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I know that camping is safer than many activities, but I’m really sick of the “you can’t get more socially distant than out in the forest!” It completely disregards the rural communities near

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these recreation areas. I live in a tiny town outside a national park and while everyone thinks they’re doing great socially distancing by camping, they’ve actually brought COVID to our area and our employees. My town is an hour’s drive each way to get to the nearest hospital, and we have a lot of older residents. @LESLEYPALF via Instagram This is great, but people need to enjoy the outdoors responsibly. Please do a follow-up story about “Leave No Trace.” People are trashing our wilderness! @KATERRISER via Instagram

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There can be a lot of harm in going camping right now. You need to be sure you’re not having to go into small towns and putting strain on systems or bringing a virus that you may have. If you’re posting articles telling people to go camping, you need to tell them ways to do this safely.” @AN_KNEE_MO via Instagram

The 2020 Utah Beer Festival Canceled

Responsible decision. Mask up, stay safe at home. JOANNE SALTAS via Facebook

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What’s your signature dish that you take to a potluck because that ‘s what you are famous for? Steve Conlin/Ogden’s Own Distillery Yeah, it’s called vodka.

The Utah Beer Festival is such an awesome event, but in my opinion, it’s the right decision. PIERRE GOINS via Instagram

Mikey Saltas Guacamole. However, I know it’s extremely good, so I only make it once a year to create strong demand and an air of mystery among my friends and cohorts.

Ken’s a staple in this city. @STARRYNIGHT0660 via Instagram

Live to drink another day ... stay safe. DEBRA VASQUEZ via Facebook

Eric Granato Not a dish but my signature contribution is high-point local craft beer and a dark sense of humor.

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When the time is right, we will be there. @UINTABREWING via Instagram

Bryan Bale I have a signature nonalcoholic drink that’s dubbed “jungle juice.” It was basically a combination of two fruit-flavored sodas along with 3 different flavors of fruit juice (from concentrate or premade). The overall ratio of soda to juice was about 50/50. I prefer to use 100% juice with no sugar added. Example: 2-liter bottle of Squirt; 2-liter bottle of Shasta kiwi-strawberry; 60-ounce bottle of 100% grape juice; 60-oounce bottle of 100% cranberry juice; 59-ounce carton limeade. Yields about 8 liters. You can use different sodas and different juices depending on your taste preferences.

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Pete Saltas My tzatziki recipe is good enough that my sister, Eleni Saltas, put it in her All You Can Greek cookbook. It’s famous! Kelly Boyce A bottle of Five Wives Heavenly Vodka and Cheetos (crunchy, never puffs). Jerre Wroble I’ve lately attempted more dips like baba ghanoush. Eggplant is a divine canvas for adding aging vegetables from my fridge (like zucchini or bell peppers that I also bake or grill, along with the eggplant). What is life without dips and sauces? Paula Metos Rice pudding—easy and comforting. Mine’s the best, if I do say so myself. My secret? I use half sushi rice and half long grain rice.

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operations in the hospitality category that tried to open but could not survive and have now closed. Others still are not even open. Hankering for a brat and beer at Beer Bar then smoothing it down with a cocktail from the Bar-X right next door? Well, hanker on since neither have turned on their lights. The quaint Patrick’s on 200 South is also still closed, suffering the double whammy of fewer bodies working downtown, but also getting zero dollars from the many Salt Palace conventions that have cancelled and which would have occurred just feet from their front door. Dick n’ Dixies, a favorite of Real Salt Lake Fans—plus of very smart people like Tribune columnist Robert Gehrke and bookseller Ken Sanders—is still closed. The Other Place Café next to that is open daily at 9 a.m., but no longer in time for their popular early breakfast since the early breakfast crowd is basically eating cereal at home these days, not driving to work downtown. Hey, here’s a Jeopardy! question for you, Gary and Spencer—and the answer is: 2%. The question? What percentage of Goldman Sachs employees have returned to their downtown offices to work? That’s right, 2%. T-W-O at the end of June and directed not to exceed 10% by the end of July. Goldman is the crown jewel and perhaps the largest of Salt Lake City’s private employers, right? Will those workers want to return to a downtown that is coming to resemble the nearly dead Main Street of 1995, not the vision of 2025? Some folks are gambling the answer is “yes.” The bar known as Quarters is down there fighting on 400 S. Main, literally fighting, for a change in Utah liquor policy that would allow clubs to sell cocktails to go. That’s an idea whose time is not only ripe, but welcome. Are you there for them, Gary and Spencer? Will you fight for the industry that helped attract companies like Goldman, in the first place? Or will you wring your hands and let the industry squirm?

Around the corner from Quarters is Alibi—it’s a relative newcomer with a tiny space not perfectly suited for social distancing. But they can’t just sit there so they’re trying to make it work. A few blocks away, the cozy Good Grammar is also open but only for small private functions. Meanwhile, out on Redwood Road the massive Westerner Club faces a different issue. Their problem is opposite of a little place—it has the deserved reputation as one of the liveliest and most fun places in all of Utah. Ever. Can anyone really two-step while social distancing? Is line dancing even permissible? We can’t even begin to measure the lost opportunities at our great venues and halls like Usana, Red Butte, Depot, State Room, Urban Lounge, Sky and Soundwell. None of them are open. They’ve all been diligent and patient during COVID-19. Therefore, it’s a shame that we see an outlier nightspot (as was given some @RobertGehrke love on Twitter) apparently violating all things healthy and respectful during COVID-19—no masks, no crowd restrictions, no social distancing. It should bother no one if all the owners of the clubs and restaurants mentioned above—those who built the industry, sacrificed for years and who continue to pay the price—all gathered round and took a big piss in the foyer of that club. That’s how things go backward in Utah. One place ruins it for all—like the anti-masker at Walmart who begs to be shamed—and the state will come down on the industry, not the culprit. When COVID-19 spreads again, and I stoutly, assuredly, firmly, confidently believe it will, the state will look for a scapegoat. The scapegoat will be the hospitality industry even though it is not the problem in Utah. The state has been useless to them and to all other small businesses. Salt Lake is a lesser city without the neon lights and silverware settings of Utah’s hospitality industry. Turn their lights on, Gary! Spencer! CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net

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or the past couple of months, I’ve been a broken record regarding the horrible mess that Gov. Gary Herbert and Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox have left normal Utahns with regarding anything coronavirus-related. I’m sorry, not sorry. I stoutly believe they kowtow to the whims of Donald Trump to the detriment of strong, cohesive local policy—so much so, that when Trump tells Herbert and Cox to “open up!” the visage of such causes the timid among us blush up to the color of my dear grandmother’s favorite rouge. I firmly believe that Herbert and Cox are afraid of their rural Utah base and don’t want to trigger anything that will jeopardize their standing among the denim set. Not even if it means some of them must die, too, because “it is what it is.” I confidently believe that they are choosing dollars over lives. They tilted in favor of businessperson whispers—too early changed from a cautious course to reopen Utah and set us on a path of growing cases, death counts and uncertainty. I assuredly believe they favor certain business categories over others—the hospitality and tourism industries that pour billions into Utah coffers has been left on the vine to dry, for instance. When the tab comes due, Herbert and Cox will do what Utah state leaders have always done: They will raise the taxes on alcohol, raise fees and costs for licenses and pass the financial burden back to only those in Utah who consume alcohol. That plan has worked since Prohibition, basically. It may not work this time though since it’s been nearly five months past the original two-week “stay safe, stay home” type closures. There is a growing number of

