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BRAYING TO THE CHOIR If Utah Democrats hope to extend their message beyond party lines, they’ll need to bring the hee-haw. By Christopher Smart

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Fun! Can’t wait. Though the cover makes me want the parade and all the festivities! MUYLYMILLERCO

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Thank you for keeping the SLC PRIDE legacy alive! WASATCHBEERS

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Pride Issue May 27: Under the Umbrella Bookstore

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Stand for Palestinian Human Rights

The University of Utah White Coats 4 Black Lives chapter stands in solidarity with Palestinians in their struggle against the escalating settlercolonial violence perpetrated by the state of Israel. From relentless shellings of residential locations, to forced displacement from homes, to brutal attacks on worshipers at the Al-Aqsa mosque, the Israeli government has demonstrated, yet again, that the state’s existence is predicated upon the denial of human rights to Palestinian people. We demand that the University of Utah and the School of Medicine immediately cease all collaboration with Israeli institutions, including businesses, institutions of higher education and military/defense contractors. Further, we demand that

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the medical school issue a statement in support of the Palestinian struggle against Israeli violence. As training and practicing medical professionals, we have an obligation to speak out against the asymmetric and genocidal violence currently being perpetuated by the Israeli government. We criticize the role of the U.S., itself a settler colony, in supporting Israeli violence, and we demand that the School of Medicine do the same. UUSOM WHITE COATS FOR BLACK LIVES CHAPTER

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Ads That Mislead, Deceive

Today, it’s not hard to find at least one distortion, exaggeration or outright lie in every popular business advertisement. An HVAC business promises service “within 90 minutes.” Yeah, and I promise never to take another bite of chocolate, too. One company in the cosmetic

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surgery industry says it will “permanently remove stubborn fat.” Hmm, not unless you can keep your patients’ mouths shut. A health care insurer lists a myriad of “free” services. Not so, slicksters. Ancillary services may vary from company to company, but their costs are rolled into the overall price. A car company reminds folks, “When you do good, you feel good.” So now used-car dealers, and maybe loan sharks, too, are totally Zen? It’s nice to see huge companies promising to move toward carbon neutrality. But what good is zero carbon out the front door when lying-in-advertising is exploding through the back door? But even the corporate green promise is a magic trick. After all, who is going to remember a carbon promise made in 2021 when the target year 2035 rolls around and the company is still burning coal? KIMBALL SHINKOSKEY

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If you could be a game show host or a contestant, which would you be on? Pete Saltas

Family Feud. But instead of different families competing, we have families pitted against themselves.

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I think I’d like to host Family Feud in this era, just for the chance of a family where some are liberals and some are conservatives, and they start getting into nasty altercations over a question like “Name something that’s actually a threat to America.”

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Host of MTV’s Singled Out. Jenny McCarthy and I would’ve been dynamite together. And tons of rejected girls!

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I’d have to time travel back to the late ’60s to Password. But I wouldn’t want to take host Allen Ludden’s place. He’s perfect for that show. Instead, I’d be the voice that whispers “And the password is ....” and then rings a bell—just seems like a sweet gig.

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I’d host The Price Is Right because everyone loves that show, and Drew ain’t no Bob Barker.

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I want to be the host of Deal or No Deal. Instead of the 26 female models that hold the case, I’d change it to 26 Chippendales.

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? I’d be a contestant, not a host, because if I won the big prize, I might be able to finally afford to buy a house in Salt Lake City.

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Q: In the run up to Jan. 6, you were fully supportive of the idea the election was stolen. You said you were going to “leave it all on the fields” in terms of efforts to stop certification. Following the riots, you and Rep. Chris Stewart voted only to throw out the Pennsylvania electors. Why did you wimp out? Since then, you have largely shut up about the steal. What happened? Why did you change your mind? Or did you? —Tom Lietko Q: What specific steps do you propose to get deficit spending under control? In other words, what programs do you want to cut? —Tom Wharton via Twitter Q; Why did you vote to overturn the last election—the same one where you won by a very small margin—breaking your oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution? —Richard Write via Twitter Q: Can you show us any youths in Utah that were helped by your charity? —Nathan Geving via Twitter

Q: Burgess, when are you leaving, please? —eirevoted46 via Instagram

Q: I have a lot of questions. No. 1: How dare you? —Eric @qinsthenn via Twitter

Q: Please describe your idea of a perfect date. —Sylvia Lewis

Q: Do you plan on writing any bills by copying the text from Wikipedia? —Un801Original @thejazzyute via Twitter

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ast week, I asked readers to submit any questions they had for U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens, so we can print them for him. The reason, ostensibly, is because Owens hasn’t been forthcoming when it comes to issues that Utahns want to know. He instead enters into regular diatribes against liberals, Democrats, Christians who don’t attend his particular church (and thus by default, non-Christians)—all while balancing that with a steady stream of QAnon conspiracies, Fox News talking points and yearnings to return America to the hands of Donald Trump. The plan was to publish just one question per week and to award the author of that question $25 to spend in the City Weekly Store. All entrants also become eligible for a Grand Prize to be determined at a later date, perhaps a year’s vacation away from Burgess Owens. But due to the many responses, and with some readers submitting multiple questions, the decision for this week was just to print as many questions as possible and to carry forward other questions. If you see your name in this feature and responded to me by email, you will receive a return email from City Weekly explaining how to collect your $25 prize. If you responded on social media, please send your email info to john@cityweekly.net More responses coming next week.

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Miss: Erasing a Racist Past

Racism makes you feel guilty? Really? And that’s a bad thing? Maybe you don’t see racist behavior in yourself—and your children, oh, they’re innocent. So, that makes it OK to shield them from the hard truth that America was once a slave-owning, white supremacist nation of arguably courageous and liberal thinkers. Black men only earned the right to vote in 1870 with the 15th Amendment. With all the angst around pulling down “historic” confederate statues, you have to wonder why the conservative history preservation buffs want to whitewash our racist past. Of course, this is about the non-issue of Critical Race Theory, which parents told Fox 13 News, would create “blame, shame and guilt.” An opinion writer from The Washington Post has another idea. She thinks it’s actually a “direct personal challenge to the race in power.” So, by all means, let’s forget about George Floyd, the Tulsa massacre, even that our Founding Fathers’ owned slaves—whitewashing will make us feel powerful again.

Miss: Build It Cheap ’n’ Easy

How does a democratic country find itself tipping into authoritarianism? Ben Rhodes, President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser, has written a memoir— After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made—based on his insights from politicians, activists and dissidents who have been on the front lines of the fight against authoritarianism and ethnonationalism in their own countries. “While cleareyed about how the United States has contributed to these global trends, he offers a vision of how the country can usher in a brighter future.” You will hear from him and Vivian Salama, national security correspondent at The Wall Street Journal, for this important dive into the ideological threats facing our nation. Virtual, Monday, June 7, 10 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/34ozaJy

Celebrate With Drag Queens

During the Pride Weekend, have some fun with the Drag Queens at I’m Coming Out at Prohibition. “The queens are taking over Pride weekend with show-stopping, death-dropping, gag-worthy numbers hot enough to make anyone want to come out!” (And don’t forget, the Pride Gardens are still going on. Info here: https://bit. ly/34r9V9r) Queens, 151 E. 6100 South, Murray, 801-281-4852, Saturday, June 5, shows at 7:30, 9:30 and 11:15 p.m., $10. Facebook.com/events/293863328893314

Black Food Matters

The food trucks are coming, but this time, it’s Black-owned exclusively. Join the second annual Black-Owned Food Truck Roundup and BIPOC Market to support Blackowned businesses and build community. BIPOC, if you don’t know, is shorthand for Black, Indigenous and people of color. “100% of food truck and market sales go directly to the small business owners—we do not take a commission or charge them a fee to participate. Twenty percent of brownie sales goes to @VersatileImage—a nonprofit dedicated to building community and creating economic growth through the arts.” Get on Facebook to tell them you’ll be there. 1751 S. 1100 East, SLC, Saturday, June 5, 12-9 p.m., free/ wear face mask. https://bit.ly/2QY Wzy2

Fear Much?

