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TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER Surviving COVID-19, one fever dream at a time By Benjamin Raskin

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Go USA! A place where we can all be who we are, love who we love and believe whatever we choose to believe. Be kind. We’re all just getting by here. @KIMBETSYFAMILY via Instagram Can we get a Straight Pride Day/Week/Month/Year? Why do you feel the need to force feed it? DAVID MELLEN via Facebook

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Like John, I was shocked to learn of the death of pioneer gay activist Joe Redburn in the South Salt Lake homeless shelter. Thank you, John, for remembering him. I recall a rough and tumble workingman’s bar on the corner 400 West and South Temple—Ben’s Railroad Exchange— that had been closed and reopened. Bruce Roberts, an old ’60s activist, and I decided to check it out. The new name of the bar was The Sun, and oddly, it was packed with all men. Bruce with his long flowing blond locks, tall and handsome, was the subject of

quite a bit of attention by the allmale clientele. Young hippy me, not so much. It eventually dawned on us that this was a gay bar, not something ever thought of before, and we were in it. It was also my first introduction to Joe Redburn. He certainly inspired me when we opened Cosmic Aeroplane Books & Records on First South, next door to the Blue Mouse, and later the first location of KRCL. We had the best and only selection of gay and lesbian books to be found in the state. Here’s to you, Joe Redburn, and the proud, if not well known, legacy you have left us. KEN SANDERS Ken Sanders Rare Books

Mikey Saltas Anything with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as the leads, i.e., Annabelle Comes Home and The Conjuring. Scott Renshaw Nothing ever shook me like the first time I saw The Blair Witch Project at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. And it was not at all surprising how many people hated it because the kind of scary movie they were expecting was not at all what they got. Patty Pecora The Exorcist Kelly Boyce Children of the Corn series. Watched as a kid and, to this day, corn is still the only vegetable I’m scared of. Kara Rhodes I was terrified of The Haunting in Connecticut circa 2009. The eyelids in the box really didn’t sit well with me. Now, I just watch Halloween shows that can be put on nail art. This year? Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Jim Sefandonakis The Exorcist! Scares the shit out of me. I slept with a Bible under my pillow for a week. Have you seen it? Brings meaning to the word horror. Terri Anderson The Shining. Eric Granato The original Halloween is a must every year in my house. The 1960s Night of the Living Dead always ends up being watched a few times during the spooky season. Pete Saltas Paranormal Activity. I had to leave the lights on for a week to sleep.

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That all liberal thinking must be exterminated? What is the Burgess alternative? He has none. Wayne Owens came upon his liberalism via an honest route. For example, he was an environmentalist. That’s right—a rural Utah environmentalist. Shouldn’t all rural Utahns be concerned about the environment? And shouldn’t we all be happy that a person like Wayne Owens worked for the betterment of the lands around our rural communities, including working to get them the water they needed for rural growth via the Central Utah Project? Burgess Owens says he supports President Donald Trump’s idea du jour to reinstate nuclear testing. Why? Because it’s a Donald Trump idea, apparently. In the Utah Wayne Owens lived in, the word “downwinders” was born, people who were affected and died from nuclear radiation exposure from tests conducted in southern Nevada. To even consider resuming such tests indicates that Burgess Owens has a terrifyingly deaf ear to what Utah is and what Utahns have been through. While he was breaking up passes in the NFL, Utahns were contracting cancer in types and numbers not seen anywhere else in the country. Scott Matheson, Utah’s populist Democratic governor from 1977 to 1985, died of a rare form of cancer that many attribute to being exposed to nuclear winds. Matheson lived and worked in Cedar City during the heavy fallout years in the early 1950s. He lost other family members to rare cancers. On the downwinder predicate alone, Burgess Owens is disqualified to represent Utah—he doesn’t know Utah. Dying of cancer isn’t a concept to affix to a rally flag. All told, Ben McAdams isn’t that incredibly liberal, anyway, and he represents a district that is gerrymandered to swing the other way. There’s only one choice in this race. That vote is for the man from Utah who lives and loves Utah: Ben McAdams. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net.

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tried as best I could to watch the televised debate on Monday night between Democrat Ben McAdams and Republican Burgess Owens. Owens is trying to unseat McAdams as my representative in the 4th Congressional District. Frankly, it was tough to watch. Perhaps it was the format, or maybe because I too clearly remember the Friday night wrasslin’ matches at the Coliseum (demolished in the dead of night!) at the Utah State Fairgrounds. I halfexpected a couple of body slams or that maybe someone would attack the moderator like Karl von Brock or Ali Bey used to attack poor Tom Bradshaw, the ringside announcer, and bust his glasses. Every. Single. Week. Alas, neither McAdams nor Owens share my taste for drama. That’s surprising to me since Owens is a former professional football player. I remember seeing him play and recall he was a good defensive player. He played professional football in the 1973 when I had just graduated high school and was already hobbled by my two knees that still keep me up at night and leave me forever cursing the very word football. Football doesn’t win votes in my house. In 1973, another Owens —Wayne Owens—was my congressman. I’m quite certain there is no relation between Wayne and Burgess Owens. Also, except for bearing the same surname, there is virtually no similarity between Wayne and Burgess Owens. For example, I have seen no photographs of the smallish Wayne Owens in a football uniform. Wayne was a Utah native—born and raised in Panguitch. It hardly seems likely today because rural Utah has gone nearly completely bonkers red, but Wayne was indeed a true-blue Democrat. One of Utah’s better ones, in fact. He was also a returned LDS missionary, and after serv-

ing in the U.S. Congress, he was assigned as LDS mission president in Montreal, Canada. He touched people and met them head on, notably when he walked nearly the whole state, logging more than 700 miles afoot before Election Day. If Burgess lived here at the time, he’d remember Wayne’s bumper stickers that were in the shape of a shoe print. Wayne won his seat in 1972 and was sworn into office in January 1973. Wayne only served one term, however, leaving Congress in 1975 to run for the U.S. Senate. Maybe he got “above his raising” to borrow a rural phrase, because his first term in Congress didn’t lend him enough political strength to beat the big-city boy in Utah’s 1974 Senate race. Richfield, Utah-native Jake Garn won. Garn was mid-point through his own first term as Salt Lake City mayor when he ran against Wayne Owens. That gives him the distinction as the answer to a very special trivia question: Who was the last Republican mayor of Salt Lake City? Jake Garn. If you’re a Democrat, don’t get too heady, because not all mayors since then have been Democrats. Conrad Harrison, who filled the final two years of Garn’s mayoral run, listed himself as an independent. Now, we find ourselves wrapped into another tight race in the 4th District, but with a twist. It’s nearly 50 years since Wayne Owens was first elected (but he had a second tenure in the U.S. House from 1986-92). Burgess Owens is not running against Ben McAdams at all—he’s running against Wayne Owens and everything he stood for. As fate and history would have it, Wayne Owens was among the unlucky early adopters of forward thinking and progressive politics—and for doing so, became targeted as a liberal. Just watch the nightly barrage of Burgess Owens ads. In every ad, he does little except to deride all things liberal. Is this where Utah is? That just anyone can run without a policy or history, just treading on the basis of not being for a damned thing, just being against a fully obtuse concept?

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Democracy Is Overrated

Was it nuance that was missing? That’s what Deseret News opinion writer Boyd Matheson tries to persuade us about Mike Lee’s nowinfamous tweet bashing democracy. People just don’t understand, and they take things too literally. Blah blah blah. “We’re not a democracy,” Lee tweeted at 7:34, the night of the vice-presidential debate. The next morning—at 12:24 a.m.—he sought to clarify, even with a glaring typo: “Democracy isn’t the objective; liberty, peace and prospefity are. We want the human condition to flourish. Rank democracy can thwart that.” So, what was he reacting to? Harris had just talked about the threat “to our troops who are sacrificing their lives for the sake of our democracy and our safety.” Only Lee could think she was talking about what he calls “rank democracy.” Lee also swiped at the evil media, about which one follower noted “the Deseret News has gone full-lib.” Lee has spent considerable time trying to ’splain to us that the media is bad and democracy means chaos. Authoritarian regimes say the same thing.

