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“A year in photos” feature is sure to get your readers’ attention. You’ve already got the content, now repurpose those images in a summary of 2019! Well done, City Weekly. @OURHOMETOWNINC Via Twitter Our ERA Now action on Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake made the front cover of City Weekly’s photo edition. We projected ERA Yes two stories tall onto the Mormon church’s Conference Center, and it was glorious! @KATE_KELLY_ESQ Via Twitter

#NotFake

Last year, when I told my childhood teacher that I was majoring in journalism, I could see disappointment color her face. Her voice lowered and became sickeningly sweet, asking, “Do you want to get a job? It’s all fake news.” While my childhood teacher’s main objection was “fake news,” the problem that I see is less malicious but rather misleading and sensualizing news. Specifically, I’ve seen this misleading by using statistics without the context of where those statistics came from and what they mean. I understand why statistics are so appealing. They provide catchy headlines that entice people to click on the article; they are persuasive and provocative; they are packed with information and tangible. But ethical journalism shouldn’t be about the headlines, it should be about going further, making information accessible for the average citizen who isn’t statistically literate or able to understand the hidden complexities—like

constructed population sizes—that lie behind those numbers. People often trust data backed by research more than opinions, and so I think that journalists should continue to use statistics when possible but be careful not to mislead people, whether intentionally or not, by stating statistics without context. MARTHA HARRIS, Provo

The Giuliani Train

America is inviting a big problem with Rudy Giuliani and his shady group running foreign affairs for Trump. In 1776, American colonists objected loudly to King George III’s use of unelected private advisers and government ministers with little Parliamentary support to force economic and political policies on them. Those policies constituted the “long train of usurpations and abuses” mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. Even more so than the Ukrainian people, the American electorate today are in the same position as our ancestors. Giuliani and Trump are pushing the legislative power aside just as George III did in the 1760s and 1770s. What will Americans do this time? Submit to kingly power or make noise like we did once before? ROBERT KIMBALL SHINKOSKEY, Woods Cross

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I want people to know why I have become a “liberal/ progressive” Republican: 1. Too many national Democrats who are women come across to me as being “anti-men” and as disliking men. Men’s lives “matter” too. 2. Because research indicates that by around the year 2030, over 50% of the U.S. will be “non-white.” Too many national Democrats have been going overboard and are pandering “in a big way” to get the votes of all minority groups including the future votes of legal and illegal immigrants. Their love affair with illegal immigrants is really all about wanting to get their votes one day. They really don’t care about these people as human beings. I care more about them than they do. 3. Too many national Democrats come across as being anti-business. 4. Too many national Democrats are no longer prioritizing the economic and financial needs and struggles of our lower and middle classes as well as our poor, our near-poor, and our senior citizens. They are no longer fighting for our federal government to do more to help these atrisk groups of Americans. They no longer “have their backs.” I miss the national liberal Democrats of the 1960s who did champion and fight harder for these at-risk Americans. STEWART B. EPSTEIN, Rochester, N.Y.

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Trump’s Ten Commandments

By now, we’ve all seen the photo from last week’s King Jesus International Ministry rally in Miami—a solemn moment of prayer for President Donald Trump and some 7,000 evangelicals, proclaiming that he’s their man, and extolling his “strong leadership” and solid “Christian values.” Some proclaimed that POTUS had experienced a change of heart since acquiring higher office, and that, despite his “rough edges,” he is truly a man of God. The story was the emetic equivalent of a gallon of ipecac. Perhaps only a handful of attendees could clearly see Trump’s horns and his trident. As Christian Right evangelicals rack their brains with the problem of how to reconcile the president’s divine appointment with his highly mortal super sins, there continues to be a voluntary unconsciousness that allows them to rationalize his actions. The reality is, that the devil himself could aspire to the presidency and evangelicals would offer the same hearty support. (Yes, Lucifer would only have to proclaim his condemnation of contraception and same-sex marriage, and the evangelicals would most likely declare, “Oh, he may not be perfect, but he is a fine man.”) It’s sad to compare our leader with the devil, but is there really much difference? I don’t know about you, but I can only shake my head in disbelief. Obviously, judgment is a dangerous thing, but so is the blatant hypocrisy demanded by the evangelicals’ position. Trump is much more the Antichrist than the “chosen one”—taking great pleasure in stomping on Moses’ stone tablets and desecrating everything that real Christians stand for. One doesn’t need to be intelligent, or even percep-

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. tive, to understand that Trump takes glowing satisfaction in breaking all laws—religious, civil, criminal and international. Undoubtedly, even his mind is boggled by the level of gullibility that makes 80% of evangelicals his ardent supporters. It’s probable that he goes to bed every night with this thought on his mind: “Those evangelicals are so stupid; I could tell them a pig’s a butterfly, and they’d believe me.” It seems to me that time should have cemented the president’s incredibility. While lies are his favorite sin, and particularly the bearing of false witness against anyone who opposes him, a quick assessment would show that Trump has broken every one of the Ten Commandments. Adultery? Coveting? Worship of material goods? He’s probably very proud of it; his score is zero. Well, we skipped-over commandment No. 6. For some reason, the evangelicals will find another word for Trump’s killings, but they are, nonetheless, murder. In a country which supposedly believes that life is precious and that capital punishment is an irreversible wrong, it’s amazing what contortions his Christian Right base can go through to justify their president’s lust for blood. But that’s the value of being the “Chosen One.” When he sits at his video console manipulating his joystick and takes out another “bad guy,” it must have been God’s will. There’s no question that war can cloud the definition of morality. But the U.S. is not involved in any legitimate wars. Targeted assassinations like that of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Suleimani are an affront to all moral decency. Except, that is, for the evangelicals. It’s no affront to them, simply because, for every 10 really bad things the president does, he offsets his offenses with a few glib declarations on how awful it is to kill fetuses and how God hates the sodomites. The targeted killing of Suleimani is murder, pure and simple. There are international laws that forbid it. Of course, Trump doesn’t care about U.S. laws (or God’s, for that mat-

ter), so why would he give a crap for those created by the international community? Frankly, Trump, the miserable vomitous mass that he is, (I borrowed those words from Westley in The Princess Bride) has no respect for due process of law or the rights of the accused. But his time is coming when he will be screaming that his own rights are being violated. Nothing exists outside of his little me-world, and no life is of any value unless it’s his. I hate to say it, but Trump killed a far better man than he. Suleimani, though an enemy to some, was a real patriot to his country and his cause. Trump is certainly taking great pleasure in knowing that he has killed a bigger-than-life Iranian hero—a man who didn’t feign bone spurs and constantly risked his own life for those things he believed in. (Oh, if only our president could be of such caliber.) While there can be a flurry of rationalizations over Suleimani’s murder, it is likely yet another diversion to distract American minds, temporarily, from his impeachment. I cannot gloat over the death of this man, and I personally mourn for his family. It’s too easy to assign a number to a target and play our little video games in Trump’s den at Mar-a-Lago, forgetting that these are real, thinking, feeling people. Their lives matter, too. Sadly, Trump’s juvenile action—taking out one man, believing it puts a real dent in the enemy’s resources—is vastly reckless. I once had a boss who said to me, “Michael, if you stick your hand into a toilet bowl and then pull it out, is there a hole left in the water?” Needless to say, I got the point. It is pathetically sophomoric for Trump to think there’s no one to take the fallen general’s place—or that killing can lead to anything other than more of the same. CW

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LEGISLATIVE FORUM & PREVIEW

Whistleblowers. You’ve gotta love them in their fight for transparency. Well, in the case of the YWCA of Utah, it wasn’t exactly a whistleblower who highlighted the internal problems, but issues did come to light —years after six board members had resigned and a diversity expert was hired. It turns out the board and the staff had a unique misunderstanding about social and racial justice, according to a report in the Deseret News. Why didn’t board members speak up? They didn’t want to hurt an organization whose mission was important, and they weren’t ready to take on the powerful and well-connected CEO, Anne Burkholder. The story is far from over, but Martin Levine of Nonprofit Quarterly had this to say: “Letting serious issues simmer is never good governance, but when fear of bad publicity and the discomfort of straining relationships overrides transparency, nonprofit boards trade a chosen course of inaction now for a burning platform later.”

Here’s a chance to hear legislators from both sides of the aisle weigh in on the upcoming legislative session. Sens. Kathleen Riebe, D-Salt Lake City, and Kirk Cullimore, R-Salt Lake City, join Reps. Elizabeth Weight, D-West Valley, and Brad Daw, R-Orem, to answer questions you have about legislation and priorities for the year. Hot topics like ballot initiatives, Medicaid expansion and tax reform will be on the table at this Annual Legislative Forum sponsored by the American Association of University Women and League of Women Voters. Girl Scouts of Utah office, 445 E. 4500 South, Saturday, Jan. 11, 9-11 a.m., free, bit.ly/2FifHOg

LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY TRAINING

Gun safety advocacy group Moms Demand Action is getting ready for the upcoming legislative session by offering advocacy training for firearm safety legislation. They will be reviewing bills to support, such as Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) and universal background checks on all gun sales. You’ll also learn about the legislative process and how to talk effectively to key legislators during the session. Training for Advocacy Day and Legislative Session highlights “how we work together to ensure everyone is comfortable with our messaging and speaking to legislators directly,” the group’s website says. Anderson-Foothill Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, Saturday, Jan. 11, 10:30 a.m.-noon, free, every.tw/2MP1yMH

It’ll Wash Out

You might have noticed that your neighbors and friends are running around frantically to sign and collect signatures on a petition. It’s a call to place the hastily passed tax reform law on the ballot so that the public can weigh in. But then there’s the Utah Taxpayers Association, which says don’t worry your little head about these complex matters. Utah Business gave referendum organizers a platform to call out the Taxpayers Association, whose fear-mongering insists that the referendum will raise taxes. Meanwhile, the law goes forward raising the tax on food and increasing sales tax on services. The association calls it a matter of hysteria and incorrect information. It will all come out in the wash, they say. But if this is such a great idea, why did the Legislature rush it through?

SOLAR ON THE TRUST LANDS

How to combat global warming? One way might be to start at the state level to encourage solar development. The Stegner Center Green Bag—Solar Development Panel addresses the expanding utility-scale solar energy leasing program by the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration. SITLA has acquired federal parcels for solar development, and you will hear a review of solar leasing programs, their terms, the site selection criteria and transmission challenges. Where SITLA has leased land for oil and gas exploration, this solar venture offers new opportunities for carbon-free energy. S. J. Quinney College of Law, 383 S. University St., Moot Courtroom, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 12:15-1:15 p.m., free, bit.ly/2ZLNo3U

Don’t You Worry

Speaking of not worrying your little head—the inland port. A mind-numbing video is making its way through the state. Local TV program The County Seat interviewed port proponents to ’splain it all. And how do they do it? With gummy bears. A big ol’ truck comes in loaded with gummy bears, and the port sorts through them and sends them off. “Gummy bears must be code for uranium,” one port opponent quips. But let’s get real. The happy fellas in this video think the major opposition is to the tax increment financing, and they ’splain that to us, too, while blaming the Salt Lake mayor. And oh, the rural areas were so worried they’d be left out. Nope. We’ll send trucks their way, too. Oddly, there is no mention of pollution. The inland port is a smart, 21st century model of commerce, they say—with plenty of dust, noise and pollution.

