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EVERYONE IS ALLOWED TO DREAM A chap book of Zionborn poems and prose collected for Utah’s 125th year. Edited by Ellen Fagg Weist Cover illustration by Derek Carlisle

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SOAP BOX “Herd Mentality” Private Eye March 25 column

Globally, people are vying for the vaccine and, here we are, so privileged, and not realizing just how lucky we are to have access to it. All the haters still be like “Nah, it’s a conspiracy.” Meanwhile, France, Germany and others are spiking with more deadly, more contagious variants, scrambling for AstraZeneca, and locking down again. @LAUGH_YTAFFY Via Instagram But why are Cox and the Legislature lifting the mask mandate too soon? It wouldn’t be because of the business dealings involving the legislators, would it? WENDY REED Via Facebook

Thanks for the Support

This past year has been a year unlike any other. I have watched in horror as friends and their loved ones have become stricken with COVID-19, and some have died. I have watched my bookstore sales plummet and have struggled to continue on, and to keep our six-person staff employed. Thankfully, no one working at the bookshop has caught the virus, and we’ve been doing whatever it takes to survive. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall provided low interest loans to Salt Lake City businesses to help us in our need. Thanks, Mayor. The much-maligned American government stepped in and provided PPP loans and other help to citizens and businesses, and they continue to do so. On July 24, 2020, we began a Save Ken

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Sanders Rare Books GoFundMe campaign. I’m happy and grateful to report that at eight months in, more than 2,400 book lovers and friends of the bookstore have donated almost $140,000 of our $250,000 goal! But we are not out of the woods yet, and our future is still challenging. From the front door of my bookshop, I can count five cranes for building (or destroying) surrounding properties everywhere I look. Immediately to our north, a 10-stories up, three-stories down structure is under construction, and across the street, plans are to build a 31-story monstrosity that will completely seal off our view of the Wasatch Mountains. The bookstore property, The Green Ant next door, and all the businesses on Broadway west to Edison Street will be torn down sometime in the next 12-24

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months. Eventually moving 100,000-plus books, remodeling, and fixturing a new bookshop isn’t going to be easy, or cheap. The support from my community and this GoFundMe has given me the drive to reinvent myself and my shop one more time. At age 69, this is no longer as easy as it used to be. But we are up for it, and we need your continued support. Please help spread our GoFundMe campaign to your family, friends and folks who you might know that would consider making a donation. It will help an independent bookstore in downtown Salt Lake City stay in the heart of the city where I began my journey in books some 50 years ago. I would be grateful for your ongoing support and good wishes. KEN SANDERS Ken Sanders Rare Books

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What fictional place would you most like to visit? Pete Saltas The Shire. Who wouldn’t want to go there? Second breakfasts. Cigars. Wizards. Fireworks. Barrels of beer. I think I’d fit right in. Steve Conlin Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory. Chocolate, duh. Chelsea Neider Atlantis from the Little Mermaid. I have always wanted to be a mermaid. Kelly Boyce Looney Tunes land to hit on my childhood crush Lola Bunny. Katharine Biele I’d like a quick trip to hell so I could see what’s in store for me and my friends. Kara Rhodes Bikini Bottom, where SpongeBob Squarepants lives along with many childhood memories. Or, the island locations of Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow is —and I’d need to meet him. Paula Saltas The Emerald City. Who wouldn’t love to follow the yellow brick road to meet The Wizard of Oz. Where’s Toto when you need him? Derek Carlisle Luxury Comedy for the mash potato life shapes.

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

MISS: Weak Veto

Spencer Cox, our new rural-rooted governor, has that fresh-faced look of a boy who got his first bicycle. But looks can be deceiving when you want to see what’s under the façade. Ideology, of course, is prime, and Cox’s recent—and only— veto is a good example. Cox vetoed a social-media bill, which the Deseret News notes was sponsored by a relative of Cox—Sen. Mike McKell, R-Spanish Fork—that was designed to keep tech giants from squelching conservative thought. This is absurd when you consider Politico’s findings that conservatives not only dominate social media but “outpace their liberal rivals and traditional news outlets.” Cox said only that his veto was based on “technical issues”—technical, probably because it would be unconstitutional. But Utahns don’t expect Cox to opine against rightwing thought and should expect McKell to bring back this misleading, false and yet seductive narrative. Cox stood by his base by approving unfettered concealed carry and supporting the inland port over the health and welfare of those liberal urbanites who surround it.

MISS: Lettered in Gun Law

Speaking of gun safety—or not—we can always depend on Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee for sound, partisan and arrogant retorts. You have to understand that Lee knows more about the Constitution and what the Founders really thought than anyone. Following the latest ho-hummers of mass shootings, Lee found someone to testify about the racist history of gun control and again emphasized the God-given right to arm and defend oneself. “It’s almost never the wealthy and well-connected whose safety is impaired by restrictive gun-control laws,” he tweeted. “This was true in England in 1671 when King Charles II prohibited commoners from owning guns, and it remains true in America today. We should protect the constitutional right of all lawabiding Americans—including those in low-income communities—to protect themselves and their families.” Yeah, nothing has changed since 1671. And because there was no mention of AR-15s or bazookas, apparently that means we must defend ourselves against the approaching hoards of zombies.

HIT: Cu Today, Te Tomorrow

You may not know what tellurium is, but it might just boost Utah into the solar energy field and be a boon to the economy. Sounds counterintuitive for Utah, doesn’t it? Still, Rio Tinto’s Kennecott mine plans to start mining operations soon, according to the Deseret News. The rare element is used in photovoltaic solar cells, much in demand worldwide, and Rio Tinto is set to invest $2.9 million in a new plant to start production of tellurium. Mining is a $4 billion industry in Utah, and copper from Kennecott has been most valuable. Rio Tinto, though, sees the worth in moving into solar energy generation, and Utah needs to see this as a future trend—one without fossil fuels.

