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Opinion, July 11, “Utah’s Bad Report Card: No ‘A’ For The Aging Population” Excellent article by Michael S. Robinson Sr.! Utah’s governor and legislators don’t give a shit about the tax burden on seniors. In a state that is ran by a supposedly Christian gaggle of old farts, one would hope that a modicum of Christ-like concern for the elderly would be present. Instead, they happily tax the seniors, many of whom are on fixed incomes while passing on tax generating opportunities like the sinful lottery. May they all rot in hell.

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Online news post, July 11, “Port This! Multi-group protest storms the Chamber of Commerce building.” Gov. Gary Herbert has no gift for words. RIKARD HARWARD PEARSON Via Facebook

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Dear Editor, Utahns have checked out of the United States of America … for a second time. The first time, of course, being the trek of 1847. Utahns don’t read books or newspapers much. Utahns stay away from discussions about politics. Utahns leave control of the community to the professional politicians. Utahns define the “kingdom” as the church. Utahns want to get credit for democracy without participating in it. I must admit though, in all these things, Utahns are like most Americans. I guess this time most Americans have checked out of the

United States, too. Just one problem. I thought Utahns were supposed to be better than average Americans. Sincerely,

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McAdams Is Deranged

The socialist Democrats’ deranged hatred of President Donald Trump reached a new pathetic level on July 16, with Ben McAdams voting to circumvent the rules of the House of Representatives to allow Nancy Pelosi to call Trump a racist. The rules of the House, until that day’s sad episode, were extremely clear, as one reporter noted “Jefferson’s manual literally says you can’t refer to a statement by the President as racist on the House floor.” But the Democrats’ hatred of Trump apparently overrode their adherence to Thomas Jefferson’s rulebook written in 1801, so they simply voted to circumvent the rules. So next time Ben McAdams tries to talk up his bipartisanship back home in his district that was carried by Trump, just remember that he literally voted with the socialist Democrats to call him a racist.

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OPINION Trump’s Latest Physical Exam After President Donald Trump’s latest physical exam at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, his doctor sat down with him to discuss the findings. In my imagination, this is how it went: Doc: “Aside from your oversized gut, things are mostly good. It’s for your own good, Don; you need to bring your weight down by at least 75 pounds to get you below the 300 mark.” POTUS (alarmed): “Oh, dear, I didn’t realize I’d gotten that heavy. You need to promise me you’ll never tell another soul.” Doc (reassuringly): “Don’t worry; your secret is safe with me, and, as your personal friend and physician, I would never betray that trust. Besides, it would be very unprofessional—as well as violating patient privacy laws.” POTUS: “Thank you. It’s nice to know, during this time of constant siege, that loyalty still exists.” Doc: “If you’ll go easy on the Big Macs and carry your own golf bag, you should do just fine. That said, Don, it turns out that my last diagnosis of your podiastomatitis— inflammation resulting from a foot stuck in the mouth— was incorrect, although I’m sorry to say that your lab re-

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. sults came back, and you tested positive for pernicious oral diarrhea (POD).” POTUS: “I suspected that I might have it—even tried wearing a pad, but it made it impossible for me to deliver my splendid oratories. Have you been living under a rock? I’m on a ‘Send her back!’ high.” Doc: “Luckily, the POD is a problem that’s easily solved. I’m going to prescribe a high-potency fiber supplement to see if we can firm up those oral stools.” POTUS: “Gosh, doc, I feel very relieved that it’s not anything that will interfere with my insane work schedule. I’m sure you realize just how hectic my life is as Commanderin-Chief—rushing between golf courses and making those chit-chatty love calls to my bosom buddies in Israel, North Korea and Russia. I have to do all that and somehow be finished in time for the Colbert monologue. It’s going to get even worse with the 2020 campaign underway.” (POTUS rises from his chair, obviously headed to some important meeting.) Doc: “Wait just a moment, Don. There’s more. I wish I could say that everything else is A-OK, but it isn’t. A 73-year-old man will always have a few problems, and I do have just a morsel of bad news: Your colorectal sonogram revealed another, actually more serious malady. The tests confirmed that you are talking out your ass.” POTUS (with a worried look): “Gosh, doc, is there any cure for it?” Doc: “Well, this is really on the frontiers of medicine, so, as of now, there’s little clinical data. Only in the last couple of years has it come to the attention of the medical

community. Luckily, we caught it early—yours is only Stage II—which gives us some hope for a cure. You know how lots of people criticize you for using a 3-year-old’s vocabulary? Well, it seems to have been a blessing in disguise.” POTUS (looking confused): “How so?” Doc: “Well, the size of your words is actually what saved—excuse the expression—your ass. You still have a functioning anus because large words never stretched it. If you’d had a Harvard vocabulary—or even a Wharton one—the damage would have probably been irreversible and even terminal.” POTUS: “So, what’s the cure?” Doc: “Don, we can only hope it can be fully resolved, and that means, at the very least, a recto-oral bypass procedure. I’m going to give you a prescription for fiber, and I’m going to refer you to Dr. Lou Kinn Heiny. He is considered the top vocoproctologist on the planet.” POTUS: “I’m feeling more relieved by the moment.” Doc: “Don, if you take the medication and have Dr. Heiny do the surgery, I believe you will recover fully.” POTUS (looking tentative and confused): “Wait a minute; I’m not sure I’m liking this. If I wasn’t talking out my ass and showering reporters with my oral diarrhea, who would I be? I’d lose my entire identity, and I’m not sure I’m ready for that.” CW

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If you want to know what all the yelling was about, why the governor called it “borderline terrorism,” and just what an inland port really is, then drop by the Liberation Forum: Stop the Inland Port! Deeda Seed of the Center for Biodiversity speaks about the environmental and economic risks of siting the port near the Great Salt Lake. “This project is touted by real estate speculators, trucking industry executives and manufacturers as a job creator, but most of those jobs will be undignified and incredibly low-wage,” the event’s Facebook page says. Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, Saturday, July 27, 3-4 p.m., free, bit.ly/2JTGp1h.

MAYORS’ TOWN HALL ON CLIMATE

In what sounds like a bar joke, the Citizens’ Climate Lobby has managed to round up three mayors, two professors and a student to talk about solutions. At the Mayors’ Town Hall on Air and Climate Solutions, panelists include Midway Mayor Celeste Johnson, Heber Mayor Kelleen Potter and Park City Mayor Andy Beerman. BYU Professor of Humanities and the Environment Christopher Oscarson, University of Utah Professor of Atmospheric Science Logan Mitchell, and high school student Mia Vinding offer scientific and fact-based theories on the future of climate change. Local mayors have taken up the challenge, launching clean energy programs in their communities. Park City Library, Jim Santy Auditorium, 1255 Park Ave., Park City, Wednesday, July 31, 6:30-8 p.m., free, bit.ly/2LWqi61.

ENVIRONMENT AND THE CANDIDATES

The latest Salt Lake City mayoral debate centers on the environment and social justice issues. At the Utah Sierra Club 2019 Salt Lake City Mayoral Debate, “candidates will be given an opportunity to showcase their ideas to positively transform Utah’s environment; amid a growing population, air quality challenges, nuclear threats,” as well as “beloved but threatened national forest areas,” the event’s website says. With eight candidates running for the open mayoral seat, answers will shed light on their differences in style, management and priority. Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, 616-485-8290, Thursday, Aug. 1, 6-8 p.m., free, bit.ly/32zvQJt.

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Someone might have hit the sweet spot for clean air, even as the federal government makes it harder to cut pollution. We know! It’s the EPA, which used to be a soldier in the fight, exemplified by the “Protection” part of its name. But now, according to The New York Times, the EPA is changing its rule to make it harder for communities to regulate pollution from power plants and factories. Here in conservative Utah, the Legislature did pass HB411, the Community Renewable Energy Act, which is touted by the Sierra Club as “the Utah Way.” And indeed it is. No community is required to do anything and if they do, they can later to opt out. But the move toward 100% renewables is spreading, and not even lawmakers could ignore it. The hope is now to make the case for renewables, which might not be that difficult after all.

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If you say it often enough, it must be true. And hand it to LaVarr Webb, publisher of Utah Policy, to jump on that bandwagon. The Insulterin-chief Donald Trump is just an “equal opportunity” insulter, he says. Like that’s OK, anyway, for the man who represents the United States of America to the world. Maybe you think Webb was the first to come up with this idea, but you just might want to thank Hillary Clinton, her speechwriters or someone who was listening to Trump. Things are different now. Trump attacked the so-called Squad and admonished them to go back where they came from. Is that racism? Striking out at people who don’t look or think like you feels racist. Trump might not think he’s a racist because, well, Melania, and he doesn’t carry a KKK card. But the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.

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New film centers on the life of Green Flake, one of Utah’s three original slave pioneers. BY PETER HOLSLIN pholslin@cityweekly.net @peterholslin

hey came from all over, some from different parts of Utah, others from as far as California, gathering in the winter cold amid the cottonwood trees of Fort Buenaventura Park outside Ogden. On those days in December, the rag-tag crew included songwriters, actors and a local mountain man named Thor. There wasn’t much time and barely any money. Many were amateurs in the art of moviemaking, and the struggle with resources combined with the emotional weight of the topic at hand—the history of American slavery—often pushed everyone over the edge. “We probably cried every other day on set,” Mauli Bonner, director of this scrappy indie film, tells City Weekly. In the end, they succeeded. In recent months, Bonner and a dedicated crew of friends and family have put together the main ingredients for an independent feature film they hope will shed light to an untold chapter of Mormon pioneer history— the story of Green Flake. Flake was just a teenager when he was dispatched in the spring of 1847 on a crosscountry trek to settle Salt Lake Valley as a member of Brigham Young’s famed “Vanguard Company.” He was one of three African-American men who joined the pioneers, each of them laboring under the bondage of slavery as they paved a trail for other Latter-day Saints to homestead in what would become the state of Utah. Born into slavery on a North Carolina plantation and baptized as a Mormon at an early age, Flake is now celebrated as one of the first black Mormon pioneers. Scholars have spent years fleshing out his backstory, drawing from whatever bits of information they can find in census records, legal documents, family histories and newspaper clippings. He’s been discussed in family histories, fictionalized accounts and mythical tales passed down through generations. Yet, in more mainstream histories, he’s often mentioned only in passing. The new film—simply titled Green Flake, which is currently in post-production, with plans for a release later this year or in 2020—seeks to give shape and meaning to the life of Flake, as well as other African-Americans from the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. Many of the artists behind the