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Lots of workers are without jobs, but there is hope as we come out of the pandemic and certain employment sectors are making a comeback. Join Workforce Services and Utah’s 11 colleges and universities at the largest career fair of the year—June Virtual Job Fair. Hundreds of employers from around the state and in a wide variety of industries will be there. Virtual, Thursday, June 3, 10 a.m., go to jobs.utah.gov. Click “sign in” on the upper right hand corner and select “my Job Search.”

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The way the world is now, fear is the go-to emotion as we try to survive amid war and pandemic. “We have recently witnessed, in many nations, outbreaks of ungrounded fear and destructive anger. How does our work as philosophers help societies to confront these problems?” Three scholars will address Fear and Anger in Public Life: A Challenge for the Humanities and bring it into perspective. Virtual, Tuesday, June 8, 8 a.m., free. https://bit.ly/3fuQgvB

Utah’s reputation as the fraud capital of the nation goes far beyond Ponzi schemes, with the Republican cabal dancing around the truth to keep the masses in the dark. Activist groups like Stop the Polluting Port sprung up to fight for the little guy. That fight grew legs recently when the group sent out a letter of alarm about a new transloading facility that would “supersize” the port with more warehouses, trucks and trains—and pollution. “In a nutshell, it looks like UIPA intends to use at least $13.2 million in taxpayer dollars to build a transloading facility to benefit private businesses, developers and the Port of Oakland,” the group said. The port has steamed along despite public pushback and major environmental concerns. It’s hard to make the case when the Legislature can employ sycophants like LaVarr Webb of Utah Policy. “It seems the Utah Inland Port can’t come fast enough,” he writes.

Fight Authoritarianism

Hit: Sounding the Alarm

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It’s all about business. Republican government simply responds to money and how to make more of it for businesses because of the deep ideological belief in supply-side economics. It’s about reducing costs for business, trade and investment, which is exactly what the Utah Legislature did with a new law exempting rules on new homes and easing any enforcement, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. There doesn’t appear to be good research on whether easing regulations helps with affordablehousing needs. A report from Shelterforce notes that developers will simply use whatever is cheapest and easiest in new construction. Utah cities may find land-use and zoning issues harder to navigate, the Trib reports. But legislators and developers got their way using affordability as a smokescreen.

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If Utah Democrats hope to extend their message beyond party lines, they’ll need to bring the hee-haw. BY CHRISTOPHER SMART

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he Sound of Silence.’ It could be the theme song of the Utah Democratic Party. When Republicans, such as U.S. Reps. Chris Stewart or Burgess Owens, paint the Dems as “socialists,” or smack them with other derogatory labels, there often is no response or pushback—just a very disturbing quiet. There is no one like Jim Dabakis (the now-retired state senator from Salt Lake City) or Randy Horiuchi (the late Salt Lake County Councilman) to blast back at the GOP as cheap-shot artists whose talent for name-calling often seems to dwarf their other skills. And so, the effective Republican bumper-sticker sloganeering continues to eat its way through the Utah body politic. For decades, the Utah Democratic Party has found itself under the knee of the state’s GOP supermajority. It faces challenges in fundraising and messaging, particularly in rural Utah. If that weren’t enough, the Democrats have been busy fighting among themselves for control of a party that controls very little. “Over the last several months, and honestly over the last two years, I’ve seen the party pulled apart by issue after issue,” said Jeff Merchant upon his election as party chairman in June 2019. “My hope is that we can address those issues and start talking about bringing the party together.” Democrats will have a louder voice going forward, said Joshua Rush, the Utah Democratic Party’s newly minted communications director, who becomes the third member of the small, three-person staff. “There is an incredible vol-

ume of stuff we have to respond to,” he said. That “stuff” might include like when Owens insisted on Fox News recently that Democrats are led by “narcissists and sociopaths.”

The Issues Matter

The times they are a-changin’—at least that’s what Utah Democrats are banking on as demographics slowly shift to younger voters and new residents who may be more progressive than the majority of voters now in the Beehive State. Parts of the West are slowly turning blue. With the election of Democrat Joe Biden as president and a national Republican Party in convulsions, there may be a crack in the door that Utah Democrats could squeeze through. Nationally, the Republicans seem to be out of ideas, said Matthew Burbank, professor of political science at the University of Utah. “All they want to do is to keep the government from doing anything. All the new policy ideas are coming from the Democrats,” he said. “But the Democratic Party of Utah has not been tremendously effective. And it’s not clear what they could do to improve their situation.” Since the time of Ronald Reagan, Republicans have labeled Democrats big spenders, abortionists, gay-loving, gun-hating demons. Now, they’ve deployed the “socialist” boogeyman in reference to Democratic proposals on such things as health care, education and a broad definition of “infrastructure.” But Merchant said people can see Democrats

in Washington, D.C., are trying to get things done. “It’s certainly a good time to fundraise and get volunteers, and candidates are recognizing they need to step up,” he said. One of the biggest challenges facing Utah Democrats is that their Republicans counterparts have become synonymous with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some 60 percent of Utahns are Mormon. Moreover, 86 percent of the Utah Legislature identifies as LDS. Democrats hold just six of 29 Senate seats and only 17 of 75 seats in the House. And all six of Utah’s congressional offices are held by Mormon Republicans. But that can change, Merchant said. “More and more, Republicans will feel comfortable voting for Democrats when they can’t wait any longer for affordable education and proper health care.” When Democrat Ben McAdams won the election for the 4th District congressional seat in 2018, he ran campaign ads that said he would not vote with Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House who had been repeatedly castigated as satanic by Republicans as well as right-wing TV and radio. McAdams won by a slim margin over Republican incumbent Mia Love. In Washington, D.C., McAdams proved to be moderate and worked across party lines. Nonetheless, in 2020, he lost to Republican political newcomer Burgess Owens who, among other things, aligned himself with QAnon. “Burgess Owens was not a good candidate,” Burbank said, “Owens’ message was confused

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but he was backed by a lot of out-of-state money. Even a real poor candidate can beat a good Democratic candidate in Utah.”

Can Utah Move Beyond Gerrymandering?

McAdams’ loss can be attributed, in part, to gerrymandering. The 4th District includes portions of Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County, as well as parts of Utah, Juab and Sanpete counties that are dominated by conservative politics. For decades, Utah Republicans have shamelessly gerrymandered voting districts to ensure that it is almost impossible for Democrats to win a congressional race, even in Salt Lake County— the Democratic stronghold that has been sliced up like a pie. However, for the first time, the new Utah Independent Redistricting Commission is at work to make boundaries more fair in the wake of Proposition 4, which was passed by voters in 2018. Still, Republicans in the Utah Legislature will have the final say as to whether to adopt the commission’s voting-map recommendations or to continue with their gerrymandering. “I don’t hold out much hope that the Republicans will do what’s right,” Merchant said of new voting districts. “If they did do what’s right, it would be significant for Democrats.” Some say the way forward for Utah Dems is targeting one vulnerable seat at a time. Others believe sowing grass roots at the county level throughout Utah as the way to build-out. But that takes money, and typically, Republicans see much more of the greenbacks some call “the mother’s milk of politics.” Nonetheless, 2020 was a good year for Dems’ fundraising because many people disliked Donald Trump. Those funds are critical for building county parties outside of the Wasatch Front— areas that have gone Republican for decades. In order to broaden the party’s reach, Democrats need to engage with voters who see that

“We will see Biden Republicans who want to move forward on issues we all should be agreeing on, like infrastructure.”

Rep. Jennifer Dailey-Provost, D-Salt Lake City: Utah Dems’ future is brightening.

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two or three wedge issues—abortion, gun restrictions and gay marriage—keep many other things from getting done. “We will see Biden Republicans who want to move forward on issues we all should be agreeing on, like infrastructure,” Merchant said.

