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Kamala Harris appeared to score big intellectual and political points during the fourth Democratic candidate debate on Oct. 15. She asked a very pointed question in the discussion about reproductive rights, which stirred the women in the house. She asked if there had ever been a law aimed at restricting what men can do with their bodies. She said she had never gotten an answer on the question, and the male presidential debaters could not come up with one either. Well now she’s getting one. The United States has frequently had mandatory laws for male conscription into military service. One example is the Civil War, another is the Vietnam War. These laws take not just one portion of the male anatomy, but the entire body in directions men might not want to go, under pain of imprisonment if they should choose

not to comply. And if they do comply, the outcome can be worse yet. These compulsory laws require that men report for duty, often with very few exceptions, deferments, or ways out. What frequently results is the maiming of their bodies and even loss of their lives. Women, please do not think that men do not suffer in the matter of public policy specifying the use and governance of our own bodies. Public law, regardless of moral rightness or wrongness, has and probably always will, do for all genders what women today claim they alone suffer. ROBERT KIMBALL SHINKOSKEY, Woods Cross

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Democrats tilt so far left nowadays, they joust at windmill giants, while “Rome” burns under $23 trillion in debt that they promise to exponentially

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It is my expectation that President Donald Trump is going to do all of us a big favor and decide some time in early-to-mid 2020 not to run for reelection, partly as a result of a downturn in the economy. When that happens, I hope that the Republicans will nominate someone of good character, such as Nikki Haley or Carly Fiorina. Personally, I don’t know what I find to be more despicable about the guy—the way that he makes fun of people’s physical appearance, or the way that he views women as sex objects. STEWART B. EPSTEIN, Rochester, N.Y. We encourage you to join the conversation. Sound off across our social media channels as well as on cityweekly.net for a chance to be featured in this section.

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OPINION

Low Calcium and Green Jell-O = Weak Utah Spines While the flag bearers of the Republican Party do their now-you-see-me, now-you-don’t disappearing acts, there’s an alarming absence of Utah GOP members willing to stand up and be heard. Much like insecure second-graders who know the answers but are too shy to raise their hands, their best showings have been fatally anemic, cursed by a total absence of moral foundation, and by the realization that their president is no one’s loyal ally. Sure, they have good reason to be worried, because the handwriting has appeared on the wall and alliances are a frightening thing when one pins their hopes on a maniacal, toddler-esque nitwit. And yes, they’re all between a rock and a reinforced cement block. There are no easy answers that can ensure each will serve another term. Speaking out will surely put their names on President Donald Trump’s blacklist, and, for a while, they’ll be subjected to rabid tweets and belittled with an endless supply of retaliatory potty talk. But it’s also true that, if the writing on the wall is not a lie and impeachment is successful, brave criticisms might be the right bandwagon on which to hitch a ride. The flip side, however, is not so pretty, for Trump might survive his current self-administered legal and personal nightmares, finding ways to create enough distractions to mobilize the force of cretins who continue to support him. No matter how unlikely, he could find his way into yet

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. another four years of decimating our democracy and profiteering from the office of president. While it’s very much a congressman or woman’s case of damned-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don’t, there is no damnation greater than good elected officials remaining silent when there’s something important to say. Whatever happened to the concept of red-blooded courage? Those who dare to speak at all are delivering only wobbly ambiguities, devoid of any semblance of firm commitment. Even the Susan Collinses and the Jeff-Flake-like short-timers announcing, conveniently, that they’ll not be seeking reelection, struggle with the correct concept: There are times congressmen and women need to say it like it is. What we’ve seen is wholesale fear on both sides of the aisle. Of course, here in Utah we have men who, because of their superior, moral upbringing, are not afraid to take a stand based, not on party lines, but guided by a sincere interest in what’s right—or do we? Utah Rep. Ben McAdams, bless his heart, knows that he narrowly won a Republican incumbent’s seat, so he naturally worries about keeping his job. Just a pinch of irritation to his fragile base of converts might be his political doom. With that in mind, he constantly straddles the impeachment issue and loathes taking a strong and vocal stand on anything. While he’s at least touched at the core of Trump’s failures, his timidity preserves his future and abdicates his patriotic responsibilities. Perhaps Utahns’ biggest disappointment is the golden boy who saved a faltering 2002 Winter Olympics. Good ol’ Mitt Romney, driven largely by wife Ann’s boundless ambitions, pulled off a great showing, despite inheriting Tom Welch’s disaster. It was a veritable pig in a poke, yet Romney’s resourceful leadership and organizational prowess earned him a mantle of respect. He pulled it off perfectly, so it was no surprise that he was able to pack his carpet bag and coast to a decisive win as Utah’s newest senator. In keeping with the illusion that he’s a man of strong

moral foundation, Romney has sporadically addressed the irresponsibility, impetuosity and implied criminality of POTUS. But every time he does it, he pulls back at the last moment, delivering the lash of a wet noodle instead of an authoritative coup de grace. Just last week, he noted in an interview, that fear is what keeps congressmen and women from speaking out. Having identified the culprit, he still can’t break out of the ranks of the scared. He keeps reminding us why one publication, during his flip-floppy run for president, referred to him as “two men in one body.” I feel just a tad guilty picking on him. Romney seems like such a nice guy, impeccably groomed, gracious and seemingly kind to a fault. Underneath Romney’s wonderfully projected façade there is a different person—one who functions on the premise, “Look out for No. 1. Poor guy, he doesn’t even have the guts to use his own name on his Twitter account”—preferring creation of safe anonymity to a straight-forward approach. “Pierre Delecto” might have been a clever pseudonym, but a Utah senator should be proud to provide us with an authentic name to go with his social media opinions. Now, I know it’s not right to be picking on the two people who at least tried to say something. Out of simple duty, I must mention Utah’s other four congressmen. They are a total waste of perfectly good space. We can, I suppose, blame the current congressional pandemic on the dearth of vitamin D milk in yesteryear’s grade school lunch programs—after all, the dairy industry has made it crystal clear that its enriched products are a necessity in forming strong bones. It is all too obvious that Utah’s congressmen suffer from childhood malnutrition. Without exception, they’re perhaps afflicted with Spina Incompleta, a condition caused by vitamin D deficiency and ingestion of excessive green Jell-O. CW

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Never mind—we all know what Gayle Ruzicka thinks about sex. What’s unclear is how Utah, with its birthing-manyspirits doctrine seems to want to keep all that sex talk in the dark. Throw in anything LGBTQ and it’s like you’ve just yelled “Fire!” in a movie theater. So it’s not surprising that an anonymous group sent an oh-my-God-stop-now letter to the Park City School District because of a professional development session—for teachers—called “Embracing Family Diversity” where they focus “on embracing family diversity, creating LGBTQ- and gender-inclusive schools and preventing bias-based bullying.” The lawyers for the group, according to The Park Record, say yikes, this is teaching sex ed, and parents should be doing that. No mention of what parents should do when their child is harassed or bullied about being gay.

It’s hard to overestimate how much The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints really doesn’t want you to identify as LGBTQ. The Salt Lake Tribune devoted its entire Sunday front page to the issue. Starting with the Boy Scout issue, the Trib followed a family that opted for a nondenominational program—whatever that is. The LDS church doesn’t like how the Boy Scouts embrace gay Scout leaders—because gay leaders set a bad example and predatory leaders don’t? Then the Trib wrote about the church’s “motives” for opposing conversion therapy. That’s a good question to ask. The answers—from therapists—were heart-wrenching. “You’re asking God to help you. And then nothing happens,” one therapist said. “That harm doesn’t just come from having somebody shock you. Harm comes from receiving and internalizing the message that there is something fundamentally wrong about you.”

Not Adding Up

Homelessness. If you think the inland port issue is a tough one, try the homeless diaspora. Yes, it was obvious The Road Home, its bulging and drug-drenched population, was a problem. But the state just can’t seem to get a good grasp of how to handle dispersing, monitoring and assisting the homeless. The Deseret News gave a little good-news report on how providers and charities offered food, clothing and medical services for a day in the Rio Grande district. In the meantime, the new women’s shelter is already too small. As everyone is pointing out, the math doesn’t work. Now some rethinking needs to be done and politicians need to leave The Road Home open until they can get their act together. Otherwise, we’ll need some tents and space heaters at the encampment on the grounds of the Main Library.

You know those annoying people who argue about whether we’re actually facing a national debt crisis? And don’t forget how they blame Obama or Trump, the Republicans or the Democrats. So when you hear that the national debt is reaching $22.6 trillion, what’s the first thought that enters your mind? If it’s a big question mark, then you should join America’s Debt Crisis, a discussion with Utah’s leading economists. Panelists join Mike Murphy, chief of staff and director of strategic initiatives for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, to talk about the implications for Utah. How do we even begin to pay this debt or is it better simply to live with it? Thomas S. Monson Center, 411 E. South Temple, Thursday, Oct. 24, noon-1 p.m., $20/lunch, bit.ly/2Bo9VII

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Yes, this is Utah where sex ed is all about abstinence. Funny how that abstinence thing doesn’t really seem to work, so you might want to hear about the real thing. Shafia Zaloom, veteran sex educator, and author of the newly released book, Sex, Teens, & Everything in Between, talks about safe sexuality practices, the importance of consent and the value of relationships grounded in authentic connection through the conscious practice of care and dignity. At An Evening With Shafia Zaloom, “Shafia will guide us toward a deeper understanding of how to encourage our children to embrace a healthier and responsible understanding of sexuality,” the event’s Facebook page says. Dolly’s Bookstore, 510 Main, Park City, Thursday, Oct. 24, 6-7:30 p.m., free, bit.ly/33KvFuJ

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Utah’s Kurdish community reacts to Turkish invasion of Syria. BY PETER HOLSLIN pholslin@cityweekly.net @peterholslin