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Community Clean-Up

Remember the community support behind saving the iconic Allen Park? Purchased in 1931, George and Ruth Allen lived there with their exotic bird collection and put old homes on new foundations to rent out for generations. It is one of the many community parks that fell into disrepair after years of neglect. Salt City just launched Volunteering With Trails & Natural Lands, a web portal where you can choose a project and help preserve and beautify these idyllic places, with one upcoming cleanup planned for Ensign Peak. “Volunteering to install native plants our natural land areas like Fife Wetlands along the city’s section of the Jordan River Parkway Trail or participate in a community workday at beloved Allen Park, TNL’s newest acquisition in Sugar House, is a meaningful way to keep our city shining, and our closest nature escapes inviting to everyone who seeks respite or recreation in them.” Ensign Peak, Tuesday, April 6, 4 p.m., free. stewardship.slc.gov

What About Anti-Semitism?

Utahns live in a white bubble where stereotypes can proliferate. During the horrific Capitol insurrection, the nation watched as people donned neo-Nazi symbols and shouted white supremacist slogans. The U.N. Secretary-General noted that anti-Semitism is the oldest, most persistent and entrenched form of racism and religious persecution in our world. “White supremacists are organizing and recruiting across borders, flaunting the symbols and tropes of the Nazis and their murderous ambitions,” say organizers of Reframing the Conversation: White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism. The pandemic has helped these nativist movements come out of the shadows and threaten Americans and all minority communities. Join a panel discussion on the threat and what to do about it. Virtual, Wednesday, April 7, 12 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/39dzhdR

The Bystander Effect

Kitty Genovese’s tragic death has become the symbol of bystander apathy in the nation. But standing by during a crime is a complicated social phenomenon that has persisted for generations. Bystander complicity is highly relevant today during a time of pervasive campus sexual assaults and attacks on the Asian community. The Crime of Complicity will feature professor Amos Guiora, who will address the bystander-victim relationship from multiple perspectives, focusing first on the Holocaust and then exploring cases in contemporary society. Think about Harvey Weinstein and the Team USA Gymnastics doctor, for instance. Virtual, Monday, April 5. Free/register at https://bit.ly/3rkez28

Break Free From Plastics

Federal lawmakers have reintroduced a sweeping bill to ban some single-use plastic products and set recycled content requirements, among other provisions. Plastics contribute not only to litter and pollution but also to climate change as they use fossil fuels and emit greenhouse gases. At the #BreakFreeFromPlastic virtual rally you will not only learn about the dire effects of plastic pollution, but also hear about this comprehensive legislation being proposed, and who is opposing it. Virtual, Thursday, April 1, 5 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3w2FQtC

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OPINION

We Need Weed

Editor’s Note: As more and more print media scale back or even cease their print editions, a burning question remains: Which publication left standing can proficiently cover the ever-expanding cannabis universe? After years of trying to enlighten and save the lives of Utah’s close-minded, antiscience rubes, John Saltas—founder of City Weekly and author of the Private Eye column that usually appears in this space, admits to being driven back to bong. And beginning April 1, he intends to focus on “happy things ... like weed, a middle ground where even rubes can join in.” To launch the initiative, we’ve sought the expertise of friends in high places—in this case, Jennifer Fumiko Cahill of the North Coast Journal—to help envision cannabis strains that could get us to the home stretch of COVID recovery. Recreational weed may not yet be legal in Utah, but it’s our goal to keep readers informed as to how the rest of West is feeling, which is probably more elevated than we can expect to feel anytime soon.

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Jennifer Fumiko Cahill—arts and features editor at the North Coast Journal—scribed the Week in Weed column that previously ran in the NCJ. She reminds us that while these strains of cannabis are fantasy, hunger in our communities is real and encourages readers to do their part and donate to local food banks. Follow her on Twitter @JFumikoCahill. Send comments to john@cityweekly.net.

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Everyone Is Allowed to Dream

Zion-born poems and prose collected for the state’s 125th anniversary. Utah @ 125 Part 1

Paisley Rekdal: A Few Lines About Poetry Utah’s poet laureate, Paisley Rekdal, founded the Mapping Literary Utah website. She has written nonfiction books and six volumes of poetry. City Weekly asked her a few questions about her love of verse.

How did you become the Utah poet laureate?

Pointers on how best to appreciate poetry

You just start writing. There is, sadly, no magic to it at all, outside of the magical ability to forget your own self-consciousness for a moment.

Poets that inspire you?

This is far too long to answer here, so let me say that each book and project I work on creates its own specific list of muses. I’m currently inspired by the work of Brian Teare, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Susan Briante, among others.

Your thoughts on making a career as a poet?

I’m not sure being a poet has historically been much of a career, though more and younger poets are finding great success via social media, which allows them to attract larger audiences, as well as to sell and promote their work. But this is a tough market to crack—there are thousands of people doing exactly this, and maybe half a dozen poets become notable names. The reality is that poetry for the vast majority of people isn’t a career, it’s a vocation, and if you want to “make it” as a poet, you simply have to read, write and share poetry. Hopefully, you will publish books and give readings, and possibly write articles and teach. But relying on poetry itself to make you money is a tricky proposition.

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Appreciating poetry requires that the reader spend time with language, reading carefully and without panic—something that’s sometimes hard for novice poetry readers to do. People tend to think that poems are elaborate riddles, but poems speak to us in the same words that appear in newspaper articles, in ads, in songs, in novels. These words may be put

How do you start writing a poem?

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National Poetry Month is a whole month because of calendar bureaucrats. I have no idea why poetry gets all of April—“the cruelest month,” according to T.S. Eliot, which it certainly has become for poets’ schedules. But it’s also a time when people get to experience poetry, maybe for the first time all year, and for that I’m always happy. The one event taking place in Utah that you can’t miss is the virtual Utah Poetry Festival on April 16-18, 2021, utahpoetryfestival.com). While we had to strip the in-person conference back to its barest bones due to the very real fact of Zoom fatigue, one thing I’m excited about is being able to showcase nearly 60 Utah residents and poets over the course of April. Each day in April, at 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., the Utah Humanities Book Festival and I will be sharing a video of a Utah resident reading an original poem. You can find these videos on our Twitter, Instagram and Facebook pages, or by going to the Utah Humanities Book Festival YouTube channel.

together in stranger and more exciting ways, but that’s the delight of poetry. If you have patience, curiosity and a dictionary, you can read any poem out there.