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The revolution clamoring for homeless resources, in this case, will be livestreamed. BY ISAIAH PORITZ comments@cityweekly.net @isaiahporitz

t came in the form of a news release. A group composed by a swath of local community organizers calling itself the Take Shelter Coalition, was taking over a section of downtown’s Washington Square Park with a makeshift encampment “in solidarity with our unsheltered neighbors.” The move, dubbed “Operation Take Shelter,” was designed as a direct call to action for the city to increase the number of homeless shelter beds available following the closure of the 1,100-bed facility The Road Home, and for an end to so-called cleanups of homeless encampments during which, coalition spokesperson Alex Samuel said “[t]he police steal people’s survival belongings. Blankets, sleeping bags, tents, and bikes are all rounded up and placed in trucks headed to the dump.” Labeling the move “unconstitutional,” some 80 people set up tents, Occupy-style, on the City and County Building’s southwest corner, calling for “a right to the essentials of life” for the city’s most vulnerable. Six hours into the occupation, midday on Friday, Jan. 3, City Weekly reached out to organizers via email to ask how long they thought it would last. The answer was swift: “Until we feel our voices have been heard.” By day’s end, then-Mayor Jackie Biskupski and Mayor-elect Erin Mendenhall issued a joint statement of their own, saying that an offer to meet with the pair, plus SLCPD Chief Mike Brown, had been ignored. The next evening, an operation featuring a throng of police officers in full riot gear (or as Brown later put it, “personal protective equipment”) was launched, resulting in 17 arrests. But before protesters turned over park benches and rounded up tents to form an impromptu fort; before cops charged the grounds to enact a “strategic removal”; before chants of “What do we do when our unsheltered neighbors are under attack? Stand up, fight back!” flooded the midnight air, the mood at the encampment bordered on utopian. Stapled to a tree at the center of the camp, was a list of guidelines for peaceful living; a sort of founding charter for the small community of organizers. It touched on a host of issues, from substance use to pet policies, disabled accessibility and photography regulations for members of the media. The manifesto also asked campers to seek de-escalation over conflict and to utilize volunteer “marshals,” identified by leopard

print handkerchiefs and “mediators,” identified by cat handkerchiefs. According to the guidelines, volunteer medics and police liaisons would be allowed to enter the camp and provide support when necessary. A variety of amenities were provided at the camp, including breakfast and dinner and tents designated for bathrooms. At the center of it all, was Marvin Oliveros, who remained steadfast on the group’s intent to stay until change was enacted. “We are here today, we’ll be here tomorrow, we’ll be here until we really get the attention and are able to engage in some real, meaningful, constructive conversation,” he told City Weekly. Oliveros condemned the way city, county and state governments have handled the public image of homelessness, accusing public relations managers of “sticking to the script” and not willing to engage with scrutiny. “We really want them to become educated,” Oliveros said. “These officials have talking points that they utilize but they really aren’t concerned about what’s going on … they dedicate a lot of resources to trying to hide what’s going on here.”

What a Difference 44 Hours Makes

After issuing warnings in-person and later over megaphone, conflict between protesters and SLCPD reached its peak late Saturday when members of SLCPD’s public order unit marched into the encampment. “We have plenty of our friends and relatives here, standing in solidarity,” Oliveros said Saturday night, taking over the livestream for upstart community news source, Just Media Utah. “Anybody available to come down, film, stand with us in solidarity, support [and] document what’s about to happen, please make your way down here,” he pleaded. The streamed raid resulted in the arrest of demonstrators who refused to leave the park after police informed them they were in violation of city ordinance laws preventing camping on public property between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, Oliveros was among those arrested. He was later released on suspicion of disorderly conduct, failure to disperse and interfering with an arresting officer—all considered misdemeanors.

A Perennial Issue

Activists and community organizers took matters into their own hands last November, during the waning days of The Road Home. Outside the shelter, they laid coats, blankets and boots in rows and piles for whomever needed them, and provided hot chocolate and snacks. Even with the arrival of three new resource centers, the downtown behemoth left a void of 400 fewer beds. Referencing Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox’s recent “call to action” to get landlords to offer housing for homeless persons, Bill Tibbitts, associate director of the Crossroads Urban Center— a local advocacy group and food pantry— told City Weekly at the time that it’d be

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Take Shelter Coalition’s Marvin Oliveros stands outside a tent erected at downtown’s Washington Square before police enforced curfew rules and cleared protesters. “hard to see how moving 100 more people into housing in one month is going to reduce the demand the next … It’s a temporary blip. It’s not a structural change. It’s not a permanent change.” Oliveros said the newly formed coalition sought to initiate conversation about the crisis with Cox, Biskupski and members of the Salt Lake City Council, but their requests were met with “locked doors.” So, a new means of communication was devised. “[The] city council was refusing to engage in conversation … they went as far as taking a stack of our public comment cards in hopes of silencing some of the concerned community members,” Oliveros said. “Whenever we’re told to take the proper channels, this is the response we are accustomed to getting from elected officials.” Furthering the problem, Oliveros claimed that since The Road Home’s closure, police have ramped up their interactions with homeless communities, which has increased tension, culminating in the group’s decision to set up camp.

A Conflicting Narrative

In response, Brown noted during a brief news conference on Sunday that “not one single report of theft” had been reported to the SLCPD. He further emphasized that police officers are instructed to act with compassion toward the homeless, saying that the department has reduced the number of citations issued for illegal camping in 2019 by 38% compared to the previous year. Speaking on health concerns at the impromptu camps, Nicholas Rupp, Salt Lake County Health Department’s PR manager, told City Weekly that the department has been conducting “community cleanups” of homeless encampments for the past 25 years. He said they focus on the collection of “debris that could present a threat to public health, such as drug paraphernalia or items contaminated with bodily fluids.” Rupp added that the department posts cleanup notifications at the sites 24 hours in advance, and will first confirm that beds are available at nearby homeless shelters. (The night of the raid, 74 beds were available,

police told Washington Square campers over a megaphone.) “We are sensitive to the issue of homelessness in our community,” Rupp continued. “Overnight camping on public or private property, however, poses significant risks of unsanitary conditions and for the physical safety of both the campers and others.”

The Aftermath

Following the weekend’s events, Civil Riot wrote in a Facebook post that “people were shot with bean bag guns, leaving large bruises,” and that at least one was trampled. Brown on the other hand, exalted the men and women on his team “who exercised the greatest restraint. Who demonstrated outstanding decorum and who are constant professionals day-in and day-out,” during his department’s news briefing. “Do your job,” Oliveros said of government officials’ hot takes. “These officials are elected officials, they’re elected to take care of all of us, not just some of us.” Three days later, during Mendenhall’s swearing-in, a few hundred feet from where Oliveros was detained, the newly elected mayor addressed homelessness concerns. “We all want the same solution, which is that no one is turned away from shelter when they seek shelter, particularly during these winter months,” she said. Standing in silent protest, Taunra Johnson stood out from the cheering crowd. She told City Weekly one of her cousins had been in the recently cleared encampment, and hoped that after Mendenhall’s ceremony, she and the city council members present would open the mic for a question-and-answer panel. “One question that I would have for them is, ‘Are you so far detached from humanity, that you can’t see the humanity in these people?’” (A Q&A session was not part of the day’s official program.) “It’s amazing to me,” Johnson continued. “I just walked through the library, and I come here, and they have these propane heaters and free cider for everyone but on the other side of the square, there’s people freezing.” CW With information from Enrique Limón.

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Opioid crisis enters third wave with fentanyl deaths soaring.

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irst, a spoiler alert: Among the multiple apocalyptic revelations in Ben Westhoff’s Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic, is sour news for all hard drug users—from casual weekend abusers to full-time cocaine cowboys. In light of developments presented in this epic book in gruesome and unprecedented fashion, putting questionable substances up your nose, in your veins, or even on your tongue is highly discouraged from here on. “Any drug where it’s a powder or a pill, you just can’t trust it,” the author says in an interview about his latest project. “There can be fentanyl in anything … [Home drug-testing kits] are getting very sophisticated, and there are websites you can consult, but in terms of going to a party and someone offering you some blow or something like that, it’s over.”

Why? Because, like Eric Barker, medical director for the Intermountain DaySpring Clinic in Logan, told Utah Public Radio last fall, “The people who are making the drugs [people are overdosing on] are not trained scientists, obviously.” Still, many will not see Westhoff’s book or heed such warnings, and in tens of thousands of cases this

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year will steer directly off a cliff. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “among the more than 70,200 drug overdose deaths estimated in 2017, the sharpest increase occurred among deaths related to fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (other synthetic narcotics) with more than 28,400 overdose deaths.” When he started this endeavor four years ago, Westhoff couldn’t have imagined those statistics. Fentanyl showed up and kicked the hinges off a prior psychedelic focus that turns up in trace amounts throughout the book but is overshadowed by the eponymous grim reaper. Quoting a CDC report, Westhoff says that, “in 2013, the ‘third wave’ of the opioid epidemic began.” And “because of fentanyl, it is the most deadly one yet.” Focusing on urban Missouri in one especially harrowing chapter, he reports: “In 2012, St. Louis saw 92 opioid-related deaths, a number that rose to 123 in 2013 and up to 256 in 2017.” Closer to home, from 2010 to 2017, deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (predominantly fentanyl) in Utah nearly doubled from 50 to 92 cases. “Fentanyl completely changed the game,” one character, a former jam band road dog who jumped from newfangled hallucinogens into the far more dangerous opioid scene, told Westhoff during his investigation.

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In his quest to source answers to new wide-open questions, Westhoff consulted politicians, police, DEA agents and international drug policy makers, who would “like to put these traffickers away forever,” as well as “counselors, doctors, activists, and policy wonks, some of whom believe these drugs should be legal.” He even corresponded with two infamous, now-imprisoned LSD kingpins who worked together out of an abandoned missile silo in Kansas. “The demise of their operation in 2000,” he writes, “may have inadvertently fueled the rise of a new hallucinogen whose effects are far worse than LSD.” You might be wondering, Is this one of those stories about the real Walter White? You could say that, but there are thousands of them, wearing different hats on multiple continents, dealing on the web and in your backyard. Fentanyl, Inc. is like Breaking Bad, sure … meets Night of the Living Dead meets New Jack City, Gummo, Kids and Gremlins. With a cast from a lot of the places on President Donald Trump’s shithole list. As one candid former U.S. State Department special agent explains: “Fentanyl can be produced anywhere a laboratory can be set up, such as a warehouse in an industrial park, a home in a residential area or a clandestine lab in the mountains.” For Westhoff, the first taste of disaster came a decade ago, in Los Angeles. He writes: In 2010, 15-year-old Sasha Rodriguez fatally overdosed at Electric Daisy Carnival at the LA Coliseum, reportedly from ecstasy. Local politicians revolted, and the event was forced to relocate to Las Vegas. A Plymouth State University student named Brittany Flannigan overdosed and died in late August 2013 after attending a Boston EDM concert featuring the popular DJ Zedd, and just days later a University of Virginia student named Mary “Shelley” Goldsmith passed away as well. Both were 19, and reports said they had taken “Molly.” “I had a friend who died from multiple fentanyl patches a while back, before I even knew what fentanyl was,” Westoff says. “My way in was through the rave scene in L.A. when I was the LA Weekly music editor. I had gone to raves a lot back in the day, and ecstasy was pure MDMA, and people weren’t dying … But at these raves, someone if not multiple people were dying at every one. I wanted to investigate that, and I found

