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Dine, p. 22 Never mind the recent Popeyes chicken sandwich craze, our intrepid and awardwinning restaurant reviewer has pinpointed 2019’s culinary trend with near-surgical precision: Korean fusion. The sentiment is strengthened by his recent visit to South Salt Lake’s Stun Cube. Tteokbokki, anyone?

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Opinion, Sept. 26, “Utahns Perpetuating the Myth: The Christian Right”

Don’t you just love generalizations? Yes, UtALECh is a theocratic state, but 40% of us live outside the church walls. Yes, through the magic of gerrymandering, our 40% is reduced to 15-25% when it comes to political power. Luz [Escamilla] may be a good example of us. The Trib is our voice. DENNIS READ HANKS Via Twitter

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Mormons are told what to do by they’re [sic] religion and party like puppies living in La-La Land without potential for anything else, while you are just fine with no plastic straws, no cars, no guns, no freedom of speech, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Max Waters, Diane Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Cortez and the other three stooges, etc. I’ll either write you a letter telling you how wrong and chickenshit you are about everything. Or, you with all you’re [sic] Fake News connections, can set up a debate—you vs. I. We’ll each know the subjects prior, so I can blow you’re [sic] ass out of the water. Did you get

a lottery number? Because if you didn’t, you shouldn’t wear a Vietnam badge of service by sitting in an office as an assistant information blah, blah. The debate can be big or small. I’ve been anxious to debate anyone on the communist left and your [sic] a perfect candidate. KURT TOVEY Via CW comments

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Dine, Sept. 26, The Roof

Author Scott Renshaw responds: It is indeed. I believe strongly in the bell curve: most of everything is mediocrity.

I have to thank Alex Springer for his hilarious review of that upscale memorial Dee’s, The Roof—the height of which was his recommendation of some dishes to punch up their moribund menu, like shrimp and grits. There was a bit of country logic there, considering one is at ground zero for other local favorites like funeral potatoes, frogeye salad, green Jell-O and poppin’ fresh Lion House rolls. You must consider the population it serves and its location. It’s as if City Creek were something other than

Film reviews, Sept. 27, Abominable, Judy, The Sound of Silence

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Film review, Oct. 1, Joker

I’m gonna guess [reviewer Scott Renshaw] missed the entire point of the movie. RICHARD HUMBERG Via Facebook But did it give you a distraction for a couple of hours? Did you enjoy some Milk Duds? Perhaps drink a good ol’ Coca-Cola? You know, what a movie should be. RICK SUCHIL Via Facebook

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OPINION

Ingot We Trust: Trading Foundation Beliefs for the Luster of Gold It really wasn’t so long ago that the forty-niners sold all their earthly possessions, bought mules, pickaxes, boxes of dynamite, primers and firearms, and headed for the gold fields of the West. (The guns were an absolute necessity—back then; no one needed a concealed carry permit, and no one questioned the premise that a man would be fully justified in killing a claim jumper or thief. In the gold fields, the law was in short supply.) Relatively few of the prospectors could afford the pumps and sluices that could facilitate their quest; many had only shallow tin pans, a few provisions, perhaps a note from Mom, reading, “Godspeed, Son,” and the shirts on their backs. What they discovered was armies of like-minded seekers, all infected with that same gold fever, and a blindness to the desecration of the pristine natural beauty they’d so rudely invaded. Of course, there was no Sierra Club in those days to cry the environment was at risk—it was fully embraced that the rights belonged to the claimants, who destroyed anything in the path of their elusive quest. Those

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. forty-niners sacrificed all for a chance to discover riches and the mother lode; wildlife, forests, streams and mountainsides were indiscriminately trashed. While prospecting was a grueling, totally-consuming task, the vision of hitting pay dirt drove these intrepid prospectors on—some to untold, fabulous riches, but most to the frustrations of ever-deferred paydays. More than a handful went to their unceremonious, poorly-attended burials in unmarked graves. Those who understood in their final moments that Lady Luck had betrayed them, cursed the mother lode with their final breaths. Somewhere in the forty-niners’ stories is a meaningful, relevant metaphor: Nothing has really changed. With a disturbing abandon for everything else of value, it is the lust for gold and power that drives virtually everything that happens in America. Politics is certainly no exception; it is the flag bearer of this tragic way of thinking. I hate to be so uber-cynical, but it wrenches my gut to see something as precious as our Constitution reduced to the meager meaning of money. Take a moment, reach into your wallet and pull out a few bills. On every one, what do you see? Besides the clearly marked denominations and the engraved pictures of some of America’s favorite sons, you’ll find the onceinspiring words, “In God We Trust.” Those words may well have been revered back in 1776 and beyond, but today we could easily substitute the words, “Ingot We Trust.” The American people—and particularly our leadership—have largely left all traditional values behind in favor of money. (Personally, I don’t believe those words ever belonged on our currency because, to me, it seems a compromise of our mandated separation of church and state—but that’s not the point.) When our country minted its first coins and silver and

gold certificates, there was no prophet to foretell that the word “God” was missing the letter “L.” It is G-O-L-D—not God—that has hijacked a system dominated by principle. Now, gold decides elections, replaces fairness and equity in the legal system, effectively mutes the cries of the poor, infirm and minorities, determines the direction of all business ventures, and provides a tangible focus of worship. Simply put, if there’s no money in it, few people are interested. Gold is what makes our world go ’round. The inclination of the American people is to dismiss this reality with the flimsy excuse that there’s nothing that can be done about it. Few people obsess about the fact that almost all elections are bought by special interests with entirely selfish motives. It is gold fever that determines all our elected leaders—something that extends even further when those fully-purchased leaders appoint judges, justices, cabinet members, ambassadors and regulators to serve the master that placed them in office—and not the people. Every patriotic American needs to ask, “Are ethics, ideals, humanity and moral action the foundations of our republic, or are we, instead, to accept a grotesquelybent vision of our Founding Fathers, acquiescing to the corruption of runaway greed?” Understanding that most people haven’t ever personally heard the sound of God talking, it’s not surprising that they listen to the voice of gold. While the shameful truth is, indeed, that “money talks,” it is not too late to make the necessary changes, and purge the blight of greedy opportunism that dominates America today. CW

The author is a former Vietnam-era Army assistant public information officer. He resides in Riverton with his wife, Carol, and one mongrel dog. Send feedback to comments@cityweekly.net

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HITS&MISSES

IN ONE WEEK, YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD

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Who Do They Work For?

“Personnel matter fallacy,” “fiefdom,” “charade.” Leave it to the Little Paper that Could to remind city staff who they work for. We’re talking about the Park Record bringing the latest in insider politics to the forefront. Boom! Park City’s city manager, Diane Foster, is gone—without notice or rationale. In the position since 2013, Foster was credited with moving forward housing and environmental programs, a long-term agreement with Sundance Film Festival, and work with the new owners of Park City Mountain Resort. The Record reminded readers of a similar, secretive departure of a city attorney in 1999, ultimately revealing an $80,000 severance package. A letter to the editor called out the council as a fiefdom hiding behind the fallacy of personnel matters. The council later authorized the termination without discussion. That means Foster will receive a hefty separation package—but the public doesn’t know why. No matter what the law, it should be the duty of public servants to explain their actions—especially in an election year.

Stuck In the Middle

Poor Rep. Ben McAdams. He’s getting it from the right and the left as he mulls over what to do about the president’s impeachment inquiry. An online petition from the National Republican Congressional Committee is downright laughable to anyone who knows, loves or hates McAdams. “McAdams votes with radical Democrats on impeachment,” it says. In fact, McAdams has distanced himself from the impeachment frenzy by saying he’s like a juror who must remain impartial until the facts come in, both dailies say. But that wasn’t enough for Republicans who can’t stand having a single Dem in the congressional delegation. McAdams is a Blue Dog Democrat, identifying as centrist and fiscally conservative. Last week, he finally came out in favor of an impeachment inquiry, as necessary to get to the facts. In the Trump environment, no politician can identify as centrist.

A Murky Future

Maybe it’s just too hard to blame climate change, but the Bonneville Salt Flats is in danger. CBS News recently figured out that this was an issue and reported it as a debate raging over the future of the flats. That is, of course, true, though what’s to be done is a murky mess. In 2017, the Trib ran a story searching for blame because the Flats have been shrinking over the past 30 odd years. It could be climate change, the potash mine and the BLM that contribute to its demise, or simply the racers themselves. The racing community thinks they know. They’re asking for $50 million to put the salt back that the mine sucked away. Then the racers can churn it up again.

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It’s never too early to start thinking about voting Donald Trump out of office. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is hosting a Power of Our Pride Presidential Town Hall, which the nation will watch live as the 2020 contenders talk about how they would support the LGBTQ community. The town hall will be broadcast on CNN—we know, #fakenews. Not really. “This evening will be historic and there won’t be a better way to watch than with your fellow LGBTQ and [their] allies by your side,” the event’s website says. Squatters Craft Beer, 147 W. 300 South, Thursday, Oct. 10, 4:30-9:30 p.m., $10/ suggested donation includes appetizers and a drink, bit.ly/2OhsXIB.

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Greta Thunberg has inspired and threatened world leaders as global warming becomes a greater danger. But here in Utah, you can thank a former West High student—Mishka Banuri—and two others who organized the first Utah Youth Environmental Summit in 2017. It’s back. The idea is to engage more young people in the movement “to campaign for a better and sustainable community that we all deserve to have,” the event’s Facebook page says. They help introduce pro-environmental legislation and plan public campaigns. Join them at this year’s environmental summit. Wasatch Mountain Lodge, 8465 S. Mary Lake Lane, Brighton, Friday, Oct. 11, 3 p.m.-Sunday, Oct. 13, 5 p.m., free, bit.ly/3570fjK.

MAYORAL ENVIRONMENT DEBATE

Still wondering who to vote for in the Salt Lake City mayor’s race? Read this week’s cover story. Then, come hear Luz Escamilla and Erin Mendenhall respond to the most pressing issue facing the city—the environment. Moderated by KCPW 88.3 FM’s Roger McDonough, candidates “respond to questions regarding protection of our air, water, land, wildlife, wild places, people and communities,” the event’s Facebook page says. Is there a difference in their perspectives and positions? This is the time to find out. Sponsors include just about every environmental group in the state: Center for Biological Diversity, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah (HEAL), Sierra Club, Save Our Canyons, Great Salt Lake Audubon, Friends of Great Salt Lake, Wasatch Rising Tide, Utah Rivers Council, SLC Air Protectors, 350. org, and, of course, KCPW. Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Thursday, Oct. 10, 6-8 p.m., free, bit.ly/2AJ7zE0.