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he snowy peaks of the Wasatch Range are one of Utah’s best-known natural features. For the small Kurdish community nestled in Salt Lake, those same mountains also evoke thoughts of cities and towns thousands of miles away. “The mountains always remind me of home,” Soran Kurdi, a former journalist from Iraqi Kurdistan who has lived here for six years, tells City Weekly. “We have cold, dry winters and hot, dry summers—similar to Utah.” Kurdi grew up in Erbil, the capital of a semi-autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq famed for its fertile mountain ranges and pristine river valleys. He’s now one of about 500 Kurds, composing between 70 to 80 Kurdish families total, who live in the Salt Lake Valley. Many have come all this way to escape the conflict and displacement that has haunted their Middle East homeland for more than a century—and in recent weeks they’ve banded together to mourn yet another bloody action against the Kurds. “I feel we’ve been betrayed,” Kamal Bewar, president of Kurdish Community of Utah—a local group that organizes events and gatherings—says of President Donald Trump’s controversial decision this month to withdraw American military support from northern Syria, where Kurds allied with the United States have established a democratic, multiethnic state-within-a-state known as Rojava. Trump’s decision paved the way for an invasion by Turkey, whose government has long marginalized the country’s Kurds and waged a bitter campaign against Kurdish militants. Eleven thousand Kurdish fighters lost their lives aiding U.S. forces in the war against ISIS, and now many worry that Trump’s move has left them to seek new allies or face slaughter. “It’s just amazing to see, in one phone call, [Trump] turned foreign policy 180 degrees away from what the direction was before,” says Bewar, who served for more than a decade as an interpreter and language instructor for the U.S. military and now works as a student success coordinator at Salt Lake Community College. “My biggest concern is innocent people will be killed.”

Kurdish families gathered in Washington Square Park on a recent Saturday to protest President Trump’s withdrawal of American troops from northern Syria. Kurds have ancient roots in the Middle East. In the late ’50s, archeologists discovered evidence of Neanderthal life dating back as far as 65,000 years in the Shanidar Cave, near the Great Zab river valley outside Erbil. For millennia, the legendary Tigris and Euphrates rivers have flowed from their sources in modern-day Turkey through the mountain passes where Kurds have dwelled, down to what used to be ancient Mesopotamia, where the water sustained the earliest forms of human civilization. According to Bewar, these links to human history feed into a mythical idea that the Kurds’ homeland was the original Garden of Eden. The Kurdish people were briefly poised to have their own sovereign state after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. But they were left behind as British and French colonial powers carved up the Middle East for their own purposes. Historical Kurdistan, home to an estimated 35 million Kurds, today stretches across the borders of Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran—states where they are the minority, their culture and language subject to marginalization and violent erasure. Fatima Rasoul, a 20-year-old student at the University of Utah, says her parents were forced to escape their home in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1991, in the wake of a genocidal campaign perpetrated by Saddam Hussein and his cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid. Humanitarian groups and Kurdish officials estimate that between 50,000 and 182,000 Kurds were killed as the Iraqi army attacked innocent civilians with poison gas and razed thousands of villages to the ground. “My whole life was determined literally by politics, because my parents had to flee because of the genocide of the Kurdish people in Iraq,” Rasoul says. Before coming to the United States, her

parents lived in Syria for seven years. She and her brother were born in the northeastern city of Qamishlo—now a regional capital of Rojava, an autonomous breakaway region guided by the principles of Abdullah Öcalan, co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. The group is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey and the United States, and for 20 years Öcalan has been serving a life sentence for treason. But from his cell on an isolated island compound, he’s advanced ideas of feminist principles and direct-democracy participation. Rasoul has been following the latest news from Rojava closely. A senior at the U, she studies Kurdish history as part of her courses in political science and gender studies. She’s visited Kurdistan multiple times, and hopes one day to build a shelter for women and children in the region. “I kind of have been denied the ability to connect to my roots, because I’ve lived my whole life in the United States of America,” she says. “There’s something looming over me that says I should help, because I have gotten the opportunity to come to this country and get a good education, and I can take my expertise and skills back and I can help people who are in these difficult situations.” On a recent Saturday, dozens of people gathered in Washington Square Park across the street from the downtown Matheson Courthouse to protest Trump’s action. Kurdish songs boomed over a sound system and families chanted and waved the Kurdistan flag, bearing a bright yellow sun at the center. Two white Utahns—both former volunteers for the Syrian Democratic Forces, a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led alliance of militias aiming for self-rule in northeast Syria—also showed up to hand out pins and talk about the cause. “Kurdish people have wanted to have

their own country and be their own people since the beginning of time,” Hazheen Jaff, a young Kurdish woman who was born in Iraq but spent most of her life in Utah, told City Weekly at the protest. Now, she says, “It feels like we’ve been stabbed in the back … And it’s, like, ‘Well, how can we trust America now?’ We need to protect ourselves, so there’s definitely a loss of trust.” Republican Sen. Mitt Romney has been an outspoken critic of Trump’s decision. In a speech on the Senate floor last week, he praised Vice President Mike Pence for announcing that Turkey had promised a five-day ceasefire, but bemoaned the troop withdrawal as a strategic misstep and an abandonment of a close ally. “I also hope the cease-fire agreement is honored and that Turkey ends its brutal killing. But I note that lives are already lost and American honor has already been tarnished,” he declared. In Utah, Rasoul says she and others stay rooted in their Kurdish heritage by speaking Kurdish at home and connecting through a “shared memory” of where they come from and what they’ve been through. Every spring, they also gather to mark Newroz, a New Year’s celebration coinciding with the March equinox. Alan Arian, 42, was born in the small city of Saqqez in western Iran, but now feels settled in the shadows of the Wasatch Range. Since moving to the Beehive State in 2010, he’s risen up the ranks at the Salt Lake offices of humanitarian organization Catholic Community Services, working as a program specialist to help fellow refugees reunite with spouses and children who are still overseas. Still, like many others, the mountains of home stay close to his heart. “Why again?” he implores, his eyes soft as he thought of his fellow Kurds in Syria. “Right now, they are alone.” CW

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The federal government can secretly monitor American journalists under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which allows invasive spying and operates outside the traditional court system, according to two 2015 memos from thenAttorney General Eric Holder. The memos were obtained by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the Freedom of the Press Foundation through an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. So much was reported by the Intercept, whose parent company provides funding for both organizations,

but was virtually ignored by the corporate media. The secret rules “apply to media entities or journalists who are thought to be agents of a foreign government, or, in some cases, are of interest under the broader standard that they possess foreign intelligence information,” the Intercept reported. “As Trevor Timm [executive director of Freedom of the Press] and others noted, FISA rules are “much less stringent” than the DOJ’s media guidelines for obtaining subpoenas, court orders and warrants against journalists,” Project Censored noted. “This is a huge surprise,” Victoria Baranetsky, general counsel with the Center for Investigative Reporting, told the Intercept.

using FISA court orders—along with the FBI’s similar rules for targeting journalists with National Security Letters (NSLs)—to “get around the stricter ‘media guidelines’?” FISA orders “allow the government to sidestep some of the Media Guidelines’ most important protections,” wrote Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. “For example, the requirement that (1) the information sought be ‘essential to a successful investigation, prosecution, or litigation’; (2) the requester make ‘reasonable alternative attempts … to obtain the information from alternative sources’; and (3) the government notify and negotiate with the affected journalist except in certain narrow circumstances.” The corporate media virtually ignored these revelations. Meanwhile, as Project Censored observed, subsequent press interest in FISA warrants targeting Trump campaign adviser Carter Page “has done nothing at all to raise awareness of the threats posed by FISA warrants that target journalists and news organizations.” They ended with a quote from Krishnan, summarizing the stakes: “National security surveillance authorities confer extraordinary powers. The government’s failure to share more information about them damages journalists’ ability to protect their sources, and jeopardizes the news gathering process.”

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“It makes me wonder what other rules are out there, and how have these rules been applied? The next step is figuring out how this has been used.” “Targeting journalists for surveillance, especially when trying to determine their sources, has historically been limited by First Amendment concerns,” the Intercept noted. “[In 2015] Holder instituted new guidelines that made the targeting of journalists in criminal cases a ‘last resort,’ and said that the Justice Department ordinarily needed to notify journalists when their records were seized, [following revelations] that the Obama administration had secretly seized phone records from the Associated Press and named a Fox News reporter as a co-conspirator in a leak case.” “The fact that these were kept secret during the Obama administration is cause for great concern,” Timm noted. “Has the Trump administration used FISA court orders to target journalists with surveillance? If so, when?” Project Censored cited three “concerning” questions the memos raise, according to Timm: n First, how many times have FISA court orders been used to target journalists, and are any currently under investigation? n Second, why did the Justice Department keep these rules secret when it updated its “media guidelines” in 2015? n Third, is the Justice Department

very year, Project Censored identifies the 10 most important stories that the mainstream media somehow missed, and every year the task seems to get stranger. In keeping with this, a through the looking glass theme seemed fitting. In one of the censored stories this year, you’ll discover Facebook partnering with a NATO-sponsored think tank to “monitor for misinformation and foreign interference.” Funders of the initiative included the U.S. military, the United Arab Emirates, weapons contractors and oil companies. The board of said effort includes Henry Kissinger, the world’s most famous war criminal. In the beginning, Project Censored’s founder, Carl Jensen, was partly motivated by how early reporting on the Watergate scandal never crossed over from being a crime story to a political story until after coverage of the 1972 election. Jensen defined censorship as “the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method—including bias, omission, underreporting or self-censorship—that prevents the public from fully knowing what is happening in its society.” One of the most obvious ways to fight censorship has always been to highlight stories that have not been widely told. Thus, Project Censored and its annual list was born. This time around, the censored compendium includes Big Pharma’s failed promises, social media surveillance at the hands of the Pentagon and the unleashing of 120 billion tons of new carbon emissions.

