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SOAP BOX Feedback from Cover story, July 4, “We Predict a Riot” @CIVIL_RIOT_SLC Via Instagram The people of this state have already had their voices ignored. Remember the props? If the government won’t listen, what else is there to do but protest? If they would listen to voters, this wouldn’t happen. This is our state, too. So tired of the rich always getting their way … DEBRA VASQUEZ Via Facebook The taxpayers should be paying the protesters, not the politicians. They know the wishes of the residents of SLC. MIKE SCHMAUCH Via Facebook Anyone that has been around any inland port knows that the roads start caving in and tar will get pushed to the center on the roads that all the trucks travel. And trust me, they do not get fixed because they can’t. The only solution is to cement the roads, and that will not happen. ALBERT GARCIA Via Facebook

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Build it now. If we don’t now, it’ll just happen in the future at a lot higher price. Plus, more jobs and more work is always a good thing. JUSTIN FAURSCHOU Via Facebook

area in every previous implementation. Lots of short term construction followed by piece driven contractual work resulting in very low wages. JOE SCHMIDT Via Facebook

Riddle me this ... with the population boom and consumerism at an all-time high, how do the protesters expect goods to come into the area? They’re going to come, be it by rail or by trucking, and one unit train transports the cargo of around 80 to 100 semis. Would you rather the semis cause wear and tear on your roads ... would you rather they pollute the air? Because they will cause much more than a train. Also, before you handcuff yourself to a Chamber of Commerce building, try voting with your dollars by cancelling your Amazon account and online shopping. Wanna keep those conveniences? Then try to engineer a solution without stopping the economy you reap the benefits from. SPENCER GORDON Via Facebook

Definitely a lot of insight here. And among all the pros and many cons I see with this, all I can think is, “Who is gonna build the damn thing?” Working in construction and how bad we’re hurting for manpower, this thing would take many, many years to finish. BEAU SOUTHWICK Via Facebook

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News, July 4, “Final Chapter: Iconic downtown bookshop Eborn Books shutters” Don’t say it … SALT LAKE COUNTY LIBRARY Via Twitter

Not nearly as iconic as Sam Weller’s. Haven’t been in that old building since Tony Weller moved to Trolley. JOHN WILKES Via Facebook

It was a treasure-filled store. SUSAN LEHMANN Via Facebook The mayor of Holladay shut down Eborn?! Dude, see if I get caught speeding in your berg, a-wipe ... Eborn had a family history book for my family a few years back. It was pretty awesome, not to mention the many tens of hours I burned at the old Sam Weller. At least Ken Sanders’ move was delayed. GRADY PLAYER Via Facebook

Online news post, July 9, “Wrap It Up! Stan Penfoldbranded condoms make for unique campaign merchandise” Clever. MICHELLE HALLETT Via Facebook

If you don’t talk about it, it will not happen. That’s the Utah way. ALBERT GARCIA Via Facebook

Bees Knees

Bees are absolutely amazing. We can count on them to pollinate most of the plants around

us. I, myself, love flowers and Brussels sprouts, but bees are dying at unprecedented rates. Neonicotinoids: one long word with devastating effects. These chemicals are used widely across the country, but especially in Utah for agricultural and consumer use. The effect of these pesticides on Utah’s 900 native bees is catastrophic. They permeate our environment long after they are initially applied and they leave devastation in their wake. Gov. Gary Herbert, we need to take a stand against neonics now before it’s too late! JEANA SWIM, Midvale

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OPINION No Voice Is Louder Than Silence

Just when you thought you’d seen the worst of President Donald Trump, he has once again raised the standard of what it means to be the scum of the earth. As if the reports of criminal offenses of rape, obstruction of justice, fraud, tax evasion and extortion—worthy of years of incarceration for anyone else but the president—aren’t enough, his latest anti-women and anti-people-of-color rants are yet another last straw atop the pile for the deplorable moral collapse of the Republican Party. And yet, consistent with its historical position of accepting, and even embracing, Trump’s behavior, the GOP is once again enduring—and tacitly endorsing—the pig slop that flows from the president’s mouth. Really, folks, is this what it means to be an American? As the son of two firstgeneration Americans, I have a vision of how great our country can be; and I’m not liking its current trajectory. The idea that our president can espouse values so contrary to our Constitution and Bill of Rights floods my emotions with a sense of shame, and my mother and father are surely turning over in their graves. While some might look on Trump’s hate-mongering as yet another insignificant and mindless bird-brained tweet, the implications of his invitation—that congresswomen of color go back to their own countries—gives us a glimpse of what America would be if Trump had his own way. His racism and sexism (notice he didn’t include any

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. men of color in his little outrage) are certainly nothing new. After all, here’s a man who can bestow accolades on neo-Nazis and refer to Hispanics as rapists and murderers, lumping together virtually everyone unlike his lilywhite self. I suppose the GOP’s response to his tweeted tirade—the absence of any response at all—is fully predictable, accepting the non-stop lies and criminality of “its man” without judgment and an enduring worship of the simple statement, “Boys will be boys.” Can’t Republicans see the problem? Their party is whatever its leadership preaches, and that makes each one of its spineless members a dismal excuse for American values. Those politicians who fail to rise up in anger over the president’s hateful words are just as bad as he. From our governor to Utah’s congressional delegation (Sen. Mitt Romney and Rep. Ben McAdams excluded), our own leaders are truly pathetic examples of how good men can choose to be caught up in the dangerous currents of the hateful rhetoric of their S.O.B-in-Chief. That makes Utah’s senators and representatives women-haters; that makes them racists. They hate blacks, Hispanics and anyone who isn’t Cloroxwhite. While none of them will actually articulate the blatant affronts of their leader, their acquiescence to Trump’s disgusting behavior puts them squarely in his camp. How can Utah’s leaders remain so quiet? As Jesus once spoke, “For whoever is not against us is for us.” Big J’s words were the ultimate acknowledgement of how abdication—for any group on any side—is just as good as becoming a cardcarrying member. Republicans in all 50 states have sunk to the depths, choosing to do the mindless dictation of a pathological narcissist’s game of Simon Says. But it is not a game, and blind loyalty has its consequences. Remarkably, even the hollow devotion of the Christian

Right (now, the Moral Wrong) remains buried in the sense that Trump’s potty-mouthed megalomania somehow serves their God. After all, as long as he’s pro-life, and the economy continues to sail along, that appears to be a reasonable conclusion. The sum value of their silence is the equivalent of shouting, “Heaven loves the leader of American bigots!” and “God considers women to be the second-class sex.” It’s very strange to think that the God who passionately loves unborn black, white, yellow and red fetuses of either sex, has a rabid prejudice against women and people of color. It would appear that the Christian Right is an integral part of sustaining and amplifying the ugly agendas of its president. On the national level, there are a significant number of good people speaking out against the hate-mongering of the not-so-funny clown prez, and yet, Utah’s leaders seem content to allow for the corruption of the presidency to dictate their own personal sense of conscience. Had Trump’s oral diarrhea flowed from the mouth of a corporate CEO or some other government employee, he would have been ushered to the door and awarded a pink slip. It should shake every one of us to consider what has happened to the ethics and morality of the pathetic people we elected to Congress. We rely on their voices, and yet they will not speak out, fearing the failure of their political aspirations more than the failure of our most sacred values. After all, we must remember that silence, when it comes to the endorsement of our resident’s evil, may be the biggest voice of all. CW

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Borderline Wrong

You know what strikes fear in people’s hearts? It’s not white supremacists, it’s not rising fascism or even the zombie apocalypse. Oh, no. It’s your voice—your opinion—and how dare you express it. We, like everyone else, are talking about the inland port protests. You know, the noisy ones where someone was accused of peeing in an office and our blushing Gov. Gary Herbert ranted about “borderline terrorism.” The unedited YouTube version of the protest was exhausting, what with all the screaming. But no, that didn’t make the point. Terrorism? Wait. Let’s talk about the attacks on a black church, on a synagogue—deadly stuff. This doesn’t “border” that. The pee? Facebook commenters have lots of theories—a setup, or someone emptying a water bottle, or pee. In case you still don’t get the point, it’s not to close the doors.

Feeling Neighborly

At least there’s discussion. Of course, it’s not in official meetings of the so-called inland port board. It’s online at nextdoor.com. While talk sometimes veers into disagreement, Nextdoor’s members are fiercely protective of the site’s non-political mission. Enter the inland port demonstrations. Here, the talk was about “Wearing masks in public.” In other words, it’s about Antifa and the growing fear of the loose and secretive anti-fascist cabal. While Salt Lake City Councilman Charlie Luke says he’ll look into other cities’ laws, many neighbors chimed in that they don’t want government telling them what to wear. Best comment among the dozens who had opinions: “Assaulting someone is against the law. Wearing a mask is not against the law. What happens when a group of people wearing Hawaiian shorts protest and assault people ... do we make wearing Hawaiian shorts illegal?” Maybe they should ask if Tiki torches should be banned.

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Dramatic tales of life and parenting are on display at Tracy Aviary’s flamingo exhibit. BY PETER HOLSLIN pholslin@cityweekly.net @peterholslin

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While there’s no word on whether the same-sex flamingo couples get it on, the pink birds have shown they, too, make great parents.