Mudslinging Within

Although members of the state Democratic Party put forth a positive attitude, all has not been rosy within the organization. That was pointed up again two months ago when Merchant issued a statement—an apology—on a sexual harassment imbroglio from 2017. It was unusual the Dems would again bring up a long-past and painful episode that was accompanied by a lot of bad publicity. Oddly, it came on the heels of a similar Republican sexual harassment controversy. To the casual observer, it could appear as though Democrats, for once, didn’t want the Republicans to hog the spotlight. Still the chairman said he believed the statement was necessary because the party had formalized a new anti-harassment policy that would protect women and men, as well as volunteers and candidates. “After examination, it is the belief of the Utah Democratic Party that the several women who came forward years ago with allegations were not treated with the dignity and respect they deserve,” Merchant said. Then in May, Nadia Mahallati, the party’s vice chair said she would not seek reelection. “Years ago, I decided to run for vice chair because of my frustration with several issues happening at the state party, primarily harassment issues,” she said. The statements by Merchant and Mahallati appear to be related: Both reflected on the May 25, 2017, letter sent to the party executive committee in which seven women made allegations against Rob Miller, who had been party co-chair

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Jeff Merchant, Utah Democratic Party chairman

and treasurer and served on the executive committee for a decade. The allegations included: He kissed two women without consent; said to a woman, “you are sexy”; and hugged a woman very tightly. It was unusual that a group of women would make the allegations at the same time in the same document, and it wasn’t clear which woman was making which claim. The letter was leaked to the media shortly before the party’s elections for officers. News outlets carried stories that included headlines like: “Seven Women Accuse Rob Miller of Sexual Misconduct.” The letter came out as Mahallati—who was not a signatory—was running against Miller and six others for the party chairmanship. Miller was seen by some as the frontrunner. Miller’s attorney, Rocky Anderson, questioned the timing of the leak and labeled the allegations as “a smear campaign” that unjustly harmed Miller and his family. In a statement on Facebook, Miller said: “Due to accusations meant to destroy my character and candidacy and the public trial, hysteria and conviction that is continuing on social media and in the press, I felt that the best choice I could make for the party was to withdraw from the chair’s race.” A scheduled intra-party hearing on the matter in 2019 was canceled at the request of the alleged victims over concerns about procedural errors. In her announcement, Mahallati added: “Some of you know that the last two years haven’t been easy for me. There have been frustrations and disagreements and sometimes things were tense and even hostile.” Other Democrats have criticized party infighting, but none would comment for the record on specific disputes. Unlike the Republicans, Dems don’t march in lockstep, partly because the party works to bring together a number of underrepresented groups that can’t always agree on short-term goals.

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“The more we go out and talk to people about our policies, the more we have opportunities to convince voters.” UT.GOV

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On the other hand, while there is no room for sexual harassment, squabbling is part of politics. “The Democrats are a big-tent party,” Rush said. “Disagreements are welcome.”

Policies Geared to Millennials and Gen Xers

The future is brightening for Utah Democrats, said state Rep. Jennifer Dailey-Provost, D-Salt Lake City, and the party should look forward—not backward. Millennials and Gen Xers don’t identify with party politics, she explained. “So many older voters will only vote for Republicans,” she said. “But when voters—especially young voters—focus on policy, Democrats will be elected.” She pointed to the Dems ongoing efforts to provide health care to all Americans while Republicans have attempted to block it, including the expansion of Medicaid. “The idea that health care can be withheld based on wealth is not humane or American.” Utah Democrats might consider using the successful 2020 campaign of Rep. Ashlee Matthews, D-Kearns, as a prototype for future races. Matthews unseated Republican Eric Hutchings for the state House seat he’d held for 19 years. She did it the old-fashioned way: by knocking on doors and listening to people’s concerns. “I’d never run before,” said the 34-year-old mother of two. “I said (to residents), ‘Let’s talk about right here, right now.’ It was specific for Kearns and what we can do right here in Kearns.” When Democrats tell people about their policies on health care and education and the family, they become interested, said Shireen Ghorbani, a former Salt Lake County councilwoman who ran an unsuccessful campaign against Rep. Chris Stewart in 2018. Ghorbani, who had no name recognition and little money, said she was not shunned as she went door to door in Republican-dominated areas outside the Wasatch Front, like Richfield

and St. George. “The more we go out and talk to people about our policies, the more we have opportunities to convince voters,” she explained.

Insular Attitudes

With the exception of now-retired state Sen. Jim Dabakis, Democrats have been reluctant to shout out liberal and progressive stances. That is one of the major obstacles holding them back, said Peter Corroon, a Democrat who served as Salt Lake County mayor from 2005 to 2013. He also was chairman of the state Democratic Party and made an unsuccessful bid in 2010 against Utah Gov. Gary Herbert. “The Democratic Party in Utah needs at least one person to stand up and tell it like it is,” Corroon said. “The Republican Party no longer stands for anything. The Democrats are the party of the working class.” Democratic legislators prefer to work quietly behind the scenes to get legislation passed without ruffling Republican feathers. This year, House Democrats successfully pushed some three dozen bills, including mental health protections for first-responders, police reform, youth suicide prevention, homeless youth protection and making human trafficking a firstdegree felony. Nonetheless, with a supermajority, Republicans can ram legislation through on pretty much anything. In 2020, they passed through three bills on abortion—a ban on most elective procedures, regulations on disposing of fetal remains and mandatory ultrasounds. The Utah GOP also passed legislation that would prohibit most elective abortions in Utah if Roe v. Wade is overturned. All were signed into law. Beyond that, when Utah voters moved to expand Medicaid and medical marijuana because the Republican-dominated Legislature would not, conservative lawmakers trimmed back the initiatives.

Shireen Ghorbani, former Salt Lake County Councilwoman

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Without more seats, Democrats can only look on. Richard Davis, a BYU professor of political science, said it is clear how the Democrats could move forward: by being more Mormon-friendly. In 2017, Davis, too, ran for chairman and lost. As chairman of the Utah County Democratic Party, he had sought to build bridges between moderate Democrats and moderate Mormons. That strategy, he said, was pushed aside with some hostility by state party power brokers. “They are insular,” he said. “Their attitude is, ‘We’re not going to win elections outside Salt Lake County, so why try?’” Shortly thereafter, Davis, along with a small group, formed the United Utah Party. “Our niche is moderate voters—people who don’t like today’s Republican and Democratic parties—and who are disgusted with politics as is,” he said. In a short period of time, the United Utah Party has had some success. It produced an almostfull slate of candidates in 2020 and captured, on average, 10 percent of the vote. Four of the candidates got about 40 percent, Davis said. And that, too, provides another challenge for Democrats. Ronald Reagan famously said, “Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem.” But the COVID-19 pandemic required a strong governmental response. The country also is facing crumbling bridges, roads and water infrastructure as well as continuing crises in health care, housing and higher education. The Reagan drumbeat of tax cuts for the wealthy, trickle-down economics and small government may be losing steam as the middle class continues to be squeezed. Republicans in the Utah Legislature don’t appear to be convinced of that and continue to enjoy ratings by The Wall Street Journal and others as one of the best-run state governments. But, as Utah Democrats like to say, things can change. CW

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go to the public, because the way they help us is by supporting our vendors. We rely on the income of our vendors,” Einerson says. “If we were ever going to [ask for donations], we should now.” Re-focusing the organizations efforts for 2021 has included suspending the Tuesday edition of the summer market, which Einerson says has “never really gotten popular enough to carry through.” But when the Saturday Farmers Market returns on June 5, it will be in a form much more familiar to regular Pioneer Park attendees than the market required by the events of 2020. Arts & crafts booth are back, with 59 participants. Prepared food vendors are also returning, with 13 participants representing diverse international cuisines. And in keeping with the growing body of medical knowledge, dropping case counts and new CDC guidance, visitors will not be required to wear masks, and more booths will be possible due to a 5-foot spacing rather than last year’s 10 feet. The expectation for increased demand has led to an expansion of the schedule from the usual 20 weeks to 21 weeks, through October 23. That doesn’t mean 2021 at the Saturday Farmers Market will look identical to prepandemic 2019, for example. While attendees will be able to purchase prepared food