Beyond the numbers, which are ugly but far from reliable in this nascent abusive honeymoon phase, this is a story about people. Fentanyl, Inc. features a roster of villains and victims who stray far from movie archetypes. From fast and furious nerdy bros brewing up alphabet soup in bunkers underneath the desert, to 20-something call center employees who peddle poison by phone from the back offices of semilegal chemistry labs in China, their stories follow a theme reflected in all of Westhoff’s vignettes: Everything you think you know about drugs has changed. Even the people packing, slinging, sniffing and filling their vaults thanks to this garbage don’t know the half. Or the wrath. They mostly only care about the math. “A lot of drug dealing comes from people who have addictions of their own,” Westhoff says. “Painting the dark web or these people with a broad brush isn’t a good idea, because everyone has their own philosophies. A lot of people are in it for harm reduction; there’s a legitimate case to be made for getting a lot of these psychedelics and other potential medicines out to people they can potentially help. And then it gets a little harder when you get this guy who is selling nasal spray with fentanyl analogues and saying that he’s helping opioid addicts maintain their addictions in a more affordable way.” Westhoff, a relatively early explorer into the unknowns of these notorious intoxicants, stresses the lack of common facts and figures in this post-medicine chest Wild West. “They used to say that touching fentanyl can make you overdose,” he says. Unsure of the verdict on the epidermal threat, the author nevertheless says some of his sources “were dealing [the extremely dangerous carfentanil] and breaking it up with their bare hands.” “This stuff is so new that there isn’t much agreement—there’s not even agreement about how to pronounce the word fentanyl. Half the country says, ‘fenta-nall’; the other half says, ‘fenta-nil.’ But nobody knows. It’s like a black box … a lack of information.” As for the innumerable analogues available online and maybe at your local McDonald’s, Westhoff says, “It evolves too quickly for people to even come up with a clever name for [new drug incarnations] … People don’t even realize what they’re taking—whether it’s heroin or pills or cocaine or whatever.”

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out about all of these ecstasy substitutes and learned that there were all these new drugs coming out of China. But then all that stuff was really just the tip of the iceberg, because by 2016, fentanyl was much worse than all of the others by far. So it’s a completely different project than I envisioned.” Westhoff includes ample relevant history— from when “one could buy opium from the Sears, Roebuck catalog”; to a Boston dealer who unknowingly tipped off the DEA in 1992 about the nation’s first known leading source of blackmarket fentanyl; and back to the industrial revolution and addiction in the United Kingdom, and how that nation attempted “to balance its trade deficit by using its British East India Company to ply opium in tremendous quantities to the Chinese, causing a pair of wars.” The latter is especially critical background, as fentanyl and other new drugs have not caught on there, spurring many to think that’s why China has been so lax about laws and exports. “In May, [China] blanket-banned all fentanyl analogues, which has been proven to be effective,” Westhoff says. “When China actually bans stuff, it has an effect. At the same time, there’s all these loopholes. China is shipping the fentanyl precursors by the boatload to Mexico, and they’re getting [government] incentives for it … It’s a huge sprawling bureaucracy— there’s not this one person who has a plan and is manipulating everything. It’s just capitalism gone awry. On the other hand, how could they not know what they’re doing?” In the words of one of Westhoff’s Chinese sources, a less-thanclandestine manufacturer: “We are afraid that a reporter come to our lab, to our country, to find out why we synthesize these chemicals, or why we sell these chemicals to your country. To let your people’s health down. To harm your country’s people.”

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There is plenty of blame to go around. Some fingers can be pointed at figures like former presidents of the United States, including but by no means limited to Barack Obama, whose 2012 Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act outlawed multiple kinds of synthetic cannabinoids, but which Wired magazine cracked, “was obsolete before the ink of his signature dried” thanks to “the speed of innovation in drugs culture.” More generally speaking, the culprit is every rank and file Greatest Generation prohibitionist who ignorantly warned us that our drugs could be laced with something deadly long before that

was a thing that really happened. Other formerly contrived tropes about the horrors of drugs have also become real, like the one in which dealers walk around offering complimentary samples to teens. As one young woman from the Rust Belt told the author about a strip that doubles as a literal trap in her town: “They’ll come up to anybody who’s parking, getting gas, even getting cigarettes. They’ll drive up to you and ask if you mess around. They give it to you for free.” There’s one condition, however, Westhoff writes. “You must have a working cell phone and give them your number.” Of course, all of the yellow bricks lead back to governments, complicit politicians, all those gratuitous checkboxes. Those pining for the halcyon days when it seemingly couldn’t get worse than regionally concentrated crack, meth, and heroin scourges may take aim at lazy and misguided attempts to throw a wrench in the cycle of supply and addiction, like with the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005. After that law limited the amount of drug store staples like Sudafed that you could buy and subsequently harvest to manufacture methamphetamine in your barn, Mexican cartels stepped in to fill the gaps, and we all know how that’s turned out. To learn more about the source of so much mayhem, Westhoff “infiltrated a pair of Chinese drug operations, one a sophisticated laboratory operation distilling outsize quantities of the world’s most dangerous chemicals in industrialsize glassware, and the other an office of young, cheery salespeople, who sat in rows of cubicles and sold fentanyl ingredients to American dealers and Mexican cartels.” After demasking wizards in China and possibly learning more than any other American civilian has to date about the mechanics of that country’s fentanyl trade, Westhoff came to understand that the problem is bigger than the F-word and its awful analogues.

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places like LA and Chicago. This is not a death sentence for just one demographic. Just when the prescription pill deaths were finally falling, and just when the heroin deaths were finally falling, the deaths from fentanyl are going way up. And prescription pills are still abused at a very high rate, so if fentanyl really starts getting cut into pills, then this thing can balloon even worse than it already is. “It just seems like with each drug epidemic, things keep getting worse.” Toward the end of Fentanyl, Inc., Westhoff points to some solutions. “The crack epidemic, the meth epidemic—keep in mind people were blaming the user back then, so thankfully we’re moving beyond that.” He also supports harm reduction strategies like supervised injection facilities, which he argues “is really just a no-brainer.” “We know from the failure of the War on Drugs that focusing on the supply side is not going to work,” Westhoff says. “Killing a drug kingpin from Colombia or capturing El Chapo doesn’t do anything—the drug supply is just getting worse. The drugs will find a way to get here, drug users will find a way to get their drugs, and all we can do is focus on the demand side.” The shifting goal posts make the problem nearly impossible to smother; still, the author hopes his contribution can play an important role in navigating us out of this state of emergency. “The inventor of fentanyl, Paul Janssen, there’s literally nothing written about him, and so I wanted to tell his story and that of the other people who brought these drugs to life. No one did it on purpose really—these are all drugs taken from scientific literature. “I tried to have it not just be about statistics, but about bigger trends. Even when this information is out of date, I think people are going to want to look back on how this fentanyl crisis got off the ground.” CW

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There are countless oddball drugs available on the black market. Take U-47700, for example; “originally created in the mid-1970s as a morphine alternative, it never received FDA approval.” Nevertheless, for one of Westhoff’s sources and who knows how many others, U-47700 was “like an ‘antidepressant,’” making them feel “whole, confident, and happy, very little stress.” Also of note, is that fake weed can kill you. “Even today,” Westhoff notes, “synthetic cannabinoids remain the fastest growing class of drugs … Some are twice as potent as marijuana; some are 100 times as potent or more. And there is little formal testing, almost nobody knows how safe each blend is, not even the scientists who invented them.” The good news keeps on coming. “Even more disturbingly,” the author reports, “fentanyl began to be pressed into pills that look exactly like name-brand prescription tablets. Raids across the United States have turned up operations in houses and apartments that turn fentanyl powder into tablets using specialized presses. Both the drugs and the machines are bought from China. These operations can make thousands of pills per hour. They stamp pills with the Oxycontin or Percocet logo, and they’re indistinguishable … The dosages of these fake pills vary greatly. One might have 10 times as much fentanyl as the next. Investigators believe such counterfeit pills were responsible for the death of music star Prince; about 100 white pills found on his property looked exactly like Vicodin but actually contained fentanyl.” From Paisley Park to the park behind your apartment, no place seems to be immune. “When you think of the opioid epidemic, you think of a lot of white middle-class people,” Westhoff says. “That certainly has been a big part of it, but there’s always been a huge African American population using heroin, and now that fentanyl is in the mix, it’s causing massive casualties in

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Self-effacing and unapologetically irreverent, Rachel Feinstein’s blend of sarcasm and cynicism has made her one of the most entertaining comediennes on the stand-up circuit. Her commentaries on sex, marriage and the absurdities of modern life often find her mimicking an unlikely assortment of characters, from her mother and grandmother, to her husband, a heckler and an unhinged driver who once picked her up at the airport. Despite her bizarre observations, Feinstein has made it in the mainstream, courtesy of three Comedy Central specials, the Amazon series Red Oaks, Judd Apatow’s HBO comedy Crashing, an ongoing guest hosting spot on The View, extensive film credits, late night appearances and Grand Theft Auto video game cameos. She made a big splash initially when she was a finalist on Last Comic Standing, and subsequently teamed with pal—and later maid of honor—Amy Schumer via multiple appearances on the latter’s series of comedy specials Inside Amy Schumer. These days, the two are still tight. Imaginative minds think alike, after all. In fact, Feinstein credits Schumer for extricating her from an embarrassing situation that occurred after Feinstein mistakenly sent a dirty picture of herself to an unintended recipient—a man who was married with kids, no less—making for what she describes as the most humiliating moment of her life. Schumer stepped in and sexted the guy herself, hoping to take the heat off her friend. Frankly, we’re not sure how that helped, but we can imagine that the unintended target of their attention felt mighty special. (Lee Zimmerman) Rachel Feinstein @ Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, 801-532-5233, Jan. 9, 7 p.m.; Jan. 10–11, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $15, wiseguyscomedy.com

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Today’s political environment is exhausting. The sustained fast-paced chaos takes the fun out of debate. Why watch the yet-to-boil kettle of today’s Cheeto impeached—I’m sorry, Cheetoin-Chief—when you can catch up with political intrigue already concluded. So much less stress; so much more entertainment. This aforementioned intrigue comes in the form of Mary Stuart, the 2000 translation by Jean Stock Goldstone and John Reich of Friedrick Schiller’s 1800 play. In simplified terms, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I had a fraught history—one was raised in glamor while one was not, and they both thought they were the true Queen of England. Later, Elizabeth had Mary’s head chopped off. In between the differing childhoods and the head chopping, Mary and Elizabeth exchanged letters. The play depicts the relationship the two had that never moved past the written word. The intrigue! The scandal! The lack of present-day human death as a result of any of it! Karen Azenberg, artistic director for Pioneer Theatre Co., says, “I always like to include a history play in our season, and the battle of two strong women as depicted in Mary Stuart was an easy choice to make.” The play is still relevant without directly referencing contemporary chaos. “Additionally, there are religious and political themes that resonate even today—making this ‘history’ another example of ‘those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it,’” Azenberg concludes. (Casey Koldewyn) Pioneer Theatre Co.: Mary Stuart @ Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 300 S. 1400 East, 801-5816961, Jan. 10-25, Mondays-Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Fridays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 & 7:30 p.m., $31-$40, pioneertheatre.org