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moment,” Connair says. Naturally, a male and female flamingo need to copulate in order to produce an egg. But do the same-sex flamingo pairings copulate together? LyngleCowand is unsure. “I couldn’t give you a definite answer on that. We’re not observing the flock 24/7,” she says. “We do see copulation out there on occasion, but not with all of our pairs. Sometimes, they might do it at night … it’s something I’d look into a little bit more.” As the sun shines down on the flamingo exhibit, a fight breaks out. Blue 60, the biggest and baddest bird in the exhibit, starts honking at Tan 24 and White 95, the lovely male couple who built the best nest of 2019. In a matter of moments, 60 manages to kick the two off their mud-made masterpiece and claim it as his own. Connair watches it all go down, but doesn’t intervene. “He’s one of my best-breeding birds. He and his female partner, they have raised so many chicks throughout the years. They’re a really, really good pair, but they’re kind of lazy nest-builders,” Connair says of Blue 60 and his mate, Green 33, who’ve been together since 2011. “He can have whatever he wants, as long as he stays a good parent.” That could be a setback for Tan 24 and White 95, but their hard work has not gone unnoticed. According to Connair, a same-sex flamingo couple could easily be “foster parents” for a chick, since a flamingo doesn’t bond with its chick until after the egg has hatched. If another couple isn’t up to the task of taking care of an egg, Connair knows just who to give it to. “They would make killer dads,” she nods. CW

legend of Floyd; one community group even tried to establish a South American flamingo colony in the Great Salt Lake in 2003, though they soon abandoned the effort over concerns about pollution and the area’s already fragile habitat. Tracy Aviary opened up its current flamingo exhibit two years later, featuring a flock big enough for breeding. Collectivist by nature, Connair says the birds do everything together, staying tightly packed to protect against predators. They bicker among each other about territory only when they stick their beaks in each other’s personal space—something one younger malemale couple has been doing a bit too much lately. “They’re really trying to learn and see the behaviors and pick them up, but they’re just kinda young and clueless,” Connair says of Blue 57 and Blue 53, who both turn 2 next month. Flamingos typically start mating after winter. The months-long process begins with them signaling interest in each other with elaborate dances and plumage displays. Eventually, they’ll all pair up and then the entire flock will gather for a coordinated “march,” walking as a group from one end of the exhibit to the other—necks sticking up high; heads moving from side to side. By human standards, there is nothing heteronormative about these rituals. The flock here includes multiple couples where both flamingos are of the same sex. There’s also somewhat of a love triangle going on: As Connair describes it, one female flamingo has two girlfriends, who both adore her but don’t get along with each other. “They’re hanging out together, but it’s not a very secure relationship at the

water, one bird comes up behind another and tries to mount her. But she quickly brushes him off with a honk of the beak and a swift flap of the wings. The aviary’s flamingo enclosure is designed to resemble the flock’s natural habitat, which spreads along the coasts of Ecuador down to the scrub plateau of southern Chile and Argentina. There’s a green pond and shady plants. Several species of South American waterfowl also call the place home, and wild mallards occasionally drop in for a swim. According to Connair, one goose who’s no longer at the aviary recently became “best friends” with a young flamingo. He later taught the other flamingos how to steal pellets from the duck feeder. “Whenever they want a snack they’re not supposed to have, they can go over and shake their own pellet out,” Connair says of the newly learned trickery. Flamingos have been living at the aviary since the 1980s. According to Kate Lyngle-Cowand, Tracy Aviary’s curator of exhibit collections, the mountainous elevations and salt deposits of the Salt Lake Valley resemble the salt lagoons and soda lakes this specific flamingo species traditionally calls home. “They’re found in areas that are more arid than you would think,” LyngleCowand says. “They’re really highly adaptive to extreme environments. They can tolerate really cold climates, and they can tolerate really hot climates.” In 1988, one famed flamingo escaped from the aviary and settled in the Great Salt Lake. Pink Floyd—as he would soon be called—was born in captivity but held his own for nearly two decades in the wild, subsisting off the Salt Lake’s brine shrimp. Utahns reveled in the

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llie Connair has high hopes for Tan 24 and White 95. According to Connair, the primary keeper of Tracy Aviary’s flamingo flock, these two Chilean flamingos have been a model of success during breeding season at the Liberty Park aviary. Some birds have been lazy about building the volcano-shaped mud mounds necessary to lay and incubate eggs. But Connair says Tan 24 and White 95—so named for the color- and number-coded bands tied around their thin legs—worked tirelessly in recent weeks to make a “picture-perfect” mud nest, taller and rounder than all the rest. The birds are both male, so they can’t lay eggs. But they’ve proven capable on the parenting front: When Connair gives them plaster eggs designed to mimic real ones, they’ll split the caretaker duties equally and always treat the eggs gently with their beaks. “During breeding season, they are the first to pair off with each other,” Connair says of the couple. “It speaks to something for me. They have to be doing something right.” The Tracy Aviary’s 21 adult flamingos began their annual mating rituals in March. Since then, the goings-on at this muddy, sunny, waterside enclosure have been as eventful as any season of your favorite serial, with dramas of youthful abandon, inter-species mischief and domestic triumph playing out all the time. “This whole flock is kind of like a soap opera,” Connair explains. “You try not to take your work home with you, but every day I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh! They were doing this today.’” On a recent Wednesday morning, the pink birds—26 in all, including five too young to start breeding—are kicking back in the mud, presiding over their nests and occasionally honking their beaks. Most have been hard at work building their nests in recent weeks, and now, aviary staff are waiting for the flamingos to get it on and lay some eggs. This particular day, it seems magic is about to happen. In a shallow pond of

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told Wood about the account long before he was ever featured in it. He wasn’t even on Instagram back then, but all of his friends followed the account. Before its deletion in late June, following multiple interview requests by City Weekly, @BYUpda was the go-to account for communal denouncement. But, was the account just a fun way for students to entertain themselves in a small city? Or was there something more sinister at play that even its account admins can’t quite fathom? The school was aware of it and the administration voiced concern about the unintended consequences of accounts like @BYUpda and others like it that put students on display without their knowledge. “It’s clear that this account is in poor taste and appears to have the sole purpose of publicly shaming people for entertainment,” BYU spokesperson Todd Hollingshead says. “It may seem harmless to many, but there are unintended ripple effects to posting images and videos of people without their consent.” In a telephone interview, Hollingshead says one student was so distraught

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ment cottage industry. At any other college, the intimate snapshots of moments between consenting partners would be unremarkable. Yet, at this university, which is owned by the LDS church, being featured on the account doesn’t equate to bragging rights. In fact, it could very well ruin your academic future. And the posts? They ran the gamut of what you would expect at a religious university that prizes modesty and heteronormative behavior. Couples kiss in a chemistry class while oblivious to those around them; a duo holds hands in a study hall under the table; a woman hugs a man outside a testing center. There aren’t any videos or pictures with nudity or explicit sexual activity. Yet slick captions posted by viewers are notably less concerned with that. Not surprisingly, the comments appeal to a perverse sense of judgment. The post to receive the most vitriolic clout was that of a black man and a white woman kissing in a crowded room. The video elicited more than 50,000 views and garnered the most vomit emoji comments. Wood says the anonymously run @BYUpda goes back a few years. Friends

t took five minutes after the post went up for friends to start contacting Konner Wood. Someone unknown to the Brigham Young University freshman had uploaded a picture of him kissing a woman on the university’s Provo campus. Wood was still with the woman. Neither of their faces were fully visible, yet people who knew him were able to clearly identify him. Woods was the latest tribute on the popular Instagram account @BYUpda. Wood, who no longer attends BYU, says he’d heard about the account before being featured. He always thought its feed was funny and harmless but never imagined he’d ever be a part of it. “Well, you know in all things, mon culture, and students make fun I like it when it is applied to other of themselves and the bubble they live people but I don’t want the rules to in. Submissions to Overheard@BYU_ apply to me personally,” Wood says. are anonymous and there are no iden“At first, I was a little surprised, tifiers as to who is saying what. But no ’cause I was just one-on-one with a other account had the power or the girl, and then someone is taking a gravitas of @BYUpda. With only 308 picture of me.” posts, the account amassed some Many student-run social media 43,200 followers. Post views could accounts focus on the connections reach well within the 70,000 range and constraints of the BYU experi- with an engagement rate that any ence, none of which have official public relations firm would envy. ties to the institution. The mores The account’s tagline, “carefully of BYU are set by tradition as dic- curated campus cringe and more,” tated by The Church of Jesus Christ accurately describes its raison of Latter-day Saints. Accounts such d’être. Documenting unsuspectas Overheard@BYU_ push back at ing couples mid-embrace instantly some of the absurd aspects of Mor- created a campus-wide entertain-

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We live in a culture in Provo, where all the students are very horny but the school is set up in such a way that there is not a lot of privacy. All the kids want to touch each other, but there is no way you can do it privately. — Konner Wood, Former BYU student

at being recognized on the site, they had to relocate housing. Earlier in the year, Hollingshead says BYU’s Title IX office—which enforces the 1972 legislation to eliminate sex-based discrimination and ensure both genders have access to an education—sent a certified letter to the masterminds behind @BYUpda, tasking the account to stop posting pictures of students without their consent. @BYUpda never responded. City Weekly asked for a copy of the certified letter, but it hadn’t been received as of publication.

Steeped in Tradition From medieval pillories to modern-day cancel culture, public shaming is nothing new. And the desire to conform to norms has a significant role in guiding cohesive societies. But hashtags and accounts like @BYUpda’s that lead viewers to social media humiliation are at once more prevalent, scarring and potentially dangerous as it relates to students. Exposure of public displays of affection at BYU has consequences that go beyond an embarrassing digital footprint. Students must contend with the school’s honor code and Mormon hyper-concerns over sexual sin. The more immediate concern to students is a potential violation of the university’s stringent honor code. Per the school’s website, all faculty, administration, staff and students are required to sign it. The morality contract promotes modesty in dress and action. It also prohibits and punishes premarital sex, consuming alcohol and coffee and growing a beard. Consequences are meted out on an individual basis. The school hired a new director for the office this spring and the school has since announced changes to some of its enforcement policies, according to honorcode.byu.edu. Still, consequences of violating the code can include mandatory religious instruction, community service, withholding of diplomas, temporary removal from school or expulsion. Asked if the behavior displayed in @BYUpda’s posts violate the honor code, Hollingshead says it wasn’t something he could discuss, as he had not gone through all the posts. But what is most troublesome, is the lasting impact accounts like these

have on students’ still-developing sexual identities and habits. As a religion, Mormonism straddles a traditionally patriarchal past, while trying to keep abreast of and adjust to a modern world. Students enrolled at BYU are placed in an environment where they’re expected to develop marriages that extend beyond Earth and into the afterlife. The bane of that dream is that they’re young adults armed with the same hormones as other collegians in secular universities. “We live in a culture in Provo, where all the students are very horny but the school is set up in such a way that there is not a lot of privacy,” Wood says. “All the kids want to touch each other, but there is no way you can do it privately. So they all end up doing it publicly, which is kind of a problem cause it can get a little awkward at times if they are doing it in a very public spot.” Even after being dragged in the account himself, Wood says he saw some good in it. “@BYUpda was kind of a way to balance that and kind of holding people in check. It’s kind of a good thing,” he reflects. It’s a balance that comes at a price.

