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With $29 million allocated by the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uber-Republican Legislature, spring has finally sprung for air quality in Utah. BY KELAN LYONS

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Somehow, the ultraRepublican Legislature budgeted more than $29 million to improve Utah’s air. That’s not a typo.

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Cover Story, March 21, The Foilies

Interesting story. It is the beginnings of a great story. What if we took all this information, use the skills of journalists, combine it with some of the best thinking in data science. (Stay with me.) Utah has a huge big data community. So you start gathering all of these stories together along with all the data you can get from the government, put it in a repository where we mine the data for information. Journalists would have great stories, we could spot government corruption and have the facts to back it up. A website rating every level of government in America for corruption would give voters hard information to get rid of corrupt individuals regardless of party. We used to have many more newspapers and local journalists to watch all levels of government. Now, legislatures of many states are ignoring the voter’s demands on referendums and corrupt government officials give sweetheart deals to buddies. Big data mining would amplify the ability of great journalists to help us all understand what is really

going on in government. Because we don’t know. Too much data and complexity. Let’s put government under a microscope and get our democracy back! EDWARD CHEADLE Via CW comments

Opinion, March 21, “Herbert: A Failure of the Public Trust”

I am so angry about all this bullshit! PATRICIA STREET Via Facebook Though I agree with [the author] on many issues, I disagree with his stance on Gavin Newsom. The death penalty around the country has killed an untold number of innocent people. They are estimating 4% of the current inmates are innocent in California’s case. It does not matter if 99.999% of Californians were to vote to kill some random person on the street, the constitution would not allow it. Putting a halt to save innocent lives is not wrong, nor does it go against the voters who believe in capital punishment. The next step after halting the madness is to go forward and see about legally ending

this barbaric practice. I understand there are cases that are so egregious that the death penalty may be warranted, but our benchmark is way too low and too many innocent people have been killed. If we are going to have a death penalty the standards should be way tougher. Even then I don’t appreciate the murder of innocent people at the hands of the state. Which is what it is when you are not 100% sure. EDWARD CHEADLE Via CW comments

Dine, March 21, “DIY Delicious”

This is the best food reviewer you have ever had and you should give him a 1,000% raise. Also he is my baby brother and he has pretty good opinions on food, likely because when he was little I pinned him down and barfed into his face which gave him a good barometer for what’s gross. @SPRYUTE Via Twitter

Online News Post, March 25, “Defending the Future”

[Legislators’] response to that is usually “I don’t care, I’ll be dead before any-

thing drastic happens.” It isn’t affecting them, so they don’t care. RICHARD HUMBERG Via Facebook

Dear Soapbox:

What’s with this bazoo bellowing balderdash that impeaching the Cowardly Capt. Heelspurs would divide this country? He already got all of us (and the rest of the free world) going to the mattresses. That’s probably the only good he’s done … everyone’s getting over their cranial-rectal insertion and exercising their civic duty. Instead of impeaching the demander-in-thief, let’s canonize him; with a real cannon! Sincerely, ALAN E. WRIGHT, Salt Lake City

Dear City Weekly Editor:

In my eighth-grade history class, we have been learning about activist rights in the 1800s. One of which was based on the large amount of alcohol being consumed by males at the time. People were concerned that the avid alcohol drinkers weren’t showing up to work, their bills couldn’t be paid because of the large

amounts of money that had gone toward alcohol, and children, slaves, as well as women were being abused due to excessive alcohol use. By the late 1800s, multiple states had tried to outlaw alcohol leading to the national prohibition in 1920. While there are people whose lives have been devastated by the usage of alcohol, it has not brought about the end of society as was feared in the 1800s. I’m thinking about the current debate on legalizing marijuana. I’m wondering if the

negative effects that are brought up by those who are opposing the legalization of marijuana will be as bad as they say; much like the national prohibition over 100 years ago. Respectfully, VINCENT A. NELSON, West Bountiful

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Utah and Somalia: Not So Different In our supposedly “modern” world, more than 200 million girls have been subjected to the horror of FGM (female genital mutilation). This barbaric practice has been renounced by the World Health Organization, and many enlightened countries have enacted laws to stop it. By removing parts of girls’ external genitalia, most of its unwilling young victims must resign themselves to lives of diminished sexual pleasure, severe pain and deprivation of the quality of life that should be an inalienable right of humanity. The impact is unimaginable. In some countries, like Somalia, the percentage of “cut” women is as high as 98 percent. While religions have certainly played a part in establishing FGM as a pseudo-ritual, the practice is sustained and reinforced by the misogynist understanding that diminished female sexuality will assist in keeping wives at home. Although we cannot say never, FGM has not been a significant issue in our state, but the sad part is that one particular form of sexual mutilation has persisted here for more than 50 years. Sadly, predominant religions are at the root of the problem. Understanding that the mind and body are inseparable, it becomes crystal-clear that the cruel manipulations of young minds, often employing methods worthy of the Inquisition, have done permanent psychological harm to thousands of young gays subjected to the Dark Ages’ practice of conversion therapy. It might not constitute genital

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. mutilation, but it has similarly grave consequences. In 1976, Mormon Apostle Boyd K. Packer declared, “There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just ‘that way’ and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil. No one is locked into that kind of life ... Boys are to become men—masculine, manly men—ultimately to become husbands and fathers.” Packer was not alone. The leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued statements describing same-sex attraction as a matter of nurture, not nature, and set about to change the futures of its young gay members. The church became an institutional flag-bearer of conversion therapy. Through a number of associated organizations, programs were established and Mormon bishops were encouraged to promote them. The program included various types of aversion therapy in which therapists provided homosexual pornography while administering either electro-genital shocks or chemically-induced, violent nausea. The theory—straight out of the movie A Clockwork Orange—was that the unpleasant/painful experience would end the undesirable sex attraction. Only recently, did the church have a change of heart. David Matheson, Mormonism’s gay conversion therapy guru, apologized to all the people that had been harmed by the program, admitting that, not only was the therapy (mostly) ineffective, but that it served to intensify the guilt of young gay members and probably led to teen suicides. Condemnation of the treatment has led to 15 states passing legislation banning the practice, and Utah was set to become the 16th. Legislation was sponsored by Reps. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, and Craig Hall, R-West Valley City— both faithful “brethren”—and the church announced that

it would not fight passage of the law. But then—oh, dear—along came crusader-zealot and closet-homophobe Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, R-Clearfield, who sponsored new language to allow conversion therapy, in at least some forms, to continue. That threw a wrench into the gears, gutting the proposed law, and stopping its proponents in their tracks. At the close of the legislative session, Gov. Gary Herbert had the decency—and the guts—to publicly apologize for the failure, crediting his part in the law’s derailment as a “misunderstanding,” and suggesting, without actually saying the words, that he had been duped by the addition of language that had, essentially, gutted the legislation. Lisonbee is one of the dinosaurs that claim—and support with anecdotal evidence—that there are many cases in which gay conversion therapy has actually changed someone’s sexual preference. But health experts are virtually unanimous that the practice has been ineffective and caused a great deal of harm. It has survived largely because churches have been unable to accept the reality— that personal sexual preferences are a hard-wired component of every child born. The failure to ban conversion therapy is both perplexing and frightening. It’s an issue that can’t and won’t be forgotten. Utah isn’t about to allow female cutting; there are laws against it. But allowing therapists the right to attempt amputation of a young person’s sexual identity must also end. The next Legislature will certainly be required to weigh-in on this issue. We need to make sure that our governor and Legislature make it the law. CW

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You’ve heard about the problem with those amazingly fertile wild horses. The drought hasn’t helped and the animals have been dying of starvation while the federal government tries to figure out what to do. Euthanasia (the Trump plan) has been a strategy of late because there are severe consequences to doing nothing. Slaughter or contraception are both expensive propositions that Congress has been less and less willing to fund. The BLM is trying to find private pastures and is encouraging adoption, but that might not be enough. Join the Rally to #SaveOnaqui to ask the BLM to work with advocates to implement a comprehensive fertility-control program instead of removing them from public lands. BLM Utah State Office, 440 W. 200 South, Friday, April 5, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/2FHU3DX.

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Native American scholars and students will present the 42nd Annual Indigenous Voices Pow-Wow. “We celebrate our ancestral heritage and our communal voices through sharing our cultural heritage in the forms of dancing, singing and storytelling,” the event’s Facebook page says. Throw off the stereotypes and see for yourselves how Native Americans use their languages, dances and ceremonies as a unique form of expression. This is not only a joyful and unifying event, but a way for these peoples to share their ancestral knowledge. There will be food, arts and crafts and, of course, dancing. Weber State University Shepherd Building, 3848 Harrison Blvd., Ogden, 801-626-7330, Saturday, April 6, 11 a.m.-10 p.m., free, bit.ly/2JPYSPO.

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You either love him or you hate him, but you don’t often get to hear from him, unless it’s in a meme or on Facebook. Robert Reich, secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, is the subject of a documentary screening of Inequality for All. Now a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, he discusses “the grave economic and social consequences that may result if the gap between rich and poor continues to widen,” according to the event’s website. The income gap has been growing over the last 30 years, and that has been informing all kinds of social issues, including racial and gender equality. Hinckley Institute of Politics, 260 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 2018, 801-581-8501, Thursday, April 11, 4-6 p.m., free, bit.ly/2WDmtVk.

