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ZION-BORN POEMS AND PROSE

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COLLECTED FOR THE STATE’S 125TH ANNIVERSARY—PART 2

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OUTER WILDERNESS Part II of Zion-born poems and prose collected for Utah’s 125th year.

Introduction by Ellen Fagg Weist

Cover illustration by Derek Carlisle

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SOAP BOX America ‘Unchurched’

For the first time in its more than eight decades of surveying Americans’ religious attitudes and practices, Gallup reports, church members constituted only 47% of the U.S. population in 2020—down 23% since 1999, prior to which the percentage seldom dipped below 70%.

Why the precipitous drop, and what might it portend for the future?

“The decline in church membership,” the Gallup report says, “is primarily a function of the increasing number of Americans who express no religious preference.” In 2000, Americans who didn’t consider themselves religious at all comprised 8% of the population. Today, 21% answer to that description.

While there’s obviously an interrelationship there, I suspect it’s more compli-

cated than the former being “primarily a function of” the latter.

For one thing, not being a believer may be as much effect as cause. The child who isn’t raised in church, or whose family isn’t as involved in that church as families used to be, is probably less prone to either religious belief or church affiliation as an adult.

Also, churches are far from the only community organizations struggling to maintain their membership numbers.

In 1973, America boasted more than 4 million Boy Scouts from a population of 215 million. Today, that number is 2.3 million from a population of 330 million.

Despite three decades of continuous war, creating millions of eligible members, veterans’ organizations like the American Legion are in decline as older members die and younger prospects pass

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on the affiliation.

We hear a lot about social fragmentation and political polarization these days, and these numbers are probably relevant to those problems.

As a libertarian, I’m inclined to see the hoary hand of the state behind all bad things, and I can a make a case for that here. The increased reach of the welfare state makes the charity functions of churches and other social organizations less urgent, while the grasp of the regulatory state makes operating physical establishments more expensive.

But if that’s part of the cause, it’s far from the whole cause.

It’s no coincidence that the decline in physical group participation maps closely to the growth of fast and affordable Internet access.

Back in the old days (i.e., the childhoods

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of those over 50), meeting with others who shared our interests meant physically traveling to a central location. Today, it can be as simple as opening your laptop or picking up your phone.

That phenomenon comes with downsides. We’re self-segregating into echo chambers where our priors are affirmed and those who disagree are unwelcome.

But it also comes with upsides, such as instant, on-demand fellowship, across vast distances, with others who share our interests.

We’re in the midst of the most tumultuous social changes in decades, if not centuries. Churches, and the rest of us, are going to have to ride this storm out and hope for sunnier weather on the other side.

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What’s on your bucket list?

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Follow Dead + Company on summer West Coast tour in my Volkswagen Eurovan. Place to place, city after city, night after night. Hanging out in the lot, sunshine, grooving, free—all the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

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Hike all the top waterfalls in the world!

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I would like to write a City Weekly cover story that becomes an Oscar-winning film

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The Trans-Siberian Railway.

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To build a vehicle with my dad and cruise it up the Pacific Coast Highway and along historic Route 66.

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To someday weigh what my driver’s license says I weigh.

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Cruise aboard a junk through the surreal Ha Long Bay in Vietnam’s Gulf of Tonkin.

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To be the court artist at Donald Trump’s hearings and capture the true essence of shame, sweat and tears. Followed only by portraying Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington II and getting to punch Sens. Ted Cruz or Mitch McConnell in the gullet.

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HITS&MISSES

BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

HIT: Rooting Out Racism

There’s a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking about racism in the nation— and in Georgia specifically. Despite the political weaponizing of terms like “cancel-culture” and “PC,” racism and its real-life manifestations are deeply rooted problems that we face every day.

In monolithically white Utah, our racist past is hard to face, as can be seen with Dixie State University grappling to find a less divisive name. Meanwhile, the new state law—sponsored by Rep. Mike Winder, R-West Valley City—attempts to make it easier for property owners to eliminate old covenants requiring Caucasian-only ownership. It was not too long ago when one of Salt Lake City’s favorite restaurants—the Coon Chicken Inn—featured a doorway through the exaggerated lips of a Black man. City Weekly’s Scott Renshaw reports on Sorting Out Race, a Leonardo exhibition of thrift store stereotypical items. This year’s LDS General Conference even highlighted racism in a call to “root it out.” The intentions are good, but Utahns will have to change the culture first.

MISS: Conflicted Is How We Roll

You can’t live in Utah without worshiping at the altar of fossil fuels, even during the global climate crisis and the self-evident decline of the failing resource. It’s no small wonder that a very conflicted state senator would sponsor a “simple” bill to do away with legal constraints on the Permanent Community Impact Fund. The fund was meant to use federal mineral royalties for “the alleviation of social, economic and public finance impacts resulting from the development of natural resources,” The Salt Lake Tribune reports. Instead, the money could go toward extraction and a controversial rail line. The sponsor, Sen. Ronald Winterton, R-Roosevelt, has employment ties to the rail line project. But as legislators like to say: Conflicts are a way of life.

MISS: Conservatives Raising Taxes

Utah County is nothing if not a confusing mixture of Republican ideology and personal political ambition. The ideology: tax cuts good; tax hikes bad—that is, unless you’re a former commissioner.

The political ambition: The two remaining commissioners taking control of the county’s $100 million budget, which Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson calls a power grab, according to the Herald Journal.

Those two commissioners are steeped in the ideology of the Reaganomics trickle-down theory, which despite being an abject failure, resonates among conservative lawmakers. The confusing part: The two former commissioners who voted for a property tax increase are indeed conservative. While ideology is fine, it doesn’t exactly pay the bills, and that apparently was what those former commissioners understood. The immense political pushback now seems to have persuaded the sitting commission to do an about-face even though they believe in the sanctity of tax cuts.

That’s not ideology; it’s politics.

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A Woman’s Place

While the lieutenant governor is focused on getting women back into the workforce, there is another large gap between women and their male counterparts—political office. Utah ranked 40th in the number of women in politics, a 2 percent drop from 2020. Sure, everything was put on hold during the pandemic, but politics continued, often to the detriment of women, children and families. At Campaign 101—The Spring Webinar Series, you will learn the nuts and bolts of running for office with a guided discussion and Q&A session with former Reps. Patrice Arent and Becky Edwards. They can tell you what you’ll face, what you’ll learn and what you’ll gain from the experience. Virtual, Wednesday, April 14, 12 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3dpVRRQ

Talk to the Chief

With all the debate over defunding the police, Black Lives Matter and gun control, Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown has an insider’s perspective. The state’s capital city has seen its share of killings. A commission on racial equality has asked for more training and improved programs for police. Asian Americans have been threatened here, and police see an inordinate number of domestic cases. Join West View Media for City Talk: Mike Brown, Salt Lake City Police Chief, a Facebook Live event that seeks to bring the public closer to its officials, to engage in civic affairs and learn about our civic institutions. Virtual, Thursday, April 15, 4 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/39SaU5V

Climate and the Arts

You may wonder how to reach all those climate deniers out there. They don’t listen to facts and they seem to lead from complacency.

Maybe the arts could better communicate the urgency of the world’s situation. Earth Week: The Role of Arts in Climate Change Communication brings poets, musicians and art historians together to explore the challenges we face. “This growing form of activism dives deep into the emotions, impacting audiences in new ways to motivate actions to build more resilient and equitable policies and institutions today for a more sustainable tomorrow,” say organizers at the Hinckley Institute of Politics. Virtual, Tuesday, April 13, 12 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/39xAInG

Dark Sky Week

You may have forgotten what stars look like—or how many there are in the sky. The encroaching urbanization of our world has drenched the skies with light, and not the natural kind. International Dark Sky Week runs from April 5-12. Among the events is The Archaeoastronomy Project of Fremont Indian State Park with Dr. John Lundwall, where he will discuss his research of Fremont Indian State Park—the site of the largest Fremont settlement yet discovered. You may also want to join a Virtual Star Party Using the 32-inch Willard Eccles Observatory Telescope where you can see images of deepspace objects like galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae. Fremont: Virtual, Sunday, April 11, 6 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3cLsslT Telescope: Virtual, Thursday, April 8, 9 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3cItAGK

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just had another nice surgery, this time on my spine, so I’m not really up on current events. Sometimes I read or see something and think I’m the first person ever to have seen it, including seeing it before it was written or created.

Other times I have to read something over and over to get even the most basic salient points—like wondering recently, “Gary Herbert. Gary Herbert. Hmmm. Why does that name ring a bell?” Or, “I’m kinda hungry. Let’s go down to the Auerbach’s cafeteria for a hot cinnamon roll with butter.” Such are the effects when the mind is clouded with a cocktail of anesthesia, oxycodone and muscle relaxers. It takes weeks to get that crap out of your system.