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AMAZON 2. Think tank partnerships establish Facebook as a tool of U.S. foreign policy In the name of fighting “fake news” to protect American democracy from “foreign influences,” Facebook formed a set of partnerships with three expert foreign influencers in 2018, augmenting its bias toward censorship of left/progressive voices. In May 2018, Facebook announced its partnership with the Atlantic Council, a NATO-sponsored D.C. think tank to “monitor for misinformation and foreign interference.” As Adam Johnson, writing for the media watch group FAIR, noted, “It’s funded by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force, along with NATO, various foreign powers and major Western corporations, including weapons contractors and oil companies [including Chevron, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell].” Johnson went on to explain: “When a venture that’s supposedly meant to curb ‘foreign influence’ is bankrolled by a number of foreign countries—including the United Arab Emirates, Britain, Norway, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea—one would think that would be worth noting.” What’s more, as Project Censored noted, its conservative-leaning board of directors includes former CIA directors, retired U.S. generals, and hawkish former state department officials like Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice. “The U.S. government reserves the right to run unattributed propaganda on Facebook, and there’s much evidence they have,” FAIR reported. “Needless to say, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab hasn’t done any work in this space.” FAIR critics went on to note that the major outlets covering the story said nothing about said conflicts of interest: “Instead, they issued repackaged press releases on the partnership, never examining the motives of the D.C. think tank, its funders, or the broader premise that ‘fake news’ and ‘foreign meddling’ were something in need of combating. “Much like ‘counter-espionage’ is another name for espionage, ‘counter-propaganda’ efforts are just propaganda efforts.” Then, in September, Facebook announced it would also partner with two Cold War-era U.S. government-funded propaganda organizations: the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute. “That these two U.S. government creations, along with a NATO offshoot like the Atlantic Council, are used by Face-

book to distinguish real from fake news is effectively state censorship,” noted Alan MacLeod, writing for FAIR. As Project Censored noted, “In the name of fighting the scourge of ‘fake news,’ Facebook altered its proprietary algorithms in ways that significantly reduced traffic to progressive websites such as Common Dreams and Slate … Without formal warning, Facebook shut down leftwing, Venezuela-linked Facebook pages such as TeleSur English and Venezuelanalysis.” (Although both were reinstituted after protests about their removal.) In October 2018, Jonathan Sigrist, writing for Global Research, described one of the greatest Facebook account and page purges in the platform’s troubled history: “559 pages and 251 personal accounts were instantly removed … This is but one of similar yet smaller purges that have been unfolding in front of our eyes over the last year, all in the name of fighting ‘fake news’ and so called ‘Russian propaganda.’ “Many of the pages and accounts taken down have been political [often leftist], anti-war, independent journalists and media outlets that are known to go against the grain of mainstream media outlets.” “There has been very little corporate news coverage of Facebook’s partnerships with U.S. government propaganda organizations,” Project Censored noted. “CNN, Fox News and NBC News have provided offhand coverage, with only the most basic information, but none have framed Facebook’s actions in terms of censorship.”

3. Indigenous groups from Amazon propose creation of largest protected area on Earth When news of unprecedented wildfires in the Amazon grabbed headlines in August, most Americans were illprepared to understand the story, in part because of systemic exclusion of indigenous voices and viewpoints highlighted in Project Censored’s No. 3 story—the proposed creation of an Amazonian protected zone the size of Mexico, as presented to the U.N. Convention on Biodiversity in 2018. Writing for The Guardian, Jonathan Watts described “a 200m-hectare sanctuary for people, wildlife and climate stability that would stretch across borders from the Andes to the Atlantic.” The initiative was advanced by an alliance of some 500 indigenous groups from nine countries, known as COICA—the Coordinator of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin—who called the

area “a sacred corridor of life and culture.” “We have come from the forest and we worry about what is happening,” Tuntiak Katan, vice president of COICA, told The Guardian. “This space is the world’s last great sanctuary for biodiversity. It is there because we are there. Other places have been destroyed.” The Guardian went on to note:

The organisation does not recognise national boundaries, which were put in place by colonial settlers and their descendants without the consent of indigenous people who have lived in the Amazon for millennia. Katan said the group was willing to talk to anyone who was ready to protect not just biodiversity but the territorial rights of forest communities. Colombia previously outlined a similar triple-A (Andes, Amazon and Atlantic) protection project that it planned to put forward with the support of Ecuador at next month’s climate talks. But the election of new right-wing leaders in Colombia and Brazil has thrown into doubt what would have been a major contribution by South American nations to reduce emissions.

The Guardian went on to note that Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro had said he would only stay in the Paris climate agreement if given guarantees of Brazilian sovereignty over indigenous land. A follow-up story at Common Dreams quoted another COICA representative, Juan Carlos Jintiach, saying Bolsonaro’s comments “are concerning because they nurture a disturbing tendency in different parts of the world, where almost three-fourths of environmental defenders assassinated in 2017 were indigenous leaders.” Project Censored noted: “Although the corporate and independent press have covered right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro’s intent to undermine indigenous rights in order to open Amazonian land for development, this coverage has almost entirely ignored COICA’s proposal to create the world’s largest protected area.”

4. U.S. oil and gas industry set to unleash 120 billion tons of new carbon emissions

Three months after the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that we have just 12 years to limit catastrophic climate change, Oil Change International released research that went virtually ignored, warning that the United States was headed in exactly the wrong direction. The report, Drilling Towards Disaster, warned

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In January, outgoing Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted clemency to Cyntoia Brown, who had been sentenced to life in prison in 2004, at age 16, for killing a man who bought her for sex and raped her. Brown’s case gained prominence via the support of A-list celebrities, and Haslam cited “the extraordinary steps Ms. Brown has taken to rebuild her life.” But despite public impressions, Brown’s case was far from unique. “There are thousands of Cyntoia Browns in prison,” organizer Mariame Kaba, co-founder of Survived and Punished, told Democracy Now! the next

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6. Survivors of sexual abuse and sex trafficking criminalized for self-defense

An estimated 403,000 people in the United States were living in conditions of “modern slavery” in 2016, about 1% of the global total, according to the 2018 Global Slavery Index. The GSI defines “modern slavery” broadly to include forced labor and forced marriage. “[But the United States plays an outsized role] because the U.S. exacerbates the global slavery problem by importing products, including laptops, computers, mobile phones, garments, fish, cocoa and timber, at risk of being produced through forced labor,” Edward Helmore reported in The Guardian when the report was released. Because forced marriage accounts for 15 million people, more than a third of the global total, it’s not

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5. Modern slavery in the United States and around the world

surprising that females form a majority of the victims with 71%. The highest levels were found in North Korea, where an estimated 2.6 million people—10% of the population—are victims of modern slavery. The GSI is produced by the Walk Free Foundation whose founder, Andrew Forrest, called the U.S. figure, “a truly staggering statistic, [which] is only possible through a tolerance of exploitation.” As explained in The Guardian, “Walk Free’s methodology includes extrapolation using national surveys, databases of information of those who were assisted in trafficking cases, and reports from other agencies like the U.N.’s International Labour Organization.” According to others working in the field, this methodology can be problematic. There’s no universal legal definition of slavery, and tabulation difficulties abound. But the GSI addresses this as an issue for governments to work on and offers specific proposals. Per Project Censored: “The GSI noted that forced labor occurred in ‘many contexts’ in the U.S., including in agriculture, among traveling sales crews, and—as recent legal cases against GEO Group, Inc. have revealed—as the result of compulsory prison labor in privately owned and operated detention facilities contracted by the Department of Homeland Security … It also points out that migrants—especially migrant women and children—are ‘particularly vulnerable [in the United States] due to a variety of factors including immigration status, lack of familiarity with U.S. employment protections, and because migrants often work in jobs that are hidden from the public view and unregulated by the government.’” Newly restrictive immigration policies have further increased the vulnerability of undocumented persons and migrants to modern slavery. To correct this, GSI highlighted three essential legislative priorities in the United States: n Enact federal legislation criminalizing forced marriage. n Raise the minimum age for marriage, with or without parental consent to 18 in all states. n Extend legislation prohibiting criminalization of child victims of trafficking to all states. And called for specific improvements in victim support and to address risk factors. For example, “Enforce core labor laws and labor standards for most vulnerable workers, including undocumented or seasonal workers in the United States from Latin and Central America.” As Project Censored noted, the 2018 GSI “received limited coverage” in corporate media. In one example cited, The New York Times featured the case of a former North Korean slave now attending Columbia University, but left “details about the prevalence of slavery in the U.S. to the article’s later paragraphs.” CNN, meanwhile, noted that the report listed the U.S. as a “world leader” in addressing forced labor in supply chains, while CBS News reported that “the U.S. does better than most countries in tackling the issue.”

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that rather than cutting down carbon emissions, as required to avert catastrophe, the United States under Donald Trump was dramatically increasing fossil fuel production, with the United States on target to account for 60% of increased carbon emissions worldwide by 2030, expanding extraction at least four times more than any other country. “Between 2018 and 2050, the United States is set to unleash the world’s largest burst of CO2 emissions,” the report warned. “U.S. drilling into new oil and gas reserves—primarily shale—could unlock 120 billion metric tons of CO2 emissions, which is equivalent to the lifetime CO2 emissions of nearly 1,000 coal-fired power plants.” “To limit catastrophic climate change, governments must manage the decline of the fossil fuel industry, and do so over the next few decades,” the report noted. “The United States should be moving first and fastest in this direction, [because it’s] the world’s largest oil and gas producer and third-largest coal producer …” And also because it “has the resources and technology at hand to rapidly phase out extraction while investing in a just transition that guarantees a ‘Green New Deal’ for affected workers and communities currently living on the front lines of the fossil fuel industry and its pollution.” References to the report “have been limited to independent media outlets,” Project Censored noted. “Corporate news outlets have not reported on the report’s release or its findings, including its prediction of 120 billion tons of new carbon pollution or its fivepoint checklist to overhaul fossil fuel production in the U.S.” The checklist includes: n Ban new leases or permits for new fossil fuel exploration, production, and infrastructure. n Plan for the phase-out of existing fossil fuel projects in a way that prioritizes environmental justice. n End subsidies and other public finance for the fossil fuel industry. n Champion a Green New Deal that ensures a just transition to 100% renewable energy. n Reject the influence of fossil fuel money over U.S. energy policy. “[Instead of paying attention to the report, corporate media’s carbon emissions coverage] has focused more narrowly on President Trump’s proposal to amend existing emissions standards for passenger cars and light trucks and to establish new standards for future cars and trucks,” Project Censored noted. “[But] framing carbon emissions in terms of pollution from cars and trucks does not convey the extent of the problem. Instead, this frame effectively excludes from coverage the scope of new fossil fuel exploration, production and extraction that led Oil Change International to characterize the potential for massive new carbon emissions as an ‘existential emergency’ for U.S. lawmakers.”