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In early 2017, women marched around the country and in Washington, D.C., to protest predator Donald Trump’s presidential win. Now as the next election looms, women will take to the streets again to highlight their continuing status as second-class citizens. It’s estimated that between 3 million and 5 million people participated in the 2017 marches. The question is, how do they feel now? Sexism is not the only problem they face under the Trump regime. Racial injustice is just one more to be added to the list. Join the nation at the SLC UT Women’s March and head to the Capitol. Salt Lake City County Building, 451 S. State, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2 p.m., free. https://bit. ly/3lpjLiD

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Dubbed the Year of the Woman, 1992 marked the time the number of female senators tripled. Sadly, that equated to six women in the Senate, but still, something to celebrate back then. The Brookings Institute calls 2020 the Year of the Woman Voter because of the likelihood of “gender realignment” fueled by Trump’s misogynistic behavior. At Vote Equality: Minding the Gaps for Utah Women, you will hear keynote speaker Jeanetta Williams of the NAACP describe existing barriers to voting and the need to press for equity under the law. You will hear others address inclusive feminism, and most importantly, why the Equal Rights Amendment is more critical now than ever. Utah Capitol steps, 350 N. State, Friday, Oct. 16, 12-1:30 p.m., free/ masks required. https://bit.ly/3090R7k

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Since the pandemic hit, cases of domestic violence have skyrocketed because home is not always the safest place to be. Experts say the virus created a “pressure cooker” for couples in quarantine. The added stress of children and lost income make life more challenging. “We will walk and plant flags at Station Park representing each survivor of domestic violence in the past year,” say organizers of Take a Stand Against Domestic Violence Walk. Meet in front of Habit Burger, 260 N. W. Union Ave., Farmington, Saturday, Oct. 17, 8 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3jNbLYk

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The election is right around the corner and the only question in Utah is by how much will Donald Trump win? This, despite a vigorous debate over who said what and how it plays in Mormondom. A Y2 Analytics poll puts Trump up by 10 points, and it doesn’t seem to matter than he’s not your mother’s religious zealot, or that he denigrates The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or is base, misogynistic, racist and inconsistent. Utah Policy asked if character flaws mattered. They don’t. The Salt Lake Tribune ran a story about how Mormons became so Republican. It was largely due to former church President Ezra Taft Benson and his dive into conspiracy, the Red Scare and McCarthyism, saying you can’t be a good Mormon and good Democrat, too. The LDS faithful are in a heated exchange about that line of thought. But the “R” in Utah not only stands for Republican but “choose the right,” as well.

Women’s March—Again

The United States may be out of the Paris Climate Accord, but a “high-profile group of Utah business and political leaders” has now committed to combating climate change. Say what? KSL reported on a virtual event by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times in which he called on the state to lead out on “market-driven, green energy solutions for the air and climate.” The group includes U.S. Reps. John Curtis and Ben McAdams and Sen. Mitt Romney, among others. There were more than 100 signatories on the document, and they are mostly focused on businesses leading the way. For now, it’s just words, but words matter.

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In addition to maintaining safety for the performers by having them from the same household, the production will also have Chapman and Feuston dress and mic themselves to remain contactless with the show’s technical crew. For patrons, the show offers two viewing options in the theater’s parking lot at 451 W. 1200 South in Provo. You can choose a “drive-in” experience, with space available for up to 14 vehicles ($20-$60), or sociallydistanced seating for masked patrons ($12$15), both available online only at anothertheater.org. (Scott Renshaw)

In this centennial year of the 19th Amedment, which granted women the right to vote, it’s kind of depressing that one of the most contentious issues of our time remains insuring the rights of all American citizens to cast their ballots. As a reminder of the fights that American history has always included to have all voices heard and counted, Utah writer Neylan McBaine—co-founder and CEO of Better Days Utah— offers a unique perspective on the little-known intersection between the women’s suffrage movement and the activist women of the Mountain West. Pioneering the Vote: The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and the West centers characters like Emmeline B. Wells, writer and eventually publisher of the late 19thcentury/early 19th century Mormon women’s publication Women’s Exponent. Among the first women to vote when women were enfranchised in Utah in 1870, Wells subsequently welcomed nationally-known suffrage movement figures including Susan B. Anthony and Rev. Anna Howard Shaw to the Rocky Mountain Suffrage Convention in

along with the scares. Thriller runs Oct. 20-24 at the Capitol Theatre (50 W. 200 South, arttix.artsaltlake. org), with socially-distanced limited seating and masks required for all attendees. Due to limited seating availability, in person-tickets are sold out at press time. However, for those who are less comfortable with in-person performances, Odyssey Dance will also be offering a recorded version of the performance, available online Oct. 26 for $40 per household; visit odysseydance.com/new/shows/thriller for details. (SR)

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1895. Pioneering the Vote explores that event and the friendships between these women through fictionalized narrative, as well as providing historical context about how women’s rights in the states and territories of the expanding West set the stage for later triumphs at the Federal level. The virtual author event, sponsored by The King’s English, will take place via Crowdcast on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 6 p.m. Registration is free, but required to receive event information. Order a copy of Pioneering the Vote through kingsenglish.com to receive a signed copy while supplies last. (SR)

As tumultuous as 2020 has been in so many ways, it has also been an opportunity. In the case of the protests that spread across the country in the wake of police violence against people of color, it has particularly been an opportunity to understand fully how many voices remain unheard in America, resulting in an incomplete story of who we are as a people and what experiences matter. And we’ve also learned that for some, the only way for their voices to be heard is to refuse not to be heard, and get loud. This month, Urban Arts Gallery presents LOUD!, a showcase of works by local BIPOC artists, guest curated by Essie Shaw and Melli Rino Alvarez. Participating artists include Alli Arocho, Pedro Hueramo Rico, Alyana Desouza, IZ (Isabella Morillo), Emilio Martinez, Melissa Kamba, Xolani G. Radebe, Uwana Eshiet, Alicia Cicalese, Ashley Odiilia, Alethia Lunares, Will Knight, Luis Novoa, Jessica Villeneuve, Quinci Hambrick (Indigo Sketches), Andrea Hardeman, and Amelec Diaz. It’s a

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In a year filled with terrifying things—a sociopathic leader of the free world, an incurable contagious disease, a sociopathic leader of the free world with an incurable contagious disease— people are still looking to be frightened voluntarily during the Halloween season. The annual Utah tour of Odyssey Dance’s Thriller production might have been cut a bit short due to the pandemic, but its Salt Lake City stop still offers a chance to get a safer dose of seasonal spookiness. Now in its 24th season, Thriller mixes the company’s lively modern dance with some of popular culture’s most familiar scary characters. Familiar numbers from years past riff on The Mummy, skeletons, Friday the 13th’s hockey-masked Jason (multiple versions of him), Riverdance (here dubbed the River-of-Blood Dance) and The Lost Boys. And of course, there’s also the Michael Jackson groovin’ zombies classic that gives the show its name. Every new season also brings new surprises, so expect a mix of classic and unfamiliar, providing a dose of laughter

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A romantic comedy might be the most challenging kind of live show to present when social-distancing guidelines are necessary to keep performers safe. After all, a little something is bound to be lost when actors are whispering sweet nothings through a mask, or pantomimekissing from six-feet distance. Provo’s An Other Theater Co. found an idea way tell that kind of a story in the right way: casting a real-life married couple in the lead roles. An Other Theater Co.’s production of Arlene Hutton’s Last Train to Nibroc—concluding its run Oct. 15-17—casts newlyweds Laura Elise Chapman and Bruce Lloyd Feuston as May and Raleigh, who meet-cute on a train west of Chicago in December 1940 that happens to be carrying the bodies of writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West. Aspiring writer Raleigh and aspiring missionary May soon figure out that they’re from neighboring Kentucky towns. It’s a classic “will they or won’t they” set-up that spans three years as the characters navigate adjusting their dreams to the reality of wartime.