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At the same time as David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan was kicked off Twitter, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, bemoaned how tech companies are so damned unfair to conservatives. He speaks out against their heavy-handed actions after they removed a fun video from the Tweeter in Chief of “America’s Frontline Doctors,” which featured Stella Immanuel, the doctor who not only believes face masks are unnecessary, but also that demons are doing their dirt in our sleep. Oh, and that hydroxychloroquine is a cure for COVID. Because Lee’s a senator and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, he was covered in both The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News—and everywhere else. The D-News decided we’re having a crisis of free speech, mentioning Twitter as “victimizing innocent bystanders.” In fact, the paper confused cancel culture and free speech (the former is about speaking out in our private/professional lives, while the latter is about the right to criticize the government), and it neglected the individual responsibility to have the courage of their convictions.

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The debate goes on and the sides are becoming more and more polarized. On the weekend of Aug. 8 and 9, the county will see competing rallies, one—Bikers Backing Blue in Salt Lake City—is in support of the police and another—March Against Police Brutality—wants to draw attention to the rising national problem. The march is a call to action to require body cameras and the release of footage after a police-involved incident. Police names and badges should be visible and hiring qualifications should be improved. Also required should be regular training in ethics and the prevention of excessive force. Organizers ask you to wear black and wear masks. Sandy Justice Court, 210 W. Sego Lily Drive, Sandy, Sunday, Aug. 9, 7 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/30hc2vu Bikers: “No arms, no belligerent attitudes, nothing that can be considered a threat to the “snowflakes” in your community—just numbers. Be prepared to recite the pledge of allegiance and offer a prayer for our leaders, our country and its citizens. We should pray for God’s grace, our country’s unity and our communities’ security,” they say. Salt Lake County Government Center, 2001 S. State, Saturday, Aug. 8, 11 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3guqeHb

Funding Government Services During a Pandemic

You might ask why, in a global pandemic, we should be worried about fiscal responsibility, and U.S.Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, will explain just how difficult it is to pit community health against the economy. McAdams will speak at Fiscal Responsibility, Transparency and Accountability During COVID-19 in a Sutherland Institute online event, part of its Congressional Series. “At a time when we face $1 trillion annual deficits and both parties punt on even trying to pass a budget blueprint, we need to consider a new structure to force fiscal discipline,” he says. McAdams has fought against congressional pay raises and is considered a moderate Democrat. Register online, Monday, Aug. 10, 11 a.m.-12 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/314mIwy

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Do you want to know what a Republican candidate thinks about homelessness? Crossroads Urban Center will present Conversation About Housing and Homelessness With Trent Staggs in its ongoing Facebook Live series. Staggs is the GOP candidate for Salt Lake County mayor. Incumbent Mayor Jenny Wilson has yet to commit to the series, which replaces Crossroads’ annual poverty summit. Once held up as a national example, Salt Lake City has grappled with emergencies surrounding Pioneer Park and The Road Home and has spent $67 million the new homeless resource system, about which the jury’s still out. Online, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 11-11:45 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/2DqveOo

You can try to hide, but when developers get involved, the cover of night isn’t much help. That’s the message for what they call the hamlet of Hideout, which quietly amended an annexation bill to reach across county lines. “… the substitute bill introduced a new concept that has never been contemplated under Utah law; the notion that an annexation can occur without consideration from the underlying county,” a letter from the Utah Association of Counties says. Both the Park Record and Salt Lake Tribune noted the “interest” from developer Nate Brockbank and son-of-the-senator Josh Romney as well as some legislative sleight-of-hand. Never mind that Wasatch and Summit counties and Park City objected, concerned about sprawl and big-box development. Now Summit County is suing Hideout. That’s great and should be a message about playing fair. But certain legislators think fairness is for other people.

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Do black lives really matter— especially if they’re children? Voices for Utah Children released data to the media that asks that very question. “Native/Indigenous youth were sent to locked detention centers at three times the expected representation, the report noted. And Black children make up nearly 12% of all ‘secure care placements’—though they represent just 1.4% of the school-aged population,” The Salt Lake Tribune noted. This despite great strides in childhood arrests—down 26.2 percent between 2014 and 2018. But not for kids of color. The Annie E. Casey Foundation found that “the overwhelming majority of kids in lockup are held for nonviolent offenses.” These statistics cry out for different strategies, something more humane and developmentally appropriate than jail.

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The very name of the Craft Lake City DIY Festival indicates the spirit behind the event—the idea that creative people have the ability to use whatever tools they have available to them and make interesting things. So if you thought that the COVID-19 pandemic would mean the absence of Craft Lake City from 2020, you’re just not thinking inventively enough. This year, the event has moved to the virtual space (craftlakecity.com/diy-festival, Aug. 7-9), while still providing a showcase for Utah’s artisans, writers, makers and other crafty citizens. “Attendees can rest assured that the Virtual DIY Festival will still pull out all the stops,” Craft Lake City Executive Director Angela H. Brown says via press release. “Just because we must stay physically distant, does not mean we will not be engaging socially. We are flexing our creative muscles by building an interactive virtual environment for participants and exhibitors alike.” While that engagement will in part

For more than 30 years, Salt Lake City artist Pilar Pobil has invited the local community into her personal garden during the summer for a celebration of art, music and companionship. While the circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic made it impractical to hold the event in 2020 in the same way it has been the past, the board of the Pilar Pobil Foundation felt it was important to find a way to keep the tradition going. “At first we thought, ‘Maybe it’s too hard,’” says the foundation’s board president, Monica Whalen. “Pilar is 93. Maybe we could not have it. But we held a conference call with the artists, rather than decide for them what they could do.” The result is the Art in Pilar’s Garden Virtual Party, to be held Friday, Aug. 7, 6:30 p.m. via the foundation’s YouTube channel (youtube. com/channel/UCzfVsrWjjOz2qyEORI4HnOg). The free live event will include a tour of Pilar Pobil’s beautiful Avenues home and gardens, conversations with Pobil, musical performances by singer/songwriter Monica Pasqual and classical guitarist Gabino Flores, and exhibited work by invited artists Anne

include a somewhat traditional portal where visitors can read about the participating artisans and see their work, the virtual festival will also offer a more immersive experience of creating an avatar to “walk the aisles” of the virtual festival space and even chat with the artists themselves. The event itself is free, but guests are asked to donate what they can, and to support the more than 150 invited creators whose jewelry, visual art, personal care products and more will be available for purchase. This might be the closes approximation you’ll find this summer to the buzz and energy of being at an actual festival. (Scott Renshaw)