Paisley Rekdal: The poet laureate job is an honorary position that you’re invited to apply for. It’s mostly a community position, since the poet laureate is meant to make poetry more accessible to Utah’s residents. With that in mind, I’ve done a number of projects. The biggest is Mapping Literary Utah (mappingliteraryutah.org), a web archive I created of Utah writers and poets, past and present. There are poets, prose writers, playwrights, spoken word performers, cowboy poets, storytellers and Utah State Poetry Society members on the site. The second big project is the Utah Poetry Festival, which (this year) is obviously virtual, plus a month-long (virtual) celebration of Utah poets and poetry via social media. The third was a commissioned poem about the transcontinental railroad for the 150th anniversary of its completion in Promontory, Utah. The poem, “West: A Translation,” is a multi-media poem I’m currently turning into a website with poem-videos, and also a book. Beyond that, I’ve been doing a number of K-12 workshops and visits, along with workshops in the community and in the prisons.

Why is National Poetry Month celebrated for the month of April?

—by Josh Loftin Utah Department of Heritage & Arts

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The red rock, sage desert and rocky peak landscapes of Utah, to initial explorers and new arrivals, might may have seemed barren and foreboding. Dramatic, yes, but impenetrable. So, too, can the culture of Utah seem daunting to outsiders, until they begin to venture along side streets and back roads. Off the beaten path, they discover the diversity that makes this state, and the people who live in it, unique beyond the stereotypes. That dynamic culture is the centerpiece of this year’s celebration of the 125th anniversary of Utah’s statehood. Along with historical reflection, months of events for Thrive125 shine a spotlight on the artists, performers, and writers who call Utah home and the organizations that keep them employed. More importantly, Thrive125 taps an array of voices to tell the story of Utah’s past, present and future—and to tell the story honestly. Those sharing their perspective include those whose ancestors lived in this area long before white settlers as well as those who have only recently arrived. They include those who have found a personal paradise in Utah as well as those who have yet to fully realize the promise and potential of this state. They include Mormon and gentile voices, white, brown and Black voices, young and old voices. To capture those views, Thrive125 asked 22 writers to provide their thoughts on Utah in 125 words. The resulting poems, essays and personal narratives are included in the Utah @ 125 digital chapbook and are republished here by City Weekly in this issue and the next— helping kick off National Poetry Month. Contributors for this project range from Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal to Tayler Fang, a recent Logan High School graduate who served as 2019-2020’s National Student Poet of the West. Other writers include slam poets, playwrights, nature writers, activists and novelists who live throughout the state. Reading these short-short writings opens a window into many corners of Utah’s cultural and physical landscapes and reinforces how much they are intertwined. Writers describe a Bonneville Trail hike on the winter solstice, the anchoring feeling of watching quails march across a front yard, extraordinary views from on top and inside the artworks of “Spiral Jetty” and “Sun Tunnels,” and what it means to grow up in a town like Beaver. Ideally, everybody will find words that resonate with them in these writings. Thrive125 is organized by the Utah Department of Heritage & Arts, which includes seven divisions working to make Utah a more livable and creative place. Other Thrive125 events include a statewide book club and a historical exhibit at the Utah Capitol. More information can be found at thrive125.utah.gov.

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Swallow BY PAISLEY REKDAL So ignorant of the world I think it’s pleasure first that makes it dip hallucinatory arcs across this foggy, close-cropped field and not the insects wet legs kick up– Here, and almost here, these sharp darts that stop me in my tracks: poised, senseless to its direction skimming just below, the lingering white

Gloria Arredondo

only it sees through and negotiates where I am less than a stone to it, less than a flea in the dun belly flashing under the slick blue back–

Tacey M. Atsitty

Wings clip the brief air between us, scythe the sweet middle of my life where sea mist seeps its yellow curls, the step ahead and behind me blurred to the same cold capacities. Somewhere a twist of fence, a scar of ragged earth a truck tore open in the grasses to work itself free. Dark shank of hair gleaming in the wet, skin frozen to the bone, a pair of deer feeding at the wild last hedge of raspberries. Paisley Rekdal, a University of Utah professor, is Utah’s poet laureate, founder of the Mapping Literary Utah website, author of six poetry collections, and guest editor for the Best American Poetry 2020 collection.

The Land of the Free BY GLORIA ARREDONDO The land of the free radiates an infinite light. Everyone is allowed to dream and invited to extend their wings to fly. There are those born in faraway lands. Cruel fate plucked their wings. Once at birth and again crossing an imaginary line. The starless people could only hope for food, shelter and overtime. They could not expect tax breaks, health benefits nor stimulus checks. Foreigners have children in Zion; offspring never better seen than they are. Some are kept in cages, Others are sent to fight for a county that demonizes them. Starless people do not feel the butterflies But, they’re using their ripped wings to enhance those of their children. Children born in ‘The Land of the Free.’ Gloria Arrendondo is a Mexican author and artist, woman’s rights advocate, social communicator and passionate poet for truth. She is a columnist for Utah’s La Bala magazine and New York’s Al Rojo News.

Katharine Coles

Failed Elegy for Dobby the House-Elf

any of us could be swept out to sea,

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BY KATHARINE COLES

When I walk by the mirror/without really looking, I think I’m Rambo//not because he’s Navajo on his mother’s side/but the bounce & slight curl/of his hair, skin taut across his face/his solemnity, forbearing sheets/and sheets of rain still yet to cover us/at the cold, gray beachfront, where magic is supposed to happen, instead its where Dobby dies/when Dobby died, I meant to write/an elegy for him, about his innocence//he wasn’t just spliced like Ron//it’s just how it’s got to be/when things are going too well, and even/ though you rub sand grains between/ your toes, taste salt passing from wave/ and wind to tongue, your skin rises in bumps/writing rows of affirmation: you’re really there/holding a dear friend in your arms/writing his death with every breath you take.

any of our hearts fly off or dissolve into blue. The given day’s mountains awash in clouds look like geology’s oldest idea, always arriving; so many lives could have been

Tacey M. Atsitty earned bachelor’s degrees from Brigham Young University and the Institute of American Indian Arts, an MFA from Cornell University and is a Ph.D. student at Florida State University.