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The U’s budding Transgender Health Program expands outreach to Spanish-speaking communities. BY PETER HOLSLIN pholslin@cityweekly.net @peterholslin

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in’t no health fair like a DJ Dirty Dave health fair. The Salt Lake City radio DJ, cohost of the The Morning Mix at Latino 106.3 FM, kept the bass-heavy merengue, cumbia and reggaeton bumping in West Valley City as Latinx families took advantage of free clinical services and educational booths at an annual health fair organized by 106.3 FM and two other local Spanish-language radio stations last week. In a big conference room at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, dozens of families lined up for flu shots and cardiovascular exams. They collected vouchers for mammograms and pap smears while little kids jumped around in two bounce-y castles. At a booth run by the American Heart Association, a worker offered tips on how to perform CPR with the help of a rubberfaced mannequin. Amid the fair festivities were Ariel Malan and Jerica Pixton, staffers at the University of Utah’s Transgender Health Program—an initiative launched in 2017 that’s now focusing on raising awareness about how it can help individuals in Utah going through the transitioning process. “One of our primary goals is letting specifically the Latinx community know that the Transgender Health Program is here for them,” Malan, the program coordinator, told City Weekly. “We have free interpreter services at the University of Utah for all patients and visitors, so we’re definitely trying to spread the word about the ser-

Jerica Pixton, left, and Ariel Malan, with Pixton’s kids in tow, participate in an annual health fair to reach out to Latinx communities. “There’s always work to be done,” Pixton said. vices that we offer through the program for this community.” The U’s Transgender Health Program consists of a team of health care providers who specialize in everything from hormone therapy to surgery to voice therapy, covering multiple aspects of a patient’s journey. The process of transitioning is often complex and depends chiefly on an individual’s needs and goals. To help provide a safe and gender-affirming environment, a Spanish-speaking “navigator” at the program helps patients identify what they need depending on where they are in the process—whether they’re just at the beginning, or about to go into surgery, or seeking counseling and nutrition guidance. “We serve everybody on the transgender spectrum, from non-binary, genderfluid, genderqueer—however those identities are expressed. Surgery is not for everyone. Hormone therapy is not for everyone.

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It’s whatever that person identifies and needs,” Malan noted. Since the program’s creation two years ago, the team’s health care providers have worked with hundreds of patients so far; they also receive between 100 and 200 calls a month for consultations and questions about their services. Malan said the program’s medical director, plastic surgeon Cori Agarwal, has spearheaded efforts and lobbied hard to bring in funding and resources to expand their reach. This year, the program took on an administration staff, who can attend health care-related events like this one and expand other efforts related to outreach and tracking their impact. “There’s always work to be done,” Pixton, who works on plastic surgery efforts in the program, said. “It’s always a work in progress.” Dozens of visitors stopped by the pro-

gram’s booth for information at the health fair, picking up bilingual flyers offering information about the program’s services and other programs they can seek out—including patient education seminars held monthly at Salt Lake’s Utah Pride Center and a clinic offering gender management and support for adolescents at the Eccles Outpatient Building on The U’s campus. But as the cumbia beats thumped through the conference hall, and radio hosts got on the mic to hype up the audience and talk about the services at the fair, Malan and Pixton saw that there was more work to be done: Neither of them speak Spanish, and now they’re eager to find bilingual volunteers to better bridge the language barrier as they do outreach across Salt Lake. “We definitely understand how our patients feel when they come see us. We’re in their shoes now,” Pixton said. CW

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As election day nears, Salt Lake City mayoral candidates Erin Mendenhall and Luz Escamilla share their visions for a changing city. By Peter Holslin pholslin@cityweekly.net | @peterholslin

ith all the potential challenges facing Salt Lake City in the coming years, the current mayor’s race has offered an opportunity for candidates to share big visions and bold ideas. That’s been the tone so far in Salt Lake City’s mayoral race. When current mayor Jackie Biskupski made clear that she wouldn’t be running for a second term, a mind-boggling eight candidates stepped up to the plate in the race to take over at City Hall. The roster represented a cross-section of Salt Lake voices and backgrounds; most of the candidates touted forwardthinking platforms. Indeed, the poisonous runoff of Trump-style partisanship wasn’t about to ruin the vibe in this progressive city: At a mayoral forum on Muslim issues over the summer, six of the candidates even gathered for a smiling photo-op with the event’s organizers. Now the race centers around two candidates: Erin Mendenhall, the outspoken air-quality advocate who has represented District 5 for the past six

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years on the Salt Lake City Council, swept to the lead in the August primary. Luz Escamilla, an 11-year veteran of the state Senate and executive at Zions Bank whose district covers the westside and parts of West Valley City, squeaked into second place, beating out expected frontrunner Jim Dabakis by 421 votes. The voters decide who will become the next mayor in the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 5. For many, ballots will be mailed to their homes soon. To get you hyped for the occasion, City Weekly arranged sit-down interviews with both candidates and grilled them about their platforms. As the city grows, both of them advocate for sustainability, inclusivity and structural equality—but they also tout different skill sets and approaches. As usual, the Q&As are edited for clarity and length. We’ve also asked our friend, “Clippy McSplainey” (they/them) to step in and occasionally clarify some points as you weigh your choice for the city’s future leadership.

Luz Escamilla Background: Born in Mexico City, Escamilla grew up in the border city of Tijuana and crossed every day to attend school in the U.S. sister city of San Diego. She moved to the Beehive State to pursue a bachelor’s degree in business marketing at the University of Utah. She obtained a master’s in public administration, also at the U, and has worked as the vice president of community development at Zions Bank while also serving on the state Senate since 2008. How has living in Rose Park shaped your view of the city? My experience has given me an opportunity to see and understand the inequalities that exist [in the city]—some of the disparities based on zip codes and social determinants of health. It’s interesting to see some gaps of services related to the grid and access to public transportation and lighting in the streets. Literally, the divide in our city by I-15 gives you that divide. There’s also a lot of richness and diversity on the westside. It’s an exciting place, it’s vibrant, it’s alive. I’m very excited for an opportunity to have a city that represents everyone, and we can all work together really to eliminate that divide and be able to have that quality of life for everyone. You often talk about the importance of data and research, and Erin as well has talked in depth about policy issues during the campaign. What’s the importance of focusing on data and policy as a guide to your platform? The way I see policy issues is data-driven. I think my MPA—my master’s in public administration—gave me that kind of structure. I’m a data geek. I really love data. I really love those best practices. But I also believe in stories. My experience as a legislator has shown me that there’s uniqueness to peoples’ stories, and that really is a big drive. I feel very passionate about the work I do and I like to hear peoples’ perspectives of where they’re coming from and why this is important to them. I cry with people. Not everyone thinks it’s great—my campaign is like, “Don’t cry!” To me, it’s important. Part of what drives me to do things is passion, because people are in situations where we can make it better for them. AY HOWZE

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Rent prices are going up, it’s difficult to find housing that’s affordable in the city. A lot of people have to pay large percentages of their income just on housing. How would you address that as mayor? We’re about to release our housing plan. I’m very excited. I’ll say this—one of the things I’m very conscious about, is that I need to listen and work with everyone. I don’t have all the answers. There are great people and great institutional knowledge in Salt Lake City. I’ve been surrounding myself with many people like that, and some of them have been helping me put together this plan. We have to really think outside the box and really use all of our tools that are available—everything from zoning [to] ordinances. What you want to do is make sure our affordable housing is east, west, north and south. It can’t just be concentrated in one community. You also have to be careful not to bring gentrification to [underserved communities], because that’s what’s happening right now. It’s pushing people out. We’re losing families that can’t afford to live here. I think we need a steady line item in city government about affordable housing. One year there was only $120,000 of appropriations; [another time], it was $21 million. We need consistency, because I think that really sends an important message. And it shows commitment. 1

Starting in the summer there’s been a very confrontational and vocal opposition to the inland port. There’s been demonstrations and protests, people flooding the Capitol and delivering letters. 2 I think there’s always been opposition. At least from my district.

What do you think about e-scooters? There’s an issue of safety. It has to be regulated. There has to be order in this process, right? We can’t now be creating ADA problems: Because they leave the scooters on the sidewalk, people who are using other modes of transportation due to their disability now are prohibited to do that. We obviously want to work with those companies providing the service, but we have to talk about how they’re maintained. We want to create more active transportation, but [it has to be] safe. You’ve talked before about making City Hall more accessible— For everyone. You’ve talked about bringing in navigators, language interpreters to City Hall. I’m interested in a cultural shift about how we provide services at City Hall—toward this idea that we’re here to serve you. We have a whole [plan] called “Ready for Business, Salt Lake City.” We’re going to have navigators available and take you through [the small business permitting] process with them. But also it’s about bringing City Hall to neighborhoods. Not everyone can get to City Hall. We need to have city meetings, budget conversations, directors from our different departments coming to the communities and neighborhoods, hosting those meetings there. How do you pay for that? Is there budget space for it? You make it. It’s intentional. You want to be inclusive? Put your money where your mouth is. What would your governance style be as mayor? I’ve been in the workforce for 30-plus years, I’ve done a lot of different things. I recognize I don’t have the answers for everything. I know how to get surrounded by people who are experts on issues. But I also know how to listen. I’ve been doing that as a legislator, I’ve been doing that as an administrator, as a leader in my field of work. And I strongly believe in empowering people to make decisions. The mayor needs to have those relationships of trust with their department heads. I want them to feel empowered. I also want city employees to feel that innovation is important and that they can participate in innovation and change. I really want a City Hall where people feel like, “OK, I’m being heard. I’m respected as a professional here, and my issues and my ideas matter.”

1. You can read more about Escamilla’s policy plans at her website, luzformayor.com.

4. Salt Lake City’s Transit Master Plan calls for building a “frequent transit network” based on the city’s network grid; launching pilot programs for shuttle and on-demand rideshare services; improving transit corridors for buses; and piloting other improvements.