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The grave marker for one of the first black Mormon pioneers can be found at the Union Fort Pioneer Cemetery in Cottonwood Heights. film are themselves black members of the flock. For them, commemorating Flake is as much a personal way to make sense of their own relationship to their faith as it is a way to bring greater depth to Mormonism’s often-white, male-dominated history. “For him to be this young teenage slave and to do what he was asked to do at such a young age—to me, that was unheard of,” Bonner, who doubles as the movie’s producer, says. “I just think he’s a hero, and I wanted to learn more about this hero that I felt so connected to.” To understand why it would be so meaningful to tell Flake’s story, simply pay a visit to the Brigham Young Monument in Temple Square. A short walk from the Salt Lake Temple, a gigantic statue of Young towers high— standing as a testament to his influence on the Intermountain West and the Mormon church. The other pioneers of the 1847 vanguard troupe are also given their due, their names listed on a bronze plaque. Oh, some other guys get a mention, too. In the bottom corner, apart from the rest, three “colored servants” are listed: Green Flake, Hark Lay and Oscar Crosby. These were the three enslaved black men who joined the vanguards, playing a role in a historic westward trek as the “property” of their Mormon masters. Flake’s fellow black pioneers later changed their names to Hark Wales and Oscar Smith, abandoning the surnames of their owners after they were freed. But this fact isn’t mentioned on the monument. Still, at least we know their names—the same can’t be said for many others who

toiled without compensation or credit on behalf of LDS settlers in Utah Territory. Amy Tanner Thiriot, a Pennsylvania historian and author of the forthcoming book, Slaves in Zion: African American Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847-1862, says she’s compiled records of about 100 black men and women who were brought to Utah to work as slaves for early settlers and merchants. Drawing from an abundance of legal documents and other records, she’s been able to create clear pictures of many of them—yet the historical record is a dusty, inconsistent thing, and sometimes she could only dig up the barest details about these folks. “Some of them we only know by number, unfortunately,” Thiriot says. Scholars and writers have spent years trying to rectify this erasure. And lately, it seems more and more of these forgotten histories are emerging. At the University of Utah, historian W. Paul Reeve is leading the effort behind Century of Black Mormons, a database providing detailed backstories of black men and women baptized into the LDS faith (including many who were not enslaved) from 1830 to 1930. In May, Thiriot—whose book is currently under peer review, awaiting input from fellow academics before it’s published— joined a St. George genealogist and leaders of the Utah chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society (UA AHGS) to unveil a new headstone for Hark Wales in Cottonwood Heights’ Union Fort Pioneer Cemetery. For more than 100 years, he’d been in an unmarked grave. Bonner started working on the movie last year. He was inspired to write something about African-American Mormons after

contributing music to Jane and Emma, a biopic that centers on Emma Smith—the wife of church founder Joseph Smith—and Jane Manning James, a much-celebrated black member of the LDS church, who for a time lived with the Smiths in Illinois. Bonner, who comes from a family of prominent Mormon musicians, also performed with his family at the “Be One” celebration, marking the 40year anniversary of the 1978 “revelation” that reversed the infamous church policy barring black men from the priesthood. Bonner has never made a movie before— usually he pays the bills working as a vocal director, vocal coach and songwriter for TV shows and pop singers, helping stars like Ariana Grande and Katy Perry prepare for recording sessions and tours. But the “Be One” project gave him the impetus to think big. “I’m a songwriter, so I’m comfortable writing and telling stories. But usually I have three minutes to create a song and tell a full story, and this was unique because I had never written a screenplay before,” he recalls. “I had no idea what I was doing. A lot of what I had written, I had to keep rewriting and restructuring it and comparing it to other scripts—‘Oh, OK, this goes here ... this goes there.’ I was learning on the job. “It was an awesome journey for me in learning how to tell a story in this format— but also, I can’t explain the spiritual experience that it was. I just felt led by the spirit, just because there was so much to read,” he adds. For research, he consulted with historians and pored over journal entries documenting the vanguard company’s historic 1847 trek westward from the Mormon

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“It was a hard life. He had to be strong to make it.” Bonner also sees something heaven-sent in the way Green Flake came together. It can sometimes take years for a story or idea to blossom into a full-length film, but this one—low-budget and DIY, as it was—came together in a matter of months. “It’s a plus and a minus that I don’t have any education in making a movie, because I don’t know what’s not possible,” Bonner admits. “I wrote the screenplay in July, and then August came and I was like, ‘OK, this seems like it’s a movie.’ That wasn’t my intention. Initially I was just writing, because I like to write. So then I started making phone calls to people that I thought would and should be part of making the film … Everyone I called, when I sent them the script, they were like, ‘Let’s do it. I’m on board.’ It was just green lights—green light, green light, green light, go.” After filming the winter scenes in December, the production team raised nearly $70,000 in a Kickstarter campaign to cover costs for another shoot this spring. In May, they put out a call on the Green Flake Facebook page for extras, inviting people of all ages to show up in their best “pioneer clothing” at Huntsville’s Weber Memorial Park. Bonner won’t give an exact figure about production costs, but says the cast and crew agreed to daily rates that were substantially lower than what would normally be expected on a movie set. The Provobased acting coach Laurie Harrop-Purser helped the amateur actors get into character, while a theater in Orem provided 19thcentury style pioneer clothing. The mountain man known as Thor offered expertise in matters of bush living and made suggestions for props and costumes. The production team finished filming in June. Now, the movie is with an editor who’s working on a final cut. Even as he puts the story of Flake together, Bonner acknowledges just how hard it is to make sense of such a formative, and yet disturbing, part of Mormon history. Part of the reason he wants to make Green Flake is so he can come to terms with this part of his faith’s past and make sense of it. He wants viewers to come away feeling empowered—not defeated. “For me, it strengthened my testimony. And that’s what really made me understand that this has to be told the right way by the right people,” he says. “The information’s there. People are going to find out stuff and learn stuff and Google things. But I don’t want them to have the wrong perception, getting it from the wrong source. “Of course, it’s odd to talk about slavery so casually, in the way we’re talking about all of this,” he adds. “But I hope that it’s not too scary of a subject for people to check out and get to know, because I feel like it allows us to get to know Green Flake. It allows us to get to know Brigham Young in a better light than I think how he’s shown. There’s just so much more that we can learn from our history if we’re just not afraid of the conversation.” CW

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encampment called Winter Quarters in Nebraska across the Rockies to Salt Lake Valley. Bonner originally wanted to write something about the celebrated black missionary Elijah Abel. But he kept coming across references to a man named Green Flake. He’d never heard of the former slave before, and soon he was fully immersed, ferreting out as much information as he could. “This is, like, a madman with postcards laid out all over the floor, furniture moved, piecing the puzzle together, and then typing it up and then retyping it in the right format,” he recalls, thinking back to his crazed writing sessions at his home in the LA suburb of Pasadena. According to Thiriot, records and old newspaper articles suggest that Flake was charismatic, intelligent and strong even at a young age—just the kind of person Brigham Young would’ve needed on a death-defying trip West. With the vanguard company, Flake helped lay a road through the treacherous cliffs and canyons of the Rocky Mountains. After arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, he built a cabin for the Southern-bred family that owned him. Flake appeared to have gained his freedom in the 1850s, Thiriot writes in one account of his life. He lived until 1903 and seemed to have become a popular speaker at multiple Pioneer Day celebrations decades after his journey. Still, life was undoubtedly difficult for Flake. Robert Burch, president of the UA AHGS, points out that no matter how this redoubtable pioneer was treated by his owners, the system of American slavery was itself an act of violence. Although there are gaps in Flake’s life story, researchers have found evidence that many of his contemporaries experienced severe abuse under slavery in Utah—the owners of one man, Gobo Fango, banished him to live in a shed with farm animals and forced him to work in the winter barefoot until he lost the ability to use one of his feet. “Anecdotally, we know that all of these people were not treated very well,” Burch says. This brutal legacy forced Bonner into a great deal of spiritual reflection. He struggled to understand why Green Flake didn’t try to escape while on the 1847 trek, when he was far away from his owners. When he started working on the film with his little brother Yahosh—who he cast in the starring role—they would have long discussions. One day while on set, Yahosh remembers the two bursting into sobs after they acted together in a scene, overcome by the heaviness of what they were doing. Their religion played a part in slavery, a brutal system whose destructive effects are still being reckoned with today. Yet Yahosh suspects that faith also helped in Flake’s survival. “I tried to think and feel what he must’ve felt, being a black man in the 1800s. You can just imagine the faith that he had to work as hard as he did for the survival of those who were on the trek with him,” Yahosh says.

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hen it comes to Beyoncé, Brooklynite-by-way-of-Cache-County, Kevin Allred, wrote the book. Specifically, Ain’t I a Diva?—freshly squeezed by Feminist Press—is a study that parts from the concept that pop culture is not just a guilty pleasure but an access point, and frames subjects like race, gender and sexuality against Queen Bey’s lyrics and music video iconography.

It might not add up on paper, but as poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke says in the book’s foreword, “Anyone who, like Allred, is such a staunch believer in Black women and Black feminism is alright with me.” Clarke goes on to praise her former student for building a “host of Black feminist conceptual frameworks and theoretical inspirations in order to parse out the titular diva’s work.” In the sweltering New York City heat, Allred arrives at my not-so-luxurious room inside the storied Hotel Pennsylvania a few minutes late after deciding to drive into the city. He’s wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the message “Fox News hates me” (more on that later); its royal blue cotton contrasting against his heavily inked arms. No one can accuse him of

not being committed to his work. His latest tattoo is his book’s ISBN number. “I’m just always in the market for another tattoo idea and that seemed like a cool thing, since it’s tied to the book forever,” Allred says, “like a Social Security number.” Nearing a decade after mapping the syllabus for the first “Politicizing Beyoncé” class he taught at Rutgers University, and half a dozen years since leaving Logan for more metropolitan pastures, much like his inspiration, Allred is about to experience a Homecoming of his own, with a book signing on Saturday, July 27, at The King’s English Bookshop (1511 S. 1500 East), and an inevitable visit to the homestead. In a frank chat with City Weekly, the author talked about growing up queer in Utah, his own white privilege and, yes, Taylor Swift.

What brought you here? What’s the story of the kid from Logan who ended up in Greenpoint?

Well, I kind of bounced all over a little bit. I lived in LA, I lived in Boston for grad school— a Ph.D. program at Rutgers. I went back to Boston and met my boyfriend, who then got a job in New York, so we came for his job six years ago and now here we are still.

What was your experience growing up in Logan?

It was heavy, I guess (laughs). I don’t know how to describe it. It was a lot. I mean, at first realizing, “Oh, I’m gay,” that took awhile. I was raised Mormon, so I wasn’t one of the lucky few that was raised non-Mormon in Utah. Well, I’d call them “lucky few.” So all of that and just being around that culture was super oppressive, but it made me who I am now.

What was that path like of coming into your own and becoming an author?

Well, that took forever. Like I said, I’ve bounced around to different cities. I also thought I was going to be a songwriter and musician and I used to play, you know, little folk songs and play at Pride events and all that kind of stuff. And then, I went back to school because I wanted to be a teacher and the writing came from the teaching aspect, I think. And weirdly, I see performing and writing and teaching all kind of connected. Being in front of people—well, the writing you don’t have to be in front of them at the time—to convey something. I never had some grand ambition to be a writer. I always loved reading and I wrote a little, but it wasn’t ever my main focus. It all just came out after being a teacher, having this Beyoncé class and then it kind of snowballed. I was, like, I want to tell the story of the class in a book, so I have to write it.

(Laughs) of Beyoncé? Now I would. I wasn’t always. I kind of talk about it in the introduction of the book, but it didn’t really happen until B’Day came out for me, and then I was, like, “Oh, OK, Beyoncé.”

What was that spark?

Yet.

Yet. But her publicist came to the class a few years ago. We got to go on a field trip to the first On the Run Tour with all my students, she gave us all tickets. She came and sat in on the whole class and she participated and was telling us stories. Afterward, she told me, “I think Beyoncé would really love what you’re doing, ’cause she wants to be seen as an artist, and what you’re doing is analyzing her music as you would any other artist and she would think that’s so cool.” I’ve stayed in touch with some people from [Parkwood Entertainment]. They have the book now, I signed a copy to Beyoncé and sent it off to them.

You gave her your autograph?

Right? I just wanted to write her a note. So hopefully it gets to her and she reads it and likes the book.

I didn’t have all of these when I started, so I was a little less conspicuous. This all happened as we were going.

I think it was easy not to consider Beyoncé a political artist, and then Super Bowl 50 happened. Was that a defining moment for your course as well?