I love how you are given a choice of opioids after surgery these days—hydrocodone or oxycodone in my case.

Basically, at my first-grade level understanding of medical basics, the choice is whether you want to fry your liver or your kidneys along with your brain. On the bright side, there are more potent and addictive painkillers out there, like Fentanyl, but I’ve never bothered taking painkillers a day or two after surgery anyway. A few years ago, my cupboards had a mess of orange vials filled with all manners of leftover painkillers from every sort of orthopedic surgery. I flushed them all away and didn’t think twice about it until I found that what I did wasn’t so friendly to the fish down in the Jordan River. I’m a catch and release guy, so that action was demoralizing.

Stop reading now if you’re thinking I have a valuable stash of pills stashed away at my home. I don’t. All I have now are blood pressure meds, baby aspirin, fish oil and a

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couple jars of vitamins D and B plus zinc—my anti-COVID regimen for the past year. So, don’t bother with a graband-go robbery here because besides those pills, you’re only going to make away with some dried mint and Greek oregano. If you insist, at least ring the door, and I’ll let you in. Nothing worse than engaging in the crime of breaking and entering for little more than a vial of Flintstone multivitamins, you know.

On the other hand, I understand the motivation. While I’ve never experienced it, not even remotely, addiction to painkillers and opioids is a tremendous societal problem.

How we’ve gotten to the point of creating pathways to addiction is beyond me. Even in my lucid moments, I’ve never understood that. It seems to have gotten better, as I think I was only prescribed maybe a week or two worth of pills after this surgery. In years past, however, I got the full collective. How else to gather hundreds of leftover pills? But I did have them. After I flushed them away, someone said—I think in jest—something like, “Hey if that happens again, I’ll sell them for you.” At that moment, I learned I’d literally flushed a few thousand dollars down the toilet.

I got them basically for free via a health insurance copay. Thus, given that every hospital, bone clinic and surgery center I’ve ever been to is full of pre- and post-surgery patients, there is no short supply of such drugs out on the streets. There are lots of us, persons prescribed painkillers and sent on our merry way. Our drugs ostensibly originated via fully legal and hopeful means. After all, no one likes pain of any kind and most are less willing to bear pain that we will admit. Given the sheer numbers of persons who come into the sphere of painkillers, that we don’t have an even more serious problem is amazing to me. For every surgery, there are likely some factor more so of those

who broke or tore something, plus others who are sick as hell, that add to the total number. All of them are taking pain meds for some period of time.

Our United States of America have long been known as the place where we can solve anything. But we can’t solve our drug addictions. During the decades we fought the idiotic War on Drugs, we mostly filled our prisons with persons who used or sold street drugs. How many Americans remain behind bars for selling or possessing marijuana, a “drug” that is now, not ironically, considered a medicine in most wizened circles? And legal to boot? My wager is that for every person incarcerated for marijuana possession while our eye was off the ball, another person became addicted to more serious and deadly drugs via our own medical systems.

We are killing our own. The War on Drugs was a nice way of saying we were at war with the most vulnerable among us, at war with our poorest communities, our most colored. We were at war with them at the very time they weren’t dying of “marijuana overdoses.” But we will lose over 80,000 Americans to opioid overdoses in this calendar year—yet, there is no war. There is none because there remains a real problem in how America does business—we celebrate companies that succeed financially, and few succeed as well as Big Pharma does.

Pharma owns our governments and medical systems.

Hell would have frozen if Pablo Escobar were allowed to walk the halls of Congress as do lobbyists for Big Pharma, hand in hand our senators and congressmen. When cartel leaders act similarly in Mexico or Columbia, we cry corruption. When it occurs here, we shrug and chalk it up to the cost of doing business. That’s laughable. I’d laugh but it hurts to laugh. Pass me a pill. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net.

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Outer Wilderness

Zion-born poems and prose collected for the state’s 125th anniversary—Part 2

Utah@125 The choice to be lost in the surprises of this place.

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Taylor Fang is a 2020 graduate of Logan High School and is now on her gap year before attending Harvard University. Her writing, poetry, and journalism pieces have appeared (or are forthcoming) in a variety of international online publications and platforms, covering topics that she deeply cares about, including feminism, societal oppression, racism and representation.

What it’s like to receive the nation’s highest honor for youth poets: the 2019-20 National Student Poet of the West?

Taylor Fang: I started writing poetry in middle school because I was really curious about the form. I continued writing because I fell in love with the challenge of telling a story in just a few lines. Poetry gives me a lot of freedom to articulate how I feel and explore the world through rhythms, sounds and textures. In high school, I entered the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition and ended up receiving a gold medal and was invited to apply for the National Student Poets Program (NSPP). Being an NSP has been an incredible opportunity to share my love for poetry with more students from all different types of backgrounds.

Where do you see yourself going with poetry?

There’s a famous quote about every poem being unfinished. I love how poetry has taught me that there isn’t a destination (cliché as it sounds). I’ve been thinking a lot about cycles of returning. Poetry will always be a haven and space to return to at different periods of my life, no matter what I’m exploring and learning at the moment.

What poets have inspired you and Do your peers take poetry seriously? currently inspire you?

I get “poetry is weird” a lot. In English class, a lot of people complain when we analyze poems. I think there’s just a gap in the way poetry is taught and understood. There aren’t a lot of contemporary poets in classrooms, and there’s the idea that poems have a “fixed meaning.” But I’m optimistic about sharing poetry with more young people through technology, whether slam poetry on YouTube or poems on Instagram. And Amanda Gorman being the inaugural poet was incredible.

So many. Tracy K. Smith, Jenny Xie, Layli Long Soldier, May Swenson and Molly Brodak are a few of my current favorites.

How do you approach writing a poem?

I always start with a line, image, or memory from my journal. I have a journal where I write down all the shiny bits that interest me. I try to write my poems in

bursts, and then spend most of my time revising and editing and cutting what doesn’t fit.

How do you know a good poem when you hear one?

There aren’t fixed metrics for a “good poem.” Personally, I look for two main parts: attention to language and a deep emotional thread. I love poems with musicality and lyricism, and poems that play with language in surprising ways. I also want to feel the emotional weight of the poem and resonate with it. Those are the poems that stick with me.

How will you be celebrating National Poetry Month?

I’ll be working on an app I created to share poetry and combine it with music, art, links and video (it’s called Inlet, and the website is at inlet.space.) And I’ll definitely be reading lots of poetry!

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Nesting

BY TAYLOR FANG In autumn, my mother and I look up to the sky and search for birds. In Chinese culture, magpies symbolize good luck. I can imagine my mother on her first day in Utah, craning her neck to follow arcs of flight. I like to imagine she saw magpies that first day: a parliament of birds lopping off the sky, sleek bodies spearing the clouds. But maybe she saw crows, a bad omen.

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After all, our then-nearly-100-year-old neighbor, Maxine, fed potatoes to crows in her backyard. Maybe crows weren’t so bad, since we loved Maxine. We called her my mom’s “American mother.” So now, when I step outside, I look for magpies and crows both, their wings dappled against a grey Utah sky.

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There are stories buried in the dust, poets say. Especially in a desert like Utah.

Here, we’ve compiled true stories by Utah writers, each 125 words long, one word to represent each year of official state history, all the words layered together as part of an ongoing conversation about Who We Are and Why We’re Here. Maybe that’s what literary stories do best: Remind us that no matter where you came from, or what language you spoke when you arrived, being here is a choice to be lost in the surprises of this place. Utah at 125.

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n e -h u n d r e d t w e n t y -f i v e words is what I asked for. Exactly 125 words. 125 words to represent views of contemporary Utah, all the love and conflict and nuance sparked by the contradictions of this place.

You don’t mean 125 words exactly, one brilliant poet asked. Well, yes, I said. Yes, I do. One word representing each year of the state’s official history.

Have you ever tried saying anything complicated in 125 words? As writers and editors know, hitting word count square-on is hard.

It’s editing and re-editing and re-editing.

It’s trading long beautiful phrases for more compressed beautiful words. It’s hard to tell which version works. It’s honing in one bit of narrative, one moment, and focusing on the details until you unearth the bigger point embedded in it.

Whatever you call it—flash nonfiction, a short essay, or a prose poem—hopefully the compression, the white space within a 125word frame, the beauty of what isn’t said, offers something textured and interesting for readers.

Diaries. Journalism. History books. Novels. Poetry collections. Volumes upon volumes have been written about Utah and all the intriguing contradictions of this place.

Now with Utah@125, as part of the larger statehood history of Thrive125, we hope these 125-word shorts, written by 22 writers from all over the state, will add up to another kind of Utah story. Eventually maybe we’ll add more chapters filled with these compressed views.