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chance to see art not just as a creative endeavor, but as a refusal to allow a conversation to go on without voices of all kinds getting loud. LOUD! is currently running through Nov. 1, with a Gallery Stroll reception this Friday, Oct. 16, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m., with music by Marina Marqueza, Mana Eini and Shea Freedom. While the exhibit and Gallery Stroll are live, in-person events—with social distance protocols in place—Urban Arts Gallery will also be creating a pre-recorded video featuring selected artists and musicians, for those who are taking extra precautions. Visit urbanartsgallery.org for additional details. (SR)

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On the flip side, there have certainly also been challenges with adapting the show for online presentation, and Woodard notes that maintaining the illusion of the show was definitely not easy. “It’s live, but how do we translate live-ness?” she says. “How do we translate a broadcast scenario, and make it feel like ABC, NBC or CNN, when essentially our network is Zoom?” “It’s the effort that matters,” Woodard adds of the unique challenges of this new format. “The job was to seek satisfaction. I don’t know that we got there. But I don’t think there’s ever been a time when I’ve had complete satisfaction with something in the theater.” The interactive components of American Dreams are designed to raise the stakes throughout the show, putting the audience on the spot in terms of which contestants’ stories they find most compelling—or alternately, which ones they might find most threatening. Woodard notes that while there have been some trends in terms of which contestant the audience finds most sympathetic, the results can shift based on the location and demographics of the audience. “Because DACA was at the forefront [during the time of the initial production], I think audience members were more familiar with that conversation than the Israeli-Palestinian situation,” she says. “We expected sympathy towards [the Mexican immigrant character]. … In New York, though, there was an enormous amount of

Jens Rasmussen, Ali Andre Ali, Imran Sheikh, Andrew Aaron Valdez and Leila Buck in American Dreams response to the Palestinian character.” Regardless of which character gain any individual audience member’s sympathy, American Dreams works best by implicating the audience in the fate of these characters, and doing so in real time. Occasionally, audience members are asked to give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to the responses they’re hearing—and it’s easy to tell when people are growing uncomfortable about revealing what they find either positive or negative attributes in a potential “new neighbor.” “I overheard someone at the end of a recent show say, ‘Wow, this is hard,’” Woodard says. “The reason we go to the theater is make-believe, but there’s also that moment when you forget it’s not true. I think there are some people for whom the process of moving through and judging a human, from their dance skills to articulation of their dream, is really hard to do.” CW

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between Woodard and Buck on a concept they could work on together. “[Leila’s] mom is an immigrant,” Woodard says by phone from New York. “It was just inside of the last election cycle, and immigration was a big part of that. … I said, ‘What if the form we were doing for this thing was a game show? I think this is a good way to put forward something that feels fun and playful, but has ideas at the center.’ Leila is very much concretely political. I’m like ‘here’s the fun frame,’ and she’s like ‘here’s the deep well.’” For its in-person productions, American Dreams turned the theater space into a secure government facility, with a TSAstyle security checkpoint audience members had to pass through. While such an immersive experience was of course not possible with audience members watching at home, American Dreams did retain audience participation in the form of a survey about their family history in America, answering polls, serving as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-type “lifelines” for the contestants and ultimately voting on which one “wins” citizenship. As it turns out, some of those participatory elements actually worked better in the move to a digital production. “This format is actually great for polling,” Woodard says. “It’s much easier than what we had to do with a live audience, which was use a counter and count raised hands.”

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dapting a live theater experience to become a Zoom-based theater experience is no easy task. When the play’s setting is a televised game show, however, it might seem like an easier fit. And the creators of American Dreams found both advantages and challenges in turning what had been a theater production for a live audience into something that could travel virtually around the country. Originally staged in 2018, American Dreams posits a competition program where three men—a Palestinian chef (Ali Andre Ali), a Pakistani cartoonist (Imran Sheikh) and a Mexican-born medic (Andrew Aaron Valdez)—play for the right to become an American citizen. In addition to answering civics questions from the show’s two hosts (Jens Rasmussen and the show’s playwright, Leila Buck), the contestants need to win over the audience, which pulls the viewers into a participatory experience of judging their worthiness to be called Americans. Salt Lake Acting Company provides the local home for five performances this week. According to the show’s director, Tamilla Woodard—co-artistic director of New York’s Working Theater, which developed American Dreams for its premiere in 2018, and who directed SLAC’s production of Harbur Gate in 2017—the show was originally conceived as part of brainstorming

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2020 was supposed to be the best year of our lives. We booked a two-week trip to Italy, bought tickets for Pearl Jam in Denver, and looked forward to my brother’s 40th birthday celebration in October. We talked about a trip to Montana, a visit to my mother’s in San Diego and maybe a trip to Washington D.C. Even if you didn’t have the same travel plans, a 70-nanometer virus halted everything. The world changed dramatically, and we’ve been dealing with this pandemic in one form or another for what seems like years, and it’s only been six months. Since March 11, my wife and I have worked from home. She’s a social worker, and I’m a communications writer. Before the world went topsy-turvy, I also bartended at Keys on Main in downtown Salt Lake City. You can work remotely writing copy but it’s hard to make cocktails virtually. We found real estate in the house and made the transition. The kitchen became the break room. The backyard is now the gym. And the bathroom is still the bathroom. Before testing positive, I’d wake up early and walk the dogs. After a lap or two at Fairmont Park, I’d shower, eat breakfast and make the short commute to my desk in the guest bedroom. I’d write until 5 p.m. and then walk the dogs again before settling in for beers and talking heads on CNN. Days bled into each other because the scenery never changed. And I was convinced we were doing everything right. We social distanced. We wore masks. Sanitizer was everywhere, and hand washing became a favorite pastime. Our quarantine consisted of home-cooked meals, Netflix and staying away from other people. Takeout was reserved for a Friday night treat and cocktail hour with friends via Zoom replaced summer barbecues. But 2020 had other plans for us. Remember the 5.7 earthquake that hit the Salt Lake Valley on March 18? Scared the snot out of us—bricks fell off the house and our sewer system ripped from the foundation. I figured if we didn’t get COVID from the eight guys fixing the sewer, we’d probably be OK. And somehow, it was OK … until it wasn’t.

’m a creature of habit. Each day starts with the same routine: coffee, dog walks, inspect the garden, a bike ride. But none of this can start until I’ve laced up my shoes. For the past 10 days, I haven’t had the strength to put on my socks, much less a pair of shoes. Instead, my world’s been an endless cycle of muscle spasms, headaches, chills, sweats, drooling and a complete lack of taste or smell. You don’t wear shoes. The idea of lacing up my boots is as offensive as the dirty virus flowing through my veins. I’m barefoot and broken because I fell prey to COVID-19. More than 7 million Americans have been infected by the deadly coronavirus, and now I’m one of them. I suspected I was infected, but nothing prepared me for the wave of emotion that descended upon me when Salt Lake County Health Department sent the results. My wife was in the room when I reread the email for the hundredth time. My first reaction was guilt—a bottomless pit of guilt. What if I had infected her? She rides me for paying the cable bill late. I can’t even imagine what she’d do if I passed COVID on to her. (Luckily, I did not.) COVID means you’re not catting around. COVID means you’re not doing anything but taking a never-ending roller coaster ride of nausea, crippling muscle pain and a headache nailed to a rabid sewer rat’s 9-volt battery. You can barely function enough to eat a handful of ibuprofen. Nothing matters when the headaches kick in—they’re maddening and come in pounding waves. Imagine pinching the base of your neck with a table vise and cranking the handle … on the hour, every hour. It’s immobilizing. It’s grip-the-sheets-andhang-on, waiting for the roller coaster to make it back to the station. COVID taunts by ratcheting up the pain, and there’s no respite—no sleep and certainly no peace. COVID is a series of micro-battles. Getting out of bed takes 15 minutes. Finding the energy to brush your teeth takes half an hour. Reminding yourself to eat takes all day. Everything you once took as second-nature is foreign. My already heavy eyelids droop even lower and darker because I haven’t slept for more than 30 consecutive minutes. And because I’m alone in the basement, separated from my family, there’s no one to tell me there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. The only solace I found was in a silly turn of a phrase: Tomorrow will be better. Four words chanted ad nauseam to help beat back a throbbing headache. A quickly formed hashtag became my battle cry to calm down, to remind myself to breath and to believe I can survive this horrific illness. Tomorrow will be better because it can’t get any worse than it is this moment.