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You mean bus shelters, right? They call them “amenities.” And that kills me. If it’s minus 20 degrees, it’s not an “amenity.” You’re going to start feeling the cold—it’s a necessity. If it’s raining, if it’s 110 degrees, it’s not an amenity. So, it has to be effective, efficient. It has to be convenient. It has to be affordable. And you have to get close. Now, the city, their master plan they put together is actually pretty good. I think in incremental steps we can get there. 4

So where do you see the opposition fitting into the greater discussion about the inland port? They’re in my district, most of them. They’re my constituents. The constituency of the Northwest Quadrant—I’m one of them. I live there. That hits me. For us, as a community, there was an issue related to the process of transparency, the behind-doors-dealmaking that undermined that community. [The inland port] was really a loss for Salt Lake City. Losing all the land use authority, the tax increment pieces—it’s just unheard of, really. I think it’s clear that the community—beyond Westpointe and the Northwest Quadrant area—doesn’t think this is the right thing for Salt Lake City. It’s really just an issue for congestion, of traffic, of pollution, environmental impact and health. From Day 1, I opposed all the legislation related to the inland port, except for my own bill that created the baseline in monitoring for air quality and water quality. 3

Your environmental plan includes a proposal to cut tailpipe emissions 25% by improving access to buses and other modes of public transportation. How do you convince people that they don’t need to drive their cars? That seems like such a big ask. It’s a huge ask. Couple things—one, it has to be convenient. There has to be enough opportunities for you to ride the bus and get to your place on time. The timing is critical. The amenities—so, they call them amenities. I don’t like that word.

The minimum wage is $7.25 an hour in Utah and it hasn’t changed since 2009. How would you work to improve wages in general across the city? The way you do it is when you are talking to companies coming to Utah, through [the Redevelopment Agency], giving money to them to develop, those metrics of the RDA should include pieces on living wages. You can’t have a conversation with them and say, “Yeah, here’s $20 million for development,” and not expect them to have metrics. I don’t care how you label the jobs, those jobs need to make a minimum wage of “X.” You expect them to have wages of a minimum of $15, $17, $20 an hour. [Also] do they provide health care, or not? Child care? Are their plans sustainable?

Do you worry you’ll lose your negotiating leverage if you support meeting with the state to discuss the inland port but also support the city’s lawsuit against the project? I don’t see why. I think everyone would’ve done the same. I don’t see any city just sitting back and taking it. And maybe the state decides to change course. I think there’s possibilities. I wouldn’t say, “Oh, no, it’s a done deal.” I think there’s appetite to work together. There’s appetite to find common ground.

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How do you hold developers accountable to make sure that they’re actually building things that meet lower-income peoples’ needs? You can’t just have affordable housing and then super high-premium costs, because you miss the middle. If we have 20 new condos coming out, per se, and you say, “Well, I’m going to do three or four of them with affordable housing components”—and then the rest will only be super high-end, high-priced, because you’re mitigating costs through that—we’re then leaving behind the middle class opportunity, too. We also need to make sure there’s pricing for the working families and middle class and the ones who need help and support. They really need to buy into our vision. We want a Salt Lake City that’s sustainable, that will allow all communities and everyone to participate in our economy. There’s people that can afford those very high-end prices, but we also need to make sure there’s pricing for the working families and middle class and the ones who need help and support. We’ll provide tools, we will have someone helping those developers and making sure they buy into that vision and provide them with [options], whether it’s discounts and expediting permitting processes or impact fees.

A lot of opponents are saying, “No port.” Is this a situation where there can be, feasibly, no port? Everything is possible in terms of a process like this, but the reality is, right now there’s a state law to cover the ability of the city to have land-use authority, taxation, increments, everything. So we’re in the worst-case scenario that we could be. The city had already zoned that place for manufacturing, so there was going to be development there. I mean, maybe it was not going to be called an inland port—maybe it would be called something else. One of the pieces in my environmental policy proposal is to ask for a health impact study right away. It should be happening now. And if the state is not going to do it, then the city should do it.

Background: Mendenhall moved to Salt Lake Valley with her family when her dad, who was diagnosed with cancer when she was 6, could take a job that would allow him to travel less. She got her bachelor’s in gender studies at the U and a master’s in science and technology with an emphasis in environmental science. The co-founder of Salt Lake nonprofit Breathe Utah, she got her start in grassroots activism and advocacy work before running for City Council and taking the District 5 seat in 2014. How has living in 9th & 9th for 22 years shaped your view of Salt Lake City? We call it Small Lake City with loving affection. We’re a little big city, and the intention I think that draws people like myself to live here also fosters a strong community identity and an ability for us to go far as a city. Living in a place where I can support my friends’ businesses and art and endeavors is part of the reason that I live here. I ride my bike around the city on purpose, in part for health and air quality but also to feel more connected to my community and have the ability to stop and grab a pound of coffee at the Coffee Garden on my way home. You and Luz have both been going into a lot of detail about policy and talking about data, the importance of research. What’s the importance of having these discussions that are very detailed and policy-based? I don’t know what else people would want us to be talking about. I think that there’s a difference in our skill sets that we bring to the conversation. I come from grassroots, community organizing, nonprofit environmental work, and still do that work as the chair of the Air Quality Board and with regard to open space for the state. But my toolbox is city-based, so I can talk all day about policy, financing, community collaboration, because that’s the work I do for the city. We need to be talking about not just how we want better air quality and a more accessible city for everyone and greater affordability, but how I’m actually going to execute that vision. Don’t just tell me the sweet words— show me the path. What would your governance style be in City Hall? We need a mayor who will not back down or will not walk away out of frustration or out of any other personal gripe. The job of the mayor is to show up, stay at the conversation, be forthright and forthcoming, with whoever I’m working with, and that’s what I’ve done for our city. That’s what I’ll keep doing. But in terms of working with the City Hall staff, with the community, with other government agencies at the county or the state or beyond, the role of the mayor I see as a catalytic position—sort of like an hourglass. The mayor sits at that pinch point in many ways, and at the bottom of the hourglass you could imagine all the administrative functions that the mayor oversees and is the executive of. The top part of that hourglass might be the advocacy role, the relationships that the mayor is responsible for cultivating and maintaining to get us more as a capital city, as a city in political contrast to our state. Rising rents and a limited number of affordable housing options puts an extra burden on a lot of people. How would you work on this? I’ve led on the affordable housing initiatives in Salt Lake City in the last five years, bringing $21 million to the table to leverage private investment for more affordable units in our city than we were going to receive before. I very much know and understand the crisis that we’re in and the tools the city has to get more out of it. We have an incredible amount of growth and investment in our city coming in the

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pipeline. How we work with those investors will determine whether or not we get any affordable housing and to what extent we do. It’s everything from doing a deep dive on our zoning to see what barriers we have to geographically equitable distribution of affordable housing across the city, to working with the development community to figure out how we can get more from the millions of dollars we’re putting toward loans at this point to build more affordability. 5 We’ve had more than 1,500 new units come on in the last several years—we know that our financial tools are one of the most effective ways to entice developers to contain affordability. I don’t know that it’s creating enough affordability. I think we need to strengthen that. And that’s where an inclusionary zoning conversation comes in. But there’s another way—the zoning we have and where we allow different types of housing, whether it’s micro-units in a multi-family complex, or tiny homes, which we don’t allow yet in Salt Lake City. 6 Tiny homes will require a pretty significant change to the zoning that we have today. Making housing more accessible has a lot to do with the square footage of it, and there’s some creative communal housing types across the country that Salt Lake City should explore.

Minimum wage, at $7.25 an hour, hasn’t changed since 2009. Could the mayor push for a local minimum wage hike? Nope. You can thank our state legislature for tying the hands of all 247 cities and towns in the state from being able to affect minimum wage. What we can do is insist that the businesses and corporations that we invest in, in this city, are bringing fair wages, better wages, even union jobs to the city.

How does that work? I’ll give you two examples, one we just did with Stadler Rail. Stadler had a facility here, a small one, they are looking to expand. They build passenger railcars. They were looking to leave Salt Lake City. We wanted them to make that investment here, and one of the benefits that they brought to the table in order to receive this partnership was an apprenticeship program targeted at Salt Lake City students. Highland High and West High students can apply for a two-year apprenticeship program. At the end of it, they end up with an associate’s [degree], a résumé and a $48,000 a year job and an opportunity to interview, continue with Stadler. That’s something we’d never undertaken as a city, that kind of direct benefit opportunity to our residents.

Since this summer, there’s been increasing opposition and a lot more confrontational opposition from activists and organizers. Where do you see this opposition fitting into the discussion about the inland port? Activism, as it always has in democracy, creates the space for a conversation with its opposition. That’s how I came into air quality work a decade ago—from being a protester and recognizing that all of our activism was pricking the ears of decision-makers. I cofounded Breathe Utah to intentionally walk into that space of policy-making and negotiating with those decision-makers. I think, similarly, the activism around the inland port is creating the space for a better conversation—hopefully a more transparent, public and equitable conversation as it relates to our environment, our tax future and our land use decisions for this city.

A lot of the activists have been calling for, “No inland port.” Do you see that as a feasible option, or is some kind of inland port in some sense inevitable? The land that is being targeted for the inland port is privately owned. This land is entitled to develop, and the reason it’s entitled to develop—well, that’s the role of cities, is to zone land and work with the property owners. But the real issue is that if the city weren’t working with these property owners, the state would take it over, as it has thousands and thousands of acres south of I-80. That would be the biggest loss for Salt Lake City, and our environment, that we could fathom. This private property, unless it comes up for sale—in which case, the city should buy it—is going to continue to be developed. The question is under whose guidance, the city’s or the state’s? The city needs to stay in that role of development. You’ve come out in support of the lawsuit that Mayor Biskupski has filed— No, the city has filed it.

That the city has filed. But you’ve also said that you would negotiate with the state. Are you worried that maybe that’ll weaken your position? Absolutely not. I have never been in support of the state taking our land use and our taxing authority. That was something I tried to negotiate in the negotiations that I held when the mayor walked away last year. The state has known all along that I want those authorities back for Salt Lake City. It’s absolutely consistent with every conversation I’ve ever had with the state. It’s a constitutional issue, and it’s better decided by the courts than having Salt Lake City go to battle with the legislature every session over what should ultimately be decided by the judicial system. 7

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Cars are so central to getting around here, so what incentives could you give people to stop using their cars to cut down on carbon emissions and improve air quality? We need to make it cheaper and easier to take public transportation. Also, the future of any great American city isn’t just one way to get around, it’s lots of options. Buses are a part of it. Bikes, scooters even. Rideshare. Subsidized rideshare. These are all parts of our transit master plan that we created recently. When I was chair of the council last

year, we funded the first phase of implementation. We have our very first circulator buses: 21st South, 9th South and 2nd South. Soon there will be a bus coming through Rose Park. That’s Phase 1. And we need phases two and three here as soon as possible. But if we wait for our taxpayer dollars to be able to afford to buy up the rest of that plan, it will be too late. We have to bring partnerships to the table to pay for this. I want every ticket in Salt Lake City to be a transit pass. When you think about how many partnerships this would take, it’s not very many. It’s the city and the county who own and operate most of the arts and culture venues. The University of Utah has already done this. The ticket to your football game is the ticket to your transit: Whether you’re coming from Ogden or Provo, you got your ticket to the game—you can get on Frontrunner, Trax, bus, and get where you need to go.