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Valuable Votes

How hard can it be? Ranked Choice Voting is apparently scaring off Utah cities when they could be leading the state into a new era of voting your conscience. And it’s easy—unless you’re a political being who worries that it’s going to upset the apple cart, aka the status quo. The idea is to boost turnout and save money by eliminating runoffs. But The Salt Lake Tribune now reports that cities that opted in are suddenly worried about “educating” the voters and implementing the system. Funny thing, the Utah Republican Party tried it out in its 2004 gubernatorial primary to resounding success. That, according to ozy.com, comes from Tiani Coleman, former chair of the Salt Lake County Republican party and now president of the New Hampshire independent voters. If you can count on your fingers, you can vote in a RCV election. This is not rocket science.

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Thank you Trib for telling your readers that Bryson Garbett, a prominent homebuilder and former legislator, got “an $800,000 taxpayer gift” from the developer-friendly Legislature. We discovered that Garbett, whose son, David, is the guy running for Salt Lake City mayor, just thought UDOT was being unfair—waa, waa—because they wouldn’t approve a sound wall around an undeveloped project. So he got former House Speaker Greg Curtis to “talk” to his buddies. Here’s what one commenter said about the story: “This is what we call capitalism, people. Citizen tax dollars are funneled to increase the profits of an already wealthy person. Now if the same $800K was given to poor people for food or health care, we call that socialism, which is bad.”

Death, Taxes, Coal

Coal. It’s our future—not so much our children’s. Still, we know what the “I know a lot about wind” president thinks of it. It’s good! In February, Donald Trump approved two new leases in Utah, ostensibly because he was pissed that a Kentucky coal mine was shut down, according to the Washington Examiner. Then in March, Utah students rallied at the Capitol to plead for clean air, and later, in an apparent futile attempt, to ask the governor to stop the BLM from issuing oil and gas permits, City Weekly reported. Utah gets about 76 percent of its electricity from coal, even though it’s expected to decline to about one-third of the energy mix in the next 10 years, Utah Business reports. But don’t forget the environment. “Ninety-one percent of the nation’s coal-fired power plants reported elevated levels of contaminants such as arsenic, lithium, chromium and other pollutants in nearby groundwater,” a report published by the Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice found.

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The threat to native bees stems from the same collective nature that the Mormons admired in the insects: Honeybees, which are social, direct others in the hive to viable sources of pollen and nectar. Most of Utah’s native bees are solitary, so they risk being outnumbered in the hunt for floral resources. Honeybees also are generalists; they pollinate many plants, which accounts for their value as commercial pollinators. Many native bees, meanwhile, have evolved to visit specific kinds of plants, so if they are driven away, they have fewer options, and their populations could decline from lack of food. That can affect an ecosystem’s makeup, because native bees often are better at pollinating native plants than honeybees. Vincent Tepedino, a retired bee biologist who has urged the Forest Service to reject honeybee storage, says the practice in the Manti-La Sal could eventually change fruit and seed production, impacting birds and other animals throughout the ecosystem. Biologists also worry about the sheer magnitude of resources used by honeybee colonies. A research paper by biologist Tepedino and James Cane, an agency entomologist based at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service office in Logan, calculated the amount of resources collected by a honeybee colony, and translated that into the equivalent number of baby solitary bees. In four months, the 4,900 hives requested by Adee would remove enough pollen to rear hundreds of millions of native bees. Scientists say the effects of honeybees on native species, especially the potential for disease transfer, demand further study. “Absolutely there needs to be more research to learn more about competition and impacts,” said James Strange, a research entomologist at Logan’s Agricultural Research Service. CW

lthough a beehive adorns the state seal, honeybees are not native to the “Beehive State.” They arrived in Utah with Mormon settlers, who held the honeybee in high regard for what, you guessed it, they considered its industrious nature and collective spirit—virtues they saw embodied in their own community. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints leader Brigham Young initially named the region “Deseret,” the Book of Mormon’s word for honeybee. Less celebrated is the state’s notable native bee diversity. In Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument alone, more than 650 native bee species have been identified. By comparison, 750 documented native bee species exist in total east of the Mississippi. Now, a push to store commercial honeybees in Utah’s Manti-La Sal National Forest could threaten its native bee diversity. Located about 180 miles north of Grand Staircase, the national forest is home to hundreds of native bee species, including the declining western bumblebee. Scientists worry that a large influx of honeybees could bring resource competition, disease and ecosystem changes.

According to documents acquired by the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity through Freedom of Information Act requests, South Dakota-based Adee Honey Farms—the largest private beekeeper in the country—has persistently applied for bee storage on several Utah national forests since 2012, boosted by a 2014 Obama administration memorandum that directed federal agencies to aid honeybees and native bees. In the fall of 2017, Adee applied to place 100 hives each on 49 sites in Manti-La Sal, which equates to hundreds of millions of bees. To date, it has received permission to place 20 hives at just three sites. Commercial honeybee populations have plummeted in recent decades, in large part due to pollinating crops coated in pesticides. With immune systems weakened by chemicals, honeybees are vulnerable to diseases and pests, including the varroa mite, which latches onto honeybees and sucks them dry. Meanwhile, available land for storing bees during their off-season has shrunk, thanks to funding cuts to a federal program that paid Midwestern farmers to let land lie fallow. Beekeepers often stored their hives on this land. “We are desperately trying to get out of pesticide areas due to the loss of our bees,” Brian Burkett, an Adee Honey Farms employee, wrote in his application for commercial bee-storage. Tara Cornelisse, a scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, called pesticides the “common enemy” of honeybees and native bees. “The reason honey producers want to put their hives there [on national forests] is that there are so few unimpacted places,” she said. The company has sought bee storage on at least three Utah national forests. Honeybee storage on forest service land is not new; the practice exists in Arizona and California, as well as in Wasatch-Cache National Forest in northern Utah. Even so, scientists and conservationists fear bee storage in southeastern Utah might damage native bee populations.

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ore than 50 people gathered at Sugar House Park on a recent Friday afternoon to take Utah’s nickname—the Beehive State—to heart. Drills whirred and kids sawed away as they assembled a nesting box for native bees. The project, put on by Sandy-based Hollow Tree Honey and Midvale-based belt company Grip6, was intended to help grow the number of bee habitats in people’s own backyards. Thomas Bench (picured, above left), a co-founder at Hollow Tree Honey, told City Weekly there are about 1,500 native bee species and about two-thirds of them would likely nest in the small shoe-boxsized wooden enclosures. While Bench’s company relies on honey bees, he says the group wants to aid bee conservation and create a project to maintain diversity in the bee population. While a honey bee can help pollinate plants, other bee species can do even more. “These native bees, they don’t have any pollen sacks though, [but] they have tons of hairs,” Bench said. “When they go to a flower, they go in there and get all covered in pollen and it’s almost 90 to 95 percent efficiency.” The boxes were made from wood scraps collected from cabinet makers and phragmites grass harvested along local waterways. The grass, which is similar to a reed and hollow inside, provides a nesting and breeding habitat for the insects. Those who assembled boxes were instructed to hang them up in their home garden and given flower seeds to plant in hopes of attracting bees. Amy Sibul, an instructor with the University of Utah’s biology department who attended the event, said many people might only think about honey bees, but “what the population doesn’t understand is that we have thousands of other kinds of bees.” That’s where the easy-to-build boxes come in handy. “The biggest problem with all questions of biological diversity is habitat destruction, so we’re trying to combat that by putting these components in our urban spaces,” Sibul said. “That’s one of the wonderful things about bees: They’re resilient, they’ll repopulate and grow in abundance.” Bench, a former student of Sibul’s, said they hope to do more events like this one at Sugar House Park in hopes of spreading the bee-conservation gospel. “People ask us about the bees all the time when we’re at farmers markets,” he said. “They’re like, ‘What’s happening? They’re dying.’ So, we try to give them really simple stuff like seed packets and help them build these boxes to put up in their garden.” CW

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the trio piled into their dad’s 1960 Pontiac Bonneville to drive back to their home in Ogden. The inversion made that trek difficult. “On the way out of there, it was, ‘Oh my gosh, how are we gonna get back?’” Handy recalls. “It was pea soup that you couldn’t see in.” Handy and his sister, 12 and 10 years old at the time, put on their jackets, got out of the car and guided their dad to an intersection so he could orient himself and get them home. They

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and pulmonary issues, chronic conditions made even worse by unhealthy, foggy, thick air. Handy has become a fierce advocate of making sure the air Utahns breathe is as safe as possible. Sure, he can’t legislate topography, but he can propose bills that are intended to better purge the sky of dangerous chemicals. He floated four such pieces of legislation in the last session, three of which passed. He also played a part in the Legislature’s appropriating more than $29 million for air qualityrelated initiatives, a stunning figure that dwarfs similar funding in years past. In his and others’ telling, a confluence of factors came together to make last session a particularly good one for those who are passionate about clean air. Even in a deep-red state controlled by a Republican supermajority whose second-favorite religion behind Mormonism is worshipping fossil fuels, lawmakers have come around. In Handy’s words, “I think Republicans have kind of finally gotten the message.”

