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ROCKY’S THIRD ACT

Rocky Anderson’s revival of the Justice Party offers independents weary of partisan bickering a path forward. By Katharine Biele

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The report released on June 25 by the Pentagon on unidentified aerial phenomena or “UAPs,” popularly known as unidentified flying objects or “UFOs,” is definitive on only one point—that UAPs do not originate from American military or advanced U.S. government technology. According to British futurist Benjamin Creme (1922-2016), author of The Gathering of the Forces of Light: UFOs and their Spiritual Mission, UFOs are spaceships coming from other planets in our solar system. Based on his longstanding work for and with those he calls our “space brothers,” Creme explains that the ships and their occupants are normally invisible to us because they exist on a higher physical plane than

our dense physical. That is, they vibrate at a higher frequency. However, they are able to lower their vibration at will, so they can be seen within our visual spectrum when they choose. Thus, they can seem to appear and disappear instantaneously. The UFOs are here to help us, according to Creme, by neutralizing as much nuclear and other toxic pollution as possible—much of which he claims cannot yet be measured by our scientific instruments because it, too, exists at higher frequencies. Luis Elizondo, former director of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, confirms that UAPs are often seen around nuclear weapons and energy sites. Rather than classify them as a national security threat, however, Creme

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Smoke Bombs

t isn’t at all surprising that Mike Lee is making the rounds with his bottle of Clorox. After all, he seems to believe in bleaching America’s racist record and in preserving a mostly white—and damnedwell proud of it—nation. Lee’s white-washing activities don’t stop there; he seems determined to disavow anything in U.S. history that falls short of a perfect storybook ending—one that will always conclude, “And they lived happily ever after.” Lee doesn’t want our children— or his fellow Utahns—confronted with the unvarnished truth. Unfortunately, he’s in la-la-land about the endemic racism in our country. Instead of helping Utahns to see America’s history with clarity, he’s lashing out against educators, social scientists, the NA ACP and his own constituents. Why? Because Lee is loath to address our nation’s sins; he likes his version of history better, one that promotes a love of country and ignores truth. Sadly, Lee’s actions and rhetoric don’t at all match the voice of the people who elected him. He seems only to represent a handful of radical right-wingers who are hijacking our country for their own egotistical aims. Rather than looking for constructive solutions, his usefulness seems to center

BY MICHAEL S. ROBINSON SR. on the Republican Party’s central theme, which is obstruction. If there’s any label that fits, it’s Lee’s lapdog alliance to an ex-president clinging desperately to the crazies who support him. It’s a conscious choice; after all, Trump, according to Lee, was like the Book of Mormon’s Moroni—a strong and moral leader, a man above reproach. As far as I know, the character of Moroni wasn’t a womanizing con artist, yet at a campaign rally in Arizona, Lee did compare Trump to Moroni—a comparison that was even offensive to the majority of Utah’s Latter-day Saints. A full six months after Trump’s departure, Lee has continued to sidestep the reprehensible acts of the past administration while brown-nosing Republicans in positions of power. Following the Donald’s playbook, his strategy for dealing with racial problems is to disavow them altogether or, at least, spout declarations that the teaching of critical race theory will cause kids to question the perfection of a country that was, as he believes, established by God’s hand. On the issue of CRT, Lee has backed himself up against the hill and dug in his heels. The question—whether or not to teach our kids to think about U.S. racial justice— should be easy for anyone with any integrity. Honest people are willing to admit failures, because they know that acknowledgement is the first step in fixing what’s wrong. Lee is much like the Holocaust deniers. You’d think that a rational man would

know: Simple obscuration doesn’t actually make something disappear. The smoke dissipates, and 6 million Jews are still dead. And what is his justification for his headin-the-sand approach to our painful history of racial discrimination and intolerance? We could blame it on the mistakes of previous generations, who, just like Lee, found it easier to sweep the mess under the edge of the carpet than to attempt a more permanent and effective cleaning. Then again, maybe we should blame it on a life of being brainwashed by the earlier generations of teachers and historians—the ones who took the sanitized and wishful legends of the past and simply “refreshed” their computer screens with the newest ones. My guess: Mike Lee is the ultimate politician—someone whose only interest in politics is the power, money and public applause that positions of power bring. Who is this man? Is he a Republican? Is he a conservative? Is he a Christian? Is he a moralist? Is he anyone’s idea of an equitable juror? No. Lee is none of those. His only allegiance is to me-me-me. Sadly, Lee is just another of America’s self-serving legislators—very much representative of Utah’s bad choices in Congress. (Look at Rep. Burgess Owens, who’s out there trying to save Britney Spears from her financial conservatorship instead of working on our nation’s real problems— among them, drought, COVID-19, race relations and women’s rights. Fixing Britney’s