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day. “We should really pay attention to the fact that we should be fighting for all of those to be free … When you look at women’s prisons, the overwhelming majority, up to 90% of the people in there, have had histories of sexual and physical violence prior to ending up in prison.” “In contrast to … news coverage from establishment outlets, which focused on Brown’s biography and the details of her case,” Project Censored wrote, “independent news organizations, including The Guardian, Democracy Now!, Rolling Stone and Mother Jones, stood out for reporting that cases like Brown’s are all too common.” Also in January, Kellie C. Murphy’s Rolling Stone story quoted Alisa Bierria, another Survived and Punished cofounder, and highlighted other cases prominent in alternative media coverage. While in May, Mother Jones reported on the legislative progress that nonprofit Survived and Punished and its allies had achieved in advancing state and federal legislation. “The bills in Nevada, Arkansas, Hawaii and Congress, which are based on model legislation and use similar language, would do away with mandatory minimum sentencing requirements for child sex trafficking victims who perpetrate crimes against their abusers,” Olivia Exstrum reported. “Currently, state and federal laws don’t give special consideration to such cases, meaning juvenile victims who commit the most serious crimes, like murder, are often tried in adult court with the possibility of decades behind bars. “A growing body of research has shown that the trauma that arises from being sex trafficked can affect decisionmaking, especially in young people … that trauma has not been well understood and hasn’t been taken into account when deciding the cases of victims who commit crimes.” “Corporate news organizations provided considerable coverage of Cyntoia Brown’s clemency,” Project Censored noted. “However, many of these reports treated Brown’s case in isolation, emphasizing her biography or the advocacy on her behalf by celebrities such as Rihanna, Drake, LeBron James and Kim Kardashian West. “Reports that did link Cyntoia Brown’s case to broader patterns of sexual violence and sex trafficking were often filed as opinion pieces, rather than news stories,” Project Censored noted. Still, the topic hasn’t crossed over from opinion pieces to news coverage.

7. Flawed investigations of sexual assaults in youth immigrant shelters

8. U.S. women face prison sentences for miscarriages

As ProPublica reported in November 2018, “Over the past six months, ProPublica has gathered hundreds of police reports detailing allegations of sexual assaults in immigrant children’s shelters … [The shelters] have received $4.5 billion for housing and other services since the surge of unaccompanied minors from Central America in 2014 [and the reports reveal that] both staff and other residents sometimes acted as predators. “Again and again, the reports show, the police were quickly—and with little investigation—closing the cases, often within days, or even hours.” In the case of Alex, a 13-year-old from Honduras, used to highlight systemic problems, the police investigation lasted 72 minutes and resulted in a three-sentence report. There was surveillance video showing two older teenagers grabbing him, throwing him to the floor, and dragging him into a bedroom. But ProPublica reported, “An examination of Alex’s case shows that almost every agency charged with helping Alex—with finding out the full extent of what happened in that room—had instead failed him.” “Because immigrant children in detention are frequently moved, even when an investigator wanted to pursue a case, the child could be moved out of the investigating agency’s jurisdiction in just a few weeks, often without warning,” Project Censored noted. “When children are released, parents or relatives may be reluctant to seek justice, avoiding contact with law enforcement because they are undocumented or living with someone who is.” In February 2019, Axios reported, “Thousands of allegations of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors in the custody of the U.S. government have been reported over the past four years, according to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) documents given to Axios.” This included 4,556 complaints received by HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, and 1,303 complaints received by the Department of Justice. Project Censored noted that there had been some corporate news coverage, including CBS News and The New York Times. “However, in contrast with ProPublica’s coverage, these reports have not highlighted shortcomings in investigations of alleged sexual abuse or the lack of support for survivors after the abuse.”

“There has to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions, candidate Donald Trump said in early 2016, which led to a wave of comments from antiabortion activists and politicians, who claimed it was not their position. These women were victims, too, they argued; that has always been their stance. But that wasn’t true, as Rewire News reported at the time. Women were already in prison, not for abortions, but for miscarriages alleged to be covert abortions. And that could become much more widespread due to actions taken by the Trump administration, according to a 2019 Ms. magazine blog post by Naomi Randolph on the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. As Project Censored explained, “Pregnant women could face a higher risk of criminal charges for miscarriages or stillbirths, due to lawmakers in numerous states enacting laws that recognize fetuses as people, separate from the mother.” One example provided was in Alabama, where voters passed a measure that “endows fetus’ with ‘personhood’ rights for the first time, potentially making any action that impacts a fetus a criminal behavior with potential for prosecution.” Collectively, these laws have resulted in hundreds of American women facing prosecution for the outcome of their pregnancies. A 2015 joint ProPublica/AL.com investigation found that “at least 479 new and expecting mothers have been prosecuted across Alabama since 2006,” under an earlier child endangerment law, passed with meth lab explosions in mind, which the “personhood movement” got repurposed to target stillbirths, miscarriages and suspected self-abortions. Cases vary across states, but “the commonality is women losing their rights if they are thought to be endangering the fetus,” Project Censored noted. “As Randolph detailed, this especially hurts women of color and low-income women, due to their lack of access to contraceptives, abortion, and treatment for mental health conditions or addiction.” And things could get much worse if Roe v. Wade is overturned. Project Censored cited The New York Times as “the only corporate source that has discussed this topic,” but only in opinion pieces, “rather than as a topic featured in headlines and news stories.”

9. Medical needs in developing countries unfulfilled by Big Pharma

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Paul Rosenberg is a senior editor at Random Lengths News in Los Angeles, Calif., a contributing writer for Salon and has written for Al Jazeera English.

“The United States government is accelerating efforts to monitor social media to preempt major anti-government protests in the U.S.,” Nafeez Ahmed reported for Motherboard in October 2018, drawing on

“This kind of technology-enabled surveillance of social media will likely suppress dissent and lead to biased targeting of racial and religious minorities.”

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“scientific research, official government documents, and patent filings.” Specifically, “The social media posts of American According to a report in The Guardian by citizens who don’t like President Donald Julia Kollewe based on research by the AcTrump are the focus of the latest U.S. milcess to Medicine Foundation, “The world’s itary-funded research,” which in turn “is biggest pharmaceutical firms have failed part of a wider effort by the Trump adminto develop two-thirds of the 139 urgently istration to consolidate the U.S. military’s needed treatments in developing counrole and influence on domestic intellitries.” Also, “most firms focus on infecgence.” tious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria The Pentagon had previously funded and tuberculosis but had failed to focus data research into predicting mass popuon other serious ailments … In particulation behavior, “specifically the outbreak lar, the foundation called for an infants’ of conflict, terrorism, and civil unrest,” vaccine for cholera and a single-dose oral especially in the wake of the Arab Spring, cure for syphilis.” via a program known as “Embers.” But Project Censored noted, “An estimatsuch attention wasn’t solely focused ed two billion people globally lack acabroad, Ahmed noted, calling attention to cess to urgently needed medicines. Of a U.S. Army-backed study on civil unrest the 139 drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic within the U.S. homeland titled “Social tests identified as urgently needed by the Network Structure as a Predictor of Social World Health Organization, 91 have not Behavior: The Case of Protest in the 2016 been developed by any of the pharmaceuU.S. Presidential Election.” tical firms tracked by the report. Sixteen Ahmed discussed two specific patents of WHO’s prioritized diseases have ‘no which contribute to “a sophisticated techprojects at all,’ The nology suite capable Guardian reported.” of locating the ‘home’ The Guardian also position of users to reported, “Just a within 10 kilometers handful of compafor millions of Twitnies [GSK, Johnson ter accounts, and pre& Johnson, France’s dicting thousands of Sanofi and Merck] incidents of civil unare carrying out 63% rest from micro-blogof the most urgently ging streams on Tumneeded research & blr.” “Although these development projtechnologies were ects; GSK alone acdeveloped under the counts for one third.” Obama administra“The fact that a tion, it appears their handful of companies use is being accelerare carrying the bulk ated by the Trump adof the priority R&D ministration,” Ahmed load shows how fragnoted, “and by movile the situation is,” ing the Embers prothe executive direcgram to which these tor of Access to Meditechnologies relate cine said. “A retreat into the private sec— Hugh Handeyside, by even one of these tor, this acceleration ACLU senior staff attorney is occurring in a way players would have a significant impact.” that sits beyond pubIt’s not all bad news. lic scrutiny or accountability.” “The foundation’s report also highWhat’s more, “This kind of technologylighted 45 best and innovative practices enabled surveillance of social media will that could ‘help raise the level of standard likely suppress dissent and lead to biased practice’ and ‘achieve greater access to targeting of racial and religious minorimedicine,’” Project Censored noted. “As ties,” ACLU senior staff attorney Hugh of April 2019, Access to Medicine reported Handeyside told Motherboard. “We need that, since the release of the 2018 Access to to know much more about any proposed Medicine Index in November 2018, 90 mapolicies or programs and their effect on jor investors had pledged support of its rerights that the Constitution protects.” search and signed its investor statement.” Project Censored noted, “Ahmed’s reBut mainstream attention has been port highlighted official government docsorely lacking. uments focused on domestic surveillance, “With the exception of a November 2018 including an updated doctrine on ‘Homearticle by Reuters,” Project Censored conland Defense’ issued by the U.S. Joint cluded, “news of the Access to Medicine Chiefs of Staff in April 2018. The new docIndex’s findings appear to have gone untrine, Ahmed reported, “underscores the reported in the corporate press.” extent to which the Trump administration wants to consolidate homeland defense and security under the ultimate purview 10. Pentagon aims to surveil social media to predict domestic protests of the Pentagon.” CW