Katharine Coles has published seven poetry collections, including 2019’s Wayward, and a memoir, 2018’s Look Both Ways, with two books forthcoming in 2021. She is an English professor at the University of Utah.

others, full of sparrow calls, kisses, death or nights brimming with meaning—all only the usual kinds. Then, after decades, we find each other shying away, keeping faces to ourselves; we wonder how history, after so long ticking past, at last accounted for something. Imagine a century accumulating like this and then some. How we lose hours as often as mark them—but not this year, this hour. Once in a while we have to celebrate not how time holds but the way it always goes.

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Los Hogares de Mi Lengua (The Homes of My Tongue) BY CHELSEA GUEVARA Spanish was always the cutest boy at the dance. And my tongue now sways with him under the roof of my mouth like she’d dreamt about for years. I say Utah is home, but I bring him through the doors and so many say he is too loud above the beat; does not dance rigid, dance right. Like they do. We nestle in the corners they don’t want to visit at the family parties. This is where I’ve found the truest definition of home. Where we host the family that wants to learn his footwork, and host the family who has known every step their whole life. Who’s known him longer than before I realized I couldn’t say I was home, without him here, too. Chelsea Guevara is a West Jordan spoken-word poet and University of Utah student who is Caucasian and Salvadoran American. She finds joy in amplifying voices of marginalized people, especially in the Latinx community.

Gathering of the Salt

The Salty History of Utah

BY TRISH HOPKINSON

BY SIA FIGIEL

Teetering on the shoulders of native lands, gazing into murky remnants of Bonneville blue to the red cliffs and sloping pine skirts of the horizon, progress seems distant, yet imminent, in merciful inversion fissures projecting slices of radiance to valley floors. Rising to touch the wingtips of mountain bluebirds, the margins ascend layers of latter-day yard goods—knitted with iron rods and strings from fallen angels, patriarchy, and stifling— beginning to unravel and shred where hems trail one-hundredtwenty-five years past. At the crease, an early equinox slowly unfolds, welcomes all sides to receive the sun, shake off noxiousness, exhale admissions, smash the champagne against the repaired hull, give every voice a flute full, lick away the salt, let loose the anchor ropes, prepare to embark.

To truly understand this place, you have to know the struggles of the saints. How they persevered and endured. Crossing treacherous terrain to reach God’s country, said Aunty E. After a prayer on Pioneer Day, a month after we, too, first arrived from American Samoa. Football is Going to love These boys Says Uncle M He says it i n Samoan. With head bowing to Th e Wassattsi Range.

Trish Hopkinson is a poet, blogger and advocate. She runs Rock Canyon Poets and folds poems for Provo Poetry’s Poemball machines. Hopkinson answers to labels such as atheist, feminist and empty nester. selfishpoet.com

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Sia Figiel is a Samoan-American poet, translator, novelist and mother of two sons. She has written four novels, a collection of prosepoetry, and is working on her fifth novel, Humiliation.

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BY JULIE JENSEN If you grow up in Beaver, Utah, you know everything about everyone, all two thousand people living there. Who choked on a spoon, who drove into the lake. Who gave birth to a child, who died in her sleep, who got killed in a mine, who threw scissors at her sister.

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Elaine Jarvik is a veteran Salt Lake City journalist and playwright whose plays have been produced at the Plan B and Pygmalion theater companies and at the Salt Lake Acting Company.

Julie Jensen has written more than 30 plays, all professionally produced. She has taught playwriting at six universities and believes writing makes you strong and writing plays makes you understanding.

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We drove down Parley’s in the dark, eating the last of the cookies my mother had baked us 2,000 miles to the east. The canyon, the names, the number of stars—nothing was familiar. We took an exit called “State,” drove past a large bowling pin, found a cheap motel, climbed under thin sheets. In the morning, I stood in the parking lot and looked across the Salt Lake Valley, counting all the people and trees that were missing. But let this be a cautionary tale. There will be an impossible blueness to the sky. One day there will be baby quail dancing across your yard, and the comforting grid of numbered streets, and the sharp silhouette of the Oquirrhs in fading December light.

Then you move away. There are far more people, but you know next to nothing about any of them. Those other places, they can teach you how to write plays. But Utah— Utah teaches you what to write about.

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Who’s breaking up, who’s beaten up. Who left her husband, who came back to his wife. Who put her mother in the old folks’ home, and who shot himself out by the chicken coop.

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Upon our first sighting of Skull Valley Once “the most progressive city in Utah” We taste Ocean Streaming down our faces While the wind whimpers A serendipitous embrace Of aloha

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the State of Utah, discussing the history of the Great Saltair and rumors of whales living in the Great Salt Lake, while Jaimi Butler and Bonnie Baxter of the Salty Sirens regale attendees with the truth about brine shrimp and other lake facts. Register in advance to receive a free link at zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wX_eI0vqTtuL82R. For those unable to attend the live event, a recorded version will be available later via steampunkacademy.org (Scott Renshaw)

loveDANCE more: Only the Lonely When a “new normal” presents itself—even if the “new normal” might only be temporary—there aren’t many options. Either you can bang your head against reality, or you can embrace reality and use it to your advantage. Faced with the reality of staging live dance during a pandemic, loveDANCEmore leaned into the circumstances for Only the Lonely, a series of virtual dance performances that could be created and performed safely and remotely. According to loveDANCEmore’s Samuel Hanson, Only the Lonely was originally planned to support two artists, presenting projects that were “happening either entirely virtually, or with the safest possible inter-household interaction.” But after receiving the responses to the call for submissions, the company’s panel of judges decided to support seven works. “I think it’s fair to say that we were interested in what new kinds of creativity might be elicited by the comparatively strict but sensible (we think) COVID-restrictions we put