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THE TEST YOU HOPE YOU FAIL

At first, I thought I had slept weird—my shoulders and legs were killing me, my head foggy. I felt off, like I had a mild case of seasickness. My wife said I should get tested for coronavirus. I scheduled a drive-thru test at the University of Utah and was relieved when it was a spit test, not the Q-tip up the nose. The U of U ran a well-oiled machine. There were teams of workers in hazmat suits directing traffic and interviewing folks. It took about 25 minutes for the nurse to get to me. I spit into the tube and drove homes with my fingers crossed. But even before I got the results back the next day, I knew I hadn’t been completely honest about social distancing. We cheated because cabin fever is as real as coronavirus. We’d sneak a drink on the patio of bars in Sugar House. We ate indoors at a cozy Sugar House bistro. It’s ironic to think we avoided contact with friends and family for months, but a stranger passed along COVID-19. Where? The time I ran into a Maverik with my mask under my nose? Or from the shopping cart I grabbed at Harmons that hadn’t been sanitized? The email commanded me to self-quarantine immediately. I sunk into a deep, remorseful funk. The test is binary, but the results don’t answer any questions. Even when I spoke with the contact tracer, we couldn’t determine where I got infected because COVID is a sneaky assailant. It can live on surfaces up to three hours. And even with my frequent handwashing, I touch my face a dozen times an hour pushing up my loose eyeglasses. Short of living in a spacesuit, there’s no guarantee to avoid COVID. But that one email became the starter pistol for the worst two weeks of my life. Donning my mask inside the house, I retreated to our basement and began my quarantine.

fan in the corner blowing cool air, but I’m so hot it feels like wind coming off the Great Basin Desert. I fight for comfort but the pain in the muscles and joints prohibits it. Everything hurts and not in the way you’d imagine. It’s constant—like a toddler tugging your pants leg. It’s always there. Lack of sleep creates havoc on all levels. My body needs to repair and recharge itself, but I can’t slip into sleep. Instead of passing out and letting my immune system get to work, I’m stuck in limbo. It’s hard to contextualize the experience without thinking of movies. Trainspotting comes to mind immediately. The end of 2001: A Space Odyssey when David Bowman went through the third monolith. The madness of the bees in Wicker Man. The viciousness of Requiem for a Dream. And Seeking the Monkey King. Over and over again, these short, violent vignettes crashed over me and raged in my ears. Soaked in sweat and exhausted, I still knew that I was hallucinating.

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I became convinced there was somebody in my room. It wasn’t a home invasion or my wife creeping down to check on me. Twisted in my sheets, I thought there was a man in the guest bedroom. He wasn’t menacing, and I knew it wasn’t real. But I could swear he was there. I become increasingly frustrated not knowing who he was. Because I’m not a Victorian ghost hunter, I remember asking, “Yo, what’s up?” expecting an answer. There was never a response but, cracking my eyes, I’d see movement sliding to the other side of the room. I scanned in vain only to give up and lie down again waiting to catch another glimpse. And this repeated over and over again for a day and a half. The COVID headache, the intense muscle pains, the vivid blasts of images and a sincere conviction there was somebody in the room beat me into a mental mush. I was broken. Throughout my life, I have always been an optimist. It’s not a sunny side of the street optimism but an honest belief that things are going to be betThe first couple of days were bad. I couldn’t regulate my body temperater. My life has been a perfect balance of excellent and horrible, and the ture, sweating more than usual. There was no bottom to my fatigue. It was scale tilts positive because of optimism. COVID robbed me of this longdifficult to text back friends offering their support. Television hurt my eyes, standing belief. Tomorrow will be better mutated into a nightmare. I didn’t and podcasts annoyed me. I found myself in a constant stage of irritation want to go on. because I couldn’t get comfortable. And it only got worse three days into In fact, I wanted to die. I honestly didn’t want to live anymore. The pain COVID. was never ending, and I wanted nothing but relief. My skull pounded, my I went to bed after choking down a bowl of clam chowder I never wanted. muscles contorted, and my lower back felt thrashed. I couldn’t rememIt was 10 p.m. on Wednesday, and I was exhausted. I had changed the sheets ber what “normal” felt like. All I knew was I didn’t want this to continue. I earlier in the day because they were stained and coated in my body’s feeble prayed for it to end. Please God, make tomorrow better. But, in truth, I don’t attempt to push coronavirus through every pour in my skin. Clean sheets know the first thing about praying. I might as well have been talking to the will be the armor I need for a night’s rest, I told myself. stranger in the room because no one answered. I took ibuprofen but my head pounded. The COVID headache is unlike Wednesday night became Friday night. Six days after testing positive for anything I’ve ever experienced. My pulse became this dark, thick metroCOVID the marathon was over. The teeth grinding ended and throbbing nome thumping on the base of my neck. The pressure of the world focused pain had subsided. I found the strength to get out of bed. I walked upstairs just above my spine and beat mercilessly in four to five hourslong sessions. (wearing a mask) and went into the bathroom. I looked like shit. Bags unAnd worst of all, a metallic, electric current lined the surface of my mouth. der my eyes, beard matted from spit, but something felt different. My head I could taste the sickness even though I’d lost my sense of smell and hurt but the pounding became a constant, more taste days earlier. manageable pressure. It wasn’t the COVID I draped a damp cloth over my BENJAMIN RASKIN: headache, it was something different and eyes and prayed for sleep. OutPRE-COVID, LEFT, after 36 hours of hell, anything new was side sounds intensified in the AND better. dark guest bedroom tucked into I showered, took my dinner downIN THE the back of our home. My wife stairs and watched TV. There was THROES OF running the washing machine a calming sense tingling throughTHE VIRUS, sounds like she’s dropping down out my body, and I was able to climb Niagara Falls in a barrel. Our RIGHT back into bed and sleep for five undogs eating their dinner of kibinterrupted hours. It was marvelous, ble become a rock polisher at top healing sleep. There were no crazy speed. I can hear the pilot light to nightmares. The kaleidoscope visions the water heater clipping along, and disappeared. I just slept and woke up every car passing along the street is feeling better. I had survived the the Indianapolis 500. worst of it, and somehow, toMy pillows knot under my neck and morrow was better. end up thrown to the ground. There’s a

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HURT BUT THANKFUL

I made a promise to myself when we were all told to stay home on March 11 that I would leave the quarantine better than when I went in. The work-from-home era was a chance to improve myself. There were projects I’ve been putting off for months—some as long as years—and I finally had the extra time to focus on them: tearing out the backyard concrete pad, grow a garden from seed, plant trees, fix the sprinkler system, organize our closets and hundreds of other small jobs. The first couple of months, we went full Marie Kondo cleaning out our closets, and we’re better for it. Hobbies kept me busy, or at least distracted. I constructed a shelf out of plywood, rebuilt a lawn mower, baked bread, brewed beer and actually used our dozens of cookbooks. I rode bikes, hiked the Uintas, walked the paws off my dogs and did my best to stay active. I started reading fiction again. We made Instagram videos. The last time I played this much guitar, I was in high school. I tried jogging (hated it) but got into daily pushup contests. We’re lucky to live in a nice home with space to stretch our legs, and I took full advantage of it. And through it all, my sense of gratitude blossomed. I felt appreciative of what we have, the friends we’ve collected, and the life we’ve crafted. COVID may have been a beast with thousands of people dying around the world, but this small patch of land in Salt Lake City seemed safe for us. There was beer in the fridge, food in the pantry and we had each other. But, in the blink of an eye, COVID showed up in my life and put everything at risk. Not only was I stricken with a horrific illness that put me out of commission for two weeks, COVID took my drive—from brushing my teeth to putting on my socks to staying on task at work—everything became extremely difficult. I’m a communications writer, not a coal miner. My work is not physically taxing, but I found that trying to concentrate on any task for more than 15 minutes can be impossible. The day I came back to work, it took me the better part of a morning to answer a handful of emails. Recovering from COVID meant I could be present again for my family. My wife not only picked up the slack, she made the rope. One positive test converted her into the family nurse, epidemiologist, chef, dog walker, gardener, janitor and watchman. We were both in the house, but we were both alone. It’s painful to think about.