legal and health problems is not what we’re paying him for.) Just think: While Lee is occupying valuable space in the Senate, we could have been represented by someone who was thoughtful and relevant. Lee is trying to do the same thing with CRT as he did in responding to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Sweep it under the rug! The senator seems to believe that a few smoke grenades tossed into the pages of our past and current events can make our problems cease to exist. As for the Capitol attack, he’s not even willing to properly acknowledge it because it could lead to the conclusion that our Trump-led nation was, at least, temporarily out of control that day. And I’d have to say that, with the same demon still drumming up the band, our democracy remains in mortal danger. How the hell did Mike Lee ever get to be a senator? He might as well rename himself “Xi” or “Vladimir,” because his disloyalty toward our democratic process—and his tenacious attachment to our nation’s myths— make him, not a public servant, attending to the needs of our state, but a nemesis of our great, but imperfect, nation. CW

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Maybe we’re paying too much attention to Sen. Mike Lee, whose strategy of say-anything, say-it-loudly and say-it-with-alarm in order to feed fear and loathing to the base is straight out of Trump’s playbook. The Trib’s Bryan Schott pointed out the obvious—that he’s doing this to raise money for his 2022 campaign. But it’s not obvious to Lee’s supporters who worry that children are being harmed by learning about the nation’s tragically racist history. Lee rants that conservative Christian groups are downtrodden and face discrimination because they have to pay taxes. And he claims the left is “weaponizing” critical race theory, while, really, all they want to do is weaponize critical thinking. Other Republicans are lining up to run against Lee, including former Utah Rep. Becky Edwards and policy expert Ally Isom—a former LDS Church spokeswoman. Natalie (not-themiddle) Gochnour thinks Isom is refreshing, but Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, on KCPW 88.3 FM, says she seems weak. That might be sexist, but true-dat if you’re playing the Trump card.

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Bus or gondola? Those are the two preferred alternatives in the search to improve transportation in Little Cottonwood Canyon. During ski season particularly, canyon traffic is dense and parking almost impossible. At the UDOT Little Cottonwood Draft EIS In-Person Virtual Public Hearing, you’ll be able to make your preferences heard. Will it be the Enhanced Bus Service in PeakPeriod Shoulder Lane that best improves mobility or the Gondola Alternative B (base station from La Caille) that best improves reliability? UDOT will present both plans. Be sure to submit your comments to the website beforehand. Virtual, Tuesday, July 20, 6 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3hNDKr7

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Join the democracy crew at the Heber Market as the League of Women Voters and Voterise join in an effort to get citizens registered to vote. This year will see many elections in municipalities, and a lot, including Heber, that will use ranked choice voting for the first time in Utah. At Voter Registration at Heber City Market, you can help explain the process and show people the power of voting in Utah. Choose a 5-7 p.m. or 7-9 p.m. shift. The market offers live music, food trucks, artists and farm produce. Heber Market, 250 S. Main, two shifts, Thursdays through Aug. 19, free/sign up. https://bit.ly/3wracF6

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Becky Jacobs of Report for America continues her important study of the status of women in Utah, which should be shaking up the status quo. What tends to happen, though, is a little cheering and some handwringing, but ultimately no real change. What Jacobs found was some progress in The Beehive State, but it was slight and well behind U.S. women. It may be that Utah has had one of the largest gender wage gaps in the country for more than three decades. You’ll hear people say it’s because women are doing “women’s work” in Utah, where baking bread and birthing kids is more acceptable than working for a degree or in an office. But once you closely compare men’s and women’s work, you’ll find “some kind of discrimination in the workplace,” said Lecia Langston of Workforce Services. Most demoralizing is the persistent lack of women in the Legislature. Despite the fact that many female lawmakers are Republican, still only 24% of the 104-member body are women.