In the 50 years since its launch on public television, Sesame Street has become the most iconic and influential children’s program of all time, a significant force in teaching the ideals of education, mutual respect, understanding and self-confidence to generations of preschoolers throughout the world. The brainchild of the late Jim Henson, it features an intriguing, sometimes bizarre cast of characters—mostly Muppets, of course—that continue to entertain and enlighten admirers of all ages. Its wealth of awards and accolades—among them, two Peabody Awards, four Parents Choice Awards and, most recently, Kennedy Center honors—attest to its ongoing influence and appreciation. Like its namesake show, Sesame Street’s traveling troupes offer the same lessons for learning that are shared on TV. The current production, Make Your Dream, fosters the belief that if one wants to do something badly enough, nothing can get in the way. It’s a magical experience that has Elmo pursuing his own dream of discovery, one which reminds us that perseverance can pay off in the end. Still, for all the life lessons imbued in its story, Make Your Dream infuses its platitudes with songs, dance and visual variety. With a cast of characters that includes Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Grover, Rosita, Count von Count and Gonger, it’s a colorful extravaganza capable of providing entertainment for everyone in the audience. Indeed, this is more than mere kid’s stuff. Even adults can’t resist a little tickle from Elmo. (LZ) Sesame Street Live!: Make Your Dream @ Vivint Smart Home Arena, 301 W. South Temple, 801-325-2000, Jan. 11, 2 & 5:30 p.m.; Jan. 12, 10:30 a.m. & 2 p.m., $15-$30, sesamestreetlive.com

David Brooks uses his soapbox in a variety of media outlets to promote the idea that, across the political spectrum, there’s more that unites us than divides us. Whether it’s writing op-ed columns in The New York Times, appearing as a commentator on PBS Newshour, opining on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered or debating on NBC’s Meet the Press, Brooks has a central thesis that we are stronger when we unite to move America forward. In other words, he’s a lone prophet crying in the wilderness as a hopelessly divided America heads into the 2020 election. Nevertheless, everyone from the most woke progressive to the most unpersuadable Trump supporter might want to take notice of Brooks’ arguments that American renewal will need to come as a result of communities coming together while putting extremism aside. Brooks appears at Weber State University to talk about the latest of his five books, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life. In his book, Brooks theorizes that many people, having climbed life’s first mountain of achieving career and personal success, look at the view from the top and decide there must be more to life. That’s when they start climbing the second mountain and move from being self-centered to other-centered. To get to the top of the second mountain requires commitment to family, vocation, faith and community. You might think Brooks is being naïve during this impeachment-saturated moment in American history, but his arguments are worth considering, no matter how you plan to vote next November. (Geoff Griffin) Browning Presents: David Brooks @ Val A. Browning Center, 1901 University Circle, Weber State University, Ogden, 801-626-7000, Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m., $8-$50, weber.edu/artscalendar

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Seven years after its premiere, Suffrage gains meaning as a call to action. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

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n the grand scheme of things, seven years isn’t a long time. It was April 2013 when Jenifer Nii’s Suffrage made its world premiere at Plan-B Theatre Co., and after all, how much could have changed in those seven years to shift the way a creative work might be perceived and interpreted? But when it’s these particular seven years, it can feel like everything has shifted. And when it’s a play about who does and doesn’t have a voice in American political decision-making, it’s hard to avoid thinking differently about what it all means. This week, Plan-B presents a script-inhand presentation of Suffrage—featuring the play’s original 2013 cast of April Fosse and Sarah Young—as part of 2020’s centennial celebration of the passage of the 19th amendment in 1920, which granted women the right to vote. The play’s events, however, cover the period in Utah from 1887-1896, a tumultuous time during which the thenterritory faced opposition in Washington to the LDS church’s practice of polygamy which threatened the chance for statehood. Nii recalls Plan-B’s artistic director Jerry Rapier asking her if she wanted to write about that moment in Utah history, and, “of course, I said yes. Not only because it was a wonderful opportunity for me to write for Plan-B, but because I realized I was a complete ignoramus with regard to this particular subject.” The events of the play revolve around two sister-wives, Frances (played by Fossen) and Ruth (played by Young), whose

household is already in upheaval because their husband is in prison. Tensions rise even higher when the younger Ruth witnesses a speech by suffragette leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and is inspired to fight for the cause of women’s right to vote. “Part of what made writing Ruth so fun,” Nii recalls, “is she got to do some of the things that I sometimes wish I could say and do, and be so outwardly brash and courageous. I was more of the type to stand back and listen. I never really felt like I have anything to say that’s worth commanding people’s attention—which is what makes me being a playwright so weird.” As the play’s story evolves, it comes to focus on the consequences to Frances and Ruth’s family of the possibility that the church might shift its doctrine of plural marriage in order to appease the federal government. When a decision does come— one that shifts their world forever—it’s a decision in which the two women themselves have had no ability to be heard. “What I felt for Frances was a real sadness at what has happened in her life, as a result of decisions made by others,” Nii says. “And those others, at least perceived by

her, as speaking on behalf of God.” That’s what makes Suffrage seem particularly relevant in politically fraught moments like this one. Nii comments on the number of people who did not vote in the 2016 presidential election, and the impact of that failure to make your voice heard. “That gives a whole new sense of responsibility to the consequences of choosing not to vote,” Nii says. Nii notes that she hadn’t re-read Suffrage since 2013 until just recently, and thought about it in the context of upcoming elections that stand to have even greater consequences. “One of the things I felt [after re-reading Suffrage] was the sense of urgency, the notion of what is at stake if we lose,” she says. “And to me, to be faced with finding out the answer to that question, and have the answer not be triumphant, is sad and scary for me. “But it does underscore this notion that, I think even I sometimes feel silly when I stand in line to vote: ‘Oh yeah, I’m just going to sway the whole election.’ But if you line me up with other me’s, then yeah. And it does take me, and a bunch of other people. If I don’t show up, then I’ve got to sit down and shut up.”

April Fossen and Sarah Young in the 2013 production of Suffrage

For Nii, the essence of Suffrage is celebrating people who take action for the things that are of greatest importance to them, whether it’s raising a family or becoming an activist. She acknowledges that, over the seven years since the play was produced, she’s shifted her own personal sense of what it means to be involved in the decisions that will impact her life. “I may not be any more likely to stand up and argue my point of view in a public place,” she says, “but certainly I have been more challenged to develop a point of view, and understand why I believe in the things I come to believe in. And to understand the importance of acting on those beliefs.” CW

SUFFRAGE SCRIPT-IN-HAND READING

Rose Wagner Black Box Theatre Sunday, Jan. 12 2 p.m. Free, tickets required planbtheatre.org

PERFORMANCE THEATER

Mary Stuart Pioneer Theatre Co., 300 S. 1400 East, Jan. 10-25, dates and times vary, pioneertheatre.org (see p. 16) Pinnacle Acting Co.: Mauritius Jewett Center for the Arts, 1250 E. 1700 South, through Jan. 18, dates and times vary, pinnacleactingcompany.org Script-in-Hand Reading: Suffrage Rose Wagner Black Box Theater, 138 W. 300 South, Jan. 12, 2 p.m., free but reservations required, planbtheatre.org (see p. 18) Sesame Street Live!: Make Your Magic Vivint Smart Home Arena, 301 W. South Temple, Jan. 11, 2 p.m. & 5:30 p.m.; Jan. 12, 10:30 a.m. & 2 p.m., tickemaster.com (see p. 16) Seussical Hale Centre Theatre, 9900 S. Monroe St., Sandy, through Jan. 18, hct.org

CLASSICAL & SYMPHONY

Utah Symphony: Isabella Leonard Sings Mozart Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Jan. 10-11, 7:30 p.m., utahsymphony.org Salt Lake Symphony Family Fun Concert: The Thrill of Music Libby Gardner Hall, 1375 E. Presidents Circle, Jan. 11, 2 p.m., saltlakesymphony.org

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LITERATURE AUTHOR APPEARANCES

Paisley Rekdal: Indelible for the Hippocampus The King’s English Bookshop, 1511 S. 1500 East, Jan. 9, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com Tiana Smith: How to Speak Boy Provo Library, 550 N. University Ave., Provo, Jan. 14, 7 p.m., kingsenglish.com

TALKS & LECTURES

David Brooks Val A. Browning Center for the Arts, 1901 University Circle, Ogden, Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m., weber.edu (see p. 16)

VISUAL ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

Ancient Mesoamerica Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu A Living Legacy: Celebrating Native American Heritage Month Alice Gallery, 617 E. South Temple, through Jan. 10, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Art: A Love Affair Pioneer Memorial Theatre Loge Gallery, 300 S. 1400 East, Jan. 10-25, pioneertheatre.org Connie Borup Holladay City Hall, 4580 S. 2300 East, Holladay, through Jan. 31, holladayarts.org De | Marcation Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, through Jan. 12, umfa.utah.edu Feeling Before Thought Urban Arts Gallery, 116 S. Rio Grande St., Jan. 7-Feb. 2, urbanartsgallery.org Fire Works: Alternative-Fired Clay by Chuck Parsons Gallery at Library Square, 210 E. 400 South, through Jan. 10, slcpl.org

BYU Museum of Art (North Campus Drive, Provo, moa.byu.edu) presents a showcase of Pop Art works exploring the prosperity, consumerism and popular culture of post-war America— featuring works by Ed Ruscha (pictured), Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and more—in Supermarket: Pop Art and 1960s America, through March 28. Found and Small Works Art at the Main, 210 E. 400 South, through Jan. 11, artatthemain.com Greater Merit: The Temple and Image in South Asia Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 S. Campus Center Drive, ongoing, umfa.utah.edu Hidden Voices: Aesthetics of Change Woodbury Art Museum, Utah Valley University, 575 E. University Parkway, Orem, Jan. 14-March 7, uvu.edu/museum Lou Ann Reineke: Viewfinder Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, through Jan. 10, slcpl.org Lydia Gravis: Tracing the Untraceable Nox Contemporary Gallery, 440 S. 400 West, through Feb. 7, noxcontemporary.com Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez UMOCA, 20 S. West Temple, through Jan. 13, utahmoca.org

Pompeii: The Exhibition The Leonardo, 209 E. 500 South, through May 3, dates and times vary, theleonardo.org Statewide Annual ’19: Mixed Media & Works on Paper Rio Gallery, 300 S. Rio Grande St., through Jan. 10, artsandmuseums.utah.gov Supermarket: Pop Art and 1960s America BYU Museum of Art, North Campus Drive, Provo, through March 28, moa.byu.edu (see above) Tom Shankweiler: Color My World Marmalade Library, 280 W. 500 North, through Jan. 24, slcpl.org Zachary Olpin: Having Been Utterly Persuaded by a Stone Bountiful Davis Art Center, 90 N. Main, Bountiful, Jan. 10-Feb. 14, bdac.org

SPECIAL EVENTS

Beyond a Night of Music Encircle Salt Lake, 331 S. 600 East, Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m., encircletogether.org Men’s Sack Lunch Group Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Wednesdays, noon-1:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org TransAction Weekly Meeting Utah Pride Center, 1380 S. Main, Sundays, 2-3:30 p.m., utahpridecenter.org

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Open Mic Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Wednesdays, 7 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Pete Jr. Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Jan. 10, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Rachel Feinstein Wiseguys SLC, 194 S. 400 West, Jan. 9, 7 p.m.; Jan. 10-11, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com (see p. 16) Random Tangent Improv Comedy Draper Historic Theatre, 12366 S. 900 East, Saturdays, 10 p.m., randomtangentimprov.org Tim Cavanagh Wiseguys Ogden, 269 25th St., Jan. 11, 8 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com Vicki Barbolak Wiseguys West Jordan, 3763 W. Center Park Drive, West Jordan, Jan. 10-11, 7 & 9:30 p.m., wiseguyscomedy.com

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Draper’s Sauce Boss brings the love … and the butter. BY ALEX SPRINGER comments@cityweekly.net @captainspringer

hile Floridian swamp-funk guitarist and exhibitionist gumbo chef Bill “Sauce Boss” Wharton may be the original, chef Julius Thompson, who opened his Southerninspired kitchen of the same name in Draper, will forever be the boss of my sauces. Thompson, who operated an Italian food truck for three years before opening Sauce Boss (877 E. 12300 South, 385-434-2433, saucebosssouthernkitchen.com) in 2019, decided to shift gears to the deep fried, butter saturated techniques of the South. He credits this change to the closely guarded secrets he learned while cooking with his grandmother and aunts who hailed from the home of fried catfish, collard greens and cheesy golden grits.