Ogden Movement Collective: Untangle

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While the “Great Pause” in performing arts forced many shows to cancel or re-schedule, it also coincided with a tremendous national focus on social action this summer, as protests around the country and around the world acknowledged a legacy of institutional racism. How could artists confront not just the solitude engendered by the pandemic, but the need for collective strength borne out by marches and demonstrations of unified purpose? On Aug. 7, for two performances at 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., Ogden Movement Collective presents Untangle at The Monarch (455 25th St., Suite 301, Ogden, facebook.com/ events/2502717433324606/). Originally inspired by dance therapy work at an inpatient treatment center, Untangle was intended to address the transition from isolation to connection. But when the original performance scheduled for April was postponed, the creators were forced to contend with their own feelings of isolation. According

As the new documentary The Fight chronicles (see City Weekly, July 30), the American Civil Liberties Union has had its hands full over the past threeand-a-half years addressing the many assaults on basic Constitutional freedoms launched by the Trump administration— attacks on LGBTQ rights, on immigrants, on voting rights and more. Recent treatment of protesters by local law enforcement and Federal agents has only made it clearer that the battle to preserve liberty never ends, and will always need advocates. While the work of fighting for those rights is ongoing, it’s important to take a moment to recognize when there have been victories, and to gather together those who believe in that fight—even if the gathering needs to be virtual. On Friday, Aug. 7, 6 p.m.-7 p.m., ACLU of Utah hosts a Virtual Community Block Party as a chance for members, supporters and community partners to join together. It’s a way to feel the strength in numbers

to a press release, “After quarantine stillness, came the movement. Flames of social justice, realizing just how connected we really are: when one of us can’t breathe, none of us can.” In conjunction with Black Lives Matter-Ogden, Untangle became an evening of performance art uniting the two paradigm shifts of this moment, and showcasing for the community what these two seismic events inspired. Attendance is limited to 75 audience members per performance, and ticket must be purchased in advance online, $20 per person. Seats will be spaced according to social distancing guidelines, and masks must be worn by all attendees. Free beverages are provided through event sponsor Utah Craft Beverages. (SR)

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Albaugh, Mark Crenshaw, Dan Cummings, Randi Lile, Sue Martin, Polly Plummer, Marilyn Read and Steven K. Sheffield. Online attendees will be able to purchase the artists’ work during the event and for a short time afterward. “Artists are really hurting right now,” Whalen says. “Studios are closed, or galleries are only online. The creative community really needed this event. We’re hoping to reach out to a larger audience, … for the whole community to give everyone a chance to see this garden.” (SR)

that isn’t always possible, especially during a time of physical distancing. As part of the event, ACLU of Utah will be honoring the recipients of the 2020 Torch of Freedom and the Mickey Duncan Award for excellence in civil liberties legal advocacy. It’s also a chance to recognize four local teens receiving scholarships for youth activism: Ria Agarwal and Dulce Horn of Rowland Hall; Emory Bouffard of the Academy of Math, Science and Engineering; and Ainsley Moench of Skyline. Visit facebook. com/events/1198086557193884/ for more information, and register to receive a link to the online event. (SR)

Utah Martin and LAJAMARTIN get creative to keep performing artists working BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

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you see a group moving together so tightly. You can’t do that anymore.” At the same time, she recognizes that the virtual space presents opportunities, specifically for a company that does consider itself “dance theater.” That includes the chance to incorporate pre-recorded material, and to stage choreography in a way that takes advantage of the intimacy of up-close-and-personal videography. “When we’re thinking about [a live] audience, we’re thinking about the big picture of the stage,” Field says. “With a camera, we can be tighter, focus on smaller parts of the stage. … We want a cinematic look, something visceral.” Perhaps most importantly, it’s a chance for artists to work—and in this particular case, to support the future work of young artists. Funds raised by the performance in Off Season will go in part to the scholarship founded by LAJAMARTIN for a dancer’s college education, focusing on communities and demographics that might not otherwise have that opportunity. I have watched some talented young people perform at a level beyond some professionals, but they don’t necessarily have the resources to continue,” Field says. “How many artists do you lose because of that?” Financial realities will be facing artists of all kinds for some time, and Off Season represents part of Utah Presents’ attempts to keep the engine chugging, along with providing physical space for artists like LAJAMARTIN to rehearse and perform. “Artists need to get paid,” Horesji says. “If we just suspended everything and went into hibernation mode to survive the year, we don’t know coming out into spring of 2021 what will be different, and it doesn’t help artists survive. “Artists are the original gig workers. And we don’t have social safety nets for artists. They don’t have ways to protect themselves during times like this.” CW

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cally begin. “For us,” Horesji says, “we’re thinking about not just trying to hold on until things get back to normal in terms of the performing arts, but in terms of evolution if mass gatherings can’t be habitual or regular. It’s hard to evolve at any point, but having to evolve under pressure is even harder on your brain and emotions.” That evolution meant trying to figure out what kinds of performances could exist virtually, even as people started to recognize the “Zoom fatigue” of interacting over the internet. “I know we’re all getting a little bit burned out, but it’s a place where we’re going to have to invest more of our energy,” Horesji says. “As a presenter, we can be working with artists willing to exist in two realms.” Horesji reached out to the creative team behind LAJAMARTIN—Laja Field and Martin Durov—as one such possible contributor to creating a virtual performance. Utah Presents had an established creative relationship with LAJAMARTIN, which was originally commissioned to create a live piece for Utah Present’s planned season launch party before it became clear that event would need to be cancelled. “We didn’t want to put our relationship with them on hold,” Horesji says, “so we let them know when you’re ready, we’ll figure out how to get it out into the world.” Field—a Salt Lake City native and University of Utah graduate who danced professionally in Europe and New York before moving back to Utah with Durov, her husband, to found LAJAMARTIN—acknowledges that there are unique challenges to staging a performance during the pandemic, including the kind of choreography that can be performed safely by the dancers. “A lot of our work, we like seeing people close together,” Field says. “That’s all out. So it’s been challenging how to find new ways to convey the same type of relationship, or the dense physicality of when

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he show must go on” is one of the most enduring principles of the performing arts, a collective mission statement that no obstacle is impossible to overcome. But we’re living in a time when many shows can’t go on—and that reality has had a profound impact on performing artists, both psychologically and financially. This week, Utah Presents hosts Off Season, a virtual dance theater performance by LAJAMARTIN Dance Company. While the live streaming event is free with online registration, both Utah Presents and LAJAMARTIN have designed the event as a fund-raiser to support creative work—and as an example of trying to explore what kind of performance work is possible during a pandemic to keep artists working. According to Utah Presents executive director Brooke Horesji, a lot has changed since the organization first began responding to the pandemic in March and April. Where the initial focus was on canceling and re-scheduling planned events, eventually the focus turned to the realization that things still likely wouldn’t be “normal” by the time the next season would typi-