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It’s been a full 18 months since the 7th annual Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival was hosted by the Salt Lake City Library, for reasons that might be fairly obvious. And while the world is nowhere near back to normal, the arts have shown a remarkable ability to adapt. That includes the format for the 8th annual Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival, which will take a virtual form this year with two days of programming showcasing 16 local, national and international creators via Vimeo. Each day is broken up into individual blocs of presentations, with two on Friday, April 2 and three on Saturday, April 2. Many of the scheduled works explicitly explore the past pandemic year, how it has affected us, and how it has affected the creation and presentation of art. Myriam Laplante’s You have to be there explicitly addresses what is lost when the artist is not physically present to the audience. Chilean artist Alexander del Re also dives into this topic through his piece Exercises in Reality, and Salt Lake

City’s Eugene Tachinni (pictured above left, with festival curator Kristina Lenzi from 2019) looks into his own experience of having his apartment building change ownership in the middle of the pandemic. But there is also an opportunity for this virtual format to present notions that wouldn’t have been possible in person. Boston-based Marilyn Arsem’s Signs of Spring will find her livestreaming a walk through a local park in her home city, looking for evidence of the changing seasons, while inviting those watching remotely to do the same. Visit events.slcpl. org/event/4880736 for additional program descriptions and Vimeo links. (SR)

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in place,” Hanson says. “The results have been exciting — the old axiom about the power of limits still holds up!” Only the Lonely programming begins April 3-4 at 7:30 p.m. with two pieces: Nora Lang’s TV Dinners Presents Binary Coding, an interactive experience with a game show-like component; and the double-feature of dance films Blinding Light and Companion (pictured) created by Dmitri Peskov and Jung Ah Yoon and featuring local dancer Warren Hess of Ephraim. Two additional programs are scheduled for April 23-24 and May 4. The presentations will feature a live Q&A after the programs; register at lovedancemore.org, with a $10 donation encouraged. (SR)

The United States’ long history of cruelty to Native peoples includes too many individual incidents to number, but some of them have achieved a special level of infamy. Such was “The Long Walk”—the forced repatriation in 1865 of Navajo (Diné) people from their ancestral homelands in Arizona to a reservation in New Mexico. The 18-day, 330-mile journey cost at least 200 lives, and while the Diné eventually made a return journey to their original lands in 1868, the event left a deep mark on the people. The year 2018 marked the sesquicentennial of the Diné’s return to Arizona, and to mark the occasion, Edison Eskeets—a former AllAmerican long-distance runner—decided to honor the occasion by re-tracing the steps of “The Long Walk,” all 330 miles from Canyon de Chelly, Arizona to Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was a plan a decade in the making, with a goal of the then-58-year-old Eskeets finishing the journey on July 1, 2018—the exact 150th anniversary of the return. In Send a Runner: A Navajo Honors the Long Walk, Eskeets and writer Jim Kristofic relate the story of Eskeets’ 15-day run to honor his ancestors, bring a focus back to “The Long Walk,” and provide a vision for the future of the Navajo people. Eskeets and

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The last remnants of a massive inland sea, the Great Salt Lake might have given our city its name, yet it’s still often more of a punch line that a source of pride. Sometimes it seems like it’s merely that thing that gives the air a particular pungency, or the reason a neighborhood a couple of miles away gets three inches more snow than you do. But what do you really know about it? STEAMpunk Academy, Utah Arts Alliance and Salty Sirens dig into the fun, the facts and the myths of the Great Salt Lake’s biome on April 1 at 7 p.m. for the virtual presentation From the Depths of the Great Salt Lake. The centerpiece will be a livestream roast of the 1980 cult film Attack of the Brine Shrimp (pictured), Mike Cassidy’s 1980 25-minute short that takes the tiny arthropod inhabitants of the Great Salt Lake and turns them into a kaiju wreaking havoc across the downtown SLC cityscape. Local filmmaker Brian Higgins will offer his perspective on Attack of the Brine Shrimp. Other scheduled presenters include Chris Merritt, Industrial Archaeologist with

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Kristofic participate in a virtual author event via The King’s English Bookshop (kingsenglish.com) on Wednesday, April 7 at 6 p.m. The event is free, but advance registration is required via the website; patrons who purchase a copy of the book via the website will receive an autographed bookplate. (SR)

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enerally speaking, you might think that a theatrical experience incorporating queer drag culture into conversations about racial justice would have a pretty self-selecting audience—the kind of folks, in other words, who think that they already “get it,” and are just there to cheer along with ideas they already agree with. But in a sense, that’s a feature of Black Benatar’s Black Magic Cabaret, rather than a bug. This is an experience that isn’t about preaching to the choir, but about letting the choir know that they still have a few tunes left to learn. “That’s actually the whole story of the show,” says Kyle DeVries, production manager for Black Benatar’s Black Magic Cabaret. “It’s the dynamic between this powerful, black queer femme ringleader of the show doing this circus around racial justice, and this trying-to-do-well but never-doing-well-enough white ‘reparations intern.’ You think you know enough, but there are going to be a lot of times you don’t.” Black Benatar’s Black Magic Cabaret takes the form of a variety show, including circus-style performers of acrobatics, stage magic and more. The centerpiece narrative between those acts, however, involves that interaction between Black Benatar (co-creator Beatrice Thomas) and the aforementioned intern, Wyatt Allai (co-

creator Steven LeMay). It’s bawdy, funny and frisky—not at all a lecture. Designing the show with that sense of fun was important to Thomas, who began sketching out the idea for the show at a San Francisco club a few years ago with LeMay and writer John Caldon. The trio started improvising ideas for skits exploring themes of racial justice and allyship, and the trials and tribulations of trying to be an activist in these times. “I feel it’s so important to bring joy and humor even to the most difficult topics, of which racism is definitely up there,” Thomas says. “If we’re ever going to change hearts and minds, we need to be able to create connection, and I find collective joy to be a powerful force for creating connection. Plus, for those of us who are doing the work, we need to be able to laugh and smile in between the tearful moments. It gives us hope and strength.” “Everything has this big Vegas sensibility—costumes larger than life, characters larger than life, a game show going on,” DeVries adds. “All these things that have a flavor from our culture of being joyous and fun. It’s this little bit of a rollercoaster it takes audiences on, sometimes having them think deeply, sometimes just laughing.” Thomas and their collaborators started workshopping the production in 2018 and 2019, developing the basic format that would include the performances between the main narrative segments. When the pandemic hit last year, it stalled the development process somewhat, but also provided an opportunity to receive a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts National Theater Project. As it happened, 2020 also included the high-profile national protests for Black Lives Matters surrounding police violence and racial injustice, but DeVries believes that despite the timing, those events really didn’t have a tremendous impact on the