Yeah, well really even more than that, I was saying she’s political. All these things are in there deeper, you just have to tease them out more. In the Super Bowl, she’s definitely just saying, “This is it, we’re dressed up as the Black Panthers, we’re marching out onto the field, we got all these black references in the song ‘Formation.’” But the moment that really knocked me off my feet, was the feminist moment from the self-titled album, because back in 2010, I was trying to say Beyoncé is a feminist and people were, like, “No she’s not, she can’t be a feminist. She dresses the way she dresses, that’s not feminism.”

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Did people in the school and students perhaps at first think it was a joke? Or that you were punking them or something? From looking at you and the tatts and everything …

It’s just given us so much to work with. A lot of it is analyzing the visuals, not just the lyrics because she’s now such a visual artist. She always was, but now everyone accepts that, and she’s become more political herself. At first, when I called the class “Politicizing Beyoncé,” everyone was, like, “You can’t do that; she’s not political.” Now, I’ve run a course where I have to revise what we’re doing, because there’s so much now being written about Beyoncé and analyzing the politics in her [work], especially Lemonade, that it’s kind of come full circle to where I was assigning all of these texts that now people are using.

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I guess it’s still changing and happening, because I’m still working with an artist who’s still making things. At first, before I even made the full class, I gave students that [Daphne Brooks] article to talk about and analyze the “Déjà Vu” video in a bigger Women’s Studies 101 class. They always were, like, “Whoa dude!” They all had opinions, no matter if they agreed or disagreed. I was, like, oh shit, this is something to harness, because a lot of times when you’re just trying to pull things out of students, they don’t care. I was, like, OK, so Beyoncé is going to make this fun and easier and interesting, plus I’m a fan, I’m excited to talk about the music—and it helps when the teacher is excited about the material as well. So then, I had this opportunity a couple of semesters later, where it’s like a special topics class where you get to choose the whole thing. I was, like, why don’t I try and put together a

Yeah, I think she does. I haven’t talked to Beyoncé …

How has the progression of her career deepened or informed your class?

How do you map that into a college course?

Does she know of your course’s existence?

But people thought it was a joke. Once the media got wind of it, it was jokes about, “Oh you’re learning the ‘Single Ladies’ choreography” or “Oh, do you quiz them on her birthday?” First of all, that wouldn’t be very hard, because everyone knows her birthday; it’s in the song. But there was a misconception around what actually was part of studying Beyoncé in a college classroom. I think now, more and more pop culture classes, and even Beyoncé classes, have popped up, so people accept it a little easier, but there’s still this resistance to studying her as an intellectual figure.

I don’t know. I just heard that album and it shook me in a different way. I obviously knew all the other songs and earlier in my life, I listened to Destiny’s Child. Then I went through singer-songwriter phases and different musical phases—a punk rock phase—so I wasn’t zeroed in on Beyoncé. And then when I heard B’Day, that was 2006 so I was 20-something, I was, like, “Oh damn.” The sound was so different and intense and “Déjà Vu” particularly, that song was, like, whoa. Because I was in grad school at the time, I’d read an article by Daphne Brooks where she reviewed the album and she was, like, “This is so political,” and no one was saying anything like that at the time. That really interested me, because it married these different interests I had in politics, in pop culture and music especially.

full class? It wasn’t about Beyoncé, necessarily, in terms of the readings. It was all black feminist history, but trying to draw out the same themes and analyzing a Beyoncé video by drawing out a theme that is talked about in this other writing or speech or piece of art and get the students to think about race and gender and sexuality in critical ways. I taught it first in 2010, so she didn’t have as much material, clearly, so I would sprinkle other artists and other songs in it. But now, of course, there’s so much Beyoncé, that it’s too much for one semester even, so I don’t have to do that anymore; it’s all-Beyoncé-allthe-time.

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And then Beyoncé herself came out, and is sampling Chimamanda Adichie and claiming feminism, and for me that was the most defining moment where I was, like, yes I think something is here. Now it’s going to be seen because she’s saying it, too.

That’s what I try to do throughout the book; that’s why I only cite black women throughout the entire book. That was a choice I wanted to make, because that’s the way I do it in the class, too.

It’s so interesting how certain iconography within the music videos speaks to you and triggers something based on what you know. I put this marker on your book where you’re citing the stigma of African American women and talking about eating disorders, for example. How do you even relate that?

How do you grab all of that that’s so informed by visuals and the moving image, and turn it into a book?

It’s not easy; with a really good editor that helps me. A lot of my inclination was to just describe videos, and my editor kept telling me, “They’ll have seen the video; you need to bring out different stories.” It’s not just the analysis; there are stories from the classroom, stories about myself listening to Beyoncé, there are other threads that come into the book itself. I wanted it to feel like you were sitting in a class, and that you have taken the class afterwards. But because so much of it is conversation between students and me and each other, that’s a hard thing to capture, so I try to also leave a lot of space and encourage people to read the things I’m citing. Like, go read this, this is what I assigned. Create your own conversations—whether it’s friends reading the book together or pair it with a different piece of literature from a different novel. I don’t know if I’ve done a super great job at it, but I was trying to leave those spaces, because it’s a hard thing to capture when it’s so in the moment. I’m very comfortable in a conversation, because it can change by the next day. But putting it down in one thing where it’s going to be like that forever, presumably, or at least until you update and revise a book, was hard for me.

How long did it take you to actually write the book?

Years, in total. Part of it was hard, because I had a whole draft done before Lemonade came out, so obviously that changed everything. So I had to rearrange and rework things, figure out how Lemonade would fit in the narrative of the book, so in total I’d say I’d written little pieces here and there, but sitting down and writing and thinking and editing was probably a three-year process. Because halfway through that, Lemonade came out and I had to basically start over (laughs).

What did your friends think about you doing the course then writing the book? Were you like an odd duck or was it an encouraging process from the get-go?

A little bit of both, I guess. Friends that were in school with me or other grad students, they thought it was cool. Sometimes there would be a little more pushback from an older generation of professors and teachers: “This doesn’t really deserve study.” Although, again, that’s changed with time, as Beyoncé has become more acceptable to bring into the classroom.

It’s obviously launched onto a public platform. How do you marry being a white dude from Logan with writing the definitive academic story of this black empowering badass?

Well, one way is, I don’t consider this a definitive version. This is a story of my class and what I love about Beyoncé. I don’t like that academic thing about owning a certain idea. You know, people like to claim they were the first to do whatever. I do think it’s cool that in 2010, I think I was the first class. I haven’t been proven wrong so far, but if I am proven wrong, I’m happy to give credit to that. It’s a balancing act with how I am in the classroom and how I am in the book, trying to let the text the black women who are writing, speak for themselves, bringing in their quotes, let Beyoncé’s work speak for itself and just kind of put them in conversation with one another.

I’d written little pieces here and there, but sitting down and writing and thinking and editing was probably a three-year process. Because halfway through that, Lemonade came out and I had to basically start over. You mean with the students?

With the students. Or like in the book, too, I try and thread the … whether it’s a Toni Morrison novel, and show why this quote mirrors this scene in the video. It’s the same as with any academic paper. Like, you’re supporting it with evidence and so it’s not about my experience. I also think everyone should read black women’s work—no matter who you are—because it shows us what’s wrong with society. You should read any kind of work by people written at the intersection of oppressions, because that teaches you how to fight them and challenge them. So I’m always trying to keep my own privileges and identities in check. But, if me speaking … like, if someone will listen to me over someone else—which shouldn’t be the way it is, but obviously a white man can get in places that other people can’t sometimes—then I think that’s a good use of privilege as well. I want it to be not a definitive text, but more like an intro text for them to take, go read all these other articles, maybe go take a class taught by a black woman who can bring experiential stuff into it as well, because I think all of that should work together.

Speaking about convergence and being an ally, it’s also published by Feminist Press. There goes another offshoot, right?

Well, yeah. And even in the cover design and putting it all together, Cheryl Clarke writes the forword … she was a teacher of mine in grad school as well but a superfamous black, lesbian poet in the ’70s and ’80s and still today, representing the older generation. The cover illustration is done by a young Afro-Latina artist, Emerald Pellot. So I’m trying to, when I can, bring those things and put them out there and celebrate those other voices.

There’s that scene in “Pretty Hurts” where it looks like, Beyoncé mimes some kind of eating disorder in a bathroom stall. I mean, it was just reading and searching out sources that can speak to that issue. I’m typically teaching 18 to 22 year olds—and in women’s studies, also, you’re going to get a lot of women students—and so that, eating disorders and body image, is a huge thing that people want to discuss, anyway. Looking for a source by black women talking about that, I found very few memoirs or anything like that, except for this one book called Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat, which is even more interesting than these other memoirs, because it talks about class and race and how food insecurity creates … you know, usually we just talk about it on this surface level of white girls with eating disorders, and we don’t get into these other issues about how they are all tied together.

What are some of the other unexpected topics that you think something has sparked that perhaps hasn’t been noticed by the mainstream?

Beyoncé has a huge queer following, but her music isn’t analyzed for the ways it brings in choreography from queer communities or other things like that. I do a paring with “Single Ladies” and “If I Were a Boy.” The I Am… Sasha Fierce era, I try and think of it in terms of the history of drag performances, and I use Janet Mock’s Redefining Realness to talk about Sasha Fierce as a queer drag queen kind of thing. That’s something I don’t think many people look at or talk about. Of course, with the newer stuff now, people are talking about all these different aspects of it. But I even talk about Sasha Fierce returning on Lemonade, because Beyoncé said she killed her after 2010 or whenever that tour was over. I think Sasha Fierce comes back in Lemonade but I think she’s played by Serena Williams, not Beyoncé, so there’s all this masculinity/femininity stuff going on through the characters Beyoncé plays.

So you’ve put it out. You’re in this exciting yet vulnerable post-release haze. What specifically are you looking forward to in going to Utah and presenting it?

I don’t know exactly; it’s been awhile since I’ve been back there. People love Beyoncé everywhere, but I don’t know. Salt Lake City has certainly changed a lot since I’ve grown up or been back to visit. So I’m just excited about going back and sharing that. I mean, Utah is still a very white place, so bringing these issues back in the place I grew up and felt so … different.

Do you ever see yourself putting Beyoncé on the back burner and starting anew with a completely different pop icon?

Yeah, I mean I’m always going to be interested in Beyoncé. Like I was saying, who knows what she’ll do next? It could be even more explicitly political, and so maybe I’ve

Not Taylor Swift is what you’re getting at.

She’s my nemesis, I don’t like her at all. I think she’s the anti-Beyoncé in a lot of ways. I would be interested in doing a class on her, if it’s all about the ways she co-opts Beyoncé’s strategies and then gets credit for them later. I’ve stopped tweeting about her, because every time I do, her little minions come and try and get me fired from jobs—jobs I don’t even have—so I’m like, go ahead. But I don’t know who right now could provide as much as Beyoncé does, because I’m also interested in the visual and the lyrics together.

You have the Utah connection. Perhaps you could do Marie Osmond?

Haha, yeah maybe. Is she on a Weight Watchers commercial now?

Oh yeah, instead of hot sauce.

Is there anything else you want to say to the queer kids who are considering a career, in either academia or writing, based on your own experiences?

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It’s hard. But just do what you are passionate about, because—and even with something like this—getting the deal for the book was super hard, too, because nobody believes in it except that one person. It’s kind of cliché, but when you do find that one person, that makes a difference. Everyone can tell you no, but there’ll still be one person who believes in it. It doesn’t matter if it’s the most prominent

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Nutrisystem! The political nature of the Nutrisystem campaign. She has ranch dressing in her purse.

Conversation was conducted at the Hotel Pennsylvania on June 29. Transcription by Isaiah Poritz. Interview was edited for clarity and length.