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For Fox 13 general manager Tim Ermish, the station’s 2019 acquisition by the Ohio-based E.W. Scripps Co. was like they “won the lottery.” He described the preceding years as an “unsettling” time for KSTU, a relatively generous term for a period that saw the station bandied about like a trading card as the nation’s mega-conglomerates jockeyed for market positioning. “We didn’t change any of our journalistic integrities,” Ermish said. “[Scripps’] commitment to journalism is at the core of their values, and they’re in it for the long term. Whereas, some of our prior owners were private equity and were just holding onto us for a bit.” That optimism is largely shared, in public and private, by members of the Utah press. E.W. Scripps is a name, like Joseph Pulitzer, that is synonymous with capital-J legacy journalism, and while that’s no guarantee of success or quality, it carries both weight and responsibility. Before Scripps, Fox 13 was owned by Chicago’s Tribune Media—nothing to do with The Salt Lake Tribune— a company that was absorbed in 2019 by the ABC4-owning Nexstar Media Group. Since federal rules prohibit

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strengths or weaknesses of the local market than they do a national game of chess between the major broadcast groups. Economic pressures, increased competition and federal deregulation have pushed the industry toward conglomerate owners, he said, with chains absorbing other chains and shuffling stations in order to maximize their footprint. “Television is not the great gold mine that it used to be,” Wirth said. While ownership is never permanently settled, Wirth said he expects more stability in the market going forward. And while the prospect of massive, faceless, outof-state owners can appear threatening to local news content, Wirth said many of those owners are committed to journalistic integrity and that station employees can be a buffer against corporate agendas. “I don’t feel that great concern that some people do,” Wirth said. “You still have local reporters covering local stories.” The following report is based on multiple interviews with current and former Utah journalists. The author also previously worked in both The Salt Lake Tribune and combined KSL/Deseret News newsrooms.

ver the past decade, ownership of most commercial television stations in Utah has changed hands at least once. The outlier in that sentence is KSL, uniquely owned since its inception by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and expected to be so owned until the collapse of the faith or Judgment Day, whichever comes first. But at KUTV (CBS 2), KSTU (Fox 13) and KTVX (ABC4), the ownership landscape has been rocked by tectonic shifts. And—like Salt Lake County in 2020—it’s not yet clear whether the ground has stopped shaking. First though, know this: Because broadcast frequencies are scarce, and the airways are public by nature, the Federal Communications Commission regulates who is licensed to own and operate on those frequencies. Single station owners are limited from reaching more than 39% of national TV audiences and they cannot own more than two stations in most TV markets (although there are numerous exceptions, waivers and loopholes to those rules). Craig Wirth—a longtime broadcaster currently with ABC4 who also teaches journalism at the University of Utah—said the changes in Utah have less to do with the

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the ownership of two-out-of-four top stations in a local market, it prompted the sale of Fox 13 to Scripps. To add complexity, the Nexstar-Tribune Media merger came on the heels of a failed attempt by the KUTV 2-owning Sinclair Broadcast Group to absorb Tribune Media, which similarly would have required the sale of Fox 13 to a new owner. But Sinclair’s plans were sloppy and flew flagrantly in the face of the Federal Communications Commission’s already lax ownership rules. And despite Sinclair’s wornon-its-sleeves friendship with the current occupants of the White House, the company was slapped with a record-steep $48 million penalty. And in a twist that seems stranger than fiction, the $48 million penalty was prompted in part by Sinclair stations airing segments produced by Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute without disclosing them as paid content. A spokesman for the FCC declined to comment on the status of the penalty and said the anonymous complaint that triggered the commission’s investigation into the Huntsman Cancer Institute segments is not publicly available. With the dust relatively settled, Utah’s television market is now owned by the singlemost-influential entity in the state and three conglomerate interlopers of varying pedigrees. Nexstar has a reputation as a dispassionate penny-pincher, short on local station investment but relatively hands-off on the editorial side. Scripps has a hopeful face but is tested by the same market pressures as any legacy newsroom and is the smaller of its outsize counterparts. And to prove it wants to play in the big leagues, Scripps recently blacked out coverage for DISH customers in 31 states as a negotiating tactic for higher rates. And then there’s Sinclair, which acquired KUTV 2 in late 2011. Owned by the family of founder Julian Sinclair Smith, Smith’s sons are known for donating heavily to Republican causes.

Hostage Videos

If Fox 13 and Scripps is a match made in heaven, then KUTV 2 and Sinclair is something akin to a forced marriage. Both class clown and big bad wolf in the journalism community, Sinclair is the nation’s second largest owner of local TV stations—just behind ABC4-owning Nexstar. Sinclair—with a horse in the 2020 race and a penchant for micromanagement—has used its position of strength to feed a nakedly one-sided, conservative advocacy effort that’s taken on a particular zeal during the Trump presidency. Sinclair outlets have been forced to air ham-fisted “must run” segments and, in 2018, on-air personalities were made to read a disingenuous, anti-fake news screed in what came to be known in media circles as the “hostage videos.” But current and former reporters say top-down pressure from Sinclair has eased somewhat and that—aside from the Maryland-produced must-run segments—local outlets are given wide editorial latitude to produce community content. One reporter said that while there is a tension between the station’s employees and its owner, the larger issue is the public perception of Sinclair and how it can undermine

trust in the work done by Utah professionals. “It feels like all of the earnest work you do every day to find all sides of the story is irrelevant if people assume you’re just a shill for Sinclair’s politics,” the reporter said. In good circumstances, a corporate owner will provide stations with down-the-middle national and international reporting to fill gaps in the schedule, similar in function to a newspaper wire service. In ideal circumstances, they would use their size to invest in competitive markets and give stations a leg up on the competition. But with Sinclair, the corporate content is of such shoddy quality that many stations—including KUTV—elect to bury it on the weekends and other lesser-viewed hours of the weekly schedule. One such piece aired last month, all-but-endorsing a baseless conspiracy theory that the novel coronavirus had been intentionally manufactured by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert and an inadvertent foil to President Donald Trump’s all-smiles mischaracterizations of the pandemic. Sinclair responded to the backlash against the segment by saying it would be postponed and “reworked” before airing in additional markets. At the time of the hostage videos, the left-leaning Alliance for a Better Utah criticized Sinclair for co-opting local news for political purposes. But Chase Thomas, ABU’s executive director, said his organization’s criticisms don’t necessarily extend to KUTV 2. He credited the station with maintaining independence from its owner and said he sees no clear and present danger—with KUTV 2, specifically, and Utah’s other stations, generally—in the local content reaching Utah’s living rooms. “I love our Utah reporters, and I don’t think any of them are trying to put super obvious slanted bias in their work,” Thomas said. “I feel like we can trust all of our major media here in the Utah market.”

Prophet-ability

Spencer Hall, a former KSL.com news director, said conversations around media ownership tend to mimic a broader “myth of objectivity” in journalism. Ownership has an effect on reporting, he said, as does the background of individual reporters, editors and station managers. “I think it’s always been silly for reporters to act like they’re objective,” Hall said. “You studied at a university, you grew up a certain way, you’re from somewhere. Your experience matters, and I think the real benefit to your reader is to acknowledge who you are and what you’re bringing to the table.” Hall said that while the Deseret News competes with the Tribune and KSL competes with its rival stations, there’s no analogous counterpart in the state to the church’s multi-platform media organization, which combines online, print, television and radio news reporters in one workspace on 300 West. Hall said that singularity has the effect of taking squabbles that would normally play out across town and moving them into the shared newsroom, despite an outward appearance of unified, Temple Square-approved voices. “Any time we do a story that involves the church, people think that the prophet himself walked across the street and handed in the script,” Hall said. “It’s just, simply, not true.”