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Salt Contemporary Dance: When I Am Lost, We Speak in Flowers We live in a transitory world. People come and go in and out of our lives, and few remain stationary over time. We’re told that social media is the new means of connection, but all too often, the people we reconnect with from the past remain only momentarily, disappearing just as quickly as they appeared and providing no certainty that we’ll ever encounter them again. Salt Contemporary Dance, one of Salt Lake’s most innovative arts organizations, explores the transience of modern relationships with its thought-provoking production When I Am Lost, We Speak in Flowers. It examines the nature of time, its fleeting essence and how that reality affects and defines the relationships we form with others. It helps shed a light on the importance found in common connections, and how humans attempt to nurture and sustain those bonds we create with others. “Everyone at some point in their lives has experienced a hardship that changes everything,” Lindsey Sneed, marketing director for Salt Contemporary Dance, says via email. “This piece visualizes how people react and find common ground and hope through these moments. People need people, and that sentiment is captured through this production.” Indeed, life takes its toll. Too often we imagine ourselves alone, pitted against the world. Therefore, it’s good to remember that we all share this existence, and that our similarities can overcome many of the things that divide us. (Lee Zimmerman) Salt Contemporary Dance: When I Am Lost, We Speak in Flowers @ Regent Street Black Box Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-3552787, Oct. 24-Nov. 9, 7:30 pm, $25, dates and times vary, artsaltlake.org

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Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! It practically goes without saying that most stories shared these days during our 24-hour news cycle are so sad, shocking or discouraging that people find them too troubling to comprehend. They’re not only difficult to absorb, but in many cases, simply too unimaginable to believe. Consequently, the title of National Public Radio’s Peabody Award-winning comedy show Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me could be interpreted two ways. For those who can’t bear to hear about another demoralizing development, it could be a plea to spare the gory details. Fortunately though, it generally references the fact that it’s a quiz show, one that tests its guests’ knowledge of current events. However, the primary challenge is in the format, which presents genuine and manufactured stories: which bizarre events actually happened? It’s left to host Peter Sagal to quiz the contestants and challenge not only their knowledge of the news, but also their ability to separate fact from fiction. The audience members who play along, meanwhile, compete for a coveted prize: a custom-recorded voicemail greeting by any member of the Wait Wait cast. That sounds pretty special, and considering the fact that the program is in its 22nd season, these Salt Lake presentations have special significance. They’ll mark the making of the 1,000th original episode since the show’s debut in 1998. While it’s hard to keep up with the headlines, thanks to Wait Wait, we can at least be entertained by how hard it is to tell real crazy from fake crazy. (LZ) Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me! Live @ Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, Oct. 24-25, 7:30 p.m., $70-$115, artsaltlake.org

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Launching an American premiere; exploring the formative stages of an iconic choreographer’s career; remembering a legendary French dance troupe; looking at early 20th-century art through a 21st-century lens. And that’s just opening night. Ballet West takes on all of the above as it begins its 56th season with Balanchine’s Ballets Russes. The evening features pieces choreographed by George Balanchine while he was in his 20s and working with Ballets Russes in France, partnering with the likes of Stravinsky, Matisse and Prokofiev. The program opens with the United States premiere of The Song of the Nightingale, based on a tale by Hans Christian Anderson about a songbird that cures an ailing Chinese emperor. The Ballet West premiere features sets, choreography and costumes to match Balanchine’s original production in 1925. That sort of historical accuracy also presents the challenge of dealing with stereotypes and caricatures popular in 1925 that look much different to us in 2019. “I truly believe that, for the most part, while their interpretations were meant to be celebrations of the cultures they took inspiration from, their use of these motifs sometimes created a mockery of the culture when we look through a modern lens,” Ballet West artistic director Adam Sklute says. “My hope is that our restating not only educates our community, and can perhaps become a platform for this large, global conversation on how to present historic theater, opera and dance that deals with antiquated racial representation.” Besides Nightingale, the program also features Balanchine’s Apollo, from 1928, and Prodigal Son, from 1929. (Geoff Griffin) Ballet West: Balanchine’s Ballets Russes @ Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, 801355-2787, Oct. 25-Nov. 2, dates and times vary, $24-$99, balletwest.org

Stopping in Salt Lake City, renowned author Alexander McCall Smith introduces readers to the 20th novel in his widely popular “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” series. In addition to a reading, Smith discusses and signs his new book To the Land of Long Lost Friends. A prolific writer, Smith became a household name in 1998 with the first volume of the bestselling series, which follows the adventures of Mma Precious Ramotswe, who has founded an agency in Gabarone, the capital of Botswana. Since then, Smith has written and contributed to more than 100 books. In the latest “No. 1 Ladies” installment, Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance, only to find that getting involved can be a tricky proposition with the many questions arising among familiar relationships. Elsewhere, Charlie, the agency’s junior assistant detective, wishes to propose to his girlfriend, Queenie-Queenie, but struggles to find a bride price that will impress her father. However, when the dust settles, it’s up to Mma Ramotswe to reflect on love, family and the nature of men and women in order to resolve family dramas. The King’s English Bookshop frequently brings in a diverse selection of authors, including local writers, best-selling names and Pulitzer Prize winners. Add Smith’s visit to your list. After all, in the words of Smith himself, “A life without stories would be no life at all.” (Colette A. Finney) Alexander McCall Smith: To the Land of Long Lost Friends @ Rowland Hall Larimer Auditorium, 843 S. Lincoln St., Oct. 29, 7 p.m., $29, kingsenglish.com

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Essayist Ellen Meloy’s posthumous collection is profound, outspoken and hilarious. BY MICHAEL ENGELHARD HIGH COUNTRY NEWS comments@cityweekly.net

ho hasn’t wondered what a favorite writer might still have bestowed on the world if not silenced too soon? What fan doesn’t long for more— letters, journals, unpublished fragments, even an annotated grocery list? Devotees of the late Southern Utah essayist Ellen Meloy need no longer wait. The sketches gathered in Seasons predate her untimely 2004 death by up to 10 years and are not, strictly speaking, last words. But for those who haven’t yet discovered Meloy, they can serve as a gateway drug to her profound, sometimes deceptively breezy work. Seasons’ opening salvo, the thoughtful but hilarious “I Stapled My Hair to the Roof,” encapsulates her approach. Outspoken and passionate, Meloy skewers grandstanding, mindless consumption, militarism, patriarchy: “In pioneer times, while the men mumbled about posses and punched each other’s lights out, the grandmothers of my Anglo neighbors simply got off their horses and took care of business.” She makes an absolute gas out of much that is ghastly. Meloy’s eloquent levity, however, was no mere parlor trick; the humor sugar coats the pills we’ll have to swallow if our planet is to heal. It threads through all of her books, even The Last Cheater’s Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest, her 1999 account of a nuclear road trip. Such light-handedness has been lacking in too-

A&E often dour and preachy “nature writing” ever since Edward Abbey rowed into the back-of-beyond, followed all too soon by this Bluff, Utah, philosopher-clown. Seasons’ gems all originated as radio pieces. The “Roof” story in particular showcases Meloy’s structural genius. Stapled between her gables, she contemplates the view rippling concentrically outward from the house to include the San Juan River, Diné Bikéyah (the Navajo heartland), the Colorado Plateau, Earth and the universe—a mirror of this writer’s bio-centric orientation. In the essay’s final scene, she flips the perspective, seeing herself through the eyes of gyre-borne vultures: a speck in the landscape, a “two-legged smudge on a plywood platter.” Among countless other things, Seasons’ 26 one-to-two-page vignettes portray quotidian acts: birding, fishing, boating, listening, voting, herding lizards, chauffeuring dough and—yes—watching TV. Chop wood, carry water. Go to the town dump, but pay attention; “If your Tevas melt, it’s probably not a good day to scavenge.” Like the critters and plants Meloy cherished, nothing was too commonplace to escape her laser-beam attention. She kept returning to desert bighorn sheep, which she personalized and immortalized in Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild (2005). They, like their domesticated cousins, make an appearance in Seasons. The tame ones bounce around a truck bed “like berserk piñatas,” alas, slaughterhousebound. For this reviewer, a former Moab guide, the magic portal into Meloy’s universe was Raven’s Exile: A Season on the Green River, her 1994 distillation of eight years of floats through Desolation Canyon with her husband, Mark, a Bureau of Land Management ranger. It is hard to resist an author who so downplays her considerable outdoor skills, who named one place “Deviated Septum Riffle” after her oar struck bottom and its shaft was rammed into her nose. The curiosity of this sagebrush sage delighted in the bizarre. Who knew that European classical violin virtuosos palmed toads before a performance so that neurotoxins from the amphibians’ glands would numb their own and prevent sweating? Or that medieval science posited that geese

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hatch from mussels? Meloy’s own behavior displayed streaks of eccentricity when she crossed barbed wire and, in socks and pajamas, thrashed through tamarisks in the dark, alerting geese about to be ambushed. Or when she swapped notes tucked under windshield wipers with a literary stalker, as recounted in The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky. That collection, a 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist, also brought her visual verve to the fore. A plein-air watercolorist and one-time art curator, she’d studied at the Sorbonne, so it is no surprise that her writing sparkled with haiku-like lines, conjuring scenes worthy of Van Gogh; sunbathers’ skin “blushes in lambent coral air or ripples in a stab of lemony sunlight.” One wishes samples of Meloy’s paintings were at hand to match with her writing, as Seasons’ few black-onwhite drawings give only inklings. Her ar-

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tistic training taught her patience, to just sit and watch the light change and notice nuances—terracotta, blood red, salmon, vermilion, the “temperament of iron” scoring mesa flanks. This latest outing is a slim volume, but you shouldn’t be fooled. It telescopes decades spent exploring home and the desert, two terms that for Meloy became synonyms. Stuff it in your pocket, perch atop the Goosenecks or the Raplee Anticline, where wind gusts can make the roots of your hair ache. Relish it, and if you’re lucky, some bighorn sheep might pop up from the limestone, “all springs and coils.” CW A version of this article originally appeared in High Country News.