You didn’t hear about this part? The day after Trump was elected, a student in my Beyoncé class called the cops on me—or their parents called the cops on me— and they [said] I forced my students to burn an American flag and threatened to kill all the white students in the room, which I hadn’t. I did have an American flag to be fair, and I asked them if they wanted to burn it but they didn’t, so I took it back to Target where I had bought it earlier that day. Then, the comment they twisted the other way, was something about how maybe conservative white people would care more about gun control if they were the ones being targeted in the streets by police or whatever. So, the NYPD showed up at my house a week later and took me to Bellevue and made me have a wellness check and then I got fired from Rutgers because of it. Then I sued the NYPD, and actually just this week, I finally heard that I’ve been awarded a settlement from the City of New York for the violation of my civil rights. So that’s another weird thing people say I should write about (laughs).

It’s hard. I mean, maybe somebody will come along. I think Janelle Monáe is someone who has a lot of intention and interesting stuff going on in her music. I probably don’t want to choose a white person, because I find that a boring avenue to … not boring, but I mean, like, I’m interested in race, gender and sexuality, all these things.

press or the person with the most social media followers or whatever. When you find that, that’s what really puts it out there and gets it going. Because I tried to get deals for this book and so many people were, like, it’s too academic or it’s not academic enough or it’s written by you, so we don’t want to hear it, you know, all of these different things … this isn’t really good advice. Do what you feel passionate about, even if no one believes in it and don’t let all the noes stop you. CW

What?

Jesus, I didn’t know. So do you see yourself switching gears and starting with another pop diva from scratch?

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written myself out of this, ’cause now she’s taking over and putting the politics on the front-end of it rather than all the subtle layers. But I am thinking already that my next thing will be more memoir-based about my own story. Everyone tells me, “It would have made sense for you to do it the other way around.” And I was, like, yeah, it probably would have, but I never do anything that makes sense. So, I wrote the Beyoncé book, then I’ll go back and kind of try and tell my own story, but it’s a lot harder for me to write about myself than it is to have a topic that I can just sit there and analyze and write about. A lot of people have said, “You should tell your story about growing up and being Mormon and being excommunicated,” and all the stuff that came later, when I got in trouble and the NYPD came to my house because students were upset about this class. It was after Donald Trump, that’s a whole other aspect of my story.

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It hardly seems possible, especially for those who were around at the time. It’s been 50 years—July 20, 1969, to be precise—since Neil Armstrong took his “one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind,” and walked on the surface of the moon. Although our fascination with outer space—as affirmed by such otherworldly fantasies as Star Trek, Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica—might extend beyond real-world events, the mission of Apollo 11 still looms large in the annals of scientific accomplishment. This year, that first mission to the moon is being marked in many ways, but possibly none quite as stirring as the Utah Symphony’s A Symphonic Space Celebration. Conductor Conner Gray Covington, soprano Melissa Heath and a full orchestral present a program that soars to the stars, courtesy of songs and symphonies inspired by otherworldly horizons. Much of the music will seem familiar, including themes from Star Trek and other films that involve space flights of both fact and fantasy (The Right Stuff, Apollo 13, The Martian). You’ll also hear great classical compositions that have become part of the popular musical lexicon (Holst’s The Planets, Also Sprach Zarathustra, “Clair de Lune,” “By the Light of the Silvery Moon,” among them). A video provided by Clark Planetarium complements the aural imagery. Most of us won’t ever experience an interstellar adventure of our own. But being earthbound needn’t inhibit our imagination. Suffice it to say, this program provides all the right stuff. (Lee Zimmerman) Utah Symphony: A Symphonic Space Celebration: Deer Valley Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive South, Park City, July 26, 7:30 p.m., 801533-6683, $15-$57, utahsymphony.org

Pacific Island culture includes much more than the infamous luau, and Utah residents will get a chance to experience it firsthand this week with a kickoff to a month-long celebration. Presented by Pacific Island Knowledge 2 Action Resources (PIK2AR), the opening night’s engaging activities draw more than 4,000 attendees, according to Salt Lake County. “The kickoff is better than any Pacific Island travel trade show you could ever go to,” Susi Feltch-Malohifo'ou, PIK2AR executive director, says. “It is a way for communities of all ages to engage and learn in a fun way.” Along with traditional music, food and dancing, the interactive activities begin with the tournament at 8 a.m. and run all day, including 13 Pacific Island cultural stations, free film screenings, kid’s area and a dance contest. New this year are a volleyball tournament, an art exhibit highlighting performing artists “Malialole Dance,” a Talk Story Stage and much more. However, this single day is only the beginning of the month-long celebration featuring a variety of events from Logan to St. George. With August officially declared by the governor as “Utah Pacific Island Heritage Month,” festivities feature a variety of events throughout the state including art exhibits, live music and food festivals. Assorted festivals throughout the state offer a diversion from the heat with art, Reggae, and even ukuleles. “This is a fun and free event for the whole family,” Feltch-Malohifo'ou says. “Come learn about Pacific Island communities here in Utah while celebrating our similarities and differences.” (Colette A. Finney) Utah Pacific Island Heritage Month Kickoff: Sorenson Multicultural Center, 855 W. California Ave, July 27, 8 a.m.-10 p.m., free, 385-468-1300, slco.org/sorenson

Do you ever wonder, “What ever happened to soand-so who used to play for the Jazz?” Chances are, he’s coming to town this weekend as part of Big 3, a professional 3-on-3 league which will play three games at Vivint Smart Home Arena. Big 3 was founded by rapper-actor-producer Ice Cube in 2017, and features several former NBA stars. Former Jazzmen making their way back to SLC include Joe Johnson and Al Jefferson, who play for the “Triplets” team coached by Lisa Leslie. Former Utah player DeShawn Stevenson will take the floor for the “Ball Hogs,” while Brandon Rush returns as a member of the “Aliens.” Carlos Boozer and Carlos Arroyo also play in the 12-team league, but their teams are not scheduled to appear. Other big names coming to Salt Lake include Stephen Jackson and Greg Oden. The list of coaches includes ex-NBA stars Rick Barry, Nate Archibald and Michael Cooper. The minimum age to play in the Big 3 is 27, and while many of these 30- and even 40-somethings no longer have the legs to play 48 minutes of full-court hoop, they can still show their skills in 3-on-3 half-court exhibitions that play 10-minute periods until one team reaches 50 points. Think of it as the basketball equivalent of your favorite aging rockers playing an acoustic set. The 12-team league began competing in June and travels to different cities, playing once a week throughout the summer. Playoffs begin in late August, with a championship game scheduled Sept. 1 in Los Angeles. (Geoff Griffin) Big 3 Professional 3-on-3 Basketball: Vivint Smart Home Arena, 301 W. South Temple, July 27, 7 p.m., $15-$125, 801-3252000, big3.com, vivintarena.com

In a week of parties and parades celebrating Utah’s Pioneer Day, a Mariachi and traditional Latin American dance concert provides a balance by celebrating other cultures within the state. The Utah Cultural Celebration Center’s weekly Summer Concert Series presents Mariachi de mi Tierra, co-headlining with Ballet Folklórico de las Americas. Mariachi de mi Tierra is a local Mariachi group that performs all around Utah. Mariachi music originated in the Mexican state of Jalisco, and through the appearance of mariachi bands in 20th century popular films and television programs, the genre has become synonymous with Mexican culture and music. Ballet Folklórico de las Americas has performed along with Mariachi de mi Tierra several times, so this show should be a fine-tuned dual showcase. Ballet Folklórcio performs under the direction of Irma Hofer, who has worked her way from the bottom to the top of this organization, starting as a dancer. The troupe has been around since 1979, specializing in traditional folk dance from Latin America. In an interview featured in an episode of KUED Channel 7’s This Is Utah, Hofer says that the ballet group is about connecting people to either their own heritage or serving as a bridge to other cultures: “It might be your history, and if it’s not your history, human history, which is important,” Hofer declares. Take a moment in your week to expand your cultural horizons. (Sean Hemmersmeier) Mariachi de mi Tierra & Ballet Folklórcio de las Américas: Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, July 29, 7:30 pm, free, 801-965-5100, culturalcelebration.org

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humans’ absolute authority to use the rest of creation—along with the church’s early history of clashes with the federal government. “You look at legislators who are self-declared Mormons, Rob Bishop and the rest of the Utah caucus,” Ketcham says, “all are sworn enemies of public lands, faithful to the cause of the de facto privatization of public lands. The weight of Mormon history bears very much on how they view public lands.” The most maddening running theme in This Land is the role of agribusiness in pushing policies that not only cause ecological damage, and treat public lands as a resource for the personal exploitation of ranchers, but which taxpayers support. Estimates from the Center for Biological Diversity suggest that as much as $1 billion annually is spent on activities like killing predator species to preserve cattle and sheep, or destroying native plant species in favor of invasive grasses more favorable to grazing. “It’s a form of socialism for the very wealthy,” Ketcham says. “Many of these ranchers are modernday barons; most are not the ‘99 percent.’ … But it’s tough to go against the mythos of the American cowboy,” he adds, using an exaggerated drawl for the final words. This Land also explores in depth how little enforcement power agencies like the Bureau of Land Management exert in the face of political pressures and threats of actual violence. “Within the agencies,” Ketcham says, “you have higher-ups who are broken by the level of influence they are forced to endure politically because of the nature of our system—a gross capitalist, extractive model. Meanwhile, lower down in the ranks, you have really good, smart people of conscience who are forced not to follow their conscience because it’s too dangerous to do so … I don’t mean to malign the sizeable number of people who enter their jobs with good intentions, but fail to implement them, because they’re trapped in a modality that doesn’t allow for it.” Even more disheartening, Ketcham sees little hope for change politically, refusing to acknowledge that threats to the Western environment are all about President Donald Trump and Republicans. This Land

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recounts deals cut by the Obama administration to preserve Senate seats, or maintain alliances. “I don’t see any difference” between the political parties, Ketcham says. “Sometimes the turning of the screw is slightly less, but there’s no administration that has said, ‘Nope, no more.’ The rape of the land is bipartisan. Democrats just rape with a condom.” That kind of brutally frank language is what Ketcham feels is necessary when addressing a topic where people tend to tiptoe around ideas like the threat to the livelihoods of some people vs. the existential threat to entire species and ecosystems: “It’s a matter of making a decision about whether you want to save the last wild things in the lower 48, or if you want to protect a special vested-interest, privileged minority. How about a little humility, restraint and altruism in regard to those last wild places?” Ketcham closes by relating an exchange with a biologist while traveling through the Mojave Desert. When the author asked him why people should care about a threat to the habitat of the desert tortoise, “He gave me this look like he wanted to slam on the brakes and kick me the fuck out of the car,” he recounts. “‘Why does it matter? Because they’ve been here for millions of years. And we should respect that.’ … In the end, it’s not all about us, this one blessed, sacred species constantly preening in front of the mirror. We need some other, larger cosmic connection, and we need places that connect us to it.” CW

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Modern West Fine Art (412 S. 700 West, 801-355-3383, modernwestfineart.com) presents a group show of both the gallery’s represented artists (Jann Haworth’s “Old Lady II” is pictured) and guest artists working in the often-less-appreciated mediums of fiber and/or paper, in Paper & Thread, running through Aug. 31.