It’s fortuitous that our paths should cross since I’ve been a Southern food scavenger for as long as I can remember— I tend to get along famously with food that is battered, deep fried or sautéed in bacon grease and snatch up any dish that is remotely similar. We’ve had plenty of restaurants feature Southern staples like

chicken and waffles, shrimp and grits or fried okra as part of their supporting cast, but Utah is pretty light on exclusively Southern restaurants. When I first heard about Sauce Boss opening its doors, I had to take a deep dive. If you’re on your way to Sauce Boss for the first time, you might be surprised to see

it located in an office park right next to a family medical practice. If so, don’t fret—you’re in the right place. Once you step inside, the office park melts away to a welcoming environment of “hons” and “y’alls” that combines the amicability of an oldfashioned diner with a modernized aesthetic. If you don’t feel welcomed by the warm front section, then you will by the time your basket of complementary pork rinds hits the table. The food that restaurants choose to serve just for coming in is very telling, and these housemade snacks speak volumes. They’re served with a shot of Chef Thompson’s signature “soul sauce,” which is a clever way to introduce diners to his sauce chops—soul sauce is somewhere on the spectrum between barbecue and fry sauces, and it’s fantastic. Once your appetite is sufficiently piqued, choosing an entrée can be a difficult venture. All the mainstays of a proper Southern menu are present, from fried chicken ($12.95) to pork neck bones ($12.55). With a menu this stacked, you’d be tempted to try your luck with more than one choice, but that’s a bad bet. Southern food is about wrapping the diner up in a big, soul-swelling hug, and your portions are big enough to do just that. My suggestion for a firsttime trip would be the fried chicken.

I’d wager that any first-time visitor has had fried chicken before, and the birds they’re serving up at Sauce Boss are treated with enough love to make you seriously reassess every piece of fried chicken you’ve had prior to this experience. The breaded exterior is thick and expertly seasoned, but it’s also delicate and yielding once you bite into it. It’s served with a maple hot sauce that brings a gorgeous combination of sweet heat to the dish. As tasty as the fried chicken at Sauce Boss is, lately I’m leaning toward the chicken fried chicken ($12.95) as most valuable poultry. I could see this preference shifting back and forth depending on the phases of the moon, but right now I’m all about that tender, juicy chicken breast battered and fried in its own fat. A big plate of this with a side of mashed potatoes and collard greens can chase away the most persistent of blues. Those looking for the grand masters of Sauce Boss’ menu need look no further than the shrimp and grits ($13.25) and the fried catfish ($14.75). Although the shrimp and grits maintain the same structure as other representations of the dish, the blackened butter and thick cubes of bacon ramp up the flavors of grilled shrimp and ched-

dar cheese grits. These are stick-toyour-bones grade eats, and they’re the perfect antidote for those winter days that cut straight to the bone. Also a decent ally to have in the fight against cold weather, the fried catfish is battered in a cornbreadstyle mix before it hits the fryer, and comes served with the house soul sauce. The filet appears to have been cut from some prehistorically huge breed of catfish, and it’s got a nice, mild flavor that plays well with the exterior breading. Although fans of deep-fried cuisine and copious amounts of butter will be hard-pressed to find fault with the techniques on display, the real fun of eating at Sauce Boss is the atmosphere. Chef Thompson often comes out to converse with the guests and loves to ask people if they got enough to eat during their visit—the answer is always yes, by the way. Southern food might have developed its own cachet over the years, but those who do it right know that it’s not right until you can feel the love in the room. Chef Thompson is doing it right. CW

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I heard about this new ramen place out of Texas last year—they took over the spot that was previously a Potbelly Sandwich shop but have only recently announced that they’re in their soft opening phase. Based on its online menu, Ramen Legend (2118 Highland Drive, Ste. 10, 801-758-8950, ramenlegend.com) is serving up several different varieties of ramen along with an impressive array of appetizers—steamed soft shell crab buns, anyone? Ramen Legend also offers a traditional teishoku option in which diners can pick one of their rice bowls and add sides like seaweed salad or fried gyoza and miso soup. Based on its menu alone, this looks to be a one-stop shop for some of our favorite Japanese flavors.

Duck Donuts Opens

Another out-of-state import, Duck Donuts (10352 S. River Heights Drive, Ste. 103, South Jordan) is a doughnut shop franchise that started up in Duck, N.C.— hence the waterfowl-inspired name. They’re known for a build-your-own approach to doughnuts, so you can customize their vanilla cake doughnut with whatever icing, topping and drizzle you like. Duck Donuts also offers seasonal doughnuts, ice cream sundaes piled on top of doughnuts and breakfast sandwiches that have doughnuts for buns. Their grand opening is on Saturday, Jan. 11, where doughnut fans can get samples of their menu and meet the team running the show.

Queer Soup Night

Amour Café (1329 S. 500 East, 801-4672947, amourslc.com) and the Raclette Machine (raclette-machine.com) food truck is hosting Salt Lake’s first official Queer Soup Night on Sunday, Jan. 12. Created by Brooklyn-based chef Liz Alpern in 2017, Queer Soup Night functions as a showcase for local queer chefs and a fundraiser for local organizations. The event features different soups created by the chefs du jour—Raclette Machine serves French Onion soup topped with a swathe of gooey raclette cheese, for example. Queer Soup Night goes from 6 to 8 p.m. at Amour, and attendees can make their donations to the YWCA onsite. Quote of the Week: “Soup is a nice symbol of what it looks like when we all contribute and create something bigger.” —Liz Alpern Back Burner tips: comments@cityweekly.net

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here are some beer styles that just work for any time of the year. Whether it’s cold or sweltering, beers like these are a solid bet, no matter what your calendar is screaming at you. Bewilder Brewing Co. Munich Festbier: This looks like white gold as you hold it up to the light—remarkable clarity with lots of energetic carbonation that gives this lager a very animated appearance. There’s a bright white, sculpted rocky head with impressive retention and stamina, featuring very sticky condensed lacing that hardly budges around the entire glass. When I get my nose on top of it, scents of semisweet toasted malt swirl around with a fine layer of nutty grains. A spicy hop character slides in next, with an underlying touch of

must—a nice aromatic balance between spice and cereal malt. On first taste, it’s almost moderately sweetened in terms of this lager’s malt character up front, with a strong flavor of rounded, malted wheat puffs. The peppered spice from the hops keeps the semi-sweet malt alive throughout the sip, making for a dry finish. Notes of grass, lemon, pepper and toasted oats linger in the aftertaste. The body is, of course, light and dry, and leaves a crisp snap on the palate—well-balanced in the spice and grain department. It’s a well executed 5.0% fest-style lager from Bewilder and co-brewer Bohemian Brewing Co. Overall: The brewers did a nice job bringing some exciting flavor aspects to what could have been a pretty pedestrian effort. This will be a nice, all-weather beer for those looking for a nice drinking lager. Level Crossing Brewing Co. Oat Slayer: Always looking for opacity in your stouts? It can tell you a lot about how it’s made and what you’re in store for. Oat Slayer offered a very dark black that sucked all light into it, basically leaving a black hole in my snifter. The nose was very roasty up front, with sweet malt and a slight chocolate presence. Lactose levels were also very distinct, and a bit unexpected. The taste was surprising to me as well, but in a good way. While a lot of milk stouts tend to get a little heavy-handed with

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here’s a lot of music to see and appreciate in and around SLC. In this new decade, my goal is to experience more of it all. Here are a few ways I plan to make that happen:

Invest in Physical Music

One of my biggest new goals is to finally get back into buying records. In the past when I bought records regularly, I mostly bought ones that I love-loved, and to an extent I want to continue doing that. Everyone at this point should know that streaming—even the same record by your favorite artist over and over—does basically nothing for the artist, earning them hardly a few cents per stream. When I stream an artist on Bandcamp and reach the limit of free listens, I always buy the digital files, because at that point, I’m hooked. I know that I need to do the same with all the favorite non-Bandcamp records that have struck a chord with me since I stopped buying records around 2017. It’s also important, I feel, to get back into buying physical music in general—be it tapes or CDs or records—because the internet and all that exists on it isn’t as permanent as they warned us it was back when we were kids (and by kids, I mean millennials, which is what I am). I heard a rumor in late 2019 that iTunes would soon be obsolete. What happens to iTunes libraries then, to the digital music we’ve bought over the years or decades? Where does one listen to their music library if the library itself crumbles? It all seems like it could be eerily similar to what happened on MySpace in 2019, when it was discovered that music posted to artist pages throughout the aughts was all gone, lost to the apparently real digital sands of time. I take meticulous care to record the music I love, saving every song that strikes a chord in a massive Spotify playlist, starting a new one each time it feels like a new part of my life is starting. If MySpace and iTunes can perish, I can’t trust the online streaming world any longer, and that includes Spotify. It’s a joke financed by my bad, early-20s finances that I don’t have more physical copies of the albums that make my world go round. This year, I intend to become a more familiar face at the fantastic record stores that SLC has to offer, namely those that stock the shit I love-love—Diabolical Records, Peasantries & Pleasantries and Randy’s Record Shop are at the top of my list.

Go to Wendover for a Big Country Show

I’ve always wanted to go to Wendover, and I never have—which is silly, because it’s so close, and the city and I have some things in common. Namely, the knock-off version of Las Vegas, oasis of booze and gambling, is half in Nevada and half in Utah, and I grew up in both states. I consider myself a citizen of both, mainly because I find the culture of cheap, kitsch-filled gift shops and the smell of cigarettes in an otherwise sterile, air-conditioned casino to be inherently charming, even though I live, laugh and love here in Utah.