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Ballet West: Ballets Russes Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South, Oct. 24-Nov. 2, dates and times vary, balletwest.org (see p. 16) Odyssey Dance: Thriller Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle, through Oct. 26, odysseydance.com Salt Contemporary Dance: When I Am Lost, We Speak in Flowers Regent Street Black Box Theater, 131 S. Main, through Nov. 9, dates vary, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 16) Todrick Hall: Haus Party Tour Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org Wasatch Symphony & SLC Ballet Hillside Middle School, 1825 E. Nevada St., Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., wasatchsymphony.com

Adam Carolla Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Oct. 25-26, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Alex Velluto Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Oct. 25-26, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Open Mic Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Random Tangent Improv Comedy Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Saturdays, 10 p.m., randomtangentimprov.org Soliloquy Showcase Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me! Eccles Theater, 131 S. Main, Oct. 24-25, 7:30 p.m., artsaltlake.org (see p. 16)

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Utah Symphony: Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Oct. 25-26, 7:30 p.m., utahsymphony.org Utah Valley Symphony: Season Opening Concert Covey Center for the Arts, 425 W. Center St., Provo, Oct. 24-25, 7:30 p.m., utahvalleysymphony.org Wasatch Symphony & SLC Ballet Hillside Middle School, 1825 E. Nevada St., Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., wasatchsymphony.com Wind Ensemble Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m., music.utah.edu

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Pumpkin Nights Utah State Fairpark, 155 North 1000 West, through Nov. 2, 5:30-10:30 p.m., pumpkinnights.com Screamscapes Utah Arts Alliance, 110 W. Rio Grande, Oct. 26, 8 p.m. Trunk-or-Treat and Blood Drive Larkin Mortuary, 3688 W. 12600 South, Riverton, Oct. 28, 3-7 p.m., larkinmortuary.com Witchstock Festival Ogden Amphitheater, 343 E. 25th St., Ogden, Oct. 26, 4-10 p.m., downtownogden.com (see p. 19)

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Canyon Conversations: Climate Changes Effect on Utah Ski Resorts Stokes Nature Center, 2696 E. Highway 89, Logan, logannature.org Randal Quarles: IEY Recipient Eldon Tanner Building, 1 University Hill, Provo, Oct. 24-25, 10 & 11 a.m., 1 University Hill, marriottschool.byu.edu Silicon Slopes Lecture Series Utah Valley University, 800 W. University Parkway, Orem, Oct. 29, noon, uvu.edu/strategicmgmt

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Alexander McCall Smith: To the Land of Long Lost Friends Rowland Hall Larimer Auditorium, 843 E. Lincoln St., Oct. 29, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com (see p. 16) Ashok Khandkar: Swimming Upstream The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 30, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Amy & Greg Newbold: If Monet Painted a Monster The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 26, 11 a.m., kingsenglish.com Brent Weeks: The Burning White Weller Book Works, 607 Trolley Square, Oct. 26, 7 p.m., wellerbookworks.com Kathryn Bond Stockton: Making Out The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 24, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Proper Romance Tea Party Provo Library, 550 N. University Ave., Oct. 26, 2 p.m., kingsenglish.com Rebecca Clarren: Kickdown The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Oct. 28, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

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Caryn Feeney Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, through Nov. 9, artatthemain.com Children’s Expression Through Painting Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Oct. 25, events.slcpl.org Colors of the Wild Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South, West Valley City, through Nov. 6, culturalcelebration.org Curiosities from the Wonder Box J GO Gallery, 268 Main, Park City, Oct. 25-27, jgogallery.com Debbie Valline: Color Therapy Local Colors of Utah Gallery, 1054 E. 2100 South, through Nov. 12, localcolorsart.com Divine Delirium Urban Arts Gallery, 116 S. Rio Grande St., through Nov. 1, urbanartsgallery.org Eric Fairclough: Isolation Rituals Bountiful Davis Arts Center, 90 N. Main, Bountiful, through Nov. 2, bdac.org Greater Merit: The Temple and Image in South Asia Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Guillermo Avila Paz: Mustang Freedom Art Access Gallery, 230 S. 500 West, Ste. 125, through Nov. 8, accessart.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 Galley, 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 Power Couples Utah Museum of Fine Art, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Dec. 8, umfa.utah.edu Ryan Lauderdale: Glazed Atrium UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Nov. 2, utahmoca.org 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 Spencer Finch: Great Salt Lake and Vicinity Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, through Nov. 28, umfa.utah.edu Steve Case & Christina Stanley: Being Interpreted Day-Riverside Library, 1575 W. 1000 North, through Nov. 27, slcpl.org Toni Doilney: A Sense of Place “A” Gallery, 1321 S. 2100 East, through Nov. 15, agalleryonline.com 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 Van Chu: Photographic Brushstroke Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd., Park City, through Nov. 3, kimballartcenter.org

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hen I was a recently returned LDS missionary, I often thought about what parts of Utah I would show to people visiting from outside the country. I found the idea that someone who lacked the context of Utahns’ everyday routine endlessly fascinating. Although I never got this opportunity, it did open up my mind to the sights, sounds and food that could properly distill Utah’s peculiar essence for someone who had not grown up here. My list of quintessential things to do and places to see often changed, but West Jordan’s Gardner Village (1100 W. 7800 South, 801-566-8903, gardnervillage. com) remains in the No. 1 spot. If you wanted to dig deeper and pick out the event that boils down the essence of Gardner Village, then you most certainly need to pay a visit to Mystique Dining (mystiquedining.com).

main course was a choice of prime rib, chicken, vegetarian lasagna or mac and cheese, of which I ordered the first. While we waited for our food to arrive, a bust occasionally came to life and recited one of Poe’s verses. Nothing can really compare with wolfing down some bleeding prime rib while a haunted statue recites The Masque of the Red Death, but only if your appetite isn’t hampered by excessive kitsch. Once dinner is over, the evening’s magician arrives. I don’t want to spoil the routine, but suffice to say it was goofy and entertaining—exactly what I was hoping for. Mystique Dining offers two shows per night every day of the week, plus a Saturday matinee. Tickets are $60, which isn’t terrible for the dinner and show that you get. If you have any affection for Utah’s distinct mélange of tacky fun and atmospheric dining, spending the day at Gardner Village with an evening reservation at Mystique Dining is one of the best things you can do this time of year. CW

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Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe. It’s OK if you’re wondering how a magic show could possibly pay tribute to the originator of goth lifestyle—my wife and I thought the same thing when we arrived to the Chamber Dining Hall. Once our host opened the doors, the initial visual was unexpectedly stunning. Each table setting was furnished with silver chargers and a bubbling concoction of liquid bathed in an eerie green light, billowing with dry ice vapors. Once you’re seated and get a closer look, it’s easy to mistake this witchy brew for your beverage—it’s not. It’s merely an artistic serving piece for spiral-sliced apples that can be dipped in the caramel that’s waiting for you when you sit down. To be fair, calling apple slices and caramel one of five courses feels a little sketchy, but it really doesn’t matter. You’ve found yourself in a baroque dining hall filled with wall-to-wall creepy knickknacks and you’re waiting for a magician to show up. It’s like being at a birthday party for an eccentric millionaire in which one of the guests will be unexpectedly murdered. The next few spookily named courses that arrived—witch toes that were actually bacon-wrapped dates and bloody beet salad—were fine but overabundant with sweetness. The

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property and decided to turn the area into a commercial district. It started with a furniture store called Country Furniture and Gifts—now CF Home—and Archibald’s Restaurant, which opened for business 10 years later within the confines of the renovated flour mill. Over the years, Gardner Village has continued to expand, and the property now contains several locally owned shops, event venues and cafés. Right around this time of the year, Gardner Village puts on its resting witch face for the annual autumn and Halloween celebration known as Witchfest. It’s basically open season for all local moms to break out their costumes and shop while their kids get their faces painted and chase ducks around. In a nutshell, it’s a concentrated dose of wholesome family fun that’s so Utah I could puke—and I say that with nothing but love. Yes, I love this crazy place with its overpriced shops, large but mediocre brownies and repurposed barnyard aesthetic. That said, how could I not want to visit Mystique Dining, for a five-course meal in which a magician dazzles guests with sleights of hand? In keeping with the seasonal spirit, Mystique Dining’s tone has shifted to the slightly macabre with Manifestations: A Magically Haunted

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This year’s Big Bad Baptist variants are a party for the mouth. BY MIKE RIEDEL comments@cityweekly.net @utahbeer

uilding on the success of Epic Brewing Co.’s highly regarded Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout, the Salt Lake City-based brewery is offering five unique variants—each with its own distinct inspiration and twist on this groundbreaking local beer. At its base, Big Bad Baptist is an Imperial stout made with local coffee, then aged in whiskey barrels. Over the last few years, Epic has been offering different variants of this beer to stay on the cutting edge of what can be achieved in chasing new flavor profiles. The brewers came up with some interesting blends; here’s what you can expect. Chocolate Rapture: The Chocolate Rapture pushes the boundaries of cacao and

