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Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out For all their excesses, hippies made the world a better place. BY STEWART ROGERS

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TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT —Part 1— For all their excesses, hippies made the world a better place. Essay and cover design by Stewart Rogers Local commentary by Ken Sanders

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THIS WEEK'S WINNERS Republican Rep. Steve Christensen thinks we should have an audit of the Salt Lake County elections, like the one in Arizona. Are you in favor of that, or does it make you nervous? —KEN IVIE Rep. Owens, tell me in detail everything you know about one of the most—if not the most important issue in this state: water. I’m waiting. —STEVE LAMSON Salem Utah

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Stockton’s Big Turnover

ver the years, I’ve written for longish spells about singular topics— week after week—that were probably of interest only to me. There was the period I wrote endlessly about my faux addiction to NyQuil, after a store clerk ID’d me when I bought some. Then there was the long stretch I wrote about all things Greece. Readers got so sick of that subject, one took it to the proper conclusion during a period of me posting from Greece itself and simply told me to stay there. Hey, if you were so lucky to find yourself being paid to write a newspaper column from Greece, you’d do it too, right? Of course, you would. However, even I admit the columns I wrote about University of Utah football were over the top. I didn’t really use my then-8-year-old son, Mikey, to “mule” liquor into Rice-Eccles Stadium, did I? Sorry to say I did, because who is going to frisk a kid? It’s a thirsty jungle out there, and you’re not fooling me, readers. I know because they don’t sell schnapps at Rice-Eccles yet, and there was always a waft of peppermint or peach in my seating

section. Utah fans are basically all mules. Does anyone remember the Chelada craze that was started in this space? I’d taken a trip to Mexico and was introduced to the beer, lime and salt drink that kept me hydrated for nearly a week. Bartenders all over the city began to hate the sight of me. If I sat at their bar, it meant one thing: They’d spend the next five minutes squeezing the juice from pathetic bar limes to fill a glass half full of lime juice. Those columns led to Utah’s first Chelada party, a grand shindig held at the old Port O’ Call. Glad to be of service, Utah. Then there was the span when this column ran all over former Utah Jazz point guard, Carlos Arroyo. I don’t know a thing about NBA basketball, yet I had people stopping me on the street asking if Carlos was everything I said or if he was yet to find me to beat the shit out of me. He didn’t seem to mind, and why would he have? He made millions more in this town than I ever will. So did the guy he replaced, John Stockton. I’d see Stockton now and then when our kids were playing Catholic league basketball. He usually sat alone, as frugal with his privacy as he was with his money. He seldom signed an autograph. Still, at one game, my son Mikey sauntered up to him, and Stockton signed his basketball, a real rarity. When we got home, Mikey shot some driveway hoops and the autograph was

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quickly erased—which led to him being assigned as my Rice-Eccles Stadium liquor mule. But today, the Stockton brand is a tad diminished. Last week, he marched center stage with other QAnon conspiracy theorists in an anti-vax COVID video. He’d done a “significant amount of research” into COVID and determined that science was wrong. That’s like me commenting on Carlos Arroyo. Stockton added to the folly by making a weird analogy between Golden State Warriors champ Steph Curry and COVID-19. He fretted that, because of the pandemic lockdown and quarantine, we might have missed out on discovering the next Steph Curry. Ever heard of Terance Mann, John? Does Stockton think about anything besides basketball? No wonder he so readily guzzled the QAnon swill. I dunno, but it seems like he might have been less tone-deaf and paid homage to the 600,000 persons who died of COVID these past 18 months. Somehow, his “significant” research doesn’t factor in that painful loss. For now, Stockton is the guy in the Pete Maravich jersey sitting in the cheap seats hollering about what the coach is doing wrong. Fans around that fellow tell him to sit down and shut up. As Stockton should do now. Sit down, John. Shut up. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net.

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MISS: Auditing Salt Lake Votes

Oh yes, let’s now take legislative action in response to rumors, especially those tinged with conspiracy. If only we had the taxpayer dollars to conduct a free-for-all audit like they did in Arizona—you know, where they were looking for bamboo threads (one baseless accusation claimed 40K ballots had been smuggled to Arizona from Asia) or outright vote-switching by Leftist cyber-criminals. Rep. Steve Christiansen, R-West Jordan, just feels it in his toes that something’s amiss. He felt it right after the 2020 election, even though the beloved Mr. Trump won Utah’s paltry electoral votes. “There are rumors out there that there may be issues with that equipment, but I’m not sure that’s been proven one way or the other,” he told The Salt Lake Tribune. Maybe Christiansen can’t believe that more U.S. citizens voted for Joe Biden than Trump, or that Salt Lake County went all-out for Biden. But by all means, let’s audit the Utah ballots. Maybe we can get rid of Burgess Owens.

HIT: Juneteeth Gets a Holiday

Quick—before they ban movies, too. The Underground Railroad is a re-imagining of the freedom struggle of Black slaves in early America. “Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel, the show imagines a pre-Civil War world in which fugitives from slavery ride real trains through real tunnels.” While neither slavery nor the flight from it is fiction, this TV drama brings to life the real hardships of the time. Profs & Pints Online: A Scholars’ Guide to The Underground Railroad will show you “what the show gets right or wrong about the real Underground Railroad, and why it all matters.” You’ll hear from Richard Bell, an expert on the actual Underground Railroad, and Nadine Knight, an expert on African American literature and culture as well as television and film. Virtual, Sunday, June 27, 5 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3v7SeGZ

Juneteenth Celebration

In an event to honor Black Wall Street and “the Entrepreneurial History, Power, and Promise of our Ancestors” the Salt Lake & Utah County Juneteenth Celebration & Black Owned Business Expo will offer a family friendly community event that will feature a Black-owned Business Expo, black art exhibit, food trucks, music and even a movie night. Despite legislative denial, Black Wall Street, which culminated in the Tulsa massacre of May 1921, is an important tragedy in American history to remember. The Gateway, 18 N. Rio Grande, Saturday, June 26, noon-10 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3gvr9bn

World Grapples With Gender Identity

It’s not just the United States. Worldwide, people are trying to come to terms with gender and how to express it. In Wales, the conservative Tories recently banned the nonbinary as a legally recognized gender identity. In Beyond the Binary: Marxism, Gender and Resistance, you will hear about the mounting attacks on trans, nonbinary, gender-fluid or bi-gender socialists, and why oppressive gender stereotypes are considered endemic of a capitalistic state. No matter how you identify, the struggle to end oppression should concern even the most conservative of people. Virtual, Thursday, June 24, noon, free. bit.ly/BeyondTheBinarySW

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If you think you know about the history of the Revolutionary War, “Winning Independence: The Decisive Years of the Revolutionary War, 1778–1781” will rock your world. The National Archives Foundation presents John Ferling, who describes the underexplored history of the second half of the Revolutionary War. Turns out the French entrance into the fight didn’t mean immediate victory. The British turned to a Southern strategy, causing the U.S. economy to collapse and morale to suffer. What turned the tide for the fledgling states and ended in the victory at Yorktown? Register to find out. Virtual, Tuesday, June 29, noon, free. https://bit.ly/3gGSNCp

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You can count on Sen. Mike Lee to have the answer. We’re not sure what the question was, but for sure he knows that “the devil” wrote the For the People Act on voters’ rights, and amnesty for DACA kids would just intensify the border crisis. Indeed, there’s nothing good in the voting rights bill because it gives the federal government powers it shouldn’t have, the Deseret News reported. In other words, states should be able to keep the poor, the Black and the elderly from voting if they want. Lee isn’t the only one. Sen. Mitt Romney has been sending out form letter to constituents who have asked him to vote in favor. The feds, he argues, would turn voting into a partisan business— as if it isn’t already.