Yee-haw! It’s rodeo time. You may be ready for the fun and excitement, but the animals aren’t. The Animal Legal Defense Fund has this to offer: “The horses, bulls, steer and calves suffer broken ribs, backs and legs, torn tails, punctured lungs, internal organ damage, ripped tendons, torn ligaments, snapped necks and agonizing deaths.” Join the Utah Animal Rights Coalition at Protest Cruelty at Fiesta Days Rodeo to speak out against this “legal” form of cruelty. Opening night expects to see larger crowds than normal. Organizers ask that you arrive early to find parking. Signs will be provided. Spanish Fork Fairgrounds, 475 S. Main, Spanish Fork, Tuesday, July 20, 6:30 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3xt8GTX

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Lex Scott, founder of Black Lives Matter Utah, knew exactly what she was doing when she called the U.S. flag a symbol of hatred. But in these divisive times, you don’t mess with national symbols. Even disdain for those Confederate statues created a conservative backlash. In a Deseret News article, Scott tried to reason, saying her comments stirred a needed conversation about racist groups flying the flag without pushback from the public. That didn’t stop a defense from Utah Gov. Spencer Cox about the greatest country in the history of the world. Nor did it stop the GOP or Fox News talking head Jason Chaffetz from calling it “disgusting, more divisive, and flat out wrong.” But Fast Company, a progressive business media brand, said the flag has always “meant different things to different people, but in our increasingly polarized era, it’s become a symbol of division.” Where was the outrage when it was being flown by white supremacists or waved by insurrectionists at the Capitol?

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is body fat has shrunk from 29% to 8%, a testament to good coaching and stress reduction. He’s spending more time with the people he cares about. He’s closed his law office and works— when he wants to—from home. But Rocky Anderson—former mayor, former presidential candidate and perennial activist—hasn’t really changed at all. That stress reduction? It depends on your definition of stress. Anderson, 69, closed his law office earlier this year because law takes a lot of time—time away from who he is, a freedom fighter and firebrand whom the public either loves or hates. He does not exist in the gray areas of debate. Teddy—his third presidentially eponymous golden retriever after Abe and Winston—follows him from room to room in his East Central Salt Lake home. Built in 1897, the house had been expanded by the time he purchased it in 1993. It now serves as home, two offices for the revitalized Justice Party, nooks, crannies and reading rooms. Anderson’s 30-year-old parrot Cardozo wanders the halls of his habitat. Anderson started the Justice Party (justiceparty.us) in November 2011, proclaiming progressivism against corporate influence. The party worked to get Anderson on the ballot in 15 states, six of which named him as the candidate for other parties such as the Independent, Natural Law and Progressive parties. He secured official write-in status in 25 additional states. It was a monumental task for the fledgling third party, which powered itself to the fifth-largest third party in the United States. You may remember Barack Obama’s “hope and change” message that pushed him to victory over Mitt Romney. Obama got 65,915,795 votes for a 51.06 percent win vs. Romney’s 60,933,504 or 47.20 percent, according to the Federal Elections Commission. Anderson’s diminutive 43,018 votes earned him 0.03 percent of the vote, while Ballot Access News said that more than 28% of voters saw his name on ballots. But think about it—a former Salt Lake City mayor and failed congressional candidate with inverted national name recognition became an electoral thing his first year out. Just inches above Anderson in the official count was Roseanne Barr, with exponentially higher name recognition but not nearly the intellectual cachet.

Practicing What They Preach

In fact, intellect might be at the core of the Justice Party. “I think it has a promising future,” says Elizabeth Gamarra, who, at 24, is the face of the future voter and one of the youngest members of the Justice Party. “It continues to become a unique platform of inclusion

and issues that haven’t been brought up. It’s not just a party—it’s a movement.” Gamarra—who has two master’s degrees—is working on her doctorate in Japan. Without being too abstruse, she is studying how certain issues are framed and how they become security threats. She has been involved with Amnesty International, refugee integration, the Gandhi nonviolence movements and more. It’s typical of someone who identifies with the Justice Party. “I like that they practice what they preach,” says Gamarra, who has since joined the Justice Party board. “Justice connects economics, environment and social justice.” Her parents immigrated from Peru when she was very young. As a woman of color, she is focused on the leadership gap—actually on just about any gap between people. “The Justice Party is about thinking beyond your ‘self,’” she says. “The way to tackle our differences is to see people as part of us, but we function differently. And still, you’re a part of me as a whole. You’re different, I’m different, and it’s just an illusion.” It’s hard to put this kind of metaphysical thinking in a simple slogan, especially for a party that may be a party or may be something bigger. Whatever that may be, it’s not “America First.”