Eventually, maybe this project will grow into as many as 125 essays. Whatever it becomes, we hope this collection will help reveal more of Utah’s 125-year history as it is unfolding in the right now.

Maybe that’s too many words. Maybe all these literary flashes need is a 125-word introduction.

Taylor Fang: On writing down ‘all the shiny bits’

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Lance Larsen

Looking for Spiral Jetty Whence and Wherefore

Dark Sky as Verb

Metamorphosists

BY LANCE LARSEN

BY PATRICK MADDEN

BY ERICA SOON OLSEN

BY TODD ROBERT PETERSEN

Standing at the tip of Spiral Jetty, surrounded by pink briny Great Salt Lake, I was tempted to draw conclusions. But none came. Instead I settled for comparisons.

Spiral Jetty was like Crick and Watson’s double helix. Like Yeats’ falcon, turning and turning in a widening gyre. Like Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Like the whiteout my father experienced in an Idaho snowstorm, so disoriented he pulled over and closed his eyes to prove he wasn’t in motion. You can find Spiral Jetty in art history books, but until you’ve walked all over it, water sloshing your ankles, you can’t know its mesmerizing strangeness. Dickinson once said, “We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an Hour, which keeps Believing nimble.” I was moving. I was standing still.

Not in the vast mirror of clear sky in the Great Salt Lake. Not in the caked salty crust of the receded ancient sea. Not in the towering solidified orange blobs of hoodoos.

Not in the steadfast delicate arches. Not in the crisp blanket of frozen white over crags and crevices. Not in the vast underearthed connections of roots and shoots breaking out reaching for orbit, but perhaps something like it: a Halloween afternoon, sun bright and warming, and hundreds of people patrolling our neighborhood calling out the names of my sons, aged one and three, gone missing, seriously missing, as the firetrucks blare their sirens and neighbors and officers all focus on my family’s dire need to find our boys. Which we did. Together.

In or around March 2020, the night sky changed. A neighbor in the canyon called reporting strange lights passing over our house. UFOs! They streamed across the sky, one after another. I’d waited all my life to see something like that. Later, we found out what it was: a Starlink satellite constellation, in low-earth orbit, launched by SpaceX for internet access.

This is northeast Utah, near two dark sky parks. Like other parks, these call attention to something special—a history, a wilderness—in a way that could make you grieve the loss of things in other places. Museum skies. What we dark sky now is our responsibility. Moths, the Milky Way, the Pleiades’ bright smear. Smoke from the East Fork fire, smoke from Oregon.

I am a child of the rainforest, raised among emerald mosses and fern and the decay of nurse logs, hosts of the next generation. My children live among twisted sage and juniper and the red rock eons exposed in road cuts and slot canyons. They know an absolute clarity of blue sky still new to me after twenty years. I have followed the coil of the spiral jetty, shared a sweat lodge with a Paiute park ranger, polygamists, and drifters. I have prayed in pews alongside addicts, widows, cancer survivors and grifters, people who have lost their faith but found their way. There are unexpected temples and shifting congregations, like the colors of stone as the sun passes over us and sinks in the West.

Lance Larsen, a former Utah poet laureate, is the author of five poetry collections, including What the Body Knows. His work was selected for Best American Poetry 2009. He teaches at Brigham Young University.

Patrick Madden is the author of the essay collections Disparates, Sublime Physick and Quotidiana. He has taught at Brigham Young University and lived in Utah since 2004. quotidiana.org

Erica Soon Olsen is the author of two fiction collections, Recapture & Other Stories, about the once and future West, and Girlmine, about the uneasy ways we live in the natural world. She lives in Vernal.

Todd Robert Petersen is the author of four works of fiction, the most recent of which is Picnic in the Ruins. He is a professor of English at Southern Utah University, where he teaches creative writing and film studies.

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When Dillon Taylor lay outside 7-11 on an August night, I was the song spilling out of his headphones.

Before his family could afford a drum, I was the broomstick a Paiute boy beat against his bed. I hang around Dr. Kristen Ries’s neck and am pressed against chests, frail but relentless. Once I was Mexico.

Sometimes I still am. I am the silence in the bishop’s office, a prayer that lost its way but never lost its faith. I was not a father to Wallace Thurman, but the paper cut beneath his pen. Before you mispronounced my name, I was already sand. When Brigham Young said This is the Place, I was already here.

There are no houses on this stretch of road. There is instead a wide field of grasses sun-bleached to gold most of the year.

Beyond the field are sage-green, rounded humps of foothills. And then the mountains rise suddenly like shouts of granite, the outlines of their peaks cut out against the Klein Blue sky. When I walk there before autumn dawn, dazzling Venus leaps into the sky above them while Mars burns rust-red over the valley and Sirius beckons between, and I feel I’m walking through the whole universe. In a thin copse of lacebark elm is a rock that could have been purposebuilt for musing. Sometimes I sit on it, and then the landscape lights up with Spirit.

Winter solstice, the end and the beginning. I walk the Shoreline Trail at sunset— to an easily reached knoll with a commanding view. This perch on the trail, where desert and mountains have equal weight, seems perfect to witness the year’s passing.

This wasn’t just any parka, but a Patagonia Fitz Roy down (made from Traceable Down: 800-fillpower goose down) parka. According to the catalogue it was designed for serious alpine climbers—to wear during extended freezing belays or high-altitude emergency bivouacs.

Anything but a serious alpine climber, I am a committed wilderness explorer. Lately the wilderness I explore is vastly internal. I get there through the “outer wilderness”— in Southern Utah during a solitary walk in a familiar canyon, or looking up through the universe on a moonless, often cold, desert night. Or sitting in a camp chair in the winter desert awed watching cliff light pass through the entire spectrum of red, as the sun sets.

My parka is perfect for this, too.

I luxuriate in the moment, the place and the passage that mark our lives with beauty and grace and tie us to the rollicking cycles of Earth.

Stephen Trimble, a writer and photographer, has published 25 books, including The Capitol Reef Reader, while paying attention to the Desert West. Trimble lives in Salt Lake City and Torrey. stephentrimble.net

Brooke Williams has spent 30 years advocating for wilderness. He has published four books, including Open Midnight and Halflives: Reconciling Work and Wildness. He and his wife, Terry Tempest Williams, live near Moab.

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Willy Palomo is the queer son of two immigrants from El Salvador.

He is program manager for Utah Humanities’ Center for the Book. palomopoemas.com

Tim Slover heads the University of Utah Department of Theatre’s playwriting program and co-directs the London Learning Abroad program and other England-based programs.

His plays include Joyful Noise, Treasure and The Two Noble Kinsmen.

The sun drops westward, an orange ball over blue distance, closer and closer to the Great Salt Lake and its islands and the Great Basin mountain ranges beyond. At my feet, the valley sweeps away in snowcovered white. Alpenglow flushes the peaks of the Wasatch. The sun touches the horizon—out toward Nevada—then slips away.

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A Fire in Sugarhouse Park

Cardinal Alignment

BY RJ WALKER

BY LEHUA PARKER

In 1903, Sugar House Park was a prison.

This prison sold tickets to executions by firing squad.

When you fall in love at this park, you feel it between the eyes.

You feel that gunpowder boom in your chest as if it were your own heart tied up and convicted.

Once again, I’m lost in Provo.

They said, “Go south one block, then turn east. Entrance faces north.”

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Growing up Hawaiian, Utah’s as foreign as Mars. North? East? Only tourists navigate this way.

Here I’m perpetually adrift, wandering the desert like Moses.

Utahns say look at the sun.

But it’s night.

My pioneer ancestors collectively face-palm. Utah’s an ancestral home, but my roots feel too thin.

Suddenly, there’s warm Waikiki sand under my feet. My Hawaiian kupuna, navigators who easily crisscrossed the vast Pacific, raise my chin toward Utah Lake and whisper, “Think makai.” Toward the ocean.

Your shoulder aches where the gun suckerpunched the rifleman and you hold on to your love so tightly that it escapes like a ghost.

Timpanogos. “Mauka,” they say. Toward the mountains.

Left. “Diamond Head. Payson. South.”

Right. “‘Ewa. Salt Lake. North.”

You know, this park was known for its fireworks.

The loud and colorful bursting of gunpowder.

Aligned to land, not sky, I’m grounded.

And never lost again.

Lehua Parker writes speculative fiction for kids and adults, often set in her native Hawaii. She is also an educator trained in literary criticism who advocates for indigenous cultural narratives. LehuaParker.com

Then, in 2017 the fireworks set the park ablaze.

I watched the fire from my car.

And something criminal inside of me burned away.

Lehua Parker

RJ Walker is a performance poet and voice actor. He has performed at the national poetry slam numerous times, and hosts The Greenhouse Effect Open Mic, Salt Lake City’s longest-running openmic event.