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I’m on the mend. The headaches and muscle pains are gone, but the fatigue persists. Before getting sick, I could easily walk the dogs 4 miles and think nothing of it. But my first post-’rona walk with the pups gassed me. Dogs don’t understand viruses, but they definitely know when things are out of whack. I limped the mile course and collapsed when we made it home. Two weeks post-quarantine, I can make it through the day without a nap and read a book for more than a quarter of an hour and not nod off. Things feel like they’re getting normal. But know this: You do not ever want to contract COVID-19. According to my father, a physician, I have sufficient levels of antibodies in my body to ward off the effects of COVID. I’m no longer contagious but rather have a temporary level of immunity. What does this mean? That I don’t have to wear a mask? I can shake hands or give hugs? I can sit at a bar and have a drink, or go to a movie? The answer is no. We still don’t know whether being hit with this coronavirus provides immunity and, if it does, how long that immunity lasts. So, I wear a mask and keep socially distanced. Yeah, things suck right now. We’re living through a paradigm shift. The world has changed irrevocably, and we’re grieving the transition. My life a year ago is an old friend who’s moved away and will never return. I can look at old photos of us and think fondly of the times we had, but I know it won’t be the same. And the new normal isn’t established. We’ll have to figure it out as we go. But the sooner we collectively agree COVID has changed the world, the better. My optimism may be tarnished, but this, too, can heal. n

SURVIVING CORONAVIRUS Symptoms differ for each COVID positive patient. My case was described as mild, but it was still a beast. If you test positive, you have to quarantine. You’re going to be sick and isolated. Here’s what I learned. • Hydrate. The more fluids, the better. I was drinking upward of 5 liters of water. Sports drinks were good; orange juice hurt my stomach. • Calories. My appetite was gone but I still needed to eat. Soup was good, crackers were better. I forced myself to eat granola bars and bananas. •OTC pain meds. The only constant during COVID was 4 ibuprofen every four hours. Tylenol didn’t work for me. Ibuprofen helped knock down the pain. • Sleep, if you can. Sleep as much as you can. Rest. Don’t push yourself. • Shower. COVID makes you stink. Long, blistering hot showers were the only reprieve. Sanitize your hands.

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t seems like our Southwestern neighbors from Las Vegas have been moving into town, bringing their flair for the dramatic along with them. I’ve enjoyed seeing the Vegas theatrics weave their way into the fabric of Salt Lake’s food scene, mainly because it’s shown that we can hang with the Vegas crew without missing a beat. When I wrote a Back Burner blurb about the Vegas-based Carson Kitchen (241 W. 200 South, 385-252-3200, carsonkitchen. com) opening its doors in the heart of Downtown Salt Lake, I was curious about what brought them to our neck of the woods. Following a gracious invitation from chef and owner Cory Halwell to give the place a whirl, I got the opportunity to explore that curiosity. Chef Halwell opens restaurants in cities that are close to his heart: Vegas was where he started his culinary career, Atlanta was where he grew up, but Salt Lake City was simply a place that made an impression. He had visited Utah before, but he fell in love with our state after some local friends showed him the cultural nooks and crannies that are often overlooked by casual travelers. The stars aligned earlier this year when the downtown SLC location of Carson Kitchen opened up below the metropolitan Milagro Apartment Complex, near the Salt Palace Convention Center. Even before I visited Carson Kitchen, I could tell that this was a menu that spoke to my gastronomic identity. It’s all about

taking comfort food like deviled eggs, buffalo wings and bread pudding, then dolling them up with a bit of finery and flourish to enhance their natural, soul-fulfilling deliciousness. All in all, it makes for a fun menu to explore while introducing more timid diners to the wonders of foie gras and caviar; this is a great gateway destination for those ready to make the leap from casual to hardcore foodie. When I talk about Carson Kitchen’s use of caviar and foie gras, I am of course discussing the Devil’s Eggs ($11) and the veal meatballs ($13). Both unassuming appetizers born from humble beginnings, the team at Carson Kitchen spruces them up with just the right amount of culinary technique and sophistication. The Devil’s Eggs arrive looking rather dapper in their crispy pancetta and caviar accoutrements, filling piped into an aesthetically pleasing spiral. I’ve been burned before by deviled eggs that have tried to transcend their roots at grandma’s Thanksgiving table, but I was very happy with these well-stuffed appetizers. They retain the creamy, mustardy appeal of the deviled eggs you’ve likely grown up with, but the crispy pancetta and caviar are textural wonders. The veal meatballs are even more surprising, since they don’t arrive in quite the same dolled-up fashion, but pack even more flavor. It’s the sherry foie gras cream that really puts the full-bodied meatballs over the edge. This is a dish that celebrates the flavorful nuance of the proteins involved, and that foie gras cream spikes the whole thing with just the right hint of sinful danger. Part of Carson Kitchen’s successful appetizer game comes from their homemade condiments. For example, the crispy chicken skins ($10) are a deliciously crisp and crunchy snack, but dipping them in the smoked honey that comes along for the ride makes for sweet and salty bliss. The tempura green beans ($12) are crispy and fresh with just a little bit of salt, but the pepper jelly cream cheese turns this into incredibly posh

pub food. After establishing that the appetizer game at Carson Kitchen was home to some of the most inventive and fun items that I’ve encountered in a long time, it was time to see if the entrees would follow suit. Kicking things off with a fresh brussels sprouts Caesar salad ($14) is a good way to prime the palate for some of the menu’s richer fare. It’s a classic Caesar tossed with house-made dressing and topped with thick, crispy bacon lardon—in short, it packs all of the flavors that make you excited to dive head first into your entrée. It’s hard to choose, but the cocoa espresso New York strip ($25) is a helluva steak for a decent price. The trick to making this entrée stand out is the cocoa espresso dry rub, which invokes some lovely bitterness to play up the unctuous beef. The red wine demiglace adds yet another layer of richness—everything on this plate works together for a truly memorable carnivorous experience. I would of course be remiss if I didn’t mention the glazed doughnut bread pudding ($11) slathered in three-rum caramel and vanilla crème anglaise. This is an epic achievement for so many reasons. Using doughnuts as a bread pudding base is brilliant enough, but that three-rum caramel and crème anglaise just soak into this marvel, imparting an almost souffle like texture. It’s amazing, pure and simple. Based on my experience with Carson Kitchen, I think the Vegas sensibility is a nice fit within the heart of Salt Lake—especially when it comes to food. The more culinary renegades, innovators and unapologetic creative forces open up shop here, the more exciting it gets to dine out in SLC. CW

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There’s a nice weight in the mouth—medium-bodied, with middling carbonation levels that feel lively on the palate, refreshing and a pleasure to drink at 5.0 percent. The body of the beer is on the creamier side, with a carbonation level that is just below average. The creamy body is rather nice for the mix of sweeter and malty taste, with just enough carbonation to keep it on the easy drinking side. Overall: A quite nice and tasty Oktoberfest with a great blend of sweet, malty, roast and some spice. If you really want the true taste of an Oktobefest lager, look no further. Saltfire - Los Braceros: Pours a relatively clear pale golden yellow in color, with moderate amounts of active visible carbonation rising quickly from the bottom of the glass, and faint bright yellow highlights. Moderate amounts of lacing are observed. Aroma-wise, there are moderate scents of cracker and grainy malts with a light amount of cereal sweetness, along with light aromas of grassy hops and slightly heavier aromas of citrus zest. The first swig brings moderate flavors of cracker and toasted bread, plus a light amount of sweet corn flakes—very subtle and familiar. That is followed by slightly heavier flavors of citrus peel and spicy noble hops. Finally, there are light flavors of grassy hops which contribute a light amount of bitterness which fades away after a relatively short time, leaving a clean and agreeable finish. This 5.5 percent lager is light-to-medium-bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Slightly crisp upfront with a pleasing dryness in the finish. Overall: This is easy to drink, with wellhidden alcohol and just enough crispness to make it refreshing, enjoyable with lime or without. Definitely have it without any citrus on your first sip, so you can get the full experience of what head brewer Mike Dymowski intended. TF’s Märzen is only on draft, and this being Oktoberfest season, it’s flowing like water at the SLC brewery. Get over there ASAP. Los Braceros is in 16-ounce cans and is as quenching in the fall as it would be in summer; best source for this is at Saltfire Brewing. As always, cheers! CW