Arrested Development Along with being the founder and executive director of Salt Lake City’s The Healing Group mental health clinic, certified sex therapist Kristin Hodson is the co-author of the book Real Intimacy: A Couples Guide for Genuine, Healthy Sexuality. She says the user-submitted videos speak to students’ “under-developed emotional maturity and sexual development”—something, she says, that has a very BYU feel to it. “It feels exploitative,” Hodson notes. “That account, to me, is so unique to BYU culture, in the same way that premarital exams for girls are before they get married. Like, sexuality is taboo.” In Utah, it’s not uncommon for health providers to administer a premarital exam to prepare women for vaginal sex. Doctors provide women with dilators—a medical device meant to stretch the vagina and get it used to penile penetration.

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When the 18th century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham died, he willed that his body should be dissected and put on display. His mummified corpse now sits in an enclosure at the University College London sometimes with

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a secret web camera hidden inside his cadaver. The purpose? To test surveillance algorithms and to illustrate Bentham’s most lasting ideological legacy: the panopticon gaze. French philosopher Michel Foucault revitalized interest in the panopticon in his 1975 book Discipline and Punish. Foucault used the panopticon to show how disciplinary societies subjugate its citizens. For Foucault, a panopticon was best illustrated by a building surrounding a central tower. From the tower, it is possible to see into each cell a prisoner occupies. The prisoner’s visibility then becomes a trap. The success of the tower relies on the prisoner being isolated while knowing they are being constantly watched. The panopticon creates a sense of permanent awareness of a visible yet unverifiable watcher active in the prisoner’s mind. The prisoner can always see the tower but never knows from where they are being observed, so they police themselves and others better than if they had a guard intermittently checking in. So, it’s no surprise then that BYU students would want to police their behaviors as well as the behavior of others. When asked what makes a perfect BYU student on Quora.com, a question-and-answer website, the most common reply is that students there are Ivy League material who want a Mormon-based education. And the BYU Facts and Figures page boasts the high scores of incoming freshman: an average ACT score of 29.5 and an average high school GPA of 3.86. Social media feeds like @BYUpda co-opt the panopticon according to CoCo James, a Ph.D at the University of Utah. A former member of the LDS church, she studies sexual violence and has written a research paper on shaming and modesty. The paper has not yet been peer-reviewed. She also produced a content analysis on all references to modesty contained in the three official church magazines between 2000 and 2017. Mormonism, James says in email exchanges and by phone, relies on an ever-watchful eye and explains why accounts such as @BYUpda became a campus hit. “The purpose of posting these pictures and videos is social control—both through shaming the behaviors and through reifying the

“If you look at the flip side of that, it is the opposite of a dildo,” Hodson says. “Most of the women and girls are getting sex education. Boys aren’t having to go to the doctors to make sure their penises are going to function and that they are ready to be prepared for their wife.” Shifting back to Insta-shaming, Hodson says accounts like @BYUpda—as well as the school’s puritanical culture—foster ignominy around healthy sexual expressions. So, instead of using PDA to express their sexual desires, students will invent elaborate methods of getting around premarital sex prohibition. “Developmentally, at that age, having relationships and consensual sexual behavior that doesn’t have to include intercourse, is really normal,” Hodson explains. “I find as a sex therapist, that students of BYU are the most creative at coming up with sexual work-arounds outside of intercourse.” Hodson recalls armpit sex, an act that was in vogue for BYU students last year, as a way around the chastity rule. Urban Dictionary defines the act as one “where a male repeatedly slides his penis under a female’s (or male’s) armpit; an alternative to penis in vag intercourse.” Inventiveness aside, the sexual suppression and emotional restraint practiced by BYU students seems to extend beyond observing the restrictive code. In 2016, the university’s disparate treatment of women who reported sexual assaults, drew national scrutiny after a few of them came forward at a campus rape awareness conference and then unto The Salt Lake Tribune. More than two dozen women claimed the university had investigated them for potential honor code infractions that occurred around the time of their sexual assaults after the assaults were reported. “I mean, BYU is having trouble with consent, right?” Hodson laments. “The real issue is tackling, fundamentally, that sexuality is healthy.”

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disciplinary, panoptic gaze that all Mormons are taught is prevalent. That Mormons, and women in particular, must stand as witnesses of God at all times, and in all things, and in all places.” James says the fact that a new copycat Instagram account @pda_byu, which was created immediately after @BYUpda was deleted and picks up where its predecessor left off, indicates students’ desire for some type of outlet to report on others. A female student commented on one post that her “entire goal for college is not to get on this page.” Essentialist beliefs, James says, about gender and sex drive, pervade Mormonism and it’s the exposed women who have the most to lose on shaming accounts. James adds that women experience exposure differently from men “in every way, and queer people would experience backlash times 10,” as any queer on-campus public display of affection would be panic-inducing. “Mormons believe men naturally have their foot on the gas, thus women must have their foot on the brakes,” James notes. “This is seen in myriad ways throughout the faith, but is easily observable when hearing old men tell young women that they become ‘living pornography’ when they show their shoulders; that they invite temptation; and that they are responsible to anticipate and accommodate a sexualized male gaze.” Thus, @BYUpda and the ilk are a natural byproduct of that teaching, which for many starts in early childhood and is cemented during churchmandated worthiness interviews as pre-teens. Those interviews are a longstanding church policy, wherein children are interviewed by adult male church leaders. Often times, the conversation takes place without the oversight of another adult or the child’s parent. These one-on-one conversations cover not only spiritual topics but also personal issues like sexual behavior. The church has since updated some of the policies surrounding these exchanges. But critics say the interviews prep children to accept the behavior as part of ministry and open the doors to sexual predators. “Mormons are conditioned to talk about their sexual behavior and their undergarments from an early age,” James points out.

It is no surprise then that BYU students would engage in spying on people and uploading it for the entire school (and beyond) to enjoy, he says. “Encouraging others in their commitment to the standards is not synonymous with turning someone in,” BYU’s Hollingshead says. “We don’t encourage an environment of turning others in, and we don’t act on anonymous reports, unless, of course, it involves the safety of a member of our campus community.”

A No-brainer James finds that the public nature of students’ affection is largely due to the housing rule that prohibits students entering the housing complexes of the opposite sex; the parameters of the honor code; the age of the typical college students; and the forceful push of the Mormon church for individuals at that age to find their eternal heterosexual companion. “They combine to make PDA a no-brainer,” James says. “Of course, this is what is going to happen, given the social milieu. My concern is, that shame and fear are knit with pleasure in this milieu. They say it is a productive shame, because they want to stop the behavior because it is sexually dangerous. That may be, it may function in that way but then it begs the question, ‘How did people experience that and is that traumatic?’ I would argue that people experience that as traumatic.” BYU student Keli Fossett says she didn’t think beyond the entertainment value when she uploaded a picture of a couple embracing on the second floor of the Wilkinson Student Center. For her, that was normal. Such public displays aren’t something she could do herself but thinks it “depends on the person and their own moral choices.” But after @BYUpda posted the picture and tagged her as the submitter, Fossett says she regretted it. “At the time, I didn’t think I was really invading their privacy but later I thought about it and I kinda feel bad for taking the picture without them knowing it,” Fossett says. “In other cities, they just date casually. Just for fun. It’s not like it is here in Provo. Here, sometimes we date a little too seriously.” CW

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Having a way with words is basically a prerequisite if you want to succeed in stand-up comedy, but few in the field have managed the level of pure facility with the English language as Patton Oswalt. His image as a cranky, pop-culturepoisoned English major placed him as a central figure in the “indie comedy” boom of the early 2000s. Oswalt certainly came up with a lot of indie cred: On his 2007 Sub Pop Records debut Werewolves and Lollipops, he compared one of his jokes to a Pixies song, and extensively lamented how his upbringing in suburban Virginia caused him to miss out on the thriving D.C. punk scene at the time. More recent material has found him chastising a younger version of himself for his vitriolic hatred of Nickelback. Oswalt has grown up a lot in the ensuing decade-plus, though, and each subsequent album/special has reflected that. In between the standard political jibes and rapid-fire popculture references, his material has documented his complex relationship with mental health, his newfound roles as a husband and father and his transition from a struggling, geeky stand-up comic to the kind of big name that can sell out a Vegas auditorium. His most recent Netflix special Annihilation was no exception, delving into the aftermath of his wife Michelle’s unexpected death in an extended monologue that was equal parts heartwrenching and hilarious, seamlessly intertwining ruminations on mortality and humanity with lighter material. Oswalt is currently road-testing an all-new hour of material as he makes a stop at Kingsbury Hall. (Nic Renshaw) Patton Oswalt: Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, July 19, 8 p.m., $35-$55, tickets.utah.edu

Wildflowers are so beautiful and seemingly abundant that it can be hard to resist plucking one of them when you’re out hiking. And yet, leaving them be is exactly what the Wasatch Wildflower Festival hopes to teach people. This weekend, Utahns can take kid-friendly, ADAaccessible, American Sign Language-run or easyto-advanced-level walks with trained Cottonwood Canyons Foundations guides to learn about the state’s flora and leave-no-trace philosophies. Serena Anderson, executive director of the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation, says reinforcing leave-no-trace helps protect Utah’s plant, animal and human populations. “We find that there’s a lot of damage to our canyons because they’re so accessible,” Anderson says. “There’s a lot of flower trampling, a lot of people off-trail, a lot of people picking flowers and a lot of people who don’t understand how important it is to not poop in the watershed.” The last reason is why there are no dogs, aside from those registered for ADA-use, allowed on the walks—the fecal matter goes straight into the watershed, and it’s hard to filter out to make it safe for human use. The festival will also include a children’s artmaking table to encourage a “paint them, don’t pick them” attitude toward wildflowers as well as music for guests to relax to before or after their hikes. Anderson says those interested can sign up at the event or through pre-registration, which can be accessed via Google Doc at the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation website or Facebook page. (Kylee Ehmann) Wasatch Wildflower Festival: Alta Town Park, Alta Ski Area, 801-930-5010, July 20, guided hikes available from 9 a.m.-2 p.m.; Snowbird Center Plaza Deck, Snowbird, July 21, 9 a.m.-2p.m., free, cottonwoodcanyons.org