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I step inside. One, then another, four cylinders of concrete sky. I step inside the spinning cosmos. Star-holes glow above, forming constellations: Draco, Perseus, Columbia and Capricornus.

This Far Country

I emerge and stand on a circular concrete pad, marking the convergence of solar lines. Here I am made aperture, lens. The axis mundi made flesh.

BY CONNELL O’DONOVAN I have perched precariously atop slickrock fins and seen such Beauty in this far country.

I embrace it with my skin, my blood And in return the desert does not forget my sweat.

But she also calls out to me, “Your heresy here runs as thick as honey across my sands.”

To the east: Desert Peak, stained pink.

To the west: the winter sun, sliding into sky, circumscribed.

I have choreographed my way through aspen groves here that are older than god, chanting memories and whispering love spells to this land.

And in return the forest clings to my arms like some wild, parting lover but reminds me that I have no welcome among this people.

My queerness is too colorful, too sad, too deep, too decadent for those trapped here by the patriarchal grip of our state motto: Fecundity, Mediocrity, Hypocrisy.

Brought into frame, streams of amber light bathe my eyes, pour down my body, back out into the land, speak of the ways the heavens make sense of Earth. Of exactly where I stand in the desert’s expanse.

Of how I might grasp immeasurable creation, the wilderness—my home—on the day of shortest light.

Kathryn Knight Sonntag holds a master’s of landscape architecture and environmental planning and works as a land planner in Salt Lake City.

Her debut poetry collection, The Tree at the Center, was published in 2019.

Connell O’Donovan is a historian, biographer and genealogist, working on a history of female impersonators in Utah, and a documentary on 1926 double suicide of two young Mormon lesbians in Salt Lake City.

Kathryn Knight Sonntag

Editors’ note: This is Part II of the Utah@125 chapbook published online at thrive125.utah.gov. Special thanks to Josh Loftin, Utah Department of Heritage & Arts PIO, for his help in publishing this feature.

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included with Red Butte Garden admission, which is free to members. As we head into spring—and we’re all likely feeling the need, even more so than usual, to enjoy the outdoors whenever we can—it’s a great time to visit the wide range of themed garden environments at Red Butte. And while we’re all feeling better about emerging from the pandemic, the gardens still encourage social distancing and other safety measures in their outdoor spaces.

Visit the website for information about safety protocols, hours of operation and how to become a member to support this wonderful community resource. (SR)

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think, ‘This guy doesn’t have any obstacles.’

And you’re right, I don’t. That’s my biggest obstacle. Not having anything to overcome has made it very hard to accomplish anything. My parents have always encouraged me, told me I could accomplish anything I wanted to. Well, what’s the point then, if I already know I can do it?”

Patterson visits Wiseguys Jordan Landing (3763 W. Center Park Dr., West Jordan, wiseguyscomedy.com) for shows April 9-10 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 available via the website; please visit the website for information about COVID health and safety protocols. (SR)

The art of bonsai boasts a history that dates back more than 2,000 years, to a practice of miniaturized landscapes that began in China, which then was subsequently adopted and adapted by the Japanese during the Kamakura period 700 years ago. Under the influence of Zen Buddhism, the practice of blending horticulture and art has evolved into myriad classifications for the ways the creations could represent nature in miniature form.

This week, the Bonsai Club of Utah—celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2021—presents the annual Spring Bonsai Show April 10-11 at Red Butte Garden (300 Wakara Way, redbuttegarden.org). Members of the group will present their own creations, representing a variety of different styles and arrangements. Experts will be on hand to provide information about the art form and to provide tools and plant materials for those who might be interested in getting started on their own.

The Bonsai Show is

A lot of guys might get into comedy because that’s the only way they can get attention—the goofy-looking, awkward fellas who turn self-deprecation into laughs. But how do you account for an outlier like Lachlan Patterson, the Canadian native currently based in Southern California whose chiseled features evoke someone you’d typically see brooding in a fashion magazine?

Then again, if you can’t really make jokes out of being an oddball, you can still have the talent to make jokes out of being a physical specimen with all the advantages. That’s the angle Patterson takes on his self-distributed 2020 comedy release Dark White, where he talks about the challenges white people face: “Black people have to worry about getting shot by the police for doing nothing wrong. But white people, we have to worry about getting promoted before we’re really ready for it.” Even the idea of being privileged makes for its own sly twist: “You look at me and you

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of expanded and contracted narratives, giving place for the viewer to exam the stirrings of my mind.”

According to the gallery’s press release for the show, Buehler uses some of his most recent work to explore the impact of the past year on personal connections and familial interactions: “Responding to the coronavirus pandemic, Buehler’s awareness of the familial pod extrapolates to the variety of social groupings, intensified from the pandemic and into his artistic practice. Neatly divided human clusters all sheltering from an ongoing storm, the ensuing frenetic reactions multiply.”

Experience the work in person, or via the gallery website, which you can visit for hours and safety information. (SR)

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Over the past year, folks have been taking every chance possible to get outside and enjoy the unique opportunities afforded to us by the Utah landscape. Perhaps that’s given us all a deeper appreciation for outdoors life in Utah.

And we’ve also developed a deeper appreciation for the ability of streaming technology to let us enjoy movies at a time when theaters weren’t the safest places to be.

Just like the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and many other film festivals nationwide, the 2021 Wasatch Mountain Film Festival will be offering a virtual presentation. But while we all watch the films in our homes, the stories they share will give us even more incentive to get out and enjoy the mountains around us. This year’s program showcases 69

films from around the world, representing both features and shorts, celebrating the mission of “bringing mountain culture and arts together.”

The programming covers topics ranging from environmental advocacy to simple character studies of interesting people. While the films offer a chance to see amazing sights—ranging from our own canyons of the American Southwest (Water Flows Together is pictured) to the peaks of Norway—they’re also stories of people, whether those people are trying to change the world, or simply trying to have experiences that change themselves.

In addition to the slate of films, you can also enjoy panel discussions like “Storytelling and Adventure Film Through a Global Pandemic,” presented Saturday, April 10 at 7 p.m. The online festival continues through April 10, with tickets available at wasatchfilmfestival.org.

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The figures in the works by Utah artist Fidalis Buehler always seem to be reaching— elongated arms extended, searching, trying to grasp something or someone.

There’s also a primitivism in those figures, the features of their faces often obscured or minimized compared to their limb-emphasized bodies.

Buehler applies those figures to his cultural background—a mix of Euro-American and Pacific Islander, as well as to the unique circumstances of the past year, in his solo show Secret Camp—Are we there yet?, currently showing through May 7 at Modern West Fine Art (412 S. 700 West, modernwestfineart. com). A faculty member in the Department of Art at Brigham Young University, Buehler says of his work (“Conjuring—Team Assembly” is pictured), “Image making becomes an act of playful conjuring—reassembling personal histories that embody fear, anxiety, mythology, dreams, revelations, magic, mysticism, and ritual. The images are essentially a self-portrait seen through various forms

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Ballet West’s spring production continues a year of moving forward through the pandemic.

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year and change into the COVID-19 pandemic, many local arts organizations are only just beginning to emerge from a long hiatus. But while a new Ballet West production at the Capitol Theatre might be considered part of that reemergence, it’s more like a continuation of how the company has been operating this whole time. To paraphrase the immortal words of LL Cool J: Don’t call it a comeback, they’ve been here all year.

Precious Gems does bring Ballet West dancers back in front of live audiences at the Capitol Theatre for the first time in 2021. Yet the company has been visible and active in a wide variety of ways since last March, including a live performance in November, operating its summer instruction program and presenting a broadcast version of its annual The Nutcracker. “Except for a small amount of time,” says Ballet West artistic director Adam Sklute, “we never completely shut down.”

It certainly wasn’t clear that would be the case a year ago, as everyone faced uncertainty. “I think in the very beginning, in March 2020, when we had to cancel everything in the spring, there was this imme-

diacy and urgency,” Sklute says. “Everything felt very panicked, but we didn’t have enough time to think far enough in the future to get too depressed. … I knew that I just had to make people feel safe, confident and solid in the knowledge that we were moving forward.”

That included planning for a way to hold Ballet West’s Summer Intensive program at a time when in-person work seemed impossible. “We were the only summer, in-person intensive program in America,” Sklute says. “We worked with such strict guidelines and measures, and it ended up working, with not a single [COVID] case.

It was incredibly difficult and demanding, but I can say it gave us courage, and gave us this sense that we could go forward.”

Going forward included a November program of contemporary works for live audiences, though it did require a lot of re-working to be able to stage the program safely. Sklute was even in the process of planning a reduced, socially distanced version of The Nutcracker when case counts ballooned, and the announcement came that Salt Lake County arts venues would be closing down again. “It was heartbreaking to cancel it,” Sklute admits.