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The city plans next year to renegotiate the contract with Rocky Mountain Power, and both you and Escamilla advocate reworking the system to achieve 100% renewable energy goals by 2023. How exactly would that work? Do you know how energy transmission works? Like, with power plants and stuff ? Yeah [laughs] I’m definitely not the guru on it. So, the electric transmission infrastructure goes from really big, high power that breaks down to smaller-scale towers that breaks down to individual building distribution. And I’m grossly over-exaggerating— or under-exaggerating—the complexity of it, but at that highest level of transmission, where it’s coming straight from either a solar farm or coal-fired power plant or a wind farm, it’s all going into the same tube, so to speak. For Salt Lake City to say, “We’re going to have 100% renewable energy coming into our city,” well, we’re going to be assuring that the amount of energy that we use in our city is being produced by renewable energy sources.

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5. Go to erinmendenhall.com to read Mendenhall’s policy positions on affordable housing and other issues.

Where do you get the funding to provide stipends like these? You get it from the city’s budget. You prioritize things and you make it happen. CW

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Do you have any thoughts about how to bring more diversity into City Hall? We can learn from what other creative cities around the country are doing. Some of what I’ve learned so far is in reexamining our applications for boards and commissions, for employment, to examine implicit bias that is built into that. We can’t extract ourselves from the cultural reality that the status of women is among the lowest in the nation here. And that is worse for women of color. And of course, other marginalized communities in this city are also disadvantaged in accessing conversations and influence. We need to be continually reassessing the implicit bias that is built into our whole systematic process for engaging people. Other ways that we can engage more of the community is by changing the way that we meet and we ask for feedback. It’s very difficult for many people to meet us in our house, so to speak [i.e., to attend meetings at City Hall]. We need to bring conversation opportunities out into the communities in their spaces and on their times. If that means going to community learning centers in the morning after kids are dropped off at school, that’s one way for us to do it. Going to work centers, meeting with people during lunch breaks to get feedback—these are some of the ways that other cities around the country are better engaging communities. Even contemplating subsidies for Lyft and Uber for people to be able to attend the meeting or take transit. The city could subsidize child care for board participating, board commission, volunteer participation. Also, food is sometimes an obstacle—so, providing a meal or a subsidy for a meal.

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ENTERTAINMENT PICKS, OCT. 10-16, 2019

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Forget all the talk about building a wall to keep anyone from coming in the country: Actor and comedian George Lopez has always done his part to bring the Chicano community into mainstream America. Long before it was fashionable, he integrated themes of race relations and ethnic awareness into his stand-up, adding his voice to the dialogue about Latinx contributions to America’s melting pot. That’s evident in the honors and awards he’s reaped through the years, including the 2003 Latino Spirit Award for Excellence in Television, the National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact Award, the People for the American Way’s Spirit of Liberty Award and the Humanitarian Award from Harvard University’s Harvard Foundation. His numerous film and television credits—among them, several sitcoms and a stint as a late night host on TBS’ Lopez Tonight—all attest to his talents. He’s accumulated a number of other credits as well, including an autobiography (Why You Crying?), twice hosting the Latin Grammy Awards, a stint as co-host of the Emmy Awards, an appearance at President Barack Obama’s inauguration celebration and a number of initiatives on behalf of various charities, including his own. Not that it’s been easy. After his self-titled sitcom was canceled in favor of the ill-conceived and short-lived series Cavemen in 2007, he accused ABC of making a racially-motivated decision. His battle with a genetic kidney disease caused him to lose 45 pounds following a successful transplant. Nevertheless, at a time when Hispanics are increasingly under fire, Lopez continues to fire back—as the title of his current tour, The Wall, should clearly indicate. (Lee Zimmerman) George Lopez: The Wall World Tour @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-3552797, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., $35-$254.50, artsaltlake.org

In the market for a truly memorable Halloween experience? Ditch the candy corn and head to Metro Music Hall this weekend for the dragtastic Trick-or-Treat Diva. A testament to Salt Lake City’s thriving drag scene, the Divas have taken hold of Metro since moving their spectacle there earlier this year. The spooky holiday runs deep in the veins of producer Jason CoZmo, who remembers retiring from trick-or-treating at the ripe age of 10. Instead, he opted to dress up as Dracula, go ham on his family homes’ spooky yard decorations and give his neighbors something to talk about. “I’d lay in a coffin and basically do a show for all the kids coming for candy,” the Magna-based Dolly Parton impersonator reminisces. “It was more fun for me to entertain everyone.” Later, after relocating to California, the holiday took on a new significance, as it was the first time he did “full-out” drag. “I went as Alice in Wonderland,” he says. “How ironic that Alice was first, and here we are 20 years later and I’m still skipping around Wonderland.” Joining CoZmo, are a cast of characters, including David Lorence as Cher, Jeremiah Del MarZ channeling Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and resident “dirty little flirt” Cody Rose as Katy Perry. Need more convincing? Condensed versions of Cats and Hocus Pocus will also be performed. In the spirit of the season, audience members are encouraged to wear costumes throughout the weekend, making for what will surely be a true pre-All Hallows’ Eve experience. (Enrique Limón) Trick-or-Treat Diva @ Metro Music Hall 615 W. 100 South, 385-528-0952. Friday, Oct. 11 & Saturday, Oct. 12, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 13, 2 p.m., $30, thevivaladivashow.com

Utah Opera opens its 2019-20 season with an old favorite in a familiar building—but with new twists to the performance and the setting. Verdi’s ever popular “La traviata,” features new scenic elements designed by Peter Dean Beck, who has been creating sets for this opera since 1977, along with fresh costumes by Susan Memmott Allred at the Utah Opera Production Studios. These performances also mark the Utah premiere of conductor Steven White, who has conducted La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera. The run of performances is also be notable for where they take place. Utah Opera hit the road last season while the Capitol Theatre, which first opened in 1913 as a vaudville venue, was being refurbished. La Traviata marks the return to 200 South, and a performance space with a new seating configuration and sound system along with the reinstallation of the original terra cotta roof facade. Anya Matanovic stars in the soprano role of Violetta Valéry, after singing the role of Juliette in “Romeo et Juliette” in the 2018-19 season. Tenor Rafael Moras makes his Utah Opera debut as Violetta’s love interest Alfredo Germont. Metropolitan Opera regular Michael Chioldi returns to the Utah Opera for the first time since the 2015-16 season, and performs the baritone role of Giorgio Germont, father to Alfredo. The opera be sung in Italian with English supertitles. (Geoff Griffin) Utah Opera: La Traviata @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801-355-2787, Oct. 12 & 18, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 14 & 16, 7 p.m.; Oct. 20, 2 p.m., $29-$106, students 50% off Monday & Wednesday, utahopera.org

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Broadway at the Eccles: Miss Saigon It’s often said that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The Vietnam War proved that point, a fact that’s been borne out by America’s entanglements in foreign conflicts ever since. Sadly, it’s a lesson lost on many of our leaders. The multi-award winning musical Miss Saigon—recipient of six Tonys and four Laurence Olivier Awards—provides a personal and prophetic view of that failed conflict. Written by ClaudeMichel Schönberg and Alain Boubil—the duo behind another historical drama, Les Misèrables— it’s broadly based on the opera Madame Butterfly. However, it was specifically inspired by a magazine photo Schönberg saw that showed a Vietnamese mother leaving her child at an airbase in Vietnam in order to get the baby on a plane bound for the United States, where it would lead a better life with its G.I. father. Consequently, despite the pageantry, spectacle and a sweeping score performed by a 42 person cast, the story is deeply personal. An orphaned Vietnamese teenager named Kim has a baby by her G.I. lover, Chris, who has no idea that he has fathered the child. After the two are separated by the continuing chaos in the country, she begins a quest to find him and reunite. Naturally, it’s a difficult journey, one that ends with tragedy and redemption. Audiences were mesmerized, resulting in decade-long runs on Broadway and London’s West End, and innumerable international tours ever since. (LZ) Broadway at the Eccles: Miss Saigon @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-3552787, Oct. 15-20, dates and times vary, $55-$130, artsaltlake.org

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ith a career that included 20 years on the faculty at Brigham Young University, and work that often dealt with Latter-day Saint characters, it’s understandable if one of the descriptors in an obituary for Eric Samuelsen would be “Mormon playwright.” But that phrase would also understate the complexity of the relationship between Samuelsen’s faith and his creative work. “People thought of him as a Mormon playwright,” Plan-B Theatre Co. artistic director Jerry Rapier says, “but he thought of himself as a playwright who happened to be Mormon.”

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Samuelsen died Sept. 20 after a long battle with chronic illness, leaving a legacy of thoughtful, challenging plays and a generation of students who have gone on to create their own work for the local theater. Samuelsen plays produced by Plan-B included Borderlands, Amerigo, Clearing Bombs, Nothing Personal and 3; former students of Samuelsen include Utah playwrights Matthew Greene, Melissa Leilani Larsen and Morag Shepherd. Rapier recalls first becoming aware of Samuelsen during the early 2000s, when the company was initiating its Slam production of original short works. Samuelsen’s The Butcher, the Beggar and the Bedtime Buddy was part of the first Slam in 2003, and Rapier says, “In our little postmortem meeting, we were kind of blown away with what Eric had done, and realized we wanted to know more about the characters in his piece.” The full-length expansion of that short work, Miasma, premiered at Plan-B in 2006, part of a long artistic collaboration between Samuelsen and the company that included a 2013-14 “Season of Eric” featuring four world-premiere works. “The joke among other writers in the [playwriting] lab was, ‘If only we could write as quickly as Eric can.’ He didn’t pursue a lot of productions of his plays, because once one was out, he was off on three other things,” Rapier says. The writer’s ability to be prolific aside, Rapier says that one of the qualities he most associates with Samuelsen professionally is his remarkable memory. “He never had to write anything down for any reason, ever,” Rapier says. “He could sit in a reading, and process everything. His students would say he never taught from notes. … I think that’s why people feel connected to Eric in a very different way. The beauty of not having to refer to notes is he was always present in the moment.” Significantly, his former students recall the encouragement he provided, and the lessons he imparted on creating psychologically rich plays. Matthew Greene (Adam and Steve and the Empty Sea) remembers meeting with Samuelsen after enrolling in his Intro to Playwriting class “on a lark,” but not yet really clear about his own interest in writing professionally. After an initial assignment to write a 10-minute

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Friends and colleagues reflect on the life and legacy of playwright Eric Samuelsen.