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Juneteenth is now a national holiday, but don’t hold your breath waiting for Utah to make it a state holiday. The Deseret News reminds us that Utah was among the last states to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a legal holiday — from 1983 to 2000. Lawmakers made the familiar argument that “other people” made important contributions to human rights. There were only 14 congressmen (all Republican men, BTW) who voted no. USA Today interviewed some who said it another holiday would confuse the dim-witted electorate or that the country simply has enough holidays. But Montana Rep. Matt Rosendale gave us the pure partisan line: “This is an effort by the Left to create a day out of whole cloth to celebrate identity politics as part of its larger efforts to make Critical Race Theory the reigning ideology of our country. Since I believe in treating everyone equally, regardless of race, and that we should be focused on what unites us rather than our differences, I will vote no.” For the moment, let’s be happy that Utah’s congressmen voted for it.

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War, hatred, injustice, poverty, riots, assassinations— we had it all in the 1960s and early ’70s.

For all their excesses, hippies made the world a better place. ESSAY AND COLLAGE ART BY STEWART ROGERS | LOCAL COMMENTARY BY KEN SANDERS

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War, hatred, injustice, poverty, riots, assassinations—we had it all in the 1960s and early ’70s. Fifty-eight thousand American GIs died in a senseless and immoral war in Vietnam. Millions of antiwar protesters filled the streets across the country. Racial segregation ruled the land, and those who challenged it were beaten, jailed and some even murdered. Birth control was considered immoral, abortion was illegal, and women were denied equal opportunity in education, employment and finance. Homosexuality was illegal—gay marriage, an impossible dream. The Russians put missiles in Cuba and threatened to nuke the U.S., so school kids practiced drills hiding under their desks to duck the A-bomb! To top it off, maniacs killed our president and his brother. And yet, for the 400,000 celebrating at Woodstock on that rainy August weekend, it was a joyous time to live. They believed then, as many still do today, that a new age was dawning, the Aquarian Age, one of “mystic crystal revelation and the mind’s true liberation,” an unprecedented epoch in which “peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars.” Personally, I missed Woodstock—but I got the message. When I saw my peers celebrating life and challenging the mor-

al evils of the day, I wanted to belong. I wanted to be part of something honest and true, something spiritually fulfilling. Like those at the festival, I wanted to be a pioneer of a new world built on love and understanding, a world where the generous outnumbered the greedy, where opportunities belonged to all and people resolved their differences without killing each other. Folks who felt that way were called “hippies.” I got on the hippie bus in 1970 and never got off. Of course, no one really knows what being a “hippie” means. It’s not a label that we called ourselves but one that “straighter” folks commonly called us as an insult. No one’s sure where the word originated. My favorite story is that Malcolm X invented the term to describe white dudes trying to act “hip” but never quite making it. There’s no hippie bible; no pledge to recite; no membership card to sign. You don’t have to dress, talk or act in any particular way. That’s the beauty of it. It is what you think it is. You’re in when you say you are. And yet, in my opinion, the hippies were—and still are—united by a set of common values. We believe that love is the most powerful force in the universe, that peace is our highest purpose, that freedom of thought and action belongs to all,

n Aug. 15, 1969, a half-million, long-haired, freaky people gathered in the mud for the Woodstock music festival in upstate New York. For some, the event symbolized the worst of American youth: dirty, drugcrazed dropouts listening to the devil’s music, obsessed with free love, unwilling to take personal responsibility, spitting in the faces of hardworking law-abiding citizens who made this country great. And yet, if you look beyond the psychedelic veneer, if you listen to the motifs and lyrics of the day, if you consider what these idealistic young folks and millions like them actually did to further world peace and dismantle discrimination, you would see something different—something in short supply today: hope. Who could believe preposterous ideas like “all you need is love,” “everyday people,” “make love not war,” “open the doors of perception” and “we got to get ourselves back to the garden”? Who could be naïve enough to believe that flower power could overcome tanks and bombers? And that brotherly love was more important than money? Who was idealistic enough to believe in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream that a person’s character was more important than their skin color? And that nonviolence could overcome racism? Today, both Left and the Right seem convinced that America is dying. The signs are everywhere: the racist police, the Deep State, the richest 1 percent, godless socialism, the Dissident Right and, of course, the deadly (or hoax) coronavirus. But compared to the 1960s and early ’70s, today’s problems don’t seem so bad.

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Power to the People

SALT LAKE’S TERRACE BALLROOM WAS HOME TO ’60S ROCK BANDS “The Terrace Ballroom was Salt Lake’s Avalon and Fillmore—along with the Dirt Palace (aka the Fairgrounds Coliseum). Built as Freed Motors in the 1920s (by the same family that owned Lagoon), the Terrace became The Coconut Grove in the 1930s, then The Rainbow Randevu and finally The Terrace Ballroom. “Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Donovan, Arlo Guthrie, Country Joe and the Fish, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention—almost all of the Bay area bands played there because it was a day’s drive from the West Coast. “You entered through a long spiraling ramp that led up to the ballroom, which used to be where the cars were displayed. Didn’t matter if you knew the band or not, you went for the music and the light shows by Maynard & Associates, Five Fingers on My Hands and later Rainbow Jam. The marijuana smoke filled the air, and the light shows were superb. “Afterward, local musicians would jam with the touring bands at the Abyssie downstairs on 200 South—just east of the Capitol Theatre. ... Rumor had it that the SLC musicians could blow their California counterparts away. “Frank Zappa closed the Terrace in 1980. Earl Holding tore it down, and it remains a parking lot to this day.”—Ken Sanders

“President Kennedy was killed today,” a grave voice announced over the school intercom. I was sitting in my seventh-grade chorus class on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, when the principal’s surreal message exploded in the room. No one spoke. We were gasping for breath. I felt sick on my stomach. Some girls cried. I didn’t say it, but I was afraid. The Russians wanted to nuke us. Some deranged soul had killed the president. What was coming next? Five years later, Dr. King was killed by another assassin. Two months after that, the president’s brother, Robert (Bobby) Kennedy, was murdered by a third. For many of us, losing these larger-than-life leaders marked the end of our optimism about the future. Without their force for good, we felt lost and more afraid than ever. Perhaps we’ve been looking, unsuccessfully, for new heroes ever since. The 2020 presidential election was no exception. Both sides argued that the survival of our country depended on who sits in the Oval Office. Joe Biden called it a battle for “America’s soul.” While I’m relieved, to say the least, that Biden prevailed, I don’t think my soul, or that of America, was ever in danger. In fact, I believe the fate of humankind depends not on authority figures but on how we treat each other every day. When our heroes were murdered in the 1960s and early ’70s, those of us “hippies” stopped hoping for top-down answers and began looking inside instead. We realized that leaders don’t change the world. Individuals do. We saw that changing laws didn’t change hearts. Love—acts of service and compassion—does. We discovered that the path to peace and happiness lies within, not without. Angela Davis. Black power activist and educator, put it this way: “We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” “Politics,” said Jerry Rubin, co-founder of the Yippie Party, “is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.” “The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the god in each of us,”

said the Beatles’ George Harrison. “The task is to transform society; only the people can do that, not heroes, not celebrities, not stars,” said Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party.