Visitors buy from a vendor at the 2020 Downtown Farmers Market and eat on site, there will be no seating area due to an inability to insure sanitizing between parties, so visitors will have to pull up a spot on the grass. Additionally, traditional features like music performances and a bike valet area are not scheduled to be included. “We’re about 75 percent of normal,” Einerson adds. “We’re definitely back on the right track.” Part of that track, she believes, is emphasizing the importance of locally-sourced food, especially in the wake of the pandemic that disrupted supply chains and resulted in shut-downs at meat packing plants. “If anything, this pandemic showed us how broken our food systems are,” Einerson says. “You can always get local produce at a farmers’ market. It’s more than just a fun thing to do on a Saturday; it’s incredibly meaningful to the local economy.” CW

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According to Einhorn, the scaled-back Saturday Market proved to be a great success. With strict protocols in place—including masking of attendees and vendors, and 10-foot spacing between booths—no documented cases of COVID transmission where associated with the event throughout the summer. Additionally, while the raw numbers of attendees was down, Einhorn says that “for some farmers, they had the best sales they’d seen in years. Those who came, came to shop.” “From the attendees, the feedback we got was overwhelmingly, ‘Thank you for being here. Thank you for stepping up and supporting the farmers,’” she adds. “They were going to plant whether we had a market or not. If you’ve got orchards, the apples are going to come, and it’s hard to make the transition to providing to supermarkets.” That doesn’t mean that 2020 went off without a financial impact on the organization. Eliminating the arts & crafts booth cost the organization approximately $75,000 last year, Einerson estimates, with another $60,000 lost from the absence of the prepared-food vendors. As a result, Urban Food Connections of Utah launched an online fund-raising campaign with a goal of $50,000; as of press time, approximately $30,000 has been raised. “We usually don’t

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hile many events around the country began the process of shutting down last spring, the Downtown Farmers Market was figuring out how to keep going—a process connected to its unique status as an event with an essential-services function. As they were for everyone, the early days of the pandemic in March 2020 were crazy for Urban Food Connections of Utah—the organization that co-produces the Farmers Market with the Downtown Alliance—and its executive director, Alison Einerson. She recalls that the Winter Market was ongoing at the time, and that they began the process of reaching out to the Department of Agriculture and other farmers’ markets around the country to see what was going to be possible. “It became clear that they were going to say, ‘Treat this as an essential service, like a supermarket,” Einerson recalls. Unfortunately, however, the Magna earthquake hit on March 18, requiring the closure of the building that houses the Winter Market. That still left planning for the 2020 summer market, and as the shutdown lasted longer than anyone initially expected, the logistics grew more complicated. “We realized [the pandemic] was much more serious, so how could we have a summer market,” Einerson says. “We could limit to essential food, no arts & crafts, no performers, no prepared food.”

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It’s been a long wait for Midvale-based Body Logic Dance Company to get back to live performing, according to company artistic director Melanie Ewell. While Body Logic was able to conduct classes for its dance academy over the past year—safely and without any COVID transmission during the pandemic—they haven’t been able to put on a performance since January 2020. Their return production, Woman, marks not just a return for the company to live performance, but a return to a program concept that they’ve been engaged in for several years: a Humanitarian Concert Series. “We decided our company would pick a charity we felt passionate about and work with them throughout the year,” Ewell says, “then have a show that fits that theme.” Previous productions involved collaborations with The Road Home shelter (Without a Roof) and Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (Cages). Woman benefits YWCA of Utah, at a time when Ewell believes focusing on women’s issues is particularly important. “With the temperament of the nation, it’s impor-

It’s one of the most enduring clichés about Utah: its overwhelming cultural whiteness. And while that’s not entirely not true in terms of pure demographic numbers, there are plenty of stories being told here by people of color, as long as you know where to look. One of those places is Plan-B Theatre Co.’s Local Color, the culmination of this season’s unique “audio only” presentation. The program consists of four short plays, all written by Utah-based playwrights of color. DoLs, by actor/singer/playwright Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin, finds two teenagers—one Black, one white—forming a friendship after meeting in a park while playing hooky from school in 1984 Baltimore, and revealing personal details about their home lives. Chris Curlett’s Guise explores the relationship between two college-age men as they discuss how their emotional health is affected by expectations based on race and notions of masculinity, and the confrontations where those expectations emerge. Organic, by Tito Livas, finds dark comedy in a gay

tant to remember those who did what they had to do to give us our rights,” she says. In addition to works by Ewell herself and other company members, on themes including the unique challenges facing immigrant women, Woman includes a piece by guest choreographer Natosha Washington. Performances for Woman will be held Tuesday, June 8 and Wednesday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center (2525 Taylorsville Blvd., Taylorsville). General admission tickets are $25, available at bodylogicdance.com (SR)

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Slate and The New York Times Magazine—follows that road from state-level battles like Hawaii in 1990 and California’s Proposition 8 through the “Defense of Marriage Act” and up to the landmark Supreme Court decisions. Join Issenberg for a Crowdcast virtual author event via The King’s English Bookshop on Friday, June 8 at 7 p.m., in conversation with Utah State Senator Derek Kitchen, whose participation in the 2014 Kitchen v. Herbert case helped lay the case-law foundation for Obergefell. The event is free, but advance reservation is required via Crowdcast; find the link at kingsenglish.com. (Scott Renshaw)

For many comedy performers, becoming a cast member on Saturday Night Live feels like validation that you’ve “made it.” Yet for every SNL alum who moves on to a blockbuster movie or television career like Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Julia LouisDreyfuss or Will Ferrell, there are those who seem to drift out of the spotlight—despite continuing to bring their talents to live audiences around the country. Chris Kattan made his Saturday Night Live debut in 1996, and worked for seven seasons establishing popular characters like Mr. Peepers, Mango and, with castmate Will Ferrell, the head-bobbing, nightclubfrequenting Butabi Brothers (A Night at the Roxbury). After departing SNL in 2003, Kattan went on to find success in voice work for animated films like Delgo and Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie Film for Theaters, as well as a recurring role on the comedy series The Middle. Yet he has also spent the intervening years on stand-up stages, where he hasn’t been shy about turning to his vintage SNL work for both crowd-appeal and

self-deprecation. “Do you mind if I talk about my Saturday Night Live characters,” he asked a New York audience in 2019, to whoops of applause. “Good,” he responded, “because that’s all I’ve got.” That isn’t remotely the case, of course, as you can see for yourself when Kattan visits Wiseguys comedy clubs for two nights: June 8 at The Gateway (194 S. 400 West, 7 p.m., $30), and June 9 at Jordan Landing (3763 W. Center Park Dr., West Jordan, 7:30 p.m., $30). Visit wiseguyscomedy.com for tickets and other details. (SR)

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Pride Month is a celebration— especially this year, after 2020 cancelling so many celebrations around the country—but it’s also a reminder of the struggle for basic rights for queer people. And while the Stonewall uprising of June 1969 has made the month a center of attention for LGBTQ equality, that struggle has continued in the 50 years since to include a wide range of issues, up to and including the current assault on transgender rights at the state level. One of the crucial battlegrounds in that struggle was the fight for marriage equality, one that culminated in the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision that found same-sex marriage to be a Constitutionally protected right. It was, however, a long road towards that decision, one that Sasha Issenberg tracks in his new book The Engagement: America’s QuarterCentury Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage. Issenberg—a Political Science faculty member at UCLA, and a political writer with nationwide credits including The Boston Globe,

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couple contemplating whether to “out” a gay closeted Black man after the latter makes public homophobic comments about a local controversy. And Tatiana Christian’s Suicide Box takes a surreal look at what it’s like for someone dealing with challenging mental health issues to also face the daily challenge of working phone customer service and facing the constant barrage of “can I speak to your manager.” Local Color is available for streaming June 3 – 13 on a pay-what-you-can basis. The production runs approximately 60 minutes, and features adult content and language. Visit planbtheatre.org for additional information. (SR)