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THEATER Living in the Borderlands

play, Greene says Samuelsen asked him to come by his office. “He sat me down to tell me, ‘You could do this, you know.’ As much as I tried to deflect the compliment, Eric insisted that I could have a future as a playwright, and talked me through my doubts.” Melissa Leilani Larsen (Sweetheart Come) counts among the things she learned from Samuelsen as “Structure, subtext, humor, but also compassion. Eric taught me to love my characters, and to tell their stories with the honesty and empathy they deserve. Even villains have the right to say their piece.” That willingness to wrestle with complexity characterized Samuelsen as a writer and as a person, according to Rapier. His plays notably addressed his church’s doctrines about homosexuality, and he always personally made his support for the LGBTQ community clear. “The day after Prop 8 [making gay marriage illegal] passed in California, he sent me maybe the longest email anyone has ever sent me, apologizing for the actions of his church against my family and families like mine,” Rapier says. “He asked if there was any way we could still remain friends. There is no way anyone who knows Eric wouldn’t know where he stood on that issue; it embodied his conflict between his love of his faith and his

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problems with the culture of his faith.” That conflict was manifested most memorably in Borderlands, a play that included a closeted gay Mormon among its main characters. “He was terrified of what he was writing,” Rapier says of the earliest incarnation of the play, “was afraid anyone would ever know he had written that play. … No one will ever know the risk he took, and the cost of his commitment to that play.” (The 2011 original cast reunited for a free reading on Oct. 5.) Greene has his own very personal recollection of Borderlands, and its impact on him as a then-closeted gay BYU student. “When he brought an early draft to a playwriting class, he knowingly asked me to read the role of a young gay Mormon,” Greene says. “The play left a lasting impression on me, and I spent many hours speaking with Eric about it, disguising my own internal struggle in a character discussion. Eric wasn’t fooled, but he didn’t push me to reveal anything I wasn’t ready to admit yet. “That was Eric’s way: infinitely perceptive, leading others gently to become their best selves.” CW

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PERFORMANCE THEATER

DANCE Tango Lovers: I Am Tango Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Oct. 13, 7 p.m., artsaltlake.org

Active Pages: The Story of Frankenstein Layton Commons Park, 437 N. Wasatch Drive, Layton, Oct. 12, 3-9 p.m., davisarts.org Anne of Green Gables Noorda Center for the Performing Arts, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., uvu.universitytickets.com The Adams Family Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Nov. 16, showtimes vary, hct.org Addams Family Reunion Desert Star Theatre, 4861 S. State, Murray, through Nov. 9, desertstar.biz Death of a Driver Salt Lake Acting Co., 168 W. 500 North, through Oct. 20, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org Form of a Girl Unknown Salt Lake Acting Co.,

168 W. 500 North, Oct. 16-Nov. 17, dates and times vary, saltlakeactingcompany.org Miss Saigon Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Oct. 15-20, times vary, artsaltlake.org (see p. 16) The Mystery of Edwin Drood Theater at Mount Jordan, 9360 S. 300 East, Sandy, through Oct. 19, dates vary, 7:30 p.m., sandy.utah.gov Phantom Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Nov. 9, dates and times vary, hct.org Utah Shakespeare Festival Southern Utah University, 195 W. Center St., Cedar City, through Oct. 12, times and prices vary, bard.org Utah Opera: La Traviata Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Oct. 12-20, dates and times vary, utahopera.org (see p. 16)

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Salt Lake City-based artist Susan Makov displays works in oil on canvas exploring observations about natural beauty in forests, and concerns about impending destruction (“Transition Winter Into Spring” is pictured), in Landwork at Finch Lane Gallery (54 Finch Lane, saltlakearts.org), through Nov. 15.

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Salt Lake Choral Artists: Dona Nobis Pacem Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m., tickets.utah.edu Utopia Early Music: Menagerie Cathedral Church of St. Mark, 231 E. 100 South, Oct. 12, 8 p.m.; Oct. 13, 5 p.m., utopiaearlymusic.org

COMEDY & IMPROV

George Lopez Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 16) Joe Machi Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Oct. 11-12, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Key Lewis Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Oct. 11-12, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Laughing Stock Improv Comedy The Off Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main, through Oct. 12, Fridays & Saturdays, 10 p.m., theobt.org Preacher Lawson Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Oct. 11-12, 7 & 9:30 p.m.; Oct. 13, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Out of Line Comedy Improv The Ziegfeld Theater, 3934 Washington Blvd., Ogden, Oct. 11, 10:30 p.m., theziegfeldtheater.com Open Mic Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West,

Wednesdays, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Psycho Babble Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Random Tangent Improv Comedy Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Saturdays, 10 p.m., randomtangentimprov.org

SPECIAL EVENTS FARMERS MARKETS

9th West Farmers Market Jordan Park, 1000 S. 900 West, Sundays through Oct. 13, 10 a.m.2 p.m., 9thwestfarmersmarket.org Downtown Farmers Market Pioneer Park, 350 W. 300 South, Saturdays through Oct. 19, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., slcfarmersmarket.org Fleet Nights, Little City, 855 S. 400 West, every Saturday, 4 p.m., littlecityinc.com New Roots of Utah Neighborhood Farm Stand Valley Regional Park, 4013 S. 700 West, Saturdays through late October, 1-3 p.m., slco.org Park City Farmers Market Silver King Resort, 1845 Empire Ave., Park City, Wednesdays through Oct. 30, noon-5 p.m., parkcityfarmersmarket.com Wheeler Sunday Market Wheeler Farm, 6351 S.

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FESTIVALS & FAIRS

AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Oktoberfest Snowbird Resort, Highway 210 Little Cottonwood Canyon, Snowbird, through Oct. 20, snowbird.com Pumpkin Nights Utah State Fairpark, 155 N. 1000 West, through Nov. 2, 5:30-10:30 p.m., pumpkinnights.com

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Beyond a Night of Music Encircle Salt Lake, 331 S. 600 East, Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m., encircletogether.org Come Out and Play Mama Dragons Fundraiser Church and State, 370 S. 300 East, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., mamadragons.org Men’s Sack Lunch Group Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Wednesdays, noon-1:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org TransAction Weekly Meeting Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Sundays, 2-3:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org Viva la Diva: Trick-or-Treat Diva Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, Oct. 11-12, 7 p.m.; Oct. 13, noon, metromusichall.com (see p. 16)

Amanda Noll: How I Met My Monster Barnes & Noble, University Crossings Plaza, 330 E. 1300 South, Orem, Oct. 11, 6 p.m., barnesandnoble.com Breeanna Shields: The Bone Charmer The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 12, 2 p.m., kingsenglish.com Chris Mamula: Choose FI: Your Blueprint to Financial Independence Barnes & Noble, 1104 E. 2100 South, Oct. 12, 2 p.m., barnesandnoble.com Jacob Paul: Last Tower to Heaven The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 10, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Kris Milgate: My Place Among Men Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Oct. 12, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Rebecca Lawton: The Oasis This Time The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham & Raina Telgemeier: Best Friends and Guts Provo Library, 550 N. University Ave., Provo, Oct. 10, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Abstraction Is Just a Word, But I Use It UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Jan. 4, utahmoca.org Amidst: Kathy Puzey, Amanda Lee and Holland Larsen Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through Nov. 1, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Ancient Mesoamerica Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Anne Fudyma: Synchronistic Space UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Oct. 12, utahmoca.org Children’s Expression Through Painting Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Oct. 25, events.slcpl.org Concerning Craft & The Power of Print Downtown Artist Collective, 258 E. 100 South, through Oct. 11, downtownartistcollective.org Colors of the Wild Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through Nov. 6, culturalcelebration.org

DesignArts Utah ’19 Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through Oct. 18, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Eric Fairclough: Isolation Rituals Bountiful Davis Arts Center, 90 N. Main, Bountiful, through Nov. 2, bdac.org Gerald Purdy & Hadley Rampton Phillips Gallery, 444 E. 200 South, through Oct. 11, phillips-gallery.com Greater Merit: The Temple and Image in South Asia Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Get Forty-fied! Utah Calligraphic Artists Exhibition Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through Oct. 22, culturalcelebration.org Jim Jacobs: The Imperfections That Render Us Visible Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, through Nov. 3, kimballartcenter.org League of Reluctant Bicyclists UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Nov. 2, utahmoca.org Liten Bountiful Davis Arts Center, 90 N. Main, Bountiful, through Nov. 2, bdac.org Megan Arné & Clara Koons: In Here Out There Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, through

Nov. 15, saltlakearts.org Myth Modern West Gallery, 412 S. 700 West, through Oct. 31, modernwestfineart.com Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Jan. 13, utahmoca.org Nolan Flynn Bountiful Davis Arts Center, 90 N. Main, Bountiful, through Nov. 2, bdac.org Palate Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through Oct. 11, accessart.org Poiesis Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, through Oct. 11, accessart.org Power Couples Utah Museum of Fine Art, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Dec. 8, umfa.utah.edu Role Call: Fearless Females in Utah History Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Oct. 21, events.slcpl.org Ryan Lauderdale: Glazed Atrium UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Nov. 2, utahmoca.org Susan Cramer Stein: Cowboys and Horses: A Western Romance Local Colors of Utah Fine Art Gallery, 1054 E. 2100 South, through Oct. 15, localcolorsart.com Susan Krueger-Barber: Big-Hearted People Need Sharp Teeth Bountiful Davis Arts Center,

90 N. Main, Bountiful, through Nov. 2, bdac.org Susan Makov: Landwork Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane, through Nov. 15, saltlakearts.org (see p. 19) Spencerinch: Great Salt Lake and Vicinity Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, through Nov. 28, umfa.utah.edu Toni Doilney: A Sense of Place “A” Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, Oct. 15-Nov. 15, agalleryonline.com Traditional Textiles: Ties That Bind Chase Home Museum, 1150 S. Constitution Drive, Oct. 11, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Traveling While Black Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. 300 South, through Dec. 31, saltlakefilmsociety.org Ummah Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Dec. 15, umma.utah.edu Utah Watercolor Society: Our Best Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through Oct. 16, culturalcelebration.org Van Chu: Photographic Brushstroke Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, through Nov. 3, kimballartcenter.org

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Set Faces to Stunned Stun Cube adds some nuance to Korean comfort food. BY ALEX SPRINGER comments@cityweekly.net @captainspringer

ven though there are still a few more months left for some culinary trend to catch on, I think it’s safe to declare 2019 as the year of the Korean restaurant. As I’ve been driving around town or scoping out the web for new places, the number of Korean places that have popped up has been staggering. Any time you get a proliferation of one trend or regional food, however, it can be difficult for each restaurant to set itself apart. For some reason—my guess is it’s the magic ratio of versatility and tradition—Korean places like South Salt Lake’s Stun Cube (2732 S. State, 801-419-0082, facebook.com/stuncube) manage to offer a singular dining experience.