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., Sandy through Sept. 7, times 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., Sandy through Aug. 24, dates and times vary, hct.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 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

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

A Symphonic Space Celebration Deer Valley Amphitheater, 2250 Deer Valley Drive S., Park City, July 26, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 16) Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 St. Mary’s Church, 1505 White Pine Canyon Road, Park City, July 31, 8 p.m., utahsymphony.org

DANCE

Mariachi de mi Tierra & Ballet Folklórico de las Américas Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, July 29, 8 p.m., culturalcelebration.org (see p. 16)

COMEDY & IMPROV

Aaron Woodall Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, July 26-27, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Laughing Stock Improv Comedy The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., theobt.org Marcus and Guy Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, July 26, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Olan Rogers Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, July 27, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Open Mic Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Random Tangent Improv Comedy Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Saturdays, 10 p.m., randomtangentimprov.org Shawn Paulsen Wiseguys Ogden, 269 E. 25th Street, Ogden, through June 28, dates vary, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

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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 Silly Sunday Market Main Street, Park City, Sundays through Sept. 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., parksillysundaymarket.com 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

African Festival Liberty Park, 600 E. 900 South, July 27, noon-8 p.m. 7th Annual Utah Pacific Island Heritage Month Kickoff Sorenson Multicultural Center, 855 W. California Ave., July 27, 8 a.m.-10 p.m. (see p. 16) International Days Washington Park, 250 E. 500 North, Price, July 25-27, noon, eventful.com Springville World Folkfest Spring Acres Arts Park, 700 S. 1300 East, Springville, July 30-Aug. 3, 6:30 p.m., worldfolkfest.org Wasatch County Fair Southfield Park, 895 W. 100 South, Heber City, July 26-Aug. 3, times vary, wasatchcountyfair.com

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1 to 5 Club: Fluidly Speaking Discussion Group Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, fourth Mondays, 7:30-9 p.m., utahpridecenter.org Beyond a Night of Music Encircle Salt Lake, 331 S. 600 East, every Thursday, 6:30 p.m.8 p.m., encircletogether.org Men’s Sack Lunch Group Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Wednesdays, noon-1:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org

LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Christopher Ketcham: This Land The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, July 26, 7 p.m., 7 p.m. (see p. 18) David Marlett: American Red Weller Bookworks, 607 Trolley Square, July 30, 6:30 p.m., wellerbookworks.com J. Crocket: Nostalgic Blood: Shhh...Don’t Say a Word Layton Market Center, 1780 N. Woodland Park Drive, Layton, July 28, 11 a.m., barnesandnoble.com Kevin Allred: Ain’t I A Diva? The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, July 27, 2 p.m., kingsenglish.com (see p. 12) Shanan Ballam Sweet Library, 455 F St., July 25, 7 p.m., events.slpl.org Susan Adrian: Forever Neverland The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, July 27, 4 p.m., kingsenglish.com

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3SMITHS Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through Sept. 6, artandmuseums.utah.g 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 UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Sept. 7, utahmoca.org 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 UMOCA, 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 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 Greater Merit: The Temple and Image in South Asia Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Global Villagers: Portraits from a World Community Sweet Library, 455 F St., through Aug. 26, 10 a.m., events.slcpl.org 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 Paper & Thread Modern West Fine Art, 412 S. 700 West, through Aug. 31, modernwestfineart.com (see p. 20) Peter Max: Woodstock 50th Anniversary Celebration Old Towne Gallery, 580 Main, Park City, through July 27, oldtownegallery.com Power Couples Utah Museum of Fine Art, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Dec. 8, umfa.utah.edu 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, through Aug. 9, accessart.org 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, through Aug. 9, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., accessart.org Yellowstone: Invisible Boundries Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, through Sept. 15, nhmu.utah.edu

For more than 30 years, Kyoto has remained a champion of Japanese cuisine. BY ALEX SPRINGER comments@cityweekly.net @captainspringer

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to be a tad overpowering—when it arrived in its steaming bowl of chocolatey brown broth, I was expecting a mainline of unctuous umami notes only to encounter nondescript sweetness that felt out of place. The nigiri was exactly what I was hoping for—fresh, subtle and simple. Between my visits, I found that Kyoto is at its best during a busy lunch rush. Service is more casual, in stark contrast to the restaurant’s vibe come dinnertime. During dinner, servers don kimonos which infuse the atmosphere with an air of old-fashioned formality that feels out of place in a restaurant known for looking forward. Regardless of when you choose to visit, however, you can rest assured that you’ll be getting a fresh and unique taste of Japan—with or without sushi—at Kyoto. CW

t’s a bit startling to see how easy it is for the rich heritage of Japan’s incredibly vast and nuanced cuisine to get pigeonholed into California rolls. There are several local places that feel like they can call themselves Japanese restaurants because they’ve added a few yakitori skewers and a bowl of edamame to their voluminous sushi menu. Frankly, that doesn’t seem right to me. While sushi remains an important part of Japan’s culinary identity, it’s so ubiquitous here in the states, that it often eclipses the wider spectrum of what Japan has to offer. Truth is you could spend your whole life classifying, studying and enjoying Japanese cuisine without even scratching the surface. Restaurants like Kyoto (1080 E. 1300 South, 801-487-3525, kyotoslc.com) are rare finds because they’re places where you can get your sushi fix while opening your eyes to other traditional delights.

unagi donburi ($13, pictured) takes the rice bowl formula and adds tender, melt-in-your-mouth slices of broiled freshwater eel. As someone who had never tried eel, I can vouch for its awesomeness and accessibility—the flavors are similar to salmon, but it’s the way that silky texture melds with the sticky rice that makes this a dish worth forsaking your comfort zone. For those who aren’t quite sure what to get for lunch, the recently added lunch box ($15) is a bentostyle roundup that includes chicken teriyaki, ebi tempura, gyoza, tuna sashimi and a California roll. It’s a box of tried-and-true Japanese favorites—perfect for indecisive diners or for those looking to get a sample of what Kyoto can do before delving a little deeper into their bag of tricks. I’ve become a fan of Kyoto’s combination dinners ($23) that let you choose two items from a wide variety of house specialties. I went with the beef sukiyaki—a rich and unexpectedly sweet stew of sliced beef, onions, mushrooms and soba noodles—and an order of nigiri of your choosing. Overall, the sukiyaki was very good, but I found the sweetness

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traditional cuisine that the Tadas grew up with to Utah, especially since their chosen location was essentially a restaurant burial ground, still haunted by ghosts of bistros past. Their passionate dedication to traditional cuisine, prompt service and keen sense of atmospheric evocation clicked, however, and the restaurant has been a neighborhood staple ever since. Perhaps the most interesting thing about checking into Kyoto today, is seeing how the restaurant has managed to evolve and adapt to the industry. The addition of a sushi bar in the early 2000s helped them find their niche among relatively few sushi-exclusive Japanese restaurants, but it hasn’t overshadowed the Japanese classics that originally put them on the map. Despite the fact that the Tadas transferred ownership to the LaSalle Restaurant Group a few years ago, Kyoto has remained true to the aesthetic and menu that makes the place special. When you’re after something quick, filling and tasty for lunch, Kyoto’s selection of donburi rice bowls are ideal. You can get these with teriyaki chicken, shrimp and pork—but why limit yourself? The

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Kicking off this weekend of international food and culture festivals is the Mega Peruvian Festival, which is celebrating its ninth year. Over nearly a decade, its slate of events has become increasingly diverse. This year’s gala promises a Miss Peru pageant, a ceviche cook-off and a cumbia show to end all cumbia shows. The twoday festival takes place at The Gateway (400 W. 100 South) on Friday, July 26, from 5 to 10 p.m. and the following day from 1 to 10 p.m. In addition to a wide variety of live entertainment and Peruvian crafts, the event also showcases a wide variety of local Peruvian cuisine. If you’re new to the ideas of ceviche and lomo saltado, come check this festival out.

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On Saturday, July 27, from noon to 8 p.m., United Africans of Utah hosts the fourth annual African Festival at Liberty Park (600 E. 900 South). This cultural celebration of all things Africa features plenty of live music, spoken word performances, art and food from across the continent. Offering a great way to experience some of the vibrant culture and food from the African continent, the festival also gives locals a chance to support the United Africans of Utah, an organization that provides a wealth of services for underserved and marginalized members of the community.

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For those in the northern part of the valley looking to broaden their cultural horizons, the Filipino Festival is celebrating its sixth year running at the Legacy Events Center (151 S. 1100 West, Farmington) on Saturday, July 27, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The local Filipino community has continued to grow steadily, and if you haven’t yet sampled the rich, vinegary glory of Filipino food you’ll want to pay this festival a visit. Those simply seeking a good time can also find a wide range of entertainment that explores the Filipino heritage. Bonus points will be distributed to those who make it to all three of these festivals. Quote of the Week: “You have to taste a culture to understand it.” —Deborah Cater Back Burner tips: comments@cityweekly.net

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think it was Marge Simpson who once said of a wine, “I can’t pronounce it, so it must be good!” I don’t know about that, but in the case of this week’s beers—which are as interesting to pronounce as they are to taste—your tongue may get a workout in more ways than one. SaltFire Brewing Co. Saison De Trahison: This newest edition in this rotating series of saisons has a pale golden straw color with enough haze to make the clarity near zero. The aroma is quite aromatic and spicy, with pungent lemongrass blasting out, intermingling with clove-like esters from the yeast. Musty ginger root and stone fruits round out the nose, adding their own unique spices along with some nice minerality. This has a pungent and inviting scent. Due to the workout that my sniffer received, I was expecting a brutal spice bomb; what I got instead was citrus peel (orange and lemon) with mildly spicy white

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pepper adding some initial bite. The ginger root begins to make its presence known at mid-palate, bringing in a full and round spiciness. There’s a slight twang that seems to link the emergence of the lemongrass, as if it and the ginger root flavors were one. There’s a little mustiness, and that stone fruit I picked up in the nose comes through toward the end. Minerals kick in on the finish, while the lemon ramps up and lingers. The flavor is more well-rounded and brighter than the nose suggests. The 6.3% body has a little more weight than the classic examples of the style; it’s soft and slick, with a light dryness on the finish. The spiciness lingers briefly. Overall: I’m generally not a fan of ginger in my beer, but the addition of lemongrass brings an enjoyable twist, in addition to the yeast which offers its own spice component. “The spice must flow,” as they say in Dune, and in this case, it sure does. Uinta Brewing Co. Tu Meke Tart: I believe Tu Meke is Maori for “too much.” Colloquially, it means “awesome” or “good job.” Sure, I guess I can get on board with that. This new beer from Uinta is driven by a load of New Zealand-developed hops. The beer they came up with has a hazy, glowing tangerine-colored body that was topped by a small, white cap that has surprising staying power. The nose was pleasant but rather tame. It’s hard to let the hops shine when the base beer has that sharp lactic twang.

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It’s moderately tart, with a bit of toasted grain and some vague citrus peel. The flavor profile started with less tart and acidic zap than I was expecting. Once you get past that, citrus notes dominated, with loads of tangerine and lemon. When those citrusy flavors pass, a nice sprig of herbal flavors takes its place. There is a moderate amount of sweetness from the malt—more lemon pith and bitter lemon peel on the back end and the finish. You’ll find excellent mouthfeel in this offering that’s medium-bodied for the style.