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had my tastebuds slapped around by the excessive sugariness of American desserts, but every so often it’s nice to have a cool, refreshing dessert that doesn’t launch a salvo of sugar bombs at your mouth. Cutting back on the sweetness of course means cutting back on calories, and the bao bing at Meet Fresh is healthier than a banana split or slice of cheesecake. With the build-your-own bowl option and the ability to swap soy milk for any of the restaurant’s milk teas, it’s also one of the more vegan-friendly dessert shops around town. Overall, not a bad place to indulge one’s sweet tooth while sticking to a low-sugar diet. If you’re all-in for sugar and dairy, I’d suggest one of Meet Fresh’s egg waffles. I snagged the Chocolate Deluxe ($8.50); it has chocolate chips baked into the batter, which gets cooked up bubble style, yielding a waffle that is bedazzled with uniform spheres. The waffle gets a slight fold before going into a cup and getting topped with ice cream, chocolate syrup and nuts. My preferred method of attack is to pick the whole thing up like a taco and scarf accordingly. You get small bits of dark chocolate within the crisp waffle batter, and it’s not long before the melty ice cream lends a nice spongy texture to the exterior. As part of the constantly evolving restaurant scene in the Salt Lake Chinatown area, Meet Fresh adds yet another unique opportunity for locals to get diverse eats without leaving the country. I for one am always delighted when I get the chance to learn more about a different culture by checking out their popular foods. It’s a fascinating—and tasty—way to learn more about the world around us, and I’d definitely recommend a little culinary field trip to Meet Fresh. CW

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up. It’s got a wonderfully smooth texture, and remains cold enough to bring on a decent brain freeze when you eat it too fast. Over the years, bao bing has become a blank canvas of sorts for purveyors of this Taiwanese classic. It’s topped with everything from ice cream to mochi to boba, though dumplings made from the starchy taro root are the most popular. Meet Fresh specializes in these colorful chilled dessert bowls, as well as other Taiwanese favorites like hot red bean soup and chilled tofu pudding. Craving something a bit different for my sweet tooth, I ordered up some of their signature bowls, a tasty, frothy milk tea with black sugar boba ($4.75), and dug right in. First on the list was the Double Taro Ball Signature ($8), which feels a bit like the menu’s bao bing staple. On top of that velvety shaved ice sits a mountain of dumplings—both taro and sweet potato—taro paste, cool ice cream and jiggly grass jelly. The latter is made from the Chinese mesona plant, an herbaceous and slightly minty herb that lends a tea-like quality to these slippery purple cubes. When you look at a bowl full of vibrant purples, oranges and lavenders, your brain tries to anticipate the flavors that you will encounter—I was expecting a sugary hit of something like grape jelly mixed with marshmallows—but it’s not the case with bao bing. You’d think that a dish as colorful and wobbly as bao bing would have an equally colorful flavor palette, but it’s surprisingly subtle. The taro paste and dumplings are a bit like plantains in their ever-so-slight sweetness, providing a bit more texture than flavor. The sweet potato dumplings also have taro stuffed inside, so you get a slight ramp-up of sweet there, but nothing explosive. Even the ice cream on top is a bit muted on the sweetness level. Though the flavors are subtle and the slippery, chewy textures may not be for everyone, I have to say that I’m a fan. I’ve

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Grid City Beer Works 333 W. 2100 South, SLC GridCityBeerWorks.com On Tap: Extra Pale Ale Hopkins Brewing Co. 1048 E. 2100 South, SLC HopkinsBrewingCompany.com On Tap: Strawberry Sorghum Hoppers Grill and Brewing 890 E. Fort Union Blvd, Midvale HoppersBrewPub.com

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oHa Brewing Project - Barrel Aged Kensington: In case you’re not up on local beers, RoHa’s Grand Kensington is an Imperial Saison, with bigger than normal alcohol for the style. Head Brewer Chris Haas placed a small amount of this Belgian-inspired beer into local Beehive Distilling’s Jack Rabbit Gin barrels to brighten up the beer. The result is Belgian-esque upon the pour, and as the nose is greeted with the spicy floral fragrance of ginger, those Belgian notions really begin to take hold. But as the sprucy tang of juniper and gin float just above a fluffy white cap, what waits patiently below is the soft, malty-sweet taste of pilsner malt, laced with honeysuckle, light bread and powdered sugar. As the sweetness dissolves on the tongue, an herbal and tea-like presence takes hold of the middle palate, teasing with prickling peppery goodness of the yeast and the tangy berry-like tartness from juniper. Sprucy, sappy and minty, the beer rounds into a refreshing, lightly bitter lemon-lime taste, simultaneously spicy and malty in the finish. Overall: This 6.8 percent saison is sliced and diced with everything from the yeast spice, the soft wood tannins, the tartness of berries and the pungent evergreen perfume of gin. Where these flavors would be well-suited for a stronger base beer, they prove strangely complementary for the saison. I think gin barrels will soon be the new hot variant in the beer-aging game;

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the fruity and botanical flavors lend themselves so well to many beer styles. Kiitos Brewing - West Coast IPA: The beer pours a nice orange-copper color, with a thick finger off-white head. The head sits atop the brew for quite a long time, eventually fading down to give a nice level of lace on the sides of the glass. The aroma is a very pleasant blend of lighter fruits and citrus hops. The fruits are heaviest of a tropical nature, with lots of tangerine and mango, but these are mixed with some lighter apricot and peach aromas as well. The hops outdo the fruit ever so slightly in potency, bringing a nice grapefruit aroma mixed with a light earthy hop smell. The taste starts out with a bready and more malty flavor, along with some of the fruit that was detected in the nose. The fruit, however is light in potency, consistsing mostly of the apricot and peach with little to none of that tropical mango. Also upfront is a decent presence of grapefruit hops, which grows stronger as the taste advances. While the grapefruit gets stronger the fruity flavors fade some, the bready flavors remain ever-vigilant and constant throughout. Toward the end, other hop flavors of a pine and grassy nature come to the tongue, with a very small amount of a sugary sweetness, leaving an overall grapefruit bitterness but still somewhat smoother flavor to linger on the tongue. The body of this 5.0 percent beer is a bit on the creamier and chewier side, with a carbonation level that is average to just above average. The thicker body works well with the bready and fruit flavors of the brew, and the carbonation keeps the grapefruit from producing too much bitterness on the tongue at the end of the taste. Overall: A rather tasty IPA with a good dose of grapefruit hop, balanced by a moderate bready and fruity base. Not a bad brew to sit back and enjoy. Kiitos’ West Coast IPA is available in cans at the brewery, and will also be appearing in grocery stores around the Salt Lake City area. Barrel-aged Kensington is a small, very limited batch that is only available in crowlers to-go at the RoHa Brewing Project. As always, cheers! CW

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hat a great time to welcome back Pride! Just as the weather gets warmer and many people are now fully vaccinated against the virus that shut down 2020’s Pride celebrations, we get to welcome Pride back into the world—albeit a little changed. With the normal festivities around Pride canceled for now—namely, the always reliable sites for music and dancing, Utah Pride Festival and the Utah Pride Parade—here are a few other places to head towards if it’s music, dancing and revelry that you desire. Below is a roundup of Pride events with all the DJs, performers and music you need to really get down and do Pride right, after a whole year of going without.

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Making The Green Pig your Pride home base is something of a no-brainer this year. A beloved Pride tradition is returning with the presence of its stewardess—SLC royalty if there ever was any—Princess Kennedy. Pride at the Pig wouldn’t be Pride at the Pig without her free-for-all rooftop party, replete with local DJs, a block party in the street, Green Pig’s amazing food, drinks and special Pride giveaways and prizes. The DJs will spin all the dance tracks you need up on that scenic and famous rooftop. Head up there on Friday, June 4 to catch the weekend opener, a Twilite Lounge staple in DJ yours truly (AK A Girl at the Bar), known—if you know her—for her millennial-perfect mix of early 2000s and ’90s classics. If it’s karaoke-friendly tracks you seek, DJ Bekster— resident mistress of Karaoke at the Pig—will be in charge on the evening of Saturday, June 5. Sunday, June 6 will be jam-packed with a number of diverse DJs, starting with Street Jesus Got Soul at 11 a.m., DJ Nix Beat and DJ Retrograde at 2 p.m., Matthew Fit at 8 p.m. and more in between. With this many DJs to choose from throughout the weekend, you have no reason to have a dull Pride.