Soul Talk

Luis J. Rodriguez broke that mold when Anderson chose him as his 2012 running mate. Described as a poet, politician and author, Rodriguez was also a street fighter—literally. Rodriguez ran with a gang in East Los Angeles in the ’60s and ’70s and went to prison at 18. He’s worked in prisons ever since and calls himself an abolitionist. “I can give these guys and women tools they need to get back in the community and do some good,” he says. “It’s an easy proposition, but it’s hard to do.” Some of those tools were poetry. Rodriguez was Los Angeles Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2016 and uses “soul talk, a prophetic act, a powerful means to enlarge one’s presence in the world,” his website says. Among his poems is “The News You Don’t Get at Home”: The news you don’t get at home is in the withered eye sockets of emaciated faces, seeking food, seeking redress, seeking emancipation— Rodriguez, like Anderson, has had a hard time with the two-party system. In 2014, he registered with the Green Party to run for California governor “when the Justice Party was going down,” he said. Now he’s back, although the labels of party don’t matter anymore.

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To be a real democracy, Anderson says, you have to allow all parties to participate, not just what he calls “the corrupt duopoly.” “They are both feeding out of the same trough of corrupting money that leads them away from the public interest,” says Anderson. The two parties worked out a deal to “monopolize” debates. He keeps a copy of a memorandum of understanding between the Republicans and Democrats that set out rules and strictures for the 1996 debates between the DoleKemp and Clinton-Gore campaigns. It was those kinds of “rules” that persuaded the League of Women Voters (of which, by way of disclosure, the author is an active member) to give up running debates in 1988. “It has become clear to us that the candidates’ organizations aim to add debates to their list of campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and honest answers to tough questions,” the League president said then. “The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public.” In 1980, Jimmy Carter refused to debate if the League allowed Independent John Anderson to participate. The League held firm—for just about the last time—and John Anderson debated only Ronald Reagan, who won the election. The League objected most to the control that the two parties—starting with the 1988 Michael Dukakis and George H.W. Bush campaigns—would have over the proceedings. Since then, the nonprofit Commission on Presidential Debates has sponsored all the presidential debates. To stick it to the two-party system, Rocky Anderson joined the other 2012 third-party candidates in a debate sponsored by the Free and Equal Elections Foundation. At four hours long, it was taped to use the same questions as the commission, but included Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson, Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Constitution Party candidate Virgil Goode and the Justice Party’s Rocky Anderson. It’s no wonder that the two major parties and network TV balked at the debate. Four hours is a long time to concentrate, and maybe not as entertaining as something short and quippy. For instance, what do you remember from the most recent vice presidential debate? It’s probably the fly on Mike Pence’s hair.

Climate = A Human Right

In early 2018, the Independent Media Network released Citizen Rocky, a decades-long project that followed Anderson during his final year as mayor through his 2012 presidential bid. While Amazon shows only seven viewer reviews, the documentary is a kind of memoir of a man possessed by a destiny unfulfilled, by a determination to change a political foundation which he sees benefitting an elite few. Long a believer in revolutionary change, Anderson decided not to run for a third term as mayor, instead founding the nonprofit High Road for Human Rights in 2008. His hope was that grassroots activism could help solve major issues of torture, genocide, slavery, the death penalty and even global climate change. It didn’t. “After 31/2 years working on it, I was spending too much time trying to finance it,” he says. “We had good seed money … but I’m not being paid anything, and I’m writing our checks from my retirement savings.” As he watched the rise of the Tea Party, the ouster of notconservative-enough Republican Sen. Bob Bennett and the gerrymandering of Utah’s congressional districts, “I realized people get excited about party politics,” he said. It seemed like a good opportunity to get at issues that

Rocky Anderson speaking at the 2012 third-party presidential debate the two major parties weren’t addressing. “Climate change is the biggest human rights issue we’re facing,” he says. The two parties were in collusion, he said, and nothing was being done. Anderson saw the stars aligning; the tsunami of social media would allow him to push important issues into the public forum. “With the millions of dollars of unpaid taxes, we could provide health care—if we would just fix the tax system,” he says. “I’ve got to do what I can do to bring about change.”