Overall: Despite the fact that this beer contains no fruit, the hops do create an almost passionfruit-like quality. Uinta classifies this 6.7% beer as a sour blonde ale, but it comes off more like a sour IPA due to the high bitterness. Both of these are seasonal offerings, and they won’t be around long. If you’re looking for something to challenge your palate and vocabulary skills, this is a great onetwo punch. If not? Just ask for the Frenchie Ginger or the Hoppy Sour Kiwi. As always, cheers! CW

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Sometimes a guy just wants an Italian meal that didn’t come from Olive Garden. Carmine’s menu is arranged in courses— appetizers, primi piatti and secondi piatti—which can make for a fun way to create your own traditional Italian meal. You can tell the lasagna (pictured) is going to be good because it looks the way lasagna ought to look—thick and slightly slouched as it buckles from a ponderous bulk of meat, cheese and red sauce. Fettuccine allo scoglio includes half a lobster tail, quite literally swimming in a garlicky butter sauce that makes you understand why seafood and clarified butter are such good friends. Salmon-stuffed ravioli comes served with a dollop of caviar and thin slices of smoked salmon—a mainline of pure, uncut luxury. The tiramisu ($9), widely hyped online, arrived in a plastic cup; my guess is that they were currently out of the dessert glassware, but the fast food presentation of this classic Italian dessert was laughably incongruous with the vibe of the restaurant. Despite a few odd service issues that I’d chalk up to an off day, the food is magnificent—even when it inexplicably arrives in a plastic cup. Reviewed June 13. 2477 Fort Union Blvd., 801-948-4468, carmines.restaurant

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“Freestyle Asian cuisine” is what Shabu restaurant owners and brothers Kevin and Bob Valaika call what they do. There’s a lively bar scene where sushi and sake are consumed by happy patrons, and in the dining room, Shabu Shabu is a popular favorite, where customers have the opportunity to play chef: It’s a sort of Asian-style fondue, where you dip ingredients (meat, seafood, veggies) from a bento box into an assortment of hot, freshly made broths (Thai coconut or traditional). Effectively, you cook your dinner yourself at your table. It’s a fun way to dine, not to mention delicious. If you’d prefer to have the chef cook for you, try the citrus-plum sea scallops, coconut-crusted tofu or macadamia-crusted mahi-mahi. If you’re so inclined, be sure to try one of Shabu’s signature saketinis. 442 Main, Park City, 435-645-7253, shabupc.com

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This classic, friendly restaurant specializing in Greek and American comfort food has a bevy of longtime loyal customers who come in for the renowned marinated steak and eggs and the seasoned, knowledgeable service team. Generous portions are standard here, whether you’re in the mood for a savory lamb dish, a platter of Greek mezedakia, soup, pasta, a sandwich or a sweet serving of housemade baklava or rice pudding. There are also tasty gyros and kebabs to be had, and breakfast is served anytime. 469 E. 300 South, 801-521-6567

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This cozy Midvale spot is frequently filled with regular customers who can’t get enough of the top-quality sashimi and nigiri. On Tuesday and Wednesday nights, some rolls, like the fried jalapeño pepper roll, are halfoff. Bento boxes are available at lunch, and crowd favorites include the Vampire, Grand Canyon and Caterpillar rolls. Or put yourself in the talented hands of owner/chef Itto Takashi and let him make menu suggestions. 856 E. Fort Union Blvd., Midvale, 801563-3337; 12 W. 300 South, 385-522-2603

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Js exist in a world in between: between daylight and deep night; between the beginning and end of a song; between the liner notes in an album jacket. Local DJs who are part of the Caviar Club find another one of these spaces on Monday nights at Alibi Bar & Place (369 S. Main, 385-259-0616). After playing music into the night at SLC bars and clubs, churning out hits for 9-to-5ers and youngsters, these friends gather at the small, grotto-ish bar and play their stuff. James Ramirez, aka DJ Sneeky Long, says simply, “We wanted a night where we could come and play the type of stuff that we listen to specifically on vinyl.” That stuff? Ramirez lists off soul, funk, jazz, hip-hop, reggae, Latin music, World music, Brazilian music, salsa, samba, psychedelic rock, prog rock and “old” electronic music. “Anything with a groove, we’ll play it. It’s a night for us to all nerd out, with a cool sound system, where we can drink beers and get paid for it.” The fact that it’s a Monday night that doesn’t yield much cash doesn’t make a difference. “It’s a passion project,” he stresses. The owners—formerly bartenders at Bar X, where DJ J Godina spearheaded the Caviar Club nights—pulled the Club along with them to their new bar. “We were their playlist every night while we were working. And they loved it, so it just kind of transferred,” Ramirez explains. Funk bumps inside the bar and more DJs roll up—Fisch Loops, SamEyeAm, Chaseone2 and FellSwoop, all probably familiar to anyone who’s even glanced at a poster-encrusted wall in SLC (some of them are even past City Weekly DJs of the Year). But no one is as familiar with these dudes as they are with one another; many of them met in the late ’90s as teenagers in the SLC hip-hop and DJ scenes, which is to say, they go way back. That history has brought them all to different places at different times, but they’ve all ended up DJing. DJ Fuego Skilz (Mike Ramirez) has a background in rap, and along with DJs Fell Swoop (Josh Edwards) and Chaseone2 (Chase Loter), has been, by virtue of sheer music enthusiasm, “fast-tracked” into the DJ world by more experienced friends like DJ Finale Grande (Adam Terry). Mike Ramirez adds, “Some of us are actual music producers. Finale Grand is huge music producer. He’s done work for well-known artists. Same thing as SamEyeAm, and I’m into that now as well.” While they share musical tastes, their careers are diverse. “That’s kind of how this whole crew came to be—basically for the love of hip-hop, and samples and records,” Loter explains. He, and almost every other DJ, mentions the fun of going down the “rabbit hole” of genres, especially those found within hip-hop. Terry explains it best: “People think of hip-hop … as such an isolated genre, but it’s really just the accumulation of every genre.” Terry began exploring hip-hop with James Ramirez, straight out of high school in the late ’90s. They began DJing for fun at par-

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Left to right, clockwise: DJ Chaseone2, DJ Feral Cat, DJ Sneeky Long, DJ FellSwoop, DJ SamEyeAm, DJ Fuego Skilz, DJ Fisch Loops ties, and this interest turned into gigs, and gigs created a need for more music. “Then it got into record-digging, looking for obscure music, looking for samples for hip-hop beats that we liked. Then it just spiraled into learning about every genre,” Terry explains. But, as young DJs, the more they learned, the more they learned to keep to themselves. When DJing began in the ’70s, the rarer the material a DJ had, the more attractive he was to a club and to audiences. “So you’d go to lengths, like leaving the record jacket at home, or putting it in another record to fuck with people, or covering the labels with fake labels or washing them off,” Terry explains of the customs still prevalent in his early years. While time and technology have made the practice of obscuring music impossible, Terry still sometimes feels like keeping things to himself. “It still hits you in that place, like ‘Don’t you wanna know?’ But then, it’s music, and it’s for everybody, and that’s the point of it.” This new openness, plus the very tradition of crate-digging being gutted by the vinyl resale boom, has forced some to rethink their relationships to and understandings of music. Terry describes a new widespread interest in the extremely rare and delicate tape format, which blew up in 1980 due to its accessible home-recording capabilities. As a result, troves of limited-run, indie-released tapes exist all over the world, waiting to be found. Fisch Loops (Daniel Fischer) and Terry are busy releasing their own tape on Terry’s FOUNTAINavm label—a vaporwave tape that references the 2014 iteration—and planning a release show and tape-listening party, where each tape changeout will allow listeners to “clean their ears,” as Terry says. “You pull it out and everybody looks at it and pays attention. It’s bringing music to the forefront, and that’s my mission I think.” The fact that Terry—a DJ whose task it is to create seamlessness between songs—finds value in a tape change’s negative space seems to indicate a future where constant passion for music and changes in tradition can coexist, as the present and memory always do. CW

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Devin the Dude, Zac Ivie, CSE, Dine Crew, Sayd, Poetik Cee

Some of the nation’s finest musicians hail from Houston—ZZ Top, Kenny Rogers, Robert Glasper and Johnny Nash to name a few. But when it comes to hip-hop, H-Town boasts a veritable all-star team, as evidenced by the success of Paul Wall, Slim Thug, Scarface & Willie D and, of course, the late great DJ Screw. One of the more notable artists from H-Town just so happens to go by “The Dude,” and has sensibilities similar to the protagonist from The Big Lebowski. Devin makes his way to town again coming off the steam of his latest album, Still Rollin’ Up: Something to Ride With, a 12-track offering highlighted by standout songs like “You, Don’t Be Afraid” and the title track. It’s more of the same from Devin, who rolls up a pretty strict diet of debauchery, storytelling, life lessons and herbal appreciation over smooth R&B and gospel-inspired rap tracks. Whether it be crooning, rapping in different cadences or even rapping with different voices, you will always be entertained with a new Devin album. Opening for the Dude is the hardest working man in Utah hip-hop, Zac Ivie, whose versatile aural presence can be found setting the stage for artists (and his own fanbase) from Ogden to Orem, Park City to Green River. I was at a version of this show last year, and it was dope—this year, Ivie is joined on the card by the likes of Sayd and local legend Poetik Cee, who will be holding the set down on the ones and twos as he always does. (Keith L. McDonald) The Royal, 4760 S. 900 East, 9 p.m., $15 presale, $20 day of show, 21+, theroyalslc.com

Snailmate, Kelly Nash, Arktype, Frayed

At first blush, the synth-punk hip-hop of Snailmate calls to mind Weird Al’s forays into white-man rapping. The most recent track from June of this year, “The Laziest Man in the World,” is one of the more pronounced examples of this phenomenon, combining a

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hyperbolic, ridiculous premise with a straight man’s delivery—in the music video, vocalist/ synth player Kalen Lander sits forever in a La-Z-Boy while talk rapping about being comfortably stuck in his laziness. “It’s kind of like summer vacation/ It’s kind of like mummification/ It’s kind of like I’m Jason Statham, except instead of punching I’m stuck in the basement.” The Weird Al comparison ends at the weirdness and Lander’s particular style of lyrical delivery. Snailmate’s synth work and overall focus on hip-hop and flow make Lander and Ariel Monet (drums, vocals) a standout act that embraces their own quirky discord as a brand. 2017’s Love in the Microwave shows how much range the duo can effect from what might seem like a limited palette. They’re weird, but they’re also full of unexpected shifts and wordplay. “The Waiter” is a restrained track that shows this willingness to slow down and experiment with flow. Lander and Monet arrive from Phoenix, Ariz., and they bring a catalog of four EPs, a tape split and one full-length album. If you’re looking for weird music with an Aesop Rock level of aggression, may Snailmate provide. (Parker S. Mortensen) The Rad Shack, 1644 S. State, Provo, free (donations accepted), 7 p.m., facebook.com/therad5hack

SATURDAY 7/27

Gardens & Villa, Ugly Boys, Dad Bod

Surprise! Gardens & Villa have been together for more than 10 years now. Since coming together in 2008, the group has released three

Devin the Dude albums, and this July will be the eight-year anniversary of the eponymous debut album, Gardens & Villa, which still houses some of the band’s best and most-often-played work. Tracks like “Orange Blossom” and “Star Fire Power” rattled the indie rock sound of this decade’s first years, signaling the surf rock of Craft Spells and building off the new pop of Neon Indian’s Psychic Chasms in 2010. Although Gardens & Villa is perhaps less of a household name in the indie rock scene, their work feels woven into the fabric of what would become a sound overly iterated and imitated. It’s perfect, then, to see them play alongside local openers Ugly Boys, whose dedication to boy-band pop feels like a responsible passing of the torch. Ugly Boys have all the fixings of their inspirations—a talented four-piece bent on making pop music to make rent—with a sound simultaneously nostalgic and evolved. EP Do You Like Me? is a subdued set ripped straight out of 2013 and shocked to life with a funky vitality that builds on all the ways indie rock has changed in the last 10 years. Seeing these two acts together will paint this picture vividly, so whether Gardens & Villa give us another album (Music for Dogs was 2015), Ugly Boys are a promising evolution of the capacious “indie rock” genre label. (PSM) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 8 p.m., $15, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