Yet out of that heartbreak came another unique opportunity. Ballet West had filmed The Nutcracker for its 75th anniversary production in 2019, which meant there could be a way to present it to audiences—although even that required some scrambling. “We got connected with KSL through our board chair,” Sklute recalls, “but they couldn’t even think about things until the election [in November] was over. That’s a lot of editing to do in a very short time.”

Ultimately, however, KSL donated three prime-time slots during the holiday season, an act of generosity Sklute greatly appreciates and which he says resulted in more than 1,000 first-time donors to Ballet West. “William Christensen’s Nutcracker is a very big part of our community,” he says.

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“To be able to give it, and give it in a safe manner, we felt we were able to give the community a gift.”

The return to live production with the Precious Gems program feels like another gift after the long pandemic winter. As Sklute and his team were selecting the works— which replaced a previously planned program including Bolero and The Dream due to the realization that those works could not yet be presented in a safe manner—he says that they really hoped to emphasize a festive tone. “I wanted it to have a celebratory quality to it, a gala-type approach,” Sklute says. “So each of the works, some of them are quieter, some are big and splashy, but all have kind of a glamor to them which is part of what I wanted to project.”

Additionally, he says it was important to present more classical works, both as a balance to the fall program of contemporary pieces, and for the very pragmatic reason that it was of benefit to the dancers. “Our dancers had been off for a long time. Nothing rebuilds their strength like classical ballet,” Sklute says.

Now, looking forward again, Sklute believes that there’s “a light at the end of the

Ballet West principal artists Beckanne Sisk and Chase O’Connell

tunnel, and that makes us feel very hopeful.” Planning for next season has begun with the assumption of even more return to normalcy, while Ballet West also plans to apply the lessons learned in the past year of incorporating more digital presentations as a regular feature. And Sklute says there’s a greater appreciation for what they’ve been able to accomplish and a realization that they shouldn’t take what they are able to do right now for granted.

“I’d say [in the fall], ‘Let’s just enjoy this right now. Let’s live in the moment, because we don’t know when we might be shut down,’” he says. “Looking back, we’re going to say what a unique moment of time this was.” CW

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e’re more than halfway through our second Marvel TV series. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier have taken over for WandaVision as the regular offering from Disney+ to sate those of us interested in the Marvel Cinematic Universe who are craving new content. Especially since we didn’t really get the new movies we’d hoped for last year, thanks to a bungled response to the pandemic from our elected officials. After we finish the current series, we’ve got Loki to look forward to soon after that. Then we’ll get a series for Ms. Marvel (not to be confused with Captain Marvel), She-Hulk, Moon Knight, Secret Invasion, Ironheart, and more.

But there’s been a debate brewing about whether or not Disney’s week-to-week rollout is working. Some want to know why they can’t just binge it all at once, similar to how Netflix drops shows. I have to say that the week-to-week rollout is proving to be a winner based on how successful the shows are and how long-lasting the conversations about them are.

WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier have been breaking records for Disney+. You can’t go anywhere without having to dodge spoilers for the shows if you’re behind an episode. When it was revealed on WandaVision that (spoiler!) Agnes was really an obscure Marvel witch named Agatha Harkness, the theme song from the show used to reveal that information rocketed to the top of the iTunes charts, and it was all anyone online seemed to talk about for the whole week.

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The thing I love most about the week-toweek rollout is that it replicates the feeling of reading comic books. As the Marvel Cinematic Universe has grown, it’s come together brick by brick into a cohesive foundation that enables characters to cross over into each other’s movies. That allows them to have huge combined events, just like a comic book series.

When Marvel has these huge crossover events, it’s not always necessary to have read all of the small books that bring the characters into an event. The main event will catch people up easily enough. I think that’s the purpose these particular shows serve. They can throw context into the big event films to catch up anyone who missed the Disney+ series and then just move on from there at a breathless pace. This isn’t new—it’s how Marvel has been operating for decades—and it suits the stories. Characters have more room to breathe and grow when they’re no longer confined to a two-hour movie.

When I owned a comic book store, I looked forward to the month-to-month conversations when a comic book captured the imagination of my clientele. Not only would I get engaged in these lively discussions with customers, but they would interact with each other, talking about their theories from week to week or month to month.

Thanks to the internet and social media, the same thing happens now with the release pattern of the Marvel shows. We’re able to debate theories and wonder how things will play out as we’re all on a level playing field. And there’s a high level of anticipation for the next episode to see if our ideas were on the mark. My only problem is when I see people put too much stock into their theories and then get indignant when their notions don’t pan out. That sort of energy isn’t good for anyone.

Personally, I hope we don’t go back to the binge model for TV and that Marvel sticks around on TV to complement to their movies for a long time. There’s something so fun about stewing on a piece of a story one week at a time.

Now if we can only convince Netflix to do that with the next season of Stranger Things, and we’d be in business. CW

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hough traditional Indo-American food lends itself quite nicely to the fast-casual concept, I’ve struggled to really get behind any local joints that have come and gone. I’m not quite sure what the hang-up has been—I’ve just never tried a fast-casual Indian place that can party with the players we already have on the scene here in Utah. That said, I’m starting to think that Makam’s Indian Restaurant (894 E. 3900 South, Ste. B, 801-9051921, makamskitchen.com) in Millcreek might change all that.

As a fairly new fixture to the 3900 South and 900 East area of Millcreek—it officially came out of pilot mode at the tail end of January this year—Makam’s fits nicely into the same neighborhood that houses an Iceberg and the legendary Salazar’s. It’s got the same sense of self-made character that many of the businesses in the heart of Millcreek share, which will go a long way to preserve the area’s personality in spite of all those cookie-cutter condos going in left and right.

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Makam’s Indian Restaurant fuses traditional food with a modern approach.

Makam’s signature curry bowls have more variation than one would expect at a fast-casual joint, and this is why the place gets a high replay value. The chicken tikka masala bowl ($8.99) meets all expectations of what this dish should be—it’s packed with flavor and the slight acidity from the tomato is right where it needs to be. From there, you’ve actually got a lot of different avenues to explore. All of their bowl options are available as wraps if you feel like pounding some curry while you drive, and their Indo-Chinese options ($8.99-$9.99) served on your choice of fried rice or noodles are just right when you’re after something slightly different.

I also have to give Makam’s praise for their available proteins—bone-in goat is getting to be less freaky in Utah, and I love that Makam’s is part of that movement.

Of course, one does not have to be a meat lover to enjoy a visit to Makam’s. Most of the menu is accessible to vegetarians without skimping on the signature flavors born from the Indian spice palette.

Overall, Makam’s has bridged a difficult gap between traditional Indian restaurants and the fast-casual concept. By keeping their menu diverse and infusing their core dishes with enough options to tempt diners into coming back to try other combinations, they’ve achieved a steady balance between the friendly neighborhood eatery and the on-trend foodie hot spot. They’ve got a few minor bugs to work out as most new restaurants do, but I’m confident that Makam’s will flourish in its Millcreek digs. CW

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slightly predictable at first—rice bowls with your choice of protein and curry are their current specialty—but there are some hidden gems to be found if you spend some extra time with the menu. The street food section, for example, is fun to explore as it contains several traditional favorites, some of which I’m seeing for the first time.

The aloo tikki chaat ($5.99) and the chili paneer ($5.99) were unexpected favorites that I was heretofore unfamiliar with. Both items paint a strong picture of traditional Indian flavors with unexpected bursts of sweet and spicy flavors.

Aloo tikki chaat takes traditional potato and pea patties known as aloo tikki and slathers them in a gravy-like ragada sauce made from cooked peas and a flavorful balance of garam masala, coriander, turmeric and lemon juice. It’s smoky and sweet with just a little bit of chili powder heat to it. For something on the unexpectedly spicy side, the chili paneer will provide your taste buds with a nice scorch. Another new-tome item, the chili paneer is a stir-fry of bell peppers and cubes of Indian cottage cheese known as paneer that have been hit with an angry mix of chili peppers and traditional Indian spices. If you order this, keep one of Makam’s mango lassis ($2.99) close by to put out the fire.

If you’ve never tried the quick snack known as pav, Makam’s is a good place to check it out. Their two variations are pav bhaji ($6.99) a comforting stew of veggie and potato curry with rolls for dipping, and vada pav ($4.99), a kind of slider with a fried potato patty instead of a burger. Both dishes are tasty and embody the full-flavored complexity of Makam’s larger items, but I think the pav bhaji slightly edges out the vada pav, which had an aggressive citrusy flavor that threw things off balance.