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Catch a Show in Logan

The last show I went to in Logan was, like, four years ago. It was in somebody’s basement, and my old friend, the prolific Logan-born drummer Dan Fields, drummed his funkadelic heart out in what was basically a loin-cloth while the band around him participated in similar theatrics. Now, a lot of the folks I met at that show are still players in the northern Utah scene, and I do know that they still frequent Logan venues like WhySound and The Cache. My best friend from high school, who is still a top-tier best friend, lives up there and studies at the university, and she knows all about what goes on up north. According to her, WhySound not only puts on shows, but open-mic nights and poetry nights, whereas The Cache functions as a bar and venue, with a variety of events—drag shows, karaoke and trivia nights—all complement live music in the regular rotation. A bonus at The Cache is Chicago-style deep-dish pizza in the basement. And in true collegetown fashion, local restaurants like Jack’s Wood Fired Oven, Even Stevens and The Crepery also put on shows. With a friend who lives there, there’s no excuse for me not to kill two birds with one stone by hanging out with her and catching a show. Here’s to new journeys! CW

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Park Mohr, has, well, a big head. Now we can’t verify this, but considering the fact that Mohr and his colleagues were high school buddies, there could be some other implication that we’re not privy to—and, for that matter, we won’t bother to explore. Happily though, this Colorado-based band has attracted more than mere speculation over the course of their 30-plus year career. They have managed to get signed to a succession of major record labels, and their cover of the John Lee Hooker classic “Boom Boom” was tapped as the recurring theme for the popular TV show NCIS: New Orleans. One of their singles, “Blue Sky,” was included as part of a soundtrack shared with the spacecraft Discovery, and later, it served as a wake-up call to another space crew when the band performed it live at NASA. Not bad for a band that’s accrued a significant following and a reputation as festival favorites. Theirs is a decidedly broad musical mix, one that encompasses jam, blues, alternative and various genres in-between. And while the band’s name might seem strange, at least their success hasn’t given them … well, a big head. (Lee Zimmerman) The Depot, 13 N. 400 West, 7:30 p.m., $28, 21+, depotslc.com

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The Proper Way career, but if this is your scene, it hardly matters. Jamie Sitter has been hustling as a producer since 2011, when she started competing in DJ competitions in Chicago. She won every competition she entered, moved to Los Angeles, struggled to break into the mainstream, and now has played major music festivals and started her own label, Arrow Recordings, under which she collaborates with big names like Das Kapital and Kaleena Zanders. Zendlo, a Salt Lake native, likewise honed his craft producing for several years in Los Angeles. Spotify featured his track “Heavy Metal” on their highly curated “Houswerk” playlist, signaling a breakthrough for Zendlo. Obayashi also plays, representing the all-women DJ/producer-comprised Priss Collective. Although she’s young in her career, she’s accomplished (she just played Scrapefest), and between her and Zendlo, it’ll be a showcase of how tuned Salt Lake is to house music. (PSM) Soundwell, 149 W. 200 South, 9 p.m. $10–$20, 21+, soundwellslc.com

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Scott Rogers and Shane Osguthorpe comprise the Ogden-based duo The Proper Way, a band whose inception was mostly an accident. In 2015, both musicians separately played a small festival at Fort Buenaventura in West Ogden. Osguthorpe had arrived early, and listened to Rogers’ set. As Osguthorpe played, the festival gave him the sign to extend the set for time. He invited Rogers on stage with him, and they hit it off despite having known each other for mere minutes. After seeing each other around town at various gigs, they eventually decided to play a gig in Lake Tahoe, and The Proper Way was born. In 2019, they released Beautiful Melodies. Terrible Things., which channels a lucid Tom Waits vibe. Although their career as a duo has shown an immense talent for covers from a bevy of the usual greats (Avett Brothers, The Beatles, Jimmy Buffet, Johnny Cash—you get it), their two original albums bleed a songwriter’s heart. In 2018, they released Ain’t No Good Thing Ever Dies in collaboration with vocalist Carrie Myers, and the album is textured to juxtapose Rogers’ and Osguthorpe’s Tom Waits leanings with Myers’ voice. The effort pays off, and it’s interesting to hear a band who once went seven hours without a break performing covers feel out their own space. So though you might be able to request an expert rendition of any of a hundred songs, here’s a chance to hear The Proper Way the right way. (Parker S. Mortensen) Hog Wallow Pub, 3200 E. Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, 9 p.m., $5, 21+, thehogwallow.com

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If one of the greatest barriers to working artists is scarce time—fragmented by work, family and other responsibilities—Salt Lake City’s Oskar & Julia have created a life where developing their craft can truly be the center of it all. Music is the foundation of Oskar and Julia Buie’s relationship. They met each other at a show. They collaborated with one another as they developed their solo acts. They shared a manager. And eventually, they got married and started performing as a duo. In addition to creating a clear vintagejazz-ensemble aesthetic to accompany their soulful acoustic pop, they’ve developed an intuitive sense for one another’s harmonies and guitar parts. As they continue to grow, it will be interesting to see them incorporate a sense of bold dissonance into their work to balance the harmony they’ve so effectively communicated. Wednesday’s show is the duo’s electric debut, for which they’ve released one single, the breezy and melodic “Simple Days.” Opening for Oskar & Julia are Ogden indie-soul artist Cherry Thomas and folk-pop artist Branson Anderson. Thomas’ influences, which range from Amy Winehouse to progressive house titans Swedish House Mafia and metalcore mainstays Bring Me The Horizon, meld together to create a soft coffeehouse soul. Anderson’s folk music, which sometimes is too twee for its own good, also shows real aptitude for clear expression: see the messy layering of “Moonshade” and the soft, ghostly choir and lullaby piano on “The Wrong Man.” (Alex Murphy) Kilby Court,

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Punk rock and Salt Lake City are, in a strange way, a match made in heaven. A community where many young people find themselves chafing at the conservative lifestyles and beliefs impressed upon them by omnipresent religious institutions is, as it happens, also a perfect environment for a thriving punk scene. For decades, SLC has been home to countless bands tracing the entire spectrum from aggressive, confrontational hardcore to upbeat, exuberant pop-punk. In the past year, a new crop of acts has started to build up local buzz by favoring a scrappy, intense sound that centers around traditional riot grrl-style punk, and adds chunky, riff-centric guitars to lend it a bit of a metallic edge. On Jan. 15, The Greek Station showcases two of these bright new lights in the SLC punk scene, Violent Unrest and Fight the Future. In true SLC punk fashion, the show looks to appeal to a wide variety of local music fans. Any punks itching to see a more established band will still want to check out opener Seven Daggers, who have been honing their nofrills brand of melodic hardcore since 2014, and anyone less acquainted with hardcore music will still likely enjoy Dead Zephyrs’ selfdescribed “neo-rocklectica” blend of soul, alt-rock and post-punk. (Nic Renshaw) The Greek Station, 200 S. 577 West, 7 p.m., $10, 21+, jrcslc.com

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Tropicana Thursdays feat. Rumba Libre (Liquid Joe’s)

LIVE MUSIC

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10,000 Maniacs (Egyptian Theatre) California Queens + Marcus Koncar + Lofir + Mowth (Kilby Court) Danielle Nicole + Telluride Meltdown (The State Room) Danny Worsnop + StarBenders (Urban Lounge) Latin Jazz Factory Allstars (Gracie’s) Matt Calder + Tony Oros Tri0 (Lake Effect) The Proper Way (Hog Wallow Pub) see p. 28 Turtle Dovin’ (Rye)

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Dueling Pianos: Drew & JD (Tavernacle) Dueling Pianos (The Spur) Dusty Grooves All Vinyl DJ (Twist) Hot Noise + Guest DJ (The Red Door) Jazz Jam Session (Sugar House Coffee) Synthpop + Darkwave + Industrial + Goth w/ DJ Camille (Area 51) Therapy Thursdays feat. Breathe Carolina (Sky)

Cowboy Karaoke (The Cabin) Karaoke (Willie’s Lounge) Karaoke w/ DJ Benji (A Bar Named Sue) Karaoke That Doesn’t Suck w/ Mikey Danger (Chakra Lounge) Live Band Karaoke (Club 90)

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LIVE MUSIC

10,000 Maniacs (Egyptian Theatre) Benny Benassi (Sky) Big Head Todd & The Monsters + Hazel Miller + JD Simo (The Depot) see p. 28 Bow Wow Wow + When in Rome + DJ Jason Lowe (The Royal) see above Colt 46. (The Westerner) Dave Bowen Orchestra (Gracie’s) David Burchfield (Harp and Hound) Fat Candice (Ice Haüs) Hearts of Steele (Outlaw Saloon) Live Band (Club 90) Live Local Music (A Bar Named Sue) Machine Guns N Roses + Dirt Cheap (Metro Music Hall)

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There’s that age-old expression that suggests whatever is old is new again. That saying seems especially apt in the case of ’80s artists who claim a niche based on nostalgia. Who can blame them? They’re simply attempting to bring new fans into the fold while sharing memories with those who loved them before. In Bow Wow Wow’s case, it’s a reminder that a quirky persona, the ability to court controversy and a name associated with the halcyon days of punk and new wave can be a perfect formula for enduring appeal. Although best known for their big stateside hit “I Want Candy,” they made headlines from the very beginning—little wonder, considering they were managed by Sex Pistols’ svengali Malcolm McLaren. It was also claimed that their early Brit hit, “C30 C60 C90 Go!” encouraged bootleg recording. Likewise, their world beat rhythms had critics accusing them of ripping off the music of West Africa. These days, bassist Leigh Gorman remains the only original member, as the group has disbanded and reformed several times since first calling it quits in 1983. Notably, former singer Annabella Lwin has contested Gorman’s use of the band’s name, and toured with her own version of the band. Gorman’s Bow Wow Wow is joined by fellow ’90s new wave staples When In Rome best known for their hit “The Promise,” which surely shoots the whole evening through with even more promise. (Lee Zimmerman) The Royal, 4760 S. 900 East, 8 p.m., $15, 21+, theroyalslc.com

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I headed to Bar George out of curiosity, much like Curious George (I’m not sorry for this pun-ish play). I knew of a few folks who work there, and being that I like those folks, I thought it was worth trying out. I saw a bartender I know upon coming in and immediately asked for a hot toddy for my shitty scratchy throat (from the pollution, not a cold). The bartender, Jordon, and I compare notes about being new to the bar world, and he eventually plops a very oddly tall hot toddy glass in front of me, with a garnish of a whole cinnamon stick that floats like a log on the top of my drink. It’s good, and warm, just like I needed. The space that formerly housed the fancy Finca is cozy and quiet, a little dark; some people next to me chat amicably to one another and I feel the stress of my day begin to melt away. When Jordon disappears behind the bar to talk to a more experienced bartender about a New York Sour (relatable), I crack open the book I’ve been trooping through, taking a break from the glow of my phone. I’m at the point of screen exhaustion where I want to throw my phone each time it makes a ping to indicate someone wants to talk to me, to confirm that thing, to double-confirm that thing. I’m done confirming, so I mute my phone and order another drink. (Erin Moore) 327 W. 200 South, 801-487-0699, bargeorgeslc.com