Stun Cube—Stun, as in you look stunning this evening, and Cube as in the cuboid trays the food is served on—opened in May with a small menu filled with Korean favorites. Its location adds a nice culinary variety to this State Street area, and I love what they’ve done

with the place. For one, you can buy kimchi and other traditional condiments from a refrigerator next to the cash register. I’m a bit of a sucker for nuances like that—I find the idea of trying some kimchi and pickled daikon, and being able to buy some to take home

with me, extremely charming. If little touches like that don’t quite have the same effect on you, then the infectious enthusiasm of the staff certainly will. Each time I visited, I was greeted with warm smiles, fast service and personable conversation. The menu is decidedly trim, which makes it easy to try everything in a few visits. Fans of Korean food will recognize staples like bulgogi ($9.99), bibimbap ($9.99) and the lesser-known favorite tteokbokki ($9.99)—pronounced toke-bokey— all of which are worth your time. My favorite version of bulgogi was the spicy pork. The food here comes out with an extremely clean presentation—the cubes within each serving tray do a nice job of keeping everything separate and tidy. Although I do miss getting my condiments in several tiny dipping cups, each dish comes with kimchi and japchae noodles in crinkly golden pouches like fancy chocolates, which is charming in its own way. On its own, Stun Cube’s brand of kimchi hits that perfect balance of crisp, clean flavor followed by a kick of heat in the back of the throat. It’s guaranteed to turn up the heat wherever it’s applied, so combining a pinch of kimchi with a

few slices of spicy, gochujang-slathered pork is ideal for those who like things hot. I’ve grown to see bibimbap as one of those dishes that is ideal for a midday lunch. It’s warm, healthy and filling without making you feel sluggish— everything that you need to get you through the last stretch of the workday can be found in a bowl of bibimbap. Stun Cube’s bibimbap isn’t necessarily bringing anything new to the table, but it’s a solid interpretation of this miracle bowl. Cutting into the fried egg on top coats the rice, meat and veggies with velvety yolk, and adding a few shots of gochujang to the mix gets the taste buds up and running. If you’re looking for something slightly less conventional, your two best bets are the tteokbokki and the kimchi fried rice. The former takes an angry red brew of gochujang broth and tosses it with chewy rice cakes, thinly-sliced fish cakes and a hard-boiled egg. It’s a fascinating dish for many reasons, but the most interesting aspect is the culinary DNA it shares with chicken and dumpling soup. In this case, your dumplings are the pleasantly chewy rice cakes, your chicken is a pressed fish cake and your broth packs a bit

more of a punch. I have a feeling a steady supply will be just what I need to get me through the winter. The kimchi fried rice is a delightfully bizarre blend of fried rice, kimchi, Spam and a fried egg. I know it’s not exactly en vogue to extol the virtues of Spam, but holy hell if this isn’t a perfect breakfast dish. There are few things more beautiful than starting the morning with some warm rice that has soaked up a silky yellow egg yolk, but you throw some kick-mein-the-teeth kimchi and some salty bites of Spam and you’ve got yourself a breakfast of champions. Stun Cube’s menu is definitely sticking to the Korean food playbook, but they’ve created enough small variations—both gastronomically and aesthetically—to make themselves interesting. With winter fast approaching, it’s good to have another place to load up on spicy food that will stick to your bones and go easy on your waistline. CW

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To support their Traditional Foods Program, Utah Diné Bikéyah (utahdinebikeyah.org) hosts their third annual Indigenous Dinner. The Traditional Foods Program strives to preserve the relationship between food and our environment that defined traditional Native American food practices, as well as address the obstacles that face such a relationship today. The event features work from indigenous cooks and activists Karlos Baca and Josh Nez, along with Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez as keynote speaker. The dinner takes place on Monday, Oct. 14, from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center (1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City).

Beer, Bourbon and BBQ

If the only boo you care about this Halloween season is the one in booze, then it’s time to check out some beer, bourbon and barbecue at this year’s Beer, Bourbon and BBQ Festival. In addition to local breweries and distilleries like Waterpocket, Robber’s Roost, Toasted Barrel and Mountain West Hard Cider, some of our best barbecue pitmasters from the illustrious Pat’s BBQ, R&R BBQ and UMU Polynesian BBQ smoke some tasty meats. The event is free and vendors will sell their eats and drinks on site. The festival takes place on Saturday, Oct. 12, from 4 to 10 p.m. at The Gateway (400 West 200 South, shopthegateway.com)

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The team at Meditrina recently announced via social media that they will be permanently closing their doors. Under the leadership of executive chef Jen Gilroy, Meditrina’s spin on Mediterranean tapas has made it a culinary pioneer for the past 11 years. I spoke with Gilroy a few months back for our Pride Issue, and she expressed some concerns with the restaurant’s progression after it moved from its original location near Smith’s Ballpark. Although we’re sad to see Meditrina go, we’re also looking forward to Gilroy’s next step. She remains one of our finest local chefs, and we wish her the best. Quote of the Week: “Before eating, always take time to thank the food.” —Arapaho proverb Back Burner tips: comments@cityweekly.net

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The flavor starts with toast and caramel malts that create a browned bread crust flavor. This would normally be too much for this style, if it weren’t for the light caramel, dried date and dried fig flavors that immediately swell up from the rich malts. Mild German hops begin to emerge, adding herbal and bitter qualities that keep the lager from becoming too cloying and syrupy. There also seems to be a woodsy quality, though I might be imagining it. The hop herbal-woodsiness lingers in the background. In the end, toasted bread, caramel and nuts give way to a modest dose of Germanic-driven hops.

Overall: This 7.9% doppelbock is a wellmade example of the style that shows lots of malts, but isn’t overly sweet. It’s a drinkable, enjoyable beer from T.F. Brewing that might be a nice change of pace from what is quickly becoming downtown’s lager house. Both beers are available in limited quantities. Mobius Trip has a two bottle limit (togo), and can also be enjoyed in SaltFire’s full service bar (2199 S. West Temple). The same goes for T.F.’s Doppelbock, except that there is no limit on these 16-ounce cans, which can also be enjoyed at the brewery’s full service pub (936 S. 300 West). As always, cheers! CW

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The taste seems to be fairly similar to the aroma, and it starts off with a lighter amount of medium sweetness, with the tart base beer still being the first to show up. It’s got a little bit of that same funk that I got in the aroma, but there’s an herbal element present as well. Up next comes a higher dose of medium sourness that leads into the blood orange, which still imparts more citrus juice-like flavors, with a tangerine peel showing up a little more noticeably right in the finish. Throughout, this is a fairly dry beer that does its best to keep the tartness from the citrus additions from getting lost in the sour of the base beer. Overall: This 8.0% ale is the first barrelaged sour to come out of SaltFire, which seems to have tapped into a zippy flavor profile few local beers have attempted. Mobius Trip will feature various blends, and will undergo many incarnations as we get to know. T.F. Brewing Das Doppelbock: The body has a dark amber-brown color with slightly lighter amber-red hues. Carbonation is visible through the mostly transparent body; a tall head of beige-colored foam creates a slightly frothy cap. Retention is average, lasting slightly more than a minute, and the foam leaves modest lacing on the sides of the glass in the form of a few scattered spots and lines. The aroma is toasted bread crusts and a bit of caramel malt, dried dates and figs—better than average, but not particularly expressive aside from the bread crust and caramel malt sweetness.

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ies host. (SLC’s own schedule can be found at utahsacredharp.org). Since she’s not one for small-talk, the tight-knit and welcoming Sacred Harp community is her preferred way for finding friends. “This can be an emotional experience, singing together,” Lamb says. “I think it causes people to form friendships quickly, and at a deeper level than you might with some other activities. … When someone is sick, people will often say, ‘Hey, I want to sing this song tonight for [them].’ If you hear of a singer in another city who’s died, and you know their favorite song, you lead that at your singing that night to remember them.” As we speak, she says goodbye to the visitor from Boston—a brief goodbye, because the following weekend, she’s bound for his city’s singing event. Among those who brought Sacred Harp to Utah are Jenny and Stan Jenson and their friend Karen Willard. Along with other friends, they started singing around one little table, with one person singing each of the four parts. “I don’t think we’ve ever had to cancel singings, ever, in 20 years,” Jenny Jenson says. Stan credits the fixity of their schedule and location: “When people are free they come. … Some people are there every time, some people pop in on us while travelling.” Willard notes that the draw, at the end of the day, is the freedom, describing how in the past, Calvinists and Evangelicals had to agree to disagree and leave their differences at the door because they “had to be able to get along, because we need each other to sing.” During a brief exchange with a Nebraska-based Jewish singer, Ben Fink, about religious ideologies and singing, another singer stepped in on our conversation, saying of Sacred Harp, “Well see, here’s the strength: It proposes that you can just as easily build a functional and tight-knit community based on what you can do together. In these times, I think that’s really radical.” CW

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acred Harp seems somewhat of an odd name for a company of a capella singers—until one realizes that “sacred harp” is an old reference to the human voice, one’s own God-given instrument. It’s this simple foundation—the common nature of singing—that is the glue for a vocal tradition that finds a home all over the country, including Utah. I recently visited two all-day events called singing over a weekend in late September where for the first time in about 15 years, the local Sacred Harp community played host to singers from around the U.S. The first part of the weekend started at the Cathedral Church of St. Mark’s where I found my friend and Provo-based musician and producer Bly Wallentine working the welcome table. They were singing along by the door, while in a large circle under the steep, stained-glass-dotted ceiling, a group of more than 100 people filled the air with sweet, voluminous harmony. They sang songs from the book Sacred Harp—where they get their name—which is a compilation of early American hymns made up of a simple system of four music shapes sung as “so,” “fa,” “la” and “mi.” This shape note singing is a halved version of traditional solfege meant to make sightreading easy for folks unfamiliar with musical notation. At the end of the performance, Wallentine recommended I go to the Sunday singing, and that I did. I arrived early, this time at a Liberty Wells LDS stake, and soon was talking with Lynn Carson, who turned out to be one of the early members of the group, participating since about 1999. Carson explains Sacred Harp as such: “People either love it or they don’t.” For his part, he did at 16, falling for an organ variation on a shape-note tune called, fittingly, “Wondrous Love.” He also tells me about the Latter-day Saints of the 1830s, who wrote their own hymns in the early American style, and whose efforts can be found in Sacred Harp today. Despite all his interest, though, it wasn’t until the new millennium that a group for singing Sacred Harp would emerge. But emerge it did. Even at this smaller Sunday gathering, the room was packed with people. One young man from Boston, despite having no musical experience before Sacred Harp, and having only been at it for a year, had already been to singings up and down New England, and one in Europe. A woman from Berkeley, Calif., Leah Coffin, started with the group because of a New Year’s resolution to try new things. My former undergraduate English professor, Chris LeCleuyse—who is also part of local Renaissance revivalists Utopia Early Music—was there. Conversations with these people occurred in the recesses between the music, 45-ish minute chunks of astounding, beautiful riots of song. I was so inspired, I tried to conjure my own sight-reading skills from their teenage grave, to poor avail. As things wrapped up, I found the coordinator for the event, Evelyn Lamb, whose own history with Sacred Harp spans her time in many cities. Wherever she happens to be, Lamb finds comfort in being able to drop in at any of the casual weekly singings various cit-