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Moab Brewing 686 S. Main, Moab TheMoabBrewery.com On Tap: Bougie Johnny’s - Rose Ale Mountain West Cider 425 N. 400 West, SLC MountainWestCider.com On Tap: Single Varietal Elliott Gold Ogden River Brewing 358 Park Blvd, Ogden OgdenRiverBrewing.com On Tap: Injector Hazy IPA Policy Kings Brewery 223 N. 100 West, Cedar City PolicyKingsBrewery.com Proper Brewing 857 S. Main, SLC ProperBrewingCo.com On Tap: Cosmo - Spiced Golden Ale Red Rock Brewing Multiple Locations RedRockBrewing.com On Tap: Baked Pastry Stout RoHa Brewing Project 30 Kensington Ave, SLC RoHaBrewing.com On Tap: Americano Coffee Blend Roosters Brewing Multiple Locations RoostersBrewingCo.com On Tap: Cosmic Autumn Rebellion SaltFire Brewing 2199 S. West Temple, South Salt Lake SaltFireBrewing.com On Tap: 10 Ton Truck West Coast IPA Salt Flats Brewing 2020 Industrial Circle, SLC SaltFlatsBeer.com On Tap: Bombshell Cherry Belgian Ale Shades Brewing 154 W. Utopia Ave, South Salt Lake ShadesBrewing.beer On Tap: Berliner Weisse

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Uinta Sonder pours a cloudy haze of deep orange-copper that’s topped with a bountiful head of dense, white foam. Its excellent retention sees the head slowly die down to a paper-thin cap and leave a consistent smattering of thinner, soapy lacing. Catch aromas of floral pine resin, sticky grapefruit, pineapple and sweet peach skins. The remaining citrus is vague, shrouded largely in a raw, almost dank herbaceousness. There’s a hint of the faintest purple grape skin and passionfruit tones toward the back end. It may appear understated at times, but when it shines, it’s with great nuance.

A taste of floral hops, sweet pine resin and ultra-dry caramel malt forms the base while sweet peach, pineapple and general candied citrus come through in the background in minor waves. Note the flaky, boozy honeyed malt on the finish, along with more subdued light tones of ripe herbaceousness. Mouthfeel shows a crisp medium body heightened by an excellent flaky malt; silky, semi-creamy carbonation with

a perfectly mild hop prickle; slightly sticky and resinous; raw bitterness amplifies into the finish.

Overall: A fine beer. Boatloads of flavor and a gulper mouthfeel make this dangerous at 8.3 percent, but the aggressive bitterness pushes you back down into your chair. Just making sure you still know who’s boss, even if he is currently in pieces in a scrapyard somewhere. But I hear they can rebuild him. Something about having the technology?

Bewilder Deseret IPA pours hazed honey/amber color with a lot of bubbles racing up the brew, shooting up to a thick foamy two-finger snow-white head full of bubbles of all sizes that fades very slowly, leaving decent spotty lacing and some rings as it settles down. Smells of fresh piney hops, grapefruit, lemon zest, toasted bread, biscuit, citrus hops, hay or wet grass, light caramel, orange peel and some mild earthy spices. The aroma is soft and on the sweet side with nice balance and all the IPA basics showing up on the timid side.

Taste is similar to the smell but with a stronger malt presence that brings more grains, honey biscuit and graham cracker to go along with the piney hops, grapefruit, lemon and citrus hops. Earthy notes show up in the flavor as well, with some wood or tree bark that is most likely the toasted malt and fruity yeast with the hops to give off an overall beer sweetness. Could be a New England or West Coast IPA depending on the sip and how the brew washes down, so that aspect of the beer was nice and added to the overall complexity of it. Very nice balance.

Overall: This has a nice mouthfeel with typical carbonation, a medium body that’s on the heavier side, malty/biscuit notes to balance the sharp hops, and a decent level of bitterness that you’d expect for an IPA. No sign of the 7.0 ABV—it’s easy to drink.

It’s an enjoyable and above-average IPA. Sonder comes in a 12-ounce can and is at Uinta’s Brewhouse Pub, to enjoy in or take home. Deseret is in a 16-ouncer and can only be purchased to-go from Bewilder package agency. As always, cheers! CW

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From the looks of it, Venezuela Mia will be serving up melty cachapas, grilled corn pancake-adjacent lovelies filled with gooey cheese, and a wide variety of grilled steaks, sausages and traditional Venezuelan sides.

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The cancellation of Ogden Twilight in 2020 was particularly heartbreaking because their festival season included an extra-special mini-weekend festival set within the months of Twilight dates at Ogden Amphitheater. This year, they hope to find the opportunity to try it again. While they can’t announce firm Ogden Twilight dates yet, they want to help people plan for the mini fest by setting dates for it on the weekend of Aug. 20-21. In their social media announcement, they confess that it’s “no secret that we started Ogden Twilight as a trap to lure you all to town to see just how cool Ogden actually is.” With the additional lure of a festival weekend packed with 12 artists, they hope to encourage people to check out the dining and bar scenes around O-town just as much as their local outdoor activities, such as Ogden River tubing, Fort Buenaventura camping, Causey Reservoir cliff-jumping or Snowbasin Resort’s hikes and gondola ride. With all this, plus a roster of killer artists for just $20, Ogden Twilight can count this writer in at least. Keep up with news as it comes at facebook.com/ogdentwilight or on Instagram at @ogdentwilight.

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Joining Ogden Twilight in a late summer/early fall push for a return to live music is the Ogden Music Festival. While 2020’s canceled fest was slated for May, they’re playing it safe as are many folks this time around and are angling toward September. If all goes well, Sept. 3-5 will find the Ogden Friends of Acoustic Music presenting the fest at Fort Buenaventura, with appearances from several touring acts in addition to some locals. Out-of-town acts include the grown-up bluegrass wunderkind Sierra Hull, honkytonk rockers Town Mountain, the Americana roots of Dust Bowl Revival, Boston-based Mile Twelve, Tennessee bluegrass from the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, The Brothers Comatose of San Fran, the youthful foursome of Crying Uncle featuring Keenan Hammack and Jason Howard, Americana via Wheelwright and local trio The Proper Way. More are TBA, but in the meantime, keep up with news of this beloved Ogden festival at facebook.com/OgdenMusicFestival.

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back again, according to marketing director Steve Loso. There’s more hope for dates this summer, like the July 31 outdoor show, featuring Primus tributing Rush. Loso points out that The Complex is different from other venues around town because they rely almost completely upon national and international touring acts.

“We need the entire country, or at least the majority of surrounding states to be back ‘open’ for these routed tours to happen, even if SLC is fully open and has dropped all health regulations. We are actively booking shows and hope to be back in full swing as soon as possible, but it is looking more like late summer/fall,” he says.”

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Twilight Music Festival

Salt Lake City’s summertime crown jewel obviously didn’t present last summer, since it relies on pulling in big touring acts to the outdoor stages that it has ping-ponged between over the past few years. But it’s with a lot of joy that City Weekly shares the news there’s a fair chance the Twilight Music Festival could return this fall. Twilight’s executive director Felicia Baca says, “We are extremely hopeful that we can return to gathering with another incredible lineup for the Twilight Concert Series this fall. We’ll be closely monitoring the health guidelines in our community and keeping the public safety of our touring musicians and fans in mind as we move forward with our plans.” Fingers crossed that summer 2021 can be capped by Twilight’s return in the fall.

Das Energi Festival

The famous electronic dance music festival intends to occupy the Saltair once again, filling that desert lakeside venue with otherworldly light shows and the big sounds only found at festivals of its kind. Set for Aug. 13 and 14, and featuring festival favorites Kaskade and Illenium, tickets for the two-day event are between $180 and $300, with some potential for single-day tickets to come if the two-day passes don’t sell out first. For Salt Lake’s population of passionate electronica lovers, this is probably one of the best signs possible that things may be on their way back to normal. Follow the festival for updates on Instagram at @dasenergifestival. CW

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SLAM Welcomes Back Summer Camps

With a year of safe, in-person COVIDsafe instruction under their belt, Salt Lake Academy of Music is back for the summer and ready to rock, this time with summer camp. If the musical kid in your life is raring to get out this summer—after what was surely a strange pandemic year for both in-school and virtual-school kids alike—SLAM is offering numerous all-day camp options for SLC youth. SLAM offers multiple camps, focusing on genres ranging from rock and punk to bluegrass, folk and classical chamber music, with weeklong classes running for 15 weeks this summer between June and August. Each camp is performance-based and fast-paced over five days, Mondays through Fridays—the final day where students get to conclude the week of classes with a finale performance.

Camps are offered for age groups between 7 and 12 and between 13 and 18. The in-person camps will take place at Parley’s Creek in Hidden Hollow, across the street from SLAM headquarters. Early-bird pricing runs through April, with each class costing $300, and pricing shifts up to $400 after May. To find more info on SLAM and registration, visit slamslc.org/camps.