Be the Change

Much has been said about hippies being selfish and self-absorbed. In reality, we were following Gandhi’s admonition to be the change that we want to see in the world. That journey naturally began with self-discovery. We stopped trying to change the Constitution, and as the Beatles challenged us to do in “Revolution,” changed our minds instead. We read books like The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, On the Road, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. We meditated with Ram Dass and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. We learned from each other at be-ins, love-ins and rock concerts. As yes, we got high. We found that Bob Marley was right: “When you smoke herb, it reveals you to yourself.” We opened The Doors of Perception with psychedelics that Aldous Huxley wrote about, discovering that tripping was never the end game. It was only the beginning, an open window revealing a view of the universe previously unimaginable. For most of us, getting high expanded our minds, not scrambled them. With this new understanding, we became leaders of ourselves, no longer expecting some larger-than-life hero to save us. Instead of aligning ourselves into a structured organization with officers, bylaws and membership cards, we hippies forged our own paths as individuals and in small groups. In our own quiet imperfect ways, we reinvented family, work, sex and our connection to Mother Earth. We got off the treadmill of money, power and fame and found peace in our own ways. “Power to the people” was a frequent chant back in the day, based on the premise that oppressed people had to wrestle power away from those in authority. Historically, that’s always been true. Voting for good people and demand-

We realized that leaders don’t change the world. Individuals do.

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and that the accumulation of money is a dead end. Looking back, perhaps the hippies knew something worth remembering, that humanity was getting better, not worse. Since those days, worldwide, people are healthier, wealthier and better educated than ever before. In America, women have entered all professions, narrowed the pay gap, become half of all law and medical students and attained positions of corporate and political leadership. People of color endure less discrimination today than they did decades ago, and some have been elected to our highest offices. Samesex marriage is legal, and the LGBTQ community is freer, safer and more accepted than any time in history. Have we achieved that nirvana that hippies envisioned years ago? Obviously not, but we’re heading in the right direction. Aquarius is not a place but rather stars that guide our journey. Hope is the fuel that sustains us. Call me naïve. Call me delusional—in John Lennon’s words, “You may say I’m a dreamer.” But the hippie in me believes that the Age of Aquarius is unfolding as we speak and that the power of love is slowly and inextricably transforming the world into the happy family we were meant to be.

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LOCAL HOUSE BANDS “Holden Caulfield was possibly the best-known ’60s band. James Warburton was the most annoying. He would often pretend to be the opening act at the Terrace Ballroom; he would simply get up on stage and begin performing until security got wise to him. Dave Orgill’s band, The Bossmen, was a frequent opening act at Lagoon. They opened for the likes of Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix.” —Ken Sanders THE INIMITABLE “CHARLIE BROWN” “The most memorable SLC ’60s character was Charlie ‘Brown’ Artman. The cops impounded his VW bus. Didn’t faze him. He broke into the impound lot every night and slept in it. The cops gave it back. He was known for riding his bicycle round town with his long hair and American flag both flowing freely. He was at the first psychedelic happening in SLC in 1967, sponsored by Cosmic Aeroplane.”—Ken Sanders

Summer of Love

They called it the “Summer of Love,” those three months in 1967 when thousands of freedom-loving countercultural pioneers, aka hippies, gathered in the Haight-Ashbury community of San Francisco to connect, party and, yes, have sex. As Peter Coyote (a member of an anarchist troop called The Diggers at the time, better known as a mainstream actor today) put it: “I was interested in two things: overthrowing the government and f—cking. They went together seamlessly.” To hear some folks tell it, hippies invented “free love,” a term actually coined by a Christian socialist in the mid1800s and a concept as old as humanity. Perhaps more than any other factor, the Summer of Love created the myth that hippies personified lots of sex all the time. As a long-haired countercultural convert living 2,000 miles away at the time, I liked the fantasy, but I missed the love boat. I was lucky to have sex at all. While hippies get the credit (and the blame) for liberating sex, free love was quietly seeping into millions of traditional bedrooms long before the sex-fest in Haight-Asbury. Introduced in 1960, “the pill” made sex freer than ever. For the first time, women could enjoy sex without the fear of unwanted pregnancy, giving them unprecedented power over their bodies, their families and their incomes. Given that birth control was illegal in 30 states during the 1950s, this step toward sexual freedom was particularly important. It took a Supreme Court decision in 1965 and another in 1972 to make birth control legal for both married and unmarried women in every state. Roe vs. Wade in 1973 legalized abortion. But the pill was only the first step in the sexual revolution of the 1960s and early ’70s. At the dawn of the ’60s, consenting adults couldn’t legally engage in samesex sex, sex with persons of a different race, oral sex or anal sex. Though not outlawed, sex before marriage, sex for pleasure, non-missionary sex, masturbation and multiple sex partners were widely considered immoral. Hippies opposed all of that. We simply believed that consenting adults should be able to have sex with anyone they wanted in any way they wanted without fear, guilt or regulation. To us, free love had nothing to do with the quantity of sex but with the freedom of its expression, the freedom to explore and enjoy all kinds of erotic acts and, more importantly, to accept our naked bodies without shame. The fulfillment of this ideal has been

slow in coming. Oral and anal sex were still illegal in 14 states until a 2003 Supreme Court ruling. In 2005, the court struck down a Virginia law making sex between unmarried people a crime. Laws prohibiting sex (and marriage) between persons of different races were legal until 1967. Despite these rulings, 15 states still have laws regulating consensual adult sex on their books. Free love has historically been more of a moral dilemma than a legal one. Premarital sex, for example, remains a cultural and religious taboo in many countries. In America, sex and sin have been linked since the Pilgrims. Intercourse for procreation is good—doing it for pleasure, bad. Homosexually is an unholy aberration to be cured or punished; oral and anal sex, something dirty and perverted. Females with multiple sex partners are slutty—males, just sowing wild oats. In my mind, the hippie attitude about sex was simple: Sex should be free of fear, free of moralistic laws, free of religious doctrine, free of gender expectations, free of emotional coercion, free of physical abuse. We believed that sex and love belong together, not necessarily in the traditional sense of long-term commitment, but in the expression of kindness and joy between two human beings during life’s most intimate connection.CW Next week: America: Love It or Leave It, Reefer Madness, and The Doors of Perception. Stewart Rogers is the co-author/editor of What Happened to the Hippies? published by McFarland Press. He can be reached at Stewart@WhatHappenedtotheHippies.com.