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“I said, ‘What do you mean?’ I can’t legislate geography, I can’t move the mountains,’” Handy says, remembering the caller did not take that response well. “He swore at me.” It was a flippant comment, Handy admits. But then he started thinking about his childhood and all the times hazy air had affected his life. Like one winter evening in the early ’60s, when Handy, his sister and his father were visiting their family in Holladay. After the soiree,

walked slowly through the cold and the muck as their dad drove slowly behind them. “You could see better outside the car than in the car,” Handy explains. “The headlights were not helpful. It was so thick, so you relied upon human eyesight.” As more experiences like this popped into Handy’s head, he realized bad air quality seasons had been a constant issue, occurring annually like Christmas and Easter. “Inversions are something that I’ve known my whole life,” Handy says. “We used to call it fog. We didn’t know what it was.” In the years since, Handy has educated himself on the science behind Utah’s occasionally atrocious air quality. Approaching the subject with an open mind, he began his air awakening by reading academic research and talking with constituents, the state’s Division of Air Quality and nonprofits like Moms for Clean Air and Breathe Utah. He learned that the state’s growth influx could adversely affect its air. More people means more cars on the road, and more new Utahns means more people who have asthma

ne call changed everything. It was the year 2011, and Rep. Steve Handy, R-Layton, was driving in South Weber when his cell phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number. Handy pulled over to the side of the road. The angry caller told Handy he had asthma—what was the first-term state legislator going to do to improve Utah’s air quality?

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It’s impossible to have a conversation about air quality without talking about Rep. Patrice Arent, D-Millcreek, whom Handy calls “the queen.” “She’s the leader,” Handy says. Arent has survived 19 legislative sessions, but she didn’t start working on clean air issues until 2011. Like many Utahns, she’d known that inversion happens in winter, when cold air trapped under warm air brings pollutants closer to the ground. And she became convinced she had to use her legislative power to combat poor air quality. She spoke with Utahns inside and outside her district, some who work in emergency rooms and told her that on bad air days, their departments are more packed with people with respiratory and cardiovascular issues, as well as pregnant mothers, who said they were worried about living in Utah during the winter. “I first focused on the health issues,” Arent says. But she knew she’d have to work hard to convince lawmakers from parts of the state with more pristine air that this was an issue worth tackling. She got her hands on a study conducted by Envision Utah, a local nonprofit focused on Utah’s sustainable growth, that listed air quality as employees’ No. 1 reason they’d leave the state. In other words, she appealed to her more conservative colleagues’ bread and butter—economic development. In 2013, Arent founded the Clean Air Caucus, a bipartisan group of lawmakers— whose districts stretch across Utah, from Logan to St. George—that meets between sessions. Caucus co-chairs like Arent and Handy pay out of their own pockets for pizza so the attendees can munch while they discuss how to best limit pollutants. “Since I created the caucus, we have passed more clean air legislation than in the history of our state,” Arent boasts, adding that she’s sponsored more clean air legislation than any other lawmaker. One of the co-chairs is Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross. Like Handy, Weiler is an air quality apostle, but he wasn’t always that way. “I think this was something I had to kind of realize,” Weiler says. An avid cyclist, Weiler had long known that inversion could affect his day-to-day life. “I’m kind of my own constituent when it comes to air quality,” he says. Still, addressing the issue wasn’t at the top of his agenda in 2012, when he ran for his seat in a special election, and then a few months later ran again in the general election. People told him they were worried about breathing the noxious pollutants, but cleaning the air wasn’t among their top three concerns, Weiler says. At some point, that flipped. “The public cares more about it now.” Weiler points to a particularly bad inversion during the 2014 session as a turning point that brought the “air quality movement” into mainstream public consciousness. The air became especially murky for a stretch in February. “That’s when the Legislature is in its sweet spot,” he says. “Everyone was getting emails like, ‘Our air stinks.’” He thinks lawmakers passed more than a dozen air quality-related bills by the end of that session.

Air quality concerns crescendoed even before the last legislative session. Late last year, Gov. Gary Herbert called on lawmakers to appropriate $100 million for programs to improve the state’s air. “The governor really got up on the horse and started galloping,” Weiler says. The budget proposal set the tone. Legislators passed a slew of bills intended to make it safer to breathe. They appropriated $500,000 for Free Fare Days, enough for people to ride public transportation free of charge on seven bad air days. They made it easier for cities to enforce their anti-idling policies, and increased fines associated with people “rolling coal,” when drivers, for God knows what reason, blow thick, black smoke out of their exhaust pipes. “I think we had more wins than losses,” HEAL Utah Executive Director Scott Williams says. Sure, there were bills passed that make air activists a little concerned, but Breathe Utah Policy Director Ashley Miller says this past session was “monumental.” The 63rd Legislature was notable not just for what lawmakers did, but also for what they didn’t do. “There wasn’t one single thing that was really, really terrible,” Miller says. “There’s always something that’s going to do something really bad for air quality, and we didn’t have that this year.” Bills are great, but the windfall of funding is huge, too. “The $29 million we got is 29 times more than we normally get,” Miller says. Shortly before the session ended, Bryce Bird, director of the state’s Division of Air Quality, emailed Arent and put the 2019 appropriation into perspective. The $14 million DAQ received was by far the largest amount budgeted since at least 2014. (The remaining $15 million in air-quality funding was sent to the Department of Administrative Services, so the agency could implement a work-from-home initiative and upgrade the state’s vehicle fleet, among other priorities.) The closest DAQ got to its 2019 funding was in 2016, when lawmakers gave the department $7.3 million in one-time appropriations. The second-closest was a tie between 2015 and 2017, when the Legislature issued $1.5 million in one-time funding. In 2018, they gave just $800,000. “It’s an important part for the discussion,” Bird tells City Weekly. “The $14 million won’t solve everything right now, but it’s an important step along the way.” To Arent, the boon was the result of years of work. “We’ve been doing such constant chipping away for so long,” she says, reflecting on the session’s air-quality bonanza. “It’s been building up for years.” It wasn’t always that way. Weiler remembers voicing his support for air-quality programs in committee hearings and on the Senate floor six years ago. “I would get some strange looks from my Republican colleagues,” he says. “Now, everyone is talking about it.”

Out of Sight, Out of Mind Handy credits public pressure for putting the onus on lawmakers to do what they can to clean up the air. Getting constantly called or emailed by concerned constituents has pushed Republican leaders to be more amenable to taking legislative action. Air quality isn’t a Republican or Democrat issue, HEAL Utah’s Williams says. Legislators frequently get their ear talked off about inversion and wildfire pollution, regardless of whether the elected official has an R or a D next to their name. “I think they hear from a broad enough swath across the demographic spectrum—just ages, religion, income, they don’t just hear it from some niche group,” he says. “They hear about it in many different ways from many different people.” Still, Williams says, the calls come more frequently when the air is especially bad. Unlike the 2014 session Weiler remembers, the air during this past Legislature was relatively inversion-free, leaving some air-quality allies to temper their expectations before lawmakers approved the budget. “It’s unfortunate you have to wish for bad air in order to get something done about bad air,” Williams says. “When people see it, they understand it better,” Arent echoes. The timing is also important. Lawmakers OK Utah’s budget toward each session’s end. Air-quality issues aren’t top-of-mind by that point. “If the session ended in mid-February, it would be easier,” Arent says. “But it ends in mid-March, and by then, the inversion season is over.”

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Clear sky or not, Handy says science has advanced since his Holladay inversion experience in the ’60s, which has better informed his Republican colleagues and further convinced them of the need to act. “Sometimes things, they just take time to mature,” Handy explains. “As a Republican, I want to believe in the free market and private enterprise, but there’s no free market incentive for cleaning up the air,” Weiler says. “It pains me to admit this as a Republican, but the Clean Air Act is working.” Byrd says Utah’s Air Quality Board adopted the State Implementation Plan this past January, to identify the sources of emissions in the air and outline a plan to achieve the regulations set by the feds. He gives kudos to the SIP for helping to secure the massive amount of air-quality funding. “It is vital, and we have a long history of developing these plans in response to changing standards over time,” he says. Breathe Utah’s Miller says the nine months between now and the 2020 session are crucial. It takes a sustained effort to keep communication lines open between airquality activists and lawmakers. “Our legislators have a lot of issues to work on, and not just air quality,” she says, so the more organizations like hers, the better. “Legislators,” she adds, “really hate to be labeled as not caring about clean air.” Arent remains optimistic the interest in funding initiatives that promote cleaning the state’s air will remain strong. “Will it be $29 million? I don’t know that,” she says. “I always work hard to make sure we get funding for air quality, and I will continue to work hard.” Air advocates will need to show lawmakers there was a return on their investment in order to secure future funding, Weiler says. “They’re gonna say, ‘Show me what we got for the $29 million,’” Weiler predicts. “And if we don’t have something to show them, then we’re not going to get much money.” The 2019 session was unique in another critical way—the state had a $1.3 billion surplus to play with. Of the $29,058,400 spent on air quality this year, just $45,400 is ongoing funding. “I think one thing to know about this appropriation is it’s almost all one-time money,” Williams says. Environmental issues loom on the horizon—the inland port and the state’s explosive growth, for instance, are creating serious concerns about the environment. “It’s hopeful they were willing to put that much money into it, but it’s going to require an ongoing commitment of year after year after year to get ahead of things,” Williams says of the air-quality crusade. “This is an ongoing, year-after-year effort that we’ve got to stay on top of.” CW