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Kilby Records Discography Goes Online

The modest—yet famous—all-ages venue Kilby Court has played host to national acts before they got famous and has housed locals who would become staples of our own Salt Lake music scene. And during the span of 2007-2013, there existed Kilby Records, an off-shoot of Kilby Court that featured a catalog of SLC-made albums. The owners of Kilby Court, Will Sartain and Lance Saunders, hope to preserve the history fostered by the venue and the label by re-releasing many of Kilby Records albums digitally. They’ll also feature albums by artists who weren’t originally on Kilby Records, including Form of Rocket and their 2002 album Se Puede Despedir A Todos and 2003’s Lumber, as well as The Devil Whale’s Teeth and The Tremula’s S/T. The label also hopes to help release upcoming local albums that feature bands that have been integral to Kilby’s particular music scene. It is, after all, a venue that’s fostered a lot of local music over the last 20-plus years, and a diverse set, too. Lately, it’s been home to indie pop acts like The Backseat Lovers, who even have a song dedicated to the venue—or rather, the girls that it attracts—called “Kilby Girl,” about a 19-year-old with a fake ID and a nose ring, who “tends to know things.” Kilby Records has a playlist up on Spotify of some of their offerings so far, including music by SLC classics like Birthquake!, Palace of Buddies, Red Bennies, Sleepy Passenger, L’Anarchiste, Band of Annuals, Will Sartain himself, and many others. It’ll be a trip back in time for some, that’s for sure. Find it on Spotify by searching for “sandspresents.”

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The best thing about summer, whether in a pandemic or coming out of one, is hanging out outside. Even more so when it’s somewhere a little beyond your usual string of haunts. For those friends in Summit County and anywhere else remotely local, one of those novel summer spots can be at the DeJoria Center, who have just announced that they’ll be hosting their Summer Concert Series again this year, with a lineup soon to come. Who doesn’t love a trip up into the mountain towns? The modest Kamas venue is located on the High Star Ranch, offering ample space, an outdoor stage and a large grassy lawn perfect for the shows, which will hopefully make for safe and conscious concert-going this summer. For those in the valley looking for stay-cation spots, DeJoria Center has local hotel partners listed on their website so that, post show, you can linger and have a little drink at the State Road Tavern and not have to worry about driving back down the mountain and then the canyon in the dark. It’s always good to find new ways to enjoy the wilderness up above the Salt Lake Valley while also avoiding the hubbub of Park City, and if the DeJoria Center is new to you, fix that this summer by visiting one of these free shows. Oh, doesn’t that sound nice? A summer night in the mountains, with music, merriment and nary a thought of a pandemic. Keep eyes out for their summer lineup at dejoriacenter.com.

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There’s literally no other song to talk about this week than the latest thing to piss off American bigots, and it’s the most recent in viral success by the one and only Lil Nas X. The 21-year-old artist has somehow thus far avoided one-hit-wonder status, which I think many expected for him after his first viral hit, the campy cowboy-themed “Old Town Road,” became something of a meme. But it also sparked friction within a country music community that was disapproving of a young Black man mixing the deeply white genre with modern hip-hop motifs. While his record held the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 list, he came out as gay, becoming the only artist to ever do so and spurring further friction in not only the country music community but in the rap community, too. But Lil Nas X took it all in stride, and now he’s back with another big splash. “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” is a simple song about heading over to your crush’s house—it’s really no more horny than much of the pop by straight artists we regularly consume—and references in its chorus the 2017 queer romance Call Me By Your Name. But it’s the video that’s got people in a tizzy. While the Internet at large has delighted in what is ultimately a rebuke of the “gays go to hell” narrative young people like Lil Nas X grew up on, good American Christians are pissed. Apparently even Satan is sacrosanct now, because they really hate to see Lil Nas X dolled up in black heeled boots and riding a pole from heaven to hell, where he gives Satan a lap dance and then snaps his neck to steal his horned crown.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In the 1930s, Taurus-born Rita Levi-Montalcini was a promising researcher in neurobiology at the University of Turin in Italy.

But when fascist dictator Benito Mussolini imposed new laws that forbade Jews from holding university jobs, she was fired.

Undaunted, she created a laboratory in her bedroom and continued her work. There she laid the foundations for discoveries that ultimately led to her winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. I foresee you summoning comparable determination and resilience in the coming weeks, Taurus.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Religious scholar Karl Barth (1886–1968) wrote, “There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.” To that perverse oversimplification, I reply: “Rubbish. Twaddle.

Bunk. Hooey.” I’m appalled by his insinuation that pain is the driving force for all of our lyrical self-revelations. Case in point: you in the coming weeks. I trust there will be a steady flow of songs in your heart and on your lips because you will be in such intimate alignment with your life’s master plan.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) In April 1933, Scorpio-born African American singer Ethel Waters was in a “private hell.” Her career was at an impasse and her marriage was falling apart. In the depths of despondency, she was invited to sing a new song, “Stormy Weather,” at New York City’s famous Cotton Club. It was a turning point. She later wrote, “I was singing the story of my misery and confusion, of the misunderstandings in my life I couldn’t straighten out, the story of the wrongs and outrages done to me by people I had loved and trusted.” The audience was thrilled by her performance and called her back for 12 encores. Soon thereafter, musical opportunities poured in and her career blossomed. I foresee a parallel event in your life, Scorpio. Maybe not quite so dramatic, but still, quite redemptive.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) I love to see you enjoy yourself. I get a vicarious thrill as I observe you pursuing pleasures that other people are too inhibited or timid to dare. It’s healing for me to witness you unleash your unapologetic enthusiasm for being alive in an amazing body that’s blessed with the miracle of consciousness. And now I’m going to be a cheerleader for your efforts to wander even further into the frontiers of bliss and joy and gratification. I will urge you to embark on a quest of novel forms of rapture and exultation. I’ll prod you to at least temporarily set aside habitual sources of excitement so you’ll have room to welcome as-yet unfamiliar sources.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Capricorn poet John O’Donahue suggested that a river’s behavior is worthy of our emulation. He said the river’s life is “surrendered to the pilgrimage.” It’s “seldom pushing or straining, keeping itself to itself everywhere all along its flow.” Can you imagine yourself doing that, Capricorn? Now is an excellent time to do so.

O’Donahue rhapsodized that the river is “at one with its sinuous mind, an utter rhythm, never awkward,” and that “it continues to swirl through all unlikeness with elegance: a ceaseless traverse of LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Staring at flames had benefits for our primitive ancestors. As presence soothing on each side, sounding out its journey, raising they sat around campfires and focused on the steady burn, up a buried music.” Be like that river, dear Capricorn! they were essentially practicing a kind of meditation. Doing so enhanced their ability to regulate their attention, thereby AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) strengthening their working memory and developing a greater “Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?” capacity to make long-range plans. What does this have to do wrote philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In response to that sentiwith you? As a fire sign, you have a special talent for harnessing ment, I say, “Amen!” and “Hallelujah!” Even if you will live till the power of fire to serve you. In the coming weeks, that will be age 99, that’s still too brief a time to indulge in an excess of dull even more profoundly true than usual. If you can do so safely, I activities that activate just a small part of your intelligence. To be encourage you to spend quality time gazing into flames. I also clear, I don’t think it’s possible to be perfect in avoiding boredom. hope you will super-nurture the radiant fire that glows within But for most of us, there’s a lot we can do to minimize numbing tedium and energy-draining apathy. I mention this, Aquarius, you. (More info: tinyurl.com/GoodFlames) because the coming weeks will be a time when you will have extra power to make your life as interesting as possible for the long run.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Physicist Victor Weisskopf told us, “What’s beautiful in science is the same thing that’s beautiful in Beethoven. There’s a fog of PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) events and suddenly you see a connection. It connects things I know of four different governmental organizations that have estithat were always in you that were never put together before.” mated the dollar value of a single human life. The average of their I’m expecting there to be a wealth of these aha! moments for figures is $7.75 million. So, let’s say, for argument’s sake, that you you in the coming weeks, Virgo. Hidden patterns will become are personally worth that much. Does it change the way you think visible. Missing links will appear. Secret agendas will emerge. about your destiny? Are you inspired to upgrade your sense of yourThe real stories beneath the superficial stories will materialize. self as a precious treasure? Or is the idea of putting a price on your merit uninteresting, even unappealing? Whatever your reaction is, I Be receptive and alert! hope it prods you to take a revised inventory of your worth, however you measure it. It’s a good time to get a clear and precise evaluation LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Jungian psychoanalyst and folklore expert Clarissa Pinkola of the gift that is your life. (Quote from Julia Cameron: “Treating Estés celebrates the power of inquiry. She says that “asking the yourself like a precious object makes you strong.”)