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3HIVE RECORD CO-OP 50 E. 500 North, Ste. 105, Provo, 801-900-3116, live music 801 EVENT CENTER 1055 W. North Temple, 801-347-5745, live music A BAR NAMED SUE 3928 S. Highland Drive, 801-274-5578, live music A BAR NAMED SUE ON STATE 8136 S. State, Midvale, 801-566-3222, live music ABG’S LIBATION EMPORIUM 190 W. Center St., Provo, 801-373-1200, live music ABRAVANEL HALL 123 W. South Temple, 801-355-2787, Utah Symphony & Opera ALLEGED 205 25th St., Ogden, 801-9900692, live music, dance and night club AREA 51 451 S. 400 West, 801-534-0819, karaoke & DJs Wednesday-Saturday BAR-X 155 E. 200 South, 801-355-2287, live music, craft cocktails BARBARY COAST 4242 S. State, Murray, 801-265-9889 BIG WILLIE’S 1717 S. Main, 801-463-4996, karaoke Sunday, live music THE BAYOU 645 S. State, 801-961-8400, live music Friday & Saturday THE BEEHIVE 666 S. State, 385- 645-3116, live music BOURBON HOUSE 19 E. 200 South, 801-746-1005, live music, DJs, craft cocktails BREWSKIS 244 25th St., Ogden, 801-394-1713, live music THE CABIN 825 S. Main, Park City, 435-565-2337, karaoke, live music CHAKRA LOUNGE 364 S. State, 801-328-4037, live music, karaoke, DJs CHEERS TO YOU 315 S. Main, 801-575-6400, karaoke CHEERS TO YOU MIDVALE 7642 S. State, 801-566-0871, karaoke THE COMMONWEALTH ROOM 195 W. 2100 South, 801-741-4200, live music CLUB 48 16 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801-262-7555, karaoke Wednesday, Friday & Saturday CLUB 90 9065 S. Monroe St., Sandy, 801-566-3254, poker Monday, karaoke Tuesday-Thursday, DJs & live music FridaySunday CLUB TRY-ANGLES 251 W. 900 South, 801-364-3203, karaoke Thursday, DJs Friday & Saturday, drag THE COMPLEX 536 W. 100 South, 801-528-9197, live music CRUZRS SALOON 3943 S. Highland Drive, live music DEJORIA CENTER 970 N. State Road 32, Kamas, 435-783-3113, live music THE DEPOT 13 N. 400 West, 801-456-2800, live music DIABOLICAL RECORDS 238 S. Edison St., 801-792-9204, live music DONKEY TAILS CANTINA 136 E. 12300 South, Draper, 801-571-8134, karaoke Wednesday, live music Friday & Saturday DOWNSTAIRS 625 Main, Park City, 435-226-5340, live music & DJs ECCLES CENTER 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City, 435-655-3114, live music ECCLES THEATER 131 S. Main, 801-355-2787, live music EGYPTIAN THEATRE 328 Main, Park City, 435-649-9371, live music ELIXIR LOUNGE 6405 S. 3000 East, Ste. 101, Holladay, 801-943-1696, live music Friday & Saturday, DJs FELDMAN’S DELI 2005 E. 2700 South, 801-906-0369, live music THE FILLING STATION 8987 W. 2810 South, Magna, 801-981-8937, karaoke, poker, live music

FLANAGAN’S ON MAIN 438 Main, Park City, 435-649-8600, trivia Tuesday, karaoke Friday, live music & DJs FUNK ’N’ DIVE BAR 2550 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-621-3483, trivia Wednesday, karaoke Thursday, live music Friday & Saturday GARAGE ON BECK 1199 Beck St., 801-521-3904, live music GOLD BLOOD COLLECTIVE 1526 S. State, live music GRACIE’S 326 S. West Temple, 801-819-7565, live music & DJs THE GREAT SALTAIR 12408 W. Saltair Drive, Magna, 801-250-6205, live music THE GREEN PIG PUB 31 E. 400 South, 801-532-7441, live music Monday & Thursday-Saturday HANDLEBAR 751 N. 300 West, 801-953-0588, karaoke Monday, trivia Tuesday, live music THE HARP & HOUND 2550 Washington Blvd., Ogden, 801-621-3483, live music THE HEAVY METAL SHOP 63 E. Exchange Place, 801-467-7071, live music HIGHLANDER 6194 S. Highland Drive, Murray, 801-277-8251, karaoke HOG WALLOW PUB 3200 E. Big Cottonwood Canyon Road, 801-733-5567, live music ICE HAÜS 7 E. 4800 South, Murray, 801266-2127, trivia Monday, live music INFINITY EVENT CENTER 26 E. 600 South, 385-242-7488, live music IN THE VENUE/CLUB SOUND 219 S. 600 West, 801-359-3219, live music & DJs JACKALOPE LOUNGE 372 S. State, 801-359-8054, DJs JOHNNY’S ON SECOND 165 E. 200 South, 801-746-3334, DJs Tuesday & Friday, karaoke Wednesday, live music Saturday KAMIKAZES 2404 Adams Ave., Ogden, 801-621-9138, live music, comedy KARAMBA 1051 E. 2100 South, 801-696-0639, DJs, Latin dance KEYS ON MAIN 242 S. Main, 801-363-3638, karaoke, dueling pianos Wednesday-Saturday KILBY COURT 741 S. Kilby Court (330 West), 801-364-3538, live music, all ages KINGSBURY HALL 1395 E. Presidents Circle, 801-581-7100, live music LAVENDER VINYL 123 25th St., Ogden, 385-240-0336, live music THE LEPRECHAUN INN 4700 S. 900 East, Murray, 801-268-3294, karaoke, pool LIQUID JOE’S 1249 E. 3300 South, Millcreek, 801-467-5637, live music, karaoke THE LOADING DOCK 445 S. 400 West, 385-229-4493, live music, all ages LUMPY’S ON HIGHLAND 3000 S. Highland Drive, 801-484-5597, live music MANNY’S 1704 S. Main, 801-467-6289, karaoke MAVERIK CENTER 3200 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley, 801-988-8800, live music MAXWELL’S EAST COAST EATERY 357 S. Main, 801-328-0304, DJs Friday & Saturday METRO MUSIC HALL 615 W. 100 South, 385-528-0952, DJs , live music, drag THE MOOSE LOUNGE 180 W. 400 South, 435-553-8337, DJs MUSIC GARAGE 1192 Wilmington Ave., 801-577-2263, live music O.P. ROCKWELL 268 Main, Park City, 415-250-7988, live music OUTLAW SALOON 1254 W. 2100 South, Ogden, 801-334-9260, live music PARK CITY LIVE 427 Main, Park City, 435-649-9123, live music

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s get 2020 started with a proper send-off. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the coming months will bring you opportunities to achieve a host of liberations. Among the things from which you could be at least partially emancipated: stale old suffering; shrunken expectations; people who don’t appreciate you for who you really are; and beliefs and theories that don’t serve you any more. (There may be others!) Here’s an inspirational maxim, courtesy of poet Mary Oliver: “Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In a poem titled “The Mess-iah,” spiritual teacher Jeff Foster counsels us, “Fall in love with the mess of your life ... the wild, uncontrollable, unplanned, unexpected moments of existence. Dignify the mess with your loving attention, your gratitude. Because if you love the mess enough, you will become a Messiah.” I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because I suspect you’ll have a better chance to ascend to the role of Mess-iah in the coming weeks and months than you have had in many years.

“I want a trouble-maker for a lover,” he wrote. “Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, who burns like fire on the rushing sea.” In response to that testimony, I say, “Boo! Ugh! Yuck!” I say “To hell with being in an intimate relationship with a trouble-maker who fights with fate and quarrels with the sky.” I can’t imagine any bond that would be more unpleasant and serve me worse. What about you, Cancerian? Do you find Rumi’s definition glamorous and romantic? I hope not. If you do, I advise you to consider changing your mind. 2020 will be an excellent time to be precise in articulating the kinds of alliances that are healthy for you. They shouldn’t resemble Rumi’s description. (Rumi translation by Zara Houshmand.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The 18th-century comic novel Tristram Shandy is still being translated, adapted, and published today. Its popularity persists. Likewise, the 18th-century novel Moll Flanders, which features a rowdy, eccentric heroine who was unusual for her era, has had modern incarnations in TV, film and radio. Then there’s the 19th-century satirical novel Vanity Fair. It’s considered a classic even now, and appears on lists of best-loved books. The PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Comedian John Cleese believes that “sometimes we hang onto authors of these three books had one thing in common: They people or relationships long after they’ve ceased to be of any had to pay to have their books published. No authority in the use to either of you.” That’s why he has chosen to live in such a book business had any faith in them. You might have similar way that his web of alliances is constantly evolving. “I’m always challenges in 2020, Leo—and rise to the occasion with equally meeting new people,” he says, “and my list of friends seems to good results. Believe in yourself! change quite a bit.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Pisces, 2020 will be a propitious year for you to experi- VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): ment with Cleese’s approach. You’ll have the chance to meet a I’ll present two possible scenarios that could unfold for you in greater number of interesting new people in the coming months 2020. Which scenario actually occurs will depend on how willthan you have in a long time. (And don’t be afraid to phase out ing you are to transform yourself. Scenario No. 1. Love is awake, and you’re asleep. Love is ready for you but you’re not ready for connections that have become a drain.) love. Love is hard to recognize because you think it still looks like it did in the past. Love changed its name, and you didn’t notice. ARIES (March 21-April 19): When comedian John Cleese was 61, his mother died. She was Scenario No. 2. Love is awake and you’re waking up. Love is 101. Cleese testifies, “Just towards the end, as she began to run ready for you and you’re making yourself ready for love. Love out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do is older and wiser now, and you recognize its new guise. Love most of the time.” I bet you’ll experience a similar phenomenon changed its name, and you found out. (Thanks to Sarah and Phil in 2020—only bigger and better. Fewer people will try to tell Kaye for the inspiration for this horoscope.) you what to do than at any previous time of your life. As a result, you’ll be freer to be yourself exactly as you want to be. You’ll LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Renowned Greek sculptor Praxiteles created some famous and have unprecedented power to express your uniqueness. beloved statues in the fourth century B.C. One of his pieces, showing the gods Hermes and Dionysus, was displayed inside TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Renowned Taurus philosopher Bertrand Russell was sent to jail in the Temple of Hera in Olympia. But a few centuries later, an 1918 because of his pacifism and anti-war activism. He liked being earthquake demolished the Temple and buried the statue. there. “I found prison in many ways quite agreeable,” he said. “I had There it remained until 1877, when archaeologists dug it out no engagements, no difficult decisions to make, no fear of callers, no of the rubble. I foresee a metaphorically equivalent recovery in interruptions to my work. I read enormously; I wrote a book.” The your life, Libra—especially if you’re willing to excavate an old book he produced, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, is today mess or investigate a debris field or explore a faded ruin. regarded as a classic. In 2020, I would love to see you Tauruses cave out an equally luxurious sabbatical without having to go through the SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Over a period of 74 years, the Scorpio philosopher and author inconvenience of being incarcerated. I’m confident you can do this. Voltaire (1694–1778) wrote so many letters to so many people that they were eventually published in a series of 98 books, plus GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s common to feel attracted to people because of the way they nine additional volumes of appendixes and indexes. I would love look and dress and carry themselves. But here’s the problem: If to see you communicate that abundantly and meticulously in you pursue an actual connection with someone whose appearance 2020, Scorpio. The cosmic rhythms will tend to bring you good you like, there’s no guarantee it will turn out to be interesting and fortune if you do. meaningful. That’s because the most important factor in becoming close to someone is not their cute face or body or style, but rather SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): their ability to converse with you in ways you find interesting. And Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the 20th centuthat’s a relatively rare phenomenon. As philosopher Mortimer ry. He was also the richest. At the end of his life, experts estimate Adler observed, “Love without conversation is impossible.” I bring his worth was as much as $250 million, equivalent to $1.3 billion these thoughts to your attention, Gemini, because I believe that in today. But in his earlier adulthood, while Picasso was turning 2020 you could have some of the best conversations you’ve ever himself into a genius and creating his early masterpieces, he lived and worked in a small, seedy, unheated room with no running had—and as a result experience the richest intimacy. water and a toilet he shared with 20 people. If there will be ever in your life be a semblance of Picasso’s financial transformation, CANCER (June 21-July 22): Mystic poet Rumi told us the kind of person he was attracted to. Sagittarius, I’m guessing it would begin this year.