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The relationship between siblings can be fraught with difficulty and emotional pitfalls. Resentment, competition and misunderstanding often get in the way of a closer connection. But relationships are one area where the three McElroy Brothers—Justin, Travis and Griffin— excel. Their popular podcast, My Brother, My Brother and Me, is billed as an “advicecast,” a kind of Dear Abby for the airwaves, though they insist that the advice they offer should never be taken too seriously. Travis McElroy has declared himself a “sexpert,” but there’s no evidence to support that claim. Still, their on-air free-for-all jockeying and spontaneous banter makes for a lot of laughs. Humor is the main ingredient, and their everyman attitude suggests that this is a medium where experience isn’t required. Indeed, their amateurish, often inane, approach is charming in its own inimitable way, especially because it’s so seemingly off-the-cuff—and mostly offthe-wall, as well. Naturally, there are those of us who would love to channel our own family ties into a creative pursuit, one capable of reaping a wee bit of recognition. Even though the entire enterprise is spiked with silliness, it still managed to become the No. 1 downloaded series on iTunes within a year of its launch. Likewise, when one of their episodes was adapted as a graphic novel, it hit No. 1 on The New York Times’ paperback best-seller list. So here’s our shoutout to any similarly inspired siblings of our own: Oh brother, where art thou? Time to plan our own podcast. (Lee Zimmerman) My Brother, My Brother and Me @ Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, April 4, 7 p.m., $38.50, artsaltlake.org

Complexions Contemporary Ballet “was inspired by a desire to see many different dancers in one place sharing in the commonality of dance,” co-founder Desmond Richardson told AXS in a 2017 interview. “The name came out of a conversation with one of our dancer’s parents who commented on the diverse group we had assembled and said ‘the complexity of the people in this room is just astounding, so many different hues and textures.’” The New York City-based dance group, founded in 1994, indeed boasts a cast drawn from many races, genders and backgrounds. In their upcoming performance at Kingsbury Hall, they ornament themselves with even more hues and textures— swipes of face paint and dustings of glitter, to be exact—for a dance tribute to David Bowie, the much-loved binary-breaking British rock icon. Bowie died in 2016, but he is still being celebrated. In Star Dust, a rock opera choreographed by Complexions co-founder Dwight Roden, dancers twist and parade to classic Bowie numbers like “Space Oddity” and “Young Americans” in a vibrant performance that finds dancers en pointe and on foot, breaking with classical ballet traditions. Deborah Jowitt in DanceBeat called the dancers “glittering athletes” engaged in the art of “extreme ballet”: “Look at the dancers: strong, confident, beautiful, they can do anything. When they swing their legs into the air, a tree could fall.” Other pieces performed in the past by the company are set to a mix of electronica and Bach, Handel and classic rock, awash in pools and flashes of strategic lighting. Expect a masterful, moving performance by artist-athletes adept in their craft. (Naomi Clegg) Complexions Contemporary Ballet @ Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, April 5, 7:30 p.m., $5-$25, utahpresents.org

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It has taken more than 50 years for John Cranko’s 1965 ballet Onegin to make its way to a Utah premiere, a debut that Ballet West Artistic Drector Adam Sklute has been chasing for virtually the entirety of his tenure. Yet he’s also honest enough to acknowledge that the company might not have been ready until now. “It is one of the world’s great ballets, and as all the ballets that come from the Cranko estate, a company has to be approved,” Sklute says. “It has to do with the overall capabilities of the entire company. We’re ready now. We have a company that’s capable, an orchestra capable of performing this dense orchestral score, dancers that are capable of this amazing choreography.” Cranko’s ballet adapts one of the great works of Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin’s 18thcentury verse novel Eugene Onegin, about a wealthy man’s romantic dalliances and his tragic realization that he might have missed out on his true love. Sklute believes that this interpretation offers a unique quality that an English translation can’t. “In dance, we can distill it down to its essence,” Sklute says. “How many of us fell head over heels in love with someone when we were young, and say you wrote that person a love letter. And that person ignored it, or worse yet, mocked you for it. Then 25 years later, you go to your high school reunion, and that person says, you were the only person who understood me, and I missed that … You don’t have to know the story in advance to get it when you see it in dance.” (Scott Renshaw) Ballet West: Onegin @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, April 5-6 & 10-12, 7:30 p.m.; April 13, 2 & 7:30 p.m., $30-$87, balletwest.org

“Whatcha packin’” might be a common catchphrase on most seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race, but current Season 11 competitor Silky Nutmeg Ganache is packing a lot more than elaborate costumes, wigs and boxes of Sharpies in her quest for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar. The 29-year-old Reginald Steele—who goes by the stage persona Silky Nutmeg Ganache—honed her drag skills for more than six years, slaying the stage in the clubs of Chicago before sending in an audition tape for the Emmy award-winning show and securing a spot as one of 15 competitors on the current season. “Never in a million years did I think that I would actually get on. That was my first time submitting a complete audition tape,” she said in a recent Chicago Tribune interview. Despite being assigned a smaller role in a recent Grease-inspired musical for a Drag Race challenge, she was the star of the show, winning top honors for the week. “I never thought in 40 seconds I could be that impactful,” Steele said. Acing the challenges on Drag Race, Ganache’s recent performance as Oprah in Trump: The Rusical even brought unexpected praise from Momma Ru for her “star quality.” Salt Lakers can view the fierce talents that are earning Silky Nutmeg Ganache challenge wins (and perhaps the title?) in person at the upcoming Metro Music Hall show. “I’m more than a drag queen, I’m an experience,” Ganache wrote in a recent Facebook post. “I love to gag folks with my transformation. I’m perfect because I accept my flaws and all. And I do what I do for entertainment.” (Colette A. Finney) Silky Nutmeg Ganache @ Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, April 6, 9 p.m., $20, metromusichall.com

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ometimes, an event hits on a hot-button issue in the political consciousness. In the case of the Borderlands Conference, that event got rolling before the issue had reached its hottest point. Every year, the University of Utah English Department invites authors to its Guest Writer Series at Finch Lane Gallery. But as organizers like associate professor Michael Mejia were engaging in long-range planning in the fall of 2016, it became evident that the topic of immigration and the U.S./Mexico border might evolve into something more expansive. “Even at that time, there was quite a bit of talk about immigrants, and what is considered ‘illegal immigration,’” Mejia recalls. “It occurred to me that it would be great to have a larger event bringing authors together from different genres talking about their work, and their relationship with the border, both personally and professionally.” The result is the Borderlands Conference, a two-day event combining author readings and roundtable conversations about border issues. Scheduled participants include Francisco Cantú, who chronicled 31/2 years working for the Border Patrol in the memoir The Line Becomes a River; Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, author of the short story collection Barefoot Dogs; poet Natalie Scenters-Zapico (The Verging Cities, Lima :: Limón); and novelist Yuri Herrera (Signs Preceding the End of the World). Mejia brings to this event a personal interest, both as a descendent himself of Mexican immigrants and as a writer working on a project relating to the border. Through his own experience and research, he recognized that there was a wide gap between the realities of existence on and around the border and general perception among the American public, particularly those far removed geographically. “Anybody who doesn’t live on the border doesn’t tend to get it,” Mejia says. “The conversation as it tends to occur, whether in the streets or in the media, doesn’t tend to understand the realities of communities there. There is a history of permeability on that border that has created a particular kind of culture, which is opposed to how we usually talk about hardening borders … In our civic discourse, those complexities often get overlooked.” Among participating authors in the Bor-

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derlands Conference, Francisco Cantú has seen those complexities from a unique perspective. A third-generation Latino from Arizona, Cantú joined the Border Patrol out of college, hoping to get a different point of view on the immigration issues that had been part of his academic studies. “For me, it wasn’t a career choice, but more something I could do for a couple of years and help inform me as a policy-maker or immigration lawyer,” he recalls. “I was looking for answers that had eluded people in academia, or looking at it from other standpoints.” What he found instead was that the induction and training process for the Border Patrol made it difficult for him to keep his initial goals in mind. Still, his experience drove home the reality that the story of the border is not one of faceless invading hordes, or of dangerous criminals, but a story of individuals, most of whom were simply seeking a more secure life. “From the time that you show up at the academy,” Cantú says, “you’re trained to see these people as criminals, and to deal with these encounters as criminal encounters. But the vast majority of the encounters I was having were humanitarian encounters—people in refugee situations, fleeing violence, seeking to reunite with families.” For these writers, and for the Borderlands Conference, there is a goal of shifting the nature of the public conversation and portraying a reality separate from political rhetoric. Cantú recognizes how challenging that goal can be at a time when people absorb their information in inflammatory bite-sized pieces. “Such a big part of that challenge is getting people to pick up and read a book rather than engaging with a tweet or a headline that reduces things,” he

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says. “As a writer of long-form non-fiction, my goal is to complicate people’s understanding of the border and problematize the way people have developed for thinking about and talking about the issue.” And as bleak as the picture seems to be at a time when news coverage is still filled with images of migrants locked in holding pens, or stories of children separated from parents, Cantú espouses the need for telling individual human stories and doing grass-roots work. “It is distressing, but it is a perverse opportunity for harnessing that attention that wasn’t there before,” he says. “For me to look into the future and imagine where the trajectory is going, it’s overwhelming to me the lack of positive outcomes I can imagine politically. But I think that what sustains me, and so many people who are doing this kind of work in whatever way they’re engaged in it, is the human personal face-to-face interactions—engaging with these populations being most affected by these issues. “For people feeling dejectedness around these issues, it’s important to find out what’s happening in your communities. The border has a way of reaching into people’s lives, no matter how far away from it you find yourself.” CW

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In conjunction with SLC Gallery Stroll (gallerystroll.org), mountaineer and fitness trainer Mark Twight debuts a new collection of photography in Refuge: Effort, Environment and Emotion on Friday, April 5, 6-9 p.m. (with an author presentation at 7 p.m.) at 972 S. 300 West.

