of 118 small islands that rise from a shallow lagoon. A network of 443 bridges keeps them all connected. But Venice isn’t the world champion of bridges. The American city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds that title, with 446. I nominate these two places to be your inspirational symbols in the coming weeks. It’s time for you to build new metaphorical bridges and take good care of your existing metaphorical bridges. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): To aid and support your navigation through this pragmatic phase of your astrological cycle, I have gathered counsel from three productive pragmatists. First is author Helen Keller. She said she wanted to accomplish great and noble things, but her “chief duty” was “to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” Second, author George Orwell believed that “to see what is in front of one’s nose” requires never-ending diligence. Finally, author Pearl S. Buck testified that she didn’t wait around until she was in the right mood before beginning her work. Instead, she invoked her willpower to summon the necessary motivation.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Let’s shout out a big “Thanks!” and “Hallelujah!” to the enzymes in our bodies. These catalytic proteins do an amazing job of converting the food we eat into available energy. Without them, our cells would take forever to turn any particular meal into the power we need to walk, talk and think. I bring this marvel to your attention, Leo, because now is a favorable time to look for and locate metaphorical equivalents of enzymes: influences and resources that will aid and expedite your ability to live the life you want to live.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Does moss really “eat” rocks, as Cancerian author Elizabeth Gilbert attests in her novel The Signature of All Things? Marine chemist Martin Johnson says yes. Moss really does break down and release elements in solid stone. Gilbert adds, “Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.” Furthermore, this hardy plant can grow virtually everywhere: in the tropics and frozen wastes, on tree bark and roofing slate, on sloth fur and snail shells. I propose that we make moss your personal symbol of power for now, Cancerian. Be as indomitable, resourceful, and resilient as moss.

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only to have it sneak back in a less severe but still debilitating form? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to finish the reforms; to enforce a thorough and permanent correction. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Does an elusive giant creature with a long neck inhabit the waters of Loch Ness in northern Scotland? Alleged sightings have been reported since 1933. Most scientists dismiss the possibility that “Nessie” actually exists, but there are photos, films, and videos that provide tantalizing evidence. A governmentfunded Scottish organization has prepared contingency plans just in case the beast does make an unambiguous appearance. In that spirit, and in accordance with astrological omens, I recommend that you prepare yourself for the arrival in your life of intriguing anomalies and fun mysteries. Like Nessie, they’re nothing to worry about, but you’ll be better able to deal gracefully with them if you’re not totally taken by surprise.

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On the Lam Perhaps in an effort to escape its likely fate, a turkey in Shoshone, Idaho, was rounded up by police on Nov. 7 after “terrorizing the neighborhood” around North Fir Street. United Press International reported the bird was detained at a local petting zoo pending the owner’s coming forward to claim it. Shoshone police posted on Facebook that the claimer would have to do “an embarrassing dance” to get the bird back. So There! Administrators at Spalding Grammar School in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, introduced a new policy this year, banning sixth-formers (high-schoolers) from carrying book bags between classes. The school felt the heavy bags were causing injury to students and encouraged them to carry their books in their arms instead. But Jacob Ford, 17, disagreed, reported Metro News, and made his point by carrying his books in a wicker basket and an open microwave oven, for which he received a twoday suspension. Head teacher Steven Wilkinson huffed, “We have a student who has behaved in an increasingly inappropriate way, actions the likes of which I have never witnessed, and who has been sanctioned entirely in line with the school’s policies.” But Ford’s mother, Tracy, backed up her son’s protest: “I’m very proud of him for standing up for something he believes in. Microwave or no microwave.” Send tips to weirdnewstips@amuniversal.com

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Crime Report In North College Hill, Ohio, on Nov. 6, Noel Hines’ criminal love for Thin Mints finally caught up with her when she was arrested for stealing “a large order of Girl Scout cookies” last March, Fox News reported. North College Hill police said Hines took delivery of the cookies, valued at more than $1,600 and intended for a local Girl Scout troop, and never returned or paid for them. When Hines showed up at the town’s Mayors Court on an unrelated matter, police arrested her, then posted on Facebook, “That’s the way the cookie crumbles.”

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Crikey! A Jackson County sheriff’s deputy in Kansas City, Mo., serving an eviction notice on Nov. 7, was startled to discover Katfish, a 7-foot-long, 200-pound alligator that tenant Sean Casey kept as a pet (along with three pythons, a rabbit and several cats). Casey told KSHB-TV that he’s had Katfish for four years. “He’s a big cuddly gator,” Casey said. “He wags his tail when I come home.” The gator could lounge in the home’s bathtub, and “get up and get out and cruise through the house,” said Dana Savorelli with Monkey Island Rescue, who officers called to help wrangle the alligator. “He had a ramp.” Unfortunately, alligators are prohibited in Kansas City, so Katfish was relocated to Monkey Island in nearby Greenwood, Mo. And although Casey said Katfish was “not a vicious animal like some people make them out to be,” he was ticketed for possessing an exotic animal within city limits.

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