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But Hall added that while corporate ownership does not dictate every minute of a newscast, it does steer long-term trends in content. And if reporters, individually or collectively as a station, don’t harmonize with their owners’ voice, Hall said, they’re likely to end up working for a different employer. “At the end of the day, you have to align with ownership’s values or you just won’t stay,” he said, “and that’s true anywhere.” Thomas, of the Alliance for a Better Utah, said that while residents don’t currently need to be concerned about any particular station’s reporting, they should always be cautious of news content, whether broadcast or written word. Better than dismissing a report—or reporter—based on corporate ownership, he said, is to consume news from multiple outlets and draw conclusions based on a body of content. “The thing that we try to encourage people to do is to consume news that challenges your assumptions,” Thomas said. “I read both papers every morning, and I would encourage people to do that.”

The Classifieds Coup

Beyond the content of a local newscast, there is a question of a station owner’s impact on the local newscasters. The nation’s broadcast licenses are increasingly held by a shrinking number of ever-expanding corporate conglomerates, a trend that began long ago and which has been facilitated by administrations of both major political parties. “They’re gobbling up more and more stations,” one reporter said of the major broadcast groups, “and the FCC is letting them do it.” In Utah, newsrooms are increasingly staffed with younger, less-experienced—and therefore cheaper—employees. Multiple current and former Utah reporters contacted for this report mentioned that the state’s TV stations regularly hire recent college graduates, something that was unheard of in the market not too many years ago. And with much of the nation’s television airwaves controlled by national, publicly traded companies, reporters say it’s increasingly common for local station budgets to be scraped in order to satisfy corporate costs and obligations to shareholders. Hall, the former KSL.com manager, said it’s the local news team that establishes trust in a station. And some reporters are able to cultivate a personal journalistic brand that supersedes their current management. But that individual longevity is also challenged, Hall said, by the financial pressures of an industry that increasingly asks a smaller number of employees to do a greater amount of work for lower pay with fewer resources and, particularly for women, under public harassment. “I had no idea the way women got treated until I had to manage the inbox of all the comments that came in,” Hall said. “I was shocked.” And to the degree that the LDS Church is perceived as a heavy-handed media owner, Hall said people should consider the “Wild West” days of the early KSL.com, when employees took a bottom-up risk and leaned into online classified ads. In virtually every other state, it’s Craigslist. In Utah, it’s KSL. “You can meet up with $200 in a parking lot at Home Depot and buy a PlayStation from someone,” Hall said. “It’s just so interesting that a church-owned brand was given

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so much leeway to let people have this open forum where they could buy and sell.” Hall said the church doesn’t get the credit it deserves within the industry as the state’s only local television owner, and the only owner in the market to consistently hold its station. For better or worse, out-of-state owners are bound to be focused elsewhere. “They’ve realized there’s a business model to be had by doing the minimum,” Hall said. “Just hope that somebody does good work, but we’re not going to invest in our station at all.” And as any TV news reporter will tell you in private, it must be nice to have Chopper 5 on your side.

Bigger Doesn’t Mean Bad

Marc Sternfield, Fox 13 news manager, said one of the positive aspects of Scripps acquiring the station is a company-wide commitment to public engagement. He said Scripps expects their stations to demonstrate that their brand and their reporters have deep ties to the communities they serve. He and Ermish, the station GM, gave the example of a recent one-day fundraising campaign for the Utah Food Bank, held in conjunction with Fox 13’s sister-stations across the country. Fox 13 raised just under $100,000, with the Scripps network collectively raising more than $2 million for local food banks. “The Fox 13 that our viewers have come to know is still that same Fox 13,” Sternfield said. “If anything, under Scripps, we have an even greater commitment to the community.” When asked about Nexstar, Wirth said he wasn’t in a position to comment on whether the company is atypically frugal, since he works part time for ABC4. But he added that in more than 50 years working in the broadcast industry, he’s never been more pleased with a station owner. “I can tell you honestly—it’s not a company line—I have never been treated better than I have been by Nexstar,” Wirth said. Al Tompkins, a Poynter Institute faculty member and career journalist, said much of the recent activity in media ownership was motivated by the 2020 election cycle, with broadcast groups aiming to solidify their market positions ahead of an influx of political advertisements. He said bargaining power with advertisers and cable syndication is one of the advantages of size, as is the potential for young reporters to shine in small ponds and work their way to larger markets, similar to a baseball farm team. “Bigger doesn’t mean bad,” Tompkins said. “It can mean bad, just as smaller can mean bad.” The real question with ownership, Tompkins said, is whether local stations are allowed to uniquely serve their communities. Big owner or small owner, he said, the broadcast license carries an explicit responsibility to the public. “You citizens own the airwaves and the stations are truly licensed to serve the communities,” he said. “It’s not optional, they really have to do that.” CW

A Former News Anchor Reports From the Field

Hope Woodside: “Stations get sold all the time.”

Hope Woodside took her anchor chair beside Bob Evans at KSTU-Fox 13 in October 1995, launching a remarkable 23 year run. Woodside arrived in Utah after three years as morning anchor of Chicago Cableland News, a 24-hour news service. Before that, she anchored newscasts in Toledo, Ohio, and Midland, Texas. Woodside departed Fox 13 in late September 2018 and made headlines the following spring for racking up two DUI citations in two days’ time. She now resides in Arizona.

Does it matter who owns a TV station?

Stations get sold all the time. In Toledo, we got sold a lot.

What kept you at Fox 13 for so long?

I just loved everybody. We had a great newsroom.

What motivated your decision to leave?

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What are you up to now?

After watching journalism change, would you recommend it as a career?

How do we keep those connections during social distancing?

This virus thing, it’s insane. We’re all isolated, and maybe it’s a lesson on how much we do need each other when we’re sitting alone in our rooms. I have a sponsor and a ‘sponsee’ now, and we’re always in connection. I guess connection is the key no matter if you’re face-to-face or on the phone but connect with people. We need each other in this world, we really do. CW

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Probably. I loved my life. I had a great run, I really did. I met incredible people. I learned so much about the human condition, good and bad. I’m sure that news camaraderie between reporters is still there. I hope so. Maybe you have to do the downand-dirty quick stuff, but I have faith that there’s still that gem story that you can devote time to, even if it’s on

What should TV stations be doing differently? My wish would be that journalists got the time to do their job. I wish you could give a journalist, not 30 minutes to throw a story together but the time to write one. The time to talk to the people you need to talk to. The luxury of sitting down with someone and doing an in-depth interview. Good reporters have the ability to draw a story out of someone, but it’s usually because you’re connected. You’re face-to-face, you can get the feel for someone. You can tell when somebody’s being honest and true or just giving you bullshit over the phone.