PERFORMANCE

Percussion Ensemble Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, April 9, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu

THEATER

COMEDY & IMPROV

An American in Paris Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through April 6, hct.org Little Shop of Horrors The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, through April 13, Monday, Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m., theobt.org Newsies Hale Center Theater Orem, 225 W. 400 North, through April 20, haletheater.org ...Of Color Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, through April 7, planbtheatre.org Othello Courage Theatre, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, April 4-6 & 11-13, 7:30 p.m., westminstercollege.edu The Rivals Babcock Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, through April 11, tickets.utah.edu Silent Dancer Salt Lake Acting Company, 168 W. 500 North, through May 12, saltlakeactingcompany.org Steel Magnolias Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through June 1, hct.org Sweat Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, through April 13, pioneertheatre.org William Shakespeare’s Henry IV Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, April 8-10, 7 p.m., artsaltlake.org

Free Kittens: A Stand-Up Comedy Show The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, April 5, 7 p.m., theurbanloungeslc.com Greg Kyte: Comedy Church Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, April 7, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Laughing Stock Improv Comedy The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., theobt.org Open Mic Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Rodney Norman Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., April 5-6, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Stand and Deliver Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, April 9, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Steve Soelberg Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, April 5-6, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Taylor Tomlinson Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, April 5-6, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

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Complexions Contemporary Ballet: Star Dust Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, April 5, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu (see p. 16) Holladay Reflections in Dance Olympus Junior High, 2217 E. 4800 South, April 8, 7 p.m., holladayarts.com Ballet West: Onegin Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, through April 13, balletwest.org (see p. 16) SALT Contemporary Dance: SALT II Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, April 5-6, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Va Va Voom Cabaret Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, April 5, 8 p.m., metromusichall.com

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Campus Symphony: Spring Concert Libby Gardner Concert Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, April 10, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu On with the Dance! Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Westminster College, 1840 S. 1300 East, April 8, 7:30 p.m., westminstercollege.edu

LITERATURE Borderlands Conference Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, April 4, 7 p.m.; April 5, 1-3 p.m., slcpl. org (see p. 18) Margaret Peterson Haddix: Greystone Secrets No. 1: The Strangers The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, April 4, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Four Variations on Voice: Readings from BCC Press Authors Anthony’s Antiques and Fine Art, 401 W. 200 South, April 5, 7 p.m., bccpress.org Wendy Jessen: Hope and Healing: A Survivor’s Faith-Based Perspective on Recovering from Sexual Abuse King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, April 5, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Spencer Hyde: Waiting for Fitz The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, April 10, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Working Dog Graduate Student Reading Series Utah Museum of Fine Art, 410 Campus Center Drive, April 10, 7 p.m., utah.edu/events

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

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Art & Soup Celebration Salt Palace Convention Center, 100 S. West Temple, April 4, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. & 5-9 p.m., cns-cares.org

LGBTQ

Utah LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce Gay-La Cottonwood Country Club, 1780 E. Lakewood Drive, Holladay, April 4, 6-9 p.m., utahgaychamber.com Silky Nutmeg Ganache Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, April 6, 9 p.m., metromusichall.com (see p. 16) HRC Utah: HER: Activism at the Intersections Squatters Pub, 147 W. 300 South, April 7, 1-4 p.m., hrc.org

TALKS & LECTURES

My Brother, My Brother and Me Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, April 4, 7 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 16) Leslie Anderson: Charles Savage: Pioneer(ing) Photographer Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, April 10, 7 p.m., umfa.utah.edu

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Grande St., through April 15, utaharts.org Erik Jensen: Pixelations Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through May 28, culturalcelebration.org Heidi Jensen: Sit Comfortably in a Darkened Room and Think of Nothing UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through May 4, utahmoca.org The International Tolerance Project Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through June 23, umfa.utah.edu Jim Frazer: Glyphs Finch Lane Gallery, 54 S. Finch Lane, through April 12, saltlakearts.org John Sproul: An Underness of Being Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through April 26, slcpl.org Kallie Hancock: Spectacles Finch Lane Gallery, 54 S. Finch Lane, through April 12, saltlakearts.org Lenka Clayton: Under These Conditions UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through May 11, utahmoca.org Life During Wartime Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through April 12, accessart.org Mark Twight: Refuge 972 S. 300 West, April 5, 6-9 p.m., nonprophet.media (see p. 20) Maynard Dixon: High Desert David Dee Fine Arts, 1709 E. 1300 South, through April 5, daviddeefinearts.com Mike Simi: Gettin’ By UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through May 11, utahmoca.org Nicholas Coley A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, through April 20, agalleryonline.com Out of the Night Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through April 12, accessart.org Pale Blue Dot Urban Arts Gallery, 116 S. Rio Grande St., through April 28, urbanartsgallery.org Sarah Lewis: Mharthanóir Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through April 12, accessart.org Shady Acres UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through May 25, utahmoca.org Sounds of Silk Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley, through April 8, culturalcelebration.org Wendy Wischer & Jeffrey Moore: Displacing Vibrations Nox Contemporary Gallery, 440 S. 400 West, through April 5, bit.ly/noxcontemporary

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not a bad plan, but it’s also one that could easily go south— why invest more than the bare minimum in Post Office if Takashi is the family diva? Fortunately, such corner-cutting isn’t on display here. Post Office has gone all out with its creative nods to Peruvian and Japanese cuisine, and it all starts with ceviche. The relationship between ceviche and Japanese sushi

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It was only an hour after Post Office Place opened when I walked up Market Street toward the entrance. A line of hungry sushi fans had congregated in front of Takashi, illustrating the symbiosis between Takashi and Post Office Place. Once these diners got their names on the list, they could saunter over to Post Office for a pre-dinner cocktail while waiting to gain entrance. It’s

have to admit, when I saw that Post Office Place (16 W. Market St., facebook.com/postbarslc) billed itself as a Peruvian-Japanese fusion tapas bar, my eyes rolled harder than Calvin Harris. I tend to harbor an inborn bias against swanky tapas joints, and if this place was owned by someone other than Takashi and Tamara Gibo, the proprietors of sushi rock star Takashi next door, I probably would have skipped it altogether. The fact that Post Office Place shares a pedigree with one of downtown SLC’s most venerated restaurants piqued my curiosity, and I was looking forward to challenging a few of my culinary prejudices.

there are worse places to try pig ears for the first time. Those who are interested in getting their feet wet before taking a deep dive into POP’s diverse menu will be interested in the bounty of happy hour offerings available every day before 6 p.m. and after 9 p.m. Items like oysters ($2), pickled eggs ($2) and the showstopping spider slider ($7) made with soft shell crab are on hand for some truly kick-ass prices— two bucks for six oysters is nothing short of a shot across Market Street Grill’s bow. I also enjoyed the pork belly lettuce wrap ($3). For that price, I expected to be searching through cabbage for signs of meat, but it’s complete with a generous slice of the melt-in-your-mouth goodness. For best results, enjoy Post Office Place for what it is—a freshfaced and hip nightspot designed to be the evening’s launchpad, its unexpected nightcap or both. It’s a welcoming, well-hosted space, and it’s helped me realize I can still be friends with a tapas bar—as long as it’s serving up beef tongue and pig parts, that is. CW

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exemplify the dark side of Central American food. For example, the anticucho de corazón ($10) consists of expertly grilled beef heart, and the lengua carpaccio ($12) is a carousel of grilled, thinly sliced beef tongue topped with an herbaceous chimichurri sauce. For me, the lengua ended up being the star of the evening. I’ve begun to enjoy a well-cooked bit of tongue, and this paper-thin preparation topped with a delightfully acidic chimichurri packs a concentrated dose of beef flavor that rivals any Sunday night pot roast. I would definitely encourage tongue initiates to start here—if this plate arrived without context, you’d swear it was tenderloin and lap it up with no hesitation. Having found myself on a bit of an offal kick, I ordered a plate of crispy pig ears ($7). It was my first encounter with pig ears, and I’m still trying to process the experience. First of all, it’s the kind of dish that can get an evening started on the right foot. The crispy texture on the outside and cartilaginous inside chew is pure conversation fodder. Flavor-wise, they land fairly close to pork rinds, but the sprinkles of cotija cheese, cooked jalapeños and a fresh slice of lime add some subtlety to the plate. It might have been the weakest link of the evening, but I have a suspicion

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isn’t that far removed—I’d even call the pair kissin’ cousins. They’re both celebrations of fresh fish, and the most prominent difference comes by way of leche de tigre, a firecracker blend of spices and the juices of highcitrus fruit like limes, lemons and grapefruit which impart ceviche’s more tropical notes. Basically, a talent with sushi can definitely translate to ceviche, so it’s a logical gap to bridge. The fun thing about Post Office Place is that the menu doesn’t stop there—I can almost picture the creative team opening the Necronomicon of Peruvian seafood only to be overwhelmed by a raging flood of possibilities that borrow liberally from all kinds of Central American cuisine. Starting with ceviche is the best choice here, and Post Office Place offers a few different variations. I went with the hamachi ceviche ($10, pictured), which arrived with a pop of vibrant orange, as roasted sweet potatoes sat alongside uniform cubes of yellowtail tuna and thinly sliced habanero peppers. It’s a dish that reminds you just how far an acidic citrusy tang will carry the flavor of fresh fish. The leche de tigre flavor remains on your lips just long enough to be licked off, and the peppers pack a welcome punch. From there, the menu deviates into quite a few deep cuts that gleefully

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Five Sushi Brothers Opens

After a successful run in downtown Provo, the folks behind Five Sushi Brothers have opened a second location in Salt Lake City. Brothers Ammon and Jacob Chung built the original restaurant around the concept of late-night sushi delivery, and their new location ushers the novel idea to downtown SLC. The storefront is on 67 W. 100 South, which could theoretically put them within range of all that University of Utah student housing—we’ll just have to keep an eye on their website (fivesushibrothers.com) to see where the sushi delivery sweet spot will be. Regardless, the restaurant’s late hours are catnip for hungry college students in need of sustenance.