Native American heritage is, of course, an intrinsic part of the history, culture and mystique of the American West—and of our entire nation. After all, these indigenous people were the first to settle this sprawling country. Today, they underscore the fact that everyone who arrived afterward was an immigrant once they descended on these shores. That’s an important lesson worth remembering in these fractious times, where the debate about immigration rages on. Happily then, Native American tribes and communities remain a vital part of our culture, as evidenced by the annual local celebration that’s become one of the nation’s most successful powwows and Native American gatherings. As it enters its 25th year, the NACIP festival once again offers the opportunity to experience the rich heritage that these indigenous peoples share with their neighbors. As always, the afternoon offers a full slate of activities, beginning at noon with the roll call of dancers and drum groups, and ultimately culminating with a spectacular fireworks display that caps the festivities at 10 p.m. And there’s plenty of enjoyment to fill the hours in-between. Along with the entertainment provided by Native dancers from across the country, visitors can enjoy food, arts and crafts and a full array of children’s and family activities. It’s not only an awesome opportunity to cross the cultural divide, but to also gain understanding and appreciation of the people who are were Americans before all of those who were privileged to come after. (Lee Zimmerman) NACIP Powwow and Festival: Liberty Park, 600 E. 900 South, 801-688-9297, noon, July 24, $5 (individuals under 3 and over 65 free), facebook.com/nacippowwowfestival

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As the popular Pod Save America podcast hits the road as Pod Tours America this summer, the cast has booked some reliably “Blue Bubble” tour stops: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland … Salt Lake City. The Pod people have presumably done their research, and discovered that SLC is a deep blue island in the otherwise red ocean of Utah. What else would you call a city where the last three mayors have included a member of the LGBTQ community, a guy who campaigned on putting in more bike lanes and a former ACLU attorney who tried to get George W. Bush impeached? Utah’s capital city turned out so strongly for Barack Obama in 2008 that he actually edged John McCain in Salt Lake County. Speaking of Obama, the co-hosts of the podcast and Thursday’s live event—Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor—all worked in the Obama White House and on his campaigns. The cast is more interested in the nitty-gritty of actually winning elections than posturing about positions. While they are often preaching to the Blue America choir about how awful they find the Trump presidency, they are also quick to let liberals know when they think they are doing things that will help ensure the current occupant of the White House gets another four years of residency. As their news release states, “They are blunt about their disgust with the Trump administration, but are equally hard on the Democratic Party when it screws up.” The live shows generally feature local guests. They are recorded and later available as podcasts. (Geoff Griffin) Pod Tours America: Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 385-468-1010, July 18, 8 p.m. $39.50-$140, artsaltlake.org

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istening to Ashley Hesseltine and Rayna Greenberg on an episode of their Girls Gotta Eat podcast, as they laugh easily and often about subjects like learning how to orgasm and the pros and cons of 69-ing, it might be easy to think of it as two friends just letting their hair down about all the relationship garbage that drives them crazy. But that wouldn’t be giving them enough credit for approaching the iTunes Top 20 Comedy show like consummate professionals. “A lot of people podcast as hobbies, and that’s awesome,” Greenberg says. “But from Day 1, we thought a lot about the format, we had a professional photographer take PR pictures. We talked about not just what is our first episode, but what are the first five episodes.” That’s a whole lot of commitment for two women who haven’t even known each other for two years. Both successful Instagrammers on their own—Greenberg with the food-focused @onehungryjew, Hesseltine with the parody account @brosbeingbasic— the pair met at a social media influencers press event in Aruba in October 2017. “It was a candlelit dinner on the beach with our toes in the sand,” Hesseltine says. “We clicked immediately. We came back to New York, and became real-life friends.”

That connection also seemed like the perfect fit for an idea Hesseltine had been tossing around for a while: a podcast devoted to issues of sex, dating and relationships for women. With her own stand-up comedy background, Hesseltine knew that in order for the show to match her vision, she would need a partner as adept at comedy as she was. “That was one of the main things that drew me to Rayna, is that she was funny,” Hesseltine says. “She had the same mean, petty sense of humor as me when it comes to talking about men.” The journey from that first meeting to Girls Gotta Eat becoming a smash success has been a rapid one, garnering a loyal base of mostly female fans who love Hesseltine and Greenberg’s frank discussions of potentially awkward topics. Indeed, where funny women still often struggle to break through in areas like stand-up stages and the writing staffs of late-night talk shows, podcasting has become a place for female-centric comedy to thrive, as the Top 20 Comedy podcasts break down almost 50-50 male and female. Hesseltine agrees that part of that success comes from the fact that there are “zero gatekeepers” for anyone who wants to start a podcast, yet ultimately you’ve got to deliver content the audiences want. “There’s no barrier to entry,” Greenberg says, “but that doesn’t mean people will come back.” “I think women want to hear women,” Hesseltine adds. “I think they want to hear women talking about the stuff they’re dealing with … They like the friendship we have, and they want to laugh.” As for the subject matter, both women acknowledge that Sex and the City was a huge influence—and not just because Hesseltine and Greenberg themselves are navigating the life of single women in New York City. “The older we get, the more we live all of those experiences,” Hesseltine says. “They [SATC] were absolutely the pioneers of women talking about all of these topics—from vibrators to butt stuff to terrible dates.” And naturally, when you’re addressing topics from vibrators to butt stuff to terrible dates, there’s the possibility for listeners to be unhappy or uncomfortable—which is just fine as far as they’re concerned. “There’s always going to be people who don’t like something you talk

about,” Greenberg says. “The more you talk, the more chance there is that you’re going to offend someone.” When the GGE women talk, however, they talk about what they know, because that’s part of the prepared professionalism they bring to the show. Greenberg notes that planning and putting together each episode involves much more time than the one or two hours they spend recording each week, as they consider their general topic for each episode and the tone that they want for that topic. “If you have a plan, you can deviate from the plan,” she says. “Do we want a funny episode, or a serious episode? What’s in the news right now? Do we have a guest, or not?” “We really pride ourselves on not just turning on a microphone and shooting the shit,” Hesseltine says. “We like our podcast to really have a purpose. Some comedy podcasts where they are just shooting the shit are great. But we like to be honest about it: We know our topic, we know what we’re talking about.”

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For live shows like their Salt Lake City stop, the approach is somewhat different than for the podcast, with an emphasis on pure hilarity, including audience participation. “The live show is a free-for-all,” Hesseltine says. “We want laughs, start to finish.” “We want everyone to walk out thinking, ‘What the hell just happened in there?’” Greenberg says. “It’s a controlled circus.” Sounds like a plan. CW

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The work of a family trio of local artists—Tony Smith and his sons, Evan and Willie—including the pictured joint self-portrait, is on display at Alice Gallery (617 E. South Temple, visualarts.utah.gov) in 3SMITHS, through Sept. 6, with an artist reception Friday, July 19, 6-9 p.m.

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A Chorus Line Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main, Park City, through July 21, dates and times vary, parkcityshows.com Bravo, Caruso Utah Theatre, 18 W. Center St., Logan, through July 30, dates and times vary, ufomt.org Cinderella Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., through Sept. 7, showtimes vary, hct.org Comedy of Errors Timpanogos Valley Theatre, 90 N. 100 West, Heber City, through Aug. 3, dates vary, 7 p.m., timpvalleytheatre.com Disney’s Peter Pan Jr. Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem, through Aug. 2, 1 p.m., haletheater.org Freaky Friday Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., through Aug. 24, dates and times vary, hct.org Mary Poppins Ellen Eccles Theater, 43 S. Main, Logan, through Aug. 3, dates and times vary, ufomt.org The Marriage of Figaro Ellen Eccles Theatre, 43 S. Main, Logan, through Aug. 2, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org Mr. Burns An Other Theater Co., 1200 Town Centre Blvd., Provo, through Aug. 3, FridaySaturday, 7:30 p.m., anothertheatercompany.com Newsies Ellen Eccles Theater, 43 S. Main, Logan, through Aug. 2, dates and times vary, ufomt.org Saturday’s Voyeur Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through Sept. 1, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org Shrek The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 S. Washington Blvd., Ogden, through July 20, showtimes vary, theziegfeldtheater.com The Sound of Music South Jordan Community Center, 10778 S. Redwood Road, South Jordan, through July 20, sjc.utah.gov Sting & Honey: Cinderella Regent Street Black Box, 131 S. Main, through July 27, artsaltlake.org Sunday School Musical Desert Star Playhouse, 4861 S. State, Murray, through Aug. 25, desertstar.biz Utah Shakespeare Festival Southern Utah University, 195 W. Center St., Cedar City, through Oct. 12, times and prices vary, bard.org

Beethoven & Dvorak: The Romantic Violin St. Mary’s Church, 1505 White Pine Canyon Road, Park City, July 24, 8 p.m., utahsymphony.org Disney in Concert: A Magical Celebration Deer Valley, 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City, July 19, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

Alex Moffat Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, July 19-20, 7:30 & 9 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Brad Bonar Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Ogden, July 19-20, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Daniel Tosh Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, July 20, 7:30 p.m., arttix.artsaltlake.org Girls Gotta Eat Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, July 18, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 18) Laughing Stock Improv Comedy The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., theobt.org Miranda Sings Kingsbury Hall, 1395 Presidents Circle, July 20, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu Open Mic Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Patton Oswalt Kingsbury Hall, 1395 Presidents Circle, July 19, 8 p.m., smithstix.com (see p. 17) Random Tangent Improv Comedy Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Saturdays, 10 p.m., randomtangentimprov.org Steve Hofsetter Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, July 18, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

9th West Farmers Market Jordan Park, 1000 S. 900 West, Sundays through Oct. 13, 10 a.m.2 p.m., 9thwestfarmersmarket.org Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 350 W. 300 South, Saturdays through Oct. 19, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org Fleet Nights, Little City, 855 S. 400 West, every Saturday, 4 p.m., littlecityinc.com

New Roots of Utah Neighborhood Farm Stand Valley Regional Park, 4013 S. 700 West, Saturdays through mid-October, 1-3 p.m., slco.org Park City Farmers Market Silver King Resort, 1845 Empire Ave., Park City, Wednesdays through mid-October, noon-5 p.m., parkcityfarmersmarket.com Park Silly Sunday Market Main Street, Park City, Sundays through Sept. 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., parksillysundaymarket.com Sugar House Farmers Market Farimont Park, 1040 E. Sugarmont Drive, second Sundays through September, 8:30 a.m.-noon, sugarhousefarmersmarket.org Wheeler Sunday Market Wheeler Farm, 6351 S. 900 East, Murray, Sundays through Oct. 27, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., slco.org/wheeler-farm