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show itself. “I think the show was already so much along that trajectory, that it hasn’t shifted the content of the show much at all,” they say. “It’s already so much about that. If anything, it’s more relevant and more on people’s radar.” This week, Black Benatar’s Black Magic Cabaret finally makes its full premiere, on the Kingsbury Hall stage—but not in front of a live audience. Instead, the show will live-stream on Friday, April 2, in a presentation that incorporates local performers from the BIPOC and LGBTQ communities, as was always the goal for the show as it toured. Adapting to a virtual show did require some fine-tuning, as audience participation was always meant to be a key component of the show. Now, online viewers will engage in that audience participation digitally, with viewers getting a QR code that takes them to a website with interactive components. “Getting filmed and streamed presented a whole new set of challenges,” DeVries says. “There were certain things that would have worked much better with [a live audi-

Beatrice Thomas as Black Benatar in Black Benatar’s Black Magic Cabaret

ence], and not as well when you’re filming it. But we have a five-camera set-up with professional equipment, for a show that otherwise wouldn’t have had that support.” And, significantly, Black Benatar’s Black Magic Cabaret is able to make its debut by taking its message everywhere at once. “The great thing is that, by streaming it out, we’re going to be able to bring it to a national audience,” DeVries says. That means even more people can learn that being an ally is more complicated than it might seem—even if you think you already are one. CW

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vanilla and coconut to give the ale much more than honey and caramel. Its trailing warmth turns this commonly quaffable ale into a delicate sipper. Overall: This has nuance, strength and flavor in equal parts, The 6.5 percent alcohol is well hidden, which is what makes this beer quite drinkable for a barrel-aged beer. The coffee is interesting but, I could take it or leave it. I hope they continue to hone the already-evident skill at play, and broaden what this beer can be. Ogden River - 3:10 to El Dorado: This beer pours a sort of hazy, medium golden amber color, with three fingers of puffy, rocky and sticky eggshell-white head, which leaves some stellar bonsai-tree-like webbed lace around the glass as it slowly sinks away. It smells of grainy and doughy caramel malt, strong, estery florals, edgy lemongrass, juicy stone fruit, a touch of hard water flintiness and more leafy and earthy hop bitterness. The taste is more rather doughy caramel malt, prominent mixed citrus flesh notes (inclusive of the lemongrass), further tropical fruitiness, a minor pithy chalk character and some lesser leafy, grassy, and floral hoppiness. The carbonation is quite laid-back in its welcoming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight and actually quite smooth. This particular hop is not of the spoilsport type, it would seem, even allowing for a gentle emerging creaminess. It finishes on the sweet side, with the robust fruitiness and back-burner malt lingering on into that good night. Overall: This is a hop that you don’t see too much in a single-hop pale ale. It’s a very enjoyable and drinkable American ale, as the El Dorado hops are very capable of carrying off the whole bittering affair, it would seem. Tasty, and a nice spring-friendly pale ale, especially with the subtle lemongrass spiciness. Uinta is offering Ghosts of Sego in 12-oz. bottles; they’re one of the few breweries around that still have the ability to bounce around from bottles and cans. You can find it at their brewery store or to enjoy in their pub. Need a growler or crowler fill? 3:10 to El Dorado is good to go, and on draft at the Ogden brewery. As always, cheers. CW

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Prior to his February 2021 album Small Talk, local artist Clesh has been more of a collaborator, putting out albums with fellow local Earthworm, like the 2020 EP they released together called Always the Sun. But Small Talk is a small treasure of Clesh’s own. Featuring a few appearances by other talented locals like Cherry Thomas, Benjamin Major, future. exboyfriend, Dumb Luck and of course, Earthworm, the album is a playground for Clesh’s beat-driven and slightly trippy synth compositions, on which his friends play. Opening with “Innocuous,” the album’s tone is certainly set as lighthearted—video-game plings sound off delicately in the distance of the song’s immediate landscape, an easyto-survey one made up of slight scratching, clear ringing synths and easy-hitting beats. It sounds simply like good, clean fun. On the following track, Earthworm enters, laying his raps over a slightly more intense layout. The only features who don’t rap over Clesh’s music are Thomas and future.exboyfriend. For Thomas’ part, she immediately seems to be in her crooning element and a little sharp, invigorated into serving up a more clipped R&B delivery by the beats Clesh provides. All over the record, ’90s DJ scratch culture is called up to zip lazily alongside smooth jazz parts (“A Whole Day”). The whole thing is carried calmly along by warm, clear beats, loungey synth keys—though modern hip hop vibes still come through on tracks like “Chemtrails.” On “A Beautiful Feeling,” future. exboyfriend chimes in with gently computerfiltered vocals, a sweet addition to the trippy vibe. Small Talk feels like that—full of brief, engaging songs that just hit the spot. A solid look at what this local artist is capable of, you can find it wherever you stream. Follow him on Instagram at @cleshmusic.