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Loud & Queer: A Pride Spectacular, may be the closest thing to a normal Pride celebration one can find in the year 2021. A Union Event Center affair, the all-ages and 21+-friendly event will be the place to go if it’s dancing you desire. While following all CDC guidelines about COVID safety, the event will offer performances, dancers, lights and magic to all attendees, with all proceeds going to the Utah Pride Center so they can continue offering the LGBTQ+ resources many in our community depend on. It will be an important money-maker for the center, which isn’t putting on any of the usual Pride events this year—no parade, no festival. Headliner Todrick Hall alone should turn some heads in this direction. Famous for appearances on American Idol and RuPaul’s Drag Race, and a career as a singer, actor, drag queen, dancer, choreographer, TV personality and songwriter, he’ll be joined by plenty of good company. There will be appearances from abroad, including Brazil’s Amannda and DJ Rafa Mafra, plus models and dancers from Los Angeles, California. Locals will come by way of Utah ’70s drag ‘n’ rollers Marrlo Suzzanne & The Galaxy Band, “gay rapper” Hayden Todd, SLC showgirl Gia Bianca Stephens, drag artists Silver Vom Blosh, Ivy Dio Stephens and Savannah Van Cartier, and many more. Kicking off Friday, June 4 at 7 p.m. with performances beginning at 8 p.m., the event will be followed by an after-hours after-party at the Habitat Event Center, featuring L.A.-based DJ Marco da Silva. Early release all-ages and 21+ tickets are already sold out, but second release tickets for both ($55 all ages, $65 21+) are available, and VIP tickets range from $95 - $450. Find all tickets and info at skyfall.ticketspice.com/pride.

Molly Mormon’s Rainbow Pride Drag Show and Brunch

If there’s anything just as fun as Pride, it’s brunch. Combine the two and what do you get? The best possible way to cool down from a wild weekend of celebration. Local drag queen and 2019 Miss City Weekly Molly Mormon will host this return to tradition—in case you didn’t know, drag brunch is a tradition here in SLC—at The Union, which is also, fortunately, an all-ages venue. That’s a valuable quality among the many Pride events that often take place at bars and clubs that are 21+, so to all the young queens and queers, come here! But worry not, mimosa lovers: There’s 21+ upstairs at The Union, so one can still drink and be merry if one is of the legal age to do so. The talents on display will be stunning, with appearances from The Whore of ’94, Rose Nylon, Liam Manchester, London Skies and Marrlo Suzzanne, who’s new band City Weekly profiled just a few weeks ago. The show is on Sunday, June 6, with doors at 11 a.m. and show at 12 p.m. Tickets range from $15 - $30. Visit theunioneventcenter.com/ upcomingevents/mollymormon for tickets and info. CW

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This summer a popular feature on Main Street will return, and on June 4 - 5, it will be for Pride. If you didn’t wander it last year, Open Streets is a multi-org collaboration between Social Antidote, The Blocks and the Downtown Alliance that shuts down most of downtown Salt Lake City’s Main Street to traffic, leaving space for folks to wander between the lanes and train tracks, across the streets into bars and restaurants, or to watch the Social Antidote performances that fill the town with sound. Born from COVID-conscious entertainment efforts, the event is now part of a growing movement for those streets to stay closed, forever. If a less car-congested downtown sounds like heaven to you, make sure you get down there for this Open Streets Pride extravaganza, and experience just how walkable our downtown really is! Open Streets’ Pride edition will feature Social Antidote’s The Cube installation, with sounds from NewCityMovement. Pride weekend strollers can look forward to stumbling into DJ sets starting at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 4, from Pierce Anthony, Mathew Fit and Jesse Walker, followed by Typefunk, Red Spectral and Gizmoe on Saturday, June 5, all centered in Exchange Plaza. After 10 p.m., follow the music to nearby bar Twist, where on Friday, AleAngel, Not That Jennifer (of Boise-based queer music collective NANCY) and Orographic (of Portland-based queer DJ collective Bridge Club) will keep the party going. On Saturday, the same Twist-ed rules apply, but with entertainment from locals Stakx, Gizmo, Choice and Artemis. Follow Social Antidote online on Instagram at @ socialantidote.live for updates and details.

Rock Camp Returns

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Last year, just two months into the pandemic, City Weekly wrote about Rock Camp, and what it would look like going virtual in the beginning of what would become a very stifling year for youth everywhere. They were already on the virtual train, hosting online classes centered around music-making, of course, but also around wellness, dancing, co-songwriting and the like. The kids camp—which centers teaching girls, transgender, non-binary and gender-expansive youth about music—capped its 2020 week of virtual classes with an online virtual festival, which helped them raise funds to carry on with their programming this year. And they’ve done it! Rock Camp is back at it in real life this year, though they’re swapping spring for late summer, with camp dates planned for the week of Aug. 1 - 6. The camp teaches basically everything rock ‘n’ roll—not just how to play the instruments, but how to have the confidence, creativity and collaboration skills required to be in a band. Unlike many of the other local organizations that bring music to interested kids, Rock Camp is a brief, one-week affair with an intentional focus on the kinds of kids who often get excluded from making music, and which gives them role models to teach them—grown women and queer adults just like them. Right now, they’re working out how best to execute their first real-life endeavor since the pandemic began (including questions about whether or not to still include virtual programming). But if your kid is already a Rock Camp alum or this sounds like something your kid would want to do, visit them at rockcampslc.com or follow them on Instagram at @rockcampslc for updates on enrollment.

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Bad Heather Releases Self-Titled Debut EP

Bad Heather’s singles have been hitting the streets hard the last few months, in an anticipatory lead-up to the release of his debut, self-titled EP, out June 4. His criminally catchy single “Honest” soundtracked the trailer to MTV’s Catfish, but the focus on the song’s earnest refrain, “I just want you to be honest about me,” almost eclipses the quality of the writing that surrounds that central part. The rest of the EP functions that way, too, and from song to song, Bad Heather’s Porter Chapman shows that he’s really a hell of a songwriter. He stylistically lifts from weirdosad-boy pop á la The 1975, but with fresh, edgy qualities that reveal his relative youth—via production, via ripping guitar, via his lyrics. And that youth springs out all over the EP, mainly by way of tangible uncertainty. On “Honest” he’s paralyzed on the sofa, waiting to find out a bad truth he already suspects to be true; on “20,” he fixates on the lost simplicity of childhood, swapped for a rushed independence and the depressing realities of being in one’s early 20s. Punchy drums and slick ’80s aesthetics keep the latter song from being a total bummer, though, and it leads to “Juliet,’’ the most up-beat track on the EP. “Juliet” details the frustration of young lust in the same manner that his single, “Your Sorry,” does. The “fuck you” break-up single has a whiff of bitterness that’s reasonably redeemed by smirking lines like “you’re showing off so you can add me / to the body count list you save as your lock screen.” It’s definitely satisfying to see all those months of enticing singles turn out to be a solid collection for Bad Heather’s debut. Listen wherever you stream, and follow Bad Heather on Instagram at @badheather.

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As if you probably aren’t already playing catch-up with your social life, SKY SLC has a new way to keep the party going with their new rooftop venue, Trellis. One thing is for certain: If there’s one good thing that came out of this pandemic, it’s more cool outdoor spaces like this one populating downtown SLC. Trellis, besides offering wonderful views of the city, also offers up some of SLC’s best DJs for your enjoyment. They kicked off their Send It Saturdays on May 22, featuring DJs Bangerang and Teddy, and the next Send It can be found on June 12 at noon, with free entry for anyone who signs up to the guestlist. Following that, on all Sundays going forward, SKY has teamed up with Live Night Events and NewCityMovement for their evening Sunsets series. Scheduled every Sunday night from 6 p.m. - 10 p.m., the series is also free with guestlist signup, and features a changing roster of DJs and artists each week. It kicked off Sunday, May 23 with DJs Typefunk and Mr. Gizmoe, for a Social Disco Club takeover. Upcoming Sunday Sunsets include local DJs Wyatt Weston June 6, Justin Cornwall on June 13 and more dotting each Sunday of the summer through September. Find them all listed at skyslc.com/ events, and get yourself down to the newest free way to have a low-key little summertime hang.