FESTIVALS & FAIRS

Living Traditions Presents: Mondays in the Park Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, 600 E. 1100 South, Mondays through Sept. 9, 7 p.m., livingtraditionsfestival.com NACIP Powwow and Festival Liberty Park, 600 E. 900 South, noon, July 24, visitsaltlake.com (see p. 17)

Ogden Pioneer Days Fireworks Ogden Pioneer Stadium, 668 17th St., July 24, 10 p.m., ogdenpioneerdays.com Pioneer Festival American West Heritage Center, 4025 S. Highway 89, Wellsville, 10 a.m., awhc.org Taste of Summer Festival Natural History Museum, 301 Wakara Way, July 20-21, 10 a.m., nhmu.utah.edu Wizarding Dayz Cache County Event Center, 450 S. 500 West, Logan, July 19-20, times vary, wizardingdayz.com Wasatch Wildflower Festival Snowbird Resort, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, July 21, 9 a.m., cottonwoodcanyons.org (see p. 17)

LGBTQ

1 to 5 Club: Fluidly Speaking Discussion Group Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, fourth Mondays, 7:30-9 p.m., utahpridecenter.org 1 to 5 Club: Game Night Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, first Mondays, 7:30-9:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org 1 to 5 Club: Radical Reading Group Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, third Mondays, 7:30-9 p.m., utahpridecenter.org

TransAction Weekly Meeting Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Sundays, 2-3:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org Utah LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, third Thursdays, 7:30-9 a.m., utahgaychamber.com

TALKS AND LECTURES

Pod Tours America Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, July 18, 8 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 17)

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Books and Bridges: Dr. Ravi Gupta Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, July 18, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.org Collector’s Book Salon Weller Bookworks, 607 S. Trolley Square, every last Friday, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Dan Schilling: Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman ... Our Lady of the Snows Center, 10189 E. Highway 210, Alta, July 18, 6 p.m., kingsenglish.com Megan Griswold: The Book of Help The King’s

English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, July 18, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Pepper Turner Gateway Crossing, 340 S. 500 West, West Bountiful, July 19-20, times vary, barnesandnoble.com Roland Miller: Abandoned in Place: Preserving America’s Space History The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, July 20, 2 p.m., kingsenglish.com Will Bagley: River Fever The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, July 19, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

3SMITHS Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through Sept. 6, 10 a.m., artandmuseums.utah.gov (see p. 20) Abstraction Is Just a Word, But I Use It 20 S. West Temple, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, through Jan. 4, utahmoca.org Andrew Dadson: Roof Gap Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through Sept. 7, utahmoca.org

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moreESSENTIALS Andrew Alba: Gas Station Honeydew Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through Aug. 24, utahmoca.org Crossing Paths Holladay City Hall, 4580 S. 2300 East, through July 30, holladayarts.org De | Marcation Granary Arts, 86 N. Main, Ephraim, through Sept. 27, granaryarts.org Deanna & Ed Templeton: Contemporary Suburbium Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through Sept. 7, utahmoca.org Destroy What Kills You, Grow What Heals You Urban Arts Gallery, 116 S. Rio Grande St., through Aug. 4, urbanartsgallery.org Distorted Reflections J GO Gallery, 268 Main, Park City, through July 24, jgogallery.com Donald Yatomi: True Beauty A Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, through Aug. 17, agalleryonline.com Following in the Footprints of Chinese Railroad Workers Marriott Library, 295 S. 1500 East, through Sept. 27, goldenspike150.org Form, Line and Color: Modernism and Abstraction David Dee Fine Art, 1709 E. 1300 South, Ste. 201, through Aug. 30, daviddeefinearts.com Lenka Konopasek: Mimicry, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through Aug. 3, utahmoca.org Love Letters The Gateway, 24 S. Rio Grande St., through Sept. 1, lovelettersmuseum.com Nathan Mulford & Larry S. Cohen: Abstract Flashbacks Downtown Artist Collective, 100 S. 258 East, July 19, 6 p.m., downtownartistcollective.org Neo Archaic Magic and Happiness is Humanness Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West,

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through July 12, accessart.org Paper and Thread Modern West Fine Art, 412 S. 700 West, through Aug. 31, modernwestfineart.com Peter Max: Woodstock 50th Anniversary Celebration Old Towne Gallery, 580 Main, Park City, July 24-27, oldtownegallery.com Power Couples Utah Museum of Fine Art, 410 Campus Center Drive, Salt Lake City, through Dec. 8, umfa.utah.edu Reimagined Travels J GO Gallery, 268 Main, Park City, through July 24, jgogallery.com Ryan Lauderdale: Glazed Atrium Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple, through Nov. 2, utahmoca.org Spencer Finch: Great Salt Lake and Vicinity Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, through Nov. 28, umfa.utah.edu Structures of Solitude Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, July 19-Aug. 9, accessart.org Taralee Guild: Distorted Reflections J Go Gallery, 268 Main, Park City, through July 24, jgogallery.com Time + Materials Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through Aug. 30, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Under the Bad Air of Heaven Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, through Aug. 15, slcpl.org Western State of Mind Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, July 19-Aug. 9, accessart.org Yellowstone: Invisible Boundries Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, through Sept. 15, nhmu.utah.edu

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de Brazil, and Tushar places a lot of emphasis on the firegrilled protein that make this cuisine so delectable. Bridging the gap between churrasco and fast-casual comes in the form of skewered meats of all stripes, plus a slew of traditional Brazilian slides, appetizers and desserts. Tushar’s approach was conceived by Chef Wagner Ribeiro and manager Alacy Monteiro as a way to honor the food they grew up with in their native Brazil. Both men have had experience with Brazilian and South American restaurants

the vanilla flan ($4.50) is a sweet and silky way to end a meal. It can be easy to write off a fast casual place as a gimmick or a fad, but after a few visits to Tushar, it’s hard to lump it in with other fast casual places. Sure, you hop in line, order what you want and then take a seat while your meal is brought out with uncanny speed, but Tushar is cooking up food that ranks at a slightly higher caliber. Sometimes a restaurant like this uses its fast casual façade as an excuse to serve up rubbery meat or lukewarm starches, but Tushar strives to create food that is consistently tasty and unique to other restaurants that might look the same. If you’re a fan of meats that are grilled to perfection and dipping your toe into some highlights of Brazilian cooking, Tushar definitely delivers. CW

love fast casual joints as much as the next person, but there really isn’t a whole lot of variety in that scene—a man cannot live on rice bowls alone. While the fast casual model has evolved, there is only one place I can think of that can really satisfy someone’s hankering for some finely grilled meat, and that place is Tushar Brazilian Express (1078 W. South Jordan Parkway, 801-4466644, tusharexpress.com). It’s a riff on the Brazilian churrasco cuisine that gave us places like Rodizio Grill and Texas

part of the process, there are a few hits and misses. Their mashed potatoes are prepared skins and all, and fried bananas should be a side dish every where regardless of the food’s genre. I always get the steamed vegetables in an attempt to make my meal a bit more balanced, but they’re very rarely satisfying. I’ve got nothing against veggies with my meat skewers, but the watery mass of steamed veggies doesn’t quite satisfy. If you want to add some greenery to your plate, the salad is a better option. Of course, you might want to avoid the skewers altogether and snag their onion steak ($12.95) which is an eight-ounce cut of top sirloin served with three sides. It’s not a bad price for a decent steak, and when you pair that up with a trio of side dishes, it’s a pretty solid meal for less than $15. Although I don’t typically have room for appetizers and desserts, Tushar has a few tasty members of the supporting cast. The Brazilian cheese rolls ($2.50) are piping-hot orbs of gluten-free goodness, and

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in Utah and in other states. The transition from their past experiences to Tushar was not only on-trend, but it turns out that Brazilian cuisine lends itself quite nicely to the model. The foundational meat skewers of Tushar’s menu can be ordered a la carte or in a meal with three different sides. There’s really no wrong direction to take when considering your order. I’m a fan of the glazed pork loin ($3.45) with its slightly sweet caramelization on the outside of the tender meat, and the beef skewer ($3.75), cooked medium rare—yes, they’ll ask you how you like your beef cooked, which is a nice touch. If you’re after something on the lighter side, the grilled chicken ($2.99) and grilled pineapple ($3.45) are also fantastic—there’s nothing quite like fire-grilled pineapple when it explodes with that slightly burnt tang of sweetness. Making a meal out of your Tushar experience will set you back around nine bucks depending on your skewer of choice, and it lets you add three of their ample side dishes to the party. When it comes to this

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The Natural History Museum of Utah (301 S. Wakara Way, nhmu.utah.edu) is hosting a two-day Taste of Summer Festival that includes exhibits centered on ice cream and other cool treats made right here in Utah. Admission to the event is included with a regular admission ticket, and the museum promises several other summer activities and workshops in addition to the food on display. Amour Spreads, Caputo’s, Smoke-a-Billy BBQ and White Lake Farms are just a few vendors who offer tasty goods during the event, which lasts from Saturday, July 20, to Sunday, July 21, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Tuesday, July 23, and Wednesday, July 24, are big days for Bambara (202 S. Main, 801-363-5454, bambaraslc.com). On Tuesday, the restaurant celebrates its anniversary by offering $20 entrées all evening. The following day, Utah’s favorite day to celebrate pie and beer, Bambara is offering a free slice of pie to anyone who purchases a pint of the restaurant’s new beer, which was created with the help of Red Rock Brewing. Stop by and snag a $20 entrée or a slice of pie to help show this local restaurant how grateful you are that it was born.