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They say there’s no such thing as an overnight success, but Jade Bird is currently in the process of proving to be an exception. She’s taken the Americana crowd by storm—which is all the more impressive considering the fact that she hails from the U.K., proving that Americana is a state of mind. Aside from the fact that she competed for the title of Best Emerging Talent at this year’s AmericanaFest, she’s also attracted attention from NPR’s All Things Considered, The New York Times, Billboard, Rolling Stone, the BBC, Late Night With Seth Meyers and innumerable other tastemakers who have proclaimed her one of the year’s most essential artists to watch. She’s also toured with high-profile headliners, including Jason Isbell, Hozier and Father John Misty. Her appearance at the Newport Folk Festival elevated her profile even further, thanks to her inclusion in Brandi Carlile’s Girls Just Wanna Weekend—a festival made up of female artists only—alongside Dolly Parton, Linda Perry and Carlile herself. Her self-titled debut album, released last April, amplified the buzz garnered by her earlier EP, tellingly titled Something American, and provided early indication that indeed Bird is quickly winging her way forward. She combines intuition and insight, effectively exploring the depth of her own emotions from a highly thoughtful and evocative perspective. More than likely, we’ll see her soaring for quite some time to come. (Lee Zimmerman) The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $16-$75, 21+, theurbanloungeslc.com

SATURDAY 10/12 Sleater-Kinney

The group that transitioned and evolved riot grrrl punk into the 21st century is back with their ninth album, The Center Won’t Hold. Although they’ve now lost a significant part of their band (longstanding drummer Janet Weiss left the band earlier this year, though the record still features her work), Sleater-

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Kinney have gained clarity in their collaboration with Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent. Clark produced Center and refocused the group’s strengths and goals—Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein told The New York Times earlier this year that Clark pushed the group to change their key, to lead with Brownstein’s guitar and to speak to the story of Sleater-Kinney itself in the lyrics. The new album feels crisp for those reasons; it’s been 25 years since Sleater-Kinney emerged, so a shakeup was probably inevitable, but the new production hasn’t erased the bright, demanding ethos where the band has always planted a flag. There are no immediate classics like The Woods’ (2005) “Modern Girl” or “Jumpers,” but those songs have also had the benefit of almost 15 years. Still, a song like “Love,” an anthem for surviving the nomadic indie rock lifestyle, jumps out as relevant to not just contemporary indie music, but to the struggle of making the emotional and material ends of contemporary life meet. Brownstein and Tucker will tour without Weiss, but Angie Boylan of Aye Nako and Freezing Cold fill the gap, and the band’s tour will surely test the group’s ability to make all the new elements sing. (Parker S. Mortensen) The Depot, 13 N. 400 West, 7 p.m., $37.55, all ages, depotslc.com

MONDAY 10/14

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Black Pumas, Neal Francis

In the 1960s, funk emerged as a fusion of jazz, R&B, soul and rock ’n’ roll, updating art forms pioneered by African-Americans for the grittier second half of the 20th century. Funk eventually evolved, birthing new genres like disco and hip-hop, but the genre’s visceral slap and body-shaking thump still retains its power of shock and awe. Austin, Texas, band Black Pumas put an even fresher spin on things, releasing their self-titled debut

Jade Bird album in June while earning praise as “the breakout band of 2019” (NPR) and “Wu-Tang Clan meets James Brown” (KRCW). Those descriptions don’t do justice to the raw intensity of frontman Eric Burton, who came up busking on the West Coast before landing in Texas, and the instrumental chops of guitarist-producer Adrian Quesada, who helped bridge the gap between Latin rock, funk and orchestrated symphonies in his other bands Grupo Fantasma and Brownout. The two lead a back-cracking band that captures a particularly psychedelic slice of today’s distorted American reality; “Black Moon Rising” takes equal inspiration from the swamp rock of Creedence Clearwater revival and ’70s horror movies, while “Fire” and “Stay Gold” warp the lines between introspective cinematic majesty a la RZA and Danger Mouse. Blending creative references like that with an electrifying stage show that wowed Austin’s persnickety music critics, Black Pumas are now positioned to take the nation by storm. Quesada told the Austin Chronicle of their first recording session, “Honestly, right away I knew, ‘OK, this is going to be something.’”(Nick McGregor) The State Room, 638 S. State, 8 p.m., $19, 21+, thestateroompresents.com

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Todd Snider, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott

Todd Snider is a hoot, and he boasts the sort of irascible, irreverent attitude one would expect from an insurgent singer-songwriter in troubled times. His latest album, Cash Cabin Session Vol. 3, seems to find him in a more repentant mood, and also indulging in a little folk finesse. But the fact that it’s titled Vol. 3 is a joke in itself, given the fact there’s never been a Vol. 1 or 2. It’s that askew approach, combined with a reverence for his roots, that makes Snider such an interesting guy. Still, it’s hard to take him too seriously, especially since he repeatedly strays left of center and never seems at a loss for a sneer, cynicism or sarcasm. That’s not surprising, considering that he was mentored by some mirthful masters. He was discovered by Keith Sykes, a member of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band, who cautioned him never to take himself too seriously. A stint on John Prine’s Oh Boy record label helped instill a decided sense of independence. Indeed, he’s always been left to record the kind of records he wants to make, and even when his efforts go astray, they’re still worth a chuckle or two. The fact that he’s appearing with veteran singer and storyteller Ramblin‘ Jack Elliott ought to add some anecdotal interest and provide an evening of tall tales, pointed punchlines and, of course, Americana music of a vintage variety. What could be better than two resourceful road warriors sharing their gift of gab? (LZ) The Commonwealth Room, 195 W. 2100 South, 8 p.m., $35– $72, 21+, thecommonwealthroom.com

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What is Gwar? Well, the boring answer is that they’re the principal export of Slave Pit Inc., a Virginian art collective who have been making music, comics and films for the past 35 years. The more interesting answer is that they’re a gang of intergalactic miscreants who were exiled to Earth 3 million years ago, copulated with apes to create the human race, and have since rampaged against their lowly offspring by being the most outlandishly violent, depraved metal band of all time, releasing 13 studio records of disgusting, hilariously over-the-top shock rock satirizing the metal community and the world beyond. Gwar’s live show is equal parts traditional rock concert and interactive stage musical, with band members battling animatronic dinosaurs, “feeding” audience members into giant meat grinders and spraying cheering crowds with facsimiles of just about every bodily fluid you can think of. The group’s future was cast into doubt in 2014 with the death of frontman Dave Brockie and the subsequent retirement of his character Oderus Urungus, but the remaining members don’t seem ready to stop shocking and thrilling audiences across the world anytime soon, in keeping with Brockie’s desire to “Keep Gwar going for 1,000 years.” Gwar comes to The Depot joined by fellow thrash stalwarts Sacred Reich and Toxic Holocaust. Detroit rockers Against the Grain open. (Nic Renshaw) The Depot, 13 N. 400 West, 6:30 p.m., $33-$35, 21+, depotslc.com

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Kevin Moore might be best known for his down-home, approachably modern take on classic Mississippi blues, but his career has shown him to be much more versatile than that. Moore—professionally known as Keb’ Mo’—has worked a wide variety of odd jobs in his four decades in the music industry: playing on Papa John Creach’s solo albums in the early ’70s; arranging demos for A&M Records; appearing in the stage musical Spunk; and co-writing songs with Buddy Guy and the Dixie Chicks. At first blush, Keb’ Mo’s solo output might seem pretty pedestrian, but close listening reveals shades of jazz, country, pop and gospel, all giving his traditionalist bluesmanship a surprisingly complex sonic palette. He’s also managed to stay more-or-less relevant across his career due to his prodigious appetite for collaboration, most notably with Martin Scorsese on his The Blues documentary series, and most recently with fellow bluesman Taj Mahal on the Grammy-nominated TajMo album. Keb’ Mo’ is currently touring in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his self-titled debut album, and stops by the Eccles Theater on Oct. 12. Detroit soul singer Alicia Michilli opens. (Nic Renshaw) Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 8 p.m., $30-149, all ages, artsaltlake.org

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I wish I could say whether Water Witch is a first stop bar or a last stop bar. But when you’re like me, and you only go out on weekdays because you work at a bar on weekends, it’s a “whenever I need it bar.” I found myself at the dear little crown jewel of the SLC cocktail scene on a Tuesday night, late, with a friend who was just as restless to get out of the house as I was. We also both wanted to try their new take on their jícara cocktail, which I’d seen them post about online. The cocktail changes weekly, but is always served in an intricately carved, hollowed-out gourd, a vessel which itself is called a jícara. It was as good as I’d hoped it would be, with ginger, coffee and spices joining mezcal blissfully in the cup. Unfortunately, my friend had developed some sniffles, so settled for a hot toddy. With the tingling warmth of the jícara still in my throat, I ordered a single Shades American Kveik to make this quiet Tuesday night at the Witch last a little longer. The column I’d intended to write on this bar was going to try to capture the scope of this fancy-yet-easygoing bar, but there’s no better way to do that than by saying “I drank an ancient Mexican cocktail out of a gourd while my friend drank a traditional hot toddy.” It was easy and special and good, as Water Witch always is. (Erin Moore) 163 W. 900 South, 801-462-0967, waterwitchbar.com

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SUNDAY 10/13 LIVE MUSIC

Daniel Johnston Celebration Night feat. 90s TV + Cupidcome + Adult Prom + Gainsblerg + Jenny Kelly (Urban Lounge) The Doppelgangaz + Nacho Picasso (Kilby Court) Live Bluegrass (Club 90) Los Lonely Boys + The Gary Douglas Band (Commonwealth Room) Max Weinberg’s Jukebox (Egyptian Theatre) Megan Peters + Aaron Jones (Garage on Beck) Patrick Ryan (The Spur)