Ken Sanders owns Ken Sanders Rare Books, which for decades has kept the dream alive, providing books, poetry readings, music events, film showings, book release celebrations, art exhibits and behind-the-scenes support of cultural events in Utah. A fundraiser to help Sanders relocate his bookstore will be held Friday, June 25, from 8-11 p.m. at The Garage on Beck (1199 Beck St. Salt Lake City), featuring Kate MacLeod, Morgan Snow, Anke Summerhill and Ken Sanders. There will be a $10 entry fee at the door.

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THE DEBUT OF JANIS JOPLIN “My favorite memory is going to hear a band called Big Brother and the Holding Company. They played a set and then this diminutive hippie chick came out on stage swilling from a bottle of Southern Comfort and started wailing into the microphone. Who was that hippie chick? By the time the band got to the East Coast, it was Janis Joplin With Big Brother and the Holding Company, and everybody knew her name.” —Ken Sanders

ing change in public ways will always be important. But perhaps in our struggle against the “Establishment,” we’ve overlooked the obvious, that each of us has the power to change the world. How we treat our family, our friends, our neighbors and strangers we encounter every day has a more profound and immediate effect on the behavior of these people—and those around them, and those around them—than any government, corporation or religion can ever have. As Trumpism fades from center stage, and we reassess our relationship with government, perhaps the hippie approach is worthy of reconsideration. Maybe we don’t need leaders to make us happy. Maybe small acts of kindness are more powerful than historic legislation or well-intended executive orders. Maybe we’re more powerful than we think.

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ENTERTAINMENT PICKS, JUNE 24-30, 2021

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Antelope by Moonlight Bike Ride Continuing the theme of “continuing the theme (from 2020),” the annual Antelope by Moonlight Bike Ride was another event that, after being forced to cancel due to the pandemic in 2020, decided to use that year’s planned theme in 2021. In this case, it’s “The Rolling ’20s,” a chance to celebrate the Jazz Age of the 1920s while getting your bicycle jazzed up for a non-competitive nighttime ride featuring a 24-mile route on Great Salt Lake’s historic Antelope Island from White Rock Bay to Fielding Garr Ranch and back. The activities on June 25 at 7 p.m., with registration and a full range of entertainment on-site including vendor booths, music provided by Now97.9 DJ Justin Taylor, a Prohibition-themed “mocktail lounge”

J GO Gallery: Of Dance

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The beauty and fluidity of dance provide an exhilaration for those who witness it—but it can also provide artistic inspiration. On June 25, Park City’s J GO Gallery (268 Main St., jgogallery.com) launches the joint exhibition Of Dance, with works by three artists capturing the grace of movement and all its accoutrements. The figurative works of Park City artist Carole Wade are well-known to locals, often portraying scenes highlighting the area’s winter sports focus; here, she turns her attention to dancers at work. Stephanie Hock similarly keeps her attention on the dancers themselves (Hock’s “En Pointe” is pictured), exploring the physicality of dancers in elegant motion, or even at rest while preparing to rehearse. Marketa Sivek, meanwhile, takes her work in a different direction by highlighting the lovely costumes often associated with ballet and other professional dance, the images often accompanied by supportive exhortations like “LIVE LOVE DANCE.” Together, the three artists create a complete portrait of the joy, passion and sheer effort involved in creating an art form that at its best can

The pandemic year of 2020 took a lot away from us, but as it turns out, 2021 is sometimes giving us even more. The Salt Lake Arts Council’s annual May celebration of the Living Traditions Festival might have been scaled back, but in its place we’ve received an opportunity for a wide range of events, including the Downtown SLC Open Streets, and culminating this weekend with the Taste of Living Traditions at Washington Square (400 S. 200 East) on June 25, from noon – 9 p.m. The festivities include a wide array of live performances on two stages, representing more than a dozen ethnic and cultural traditions as they bring music and dance to audiences. Among the headliners performing throughout the day are Taylorsville-based Viva Peru Peruvian Dance (pictured), Robb “Little Owl” Martin on Native American Flute, North African music by Bazeen, Halau Ku Pono I Kamalani Hawai’ian Dance, Ballet Folklorico Bolivia, South Jordan’s Rinceoiri Don Spraoi Irish Dancers, Salt Lake Capoeira Brazilian Dance, Utah’ko

seem effortless. The exhibition runs through Aug. 2, and begins with a Gallery Stroll reception on Friday, June 25 from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m., including Marketa Sivek in attendance to discuss her contributions to the show. For those who prefer to experience the event remotely, the reception will be streamed live via J GO Gallery’s Instagram, @JGOgallery. The exhibition also runs in conjunction with a series of live dance events in the gallery space by newlyrelocated-to-Park City company BalletNEXT; visit BalletNEXT.com for dates and ticket information. (SR)

party, food truck offerings (including Bandidos Tacos) and more. From 7 p.m. – 9 p.m., raffle drawings will feature prizes including tickets to headliner events at Ed Kenley Amphitheater like Diamond Rio, Three Dog Night and Air Supply. Costume and decoration prizes will also be awarded, including tickets to Lagoon and Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, backpacks, gym memberships and gift cards. Then it’s time to line up and enjoy the beautiful ride beginning at 10 p.m. Registration must be completed online by 5 p.m. on June 24, and registration slots will be limited; no on-site, day-of-event registration will be permitted. Adult riders are $35, child riders $30, and all individual riders must wear a helmet and have a bike fitted with both headlamp and taillight. Visit daviscounty.gov/ moonlight to register, learn about purchasing light packages and for additional details. (SR)

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Last year, Wasatch Theatre Co. planned its annual Page-to-Stage showcase of new oneact plays with the theme “Hindsight is 2020.” Ironically, in hindsight, we now know that a live theater presentation wouldn’t be possible, and the company did not believe that the planned works would be best represented through a virtual format. This year feels more promising in many respects, however, and WTC offers up its 2021 lineup of plays—returning to live performance for the first time since spring 2020—under the designation “Hindsight is Still 2020.” The eight original scripts all address theme of regret, reflection and remembrance. Hide, by Morag Shepherd, deals with a couple working through marital differences on a ride home.