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Thirst-quenching craft Mexican lager is alive and well in O-town. BY MIKE RIEDEL comments@cityweekly.net @utahbeer

n a recent trip to Ogden, I found that the Mexican lager is the supreme adult thirst-quencher. If you’ve been away from this south-of-the-border classic, you’re probably missing out on one of the most flavorful ways to beat the heat. Roosters Brewing Co. El Doce: It’s named for the El Doce at Pow Mow (Powder Mountain), an intense 12-hour mountain bike race that covers 13.3 miles of mountainous trails and takes place Saturday, July 20, at Powder Mountain resort. This beer awaits thirsty finishers and onlookers throughout the day. From a 12-ounce can, this beer pours a crystal-clear medium golden-yellow color, with a solid finger of dense white head with great retention. It eventually falls and reduces to a thin lingering cap. Aromas and a taste of crackers, corn, white bread and light herbal and grassy earthiness emerge. The nose is bigger than expected, due to the pale malt and earthy hop notes; fruity and yeasty notes come to the forefront as it warms, but it’s not overwhelming. There is some implied corn adjunct flavor present, but that might just be a trick of the brewing process. The hops are all classic Euro lager, adding familiar and quenching grass and herbal bitters. You might find lingering notes

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Start your dinner or lunch with some spicy guacamole— prepared at your table and paired with chips and salsa. For appetizers, try the hearty tortilla soup or the crispy chicken taquitos. This restaurant makes choosing an entrée difficult, since there are so many delicious surfand-turf options. If you’re in the mood for seafood, try the salmón manchamanteles: The salmon is slowcooked and served with crispy bananas and pineapple salsa. Or, go with the costillas al piquín: braised beef short ribs that come with spicy poblano peppers in cream and salsa. In addition to an array of Mexican beers, there’s a wide variety of tequilas and Latin-inspired cocktails that will pair well with your meal. 268 S. State, 801-779-4747, alamexo.com

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Mirror of Disco Goldie & The Guise re-explore an orphaned musical genre through its queer roots. BY ERIN MOORE music@cityweekly.net @errrands_

t’s not often that one finds a small, devoted band in 2019 churning out disco of all things, but that’s exactly what we have here in Salt Lake City. For the past year, Peter Goldie Worden—who you might know as the local hair-guru who does performative hair-cutting sets at Twilite Lounge—has been joined by his trusty team of Nora Price and Michael Fuchs in crafting a very specific, yet broad-reaching vision, an “amalgamation of strangeness” as Worden calls it. Taking an approach that is less about musicality than it is about performance, Goldie & The Guise work to craft and harness a type of performative work that’s not just about entertaining, but which turns the lens of disco back on a culture that generally fails to recognize disco’s queer roots. When the band members gather in Worden’s stylish-yet-kitschy living room decked out with velvet furniture and a collection of embroidered flower art, around a circular “boardroom” table, an hour-long conversation stretches out to cover the even deeper nuances of what disco is, who they all are and, most importantly, what Goldie is. The project has been a long time coming for Worden who, while in and out of different local bands over the past few years, has always been on the lookout for fellow artists willing to share in his vision. Luckily, Worden was able to gather the help of Fuchs—a Portlander-turned-local producer and techno enthusiast who has been around the scene for years—and Price, another busy-body around town, who plays drums for Red Bennies, Twilite’s resident band, Jazz Jags, and swaps between guitar and live dance in the performance art trio Durian Durian. Both artists fulfill key needs for the vision of Goldie: the need for good production, performance knowledge and unfussy, flexible cooperation. Being able to contribute something so precise to the band is what Price likes best, she says: “My favorite thing about this band is that the role is clear. It’s like, I want to support that vision.” She also brings the dance expertise, which Worden relies on as a frontman seeking to stun and woo his audience. “To Mike I brought Dolly Parton, Wanda Jackson, Gloria Gaynor … Blondie,” Worden says, laughing a little at the last one. “It’s just a combination of like, hyper-feminized performance music … something that has a controlled intensity but with a lot of performance force behind it.” Worden, for his part, is interested in taking the way women and women performers are sexualized and objectified and getting at that kind of sexualization via masculinity in performance. He explains that though he feels this sexualized masculinity is explicit in his work with Goldie, “Hopefully, it’s understated enough that it makes people a little uncomfortable, just a stirring—not that I want to create discomfort for people. It’s just that I want to create a question, which is like, ‘What is this?’” What it is, at its core, is disco—specifically, a reevaluation of the roots of disco. Fuchs explains, “There’s kind of two tracks with disco. There’s how most people think of disco—which is commercial disco—and then there’s gay and queer disco. That stuff was very focused on camp, drag culture at the time, camp was everything.

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Goldie & The Guise That was it.” This explains the campy air on stage whenever Worden dresses up to front the band (think cowboy boots and flashy shirts), dancing with pointed fingers as he sings his spirited songs, always with his curly hair coiffed into a quite frankly gorgeous late ’70s-style halo. But, Fuchs explains, as soon as disco hit the mainstream, its sources were somewhat erased. “I’m not gonna call it a reclamation, because that would infer that there was ever a point where queer culture lost the idea of camp,” Fuchs says with careful consideration. “We have an opportunity to look at how straight culture interprets queer culture, and then mirror it back at [that] more normative culture. Personally, that’s how I see what Peter’s doing. Like, ‘Hey, this is the stuff you took from us, this is us showing it back to you. How do you feel about this?’” Goldie & The Guise is not just concerned with re-representing queerness through disco, but with creating a scene that embraces and encourages curiosity and safety, especially for those at their shows—no matter what they look like. Despite a fast-evolving world, Fuchs and Worden both experience being misread in public—Fuchs often being perceived as straight, while Worden’s version of masculinity isn’t always accepted by the trans community he’s been a part of for years. “I think that’s like a visibility thing, right? We’re all queeridentified, but we all have different sets of privilege that kind of obscure our visibility,” Worden says, adding that it’s frustrating to have to navigate a world built on assumptions of straightness in order to participate at all—a problem that includes the music scene. “In turn, we can subvert things that aren’t currently perceived as part of queer culture ... while still having that question of ‘what is this?’ It’s just Goldie,” Worden says with a smile and a shrug. Maintaining that question, it seems, is key for Goldie & The Guise in creating a curious, open musical space. They are booking shows for the rest of the summer, so keep an eye out on their Instagram @goldieandtheguise for show dates if you want to indulge in the freedom of true disco. CW

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The Flaming Lips, The Growlers, Divorce Court

The Flaming Lips are undoubtedly one of the most resolutely odd and inventive groups to rise to prominence in the ’90s alt-rock bubble—though their notable discography stretches back to the ’70s. Their 1997 album Zaireeka pushed the CD format to the absolute extreme, composed across four separate discs meant to be played simultaneously. They’ve released music in USB drives encased in (among other things) a gummy fetus and an actual human skull. Their longest recorded work is a single composition clocking in at a whopping 24 hours. Indeed, the antics of frontman Wayne Coyne and his cabal of fearless freaks are so consistently outlandish that at times, they threaten to eclipse the band’s actual musical output. That’s no easy feat, as their music is as mercurial and singular as the band itself, metamorphosing from noisy, country-fried rock to meticulous, lush psychedelic pop around the turn of the century, and again to spacey, jazzy krautrock a decade later. Over the course of their artistic evolution, they’ve racked up mountains of critical acclaim, as well as a massive, devoted fanbase. That fanbase will be out in full force when Flaming Lips take the Ogden Amphitheater stage the night before the worldwide release of their 15th studio effort, King’s Mouth, a concept album about a gigantic king who dies saving his people from an avalanche and has his head encased in steel by his grateful subjects. In other words, the Lips are still as fearless and freaky as ever. California surf-rockers The Growlers along with local spotlight Divorce Court open. (Nic Renshaw) Ogden Amphitheatre, 343 E. 25th St., Ogden, 5 p.m., $12 presale; $15 day of show, all ages, ogdentwilight.com

FRIDAY 7/19

Concise Kilgore, Bo York, Flash & Flare

Concise Kilgore is one of those acts you’ll be familiar with if you’ve ever had a phase of Soundcloud ecosystem fascination, especially as it manifests locally. Tracks appear in loose succession and without context, often with stellar production from names you’ve either never heard of or have caught in passing at Good Grammar’s Critical Beatdown. Kilgore’s most cohesive release then is arguably Kil Joy Division, which shows off his equal affinity for beats, lyrics and references. Kilgore has been around for a long time (you can find tracks back to 2002 on YouTube), but Kil Joy Division feels contemporary with its clever wordplay, unexpected samples and

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aggressive mix of confessionals and self promotion. Who knows whether Kilgore will draw from Kil Joy Division or any of his other dozen wells of work, but his older stuff still stands up enough as anything from that era can, so don’t fret. (Check out Digitalis for some mid-aughts delight.) Bo York won City Weekly’s 2018 Battle of the DJs to open for Diplo, and say what you will about Diplo (there’s a lot to say), the name still carries a heft most DJs covet, so Bo York has certainly built more than a foundation at this point. DJ Flash & Flare has also been around for more than a minute—Kyle Erickson has been DJing in Salt Lake’s dance scene for 11 years. It’s a promising lineup between the three acts if you’re looking for a curated night out. (Parker S. Mortensen) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, 9 p.m., free before 10 p.m., $5 after 10 p.m., 21+, metromusichall.com

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This isn’t the same Drifters that crooned into Eisenhower-era American consciousness with catchy harmonies, matching suits and love songs in malt shops; Sands’ version includes Chris Aguilar on lead guitar, Steven Tabarez on drums, Nate Meredith on bass and on/off again steel pedal guitarist Ryan Hawthorne rounding out the group. The sound is more rock and blues than rhythm and blues, but it’s aurally appealing nonetheless. Expect their first studio album, Thunder Roads, soon; prepare for it by patronizing The State Room when they drift into town. (Keith L. McDonald) The State Room 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $12, thestateroompresents.com

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SATURDAY 7/20 Pete Sands & The Drifters

With roughly five years of recording experience under his belt, Pete Sands has been making steady strides in music. Born and raised on the Navajo reservation in Southern Utah, Sands attended College of Eastern Utah and Weber State University, earning a degree in criminal justice. But, like many college students enamored with art and music, the thought of entering the “corporate world” wasn’t appealing, so he decided to pursue his love for singing and songwriting. Unlike many college students, however, he was really good at it. Sands released his debut EP Dirt Dance Floor under the moniker Blackkiss in 2014, subsequently landing gigs at the Sundance Film Festival and Thunder Country Fest, as well as spots opening for Whitey Morgan & the 78’s, Matt Woods, Two Car Garage, John Moreland and others.