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) “It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of 6,” wrote Cancerian author John W. Gardner. But I would add that more adult Crabs accomplish this feat than any other sign of the zodiac. I’ll furthermore suggest that during the next six weeks, many of you will do it quite well. My prediction: You will blend lovability and strategic shrewdness to generate unprecedented effectiveness. (How could anyone resist you?)

proper question is the central action of transformation,” both in fairy tales and in psychotherapy. To identify what changes will heal you, you must be curious to uncover truths that you don’t know yet. “Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open,” says Estes. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because now is prime time for you to formulate the Fantastically Magically Catalytic Questions.

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here are two famous Jordan Rivers in the world, one here and the other in Israel. If you’re a history buff and/or a Jew, Christian or Muslim, the river in the Middle East that flows mostly north to south through the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea is a waterway of so many stories and legends.

The Israelites crossed it into the Promised Land, and Apostle John baptized Jesus of Nazareth in its waters. The 156 miles of river touches Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Jordan. It provides water for millions of people and their crops, so much so that it’s reducing what goes into the Dead Sea, which is causing the Dead Sea to continually shrink in size—just like what’s happening with the Great Salt Lake.

Cross over to this continent and our very own Jordan River, which pales in size at only 40 miles long, connecting Utah Lake to the Great Salt Lake. We don’t know what the Utes, Goshutes and ancient peoples called this fresh water source, but it was named the “Western Jordan” in 1847 by a white man named Heber C. Kimball. It became a water source for crops and was a means to transport the granite blocks mined in Little Cottonwood Canyon used to build the Salt Lake Temple.

Sadly, this river, like so many in the world, was used to carry sewage to the ending lake. It flooded many times over the centuries onto farms and into cities, and after a particularly bad flood in 1952, a dam was built, and the Army Crop of Engineers dredged and straightened parts of the river.

According to Wikipedia, the Jordan continued to be used as a waste disposal canal for area slaughterhouses, packing plants, mineral reduction mills and laundries during the 1960s and 1970s. Our Legislature “came to Jesus” in a way to save the Jordan waterway by creating the Provo-Jordan River Parkway Authority that is helping to enhance water quality, reduce pollutions and create parks along the river for fishing, canoeing, golf courses and trails.

Now we have a wonderful Jordan River Parkway running the length of the river, and it’s just going to get better with something called Three Creeks Confluence near 900 West and 1300 South. Here there are three creeks (Parleys, Red Butte and Emigration) that have been hidden under ground for decades that are now going to be “daylighted” and seen as a sweet part of the trail system in a new park paid for with Salt Lake City funds. This new water eddy/park may not be the kayaking experience like on the South Platte River near downtown Denver, but it is a great example that the Jordan can be enjoyed by canoe or kayak now and more so soon.

Our Jordan certainly isn’t as long or wide as the one in the Middle East, but it could be just as old. Both are precious to a history of peoples and necessary to help feed peoples and animals. Bravi to the counties and cities here in Utah that have helped restore, clean up and beautify our Jordan! n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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things, a small string, something that resembled a pistachio, and finally, “small black pieces” at the bottom that he fears are rat feces. Karp is having the samples tested at a lab. “I’m a comedy writer, but like, there’s no joke here,” he said. “I love Cinnamon Toast Crunch.” General Mills says it’s looking into the matter, but “we can say with confidence that this did not occur at our facility.”

Inexplicable A motorist in Delray Beach, Florida, stopped to investigate the screaming she heard on March 23 and found a naked woman trapped in a storm drain 8 feet below street level. The Washington Post reported first responders pulled the unnamed 43-year-old woman to safety and took her to a hospital as investigators discovered she had been reported missing by her boyfriend three weeks earlier, Palm Beach County sheriff’s officials said. The woman told officers she had been swimming in a canal when she noticed a door leading to a tunnel, which she entered, and then became lost, wandering for weeks in the tunnel system and surviving on a bottle of ginger ale she found. Ted White, a spokesman for the Delray police, was skeptical: “Was she actually down there the whole time?” Health officials think she might have been in the tunnels just a few days, he said.

Compelling Explanation Phedeline St. Felix told police in Pompano Beach, Florida, she had gone to a city park in mid-March to settle an argument with another woman when she allegedly drove her car over a gate and into a playground, accidentally hitting Chaunda McCleod and her 3-year-old grandson instead, injuring them both. “I was attempting to run (the other woman) over,” St. Felix said, according to WPLG-TV. McCleod said she saw a fight brewing in the park and “started to get all the kids together to get them out of the park. ... As I’m picking (my grandson) up, she’s just hitting us both and we just went flying over the car and finally we hit the ground.” St. Felix was arrested and ordered not to have any contact with the victims.

Seems Like a Lot of Trouble Authorities in Houston charged former Bank of America employee Juan Esteban Ramirez on March 24 with a second felony in connection with tricking young female customers into unlocking their phones so he could steal nude photos of them. In both cases, Ramirez allegedly took the phones to show the women how to look up information on their bank accounts, but with the phones unlocked, he found and sent himself intimate photos.

In the second case, Ramirez also texted the woman, who felt threatened, Harris County Assistant District Attorney Keaton Forcht told KPRC-TV. “It’s highly unlikely that these are the only two victims,” he said.

Devil in the Details An unnamed teenager in Thailand was excited by the surprisingly low price he found online for an Apple iPhone, and even though the shipping seemed a little high, he went ahead and ordered it, Oddity Central reported. The surprise came when he received a box nearly as tall as he was and found inside a coffee table shaped like an iPhone. The teen posted photos of his acquisition on social media and admitted he had been so anxious to snag the bargain that he didn’t read the listing carefully.

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Parent of the Year Jose Manuel Navarrete, 25, is being held on $100,000 bond on suspicion of child endangerment in the San Diego Central Jail after he carried his 2-year-old daughter into the elephant habitat at the San Diego Zoo on March 19, the Associated Press reported.

Navarrete allegedly wanted to take a picture with the African bull elephant, police said, and evaded multiple barriers to enter the enclosure. Witness video shows one of the elephants charging the two trespassers and Navarrete briefly dropping the toddler before picking her up and getting her to safety. “He runs, throws his baby through the gate and it’s seconds from hitting him,” said witness Jake Ortale. “People were just mad at this guy.”

The Continuing Crisis n Larry Lee Harris, 66, of Willcox, Arizona, was arrested after chasing a caravan of three National Guard vans carrying COVID19 vaccines out of a truck stop in Lubbock, Texas, on March 22 and trying repeatedly to run the vans off the road, police said. WAFB-TV reported Harris finally turned his vehicle into oncoming traffic and stopped the vans, then allegedly pointed a gun at a guardsman, identified himself as a detective and insisted on searching the vehicles. He told Idalou police, who found a .45-caliber pistol and loaded magazines in his possession, that he was looking for a kidnapped woman and child. “Mr. Harris appeared to be mentally disturbed,” Idalou Police Chief Eric Williams said. All 11 unarmed uniformed guardsmen escaped unharmed. n On March 17, police at the Charleston, South Carolina, airport rushed to meet United Airlines Flight 728 in response to a report that someone’s ear had been bitten off on the plane, which had been diverted there from its flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Miami, The State reported. Passenger John Yurkovich Jr., 45, of New Jersey, had become “agitated” and “restless” after making a trip to the restroom, police said, then “began to scream and thrash around,” punching his seatmate and apparently biting the man’s ear, which later required seven stitches, an FBI report said. A doctor on board injected Benadryl into Yurkovich’s buttocks to help subdue him, and others bound him with zip ties and a belt. Authorities said they found 1.5 grams of suspected meth in Yurkovich’s pocket; he was arrested and faces state charges of possession as well as federal charges of assault.

Entrepreneurial Spirit Good Fortune Burger in Toronto has renamed some if its menu items as office supplies as a not-so-underhanded way to help customers get reimbursed for lunch, the National Post reported, and perhaps boost sales. The restaurant’s Fortune Burger is now the Basic Steel Stapler, and Parm Fries will appear on a receipt as CPU Wireless Mouse. Director of operations Jon Purdy said the restaurant “just wanted an opportunity to put a smile on some people’s faces and have them have a little bit of a giggle.”

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As Jensen Karp, 41, of Los Angeles, was pouring a second bowl of his favorite breakfast cereal, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, on March 22, “something plopped out of the box. I picked it up, and I was like, ‘This is clearly a shrimp tail,’” he told The New York Times.

Karp looked into the box and saw another tail, both encrusted in sugar. Karp took a picture, sent it to his wife, then contacted General Mills. Then a friend suggested he take another look into the bag, where he reported finding “shrimp skins-looking

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