Song of the Week: “Tinseltown in the Rain” by The Blue Nile

The Blue Nile released their debut album A Walk Across the Rooftops in 1984, the same year that Prefab Sprout released their debut, Swoon, which would set the stage for their fame for years to come. People who were my age in the ’80s are probably already aware that the two were contemporaries, both born out of the age of Roxy Music’s romanticisms and the drama of Peter Gabriel. But as for me, born in the ’90s and always learning, I’ve just realized that Scotland’s The Blue Nile is the answer to my near-constant pangs for more of mid-’80s British Prefab, and it’s been a lovely discovery. I’ve lately been listening to that debut album of theirs, which is full of tightly-composed songs rippling with the groovy, oh-so-’80s energy of low and heavy bass pulled right up to the front, starry synth keys and sweeping strings. In “Tinseltown in the Rain,” those strings come to dart quickly, amping up the stakes as vocalist Paul Buchanan sings, “Do I love you? Yes I love you! But it’s easy come, and it’s easy go,” with the kind of unhemmed earnestness and excitement that for some reason is a signature of so much ’80s pop. But The Blue Nile, like my beloved Prefab Sprout, conveys even more of that earnestness thanks to intentional, lovingly meticulous production. The catchiness is in the instrumental melodies, and after getting hooked in there, the dynamics of the song, carried by that bouncing, rhythmic bass, keep you fully locked into the drama. Ah, to have lived when this song was charting—lightly—on the radio. These days, you can stream it wherever you stream, or perhaps find it in a bin at Randy’s.

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he mythologies created by humans— across eras and cultures—have always been stories that help us try to make sense of our own existence. They’re a code to be cracked, though not always a difficult one, with real-world application. So what, exactly, is the story behind the story of Christian Petzold’s Undine? It’s clear, not just from the title, that Petzold is making use of the mythology surrounding ondines—female water spirits who can only acquire a soul via love with a human man, and who curse those men with death should they be unfaithful. In the opening scene, Undine Wibeau (Paula Beer) is on the receiving end of a dumping from her boyfriend, Johannes (Jacob Matschenz), at a café in Berlin. And she informs him, in no uncertain terms, of the possible consequences of following through on the break-up: “If you leave me, I’ll have to kill you.” It doesn’t sound like an idle threat, but it’s also one that Undine quickly forgets when, on the same day as that breakup, she meets Christoph (Franz Rogowski, Beer’s co-star in Petzold’s Transit). They quickly fall into a passionate, somewhat-long-distance love affair, with Christoph—an industrial diver who makes underwater repairs on dams and bridges—and Undine traveling back and forth by train to one another’s home cities. Petzold effectively captures the swooning quality of a romance’s early days, right up until an event that makes Undine begin to regret that she hadn’t followed up on the necessary consequences for Johannes. But there’s another fairly significant part of Undine that’s not directly connected either to the Undine/Christoph relationship or to the potential fallout from Johannes’ infidelity: Undine’s day job as a historian/docent giving presentations to tourist groups about Berlin city planning and architecture. She walks guest through the layout of scale models; she addresses how the political goals of Communist East Germany affected decision-making about building design;

she even, at Christoph’s request, turns the rehearsal of a talk about the rebuilding of a bombed-out castle into a kind of foreplay. If you walk into Undine never knowing a single thing about the buildings of Berlin, I guarantee that won’t be the case when you walk out. The question is, why? Petzold certainly hasn’t shied away from ambiguity in his previous films, like the aforementioned Transit, in which the touchstones of the story’s setting made it unclear whether it was taking place in 1940s Paris, or in the present day. But Undine’s architecture-based monologues make up such a large chunk of Undine—and feels even more so given the film’s tight 90-minute running time—that it’s clear Petzold intends it to be part of the story’s thematic foundation. What precisely that is, especially to someone with zero previous grounding in the subject matter, could be confounding. Is Petzold attempting to connect the incorporating of ancient mythology into a contemporary story with the challenge of incorporating modern design into an ancient city? Is there a metaphor here somewhere for the post-Soviet reunification of Berlin? Any of those things could be true. Or none of them. Strangely, it doesn’t feel essential to “solve” that slippery subtext in order to appreciate Undine on its most surface level as a fantastical tragic love story. Beer’s performance keeps Undine’s possible alienness just percolating below the surface, and somehow adds to the humanity of a strange being in simple moments like having her hurriedly prepare for work. Petzold brings a more accessible mystery to moments like the shattering aquarium that accompanies Undine and Christoph’s “meet-cute” first encounter, or to Christoph’s underwater sighting of a gigantic catfish. If this were simply a short-form interpretation of the ondine mythology, it would easily prove satisfying, if not as emotionally powerful in its resolution as some of Petzold’s previous features. Still … what the hell is up with all the architecture? I’m not arrogant enough to suggest that this might not just be a “me” problem, plainly decipherable by someone else in a way that might someday make me smack my head. It’s just that when a movie makes a point of having someone say that “form follows function,” it’s hard not to get stuck on wondering “why this form?” and “what function?” CW

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) “There is ecstasy in paying attention,” writes Aries author Anne Lamott. That’s always true for everyone, but it’s extra true for you Aries people. And it will be extra ultra especially true for you during the next 20 days. I hope you will dedicate yourself to celebrating and upgrading your perceptual abilities. I hope you will resolve to see and register everything just as it is in the present moment, fresh and unprecedented, not as it was in the past or will be in the future. For best results, banish all preconceptions that might interfere with your ability to notice what’s raw and real. If you practice these high arts with exhilarating diligence, you will be rewarded with influxes of ecstasy. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Your guiding wisdom comes from Taurus author Annie Dillard. She writes, “I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.” I suspect that Dillard’s approach will enable you to maintain a righteous rhythm and make all the right moves during the coming weeks. If you agree with me, your crucial first step will be to identify the nature of your “one necessity.” Not two necessities. Just the single most important.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the number of perfect moments you will experience during the next two weeks could break all your previous records. And what do I mean by “perfect moments”? 1. Times when life brings you interesting events or feelings or thoughts that are novel and unique. 2. Pivotal points when you sense yourself undergoing a fundamental shift in attitude or a new way of understanding the world. 3. Leaping out of your own mind and into the mind of an animal or other person so as to have a pure vision of what their experience is like. 4. An absolute appreciation for yourself just the way you are right now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else,” observed poet Emil Dickinson. That’s the truth! Given how demanding it is to adjust to the nonstop challenges, distractions and opportunities of the daily rhythm, I’m impressed that any of us ever get any work done. According to my astrological analysis, you Capricorns are now experiencing a big outbreak of this phenomenon. It’s probably even harder than usual to get work done, simply because life keeps bringing you interesting surprises that require your ingenuity and resourcefulness. The good news is that these surges of ingenuity and resourcefulness will serve you very well when the hubbub settles down a bit and you get back to doing more work. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Aquarius-born August Strindberg (1849–1912) was a masterful and influential playwright. He also liked to dabble in painting and photography. His approach in those two fields was different from the polish he cultivated in his writing. “I am an amateur, and I intend to stay that way,” he testified about his approach in the visual arts. “I reject all forms of professional cleverness or virtuosity.” Just for now, Aquarius, I recommend you experiment with the latter attitude in your own field. Your skill and earnestness will benefit from doses of playful innocence, even calculated naiveté. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Which of the astrological signs feels the deepest feelings? I say it’s you Pisceans. You’re connoisseurs of deep feelings, as well as specialists in mysterious, multi-splendored, brushes-withinfinity feelings. And right now, you’re in the Deepest Feelings Phase of your personal cycle. I won’t be surprised if you feel a bit overwhelmed with the richness of it all. But that’s mostly a good thing that you should be grateful for—a privilege and a superpower! Now here’s advice from deep-feeling author Pearl Buck: “You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “There is strong shadow where there is much light,” wrote Virgo author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). That’s a good metaphor for you these days. Since I suspect you are currently shining as brightly as you possibly can, I will urge you to become acutely aware of the shadows you cast. In other words, try to catch glimpses of the unripe and unformed parts of your nature, which may be more easily seen than usual. Now, while you’re relatively strong and vibrant, investigate what aspects of your inner world might need improvement, care and healing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Poet Tess Gallagher praises those times “when desire has strengthened our bodies.” I want you to have an abundance of those moments during the coming weeks. And I expect that cultivating them will be an excellent healing strategy. So, here’s my advice: Do whatever’s necessary to summon and celebrate the strong longings that will strengthen your body. Tease them into bountiful presence. Treasure them and pay reverence to them and wield them with gleeful passion.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) “It’s one thing to make a mistake, it’s another to become wedded to it,” advised author Irena Karafilly. Let’s make that one of your key truths in the coming weeks. Now is a good time to offer yourself forgiveness and to move on from any wrong turns you’ve made. Here’s a second key truth, courtesy of composer Igor Stravinsky: “I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.” Third key truth, from Sufi teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan: “Don’t be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Scorpio poet Ezra Pound had character flaws that bother me. But he also had a quality I admire: generosity in helping his friends and colleagues. Among the writers whose work he championed and promoted with gusto were 20th-century literary icons James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Hilda Doolittle, William Butler Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Frost. Pound edited their work, arranged to get them published in periodicals and anthologies, connected them with patrons and editors, and even gave them money and clothes. In accordance with astrological omens, I encourage you to be like Ezra Pound in the coming weeks. Make an extra effort to support and boost your allies. Assist them in doing what they do well. To do so will be in your own best interest!