uch of what we think of as Mexican lagers actually comes from the German immigrants who settled in Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The styles only began to diverge when Mexican agriculture began to mix with the traditional brews. This week, we have two excellent examples of grain-forward lagers: one from the old world, and one from the new. This might be one of your best assignments yet. TF Brewing - Oktoberfest Märzen: The beer pours a hazy clear amber color into my one-liter stein. The head has great retention, fading slowly over time to leave some streaky lace on the sides of the glass. Biscuity malts, toasted grains and nuts appear on the nose, along with a pronounced caramelized sugar and honey sweetness. It’s mildly fruity too, with suggestions of pear, and mild hints of floral hops. Nothing too exciting for a hop-head, but more than appropriate for the style. What emerges is properly-constructed märzen for sure, with a clean malt bill augmented by restrained noble hop presence. The initial flavor consists of toasted grains, caramel and some bready, biscuity malts, with a slight nutty character. Orchard fruit esters remain noticeable, but are subtle in magnitude when compared to what you get in the nose. Some grassy, floral hop bitterness causes the profile to take an earthy turn at the finish; the aftertaste is a little nutty, with some quickly-fading caramel sweetness leaving the mouth off-dry.

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Avenues Bistro Becomes Wildwood

The team at Avenues Bistro on Third (564 E. 3rd Avenue) has switched gears to become Wildwood, a concept that promises to realize Avenues Bistro’s more rustic ideas. The new menu touts items like seared buttermilk fried chicken, roasted halibut, braised Niman Ranch shortribs and a cast iron bavette—sounds like sustainable, pioneer cooking at its best. Outside of the menu and some design changes, fans of Avenues Bistro will continue to be right at home with the team’s welcoming take on American food and their warm, inviting atmosphere. It’s always a wildcard situation when a restaurant pivots their branding and menu, but I feel like this direction is more suited to what the Avenues Bistro team did best.

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Local favorite Alamexo (268 S. State Street) has made the difficult decision to suspend operations until further notice. According to recent reports, the Alamexo team was having difficulty sustaining itself due to the pandemic’s social distancing restrictions, which led to the decision to close up and plan for the future. The team’s announcement contained a glimmer of hope that they might open again once some semblance of normalcy is restored. I will miss Alamexo’s guacamole served up in a rugged-looking mortar, their tacos and the restaurant’s Mexico City aesthetic. We wish the best to the Alamexo team and hope to nosh on their chips and guac sometime in the near future. Quote of the Week: “Don’t stress on what was, fight for what could be.” –Sean Higgins

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hile it may seem obvious to point out that art is usually fundamentally tethered to its creator, it seems that sometimes the relationship between the maker and the made can fracture from reality. Or at least that’s what seems evident upon hearing the backstory behind Cecil Smith’s newly released album, Torn Cocoon, a digitized recording of a vinyl record with a strange and otherworldly origin. Smith, who specializes in making dreamy, synth- and guitar-driven music under the name PK Opal, isn’t immune to the necessity of tasks more mundane than music-making, like doing chores. At the end of September, not long after his 27th birthday, he was doing some tidying up when he discovered a 10” vinyl record sitting under his bed, one that he’d never seen before, unmarked and unlabelled besides the worn-in cover art. Smith remembers feeling shocked by the ghostly image that greeted him—a vintage photo of a clown doing semisplits on the ground and making a strange face. “I don’t know if I can really put into words that feeling of finding it,” he says. “That clown image is obviously pretty concerning.” Upon putting the record on to hear what was on it, Smith found tears streaming involuntarily down his face, though he insisted that he wasn’t crying. Rather, it was some kind of bodily reaction to realizing that the voice on the record was indeed his own— but he didn’t have any recollection of writing or recording these songs. “It was like songs that I would have written, definitely in my lyrical style, but I have no memory of them,” he says. Smith does point out that some of the songs were strange renditions of songs he did dabble with in the past. Folks who’ve seen a PK Opal set might recognize refrains from songs like “Break Our Teeth On Pavement,” from Smith’s 2019 record Glittering Serpent. That original version is faster, more upbeat, with its weary refrain, “we’ll bank on being famous, in a world that fucking hates us,” also showing up Torn Cocoon’s much slower and spookier version “Our Vicious Teeth and Viscous Sweat.” Glittering Serpent also features “Girls Before Swine,” the lyrics and melodies of which show up altered on Torn Cocoon’s altogether more dizzy, “Before Girls Before Swine.” Still, Smith has no memory whatsoever of creating these edited tracks, though he did name them after considering what they might be about; “They were basically alternate versions of songs that I’ve actually written and released, so some of these are definitely almost like another person recorded them,” he says. Smith’s titling of the found record references the themes of metamorphosis that typically show up in his writing, while also indicating “that something has escaped from a cocoon rather than emerged from it.” The album also gets strange and experimental, too, though dreamy, experimental pop is not outside the realm of what Smith usually experiments in. “Moving Through Blue” is perhaps the strangest of the songs with its samples of a baby-doll-like voice hiccuping “uh-oh” throughout the woozy song, which Smith says is actually similar to something he wrote for a rock opera called Sick Girl, performed last year for the Deseret Experimental Opera.

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“They all felt like they were about me and from me, if that makes sense,” Smith says of the songs. “I feel like it manifested under my bed. I told my therapist about it and she was like, ‘Sometimes stuff like this happens, metaphysical things can create physical objects.’” And while that may sound like an x-file to some, for believers in doppelgängers, it doesn’t sound too wild. “A separate version of me sent it,” Smith remarks. “I think a lot of them are songs about emotional responses to old memories … or desires, you know? I think the first song is definitely about desire,” he says, referencing the opening track “The Devil on Her Back,” a brief but haunting song where the doppelgänger Smith details their swim toward a devil, kissing her as she kisses back. Smith’s friend and fellow musician, Bly Wallentine, also didn’t recognize the songs, but did agree to help digitize and master them just in time for both the beginning of the spookiest month, and for October’s Bandcamp Day, with profits that Smith directed to the SLC Community Bail Fund. As to why Smith wanted to take the songs into his collection of music online, he says, “A lot of them are somewhat similar to an earlier songwriting style that I’ve had, so they fit probably not with PK Opal a whole lot, but just my overall style. I wanted to digitize them because I felt like they were really interesting, and some of them had some production that I hadn’t ever really experimented with before.” Some tracks feature brass instruments, like the melancholy cornet on “Lemon Seed,” and those were, strangely, qualities Smith was already planning to find room for on the new album they’re slowly working on. Smith’s response to the record’s appearance in his life seems to have been a gracious one despite the oddness of it. “I think there’s only one copy,” they chuckle. It stays under the bed where it appeared, and Smith says simply, “If it ever wants to go back home, it can.” CW

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Among the many venues now heading back to business as usual, or mostly usual, is Soundwell, and they’ve been working the indoor model through September. This Thursday, Oct. 15 finds Soundwell hosting an ambitious affair curated by DJ Juggy, the mastermind behind the Slap Lake City rap and hip hop showcase nights that were just gaining steam before the pandemic hit. This time around, Juggy and Soundwell are playing host to all the marvelous ladies of the SLC scene, with a stacked lineup of local talent for a night being dubbed Ladies of the Lake. One of those featured artists will be Courtney Kelly, who recently dropped her album TNDR in August, and hosted a masked-up release event of her own at Lakehouse Studios to celebrate it. She’ll be joined by the varied sounds of Em

It’s important to remember the kids when talking about all things music here in Salt Lake— and luckily, the Salt Lake Public Library hasn’t forgotten that. On top of this month’s special 12 Minutes Max live stream, featuring a “pops” and daughter duo, the library has been offering online music classes for children of all ages, too. Hello Music is their class aimed at younger students aged four through seven, and serves as an introductory course to learning the basics of music, with the next class coming up on Thursday, Oct. 15 at 10 a.m. Their other class for slightly older children is Hello Music Drumming, which is a drums-focused class aimed at children ages seven and up, with the next class coming up on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 3 p.m. While live streamed, these videos are available to watch anytime between the air date and Nov. 8. The benefits of one’s child learning music will be on full display on Sunday, Oct. 18, when the 2 p.m. stream of 12 Minutes Max airs to show the work of library employee and event organizer Jason Rabb and his child Vie Rabb, performing together as their band Child Rabbit. While the adult Rabb plays in the chamber garage act it foot, it ears, the seven-year old young Rabb is a composer and violinist in her own right. The pair and their music will accompany the work of fellow 12 Minutes Max artists, both of whom bring films to the stream. Ching-I Chang, will screen her film Home: Creature, featuring her collaged drawings and music made by her grandfather Eldar Baruch, while Arthur Veenema will screen his end-of-the-world themed film Tomorrow’s Shores. Catch all this programming at events. slcpl.org.