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Dean-Charles Chapman, left, and George MacKay in 1917 the narrow strip of psychological territory between abject terror and grim determination to survive. The moments where he shows his humanity most—like an encounter with a young French woman hiding out in a bombed-out building—become the stark counterpoint showing how much of men’s best selves is lost when they’re forced to do the horrible things that war demands of them. Perhaps it’s too easy to second-guess not just the kind of story a filmmaker tries to tell, but the way they try to tell it. It’s just hard not to see an implicit suggestion that, since moviegoers are bound to be intently aware of the cinematic trick being undertaken, this was the only way to tell this particular story of a brutal war and its toll on both bodies and minds. That story is compelling enough on its own that I couldn’t stop wondering, “What if I wasn’t thinking how hard it was to do this as a single 9-minute take?” CW

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next corner. Veteran cinematographer Roger Deakins lends his distinctive touch to venues ranging from darkened bunkers to night skies illuminated by little more than burning buildings, finding a way to make this journey both urgently real and, as time goes on and weariness sets in, increasingly hallucinatory. But then there’s that whole gimmick thing, and for some folks that’s going to be a big part of what amps up the stakes and the intensity. Yet while it’s clear that, from a technical standpoint, choreographing the camera movement had to be hugely complicated in some of 1917’s tight spaces, it’s not like you can’t spot the places where the narrative is stitched together: a journey into a darkened tunnel here, a moment where a main character is rendered unconscious there. And more to the point, a movie that wants to immerse me in the you-are-there terror of life on the front lines shouldn’t be distracting me with wondering where the edits are. A story built on the notion of feeling it shouldn’t leave you instead simply admiring its technique from a slight remove. In fact, it’s quite easy to imagine a more conventional telling of this same narrative that loses nothing from that conventionality. It’s actually quite strikingly paced, finding an ideal mix of moments that allow you to catch your breath, before throwing you, generally unexpectedly, into a new moment of chaos. MacKay in particular is a terrific center for these events, conveying a soldier who, like most of these men, occupies

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or the life of me, I don’t understand the impulse by filmmakers to build their stories around a visual gimmick like “I’m going to make it all look like one real-time single take,” as is the case in Sam Mendes’ 1917. From a marketing standpoint, it makes sense; it’s easy to get audiences, and sometimes even critics, talking about something that seems to have a challenging technical approach. And if you’re a director like Alfred Hitchcock, using that single-take conceit to have fun with the medium like he did with Rope, that’s one thing. But it’s also a way to guarantee that people are looking for the cracks, trying to figure out how the magician did the trick. If you’re telling a story, and you want your viewers completely immersed, what value is there in repeatedly reminding them, “This shot was really hard to pull off?” It’s even more frustrating when there’s a lot about 1917 that’s impressive aside from Mendes’ Rope trick. The setup places us on the World War I front lines of France in April 1917, as British army Lance Corporals Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) are given an important assignment. A company of British soldiers—including Blake’s older brother—is preparing to launch an offensive, believing that the retreating Germans are on the run, when in fact they’re being lured into a trap. So it’s left to the two men to travel across No Man’s Land and find their fellow soldiers and deliver the message that will prevent a suicide mission. Of course, it’s possible that Blake and Schofield themselves are on a suicide mission. Mendes—who also co-wrote the script, with Krysty Wilson-Cairns— builds tension into their harrowing journey from the outset, watching our protagonists make their way through a landscape strewn with horse carcasses, venture into the abandoned German trenches, and wonder whether enemy soldiers might be around the

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City folk bitch and moan about the high price of housing in Zion all the time. Face it, kids, we’ve been discovered by the tech world and supporting industries and people are moving here in droves. When there’s high demand, there’s high prices for rentals and purchases. You think you have it bad? I’m a native New Yorker and I pay attention to my birth state, so check out sales there in 2019: The Top 10 sales in the Big Apple last year were in a new high-rise called 220 Central Park South. Hedge fund manager and billionaire Kenneth Griffin bought four floors there for a cool $240 million. That figure is the highest purchase price in the entire country for a condo. The highest sale of a condo reported in Utah was for $7,525,000 in 2019. That was after they had dropped the price from $8,050,000. Another fund manager bought one at 220 Central Park South for almost $93 million and the musician Sting picked up one for $65.75 million. SLC and New York City saw a weird housing market last year. Yes, prices went up, but some went down and many sellers who thought they were going to take advantage of a seller’s market found that they weren’t going to cash out for as much as they had hoped. One downtown Salt Lake City condo building where I sell a lot of units never has anything for sale. Yet, at the beginning of December, they had six on the market. When my sellers got an offer for slightly less than asking price, I asked, “Do you want to be one of the six for sale or do you want to be one of the six that sold?” We’re closing escrow momentarily on that unit. Homes and condos sat on the market a little longer in both cities. City Creek, across from Temple Square, announced in November that it was nearly sold out of all condos and didn’t plan on building any more high-end units. In NYC, high-end units are having a hard time selling because the construction boom there has been enormous and high-end inventory abounds. The high-end residential tower at 15 Hudson Yards that opened in 2016 has only sold a little more than half of its inventory and a new building is going in next door with even more luxury condos. According to data mining company marketproof.com, at least a quarter of New York condos built after 2013 were still unsold in the early fall of last year. In Salt Lake City, only 12 condos built after 2013 were for sale as of last week. What’s the prediction for 2020? I’ve got no great answers for you, because politics might rule the year. Mortgage rates don’t typically change drastically during these years and well, interest rates are low and should remain under 5% in 2020. Inventory isn’t being built fast enough to meet demand and prices will still go up, while some will go down. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Ewwwww! Silence of the Lambs, indeed. A Manchester, England, woman named Joan has a unique project in mind for a custom clothing designer. Joan, 55, is anticipating having her leg amputated because of peripheral arterial disease, reported the Daily Mail, so she posted on sewport.com, requesting help to “create something beautiful and useful”—a handbag, using her own skin. She has budgeted about $3,900 for the project, which she envisions as a “medium-sized handbag with a short strap and a section down the middle that will be made from my skin,” she explained in the post. “I know it’s a bit odd and gross ... but it’s my leg, and I can’t bear the thought of it being left to rot somewhere.” There are no laws against her keeping the limb, although there is paperwork to fill out. Boris Hodakel, the founder of sewport.com, reports that no designers have come forward yet to help with Joan’s request.

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People Different From Us Asparagus is healthy and delicious. But for 63-year-old Jemima Packington of Bath, England, the columnar vegetable is much more: Packington is an asparamancer, a person who can foretell the future by tossing the spears into the air and seeing how they land. “When I cast the asparagus, it creates patterns, and it is the patterns I interpret,” Packington said. “I am usually about 75% to 90% accurate.” In fact, out of 13 predictions she made for 2018, 10 of them came true. What’s in store for 2019? Packington tells Metro News that England’s women’s soccer team will win the World Cup; A Star Is Born will win an Oscar; and fears over Brexit will be largely unfounded. Oh, and asparagus will see an all-time high in sales.

People With Issues KION TV reported on Jan. 7, 2019, that a Salinas, Calif., family’s Ring doorbell camera captured video of a man licking the doorbell for more than three hours. The homeowners were out of town during the encounter, which took place around 5 a.m., but their children were inside. Sylvia Dungan, who was alerted to the activity at her front door on her phone, said, “I thought, boy there’s a lot of traffic. ... Who the heck is that?” Salinas police identified the man as Roberto Daniel Arroyo, 33. Arroyo also relieved himself in the front yard and visited a neighbor’s house. “You kind of laugh about it afterwards because technically he didn’t do anything,” Dungan said, although police later charged him with petty theft and prowling.

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The High Price of Vanity A “vampire facial” is a procedure during which blood is drawn with a needle and then “spun” to separate the plasma, which is then injected into the face. For customers of a spa in Albuquerque, N.M., though, the most lasting effects may come after a blood test. The state’s Department of Health is urging customers of VIP Spa, which closed in September 2018, to undergo HIV testing after two people were infected following treatment there. Dr. Dean Bair of the Bair Medical Spa said people should always make sure they’re going to a licensed facility for such procedures. “This is just the worst example of what can go wrong,” he told KOAT. The spa closed after inspectors found its practices could potentially spread blood-borne infections, including hepatitis B and C as well as HIV. Free Speech TSA agents at Juneau International Airport logged unexpected cargo on April 15 when a “large organic mass” was spotted in a traveler’s carry-on bag. TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein explained to KTOO that such a flag can indicate the presence of explosives. However, when agents opened the bag, they found a plastic grocery bag full of moose “nuggets.” “The passenger told the TSA officers that he collects this and likes to present it ‘for politicians and their (bleep) policies,’” Farbstein explained. The passenger was not detained and was allowed to continue on with his bag of moose poop. Later that day, the Anchorage Daily News reported that a man was seen at the state capitol, handing out baggies of moose nuggets in protest of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s proposed budget. It’s Come to This The Pokemon Co. has made Japanese brides’ dreams come true with its announcement that it is collaborating with a wedding planner to offer sanctioned ceremonies with its characters in attendance, dressed as a bride and groom. Yes, Pikachu will stand up with you and your betrothed (as long as you go to Japan to tie the knot), and the icing on the cake is Pokemon-themed food items and a Pikachu cake topper. Finally, United Press International reports, for your scrapbook, you’ll have a marriage certificate decorated with Pokemon imagery—surely an item you’ll want to preserve in a licensed Pokemon photo frame. Send tips to weirdnewstips@amuniversal.com

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Inexplicable Sharisha Morrison of Albuquerque, N.M., and her neighbors have been the recipients since Jan. 1, 2019, of an odd gift: plastic grocery bags with slices of bread and bologna inside, delivered by an unknown man. At first, Morrison told KOB TV, she thought the food deliveries were acts of kindness, until she opened the bag and smelled the contents. “It smelled like urine,” she said. Morrison said she can watch the man on her surveillance camera. “He’ll just walk up and drop it on the little doorknob and walk away,” she said. “I just want it to stop.” Police have told her they can’t do anything unless they catch him in the act.

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Blame It on the Meth Debra Lynn Johnson, 69, of Searles, Minn., suffered from heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and mental illnesses, according to the Mankato Free Press, and was a patient at a transitional care center before her husband took her home to have a “death party,” he later told authorities. Brown County sheriff’s officers responding to a 911 call from Duane Arden Johnson, 58, on Jan. 24 found the words “Death Parde God Hell” spray-painted on the front door. Duane came out of the house naked, yelled that his wife was dead and ran back inside, where officers found him in the bathtub picking “things” from his skin. Debra’s body, still warm, was wrapped in a sheet. Duane told police his wife had begged him to take her home to die, so they had staged the party, “rocking out” to Quiet Riot’s “Metal Health” and taking methamphetamines. After her death, Duane said he washed and wrapped her “like the Bible told me to do.” Police found stolen guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in the home, and Duane was charged with felony counts of theft and receiving stolen property.

Dumb and Dumber Rogers, Ark., neighbors Charles Eugene Ferris, 50, and Christopher Hicks, 36, were hanging out on Ferris’ back porch on March 31, drinking and enjoying the spring air. Ferris was wearing his bulletproof vest—because why not?—and invited Hicks to shoot him with a .22-caliber semi-automatic rifle. KFSM reported the vest blocked the bullet from striking Ferris, but it still hurt and left a red mark on his upper chest. Next, Hicks donned the vest and Ferris “unloaded the clip into Christopher’s back,” according to the police report, also leaving bruises. That’s where it all would have ended had Ferris not gone to the hospital, where staff alerted the Benton County Sheriff’s Office. Ferris initially told officers an elaborate story about being shot while protecting “an asset” in a dramatic gunfight, but Ferris’ wife spilled the beans about the back-porch challenge. Both men were arrested for suspicion of aggravated assault.

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