Chelsea Hickman’s Buttery Yellow and Ocean Blue concerns two friends re-connecting at a high school reunion. Beth Bruner’s Mother Love takes on the pandemic world as a mother and daughter deal with a sick baby, while Tyler Fox’s The Golem applies the Jewish myth to a father confronting personal tragedy. Also featured are Snacktime Royalty by Jared Greathouse about a lonely man who has a strange way of finding friends; Used to Be by Michael McGuire; The Sinner by Ryan Humeniuk; and Playground Equipment by Aidan Croft. The 2021 Page-to-Stage Festival runs for just four performances this week, June 24-26 at 8 p.m. and June 27 at 2 p.m., at The Box venue at The Gateway (124 S. 400 West). Seating is limited, and masks will be required during performances. Visit theboxgateway.org to purchase tickets and for additional information. (Scott Renshaw)

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Triskalariak Basque Dance, Ballet Folklorico Quetzalcoatl Mexican Music and Dance, and many more. In addition to the performances, visitors can enjoy food representing nearly as expansive a sampling of cultural cuisine, with fare offered by 8th Catering Greek Food, the AfricanAmerican Faith Initiative, Basque Club of Utah, Bolivian Association, Serbian Orthodox Church, Utah Argentinian Alliance and much more. The event is free to the public, with masking encouraged but not required, and socially-distanced seating encouraged between household groups. Visit saltlakearts.org/livingtraditionspresents/june-26/ for the full performance schedule and additional event details. (SR)

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Planning your summer visit to Utah’s zoological facilities BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

hen most businesses and public spaces closed in spring 2020 for the COVID-19 pandemic, they sent employees home, because there was nothing for them to do if there were no customers. It was quite a different scenario, however, for local zoological attractions like Hogle Zoo, Tracy Aviary and The Loveland Living Planet Aquarium. While the rest of us wrestled with anxiety and uncertainty over what came next, animal caretakers had to keep their swimming, flying and crawling charges healthy and happy. “The staff—especially the animal care-givers—have done an amazing amount of heavy lifting during the pandemic,” says Chris Barragan, Director of Advancement for Hogle Zoo. “We had to reduce staff size, and others had to shoulder that burden. And we had to reschedule staff so we were careful not to have an outbreak, and we accomplished that.… If we lose those people, it’s not like Lagoon or a theater; we have animals we have to care for at a very high level, and we had to keep that going.” “I’m not sure if the Aviarians taking care of our living collection are first-line workers,” adds Tim Brown, President and CEO of Tracy Aviary, “but they are certainly essential workers. Their absolute dedication to the animals they work with went beyond making diets, creating enrichment, and cleaning exhibits. They also took great personal responsibility to stay healthy during the pandemic.” Now that more normalcy is returning as case numbers

stabilize, operations at these facilities are returning to something resembling pre-COVID operations, as well. For those who might not have visited in a while, here’s an overview of what to expect if you’re considering checking them out this summer.

Utah’s Hogle Zoo (2600 Sunnyside Ave., hoglezoo.org)

The Current Visitor Experience: While the zoo has been reopened for more than a year, operations continue to evolve as guidelines change. Currently, masks are encouraged for unvaccinated individuals but not mandated, according to Barragan, and operations are mostly back to normal with the exception of one on-site restaurant that remains closed. Timed ticketing remains in place, and is expected to remain for the foreseeable future, according to Barragan, “to maintain a more even flow of zoo-goers throughout the day, and frankly provide a better experience for everybody.” What’s New: “We just have an onslaught of new animals,” Barragan says of additions to the zoo’s animal family over the past year. Those additions include a new baby zebra, Archie (pictured); an 1100-pound male polar bear; Georgia, a baby gorilla who turns 1 year old on July 6; and a new orangutan coming from Wisconsin. The zoo also recently added ADA-accessible feedings for elephants and rhinos, available daily for an additional charge. Summer Activities: While Barragan says that the zoo’s summer day camps are sold out at press time, there are still special season events like July 17’s “Ice Block Day,” when animals (and human visitors) can receive cold treats.

Tracy Aviary (589 E. 1300 South, tracyaviary.org)

The Current Visitor Experience: “We are pretty darn near back to normal,” Brown says. “The Aviary is primarily an outdoor facility, and we don’t get overly crowded. We have a lot of different exhibits spread out over 8-1/2 acres, so we don’t have one congestion point where people end up elbow to elbow.” Masks are still advised on the honor system for unvaccinated guests, and the only current operational closure is the absence of the indoor bird show, which would at

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times replace the outdoor bird show in certain weather conditions. What’s New: The Bird Show Sunning Yard is a new exhibit that showcases the stars of the Aviary’s live bird show, including crowned cranes and white-faced ibis. Summer Activities: Summer full-day and half-day camps for children still have wait-list spaces available as of press time, and parents can get their young visitors to the Aviary “Avian Adventure Kits” so supplement their exploration of the facility. You can also get your hands dirty experiencing “International Mud Day” at the Aviary on June 29, among other upcoming events.

Loveland Living Planet Aquarium (12033 Lone Peak Parkway, Draper, thelivingplanet.com)

The Current Visitor Experience: According to the Aquarium’s Director of Marketing and Communications, Layne Pitcher, timed ticketing remains in place for the facility to avoid excessive crowding, so buy tickets and register for a time online. Masks are not required for vaccinated guests, and recommended for unvaccinated guests, with no proof of vaccination required. There is a two-hour window on Wednesday mornings reserved specifically for visits from higher-risk individuals. What’s New: Last summer, Loveland Living Planet Aquarium opened its Rio Tinto Kennecot Plaza, offering an outdoor space for interactive exhibits, play structures and walking paths. “It was a happy accident” this it was in progress already, Pitcher says, at a time when the otherwise fullyindoor facility would not have had a place for safer outdoor experiences. Summer Activities: Summer youth camps sold out on the first day under capacity limitations, but Pitcher says it’s possible additional spaces might open up, so visit the website for ongoing updates. The Aquarium will also continue its monthly seasonal “Nights Under Lights” outdoor parties on the new plaza through September; all previous events have sold out, so watch the calendar for your chance to buy tickets. CW

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There’s a lot of “new” around right now in Utah’s craft beer scene: new breweries, new beers, new styles. With all of this “new,” it’s easy to forget about the places that helped build everything we love, and Desert Edge is one of those places. It’s been around since 1972, and serving up craft brews from early 1995. During the time of COVID, Desert Edge’s future looked uncertain, but they came back stronger than ever, and are offering SLC residents a taste of their future. Desert Edge - Trolley Rye IPA: A strong pour yields a light cinnamon-tinged head about a finger-and-a-half thick—creamy, with some pocking as the larger bubbles burst. The head sits atop a jewel-like combination of amber-orange and garnet red, translucent and easy to see through. A rich tapestry of caramel sweetness and bright, citrusy hops give the distinct impression of grapefruit, but also contain some aromatic floral notes. The slightly spiced element of rye is also a faint hint in the background. The hop profile isn’t as in-your-face on the tongue, but that seems appropriate. Here, the spiciness from the rye, which is different from the peppery effect of “spice” beers, is on full display, with a bit of heft and spiciness coming through as well. Balancing with the heft of the rye are the bitter profiles of the hops, some faint burnt caramel sweetness, and some notes of citrus rind and dandelion, with a little faint, lingering bitterness on the finish. Overall: This is one of the best, if not the best, rye beers available in our market. It