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I decided to stay here in Arizona. I got an apartment. I feel like it’s a new beginning. I don’t know what’s next. I know this, I am here on this planet to help others, so I want to do something with meaning. I want to do something where I can use my experience in life to help others. I don’t know if that means reporting good stories about getting back on your feet, or how to help others. I’m actually praying a lot about it. The two days I spent in lock-up were amazing. I got to hear all of those people’s stories. We’re all the same at the end of the day. I met some incredible women who were facing long sentences, and they were pretty incredible. I became a journalist again. I interviewed everybody. All of it has been a blessing. It brought me here. It brought me to a place where I’m just grateful. I’m closer to God than ever.

your own time, because you love it. You love doing what you do. All of social media feels fake to me. A lot of it isn’t real, and it’s a way people communicate today instead of sitting down face-to-face and getting to know each other. That breaks my heart. People are amazing. You sit down and talk to a homeless man—he’s got a story to tell. He didn’t just wake up one day and say, ‘I think I’ll be homeless.’ We’re all people with souls and compassion and stories to tell.

I just couldn’t do it anymore. I got so depressed. In my opinion, we weren’t doing good stories, and that’s also a change of the times. You don’t have two hours to go out there and really investigate and do a good story. Once everything became all on social media, people weren’t going out. The job changed. It wasn’t ‘go and report’—like, go and find yummy stories that people can relate to. It was a lot of copied stuff—which is fine—that’s always a part of it, but you had no time to cultivate and do a good story. In this computer age, you’re not afforded the time. This was my experience. There are many journalists out there who still do that. But in this kind of newsroom age that I was involved in, it was: You go out there, you get the story, you come back, but you didn’t really have the time to gather all the information you needed to delve as deep as you need to. I got depressed. I would go home after work and drink a bottle of wine. I was driving around in my car in my

neighborhood, and basically that’s where I got two DUIs because I was miserable. I look at those two DUIs today as a blessing. It brought me to my knees, and I left my situation.

Hope Woodside: I was in Toledo three years. Great experience there. I was the cop beat reporter. I was stalked in Toledo. That was really frightening. The FBI got involved, they went into his apartment, and he had wall-to-wall VHS tapes of me. It was frightening. From there, I went back to Chicago. It was great being back in my hometown with my family. I loved it. I was the morning show anchor, and it’s more learning, it’s loving what you do. I wasn’t on the beat anymore; I was on the desk, and that was awesome. It was home. I fell in love, got engaged. He had kids in Los Angeles, and Utah called, and it was close to LA—certainly wasn’t across the country, so that’s why I settled in Utah. I earned my stripes. You had to cut your teeth and earn your stripes with stuff like that.

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Beirut Café opened as part of Sunburst Car Wash and Food Mart’s recent renaissance—the new digs are most impressive. As family and community are deep within the DNA of Lebanese food, this quaint spot feels like a perfect fit for Beirut Café. It’s

t seems fitting that, after extolling the experimental virtues of West Valley City in last week’s issue, I would stumble upon Beirut Café (1326 E. 5600 South, 801-679-1688, beirutcafe. com) on the other side of the valley. Nestled deep in a sleepy Cottonwood suburb, this fast-casual Lebanese restaurant that shares a space with a Farr’s Ice Cream shop is one of the most unexpectedly charming developments on the East Side. For the past year, Beirut Café has been serving up Lebanese and other Middle Eastern favorites for the neighborhood, and its proximity to an ice cream shop means there’s no stopping you from buying a scoop to put on top of your baklava.

overwhelmingly monotone, and the tomatoes didn’t quite manage to spruce up the flavors. It’s something I’d be willing to try again, but I feel like the spinach and cheese pie ($5.99) is the way to go here. Regardless of the entrée you get at Beirut Café, you really shouldn’t leave without a piece of homemade baklava ($2.99). It’s got just the right consistency, and it has a lovely burnt caramel finish on top of the traditional flavors of pistachios and syrup. If you’re after a more regal dessert, the cheese kunafa ($4.99) will not disappoint. It’s a sticky mix of cheese-filled phyllo dough that has been soaked in syrup hit with rose water and orange blossom, and topped with pistachios. Visiting a place like Beirut Café is one of the absolute pleasures of covering the local food scene. Not only does the food deliver, but it’s always fun to see an established community get a culinary jolt from far beyond its borders. CW

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offer all three on the same plate so you don’t have to choose. The falafel plate at Beirut is solid—nothing spectacular, but exactly what you want when you’re craving those yummy, deep-fried medallions of chickpea heaven. I did think the use of sesame seeds in the falafel’s crispy exterior was a good call—they add a bit of extra nuttiness to the starchy dish. I found that ordering the falafel plate along with the baba ghanouj was a good way to experience Beirut’s Lebanese dip game, since the falafel comes with hummus and a tahini sauce. I had a great time breaking the falafel in half and coating each bite with something different. Hummus and baba ghanouj are strong indicators of a Middle Eastern joint’s grasp of flavor and texture, and the Beirut team knows exactly what they’re doing. Their hummus is on the creamier side and a bit heavy with its garlicky flavor, both of which I really like. The baba ghanouj—a blend of smoked eggplant, tahini, olive oil and lemon juice—is also silky smooth, and doesn’t skimp on the tart aftertaste imparted by the lemon. One misfire on my visit was the meat pie ($4.99), a pizza-like flatbread topped with tomatoes and a seasoned mix of finely ground beef and lamb. The meat topping was

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traffic making up a good portion of Beirut Café’s business, its menu is packed with grab and go options like the chicken or beef shawarma ($7.49). A peek behind the counter reveals the signature stack of skewered meat luxuriating in the heat of a vertical rotisserie. This is the key to any good shawarma, and your order comes freshly sliced from this hypnotic cone of slow-roasted meat. There’s no clear winner between the beef or chicken—I’d go as far as to suggest the chicken for lunch and the beef for dinner, but one should always listen to their heart when it comes to shawarma. For those after more of a sit-down meal, the mixed grill ($15.99) and the falafel plate ($12.99) go very nicely with an order of baba ghanouj ($4.99). The Lebanese penchant for herbs and spices takes front and center with the skewers of chicken, lamb and slightly spicy kafta served on top of rice and grilled onions. Again, it’s very difficult to determine which protein is the MVP, since they’re all so lovely. The grilled chicken can be a bit dry at times, but the flavors it gets from its pre-grill service are just right. Lamb always brings more natural flavors to the table, and the ground beef mixture known as kafta is a tasty mix between a sausage and a meatball— let’s just say it’s a good thing they

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Chettinad House (169 S. Main Street, chettinad-house.com) recently opened in the space that used to house Lamb’s Grill, and they have a breakfast menu that has me all kinds of curious. In addition to a stellar assortment of lamb, goat, chicken, veggie and seafood curries, Chettinad House will satisfy those early morning cravings for Indian food with a few different dosas and omelets. I can only imagine the delicious harmony that a crispy, crepe-like dosa could create with some sunny side up eggs. On top of that, entrees like Chicken Manchurian and mango prawn curry sound like solid bets for dinner. I’ve also heard talk that this place isn’t afraid to turn up the heat if you’re craving some extra spice with your meal. Quote of the Week: “The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.” –George Orwell