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that with all of the barrel addition here, it would be a hot mess, but it all comes together in a fairly tame manner. ABV 11.0% You’ll notice that some of these variants have a broad range of alcohol content. This is due to the unpredictable nature of barrel aging, which can influence a beer’s alcohol in many ways. Also, I’d like to note that these beers all benefit from a slightly warmer presentation: The warmer it is, the better your drinking experience will be. Enjoy them in a glass goblet or chalice to let the natural warmth of your hands do the trick. All of these are currently available at Epic Brewing Co. (825 S. State, 801-906-0123, epicbrewing.com). As always, cheers! CW

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You can soak in some happy tunes in Monroe before you soak in the hot springs. BY ERIN MOORE music@cityweekly.net @errrands_

ou’d be hard-pressed to find a small, rural town in Utah that harbors something more special than Monroe does. It has red rocks on one end of the valley, blue mountains on the other, and some of the coolest (not temperature-wise) hot springs in the Intermountain West: Mystic Hot Springs. The springs have understandably become a bit Instagram famous in recent years, but views and earthy tubs aren’t all they have to offer. The springs—located on the outskirts of Monroe and built around a disused ’70s-era public pool facility—also play host to shows, even boasting a music festival organized by the owner, the legendary Mystic Mike. Delighted to find that they had scheduled shows going into November—and needing to pay a visit to my parents—I headed down there late in the afternoon one recent Sunday to take a dip in the springs I grew up swimming in, but more importantly, to see music there for the first time. The spot is only a quick three minute shot from my parents’ house; it’s that kind of small, small town. Upon arriving in the dark parking lot—which is surrounded by restored, rentable pioneer cabins—I realized I was a bit tardy, unable to shake off my city-slicker proclivity for lateness. Rock music filtered out into the dark from the main office building, meaning the show wasn’t happening outside after all, as I’d hoped. Toting all my hot springs gear with me despite this, I went inside, paid the $10 cover at the front desk, which was covered in crystals and other souvenirs for the spiritually-minded, and quickly moved into the long side of the room, finding a seat among the small crowd. My only context on what to expect was rooted in the Mormon families I grew up with being very wary of the music that sometimes trickled down into the valley. But the band playing offered no reason for suspicion. Bombargo—a Canadian group dealing in funkedelic, throw-back rock with a hint of folk thrown in—were all good vibes. On their first U.S. tour all the way from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, they’d reiterate with an unabashed sense of awe throughout the night how happy they were to be so far from home, performing at the “mystical” Mystic Hot Springs following a date in Salt Lake City at Soundwell. The first half of their two-part set was long, and the lively sevenpiece group (two guitarists, a bassist, a keyboardist, a drummer, a saxophonist and an arms-swinging vocalist) managed a lot of movement and vigor for being crammed on the small stage together. A giant tie-dye banner behind them added to the sense of flare and slight chaos. They churned out rambling, jazzy, funk-filled jam after jam, referencing the likes of Alabama Shakes with the pop sensibilities of Dr. Dog, shot through with the kind of glowing positivity that comes with playing sunny folk rock. Interludes between songs were filled with smooth, jazzy improvisation as frontman Nathan Thoen affably explained the band’s history, who they all were, introducing members and letting them jam into solos. And though most of those in the audience began the

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Left to right: Conner Newton, Spencer Chilliak, Nathan Thoen, Niall Cubbon and Anthony Thoen of Bombargo evening sitting in fold-out chairs in front of the stage, by the end, every person had danced to at least one song, a trend that started when an older woman next to me turned and asked, “Why is no one dancing?” Since that’s the exact attitude I want to maintain into my own older years, I responded, “I don’t know, but let’s dance!” Rousing covers of “All Along the Watchtower” and Earth Wind & Fire’s “September” reaffirmed Bombargo’s allegiance to the ‘70s just as much as it inspired me and everyone around me to really dance. Upon asking, I found that the other dancers weren’t from Monroe at all, which I’d suspected, since locals have always had an aversion to the place. My dance partner was from Seattle, and had been passing through the area with her husband and dog. A young couple wearing cowboy boots and sharing baby-holding duties was from Springville, while another pair hailed from Murray, with a friend who had family in the neighboring town of Annabella. During intermission—after which Bombargo promised to mount the stage for another round of songs before soaking in the springs—I explored the shop that made up the rest of the space. Vintage clothes mingled with crystals, sage candles and incense, sculptures, a rack of bathing suits for forgetful visitors and other odds and ends. A back hallway was plastered with old show posters, most featuring bands I’d never heard of. But there was a Grateful Dead cover band advertised, near a surprising poster for a Jonathan Richman show (of Modern Lovers fame). Clippings from the mid-1990s and 2000s from local newspapers (and City Weekly) peppered the walls, too, confirming that this place is and has been special to a wide variety of visitors, for a wide variety of reasons. What’s changed for me is that now I’ve got one more reason to visit Monroe. And for the first time—thanks to Mystic—it’s music. CW

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Trick-or-Treat Diva!

Viva La Diva’s “Trick-or-Treat Diva!” show is, if nothing else, a celebration of the dragtacular divas who make up our collective sense of Halloween’s saucier side. This year’s performance promises trick-ortreat costumes like Devil Dolly Parton, Witch Cher, Katy Perry’s Alien and, of course, Lady Gaga’s Monsters. If you’ve never attended a Viva La Diva show, it’s celebrity impersonation drag where emulation is the goal. These aren’t homespun drag personas, but expressions of the people who have become characters in our lives—tributes to the stars who exist so thoroughly that their being lingers in our minds well beyond our actual experiences of them. The event at Metro Music Hall is 21-and-up, but the show is intended for anyone with a good sense of humor and an appreciation for raunch. Viva La Diva promises to do Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker justice this year with its tribute to Hocus Pocus, the seminal 1993 Halloween film popular among Utahns for its Disney approach to witchiness. Jason CoZmo, celebrating 20 years of performing experience, hosts the event; other performers include Cody Rose and his spellbinding Katy Perry and David Lorence as Cher. Finally, the show features performances from Cats, Beetlejuice, as well as characters Elvira and FrankN-Furter. Get into the spirit of the season and treat yourself to this ghoulishly fabulous drag show. (Parker S. Mortensen) Metro Music Hall, 615 W. 100 South, Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m., $30, 21+, thevivaladivashow.com

Tom West

Despite in many ways fitting the aesthetics of other modern folk artists, Australia-based Tom West’s quick plucking fingers and sighing, folk-lilted voice are strikingly unique and compelling. There’s something true-blue and deep about his songs, which align him as much with the likes of Kurt Vile (though with less meandering grit) as much as it does with influences like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. Songs like “Malécon,” from his 2013 debut A Spark in the Dark, align him with other players of that moment, as a soft-handed horn section lends him a bit of the cinematic scope of acts like Beirut. His banjoassisted song “Easy, Love,” off his 2015 effort Oncoming Clouds, is an urgent last breath of a song about a relationship ending—but it’s transfixing. This last year has found him releasing two new singles and touring extensively through Australia, Canada and the U.S., and the new work indicates more good from West. Although an opener for his SLC stop is still to be announced, it wouldn’t be a problem to spend a night filled with West’s work only. Transfixing as it is listening through speakers, one can tell he’s the kind of artist whose live performance would take hold of you and not let go. (Erin Moore) Soundwell, 149 W. 200 South, 7 p.m., $10, 21+, soundwellslc.com Tom West

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8th Annual Halloween Bash and Woodstock 50th Anniversary Tribute w/ Talia Keys & The Love

Call it nostalgia with some nuance, or Halloween added to happenstance. Multi-talented local favorite Talia Keys and her ensemble The Love spread some love of their own with a dual celebration, marking their eighth annual Halloween Bash as well as a tribute to the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. No, artists who originally graced that legendary festival won’t be at this event, but the music they shared will. Keys and company will replay the songs of Jimi Hendrix, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, Joe Cocker and other vintage artists who made that farm in upstate New York a sacred space during its gathering of the tribes. Of course, given Woodstock’s significance, it’s a heady responsibility to not only recreate the tunes, but those good vibes as well. Happily, Keys is well up to the task. For the past decade, she’s not only won well-deserved kudos here at home, but has also shared her talents by touring tirelessly. As founder of Salt Lake’s Rock ’n’ Roll Camp for Girls, she’s not only a remarkable multi-talented, multi-genre musician, but a highly visible social advocate as well. It’s appropriate, then, that she’s the one to convey not only those seminal sounds, but also the peace and harmony that accompany them. And given that this event also coincides with Halloween, that becomes one of the treats making it so sweet. (Lee Zimmerman) The State Room, 638 S. State, 9 p.m., $20, 21+, thestateroompresents.com

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There’s something to be said for inheriting the family genes. The son of Americana icon Steve Earle, Justin Townes Earle (his middle name also nods to the late great Townes Van Zandt, natch) did just that, which in turn became the basis for his own artistic efforts. That’s evidenced yet again by his latest album, The Saint of Lost Causes, his eighth release to date. Sadly, there were less fortunate traits which were apparently passed down as well—substance abuse and an insurgent attitude, among them. Nevertheless, the younger Earle overcame that reckless legacy while achieving any number of career kudos as he made personal progress. Now happily married and a father for the first time, he’s headlining festivals, making strides to stay clean and healthy, and working to keep a connection with his father, with whom he’s had a difficult relationship over the years. Yet even in the midst of a sometimes troubled trajectory, he refuses to compromise. His music reflects the marked maturity of a man, who at age 37, embraces rugged reflection and intimate observation in a new album that details the challenges and turmoil faced by those relegated to the frayed edges of society. In Salt Lake City, Earle finds a nice niche; his wife Jenn Marie once owned a yoga studio here, which really makes him an honorary homeboy of sorts. Perhaps it’s simply another case of family ties playing into his destiny. (LZ) The Commonwealth Room, 195 W. 2100 South, 8 p.m., 21+, $32–$50, thecommonwealthroom.com