Industry Night Mondays w/ DJ Juggy (Trails) Monday Night Blues & More Jam hosted by Robby’s Blues Explosion (Hog Wallow Pub) Monday Night Open Jazz Session w/ David Halliday & the JVQ (Gracie’s) Motown on Mondays feat. J Godina + Street Jesus + Chaseone2 (Alibi) Open Blues Jam w/ West Temple Taildraggers (The Green Pig) Open Mic (The Cabin)

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Black Pumas + Neal Francis (The State Room) see p. 28 Bombs & Beating Hearts + Problem Daughter + Brook Pridemore + Petr Czubak (The Beehive) Ingrid Michaelson (Union Event Center) Lynn Jones (The Spur) Nick Welch (Lake Effect) Post Rhythm Orchestra (Covey Center) The Hardy Brothers + Jordan Goodrich

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I hope you are embarking on a vigorous new phase of self-redefinition. I trust you are excited about shedding old ways of thinking about yourself and eager to revise and re-imagine the plot of your life story. As you do, keep in mind this helpful counsel from physicist Richard Feynman: “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.”

about you that are outside your current conceptions of yourself. You might even be daring enough to place yourself in the paths of strangers, acquaintances, animals and teachers who can provide novel reflections. There’s just one caveat: Stay away from people who might be inclined to fling negative feedback. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Constantine P. Cavafy’s poem “Waiting for the Barbarians” imagines the imminent arrival of an unpredictable agent of chaos. “The barbarians are coming today,” declares the narrator. Everyone in town is uneasy. People’s routines are in disarray. Faces look worried. What’s going to happen? But the poem has a surprise ending. “It is night, and the barbarians haven’t come,” reports the narrator. “Some people have arrived from the frontier and say that there aren’t any more barbarians.” I propose that we use this scene as a metaphor for your life right now, Taurus. It’s quite possible that the perceived threat isn’t really a threat. So here’s my question, taken from near the end of the poem: “What are we going to do now without the barbarians?”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ve probably heard the saying, “Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.” It’s often attributed to inventor Thomas Edison. Sixteenth-century artist Michelangelo expressed a similar idea. “If you knew how much labor went into it, you would not call it genius,” he said about one of his masterpieces. I’m guessing that you Scorpios have been in a phase when these descriptions are highly apropos. The work you’ve been doing might look productive and interesting and heroic to the casual observer, and maybe only you know how arduous and exacting it has been. So now what do you do? I say it’s time to enjoy the fruits of your efforts. Celebrate! GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Give yourself a thrilling gift. Some folklorists prefer the term “wonder tales” rather than “fairy tales.” Indeed, many such stories are filled with marvelous SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you,” events that feature magical transformations, talking animals and declared astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. If that’s even a little mythical creatures like elves and dragons and unicorns. I bring this bit true, I bet you won’t believe it in the coming weeks. According to up, Gemini, because I want to encourage you to read some wonder my analysis, the universe will make a great deal of sense to you—at tales. Hopefully, as you do, you’ll be inspired to re-imagine your times even exquisite, beautiful, breathtaking sense. Life will be in life as a wonder tale; you’ll reframe the events of the “real world” a revelatory and articulate mood. The evocative clues coming your around you as being elements in a richly entertaining wonder tale. way about the nature of reality could tempt you to believe that there Why do I recommend this? Because wonder tales are like waking dreams that reveal the wishes and curiosities and fascinations of is indeed a coherent plan and meaning to your personal destiny. your deep psyche. And I think you will benefit profoundly in the coming weeks from consciously tuning in to those wishes and CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 2005, Facebook was a start-up company barely on the map of curiosities and fascinations. the internet. Its president asked graffiti artist David Choe to paint murals on the walls of its headquarters. Choe asked for $60,000, CANCER (June 21-July 22): but the president convinced him to be paid with Facebook stock I suspect that in the coming days you’ll be able to see into everyinstead. Years later, when Facebook went public, Choe became a one’s souls more vividly than usual. You’ll have a special talent multi-millionaire. I suspect that in the coming months you will be for piercing through the outer trappings of their personalities faced with choices that are less spectacular than that, Capricorn, so as to gaze at the essence beneath. It’s as if your eyes will be but similar and important. My conclusion: Be willing to consider blessed by an enhancement that enables you to discern what’s often hidden. This upgrade in your perception might at times smart gambles when projects are germinating. be unsettling. For some of the people you behold, the difference between how they present themselves and who they actually AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Experiment is the sole source of truth,” wrote philosopher and are will be dramatic. But for the most part, penetrating to the polymath Henri Poincaré. “It alone can teach us something new; depths should be fun, enriching, even healing. it alone can give us certainty.” He wasn’t merely referring to the kinds of experiments that scientists conduct in laboratories. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): He was talking about the probes and explorations we can and “This heart is rusty,” writes poet Gabriel Gadfly. “It creaks, it should carry out in the course of our daily lives. I mention this, clanks, it crashes and rattles and bangs.” Why is his heart in Aquarius, because the coming days will be prime time for you such a state? Because he has been separated from a person he to do just that: ask provocative questions, initiate novel adven- loves. And so he’s out of practice in doing the little things, the caring gestures and tender words, that a lover does to keep the tures and incite fun learning experiences. heart well-oiled. It’s my observation that most of us go through rusty-heart phases like this even when we are living in close PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In my opinion, Piscean singer, poet and actor Saul Williams proximity to an intimate ally. We neglect to practice the art of produces high-quality art. So he has earned a right to critique bestowing affectionate attention and low-key adoration. We mediocre art. In speaking about movies and TV shows that forget how important it is for our own welfare that we continuare hard to enjoy unless we dumb ourselves down, he says that ally refresh and reinvigorate our heart intelligence. These are “we have more guilty pleasure than actual fucking pleasure.” good meditations for you right now, Leo. Your assignment in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to cut back on your “guiity pleasures”—the entertainment, art and socializing VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): that brings meager returns—as you increase and upgrade your “All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired,” writes novelist Chuck Palahniuk. I agree! And that’s a key mediactual fucking pleasure. tation for you right now. Your assignment is to enhance and upgrade the inspiration you feel about the activities that are ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new most important to you—the work and the play that give you the about yourself,” wrote poet André Breton. I think that’s an sense you’re living a meaningful life. So how do you boost your excellent principle to put at the top of your priority list in the excitement and motivation for those essential actions you do on a coming weeks, Aries. To be in maximum alignment with cosmic regular basis? Here’s a good place to begin: visualize in exuberant rhythms, you should seek input from allies who’ll offer insights detail all the reasons you started doing them in the first place.

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It didn’t take long for the title to become something of a shorthand for any attempt to deflect attention from an impending scandal with even bigger news, but the film itself is fascinating and brutally hilarious even beyond becoming part of the lexicon. When a fictional president faces P.R. disaster from allegations of sexual misconduct, a political fixer (Robert DeNiro) and a Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) collaborate to create a massive distraction in the form of a ginned-up war in Albania. The script by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet brilliantly deconstructs how easy it is to manipulate the public with appeals to patriotism—a story

that anticipated with spooky prescience our short attention span for any news story.

The Contender (2000) Film critic Rod Lurie wrote and directed this tale about a lame-duck U.S. President (Jeff Bridges) appointing Laine Hanson (Joan Allen) as replacement after the death of his vice president—and how political opponents attempt to sabotage her nomination by pulling up allegations of wild behavior when Hanson was in college. The narrative is over-earnest at times, but gets its punch from the performances—Bridges, full of bristly energy as this president tries to preserve his legacy, and Allen as a woman who refuses to address or defend herself against charges that she believes has nothing to do with her fitness to serve.

Fair Game (2010)

This fictionalized account describes how former diplomat Joe Wilson (Sean Penn) wrote an editorial discrediting the Bush administration’s claims of an Iraqi nuclear enrichment program in 2003, and how administration officials subsequently “outed” his wife, undercover intelligence agent Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts). Early scenes do an effective job of setting up Wilson as an easily-incensed crusader, and you can still build up a healthy sense of outrage at the way

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At one point, co-director Josh Kriegman asks Anthony Weiner, “Why have you let me film this?” It’s a great question, as the 2013 New York mayoral campaign which was intended as ex-congressman Weiner’s political comeback—after his 2011 sexting scandal—instead imploded with new allegations of impropriety. Weiner dives fascinatingly into the art of spin, as Weiner and his staffers attempt to salvage the campaign, but there’s also a level on which Weiner attempts to answer a blunt question posed by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell: “What is wrong with you?” There’s a remarkable character study here of a man who seems to be addicted to attention, given a distinctive and vital visual style. If Weiner shows us anything, it’s that the answers to “Why have you let me film this?” and “What is wrong with you?” might very well be the same. CW

England is facing its own whirlwind of highlevel incompetence right now, but here’s the true story of one of the most infamous events

ever to rock that nation. In 1961, British Conservative Secretary for War John Profumo (Ian McKellen) has a brief affair with then19-year-old would-be model Christine Keeler (Joanne Whalley), which he is ultimately forced to confess, ending his political career. But the film is most interesting in its profile of the relationship between Keeler and the man who pulls her into the corridors of power, Dr. Stephen Ward (John Hurt). Although the titular scandal brings a government to its knees, it’s ultimately a sympathetic story of people who have no idea that their life of fun and debauchery could have history-altering consequences.

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Any conversation about “political scandal” in America begins and ends with Watergate, and multiple films have ventured into those murky waters, from the iconic All the President’s Men to Oliver Stone’s Nixon. But this chamber piece—directed by Robert Altman from the stage play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone—takes a unique point of view by focusing entirely on the reaction of Nixon himself to the unraveling of his presidency. Philip Baker Hall gives a towering performance in this speculative account that has him ranting and trying to shape the historical picture of his political life while alone in his private study. As we watch a powerful, angry man wrestle with trying to get public opinion on his side, it’s hard not to see a few parallels to contemporary circumstances.

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Bright Idea Paul Nixon, 51, is sought in Harris County, Texas, on charges of felony aggravated perjury after taking a novel approach to divorce. Nixon filed for divorce in February but forged his wife’s signature and the name of a notary on the legal papers, the New York Post reported. A judge declared the divorce final in April—but the wife didn’t find out until May, when she noticed strange spending habits of his. “She started finding things showing that he was spending money on jewelry, so she confronted him and he told her that they were actually divorced,” Constable Mark Herman said. “They are still married. The fraudulent divorce papers have been retracted.” However, Nixon, who could face 10 years in prison, had so far eluded police.

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