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if he’d want to visit TF Brewing, to enjoy sun, patio and their Slow Pour Sunday Series, which features several of SLC’s hottest DJs pulled out of the night and into the laze of the daytime. He said yes, and we ventured over to the place, where the patio was less packed than the bar, and the air was filled with bumping, funky basslines from the shaded vinyl booth. We ordered TF’s excellent Belgian Wit with Chamomile, my boyfriend leaned into the shade and I into the sun, and we both relaxed into the sound of sticky, mid-day vinyl. Slow Pour Sundays happen every Sunday from 3 p.m. - 7 p.m. A Kilby Reunion. As I slowly wake from the pandemic-caused social slumber that was the last year, I find that every evening feels like the end of a long, tiresome week, and the idea of being social is not very appealing. I’ll admit that in the end, I had to be peerpressured by friends into going to Josaleigh Pollett’s latest show, at Kilby Court on June 12. I forgot that sometimes there are shows that like, everyone is going to, and every conversation with every person you know leads back to, “So are you going to that show on Saturday?” The answer always slowly morphs from “maybe” into “yes.” That was what brought me out to Kilby on a hot evening, my first time there since God-knows-when in early 2020. There are some comfy new benches to accommodate outside hanging, a nice improvement on the between-set standing dilemma. This show—taking place in June after the lifting of the venue’s capacity limits— was packed, an unsurprising fact given Pollett’s local popularity. She even led her crowd in a sing-along part, and all obliged. Despite being only 5’6”, I shimmied to the front and sat on the ground to listen to her introspective balladry, because I’d forgotten how to juggle the discomfort of blocking someone else’s view. Such is re-learning the etiquette of show-going. CW

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fter more than a year of missing live, in-person shows, I’ve started going back to them—almost against my will. Now the only challenge left to navigate is how to say “no” to things I don’t want to go to without having the pandemic as an excuse. Here is a short round-up of the places I’ve visited and the music I’ve enjoyed thus far as a fully vaxxed-up Salt Laker. Pop-up Between a Car Wash and a Construction Site. I feel like I missed the major CDC announcement that informed fully vaxxed people that they could safely resume their maskless, un-distanced lives—because suddenly, everyone was everywhere without masks. Such was my behind-the-times state of mind when I stumbled into an outdoor birthday bash for a sort-of friend, an occasion that I had reflexively expected to be just a small gaggle of people on the sidewalk, enjoying some music, since it was around the same area Boozetique was hosting sociallydistanced sidewalk shows last summer. But this event turned out to be behind Boozetique, in the pocket of asphalt between the car wash at 300 East & 300 South and a fenced off construction site, where a crane soared overhead in the twilight. There were clusters of maskless people I knew, and they all made big pauses before moving in to hug me. I wasn’t technically ready for this and, had I known that those clusters would blossom into a burbling crush of people, I may not have gone. I’m glad I did. Opening act Jill Whit played songs from her pretty new album that I reviewed here in City Weekly a few weeks ago, while nearby a performance artist in a white suit and a horrendous mask dragged someone in a gorilla suit around by a chain, and the gorilla spray-painted the white suit from behind. After Whit it was Red Bennies, one of SLC’s oldest and noisiest bands. During their set, the cops showed up, so they ushered the crowd forward towards their mic stands and played as quietly as they could (which is not very) until the cops were assured that we had permission from the car wash owners to be there. As I grew good and drunk off of free box wine that was perched buffet-style on the edge of someone’s Jeep, the night was polished off by a set from Calvin Lee. That set turned out a response from the crowd that would have been impressive for a local band even before the pandemic: they made everyone dance, and with a prominent saxophone feature, too. I spent the set waving around a wooden hand I’d won from a man dressed up as a wizard who was watching over a table with a spinning wheel-of-prizes. Though it was the strangest way I could have been thrown back into live music enjoyment, I now see a lot more potential in lonely cement patches around town. I hope others do, too. Hazy, Lazy Days at TF. Ever since getting vaccinated, the thing I’ve craved the most is a sunny patio, a beer and music—and luckily for me, SLC is full of local breweries and bars that offer just those things. After a particularly industrious Sunday of working in a cafe, I asked my boyfriend as he got done with his own work

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ahead with bookings for the summer (interest in which can be submitted at booking@ velourlive.com), more fundraising events and new team members for the venue in the sound engineer, marketing and intern departments. Through June they’ll be finishing their lineup of private rentals, and they’ll continue taking rental requests going forward even with shows starting again, as a source of additional income (so, consider having your long-postponed wedding there). Shows that are already on the books are The Strike on July 19 and The Backseat Lovers on July 23, tickets for which went on sale June 11. Visit velourlive.com for show dates (and what looks like the beginning of Open-Mic Nights again, too) and follow them on Instagram at @velourlive.

Led Zeppelin & The Who Tribute: Backyard Show with The Discographers

The tribute show train continues behind The Urban Lounge, and this time around it’s in homage to two very different but both very classic members of the rock world. Local band The Discographers will be playing in tribute to both bands, which frankly shows quite a range of skill (or perhaps just pure confidence) to attempt to cover both the long, winding psychedelic rock of Zep and also the pure rock ‘n’ roll zeal of The Who. The show continues the outdoor tradition established during the pandemic, but with some changes. Starting on June 1, The Urban Lounge lifted its capacity limit to make a return to full-capacity shows, and ended their mask mandate. However, there are still rules, which include the keeping of alcoholic beverages inside the parking lot area (we’re not in Las Vegas), and that all patrons continue to respect others’ space and decisions to wear or not wear masks. While like many other venues The Urban Lounge is not requiring proof of vaccination, they implore that unvaccinated people do not come until they’ve received their vaccination. This show is $15, 21+ and starts at 6 p.m. Visit theurbanloungeslc.com for tickets and more info.

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his week, as F9 arrives in theaters (too late for review at press time), the Fast & Furious franchise joins a select company: movie franchises that have reached their tenth installment. (I’m sure you didn’t forget about the Hobbs & Shaw spin-off.) As an appetizer before you catch up with the latest turbo-charged adventures of Dom Toretto and company, here’s a sampling of other long-running series that managed to reach a Part 10, and how that Part 10 fit in the bigger picture.

Sherlock Holmes Part 10: The House of Fear (1945)

The Set-Up: Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) investigate the suspicious deaths of members in a private club, all of whom stand to inherit the others’ estates. The Series Context: The series’ 1940s films became more overtly contemporary rather than being set in Holmes’ traditional Victorian England, including stories involving Nazi antagonists. They were fired off at a

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rapid clip of some three a year through 1946, while Rathbone and Bruce were also playing the roles in a radio series. The Verdict: The genre tropes are as comforting as a cozy mystery, what with thunder and lightning crashing during a climax at an isolated mansion. The case itself has a satisfying resolution, but the primary appeal is Nigel Bruce’s huffing and puffing as Watson, showing how comfortable he’d grown in the second-banana role. What Came Next: Holmes & Watson consult on serial killings of young women whose fingers have been removed in The Woman in Green.

Zatoichi, the Blind Swordsman Part 10: Zatoichi’s Revenge (1965)

The Set-Up: The itinerant masseur, gambler and swordsman Zatoichi (Shintarô Katsu) in feudal Japan sets out to avenge the murder of his teacher, and rescue the teacher’s daughter from a brothel. The Series Context: This one lasted through an impressive 26 features (all of them starring Katsu as Zatoichi) in its original incarnation, plus multiple Japanese television series. Most recently, the character was revived for features in 2003 and 2010. The Verdict: Despite a story that emphasizes Zatoichi as a legendary, almost superheroic figure—complete with plot to strip him of the source of his power—it all feels genuine thanks to the robust humanity Katsu brings to the character. Add a striking visual sensibility by director Akira Inoue, and you’ve got something that doesn’t remotely feel like a series where people are going

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through the motions. What Came Next: Zatoichi tries to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death in Zatoichi and the Doomed Man.