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you’re a hazy purist, this will appeal to you. Unless you’re really into the hazy IPA styles, you might not pick up on the subtleties described in these two hop profiles, so the average beer nerd can’t go wrong with either of these new releases. The Uinta is very limited, and the 2 Row is a new seasonal, so if having the new newness is a must, you’d better get your butt in gear. As always, cheers! CW

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hinking about music in any serious way has been a challenge these few months—and it’s an everyday struggle even for this music writer. These past months of the pandemic have found me enjoying music in new and strange ways I never thought I would, from gazing up at a rooftop where some friends play music obscured to finally getting pop music. Below is my haphazard guide to enjoying music at the end of the world, based on some of my own chaotic adaptations. Let Quarantine Releases Release You. Many artists have forged on with release dates despite the pandemic—Lucinda Williams, The Strokes, Thundercat, The Weeknd, Fiona Apple, Chloe X Halle—and their otherwise ordinary releases can either gain new meaning and strength, or perhaps feel unbearable to engage with in their “normal” themes. Under more typical circumstances, I’d blast the new Phoebe Bridgers release on repeat and let her brand of supermarket sadness wash over me, but lately that inclination has been absent. It feels hard to connect to more emotional music like hers, or even emo pop like the May-released Notes On A Conditional Form by The 1975. Whether it’s because the world is too fucked in every direction to indulge in emotional music for fun, or because other kinds of quarantine albums feel more relevant, is hard to say. This other kind of album is the kind that has been both released and made during quarantine, such as Charli XCX’s how i’m feeling now or more recently Taylor Swift’s folklore (something about quarantine seems to make artists omit capital letters). While the brand of pop favored by these two—experimental club pop for the former, country-turned-radio pop for the latter—has never been my go-to, these latest albums were crafted under tight, chaotic timelines within the bounds of quarantine, bringing out looser elements in their music that are strikingly organic, thus wholly converting me to even their more typical pop oeuvres. So, despite losing touch with enthusiasm for indie favorites, I’m starting to understand pop music for the first time—and indulging in bops. Get Thee to a Yard Show. Here in City Weekly’s music section, we’ve been explicit about our desire to keep promoting outdoor and virtual/streamed performances, since COVID-19 is still indeed doing her thing (killing people). As the summer has worn sweatily on, it’s been impossible not to miss seeing live music, though, especially at outdoor music events. Luckily, we’ve been covering many outdoors options for enjoying music at a distance from others in our Music Picks, and I can personally attest to how fun going to a small open-air show actually can be. Before the world ended as we know it, I habitually viewed music via the small lounge sets at the Twilite Lounge. Now, those

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artists have shifted their sets to outdoor sites that are somehow more intimate than an enclosed bar. At one private gathering in the yard of a friend, the band plays on the flat roof-top, obscuring themselves behind a tall weeping birch. The small cluster of people below are all former bar regulars, and it’s strange to view them in a sunset’s light rather than bar neons, but easier to talk and listen to the music, and cheaper to drink too since it’s obviously BYOB. This group of musicians also plays down in front of Boozetique on Sundays around sunset, where they’ve set up socially-distanced metal chairs—though sitting across the street or elsewhere on a curb with a picnic blanket is also a good option. If you’ve yet to get out to an outdoor concert, this is one great option for getting your live music fix and some socializing, all in one go. Talk to Your Friends. If you’re taking the time to read this section, you probably care about music. And if you care about music it’s a fair bet you’ve got some people in your life who do, too. After checking in with my own friends about what they’re listening to, it’s clear I’m not the only one in a weird rut (listening to Taylor Swift over and over and over, then taking one turn around the room with a Bill Callahan album before returning to reputation). But, one man’s weird rut could be another man’s… new weird rut? When asking my own people, I got a myriad of responses about what they’ve been stuck on: a four-month binge of a southern Gothic playlist; a livestream from acclaimed weirdo producer and 2019 breakout SOPHIE; David Bowie, disco and 2000s pop; internet lounge music, high school throwbacks and ‘90s dance music; the discography of Japanese cult-followed Harumi Hosono; ‘60s revolution music (wonder why?); and, last but not least, no music at all, just ASMR soundscapes. Talk about some wild vibes for strange times. My slacker rock-obsessed ex-boyfriend is mining Bandcamp’s troves of vaporwave. My best friend said, “All music is garbage,” even though they are a local musician busy making music of their own. If none of this appeals to you, ask your own friends what they’ve got on repeat. Whether it’s ASMR blasted from YouTube or a sudden country music obsession, chances are they’ve got strong reasons to recommend their own obsessions. CW

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For vinyl-heads and other collector’s-item stans, Record Store Day is a giddy, holidaylike time of year. Records have regained some popularity in recent years, and no doubt that trend comes in large part from small-time record stores and their resilience. Record Store Day was born from a need to promote and support these small shops and their recordloving efforts by driving the sales of limited releases only available at those shops. This meant (and still means) that if you wanted your favorite artist or band’s limited-edition songs, their kooky compilation of covers or rare b-sides album, you’d have to head over to your local shop on Record Store Day to snag a copy. This year, the exclusivity of participating in Record Store Day is perhaps even more real, in all aspects of life beyond record collecting. Instead of one big day of sales, Record Store Day nationwide will be a staggered event, allowing small record shops to keep crowds under control. There will be three drops, extending into October—perhaps good news for those who wish Record Store Day lasted all year long. The first drop date is Aug. 29, and record shops accept requests beforehand so they can stock up on what customers want, and not the stuff they don’t. So go ahead and view the list of drops online—from Cheap Trick to Charli XCX, Phillip Glass to Pink Floyd—and look up a record store near you. Stores in Taylorsville, Sandy, Ogden, Cedar City, Price, Orem and Provo are all participating—along with SLC’s own Sound and Vision Vinyl, Diabolical Records, Randy’s Records, The Heavy Metal Shop and Memento Mori— either in August, or later on Sept. 26 or Oct. 24. Go to recordstoreday.com for more info.

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KSM Music Opens up Songwriting Competition The hot, pandemic-ridden summer is no reason to stop being creative, as many local musicians already know well. But whether you’re a professional songwriter or not, KSM Music in Logan has an opportunity for you not only to flex those imaginative muscles alone or with your band, but to get something cool out of it, too. The 10th Annual KSM Songwriting Competition is moving to an online format—to few people’s surprise, I’m sure—which will allow for more participants to post their songs to the Soundfactory Musician’s Gathering Place Facebook group page. In the past, only solo artists were allowed to enter their original songs to the competition, but now KSM has opened it up to full bands as well. The only rules that remain in place as usual are that entrants must be residents of Utah or Idaho, with proof of residence, and that the song must be an original composition and familyfriendly (no swears here, folks). All genres are welcome, and their page already shows many different kinds of solo and duo artists, some with a guitar or even with a violin. The original July 25 deadline has been extended to Aug. 14, so there’s even more time to enter—and you should, since first, second and third place prizes include, respectively, a Teton Acoustic Guitar, an Ernie Ball Dream Bundle and a $50 KSM gift card and accessory pack. All entries will be judged by KSM staff first, with the top 20% of entries then passed on to Soundfactory teachers and other approved local artists. Don’t miss out on this chance to show your stuff online, and maybe even win some very IRL prizes in the end.