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Built to Spill, Oruã, Dirt Russell

In a genre as defined by pretense as indie rock, maybe bands like Built to Spill can’t help but feel like a breath of fresh air. Frontman Doug Martsch once described his band’s seminal 1997 album Perfect From Now On as “kind of big and epic, but also kind of crappy and personal,” and that dichotomy more or less sums up the essence of what makes Built to Spill so special. The Idaho group never shied away from grand statements or starry-eyed romanticism, but their almostegoless attitude toward their music clearly telegraphed that while they did care deeply about their craft, they never took the whole thing too seriously, nor did they attempt to undercut themselves with smirking irony. This singular ethos is perhaps most apparent on 1999’s Keep It Like a Secret, which packed a metric ton of passion and indie quirk into 10 bite-sized pop earworms for a winning formula that became Built to Spill’s default style in the ensuing two decades. Built to Spill is currently in the midst of a massive coast-to-coast tour in celebration of Keep It Like a Secret’s 20th anniversary, and will be stopping in SLC at the Depot on Saturday, July 27. Brazilian experimental rock act Oruã opens along with Dirt Russell. (Nic Renshaw) The Depot, 13 N. 400 West, 8 p.m., $22, 21+, depotslc.com

WEDNESDAY 7/31 Roselit Bone

Call them an anarchist collective trapped in a country act’s boots—or a political band telling hard sociological truths with a swirl of smoky Americana. Just don’t get too lazy with the

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liberal clichés about Roselit Bone, a Portland, Ore.-based band with a striking new album called Crisis Actor. Stylistically, lead single “I Pissed the Bed” scans like Hank Williams Sr. filtered through the gnarly garage-rock edge lens of The Gun Club, providing an easy entry point to intrigued listeners. But frontwoman Charlotte McCaslin and her formidable six-piece backing band leap from canchion ranchera (on “Anza Borrego”) to psych rock (on “Proving Grounds”) to flame-throwing rockabilly (on “Laughlin, NV”), leaving genre distinctions in the dust of a dystopian West. Lyrically, there’s even more to chew on, with surreal tales of rampant violence, gender dysphoria and class warfare informing even traditional-sounding songs like “We’ll Make a Living (For the Bourgeois)” and “A Word for Blue.” Across Crisis Actor’s eight songs, McCaslin’s voice bellows, sneers and croons, the perfect complement to Roselit Bone’s cinematic arrangements. It’s the often-overlooked seedy underbelly of America brought to brutal life—a whirlwind of satirical selfloathing and scathing observation akin to antecedents as far-flung as Jonathan Swift and Charles Bukowski. “My freshest feelings of disgust were toward anyone who could point their finger in one direction and walk away with a smirk on their face,” McCaslin says in a news release accompanying Crisis Actor. Just don’t try to slot it in any particular box, even if McCaslin did grow up immersed in Southern California’s hardcore punk scene. “I don’t align with any genre,” she says. “For me, the essence of punk is in dealing unflinchingly with the misery and violence of lowerclass city life, coming out alive and wearing your scars proudly.” (Nick McGregor) Rye Diner & Drinks, 239 S. 500 East, 6 p.m., free, all ages, ryeslc.com

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John Prine, I’m With Her

The words “icon” and “legend” are tossed about pretty generously, often without regard to what it truly takes to create an indelible impression. John Prine is one artist who has secured true status as one of the single most important Americana artists of the past 40 years. His influence on that genre is evident in the way legions of ardent admirers refer to him, speaking in reverent tones whenever his name is mentioned. However, his influence is more than transient; last year’s album The Tree of Forgiveness proved that Prine’s prowess still remains fully ignited. Initially proclaimed another of the so-called “New Dylans” who populated the budding singer-songwriter scene circa the early ’70s, Prine made his mark with songs that combined cutting-edge commentary with sobering sentiment: “Sam Stone,” “Hello In There,” “Donald & Lydia” and the oft-covered classic “Angel from Montgomery” among them. These days, his posture is stooped and his voice reduced to a low rumble, but the esteem in which he’s held finds him as formidable as ever. That opinion is certainly shared by the trio that shares the bill, a super-group of sorts that call themselves I’m With Her. Borrowing its handle from the slogan that was a pro-Hillary Clinton mantra during the 2016 presidential election, the group is comprised of three talented artists who shine individually as well—Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan. Along with Prine, they find a common cause shared by their respective generations. (Lee Zimmerman) Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre, 2155 Red Butte Canyon Road, 7 p.m., sold out at press time, redbuttegarden.org/concerts

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As I walk toward Willie’s Lounge, a couple enters the bar before me. I reach the door just as it closes and try to pull on it, but it’s stuck. There’s no give. A drunk man on the sidewalk asks me what I’m looking for as I check to make sure there isn’t another entrance. I don’t respond. He repeats, “I said, what are you looking for?” “The way in,” I tell him. He points to my hand already grasping the handle and smiles as I yank the door and leave him outside. I haven’t been to Willie’s since the summer after college, and if anything has changed in four years, I can’t spot it. A woman is singing karaoke to no one but her friends. A few older men discuss golf and twiddle over who hit par and who didn’t. “Margaritaville” is the most-played song on the jukebox, and out back, all the patio seating is taken except for the entire game room (with homemade Jenga and Connect 4). I’m here for a couple drinks before seeing a show, and I feel like I’ve found the perfect place to hide, the last place anyone will look for me. I order two shots and, remembering my last visit, a Mind Eraser. Its vodka-and-grape flavoring, a drink-to-get-drunk melted popsicle for $4 I used to pound. The bar mirror is obscured by bottles, so instead of seeing myself through my sugar rush, I watch karaoke and can’t help but smile. It’s nice to see folks feeling loose in the divey comfort. To be sure, I stick out in this crowd, but even so, I feel at ease. Even a tummy full of sugar can’t change that. (Parker S. Mortensen) 1716 S. Main, 801-487-9578, willieslounge.com

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Maiden celebrates women refusing to stay where they’re told they belong. BY MARYANN JOHANSON comments@cityweekly.net @maryannjohanson

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What an incredible fantasy that would be today. Enormously heartening here, though, is the portrait of Edwards and her teammates as women relishing physical adventure, courting danger on killer seas that was, they recall today with glee, “absolutely exhilarating.” They talk of anxieties and “horrendous flaws,” but also of pushing past those, of challenging themselves to go to their limits and beyond, of proving themselves not only to the world at large but—perhaps more importantly—to themselves as well. We have so few female role models like Edwards and her crew, so few women who tell us it’s okay to doubt yourself and follow your dreams any way, whose stories tell us that to try and perhaps fail is better than not to try at all. Maiden should be taken as a massive inspiration to girls and women—and for boys and men, too. CW

mated at every turn. “The further we got,” Tracy says today, “the nastier this stuff would get.” That is sadly still very timely, as way too many vile reactions to the behavior of America’s women’s world-champion soccer team just infuriatingly demonstrated. But still, the fact that it was seemingly not at all difficult for Edwards to assemble a crew of women eager, ready and willing to put their lives on the line for glory and adventure—women who were extremely experienced yachtspeople—speaks to all the untapped talent that had been going unappreciated; Edwards was not remotely an outlier in her desire to race the Whitbread. There is an unspoken yet undeniable underlying message to Maiden that women’s knowledge, enthusiasm and expertise were—and continue to be—wildly underutilized. We are squandering the capabilities of half the human race. Side note: One element of Edwads’ story slips by in the telling: When she was, because of pure sexism, unable to find corporate sponsors, and hence raise the money needed to build a boat, she decided to buy a used one and refurbish it. The money needed for this? She remortgaged her home. She was a young woman without a high-paying career—barely even much work, as far as we can see—and she was able to buy a house.

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o woman had ever served on a racing yacht competing in the Whitbread Round the World when, in 1989, 27-year-old Tracy Edwards decided that that was precisely what she wanted to do. But no crew would take her on: Women were bad luck, went the conventional wisdom, or too much of a distraction, or some such bullshit. So she said, “Screw ’em,” and started her own crew—an all-female one. Her team became the epitome of that apocryphal Gandhi quote: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you …” etc. Does the crew of Maiden—the documentary takes its name from Edwards’ boat—win? I’ll leave you to find out—which you should do, because this new documentary about Edwards and her stupendous, groundbreaking, misogyny-busting effort is simply terrific, whether you’re into yachting or not. British filmmaker and BAFTA winner Alex Holmes crafts a riveting tale from archival footage and new interviews with Edwards and others. A festival favorite around the world, Maiden is as beautifully modulated as fiction; it’s full of twists and turns and delicious ironies, and it even sports a perfect ending. Yet it’s all true. (This is so perfect a story that it is surely destined for a narrative retelling.) Part of what we see here is a stunning reminder that, even today as we continue to push back against outrageous sexism, we have indeed made some progress in the past 30 years. The endless barrage of Edwards and her crew of grown women being called “girls” here, over and over again, by sports journalists and TV hosts and the like, is appalling. (No one would call men their age “boys.”) Things don’t feel quite that bad today. But the way Edwards and her team were treated apart from that isn’t very different. They were dismissed and ridiculed, diminished and underesti-

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NEW THIS WEEK Film release schedules are subject to change. Reviews online at cityweekly.net THE FAREWELL BBB Writer-director Lulu Wang’s semi-autobiographical story might ultimately be more emotionally satisfying than insightful, but she certainly pours freely from the fountain of emotional satisfaction. Awkwafina plays Billi, a Chinese-American New Yorker who’s caught up in a grand familial lie: Her grandmother Nai Nai (Zhao Shuzhen) has been given a terminal cancer diagnosis, but the family keeps it secret from her, and organizes a pseudo-fake wedding for Billi’s cousin in China as an excuse to gather family. The star isn’t given too many notes to play, as Billi generally wrestles silently with a plan she disagrees with. Her best moment comes as Billi expresses confusion over feeling alienated from the country of her birth—just one of many conversations about East-West cultural divides that Wang handles with restraint. Mostly, however, it’s a portrait of a loving family doing the best they can for those they love, seasoned liberally with engaging punch lines and Wang showing off her directing skills best in the climactic wedding. No manufactured conflict is needed when the simple stuff of being in a family together is enough. Opens July 26 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—Scott Renshaw THE FIGHTING PREACHER BB.5 The formula for LDS-themed cinema remains consistently similar to that of other Christian-themed cinema: Promote the faith first, and if you tell a good story along the way, that’s kind of incidental. There’s a solid fact-based story at the core here, as ex-boxer Willard Bean (David Shawn McConnell) and his new wife Rebecca

(Cassidy Hubert) are called by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints circa 1915 to take up residence in the Joseph Smith farm in Palmyra, N.Y.—where local antagonism toward Mormons remains high. In theory, the narrative arc involves Willard learning to set aside his pugilistic predilections to learn a catch-more-flies-withhoney approach, but writer-director T.C. Christensen doesn’t provide Willard with enough of a clearly-defined personality to make his personal growth a real focus. There’s stronger material surrounding Rebecca—thanks to Hubert’s winning performance—and their oldest daughter, providing some genuine emotion in their sense of isolation. Christensen mounts a gorgeous production, but would have found a stronger foundation in a story that wrestled more honestly with the complexity of why communities can hate—and then maybe love—the “other.” Opens July 24 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—SR MAIDEN BBB.5 See review on p. 43. Opens July 26 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (PG) ONCE UPON A TIME … IN HOLLYWOOD [not yet reviewed] Quentin Tarantino explores the seedy underbelly of 1969 Los Angeles. Opens July 26 at theaters valleywide. (R) SHADOW [not yet reviewed] Zhang Yimou’s historical action epic about court intrigue in ancient China. Opens July 26 at Tower Theatre. (NR) SWORD OF TRUST BBB.5 Writer-director Lynn Shelton has yet to find a mix of performance and subject matter as potent as her 2009 breakthrough Humpday, but when she gets the kind of masterful work she evokes here from Marc Maron, it almost doesn’t matter. Maron plays Mel, the owner of an Alabama pawn shop where a pair of

patrons (Jillian Bell and Michaela Watkins) bring in an inherited sword that is believed by Southern conspiracy theorists to prove that the Confederacy won the Civil War. Shelton and cowriter Mike O’Brien flit around the edges of what happens when online crackpots coalesce into communities, though that material always feels tangential to the character beats. And while the supporting cast all gets to do funny work, Maron continues to evolve into an actor of multiple shades while playing a guy who would like to rewrite some of his own history. There’s a lot of hilarious riffing going on, and while the plot might only provide a loose armature, Maron gives it all a soulful center. Opens July 26 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—SR