James Bond Part 10: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

The Set-Up: Agent 007 (Roger Moore) teams up with a KGB agent (Barbara Bach) to stop a megalomaniac (Curt Jürgens) with plans to instigate an apocalypse. The Series Context: With Moore in the lead role, Bond was on his way in the more over-the-top direction that felt more like science-fiction than espionage. That trend hadn’t quite reached its apex here (see: What Came Next), but most of Moore’s successors as 007 have been part of considerably grittier and more earthbound threats. The Verdict: The big action and production design carry the story through the combination of one of the dullest “Bond girls” and dullest villains in the entire series history. At least it introduced Richard Kiel’s hulking metal-mouthed henchman Jaws, who proved so popular that he would become a more sympathetic part of the next sequel. What Came Next: James Bond goes into space in Moonraker.

Friday the 13th Part 10: Jason X (2002)

The Set-Up: Unstoppable killing machine Jason Voorhees (Kane Hodder) gets cryogenically frozen, thawed out in the 25th century, and turned into a cyborg because … well, why not. The Series Context: The Friday the 13th series itself had been in cold storage for

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nearly a decade after Jason Goes to Hell in 1993. Emerging into the digital-technology world of 21st-century filmmaking, a vintage1980s mad slasher felt like a weird anachronism (kinda like this movie’s Jason) The Verdict: Despite trying to duplicate some familiar genre elements—the perpetually-horny young people, creative deaths like liquid-nitrogen-face-smash—Jason X was just too slick to feel anything like an oldschool Friday the 13th movie. As with Moonraker (see above), taking a franchise into space felt like a desperate last gasp. What Came Next: New Line Cinema’s other iconic blade-wielding killer joins the fun in Freddy vs. Jason.

X-Men Part 10: Logan (2017)

The Set-Up: An aging Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) tries to keep his friends safe during a time of mutant persecution. The Series Context: It’s hard now to recall that the original X-Men—even before Sam Raimi’s 2002 Spider-man—effectively kicked off the modern Marvel super-hero monolith. While the movies were showing their age nearly 20 years later, Jackman was still the face of the franchise. The Verdict: As an action movie, it falls flat at times, but James Mangold wisely focuses on the character dynamics. He gives Jackman the opportunity to go out on a high note with a solid entry built on audience familiarity with the character’s long journey. What Came Next: Deadpool 2 and Dark Phoenix took the franchise (briefly) in two very different directions, while now we wait to see how and when the X-Men will be absorbed into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. CW

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Before he journeyed in a spaceship to the moon in 1971, Scorpio astronaut Alan Shepard didn’t think he’d get carried away with a momentous thrill once he arrived at his destination. He was a manly man not given to outward displays of emotion. But when he landed on the lunar surface and gazed upon the majestic sight of his home planet hanging in the sky, he broke into tears. You may have similar experiences in the coming weeks. Mindopening, heart-awakening experiences may arrive. Your views of the Very Big Picture could bring healing upheavals. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Sagittarian author Clarice Lispector observed, “In a state of grace, one sometimes perceives the deep beauty, hitherto unattainable, of another person.” I suspect that this state of grace will visit you soon, Sagittarius—and probably more than once. I hope you will capitalize on it! Take your time as you tune in to the luminescent souls of the people you value. Become more deeply attuned to their uniquely gorgeous genius.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Trailblazing Capricorn psychoanalyst Ernest Jones (1879– 1958) said, “There is no sense of contradiction within the unconscious; opposite ideas exist happily side by side.” In other words, it’s normal to harbor paradoxical attitudes; it’s healthy to be awash in seemingly incongruous blends. Use this astrologically propitious time to celebrate your own inner dichotomies, dear Capricorn. If you welcome them as your deepest, truest nature, they will serve you well and make you curious, expansive and non-dogmatic. (PS: Here’s an example, courtesy of psychologically savvy author Stephen Levine: “For as long as I can remember, the alternate antics of the wounded child and LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) In my opinion, psychology innovator Carl Jung, born under the the investigations of the ageless Universal played through me.”) sign of Leo, was one of the 20th century’s greatest intellects. His original ideas about human nature are central to my phi- AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) losophy. One of my favorite things about him is his appreciation Aquarian guitarist Django Reinhardt was a celebrated jazz for feelings. He wrote, “We should not pretend to understand musician in occupied France during World War II. Amazingly, the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much he was able to earn good money by performing frequently— by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, even though he fit descriptions that the rampaging Germans only half of the truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to regarded as abhorrent. Nazis persecuted the Romani people, of an understanding of its inadequacy.” I bring this to your atten- which he was one. They didn’t ban jazz music, but they severely tion, Leo, because the coming weeks will be a favorable time to disapproved of it. And the Nazis hated Jews and Blacks, with upgrade your own appreciation for the power of your feelings to whom Reinhardt loved to hang out. The obstacles you’re facing aren’t anywhere near as great as his, but I propose we make him help you understand the world. your role model for the next four weeks. May he inspire you to persist and even thrive in the face of challenges! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) For the indigenous Ojibway people, the word adizokan means both “story” and “spirit.” In fact, story and spirit are the same PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) thing. Everything has a spirit, and everything has a story, includ- Piscean author Richard Matheson believed we’ve become too ing people, animals, trees, lakes, rivers and rocks. Inspired by tame and mild. “We’ve forgotten,” he wrote, about “how to these thoughts, and in accordance with cosmic omens, I invite rise to dizzy heights.” He mourned that we’re too eager to live you to meditate on how your life stories are central elements inside narrow boundaries. “The full gamut of life is a shadowy of your spirit. I further encourage you to spend some tender, continuum,” he continued, “that runs from gray to more gray. luxurious time telling yourself the stories from your past that The rainbow is bleached.” If any sign of the zodiac can escape you love best. For extra delightful bonus fun, dream up two blandness and averageness, it’s you Pisceans—especially in prospective stories about your future that you would like to the coming weeks. I invite you to restore the rainbow to its full create. (Info about adizokan comes from Ann and John Mahan vivid swath: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Maybe even add a few colors. at SweetWaterVisions.com.)

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) “I was so flooded with yearning I thought it would drown me,” wrote Cancerian author Denis Johnson. I don’t expect that will be a problem for you anytime soon. You’re not in danger of getting swept away by a tsunami of insatiable desire. However, you may get caught in a current of sweet, hot passion. You could be carried for a while by waves of aroused fascination. You might find yourself rushing along in a fast-moving stream of riled-up craving. But none of that will be a problem as long as you don’t think you have something better to do. In fact, your time in the cascading flow may prove to be quite intriguing—and ultimately useful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Author Aslı Erdogan writes, “It had been explained to me from my earliest childhood that I would know love—or that thing called ‘love’—as long as I was smart and academically brilliant. But no one ever taught me how to get that knowledge.” It’s that way for most of us: No one ever showed us how to find and create and cultivate love. We may have received haphazard clues now and then from our parents and books and movies. But we never got a single day of formal instruction in school about the subject that is at the heart of our quest to live meaningful lives. The good news is that the rest of 2021 will be one of the best times ever for you to learn important truths about love.