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The bodacious baristas at Publik Coffee Roasters (975 S. West Temple) are hosting a pancake breakfast to raise money for the University of Utah’s Burn Camp, an organization to help burn victims of all ages build confidence and overcome other challenges. Firefighters from Local 81 serve up pancakes and bacon while Publik dispenses coffee and orange juice. The event is on Saturday, April 6, from 8 to 11 a.m., and the $10 admission gets you hot breakfast, a raffle ticket and a chance to support a great local organization. Plus, I hear firefighters are a bit fonder of bacon jokes than their metro police colleagues.

Ogden Restaurant Week

It’s not a bad week to make the trek up to Ogden if it’s been awhile. From April 4 to 13, select restaurants take part in the seventh annual Ogden Restaurant Week. Eateries offer two-course lunches and three-course dinners at discounted rates. As of now, more than 20 restaurants are lined up, offering food that ranges from the traditional Italian of Rovali’s Ristorante (174 25th St.) to the sushi stylings of Tona Sushi Bar and Grill (210 25th St.). Plus, if you’ve ever wanted to chow down in the back of a covered wagon, The Prairie Schooner (445 Park Blvd.) is also on board. Check out visitogden.com for details. Back Burnter tips: comments@cityweekly.net

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The Level Crossing Brewing Co. braintrust: Business development manager Katie Flanagan, left, head brewer Chris Detrick, middle, and owner Mark Medura pours a light amber-brown color with a small one-finger head. The nose is nice enough: sweet malts, faint citrus fruits and an earthy herbal note. The taste is quite good, though. It’s sweet up front with a nice balance of fruitiness and maltiness, a dry, clean palate and a dry, slightly bitter finish that’s somewhat nutty; really good stuff. The mouthfeel is suitable for the style. Overall: I really love pale ales, and I’m glad there are local breweries in Utah brewing good, quality beers like this with good consistency. This may well become my local session beer of choice.

Level Crossing is located at 2496 S. West Temple and offers an in-house food menu, two bars and a separate tasting room designed for tours and special beer events. Look forward to 12 tap handles that will soon be lousy with various tasty brews, along with several can offerings including a high-point rye IPA that head brewer Chris Detrick has become known for. As of this writing, three more beers have been added: Double dry-hopped versions of their pale ale and wheat ale, along with a Jack Mormon Coffee edition of the Kentucky Common. As always, cheers! CW

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10 local acts to get behind now. BY NICK McGREGOR music@cityweekly.net @mcgregornick

irst things first—picking 10 artists to watch in a city as stuffed to the gills with talent as Salt Lake City is a tall order. This list could be easily expanded and endlessly debated, incorporating the new talent that pops up in our fair metropolis all the time and the old standbys stretching their creative legs in surprising new ways. But for now, this brief compendium provides a peek into our thriving music community circa 2019. In it, you’ll find a mix of fresh fast risers, hidden gems waiting to launch and old-school favorites on a new tip. These are our 10 Salt Lake City acts to watch. Maybe we’ll even figure out a way to get a few of them to collaborate dream team-style in the future. Without further ado … 1. Marina Marqueza. To some listeners, this Japanese-Venezuelan electropop artist might be new. Sure, their selfproduced debut album, Orbit Pluto, just came out in January. But Marqueza’s been around for some time, channeling their synth-driven, R&B-inspired influences into heart-stopping performances on the Craft Lake City stage and at other one-off local events. (Before they ever released an album, City Weekly even nominated them for a Best Pop Artist in Utah award). With fresh press from outlets like Remezcla and a message of healing, love and support for immigrant and queer/trans communities, Marqueza has a bright future ahead of them—especially as they spread the message of SLC’s diversity and inclusion to a burgeoning international audience. Catch them Saturday, April 6, at Kilby Court. 2. The Violet Temper. For a duo, Lindsey Heath and Cache Tolman make an unholy racket, combining everything from avantjazz to heavy metal alternative rock into a new sound the two call “doom shoegaze.” Don’t let that complicated description turn you off, however; if you like music with a pulsating heart, mind-blowing chops and

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Laughter, Motherkilljoy, Pilot This Plane Down and Team Dead—and all those influences are evident on One Pound, Swarmer’s debut EP. Out last December, it combines the ferocious roar of heavy metal with the spacey breakdowns of psychedelia. 6. Amin “Shahzad” Adibnazari. Although Salt Lake City has a small but thriving Iranian-American community—most notably represented by former Congressional candidate and current Salt Lake County Councilwoman Shireen Ghorbani—Amin “Shahzad” Adibnazari might be the first Iranian-American rapper to come out of the Beehive State. With a unique cultural background and experience working alongside producers and sound engineers from Capitol Records and Sterling Sound, Shahzad’s newest single “On My Own” combines the passion of an underrepresented background with a razor-sharp lyrical tongue honed by poetry studies and ready to lay waste to weaker MCs. Following the positive blueprint laid out by MC predecessors like Black Thought, Mos Def and Lupe Fiasco, Shahzad writes in search of freedom and peace from the struggles he’s experienced. No matter where you’re from, that’s a universal human perspective. 7. Baby Gurl. It’s been more than three years since Jordan Fairbanks and Chris Wadsworth released new music as Baby Gurl, their anarchic two-piece noise-rock outfit that in 2016 won City Weekly’s runnerup award for Best Live Act in Utah. However, the terrific twosome played a handful of shows in late 2018 that got longtime fans fired up for their particular brand of gleeful, gender-fluid jams (see past favorites like “Gay for Gallops,” “Tuna in the Key of Pussy” and “Acoustic Wheel Chair Song,” along with Baby Gurl’s cult favorite split EP with Gaytheist. Yes, you’ll most likely find them in a middle of most lineups; they recently threw their weight around at a fundraiser for new all-ages Ogden venue The Co-Op, but last summer they did headline a show in Denver. Could further top-tier gigs be on the way for the duo? If Fairbanks and Wadsworth, who call themselves fellow Farts-a-Lots on Facebook have any say in the matter, we probably won’t know until the night before it happens. But that will make the next big Baby Gurl moment that much more special.

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stylistic nods to everyone from The Smiths to Swans to Smashing Pumpkins you’ll love The Violet Temper. After their album release show in December and follow-up performances earlier this year, TVT took a moment to regroup, but as of this week, they are back spreading their astral vibes once more. 3. Branson Anderson. Although he hails from Logandale, Nev., a sleepy desert town founded in the 1860s and now known as the home of the Clark County Fair and Rodeo, Anderson now calls Utah home, living in a camp trailer and digging into life as a sort of modern-day Dust Bowl troubadour. Avoiding traditional song structures in favor of a talking-blues style reminiscent of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Robert Johnson and Jack White, Anderson’s 2017 debut album, Graydog, and his forthcoming follow-up, Applecore, Baltimore, were both produced by Utah folk-blues icon Joshua James. Opening stints for outlaw country artists like Corb Lund and Charlie Parr have given Anderson the opportunity to hone his timing and delivery. Stay tuned for album release shows to come this summer. 4. Ol’ Fashion Depot. These nü-blues prodigies were unofficially passed the Salt Lake City torch when harmonica master Tony Holiday decamped for Memphis. If Ol’ Fashion Depot’s recent blizzard of tour dates is any indication, their live show should be tight as a drum. But it’s the psychedelic sensibility that J-Rad Cooley, Josh Karrick, Josh Fox and Burny bring to their Midnight Sessions (three of which are available on Bandcamp) that set this quartet apart. Part revivalists honoring blues tradition, part futurists barreling into a brave new world and part shape-shifters who both represent Salt Lake City and stand alone, Ol’ Fashion Depot are a force of Mountain West nature. If you like jazz, blues, rock ’n’ roll and soul, don’t miss any of this band’s many upcoming gigs. 5. Swarmer. Desert music never sounded so good. Hearkening back to the good ol’ days of Kyuss—the sun-drenched stoner band that preceded Queens of the Stone Age—Swarmer pieces together different permutations of rock and metal into a singular blend. Its four band members have done time in past bands like Accidente, Bird Eater, Cherubin, Day of Less, Drowning By Numbers, Form of Rocket, Gaza,