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X-Files has, to my limited knowledge as a millennial, always been a popular show—after all, who doesn’t want to believe? Nowadays, it’s accessible on streaming platforms, and it seems to be going through a renaissance of sorts, if the references to it by young artists are anything to go by. Joining artists like Phoebe Bridgers, whose 2020 album Punisher was sprinkled with little references to spaceships, feeling a bit alien and wanting to believe, fellow millennial indie sweetheart Japanese Breakfast (Michelle Zauner) recently came out with a song and a video that riffs on the famous phrase. Though the song focuses lyrically on just wanting an implied loved one to “be sweet” to her, one lyric in particular allowed her to craft a super campy video homage to the series. She sings in her typical high-energy, crooning way “make it up to me, you know it’s better / be sweet to me, baby / I wanna believe in you / I wanna believe in something!” From that repeated line, a kooky X-Files-themed video comes to life, directed by “J. Brekkie” and alongside Mannequin Pussy’s Marisa “Missy” Dabice, who dons the red Dana Scully wig. As the song’s sparkly Wild Nothing-assisted synths and funk-tinged basslines play out (complete with oh-so-disco whispers of “be sweet!”), Zauner and Dabice run around in pantsuits; lean into chunky beige desktops while Zauner eats instant ramen; drive down a dark road in an old car, only to be accosted by neons flashing. Needless to say, someone gets kidnapped by aliens at the end. I don’t watch a ton of music videos, but this one’s charisma means it’s on repeat, and the song, too. It comes as the first single for Japanese Breakfast’s upcoming third album, Jubilee. Find the video on YouTube or stream the song wherever you stream.

Last year was quite a doozy, filled with little besides a bevy of cancelations. But in a sudden turn of events, in addition to the lifting of the mask mandate on April 10, Gov. Spencer Cox has issued a new order, one that some are already saying is equally as baffling: All the events that were canceled in 2020 are to return for one pre-mask-mandate-lifting celebratory weekend event—Freedom Weekend (Spen just couldn’t wait until the Fourth of July). Beloved summer events like the Twilight Concert series will take over Pioneer Park and the Gallivan Center for the entirety of the weekend of April 2 through 4. Attendees can expect acts the fest has already booked two or four times already in the past, and for some reason, we will all still go. It will also be free again. For its part, Ogden Twilight is waiting until the last-minute release of SLC Twilight’s full lineup, so that they can one-up them as usual, partly by flaunting what feels like a devil’s pact of a deal they’ve got with The Flaming Lips. As for other famous downtown events, Utah Pride Festival and the Utah Arts Fest will be sharing Washington Square. There, every single singer songwriter with an acoustic guitar in the city will battle to out-volume the drag queens. For those Sundance fans who are too poor for a pass and always wonder what happens in the ASCAP Cafe sets, appearances around town at local gas stations will finally let us in on what goes on in there. And if you’re thinking, “hey, what about Das Energi?,” it’s been left off the list of weekend revelry because the famous EDM festival did in fact happen last year—with the power of dubstep, a portal was opened out by the Saltair, and the festival plus all the attendees were swallowed whole, into another dimension where presumably they are still raving on. If this sounds like a weekend from hell, good thing, because April Fools!