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Even with pandemics, riots, housing shortages and traffic jams, the world continues to turn— literally. This time of year, the North Pole of the Earth tilts toward the Sun, bringing the summer solstice on June 20 and the Northern Hemisphere’s warm growing season—which means farmers markets will be popping up all over. Salt Lake City’s first farmers’ markets could be found in the Marmalade neighborhood. Travel up the western slope of Capitol Hill, east of 300 West and north of 300 North, above the Marmalade branch of the City Library, and you’ll find streets named Apricot, Quince and Almond. These names remind us of the orchards planted in the early 20th century by Utah settlers. I’ve heard tales of pioneers bringing seeds on the long trek to Utah or having young saplings shipped by wagon and later by train to plant in orchards on these hills. The women would turn the ripe fruit into jams and marmalades, and on Saturdays, they would gather at the bottom of the hill to sell or swap goods with neighbors. The tradition continues as markets are in full operation around the state. The mother of all public markets is the Downtown Farmers Market at Pioneer Park, held Saturdays, June through October, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. The Downtown Alliance of Salt Lake created this wonderful weekly event in 1992. Here, you’ll find locally grown fruits, vegetables, nuts and meats plus local craft vendors and food trucks galore. The market accepts Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments using a wooden token program. Visit slcfarmermarket.org to find out about SNAP and other programs. Farmers markets are also proliferating beyond downtown, with new ones coming online every year. A few to check out this summer include (note: days and times subject to change): Liberty Park (600 E. 900 South, Fridays, 4 p.m. until dusk); Murray (Wheeler Historic Farm, Sundays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and 296 E. Murray Park Way, Fridays and Saturdays, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.); Ninth West Farmers Market (formerly the People’s Market, International Peace Gardens, 1000 S. 900 West, Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.); South Jordan (1600 Towne Center Drive, Saturdays, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.); Sugar House (1030 Sugarmont Drive, Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. starting Aug. 1); Sunnyvale Park Farmers Market (4013 S. 700 West, Saturdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.); West Jordan (Jordan Landing, Thursdays, 4 p.m.-8 p.m.). Outside of town, there’s Park City (Park City Mountain Resort, Wednesdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.) and the Park Silly Sunday Market (Main Street, Sundays 10 a.m.-5 p.m.); Ogden (25th Street, Saturdays, 8 a.m. -1 p.m.); Logan (Cache County Courthouse, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.); Orem Sunset (Orem City Center Park, Wednesdays, 5 p.m.-9p.m.); Provo (Pioneer Park, Saturdays, 9 a.m. -2 p.m.) and LaVell Edwards Stadium (213 E. University Pkwy., Thursdays, 3 p.m.-7 p.m.); St. George (Ancestor Square, Saturdays, 9 a.m.-noon) and many, many more. Visit utahfarmersmarketnetwork.org for more listings. My favorite Chinese restaurant, the Hong Kong Tea House on 200 South, is the only Asian restaurant I know of in Utah that serves “farm to table” with produce from their own farm. They also have a booth each week at the Downtown Farmers Market. n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Right Under Your Nose A woman known only as Sajitha from Kerala, India, disappeared in 2010, when she was just 18 years old, reported Newsweek. But about three months ago, the mystery of her disappearance began to come to light. Sajitha had left her home 11 years ago and walked just 1,600 feet to the home of her neighbor, Alinchuvattil Rahman, who at the time was 24 years old. Reportedly, the couple believed their romantic relationship was threatened by their differing religions, so Rahman settled her in a locked spare bedroom in his parents’ home, where she spent the next decade watching a small TV using headphones. Rahman’s brother, Basheer, said Rahman was intensely secretive about the room and kept it locked at all times; his bad temper discouraged his family from asking about what was going on. “During the day, as everyone was at work, Rahman and Sajitha would have the house to themselves,” Basheer said. The room had no bathroom; Sajitha would crawl out a window at night to relieve herself. This spring, Sajitha left the home, and Rahman followed shortly after; his family reported him missing, but Basheer soon “spotted Rahman by chance” in another village, where he and his beloved have set up their new home. Weird Fashion n Crocs went on sale less than 20 years ago, but they’re already experiencing a “renaissance,” according to The Independent. And for the Spring 2022 season, Crocs are getting a crossover boost from luxury fashion house Balenciaga: New models feature a stiletto heel (which looks more like a Lego piece) under the traditional green or black perforated upper. The new model may cost as much as $1,000, but social media isn’t on board. One tweet called them “an actual nightmare,” and another commenter said she is “irrationally angry.”

n The Independent reported on May 13 that a new BBC documentary has revealed that dolphins chew on and pass around puffer fish in an apparent effort to get “high.” Puffer fish release a nerve toxin when provoked; large doses of it can be deadly, but small amounts can produce a narcotic effect. Dolphins, having partaken of just the right amount, appear to enter a trancelike state. Rob Pilley, a zoologist who worked as a producer on the series, said the dolphins “began acting most peculiarly, hanging around with their noses at the surface as if fascinated by their own reflection. It was the most extraordinary thing to see.”

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The Entrepreneurial Spirit Small businesses have had to be creative in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as demonstrated by Club Pro Adult Entertainment in Toronto, Ontario. The Toronto Sun reported that shutdowns nearly destroyed the strip club—until owner Teresa Marciano and her staff came up with another idea. “Since we couldn’t operate as a restaurant, the only thing we wanted to do was something outdoors,” Marciano said. “Most of our staff and managers love golf, so we tried to marry both industries together.” The new venture, Stiff Shafts, turns the former club’s parking lot into a driving range where golfers can aim their shots at caricatures of prominent politicians. Bartenders and waitstaff will return to provide food and drink to customers, and the dancers will be caddies. The Marcianos hope to open on June 14. Precocious Two West Jordan, Utah, sisters, 9 and 4 years old, set out before dawn on June 2 with California beaches in their sights, Fox News reported. Unfortunately, the 9-year-old was driving, and things didn’t go as planned. Just several miles away from home, the little driver veered into oncoming traffic, slamming into a semi-truck. Both girls were wearing seatbelts, and no one was hurt. Their parents were unaware of the joyride until police called them after the accident. “I guess they were intending to start their summer vacation a little early,” remarked West Valley police spokesperson Roxeanne Vainuku. Lt. Sean McCarthy added, “I don’t know that we’ll tell them they were going the wrong way” to reach California.

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Weird Animals n In Victoria, British Columbia, photographer Tony Austin was out for a nature walk on May 31 when he ran across an inexplicable sight: A murder of crows had landed close by, and one was sort of flopping around in the dirt. “It would sort of ... hop into the air and ... then hop back onto the gravel,” Austin said. As

Austin grew nearer, he saw that the bird was covered with ants. He was concerned for the bird’s welfare, but when he posted a picture on a Facebook page for bird enthusiasts, he was relieved, NPR reported. The crow was “anting”—spreading ants on its feathers and wings. Experts aren’t clear about why birds do this; it may be related to cleanliness or to share the ants’ defensive secretions of fungicides, miticides and insecticides.

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