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8. Mindy Gledhill. Talk about a riveting story: When Mindy Gledhill reached out to City Weekly earlier this year to talk about her new album, Rabbit Hole, she didn’t shy away from the way her music directly addresses her break with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Once an LDS-approved recording artist famous for her sunny folk-pop, Gledhill’s tunes now hit both slick R&B production notes and wrenchingly emotional lyrical perspectives. As an outspoken ex-Mormon unafraid to address Utah’s patriarchal religious culture, she’s now attracting the biggest crowds of her career, selling out shows in New York, Boston, San Francisco and other major markets. In early May, she returns home to The State Room for a triumphant celebration of what’s sure to be one hell of a 2019. 9. gLife. George McDonald is a hip-hop lifer, spending the last decade on the road after cultivating a rabid local fanbase in and around town. The prolific MC blends streetwise rhyming à la La Coka Nostra, Jedi Mind Tricks and Eminem with a melodic singing style that recalls Nelly, Eamon and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. But it’s his electroflavored beats that really stand out, turning your typical gLife song into a sonic feast for the ears. Alongside Adlib and Space Kamp, gLife set out on a Break Rules Spread Love North American tour just last week, which is sure to make a splash. 10. Ritt Momney. Forget the fact that their band name riffs hilariously on ol’ Mittens, Utah’s new U.S. senator and an eternally dull thorn in Donald Trump’s side. Ritt Momney has bigger goals in mind than just novelty status here in their hometown. With frontman Jack Rutter laying down enough confessional indie-rock gems to transform 2019 full-length Her and All of My Friends into an instant classic and Auden Winchester, Noah Hamula and Jonas Torgersen providing pitch-perfect backing instrumentation, the future looks bright for these young musicians. They understand the power of transcending genre, mixing psychedelic synthrock and bedroom pop but are not afraid of jumping into new territory. A heartfelt delivery and a keen eye for details helped Ritt Momney stand out on a recent mini-tour of California with fellow upstarts The Backseat Lovers; the real competition will come when we see which band explodes onto a national stage faster. CW

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Arizonan singer-songwriter Roger Clyne arguably made his biggest mark on pop culture in the mid-90s with his band The Refreshments, best known for their 1996 hit single “Banditos” and the indelible opening theme of Fox animated series King of the Hill. In the two decades since, Clyne certainly has kept himself busy. Clyne and drummer P.H. Naffah re-branded The Refreshments as Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers in 1998, and the group hasn’t stopped touring and releasing music since, treating their thousands of devoted fans to eight full-length albums and countless live shows from coast to coast, as well as dozens of studio vlogs, concert webcasts and live recordings. The Peacemakers have also spearheaded their own Circus Mexicus annual music festival for nearly 20 years, shared the stage with musical legends such as Johnny Cash, Sammy Hagar and John Fogerty and even released their own line of tequila. This spring, Clyne and The Peacemakers are once again bringing their sun-baked, hard-rocking fusion of Americana, power pop, reggae and mariachi to bars and clubs across the country, including a stop at The State Room on April 5. Local roots-rock outfit Ghostowne opens. (Nic Renshaw) The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $22, 21+, thestateroompresents.com

Spiritualized

Jason Pierce and his cohort of psych-rock cosmonauts write and perform big songs about seemingly small ideas. On their first album in six years, And Nothing Hurt, released in 2018 on Fat Possum, Pierce tackles such interplanetary ideas as relationship apathy and adulthood fatigue. “I’d like to sit

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around and dream you up a perfect miracle,” he gently croons over a ukulele strum on the album opener, “A Perfect Miracle.” By the time the chorus hits, Pierce is already over it: “My mind is a mess and I’m needing you less/ Give me a call in a little while.” It’s pure doldrummery, but the music only gains altitude—timpani drums and Spiritualized’s signature guitar drone enter at the midway mark to bear the song up. Exploring simple concepts in a galactic context has been the band’s recipe for catharsis since the George H.W. Bush administration. Those moments happen throughout And Nothing Hurt, which Pierce hinted might be their last record. It’s a good album to know, not only for its quality but because Spiritualized will likely play it in its entirety after opening with standards from their 1992 debut, Lazer Guided Melodies, and their 1997 opus, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. With those songs, J. Spaceman and crew don’t need the Los Angeles Philharmonic to achieve spectacle, though they still enlisted the orchestra at an L.A. tour stop last year. Their SLC show has no opener or guest ensembles, and it’s a seated event—just like the Apollo 11 launch. (Robby Poffenberger) The Depot, 13 N. 400 West, 7 p.m., $35-$55 presale; $40 day of show, 21+, depotslc.com

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In “White Flag,” a song from Joseph’s second full-length album I’m Alone, No You’re Not, released in 2016, the trio take a cue from English singer-songwriter Dido and declare unrepentant refusal to capitulate: “I could surrender but I’d/ just be pretending, no I’d/ rather be dead than live a lie.” But in this case, Joseph are refusing to surrender not love, but ideals, singing a “marching song,” a declaration of their intent to keep speaking up, keep making noise—complete with handclaps and ebullient harmonies. It’s protest music, a note of triumph in an era that seems intent on swallowing us all up. Joseph are a trio of sisters from Portland, Ore.; their name is a tribute to a small town in their home state and their grandfather. Formed when singer-songwriter Natalie Closner Schepman recruited her younger twin sisters Meegan and Allison to sing vocals, the band built a following playing intimate livingroom shows, eventually self-releasing their first album in 2014. Since then, they’ve catapulted up the charts, with I’m Alone debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseakers chart in 2016 and going viral on Spotify; they’ve appeared on Ellen, Conan, The Tonight Show and at NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, among other notable showcases. But that hasn’t dimmed the acoustic magic of the folk trio, whose latest EP, 2017’s Stay Awake, is gentler and more intimate than I’m Alone, a heartfelt showcase of the

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Although she hails from the land Down Under, Ruby Boots’ soulful yet seductive style finds an easy fit within the broad label of Americana, proof that the genre provides a vast umbrella that easily extends from Austin to Adelaide. Then again, Ms. Boots— born Rebecca Louise Chilcott—has been a wanderer since early on, having left home at age 16 to make her way up Australia’s windblown west coast, eventually settling in one of the country’s more remote regions. She took a job on a fishing boat and, while spending long stretches at sea, picked up guitar, wrote some songs and carved out a career that’s netted her a burgeoning fan following and a rapid rise in acclaim. With three EPs and a pair of albums to her credit—debut release Solitude and follow-up Don’t Talk About It—she’s shored up a cache of intimate and expressive melodies that hold back nothing when describing what’s left after a wrecked romance and malignant manipulation. An artist who would seem to naturally find favor with any supporter of the #MeToo movement, she’s adept at expressing the injustice of sexual betrayal without falling prey to helplessness. Indeed, Boots is far more prone to kick some butt. (Lee Zimmerman) Kilby Court, 741 S. Kilby Court, 7 p.m., $10 presale; $12 day of show, kilbycourt.com

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Go ahead and try to make sense of Ben Folds and his off-the-wall career. An expert pianist who went to the University of Miami on a percussion scholarship, Folds’ first album, Party Night: Five Songs about Jesus, contained four songs that had nothing to do with Jesus. After stints working in Nashville as a session musician and in New York City as an actor, Folds returned to his native North Carolina and started a trio named Ben Folds Five, breaking big in the 1990s on alt-rock radio with a new twist on smart piano-pounding balladry that Folds once called “punk rock for sissies.” Over the last few years, though, the 52-year-old has taken an artistic leap into relatively uncharted waters: translating his pop repertoire into classic concertos. His last full-length album, 2015’s So There, is a chamber rock tour de force recorded with the esteemed New York City ensemble yMusic, a feat Folds has replicated time and time again while touring with symphony orchestras the world over. (His latest single, 2018’s “Mister Peepers,” pokes satiric fun at President Donald Trump.) Folds returns to the Beehive State to perform another soldout show with the Utah Symphony; sweetening the deal is a pre-concert AMAAM (Ask Me Anything … About Music): A Ben Folds Master Class, which pulls lessons from his forthcoming memoir A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons. “I tell the audience that I’m expressing myself completely through a different form here,” Folds told NPR’s Weekend Edition in 2015 of his classical forays. “It doesn’t seem like a leap to me … It feels like home.” (Nick McGregor) Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, 7:30 p.m., $59-$369, all ages, utahsymphony.org

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Irish-born singer and song composer Andrew Hozier-Byrne, known simply as Hozier, skyrocketed to fame five years ago thanks to his anthemic breakout single, “Take Me to Church,” and his platinum-selling, self-titled debut album. After the whirlwind of going from open mics in Dublin to the Grammy Awards in less than two years, he’s tackling the challenge of following up a smash record with his sophomore LP, Wasteland, Baby! The 26-date Wasteland, Baby! Tour promises to be a major production: Hozier has recruited a seven-member band, with each serving as a vocal accompanist, to bring his new collection of dramatic, cathedral-worthy songs to life. All aspects of Hozier’s performances suggest intense emotions, from his soaring and soulful voice to his finger-style acoustic guitar playing. His lyrics have a dark streak, such as the chorus of his 2016 single “Cherry Wine,” which hints at an abusive relationship: “The way she tells me I’m hers and she is mine/ Open hand or closed fist would be fine/ The blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine.” That’s not to say Hozier’s music is all shadows and storm clouds. He’ll often add tonguein-cheek elements, and sometimes he balances darkness with downright sweetness. On the title track of Wasteland, Baby!, he sings, “All the fear and fire of the end of the world/ Happens each time a boy falls in love with a girl.” English singer-songwriter Jade Bird opens. (Howard Hardee) The Union Event Center, 235 N. 500 West, 8 p.m., $45, sold out as of press time, theunioneventcenter.com