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Many artists have leaned into dropping singles with little promotion during the pandemic, for obvious reasons, and Eixo is one of them. “I realized I was being too precious about my music,” he says of when he used to promote more around releases, on a longer schedule than the freer one he utilizes now. “I had a huge backlog of songs that I loved that I wasn’t releasing because I had to focus on ‘amazing songs that people will love.’ I don’t care about that anymore. I am a craftsman and my joy comes from the creative process. Releasing is just a byproduct of my ‘therapy’ in the studio,” he explains. With a penchant for soft club beats and trance-like synths contrasted by guitar parts that go from delicately melodic to dramatic rock riffs, Eixo’s compositions are many, and often complemented by vocal features and collaboration with local artists like Ryan Innes, Jordan Clark, Kelly Fellows and Hannah Lovelady. This past year, he’s started releasing songs every two weeks, with upcoming release dates stretching into August of this year. “I’m a workaholic. If you want to torture me, make me sit and watch an entire movie. My restless soul needs to be doing something at all times, so I always have a big backlog of songs,” he tells City Weekly. Mostly, his “feverish songwriting pace” is spurred on by the profundity he finds in making music that makes him feel something. “Sometimes I will work on an arrangement for hours and end up creating something that sounds like pure joy to my ears,” he says. “If I feel it deeply, it is a good song and I put it out.” He also points out that if it touches his heart, that’s all that matters in a release. He plans to keep this up even after the pandemic, and interested parties can find everything he’s put out so far on Spotify. Follow him for more updates on Instagram at @eixomusic.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Playwright August Strindberg (1849–1912) was a maverick innovator who loved to experiment with plot and language. One of his stories takes place in a dream, and the hero is the Christ-like daughter of a Vedic god. He once said that he felt “an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.” Given your current astrological potentials, Aries, I suspect that might be an apt motto for you right now. April fool! I half-lied. There’s no need for you to become a savage. It’s better if you don’t. But the coming weeks will definitely be a good time to start creating a new world.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Here are affirmations that will serve you well in the coming days. 1. “I am willing to make mistakes if someone else is willing to learn from them.” 2. “I am grateful that I’m not as judgmental as all the shortsighted, self-righteous people.” 3. “I assume full responsibility for my actions, except those that are someone else’s fault.” 4. “A good scapegoat is as welcome as a solution to the problem.” April fool! All the preceding affirmations are total bunk! Don’t you dare use them. Use these instead: 1. “I enjoy taking responsibility for my actions.” 2. “Rather than indulging in the reflex to blame, I turn my attention to fixing the problem.” 3. “No one can make me feel something I don’t want to feel.” 4. “I’m free from believing in the images people have of me.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Who says all Tauruses are gentle, risk-avoidant, sensible, and reliable? Taurus author Mary MacLane (1861–1929), known as the “Wild Woman of Butte, Montana,” authored shocking, SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) scandalous books. In I Await the Devil’s Coming, she testified, “I According to author Kahlil Gibran, “If we were all to sit in a circle am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not generous. I am merely and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It originality.” But I challenge you Scorpios to refute that theory is my genius. It burns me like fire.” Can I convince you, Taurus, in the coming days. For the sake of your sanity and health, you to make her your role model for the coming weeks? April fool! need to commit highly original sins—the more, the better. I don’t think you should be exactly like MacLane. Please leave April fool! I lied. Save your novel, imaginative sinning for later. out the part about “I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not The truth is that now is an excellent time to explore the joygenerous,” as well as the “I await the devil’s coming” part. But ous and healthy practice of being extremely virtuous. Imitate yes, do be a creature of intensely passionate feeling. Let your author Susan Sontag: “My idolatry: I’ve lusted after goodness. Wanting it here, now, absolutely, increasingly.” feelings be your genius, burning in you like a fire.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) After his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain committed suicide, Capricorn drummer Dave Grohl was depressed for months. To cheer himself up, he wrote and recorded an album’s worth of songs, playing almost all the instruments himself: drums, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass, and vocals. I think you should try a similar spectacularly heroic solo task in the coming weeks. April fool! I lied. Here’s my true and actual advice: Now is a time when you should gather all the support and help and cooperation you can possibly garner for an interesting project.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik told her psychoanalyst León Ostrov that if she were going to steal something, it would be LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) In 1692, a Swedish man named Thiess of Kaltenbrun was put “the façade of a certain collapsed house in a little town called on trial for being a werewolf. He claimed to be a noble werewolf, Fontenay-aux-Roses [near Paris].” What was so special about however. He said he regularly went down to hell to do holy com- this façade? Its windows were made of “magical” lilac-colored bat against the devil. I suggest you make him your inspirational glass that was “like a beautiful dream.” In accordance with role model in the coming weeks. Be as weird as you need to be in astrological omens, I invite you, too, to decide what marvel order to fight for what’s good and right. April fool! I half-lied. you would steal—and then go steal it! April fool! I half-lied. What I really meant to say was: Be as weird as you need to be Yes, definitely decide what you would steal—it’s important to to fight for what’s good and right, but without turning into a give your imagination permission to be outrageous—but don’t actually steal it. werewolf, zombie, vampire or other supernatural monster. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) I’ve never understood the appeal of singer-songwriter Morrissey, especially since he began endorsing bigoted far-right politicians. However, I want to recommend that you adopt the attitude he once expressed in a letter to a friend. “It was a terrible blow to hear that you actually worked,” he wrote. “It’s so old-fashioned to work. I’d much rather lounge about the house all day looking fascinating.” Be like that in the coming weeks, Pisces! April fool! I lied. In fact, you’d be making a silly mistake to lie around the house looking fascinating. It’s a highly favorable time for you to find ways to work harder and smarter.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “I want to hear raucous music, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine,” wrote author Anais Nin. “Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I want to bite into life.” All that sounds like perfect counsel for you to consider right now, dear Virgo! April fool! I lied. Nin’s exuberant testimony might be an interesting perspective to flirt with—if the COVID-19 virus had been completely tamed. But it hasn’t. So I must instead suggest that you find ways to express this lively, unruly energy in safe and sublimated ways.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Provocation specialist Lydia Lunch is a singer and poet who’s skilled at generating interesting mischief. She testifies, “My daily existence is a battlecade of extreme fluctuations where chaos clobbers apathy, which beats the s—t out of depression which follows irritability which slams into anger which eclipses ecstasy which slips through my fingers far too often.” In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I recommend you adopt her melodramatic approach to living the intense life. April fool! I lied. Please don’t be like Lydia Lunch in the near future. On the contrary: Cultivate regal elegance, sovereign poise and dynamic equanimity.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) The coming months would be a great time to start your own university and then award yourself a Ph.D. in Drugless Healing or Mathematical Reincarnation or Political Metaphysics—or any other subject you’d like to be considered an expert in. Hey, why not give yourself three Ph.D.s and call yourself a professor emeritus? April fool! I’m just joking. The coming months will indeed be an extremely favorable time to advance your education, but with real learning, not fake credentials.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Poet Emily Dickinson had a good sense of humor, so she was probably making a wry joke when she wrote, “The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.” But who knows? Maybe Emily was being a bit sincere, too. In any case, I advise you to make a list of all the things you regret not being—all the qualities and assets you wish you had, but don’t. It’s a favorable time to wallow in remorse. April fool! I was totally lying! In fact, I hope you will do the reverse: Engage in an orgy of selfappreciation, celebrating yourself for being exactly who you are.

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If you’re in the market to buy a home or condo right now, you know you’re competing against a wave of fellow buyers for a limited amount of available inventory. If you’re about to buy or have been making offers, there are things written into our real estate contracts that are in your favor. All Utah Association of Realtors real estate purchase contracts have language to protect the buyer and allow them to get out of the contract if A. the buyer doesn’t like the seller’s property disclosures and/or has the property inspected and doesn’t like what they find, B. the property doesn’t appraise for the agreedupon purchase price and C. the buyer doesn’t get final loan approval. In this market, to win contracts, I’m seeing buyers giving up one, two or three of these rights to secure a property! If you’ve never purchased a home, it’s scary not to get a professional inspection to determine if the wiring is safe, the roof doesn’t leak, there’s no or low radon gas or if the property has high mold or allergen readings, hidden moisture in walls, a broken main sewer line or poor water quality. Yet some buyers are willing to risk buying a money pit to win the multiple-offer battle. Appraisers right now are living in hell because homes are selling fast, and there are few comparable sales to support increasing high sales prices. I know of a home near the U of U that just sold for $300K over asking and an agent of mine sold one in Harvard/ Yale for $115K over asking price. As I work with more sellers than buyers, I try to suggest a list price that is fair and will garner the seller multiple offers. If the property is listed too high, the seller won’t get to choose from as many offers, and multiples are what drive the final sales price up. Some buyers are removing the “subject to appraisal” clause in their offers and making up the difference between an appraisal that may come in low and the final sales price. Yet, buyers who don’t have the cash in hand drive up prices more hoping the seller will take the high offer. Example: Seller asks $450,000 and there are 10 offers. Seller picks the highest offer at $500,000 and the appraisal only comes in at $460,000. Buyer must come up with $40,000 to make up the difference, when they had originally planned on putting only 5% down on the home. Worst of all, the buyer may not be able to qualify for a loan at the higher sales price, and the sale will fail. Offers I see rolling into my office or that I’m writing may also tempt sellers with “non-refundable earnest money” from the buyer at signing of the offer and/or buyers offering to pay sellers’ closing costs at settlement. Whoa! Will this ever stop? Not soon, in my opinion. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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