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) “All I want to be is normally insane,” said actor Marlon Brando. Yikes! I have a different perspective. I would never want to be normally insane because that state often tends to be sullen and desperate and miserable. My preferred goal is to be quite abnormally insane: exuberantly, robustly, creatively free of the toxic adjustments that our society tells us are necessary. I want to be cheerfully insane in the sense of not being tyrannized by conventional wisdom. I want to be proactively insane in the sense of obeying my souls’ impulses rather than conforming to people’s expectations. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because I believe the coming weeks will be a fruitful time for you to be my kind of insane.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) According to physicists, it’s impossible for a human being to suck water up through a straw that’s more than 34 feet long. So please don’t even try to do that, either now or ever. If, however, you have a good reason to attempt to suck water up a 33-foot straw, now would be an excellent time to do so. Your physical strength should be at a peak, as is your capacity for succeeding at amazing, herculean tasks. How else might you direct your splendid abilities? What other ambitious feats could you pull off?

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I recently sold a home for a client I’ve known for decades. After a college friend referred her to me, she and I went on to become friends ourselves. And now that she’s retired, she wants to move back to her birth state of Maine. I write about her as the perfect example of survival lessons learned during the pandemic. Two decades ago, she closed escrow on her home in a Salt Lake neighborhood near Tanner Park in Millcreek. Called Veterans Heights, the subdivision was developed in the late 1940s after the troops from World War II returned home and wanted to get back to a normal life. Many veterans helped the developer dig out the basements to save money in the build process. The streets were named after famous and respected military commanders from that war. For example, my client’s street, Barbey Drive, was named after Navy Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, known as the founder of modern amphibious warfare. A recipient of the Navy Cross, he commanded the Southwest Pacific Area amphibious forces, mostly in the Philippines and Borneo. The veterans cared about one another, so the quality of the build job was extremely good, and the homes there have weathered the passage of time quite well. My client didn’t know anyone in the neighborhood when she got the keys to her new home. Slowly, she met her neighbors, and friendships were formed that later became weekly get-togethers in their driveways. When it came time to sell, she wanted her listing to include the following: “This is a diverse and wonderful neighborhood with a broad age range, multiracial, wide variety of religious beliefs and gay/straight folks!”— not your typical real-estate description. She said that over the years, she and the neighbors formed a community by finding commonalities while getting to know each other at their porch picnics. “When someone became sick or needed surgery,” she said, “we’d organize to make sure they got meals, garbage bins were taken out, lawns were mowed, etc.” The neighbors made a contact list as to who lived where, what animals they had (and their names), names of children, where they worked and who to contact in case of emergency. A woman living across the street rarely came out of her home before the pandemic. After many invites, she started showing up and bringing a hot dish to donate, sitting 6 feet apart with the others in the driveway. She became friendlier and friendlier, and now she keeps a good watch on the neighborhood. “It took the pandemic for her to come out of her shell to talk to others, and now she’s happily involved in the give and take of a tight knit and friendly neighborhood,” she said. “People here are respectful of different opinions and beliefs and accept each other. I’m really going to miss my neighbors here!” After signing her final papers at the title company, I drove home thinking that I need to do better and learn more about my neighbors—pandemic or no pandemic. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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The Entrepreneurial Spirit When Damien Desrocher, 28, decided to “return to nature” in December, it meant leaving his job as an Air Force computer technician and moving to the northern French town of Wahagnies, where he started raising snails. But they’re not for eating, Reuters reported. Desrocher harvests “slime” from the snails and uses it to make bars of soap. A single snail will yield about 2 grams of slime. Desrocher needs about 80 grams of slime to make fifteen 100-gram soap bars. “It’s all in the dexterity of how you tickle,” he said as he demonstrated the harvesting technique. “I only touch it with my finger ... it’s not violent, it’s simple.” Desrocher said snail mucus contains molecules of collagen and elastin, which have anti-aging and skin-healing properties. Silent But Deadly In North Carolina, large stands of wetland forests along the coast have died, giving the areas an apocalyptic appearance, CNET reported. Salt water from rising seas and storm surges is causing the destruction of tens of thousands of acres. Researchers at North Carolina State University are studying the “ghost forests” to measure their environmental impact, which includes emitting greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide —that they call “tree farts.” Graduate student Melinda Martinez acknowledged that the trees don’t emit as much as the soils, but, she said, “Even the smallest fart counts.” Put a Ring on It Avid snorkeler Susan Prior of Norfolk Island, Australia, often sees small mullet fish with rings around their middles—usually plastic rings from juice and milk bottles, she said, according to the New York Post. “Mullet snuffle through the sand looking for food, making it so easy for a ring or a hair tie to flip over their noses and get stuck,” she wrote in a blog post. But in early May, Prior, who also takes underwater photos, captured a snap of a mullet fish sporting a gold wedding band. Prior remembered that she had seen a social media post about a lost wedding ring in the bay, but she couldn’t catch up to the fish to retrieve the item. She did, however, remind others to snip any plastic rings before putting them in the trash so that the fish aren’t “slowly strangled.” No Good Deed After Bryan Thayer, 34, finished up at his bar and grill in Metairie, Louisiana, on May 8, he stopped off at the City Bar, where he and a friend bought a drink for another patron, Andrew Nierman, 32. The first drink they bought spilled on Nierman, so they furnished him with a replacement. But Nierman evidently wasn’t satisfied with that. “He grabbed my head and (bit) a chunk out of my nose,” Thayer told The Times-Picayune, then ran out and jumped in a car. Thayer, who was holding his nose together, and other witnesses ran outside and flagged down a deputy, who stopped Nierman. He admitted to biting Thayer but said he’d been “accosted” by him. Doctors patched up Thayer’s nose, but he said his injuries will preclude him from working at his own bar for a time. Oops Three neighbors of Cara Louise, 28, of Bedfordshire, England, became alarmed on May 12 when they noticed what appeared to be a corpse wrapped in trash bags and duct tape lying in Louise’s yard. While Louise was picking up her 5-year-old from school, seven police officers descended on her home. When she returned, she provided an explanation: “The prop in the garden was part of our theme” for Halloween, she said, but she had neglected to dispose of the fake corpse after the autumn holiday. “He” was kept behind her trash bins, but she moved him as she worked in the yard and forgot to put him away. “I have a tip for all parents who go all-out at Halloween like myself—dispose of props or

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