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If you’ve ever been medicated, you’re familiar with the placebo effect—the chance that the mere act of taking a pill you believe is real will afford the same benefits as if you’d taken the real thing. It follows then that Nocebo would be the title of Elizabeth Colour Wheel’s first full album release. With a dark and thrumming shoegaze sound, it easily recalls days of poor mental health, the interminable “off” days when the expectation that everything sucks and will continue to suck wrings ever more shit. This is the nocebo effect, and with track titles like “Bedrest,” “Head Home” and “Life of a Flower,” Elizabeth Colour Wheel swing you between a manic, percussive energy and a wholly sinking feeling. The quintet drags you through their wailing, usually building to a breakthrough. “Head Home” is a powerful capper to Nocebo, and seems like it could be a hell of a way to end a show. At the third minute, the sound bursts through a chrysanthemum-like mandala and trips on its own supply, pounding nervously and relentlessly for four minutes. As “Head Home” ends on the album version, you can just make out the sound of birds chirping, present but quickly fading. Openers Drowse, Sympathy Pain and Silver Slippers are perfect complements to Colour Wheel with their own droning melancholy. Drowse’s June release Light Mirror in particular has a hopeful lilt plumbing just beyond despair. (PSM) Diabolical Records, 238 Edison St., 7 p.m., $10, all ages, diabolicalrecords.com

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All-Request Gothic + Industrial + EBM + and Dark Wave w/ DJ Vision (Area 51) DJ Sneeky Long (Twist) Dueling Pianos (Tavernacle) Funkin’ Friday w/ DJ Rude Boy & Bad Boy Brian (Johnny’s on Second) Hot Noise (The Red Door) Play-N-Skillz (Sky) New Wave ’80s w/ DJ Courtney (Area 51) Top 40 All-Request w/ DJ Wees (Area 51)

Dueling Pianos (The Spur) Dusty Grooves All Vinyl DJ (Twist) Dueling Pianos: Drew & JD (Tavernacle) Hot Noise + Guest DJ (The Red Door) Jazz Jam Session (Sugar House Coffee) Jazz Joint Thursday (Garage on Beck) Pitch Control (Downstairs) Synthpop + Darkwave + Industrial + Goth w/ DJ Camille (Area 51) Therapy Thursdays feat. Andrew Rayel (Sky)

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Bob Schneider (The State Room) Cattle Decapitation + Carnifex + The Faceless + Nekrogoblikon (The Complex) Concise Kilgore + Bo York + Flash & Flare (Metro Music Hall) see p. 34 Colt .46 (Outlaw Saloon) Dusty Boxcars (Woodenshoe Park in Peoa) Flash & Flare + Concise Kilgore + Bo York (Metro Music Hall) Gooch (Velour) Ivie Brie (Harp and Hound) KOWTA + YOKO + GRIED + JLeonB (Urban Lounge) Mullet Hatchet (The Spur) Norah Jones + Phil Hanley (Sandy Amphitheater) see p. 36 Ol’ Fashion Depot (Funk ’n’ Dive) Ritt Momney + The Backseat Lovers + Kipper Snack (Kilby Court) Scotty McCreery (Dejoria Center) Steve Schuffert (Legends at Park City Mountain) Tim Daniels Band (Lighthouse Lounge)

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Tinwell is the kind of bar that has a little something for everyone. One can lounge and gather downstairs in their big open bar area, and browse a fine selection of dependably good beers and cocktails. If, however, you come in the early evening like I have, and crave a quieter, more intimate space, you can wander upstairs to their mini loft-like space, where window panes with an intriguing lack of screens offers a glimpse into the back lot, with lush trees overhanging the space—and where, when I’m here, a DJ sets up, amps towering on either side in hopes of entertaining a Tuesday crowd. The upstairs space is uniquely cozy. As the light fades from the windows, bare bulbs on the walls bathe the area in a somewhat trippy amber light—maybe just trippy because I’ve had the craziest day, and being able to sit and write nonsense about a cute bar for one second feels really good. I drank an IPA from the tap—I don’t remember which one because, like I said, bad day—but what else matters when there are ample ottomans upon which to kick your feet up, and there’s some weird Bollywood house bumping through the walls from the lot, and some fellow patrons next to you are yelling at each other about milkshake-making methods, for some reason. With this, I think I’m going to get another beer before kicking back again. (Erin Moore) 837 S. Main, 801-953-1769, tinwellbar.com Taildraggers (The Green Pig) Open Mic (The Cabin)

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Mufasa and Simba in The Lion King had a gentle shagginess that made it easy to wonder if he would be able to challenge the ruthless Scar; this Simba simply looks like a big fucking lion. The final battle between lions and hyenas feels not just intense with these reallooking animals, but borderline brutal. Then there’s what is sacrificed in the songs, since there’s no way for faces to express the joy of “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King” or “Hakuna Matata.” It might as well be one of those novelty mounted fish that flaps its jaw to “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” The Lion King is hardly a sacred text; Julie Taymor’s Broadway musical version managed to find a different way of interpreting the story that had its own distinctive appeal. This particular notion, however, felt doomed from the start—an exercise in “can we” that should have stopped at “should we.” Our thought experiment doesn’t work, because we know why The Lion King ’94 was charming and satisfying. It had personality. This version can make animals look more real, but it can’t make them more alive. CW

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deciding which of the two versions wore it best. Some of the voice performances here are particularly strong, from Billy Eichner’s version of Timon the meerkat to Beyoncé’s fierce Nala; others fall short, like Ejiofor feeling much more generic than the purring villainy Jeremy Irons brought to Scar. There are sequences pulled straight outta Lion King ’94 that are improvements, like an expansion of the throwaway gag where Timon and Pumbaa (Seth Rogen) sing “The Lion Sleeps Tonight;” others are dull miscalculations, like Scar’s “Be Prepared” losing the staging that turns it into a creepy preview of Scar’s fascistic leanings. And maybe the self-aware jokes in this version—including a nod to another one of Disney’s animated classics—provide some stronger comic relief than mere flatulence ever did. But there’s a so-authentic-you’re-afraidit-might-trample-you elephant in the room: These characters are designed first and foremost to look like real animals, not to create characters. While it’s absolutely possible to design a CGI animal character who evokes profound emotion—cough, Paddington, cough— that never appears to have been a goal of anyone involved in making this Lion King. The stylization that’s not only possible, but necessary, in hand-drawn animation vanishes completely, just like it did in Favreau’s Jungle Book. Timon’s line readings don’t get to become funnier by virtue of coming out of a face that’s not just that of an actual meerkat, but a face that is specifically, idiosyncratically Timon’s face. The character design of Lion King ’94’s adult Simba

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hat if this Lion King had come first? It’s an interesting thought experiment, sort of a second-cousin to the idea that drives the current theatrical feature Yesterday: What if we woke up in a world where Disney had never released a hand-drawn animated film called The Lion King in 1994, and this story were appearing now for the first time, in the age of photorealistic CGI recreations of real-world animals? If there’s anything wrong with it—and by extension, with Disney’s other recent retreads of its animated classics—is it only that we know it’s a cover version? Because on a baseline level, director Jon Favreau’s version of The Lion King is clearly an impressive technical achievement. Virtually every story beat is identical to that of its predecessor—from the “Circle of Life” introduction of the young lion prince Simba, through the death of Simba’s father, Mufasa, (a returning James Earl Jones) and Simba’s guilty self-exile, to the rise of Mufasa’s brother Scar (Chiwetel Ejiofor) as new tyrannical ruler of the kingdom, to the grown Simba (Donald Glover) being forced to decide if he has a responsibility to return home. All of the Elton John and Tim Rice songs that became inescapable earworms are here, along with a couple of new ones, because, you know, gotta have something for the Oscars. Maybe those same elements—Hamlet by way of Disney, right down to the quintessentially Shakespearean mix of high drama and low comedy—freshly released, would still have made for a blockbuster success on its own merits. Maybe. But we have lived with another version of The Lion King for 25 years, and there’s no way to pretend that this is the right way to tell this story. There are plenty of individual points of comparison that could make for a tough call

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THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE BBB If you’re making a takedown of toxic masculinity, and you need someone to play the milkiest milquetoast imaginable on a quest to jack up the testosterone, it’s hard to imagine you’d cast anyone besides Jesse Eisenberg. He plays Casey Davis, a timid accountant who is assaulted and beaten by a group of bikers. Desperate to get rid of his sense of powerlessness, he walks into the karate dojo led by a sensei (Alessandro Nivola) who promises to make a man out of him. Eisenberg does great work both with Casey’s coiled anxiety and with his subsequent attempts to prove his newfound toughness, ably matched by Nivola’s perfect alphadude swagger. Some of the narrative turns are almost too obvious—let’s just say Chekhov wouldn’t be disappointed—and there’s a weird strain of deadpan humor that doesn’t always land opposite a vibe that’s more about psychological gamesmanship. But it’s still an effectively constructed way to wrestle with the appeal of bullying misogynists to those who feel powerless, and how to deal with an ethic that reduces every human interaction to a question of who can win. Opens July 19 at Megaplex Jordan Commons and Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—Scott Renshaw THE LION KING BB See review on p. 43. Opens July 19 at theaters valleywide. (PG)

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CURRENT RELEASES CRAWL BB A solid “survive the monster” thriller only has a few basic

requirements in order to be satisfying, and this one nails too few of them. Florida college swimmer Haley (Kaya Scodelario) and her injured father (Barry Pepper) are trapped in the family home’s crawl space during a hurricane, threatened both by rising waters and deadly alligators. The character angle, involving tensions between Haley and her dad, gets in the way as often as it raises the stakes, but greater frustrations come from director Alexandre Aja’s failure to provide clear definition of the threat—how many gators, where are they relative to our protagonists—or enough creative thinking by the humans. You’ll get some crunching gore whenever the alligators find a human to nosh on, and occasional effective moments of amped-up tension. But it shouldn’t be so hard to make a lively creature-feature out of a Category 5 gator-cane. (R)—SR THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE BB.5 Denys Arcand pokes at societal ills in a weird mix of genres overflowing with finger-wagging, as over-educated and underemployed courier Pierre-Paul (Alexandre Landry) winds up in possession of millions in cash after a botched robbery at an organized crime safehouse. A police investigation and a ruthless effort by the crime boss to find his money land this in heistthriller territory, but there’s also an almost farcical component as Pierre-Paul turns to a recently-paroled gangster to help manage his money, plus a romance between Pierre-Paul and a heart-ofgold escort. Arcand finds solid material in Pierre-Paul’s conflicting desires to help himself and help others, while Girard makes for an appealing tough-guy foil. It just keeps feeling like Arcand is pausing to lecture us about the wealthy getting away with anything. It’s a morality tale that’s pretty darned pleased with its own morality. (R)—SR MIDSOMMAR BBB In the wake of a family tragedy, Dani (Florence Pugh) accompanies her boyfriend (Jack Reynor) and his friends on a research trip to a Swedish pagan commune, which is preparing to conduct midsummer rituals. Some of those rituals turn deeply disturbing, though writer-director Ari Aster leavens some of them with mordant humor. But while the burn is a bit too slow over nearly 150 minutes, Aster delivers more than a re-hash of The Wicker Man. In part it’s a way-too-obvious story of a disintegrating romantic relationship, though Pugh captures something awkwardly honest in Dani’s apologetic emotional fragility. It’s much

better at juxtaposing a belief system based on natural life cycles with anxieties of modernity and the attraction of finding real connection. These characters find themselves in a scary world, but maybe not as scary as the one they call home. (R)—SR