WEDNESDAY 10/30 Brockhampton, 100 gecs

When the internet smorgasbord sound of 100 gecs’ first, near-eponymous album, 1000 gecs, knocked me on my ass this summer, the last thing I expected to hear was that they’d be opening for Brockhampton’s “Heaven Belongs to You” tour. Brockhampton’s 2019 release Ginger follows 2018’s Iridescence, and the boy band’s versatility, their ability to feel intimate across the dozen-ish personalities who make up the collective, is as strong as ever. The album art, featuring founding member Joba and creative team member, Wes, hugging, is tender in a way that’s emblematic of the emotional texture of Ginger, Brockhampton’s personal history and even of the movement in pop culture toward a radical reconsideration of masculinity’s sense of intimacy and identity. The indie DIY rap group have contributed to this shift in sharp ways, like when they broke off from abuser and founding member Ameer Vann in 2018, but also in softer ways—songs like “San Marcos” demand more from this world, while “Loophole” prods at success in friendship. Brockhampton is agile but not supple, responsive but principled. Their sound hasn’t evolved per se with Ginger, but it has delivered on the Brockhampton signature of featuring a range of tracks that feel like car-windows-down bumps (“If You Pray Right”) and under-thecovers contemplations (“Big Boy”). At first blush, touring with 100 gecs seems as abrasive a move as 100 gecs’ music itself, but when you think about Brockhampton tracks like “Boogie” from 2017’s Saturation III, 100 gecs’ assaulting, nightcore-infected sound meshes into a distressingly tasty ice-cream swirl. (PSM) The Union Event Center, 235 N. 500 West, 7 p.m., all ages, $39.95 presale, $45-$95 day of show, theunioneventcenter.com

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Ever since Screamin’ Jay Hawkins emerged from a coffin at the start of a 1956 concert, outlandish and macabre onstage antics have been a cherished tradition in the rock world. Brian Warner became the torch-bearer for that tradition in the early ’90s under the moniker Marilyn Manson, taking the term “shock-rock” to new heights with a laundry list of grotesque, violent and offensive public behavior rivaled only by the likes of GG Allin or Seth Putnam. While he’s drawn the ire of many metal elitists for putting his image ahead of his music, Manson’s best material (especially his 1996 breakthrough Antichrist Superstar) shows that the two are, in fact, inextricably linked—his forceful, percussive brand of industrial rock, steampunk-horror visual aesthetic and unhinged persona all taking aim at the same societal hypocrisies and limits of good taste. After struggling to keep up with a changing metal scene for most of the 2000s, Manson revitalized his career in a big way with 2015’s The Pale Emperor, swapping angsty, aggressive alt-metal for smoldering, bluesy goth-rock and showing a more restrained (dare I say mature?) side of himself in the process. Manson returns to Salt Lake City (where, for a time, he was banned from performing, for an incident involving a Book of Mormon) on Oct. 29, in support of his latest album Heaven Upside Down. (Nic Renshaw) Union Event Center, 235 N. 500 West, 6 p.m. $69.50 presale; $78 day of show, all ages, theunioneventcenter.com

Mullet Hatchet (The Spur) Natasha Bedingfield (Commonwealth Room) Natural Causes (Club 90) Penelope Isles (Kilby Court) Plum Stickie (The Yes Hell) The Pranksters (Hog Wallow Pub) The SteelDrivers (Egyptian Theatre) Sydnie Keddington + Los Hellcaminos (Lake Effect) The Voodoo Orchestra (Velour) Three Bad Jacks (Garage on Beck) Tom West (Soundwell) see p. 28 Trick-or-Treat Diva! (Metro Music Hall) see p. 28

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ERIN MOORE

I’d hoped that my first time at Seabird would be on a quiet night out to enjoy a good cocktail at the trendy, hip vinyl bar—one of Salt Lake’s own new attempts to join vinyl listening with quality drinking time. First opening a location in Draper, this new spot in downtown SLC fills a space in the quickly evolving The Gateway, which is less a mall now and more of an event space. Seabird’s an interesting spot, with a balcony that looks out into the plaza of what’s now a start-up free-for-all. I found myself on that balcony with a Rainier and a belly full of Greek olives that I’d spent about an hour depitting with my teeth, with little help from the friends I was with. We found ourselves there after seeing a particularly bizarre and turbulent stand-up set at Metro Music Hall down the street, by none other than Stormy Daniels. I probably could have afforded to sample one of Seabird’s craft cocktails, but alas, my car was parked at Metro, and I didn’t want a DUI. So I stuck with a light beer, and didn’t torture myself by looking at the treats on the menu. Despite this personal pain, the intimate but open space made for a fun place to pass the rest of the night. Seabird could potentially be for Metro what Bar X or Copper Common are for Urban Lounge: a place to wander over to after the show for maybe a beer, maybe a (good) old fashioned—which makes Metro more appealing as much as it does Seabird. So thanks, Seabird; you’ll be seeing me on the west side a little more often this fall. (Erin Moore) Seabird, 7 S. Rio Grande St., 801-456-1223; 1381 Sprague Lane, Draper, 385-255-5473, seabirdutah.com

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he and his team were rude and brutish to the indigenous folks who live there, stealing their land, kidnapping some of them, and slaughtering herds of great auks in a bird sanctuary. Yet there was one winter when Cartier’s marauders got crucial help from their victims, who gave them vitamin C-rich pine needle tea that cured their scurvy. I suspect you Tauruses will embark on quests and journeys in the coming months, and I’m hoping your behavior will be different from Cartier’s. When you arrive in unfamiliar places, be humble, curious and respectful. Be hesitant to impose your concepts of what’s true, and be eager to learn from the locals. If you do, you’re likely to get rich teachings and benefits equivalent to the pine needle tea.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many software engineers have enjoyed The Pragmatic Programmer, a book that helps them develop and refine their code. One popular technique the book offers is “rubber duck deprogramming.” Programmers place a toy rubber duck in front of them, and describe to it the problems they’re having. As they explain each line of code to their very good listener, they might discover what’s amiss. I recommend a similar approach to you as you embark on metaphorically debugging your own program, Gemini. If a rubber duck isn’t availCAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human able, call on your favorite statue or stuffed animal, or even a photo of functions,” wrote science educator Lewis Thomas. “Let’s a catalytic teacher or relative or spirit. acknowledge this, perhaps even learn to do it better.” I agree with him! 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I applaud his imaginative desire to express his love in a AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Some wounds go so deep that you don’t even feel them until carefully chosen sanctuary filled with beauty. I praise his intense months, maybe years, later,” wrote Aquarian author Julius devotion to playful extravagance. But I don’t recommend you do Lester. Pay attention to that thought, Aquarius. The bad news anything quite so extreme on behalf of love during the coming is that you are just now beginning to feel a wound that was weeks. Being 20% as extreme might be just right, though. inflicted some time ago. But that’s also the good news, because it means the wound will no longer be hidden and unknowable. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): And because you’ll be fully aware of it, you’ll be empowered In his song “Diplomatic Immunity,” rapper Drake disparages to launch the healing process. I suggest you follow your early tranquility and harmony. “I listen to heavy metal for meditation, no silence,” he brags. “My body isn’t much of a sacred temple, intuitions about how best to proceed with the cure. with vodka and wine, and sleep at the opposite times,” he declares. Is there a method in his madness? It’s revealed in these PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you’ve been having dreams or fantasies that the roof is sinking lyrics: “All that peace and that unity: all that weak shit will ruin or the walls are closing in, you should interpret it as a sign that you me.” In the coming weeks, Leo, I urge you to practice the exact should consider moving into a more spacious situation. If you have opposite of Drake’s approach. It’s time to treat yourself to an been trapped within the narrow confines of limited possibilities, intense and extended phase of self-care. it’s time to break free and flee to a wide open frontier. 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Big news this month from the Salt Lake Board of Realtors: Million-dollar home sales along the Wasatch Front are on the rise. In the first eight months of 2019, there were 268 sales of million-dollar homes in Salt Lake, Davis, Tooele, Utah and Weber counties. That’s up from 218 in the same time frame in 2018. Let’s not get all excited if the person sitting across from you at Beer Bar is a millionaire buying million-dollar homes. They might be on the TV show Secret Millionaire, but more likely they didn’t lose their primary residence during the Great Recession of 2008. They sat on their home while it started going up in value, sold it when it was worth a bunch and were able to buy that milliondollar mansion on the hill. Let’s say Beer Bar Bob with a brat in one hand and a bottle of cider in the other bought his home in 2005 for $200,000. When the market dropped, his home was only worth $175,000. He sat on it for many years and while he was there, he slowly updated the kitchen, baths, roof and furnace. This spring, he sold the home for $600,000. By then, he had paid down the principle amount to $150,000 and walked away with $450,000 as a down payment on his new home. In those 14 years, Beer Bar Bob moved up the corporate ladder, and his 2005 salary has more than doubled, so his monthly payment on that million-dollar manse is only about $1,500 more than his original mortgage. It’s not really a big financial burden for him. Many folks are moving up because equity in their homes keeps rising—about 10% annually. Homes selling above the million-dollar mark are rising locally but the overall market share is small. Approximately 87% of all homes sold on the Wasatch Front from January through August this year were for homes priced under $500,000. Milliondollar home sales represented just 1% of the total closed escrows here. Right now, there are 755 homes on the market priced at at least $1 million along the Wasatch Front and Back. The most expensive property listed is in Hobble Creek, down in Springville, and is listed for $25 million. This is a steal at $504 per square foot, with 50,000 square feet, six bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, three family rooms, seven laundry areas and a garage for eight cars and a carport for another eight on 165 acres. Of course, it comes with an indoor pool, exercise room, movie theater, tennis court, play gym, hot tub and is zoned for horses. The payment there, with 10% down, would be at $16,000 per month, so Beer Bar Bob is going to have to be made CEO to afford that one any time soon. n

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