SPECIAL SCREENINGS DESPICABLE ME At Gateway Legacy Plaza, July 31, dusk. (PG) REEFER MADNESS At Tower Theater, July 26-27, 11 p.m. & July 28, noon. (NR) THE SILENCE OF OTHERS At Main Library, July 30, 7 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE BBB Jesse Eisenberg plays Casey, a timid accountant who is beaten by a group of bikers. Desperate to shed his sense of powerlessness, he signs up for lessons at 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 subsequent attempts to prove his newfound toughness, ably matched by Nivola with a perfect alpha-dude swagger. Some of the narrative turns are almost too obvious, 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 a toxic masculinity ethic that reduces every human interaction to a question of winners and losers. (R)—SR

THE LION KING BB What if Disney had never released the hand-drawn The Lion King in 1994, and this story were appearing now for the first time, in photorealistic CGI? Director Jon Favreau’s version is an impressive technical achievement, delivering a virtually identical story of exiled lion prince Simba (Donald Glover) and his usurping uncle Scar (Chiwetel Ejiofor). But while some vocal performances and comic beats are slight improvements, the so-authentic-you’reafraid-it-might-trample-you elephant in the room is that these characters are designed primarily to look real, not to create characters. There’s no idiosyncratic personality in these faces, no way to see the joy in songs like “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King.” The Lion King is hardly a sacred text, but while this version can make animals look more real, it can’t make them more alive. (PG)—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 otherdimensional warrior Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) to stop powerful elementals. Holland remains a winningly awkward presence as a nice guy trying to figure out if he should 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

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your emotional intelligence is so strong right now that I bet you could alleviate the pain of a loved one even as you soothe a long-running ache of your own. You’re so spiritually alluring, I suspect you could arouse the sacred yearning of a guru, saint or bodhisattva. You’re so interesting, someone might write a poem or story about you. You’re so overflowing with a lust for life that you might lift people out of their ruts just by being in their presence. You’re so smart you could come up with at least a partial solution to a riddle whose solution has evaded you for a long time.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When the dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago, the crocodiles didn’t. They were around for 135 million years before that era, and are still here now. Why? “They are extremely tough and robust,” says croc expert James Perran Ross. Their immune systems “are just incredible.” Maybe best of all, they “learn quickly and adapt to changes in their situation.” In accordance

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano wrote that in Havana, people refer to their friends as mi sangre, my blood, or mi tierra, my country. In Caracas, he reported, a friend might be called mi llave, my key, or mi pana, my bread. Since you are in the alliance-boosting phase of your cycle, Gemini, I trust that you will find good reasons to think of your comrades as your blood, your country, your key or your bread. It’s a favorable time for you to get closer, more personal and more intimate. The affectionate depths are calling to you.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s conceivable that in one of your past lives you were a pioneer who made the rough 2,170-mile migration via wagon train from Missouri to Oregon in the 1830s. Or maybe you were a sailor who accompanied the Viking Leif Eriksson in his travels to the New World 500 years before Columbus. Is it possible you were part of the team assembled by Italian diplomat Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, who journeyed from Rome to Mongolia in the 13th century? Here’s why I’m entertaining these thoughts, Sagittarius: I suspect that a similar itch to ramble and explore and seek adventure might rise up in you during the coming weeks. I won’t be surprised if you consider making a foray to the edge of your known world.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are,” wrote Taurus philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. You could use that idea to achieve a finer grade of peace and grace in the coming weeks. The navel-gazing phase of your yearly cycle has begun, which means you’ll be in closest alignment with cosmic rhythms if you get to know yourself much better. One of the best ways to do that is to analyze what you pay most attention to. Another excellent way is to expand and refine and tenderize your feelings for what you pay most attention to.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet Marianne Moore (1887–1972) won the Pulitzer Prize and several other prestigious awards. She was a rare poet who became a celebrity. That’s one of the reasons why Ford asked her to dream up interesting names for a new model vehicle. Alas, Ford decided the 43 possibilities she presented were too poetic, and rejected all of them. But some of Moore’s names are apt descriptors for the roles you could and should play in the phase you’re beginning, so I’m offering them for your use. Here they are: 1. Anticipator. 2. The Impeccable. 3. Tonnere Alifère (French term for “winged thunder”). 4. Tir á l’arc (French term for “bull’s eye”). 5. Regina-Rex (Latin terms for “queen” and “king”).

ARIES (March 21-April 19): After analyzing unusual animal behavior, magnetic fluctuations, outbreaks of mayhem on Twitter, and the position of the moon, a psychic has foretold that a moderate earthquake will rumble through the St. Louis, Mo., area in the coming weeks. I don’t agree with her prophecy. But I have a prediction of my own. Using data about how cosmic forces are conspiring to amuse and titillate your rapture chakra, I predict a major lovequake for many Aries between now and Aug. 20. I suggest you start preparing immediately. How? Brainstorm about adventures and breakthroughs that will boost exciting togetherness. Get yourself in the frame of mind to seek out collaborative catharses that evoke both sensory delights and spiritual insights.

6. Regatta racer 7. Walks like Igor 8. Citrusy drink suffix 9. Part of MPH 10. Having one’s business mentioned in a news article, e.g. 11. Shudder, say 12. E’en if 13. Boxer with a cameo in “The Hangover” 18. “I ____ Symphony” (1965 Motown hit) 22. Author Calvino 23. Muscle-bone connection 24. Tennis great Agassi 25. Singer with the 2006 #1 hit “So Sick” 27. Some field workers 28. Mo. for fools and showers 29. King who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2019 31. “Crazy Rich ____” (hit 2018 movie) 34. Gettysburg general 35. Depress, with “out” 36. ____ pulpit 37. Deliver to, as a pickup line 38. Cartoonist Trudeau DOWN 42. Thor’s father 1. “Rhythm ____ Dancer” (1992 hit by Snap!) 45. Forehead-slapping cry 2. Put a stop to? 46. “I don’t have ____”: Taylor 3. Aloof Swift 4. Post’s Honey ____! 47. NBA star Stephen Curry’s 5. Eponymous physicist Ernst

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I predict that between now and the end of the year, a Libran genetic engineer will create a new species of animal called a dat. A cross between a cat and a dog, it will have the grace, independence, and vigilance of a Persian cat and the geniality, loyalty, and ebullient strength of a golden retriever. Its stalking skills will synthesize the cat’s and dog’s different styles of hunting. I also predict that in the coming months, you will achieve greater harmony between the cat and dog aspects of your own nature, thereby acquiring some of the hybrid talents of the dat.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Poems can bring comfort,” writes Piscean poet Jane Hirshfield. “They let us know . . . that we are not alone—but they also unseat us and make us more susceptible, larger, elastic. They foment revolutions of awareness and allow the complex, uncertain, actual world to enter.” According to my understanding of upcoming astrological omens, Pisces, life itself will soon be like the poems Hirshfield describes: unruly yet comforting; a source of solace but also a catalyst for transformation; bringing you healing and support but also asking you to rise up and reinvent yourself. Sounds like fun!

1. “Green thumb” or “purple prose” 6. High-five sound 10. Same-sex household? 14. “Borat” star ____ Baron Cohen 15. Killer ending? 16. Depend (on) 17. 59-Across who had her own Comedy Central sketch show 19. Takes courses? 20. “Can I get a hand here?!” 21. Canyon effect 22. “This ____ outrage!” 26. 59-Across who hosted MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” 30. Karaoke problem 32. Phone button abbr. 33. 59-Across on FOX/NBC’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” 36. Irk 39. “Vive ____!” (old French cry) 40. Continent north of Afr. 41. 2008 documentary about the national debt 43. Get a Venmo request, say 44. 59-Across who was a cast member on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” for five seasons 47. Give ____ of approval 48. Worker who has people in stitches? 49. 59-Across who got her break playing Kristen in three episodes of NBC’s “Hill Street Blues” in 1983 54. Letters that might precede 10001 55. Wolfish sort 56. MoMA’s “Two Heads” and “Birds in an Aquarium” 58. Middle-earth menaces 59. Classic product line ... or, read differently, a way of describing 17-, 26-, 33-, 44- and 49-Across 65. Many a Punjabi 66. Perlman of “Cheers” 67. “Go, me!” 68. Ireland’s best-selling solo artist 69. “Meet the Press” host Chuck 70. Subject of the 2018 biography “The Shadow President”

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

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Congrats, Virgo! You are beginning the denouement of your yearly cycle. Anything you do to resolve lingering conflicts and finish up old business will yield fertile rewards. Fate will conspire benevolently in your behalf as you bid final goodbyes to the influences you’ll be smart not to drag along with you into the new cycle that will begin in a few weeks. To inspire your holy work, I give you this poem by Virgo poet Charles Wright: “Knot by knot I untie myself from the past/ And let it rise away from me like a balloon./ What a small thing it becomes./ What a bright tweak at the vanishing point, blue on blue.”

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Suspicions Confirmed In the College Station neighborhood of Pulaski County, Ark., traditions run deep, especially when it comes to the Fourth of July. Beneques Christopher, 19, told KSDK that the holiday “firework war” has been going on for years, and even attracts people from other neighborhoods: “They know when Fourth of July comes, this is the spot to be at.” But this year, the ritual went awry, resulting in many injuries and several people facing charges. Christopher was one of the victims: “It popped right here,” he said, pointing to his groin area. “And it could have been dangerous because I almost lost everything.” Instead, he suffered a second-degree burn on his thigh, but he feels lucky that he didn’t lose any fingers, as five others did. When police officers arrived, people started pointing fireworks at them, leaving two deputies with injuries. While a local pastor hopes to shut the tradition down, Christopher vows to continue it: “We started the tradition, and now we have to keep it going,” he said.

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Just Say No An Independence Day holiday in Bodega Harbor, Calif., went terribly wrong for a group of six friends who rented a house there. On July 4, 32-year-old Betai Koffi of San Francisco indulged heavily in LSD, taking four doses over the course of the afternoon. He became delusional and violent with his friends, who were trying to prevent him from leaving the home. After assaulting several of his housemates and wrecking a rental car, he took off on foot and came upon a security guard. Koffi plucked a landscape light out of the ground, Sonoma County Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Crum told KTVU, “and stabs the security guard with the metal end of it,” knocking the guard to the ground. Koffi then stole the guard’s pickup truck and ran down two different couples as they enjoyed an evening walk. Finally, sheriff’s and highway patrol officers arrived, and Koffi aimed the truck at them and accelerated. A CHP officer fired his gun, striking Koffi three times. “If this guy had kept going, who knows what he could have done to other people,” Crum said. “He was just blatantly going after people, driving after them.” Eight people were injured, but all are expected to recover.

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