STUBER BBB Is buddy action comedy Hollywood’s most consistently satisfying, consistently underappreciated genre? Stuber lives in the comfort zone of matching a cop (Dave Baustista as L.A.P.D. detective Vic) with a mild-mannered guy (Kumail Nanjiani as Uber driver Stu) in a dangerous but amusing scenario. This one sews two high-profile ideas together—“What if a brutish cop had to solve a crime while recovering from lasic surgery” and “what if a simple guy had to serve as that cop’s chauffeur,” and both stories maximize the stars’ strengths. Most of the best bits swing heavily toward Nanjiani, who delivers deadpan lines masterfully. Much of the action is merely perfunctory, and earnest character beats often fall flat. But the test of this genre is, “Would I be happy to see these two guys get into another crazy situation?” I would. (R)—SR

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME BBB Peter Parker (Tom Holland) is just a 16-year-old kid, so how do you balance Spider-Man’s fate-of-the-world duties with having fun? Director Jon Watts wrestles with that question, as Peter’s school trip to Europe turns into a meeting with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and other-dimensional warrior Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) to stop powerful elementals. Holland remains a winningly awkward presence as a nice guy trying to figure out if his moral code allows him to put getting the girl (Zendaya’s MJ) ahead of saving the world. The action sequences ultimately lean into generic spectacle, and it gets even clunkier with topical notions about how to respond to demagoguery. This is, however, pretty satisfying when it leans into human comedy. Peter Parker understands his great power and great responsibility, but we just want to see him have fun. (PG-13)—SR

TOY STORY 4 BBB.5 This is my truth: The first three Toy Story features are one story told in more-or-less real time. Here, despite nine real-world years since Toy Story 3, the toys’ new owner Bonnie is still only beginning kindergarten, with Woody (Tom Hanks) leading an attempt to recover her new favorite, googly-eyed spork Forky (Tony Hale). Centering the story on a rescue places this film squarely in the series’ comfort zone, and the action is both exciting and silly while effectively integrating new characters. Yet there’s also something that’s just a touch off as Woody—previously a stand-in for Andy’s emotional life—here takes on more of a parental role. While there’s nothing inherently wrong with that shift, TS4 is simultaneously delightful, and feels like it’s not part of the earlier installments’ cohesive perspective. (G)—SR

WILD ROSE BBB When a narrative’s broad strokes are familiar, it’s all about the way it executes finer details—and often about the performance at the center. Director Tom Harper and screenwriter Nicole Taylor offer the story of Rose-Lynn (Jessie Buckley), a 24-yearold Glasgow woman trying to re-start her attempt at a country music career after a 12-month prison stint, while leaving the care of her two children mostly to her mother (Julie Walters). There’s more of a meander than a straight line to the plot, though Harper captures it all with a Ken Loach-ian authenticity. The real power comes from Buckley’s performance, evoking Rose-Lynn’s volatility that only seems to find peace when she’s singing. With Walters offering great supporting work as a mother wrestling with how much support becomes enabling, Wild Rose gives a pursuit-of-fame story a distinctive voice. (R)—SR

CANCER (June 21-July 22): What would you say if I asked you to tell me who you truly are? I wouldn’t want to hear so much about your titles and awards. I’d be curious about your sacred mysteries, not your literal history. I’d want to know the treasured secrets you talk about with yourself before you fall asleep. I’d ask you to sing the songs you love and describe the allies who make you feel real. I’d urge you to riff on the future possibilities that both scare you and thrill you. What else? What are some other ways you might show me core truths about your irrepressible soul? Now is a good time to meditate on these riddles. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Isaac Asimov wrote a science fiction story about a physicist who masters time travel and summons William Shakespeare into the present time. The Bard enrolls in a night school class about his own plays—and proceeds to flunk the course. Modern ideas and modes of discourse are simply too disorienting to him. He is unable to grasp the theories that centuries’ worth of critics have developed about his work. With this as a cautionary tale, I invite you to time-travel not four centuries into the future, but just 10 years. From that vantage point, look back at the life you’re living now. How would you evaluate and understand it? Do you have any constructive criticism to offer? Any insights that could help you plan better for your long-term future?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.” Author Anaïs Nin wrote that in a letter to her Capricorn lover Henry Miller. Is there anyone you could or should or want to say something like that? If your answer is yes, now is a good time to be so candid and bold. If the answer is no, now would be a good time to scout around for a person to whom you could or should or want to say such a thing. And if you’d like to throw in a bit more enticement, here’s another seductive lyric from Anaïs: “Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Did you hear the story about the California mom who started a series of forest fires so as to boost her son’s career as a firefighter? She is an apt role model for behavior you should diligently avoid in the coming weeks. It’s unwise and unprofitable for you and yours to stir up a certain kind of trouble simply because it’s trouble that you and yours have become skilled at solving. So how should you use your problem-solving energy, which I suspect will be at a peak? I suggest you go hunting for some very interesting and potentially productive trouble that you haven’t wrangled with before—some rousing challenge that will make you even smarter than you already are.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The heroine of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass is curious, adventurous and brave. First she follows a wellVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to buy yourself dressed rabbit down a rabbit hole into an alternate universe. toys, change your image for no rational reason and indulge in an Later she slips through a mirror into yet another parallel realinteresting pleasure that you have been denying yourself for no ity. Both times, with great composure, she navigates her way good reason. In addition, I hope you will engage in at least two through many odd, paranormal and unpredictable events. She heart-to-heart talks with yourself, preferably using funny voices enjoys herself immensely as she deals with a series of unusual and comical body language. You could also align yourself gracefully characters and unfamiliar situations. I’m going to speculate with cosmic rhythms by dancing more than usual, and by goofing that Alice is a Pisces. Are you ready for your very own Alice-inoff more than usual and by wandering in the wilderness and seek- Wonderland phase? Here it comes! ing to recapture your lost innocence more than usual. ARIES (March 21-April 19): An Aries reader sent me a boisterous email. “I was afraid I LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Although you’ll never find an advertisement for Toyota or Coca was getting too bogged down by my duties,” he said, “too Cola or Apple within my horoscope column, you will find hype hypnotized by routine, too serious about my problems. So I took for spiritual commodities like creativity, love and freedom. Like drastic action.” He then described the ways he broke out of his everyone else, I’m a huckster. My flackery might be more ethical slump. Here’s an excerpt: “I gave laughing lessons to a cat. I ate a and uplifting than others’, but the fact is that I still try to per- spider. I conducted a sneezing contest. I smashed an alarm clock suade you to “buy” my ideas. The moral of the story: Everyone, with a hammer. Whenever an elderly woman walked by, I called even the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, is selling something. out ‘Hail to the Queen!’ and did a backflip. I gave names to my I hope that what I’m saying here purges any reluctance you spoon (Hortense), the table (Beatrice), a fly that was buzzing might have about presenting yourself and your ideas in the most around (Fallon), and a toothpick (Arturo).” According to my favorable light. It’s high time for you to hone your sales pitch; analysis of the astrological omens, Aries, you’d be wise to stage to explain why your approach to life is so wise; to be a forceful a comparable uprising. spokesperson and role model for the values you hold dear. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Welcome home, homegirls and homeboys. After observing SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are growing almost too fast, but that won’t necessarily be all your homesteading in homes away from home, I’m pleased a problem—as long as you don’t expect everyone around you to see you getting curious about the real home brew again. I to grow as fast as you. I suspect that you also know almost too wonder how many times I’ll say the word “home” before you much—but I don’t anticipate that will spawn envy and resis- register the message that it’s high time for you to home in on tance as long as you cultivate a bit of humility. I have an addition- some homemade, homegrown homework? Now here’s a special al duty to report that you’re on the verge of being too attractive note to any of you who might be feeling psychologically homefor your own good—although you have not yet actually reached less or exiled from your spiritual home: the coming weeks will be the tipping point, so maybe your hyper-attractiveness will serve a favorable time to address that ache and remedy that problem. you rather than undermine you. In conclusion, Scorpio, I invite GEMINI (May 21-June 20): you to celebrate your abundance, but don’t flaunt it. The world is full of eternally restless people who seethe with confused desires they don’t understand. Fueled by such unfathomable SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The snow leopards of Central Asia crave a lot of room to wander. urges, they are driven in unknown directions to accomplish fuzzy Zoologists say that each male prefers its territory to be about goals. They might be obsessed in ways that make them appear to 84 square miles, and each female likes to have 44 square miles. be highly focused, but the objects of their obsession are imposI don’t think you’ll require quite that vast a turf in the coming sible to attain or unite with. Those objects don’t truly exist! I have weeks, Sagittarius. But on the other hand, it will be important described this phenomenon in detail, Gemini, because the coming not to underestimate the spaciousness you’ll need in order to months will offer you all the help and support you could ever need to make sure you’re forever free of any inclination to be like that. thrive. Give yourself permission to be expansive.

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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 199902434, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. MICHAEL SHUMAKER, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO MICHAEL SHUMAKER: You are summoned and required to answer the complaint that is on file with the court. Within 21 days after the last date of publication of this summons, you must file your written answer with the clerk of the court at the following address: 450 S STATE ST., SALT LAKE, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. This lawsuit is an attempt to collect a debt of $9,873.92.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION IN THE SALT LAKE DEPT. OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, SALT LAKE COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH. CASE NO. 199910296, JUDGE ROBERT FAUST. TITANIUM FUNDS LLC, PLAINTIFF V. SARAH LIECHTY, DEFENDANT. THE STATE OF UTAH TO SARAH LIECHTY: You are summoned and required to answer the complaint that is on file with the court. Within 21 days after the last date of publication of this summons, you must file your written answer with the clerk of the court at the following address: 450 S STATE ST., SALT LAKE, UT 84114, and you must mail or deliver a copy to plaintiff’s attorney J. Benson Miller at 3081 South State Street – 2nd Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84115. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. This lawsuit is an attempt to collect a debt of $3,853.79.

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