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I’d like to think I’m a decent beer connoisseur; I certainly look the part, hanging around State Street on a weeknight with my pleather jacket. I make it a point to always swish my beer around when I order a pint and smell it. (Is that weird?) However, my vast knowledge of beer really stems from YouTube and Google—at least until I visited The Bayou, the “Beervana” of Salt Lake, where I realized the possibilities are endless in the world of beer. It’s quite possibly the only bar that has so many brews they made an app for their menu, which ranges from pumpkin beers to Trappist ales. I was kid in a candy store. Being a newbie, I leaned toward a Bayou regular named John after spotting the Trappist Ale section. “It’s monks’ beer,” John explained, and judging by the price it must’ve been sacred. “That’s why I get the Mormon beer. It’s a lot cheaper,” he told me with a chuckle. The thought of Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction passed through my mind; I had to know what a $32 Trappist ale tastes like. But I stuck to what I think I know with a 2 Row Brown Ale. The tasty beverage paid off: The brown ale was the perfect drink to sip on for the talk John and I had. We chatted about wolf populations and law school. John proclaimed that when he’s not being a son of a bitch, he’s a son of a history teacher. He started schooling me on why Utah still measures their brews by alcohol by volume (ABV). Although the 86-year practice of 3.2 ABV beer is coming to an end this fall, it never stopped The Bayou from serving delicious beer with a variety of New Orleans-inspired foods. The State Street bar truly embodies the colorful spirit of NOLA, much needed in the city of salt. (Rachelle Fernandez) The Bayou, 645 S. State, 801-961-8400, utahbayou.com

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Annabelle: Creation) to indulge in cheesiness. (There are some really cheap-looking effects here.) Right from the get-go, the entire premise of Billy’s elevation to superhero is confused at best and suspect at worst. The wizard who needs a champion has been trying for decades, at least, to find one, but no one has been worthy enough. Yet the movie doesn’t bother to explain whether, once the wizard finally accepts Billy as his champion, the wizard is merely so desperate to Shazam-ize anyone that he overlooks Billy’s unworthiness, or whether there’s supposed to be something about Billy that elevates him above the many other humans the wizard has tested. From what we do see of Billy’s character, both before and after his chosenness, he’s certainly not a bad person, but there doesn’t seem to be anything spectacularly, uniquely good about him, either. We cannot even deduce from everything that follows which is the case with Billy. That’s a problem. If you squint hard enough, you might discern a motif of “with great power comes great responsibility”—although of course no one can articulate that because Shazam is a DC character and Spider-Man, who is famously taught that lesson, is from The Other Place— but that is even more watered down because we have no idea upon what basis Billy was granted his superpowers in the first place, and with what mindset he’s using them. It’s a slow-moving slog for the movie to get Billy from playing superhero to an encounter with the ill-conceived putative villain Dr.

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ell, here we have it. With Shazam!, a comic-book movie has finally made it explicit that the superhero story, at its most reductive, is nothing more than an adolescent-male power fantasy. Fourteen-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel) is chosen by a wizard (Djimon Hounsou) to be a champion, complete with a grownup body (Zachary Levi) clad in spandex and with all sorts of capedcrusader abilities, such as bullet immunity and super strength; all Billy needs to do is shout “Shazam!” to shift back and forth between his usual teen scrawniness and magical adult-sized badassery. And what does he do with this unexpected boon? He mostly shows up school bullies, buys beer, goes to a strip club and goofs around with his foster brother (Jack Dylan Grazer) exploring the extent of his superpowers, to the point where he sometimes puts innocent people in danger. Now, I’m sure that anyone who is now or who has ever been a teenaged boy will delight in how the curtain of pretense has been lifted, and they can finally revel in “being seen” by Hollywood. But adolescent-male power fantasies is pretty much all Shazam! has going for it. There’s no larger resonance; Shazam! isn’t actually about anything. I’m sure some will insist that it’s good that the comic-book movie is “fun again”—as if comic-book stories haven’t been explicitly about punching Nazis and exploring other social-justice matters from their very beginnings. For someone who needs at least a little bit of meat in their fantasies, Shazam! is a disappointment. It isn’t even simple exhilarating fun. Because nothing really matters here, it gave an excuse for screenwriters Henry Gayden (the extremely derivative Earth to Echo) and Darren Lemke (the unclever meta of Goosebumps) to be lazy and director David F. Sandberg (the shockingly misjudged

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objects of desire, not desiring beings.” I’ve quoted her because I suspect it’s crucial for you to not suppress or hide your longings in the coming weeks. That’s triply true if you’re a woman, but also important if you’re a man or some other gender. You have a potential to heal deeply if you get very clear about what you hunger for and then express it frankly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Only one of Nana Mouskouri’s vocal cords works, but over the course of an almost 60-year career, the Libran singer has sold more than 30 million records in 12 different languages. Many critics speculate that her apparent disadvantage is key to her unique TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their style. She’s a coloratura mezzo, a rare category of chanteuse who mothers give birth to them,” wrote novelist Gabriel García sings ornate passages with exceptional agility and purity. In the Márquez. “Life obliges them over and over to give birth to them- coming weeks, I suspect that you will be like Mouskouri in your selves.” Here’s what I’ll add to that: As you mature, you do your ability to capitalize on a seeming lack or deprivation. best to give birth to ever-new selves that are in alignment with the idealistic visions you have of the person you want to become. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Unfortunately, most of us aren’t skilled at that task in adolescence Your tribe is symbolized by three animals: the scorpion, the eagle and early adulthood, and so the selves we create might be inad- and the mythological phoenix. Some astrologers say that the scorequate or delusory or distorted. Fortunately, as we learn from our pion is the ruling creature of “unevolved” or immature Scorpios, mistakes, we eventually learn to give birth to selves that are strong whereas the eagle and phoenix are associated with those of your and righteous. The only problem is that the old false selves we gen- tribe who express the riper, more enlightened qualities of your erated along the way might persist as ghostly echoes in our psyche. sign. But I want to put in a plug for the scorpion as being worthy And we have a sacred duty to banish those ghostly echoes. I tell you of all Scorpios. It is a hardy critter that rivals the cockroach in its this, Taurus, because the coming months will be en excellent time ability to survive—and even thrive in—less than ideal conditions. For the next two weeks, I propose we make it your spirit creature. to do that banishing. Ramp up your efforts now! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian novelist Gustave Flaubert declared that “our duty is to feel what is sublime and cherish what is beautiful.” But that’s a demanding task to pull off on an ongoing basis. Maybe the best we can hope for is to feel what’s sublime and cherish what’s beautiful for 30 to 35 days every year. Having said that, though, I’m happy to tell you that in 2019 you could get all the way up to 95 to 100 days of feeling what’s sublime and cherishing what’s beautiful. And as many as 15 to 17 of those days could come during the next 21.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s time to prove that Cancerians have more to offer than nurturing, empathizing, softening the edges, feeling deeply, getting comfortable and being creative. Not that there’s anything wrong with those talents. On the contrary! They’re beautiful and necessary. It’s just that for now you need to avoid being pigeonholed as a gentle, sensitive soul. To gather the goodies that are potentially available to you, you’ll have to be more forthright and aggressive than usual. Is it possible for you to wield a commanding presence? Can you add a big dose of willfulness and a pinch of ferocity to your AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every language is a work-in-progress. New words constantly self-presentation? Yes and yes! insinuate themselves into common usage, while others fade away. If you traveled back in time to 1719 while remaining in your LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): General Motors manufactured a car called the Pontiac Aztek current location, you’d have trouble communicating with people from 2001 to 2005. It wasn’t commercially successful. One of that era. And today linguistic evolution is even more rapid critic said it looked like “an angry kitchen appliance,” and many than in previous ages. The Oxford English Dictionary adds more others agreed it was exceptionally unstylish. But later the Aztek than 1,000 new words annually. In recognition of the extra had an odd revival because of the popularity of the TV show verbal skill and inventiveness you now posses, Aquarius, I invite Breaking Bad. The show’s protagonist, Walter White, owned you to coin a slew of your own fresh terms. To get you warmed one, and that motivated some of his fans to emulate his taste up, try this utterance I coined: vorizzimo! It’s an exclamation that in cars. In accordance with astrological omens, Leo, I suspect means “thrillingly beautiful and true.” that something of yours might also enjoy a second life sometime soon. An offering that didn’t get much appreciation the first PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One of history’s most audacious con men was George C. Parker, time around might undergo a resurgence. Help it do so. a Pisces. He made his living selling property that did not legally belong to him, like the Brooklyn Bridge, the Metropolitan VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Of all the female sins, hunger is the least forgivable,” laments Museum of Art and the Statue of Liberty. I suspect you could feminist author Laurie Penny. She’s referring to the hunger “for summon his level of salesmanship and persuasive skills in the anything, for food, sex, power, education, even love.” She con- coming weeks. But I hope you will use your nearly magical tinues: “If we have desires, we are expected to conceal them, to powers to make deals and perform feats that have maximum control them, to keep ourselves in check. We are supposed to be integrity. It’s OK to be a teensy bit greedy, though.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sommeliers are people trained to perceive the nuances of wine. By sampling a few sips, the best sommeliers can discern facts about the type of grapes that were used to make the wine and where on earth they were grown. I think that in the coming weeks you Capricorns should launch an effort to reach a comparable level of sensitivity and perceptivity about any subject you care about. It’s a favorable time to become even more masterful about your specialties; to dive deeper into the areas of knowledge that captivate your imagination.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “When spring came, there were no problems except where to be happiest,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in his memoir. He quickly amended that statement, though, mourning, “The only thing that could spoil a day was people.” Then he ventured even further, testifying, “People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” I bring these thoughts to your attention so as to prepare you for some good news. In the next three weeks, I suspect you will far exceed your quota for encounters with people who are not “limiters of happiness”—who are as good as spring itself.

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