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mong the many reasons that 1984’s Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense is one of the greatest concert films ever made is the way director Jonathan Demme approaches the issue of the audience—specifically, that he ignores it almost entirely. The focus is entirely on the band members as they perform, with no cutaways to crowd reaction; the sound mix de-emphasizes the sound of applause and other audience response. It’s a chronicle of David Byrne and the Heads that focuses on the theatricality of the staging, and a performance by Byrne so mesmerizing in its intensity that it feels like he’s playing a character. Among the reasons that David Byrne’s American Utopia is nearly as compelling, is that it takes an almost 180-degree opposing perspective on the relationship between on-stage performers and those in the audience. This show is a flat-out party, albeit one where the topics of conversation occasionally get serious. Byrne interacts with those in the crowd, both verbally and

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allows the reality of the show to emerge in showing us that the crowd is clearly reacting with more enthusiasm and interaction when Byrne is playing the old Talking Heads classics, like dancing in their seats and shouting along the title of “Burning Down the House.” What emerges from David Byrne’s American Utopia is an almost pleading sense of collective experience during a time of fragmentation and conflict; it’s striking how many of the songs included here include in the lyrics some reference or other to “home” or “house.” Byrne explains during one between-songs break that the staging choice of making the band mobile was at least in part because “people like looking at faces,” and that additional level of humanizing the players resonates. Some viewers are bound to be put off by Byrne getting overtly political, whether it’s kneeling in front of a projected image of Colin

Kaepernick, or doing a cover of Janelle Monáe’s Black Lives Matter anthem “Hell You Talmbout” while Lee inserts images of Black Americans killed by police, but that’s also evidence of an artist opening himself up to what he’s feeling. You get the impression that American Utopia isn’t an ironic title, but a dream he’s sharing. As Byrne leads his band members on a line through the aisles to the set-closing “Road to Nowhere,” close enough for his fans to touch him, it’s clear that he wants us to be on a road to somewhere, and that he wants us all on that road together. CW

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) “The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself,” says Libran journalist Barbara Walters. Really? I don’t think so. In my experience, the hardest thing to do is to consistently treat ourselves with the loving care we need to be mentally and physically healthy. But I do acknowledge that trusting ourselves is also an iffy task for many of us. And yet that’s often because we don’t habitually give ourselves the loving care we need to be healthy. How can we trust ourselves if we don’t put in the work necessary to ensure our vitalTAURUS (April 20-May 20) Entre chien et loup is a French idiom that literally means ity? But here’s the good news, Libra: In the coming weeks, you’re “between dog and wolf.” It’s used to describe twilight or dusk, likely to be extra motivated and intuitively astute whenever you when the light is faint, and it’s tough to distinguish between a improve the way you nurture yourself. dog and a wolf. But it may also suggest a situation that is a blend of the familiar and the unknown, or even a moment when what’s SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ordinary and routine is becoming unruly or wild. Entre chien et “You can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like loup suggests an intermediary state that’s unpredictable or the smartest person in the room,” writes author Barbara beyond our ability to define. In accordance with astrological Kingsolver. That’s a useful message for you right now. Why? omens, I propose you regard it as one of your main themes for Because you will soon be exposed to teachings that could change your life for the better. And if you hope to be fully available for now. Don’t fight it; enjoy it! Thrive on it! those teachings, you must be extra receptive and curious and open-minded—which means you shouldn’t try to seem like you GEMINI (May 21-June 20) For 34 years, the beloved American TV personality Mr. Rogers already know everything you need to know. did a show for children. He’s now widely acknowledged as having been a powerful teacher of goodness and morality. Here’s SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) a fun fact: His actual middle name was “McFeely.” I propose I’ve decided not to use quotes by famous writers who’ve that you use that as a nickname for yourself. If McFeely doesn’t endorsed bigoted ideas. In the future, my horoscopes won’t quite appeal to you, maybe try “Feel Maestro” or “Emotion mention the work of T. S. Eliot, Roald Dahl, V. S. Naipaul, Edith Adept” or “Sensitivity Genius.” Doing so might help inspire Wharton, Kingsley Amis, H. P. Lovecraft, Flannery O’Connor, you to fulfill your astrological assignment in the coming weeks, Rudyard Kipling and Louis-Ferdinand Celine. I’m sorry to see which is to allow yourself to experience more deep feelings than them go, because I’ve learned a lot from some of them. And usual—and thereby enhance your heart intelligence. That’s I understand that many were reflecting attitudes that were crucial! In the coming weeks, your head intelligence needs your widespread in their era and milieu. But as I’ve deepened my commitment to fighting prejudice, I’ve come to the conclusion heart intelligence to be working at peak capacity. that I personally don’t want to engage with past perpetrators. Now, in accordance with current astrological omens, I invite CANCER (June 21-July 22) A blogger named Dr.LoveLlama writes, “You may think I am you to take an inventory of your own relationship with bigoted walking around the house with a blanket around my shoulders influences—and consider making some shifts in your behavior. because I am cold, but in fact the ‘blanket’ is my cloak, and I am on a fantasy adventure.” I approve of such behavior during our CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ongoing struggles with COVID-19, and I especially recommend Capricorn chemist Tu YouYou doesn’t have a medical degree or a it to you in the coming days. You’ll be wise to supercharge your Ph.D. Yet, she discovered a treatment for malaria that has saved imagination, giving it permission to dream up heroic adventures millions of lives. The drug was derived from an ancient herbal and epic exploits that you may or may not actually undertake medicine that she spent years tracking down. In part because of someday. It’s time to become braver and more playful in the her lack of credentials, she remained virtually unsung from the time she helped come up with the cure in 1977 until she won a inner realms. Nobel Prize in 2015. What’s most unsung about your accomplishments, Capricorn? There’s a much better chance than usual LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) According to author Rev. Dr. Marilyn Sewell, “The body has its that it will finally be appreciated in the coming months. own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth.” I recommend that you meditate on AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) that perspective. Make it your keynote. Your physical organism “Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting,” always has wisdom to impart, and you can always benefit from says author Gregory David Roberts. If that’s true, I expect that a tuning in to it—and that’s especially important for you right surge of luck will flow your way soon. According to my analysis, now. So, let me ask you: How much skill do you have in listening fate has grown impatient waiting for you to take the actions that to what your body tells you? How receptive are you to its unique would launch your life story’s next chapter. Hopefully, a series of and sometimes subtle forms of expression? I hope you’ll enhance propitious flukes will precipitate the postponed but necessary transformations. My advice? Don’t question the unexpected your ability to commune with it during the next four weeks. perks. Don’t get in their way. Allow them to work their magic. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) In his fictional memoir Running in the Family, Virgo author PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Michael Ondaatje returns to Sri Lanka, the land where he spent Have you formulated wily plans and crafty maneuvers to help his childhood, after many years away. He enthuses he would you navigate through the labyrinthine tests and trials up ahead? sometimes wake up and “just smell things for the whole day.” I hope so. If you hope to solve the dicey riddles and elude the I’d love for you to try a similar experiment, Virgo: Treat yourself deceptive temptations, you’ll need to use one of your best old to a festival of aromas. Give yourself freely to consorting with tricks—and come up with a new trick, as well. But please keep the sensual joy of the world’s many scents. Does that sound this important caveat in mind: To succeed, you won’t necessarily frivolous? I believe it would have a deeply calming and ground- have to break the rules. It may be sufficient merely to make the ing effect on you. It would anchor you more thoroughly in the rules more supple and flexible.