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t is, perhaps, inevitable that we begin to read texts through the epoch-defining events of their time, even if those events had nothing to do with the texts’ creation. Just like every significant movie, book or even album of late 2001 was read through the lens of 9/11, or in early 2017 as indicative of the Age of Trump, we’re going to see current popular art works in the ways that they’re pandemic stories. So while Amy Seimetz’s She Dies Tomorrow was written and completed long before a certain deadly virus changed our lives forever, it gets a hell of a kick by emerging into a world where a whole lot of us are having trouble shaking the prospect of imminent death. The tale begins with Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil), a young woman who has just purchased and moved into her first house. But instead of celebrating a beginning, Amy is obsessed with the certainty of ending— specifically, she knows that she is going to die tomorrow. When Amy’s friend Jane (Jane Adams) is concerned enough about Amy’s tone on the phone that she comes by to visit, she at first tries to dissuade Amy of her seemingly ridiculous conviction—until later that same night, when Jane too is struck by the same absolute belief in her own impending death. Seimetz plays with the film structurally not just by following how this existential dread is passed forward, but by circling back a couple of days to discover how Amy herself contracted it. And that’s perhaps

just the simplest way the filmmaker experiments with She Dies Tomorrow, exploring the use of sound vs. silence as contributors to tension, and using images from microscope slides to suggest something real but undetectable making its way through the world. Her simplest conceit is perhaps the most effective: a shifting sequence of colored lights indicating that (for lack of a better word) the “death belief” has taken hold of a specific individual. That’s not to suggest that just because She Dies Tomorrow demonstrates an offkilter style, it’s not also simply entertaining. Seimetz demonstrates a wicked sense of humor, built on the realization that a sense of impending mortality is bound to lead people to unpredictable behavior. For some, that means an awkwardly blunt honesty about where a relationship is headed, as happens for one couple (Jennifer Kim and Tunde Adebimpe). For others, it’s realizing how much time they’ve wasted on pointless activities. Everyone has their own sense for what works as comedy, but it gets funnier every time Amy indicates her spi-

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ral into despair by moving the needle back to the beginning of her record of Mozart’s “Requiem.” The truth is that mordant humor is just one of the many perfectly legitimate ways humans deal with the terrifying voices in our heads, as the last few months have proven. That’s perhaps the way that She Dies Tomorrow is most relevant to our time, even more so than the idea of not realizing that someone you’ve just been at a party with might have passed something on to you that portends death: This is a story not of a physical pathogen, but a psychological one, a sense of despair that we’re facing the End of Days. Seimetz’s characters respond to the “death belief” through relapse into substance abuse, self-harm, reckless behavior and more, yet one of the hardest things these people face is convincing others that what is in their head is real. There’s an almost absurdist scene early in the film where Amy and Jane exchange a series of “yes I am”/”no you’re not” regarding Amy’s statement that she’s going to die tomorrow,

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) “I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes,” writes Scorpio author Maxine Hong Kingston. That would be an excellent task for you to work on in the coming weeks. Here are your formulas for sucTAURUS (April 20-May 20) cess: 1. The more you expand your imagination, the better you’ll Author Joanne Harris writes, “The right circumstances some- understand the big picture of your present situation—and the times happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without more progress you will make toward creating the most interwarning. The magic of everyday things.” I think that’s an apt esting possible future. 2. The more comfortable you are about oracle for you to embrace during the coming weeks. In my opinion, dwelling in the midst of paradoxes, the more likely it is that you life will be conspiring to make you feel at home in the world. You will generate vigorous decisions that serve both your own needs will have an excellent opportunity to get your personal rhythm and the needs of your allies. into close alignment with the rhythm of creation. And so, you may achieve a version of what mythologist Joseph Campbell called SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) “the goal of life”: “to make your heartbeat match the beat of the “Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates universe, to match your nature with Nature.” their demons,” says actor and director Denzel Washington. “When you shine bright, some won’t enjoy the shadow you GEMINI (May 21-June 20) cast,” says rapper and activist Talib Kweli. You may have to Author Gloria Anzaldúa writes, “I am an act of kneading, of unit- deal with reactions like those in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. ing and joining.” She adds that in this process, she has become “a If you do, I suggest that you don’t take it personally. Your job creature that questions the definitions of light and dark and gives is to be your radiant, generous self—and not worry about them new meanings.” I would love for you to engage in similar whether anyone has the personal power necessary to handle work right now, Gemini. Life will be on your side—bringing you your radiant, generous self. The good news is that I suspect you lucky breaks and stellar insights—if you undertake the heroic will stimulate plenty of positive responses that will more than work of reformulating the meanings of “light” and “dark”—and counterbalance the challenging ones. then reshaping the way you embody those primal forces. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) CANCER (June 21-July 22) Capricorn occultist Peter J. Carroll tells us, “Some have sought “Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as impor- to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus, they have only tant as food or drink,” wrote Cancerian author Irving Stone. 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If you find there are some that are too timid or meager, I invite you to either drop them or pump them up. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) At times in our lives, it’s impractical to be innocent and curious and blank and receptive. So many tasks require us to be knowledge- AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) able and self-assured and forceful and in control. But according The people who live in the town of Bazoule, Burkina Faso, to my astrological analysis, the coming weeks will be a time when regard the local crocodiles as sacred. They live and work amidst you will benefit from the former state of mind: cultivating what the 100+ creatures, co-existing peacefully. Kids play within a Zen Buddhists call “beginner’s mind.” The Chinese refer to it as few feet of them, never worrying about safety. I’d love to see chūxīn, or the mind of a novice. The Koreans call it the eee mok you come to similar arrangements with untamed influences oh? approach, translated as “What is this?” Buddhist teacher and strong characters in your own life, Aquarius. You don’t Jack Kornfield defines it as the “don’t-know mind.” During this necessarily have to treat them as sacred, but I do encourage you upcoming phase, I invite you to enjoy the feeling of being at peace to increase your empathy and respect for them. with all that’s mysterious and beyond your understanding. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Your body naturally produces at least one quart of mucus every VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few min- day. You might not be aware of it, because much of it glides utes, including you.” Author Anne Lamott wrote that, and now down your throat. Although you may regard this snot as gross, I’m conveying it to you—just in time for the Unplug-Yourself it’s quite healthy. It contains antibodies and enzymes that kill Phase of your astrological cycle. Any glitches you may be dealing harmful bacteria and viruses. I propose we regard mucus as with right now aren’t as serious as you might imagine. The big- your prime metaphor in the coming weeks. Be on the alert for gest problem seems to be the messy congestion that has accu- influences and ideas that might empower you even if they’re mulated over time in your links to sources that usually serve you less than beautiful and pleasing. Make connections with helpful pretty well. So, if you’ll simply disconnect for a while, I’m betting influences even if they’re not sublimely attractive. that clarity and grace will be restored when you reconnect.

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