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There are so many cranes in the air along the Wasatch Front erecting high rise-apartments and office towers, I can barely keep track of it—can you? Oddly, there’s still a lot of vacancy signs on standing apartment projects. You’d think people were running from the state in droves, but rather, they are moving here by the thousands. We also know many businesses have their employees working at home and, thus, there’s a reduced need for office space, but what’s behind the apartment vacancies? Simple: Folks can’t afford to rent and are moving back in with their families. They’ve lost their jobs, been furloughed or are in flux. But there’s some good news on the housing front in this hellish 2020! First, an all-women team is building a home from the ground up in Utah County’s Wander community. This is likely a first in Utah, at least in modern times, and we’ll be able to see the final result at next year’s Parade of Homes. Called The House that She Built, the 3,200-square-foot home features two stories and a basement with a kid’s treehouse and jungle gym. By the time it’s ready to occupy, almost 200 female volunteers will have had their hands on some part of the construction. It’s the brainchild of general contractor Stephanie Sharpe, the Utah Chapter of Professional Women in Building, the Utah Home Builders Association and Oakwood Homes. Second, a big standing ovation to our Latinx brothers and sisters at Centro Civico Mexicano. The community center located behind the Gateway in the Depot District is taking reservations for a new senior housing (62+ and older) apartment project with studio, one- and two-bedroom units. The last thing most builders want to build is senior housing, although the need is extreme—as Salt Lake County has a waiting list for its aging projects. Casa Milagros (not to be confused with the new Milagro apartments at 241 W. 200 South that lease from $1,000$2,500) came together to address the needs in the local Hispanic community. It’s an affordable option for seniors, with rents ranging from $655 to $942 per month. Centro Civico Mexicano, the mothership behind the new project, was founded in the 1930s by Mexican immigrants as a place to meet, dance and celebrate holidays like Cinco De Mayo. The housing project is the first of a two-part plan to upgrade the current community center and provide housing to Hispanic seniors. It’s similar to Calvary Tower, a senior project built by the Calvary Baptist Church at 516 E. 700 South, which offers very affordable housing options—often to renters getting HUD subsidies. Oh, and while it’s not housing news, the fall conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced a new temple in Utah to be built in Lindon. It will be the church’s 25th temple in Utah—one of seven in Utah County alone. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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As inmates cheered and waved below, Annuls of Technology the pilot circled the prison yard, trying unsuccessfully to land, n Taro Kono, Japan’s new minister for administrative reform, while Gielen put his head out of the chopper to vomit five times, is wasting no time in starting his crusade to cut down on bureaubefore giving up and flying off. Authorities arrested Gielen and cratic red tape, reports The Japan Times, and among his first several accomplices within 24 hours when they discovered he targets is the fax machine, which is still in use in more than 95% had used his real name to hire the helicopter. “It seems the whole of businesses in Japan. “I don’t think there are many administrathing has been staged quite amateurishly,” remarked Tom van tive procedures that actually need printing out paper and faxOverbeke, Gielen’s attorney. ing,” Kono said on Sept. 25. A day after being appointed to his new job, Kono created a red-tape hotline on his website, inviting Wide World of Sports public input, that had to be shut down the next day after receiving Hillsborough County (Florida) Sheriff’s deputies responding to more than 4,000 responses. reports of a domestic violence situation on Sept. 23 arrived at n Keith Bebonis knows a secret about the Chicago Police the apartment of Devon Garnett, 26, to find Garnett and two Department, reported the Chicago Sun-Times on Sept. 25: They friends, fans of the Tampa Bay Lightning, watching Game 3 of still use typewriters. Bebonis knows because he repairs them the Stanley Cup finals. Neighbors had become alarmed after when the officers “abuse” them. “Police officers, in general, are hearing shouts of “Shoot! Shoot!” and “I dare you to shoot!” very heavy typists,” said Bebonis, 46, who carries on the busijust before 8:30 that evening, reported the Associated Press. ness his dad started in the late 1960s, Bebon Office Machines The deputies “thought there were guns in the house,” said and Supplies. He contracts every year to repair 40 to 50 IBM Garnett, who told them, “Nope, we’re just screaming for Steven Wheelwriters—early word-processing machines that can store Stamkos.” a few pages’ worth of data. “I don’t want it to seem like I’m saying they’re taking their frustrations out on the typewriter,” Bebonis Recurring Themes said. “But they’re just not very sensitive with these machines.” Voters in the village of Deveselu, Romania, reelected popular Mayor Ion Aliman to a third term in a landslide victory on Sept. It’s Good to Have a Hobby 27 despite the fact that Aliman had died of COVID-19 10 days Calling himself “Britain’s dullest man,” Kevin Beresford, 68, of before the election. The Associated Press reported that word of Redditch, is the founder of the Roundabout Appreciation Society the mayor’s passing had spread fast among the village’s 3,000 and has traveled all over the country for the past 17 years, searchresidents, but his name still appeared on the ballots, and many ing for the best traffic circles, which he memorializes in calendars villagers used the vote as an opportunity to honor Aliman, who with photos of his favorites. His hobby began when he ran a would have celebrated his 57th birthday on election day. After printing company that created calendars for clients every year, the results were revealed, many villagers went to his grave to pay he told BirminghamLive, and they jokingly created a roundabout respects and light candles, saying, “We will make you proud” calendar. Since then, this self-described “Lord of the Rings” and “This is your victory.” has expanded his interests to include phone boxes of Wales and Birmingham’s No. 11 Outer Circle bus route. His latest focus has Compelling Explanation been on car parks. “I started the Car Park Appreciation Society After throwing a Bible that struck a Marion County (Florida) 10 years ago, but nobody has joined,” he said. “It’s a bit sad.” Sheriff’s deputy in the face, Robert Otis Hoskins, 39, of Summerfield, told officers that God had directed him to break Police Report into his neighbors’ home and free their young daughter, accord- Johnathan Lee Rossmoine, 36, of Louisiana, was charged with ing to authorities. WKMG-TV reports police were responding multiple sex crimes on Sept. 27 after deputies of the Hernando to reports of a burglary on Sept. 22 when they encountered County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office arrested him at the Spring Hoskins, who emerged from the house next door wearing noth- Hill home of a teenager in whose bedroom Rossmaine had been ing but briefs and yelling something like, “I condemn you!” living for a month, according to authorities. The Associated before throwing the Bible. Officers tased him and took him Press reports the two met online two years ago, deputies said, into custody; Hoskins’ wife told deputies he “does have a drug and Rossmoine told them he had traveled to Florida several times problem,” according to the arrest report, and the alleged victim since then. The teen told officers Rossmoine had been living in said about $50 worth of clothing had been stolen. Hoskins was the bedroom since Aug. 19, and hid in the closet when the teen’s parents were home. booked on multiple charges. Animal Capers Latest Human Rights A High Court judge in Liverpool, England, has rejected Cheryl Five African gray parrots adopted in August by Lincolnshire Pile’s attempt to sue the Liverpool Police for violating her rights Wildlife Park in the United Kingdom were on display to the public in April 2017 when four female officers changed her out of the only 20 minutes before the park started getting complaints clothes she had vomited on, reports the BBC. Calling the officers’ that the birds were using obscenities with guests, reported actions “an act of decency,” the judge noted that Pile, who later LincolnshireLive. When the birds first came to Lincolnshire, they paid a fine for being drunk and disorderly, was “too insensible were quarantined together, where it seems they taught each with drink to have much idea of either where she was or what other some “fowl” language. “The more they swear, the more she was doing there,” and would otherwise have been left “to you usually laugh, which then triggers them to swear again,” explained park CEO Steve Nichols. The birds have been placed marinade overnight in her own bodily fluids.” in an offshore enclosure where Nichols hoped other birds would teach them some manners; when released, they’ll go to separate Bad Behavior CNN reports a 32-year-old unnamed Irishman was charged areas so they can’t encourage each other. with vandalism after being caught on Sept. 21 carving his first and last initials into a pillar on the first floor of the Colosseum Send your weird news items to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com.

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