“I Love SLC”

Anderson had been a Democrat, albeit a controversial and forthright one. “I have some history with that chicken-shit party,” he said in the documentary. “They’re selling our nation to the highest bidders.” In 2011, he left the party, labeling it gutless. Certainly in Utah, it is less than effective. He famously held an “impeachment rally” where he called on Congress to stop President George W. Bush after his invasion of Iraq, calling it an “outrageous, tragic war of aggression.” While mayor, Anderson angered Davis County and, of course, the Legislature when he blamed Salt Lake City’s bad air quality on commuters’ vehicle emissions from the north, specifically from the then-proposed Legacy Highway. Layton state Sen. (now Senate President) Stuart Adams thought a boycott of Salt Lake City would be awesome, and in response, Anderson designed an “I Love SLC” bumper sticker. No word on whether he sent one to Adams. The west side of the city wasn’t happy with him, either, after he vetoed what came to be called “the sprawl mall” because of its traffic and pollution potential. He took flak for trying to round up errant shopping carts, too. And he was accused of bowing to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after it had purchased the Main Street easement. That deal had been done before he was mayor, but it remained hugely controversial. Ultimately, the city exchanged the easement for church-owned land near the Sorenson Center with a pledge by the Alliance for Unity to raise $5 million to construct a community center nearby.

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A Matter of Debate

“They are both feeding out of the same trough of corrupting money that leads them away from the public interest,” —R ocky Anderson

His two terms as mayor were symbolic of the city’s deep desire to be free of the Legislature’s conservative yoke. While some cringed, others delighted in the mayor’s outspoken defense of liberal policies, not the least of which were about liquor. Before the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling, Anderson came out in support of domestic partnerships. The late, ever-reliable right-wing darling Sen. Chris Buttars castigated Anderson for attracting “the entire gay community to come and live in Salt Lake County.” Anderson’s politics were part of his body and soul. In college, he actively opposed the Vietnam War. And in law school, he participated in protests against the Shah of Iran when he met with President Carter. “I was surrounded by agents with lead pipes … hitting lead pipes in their palms,” he said of the Washington protest. “It was very threatening.” He also took part in a miles-long protest after it was reported that anti-Castro Cubans had been hired by the Chilean government to assassinate a former Chilean ambassador. “I’ve always been really interested in human rights issues. That’s why I went to law school,” he says. At 32, it was Nicaragua and the Sandinistas that moved him to action. He’d read about the United States’ involvement in trying to overthrow the Sandinistas. That was not long after the Sandinistas had overthrown the brutal autocratic Somoza family dictatorship, which was closely allied with the U.S. Anderson took several trips to Nicaragua, participating in neighborhood meetings with President Daniel Ortega. While the Utah media followed him, Anderson felt that the national media was simply parroting what was written by the U.S. Embassy. “A UPI story said it was a one-party Soviet-style sham election from Nicaragua,” he said. But he himself had witnessed seven political parties given free and equal time on the radio. “There were so many democratic components,” he said. “This country could learn from them.”

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Whether he realized it or not, the Nicaragua experience may have set the stage for his third-party passion. Just as Anderson has often fought for the underdog in his law practice, he also champions a third (fourth or fifth) party system in the country. It’s not an easy road, as minor parties have never won a presidential election. A former president—Teddy Roosevelt, along with his “Bull Moose Party”—probably came closest in 1912 with 27.4% of the popular vote. H. Ross Perot ran two presidential campaigns, the first as a Reform candidate who won 18.9% of the popular vote in 1992. Then in 1996, he ultimately endorsed George W. Bush. “Two major barriers have prevented third parties from electing many candidates,” writes the Khan Academy. “First, most U.S. elections operate by the winner-take-all system, which awards seats only to the candidate or party that wins the most votes in an election; independent or third-party candidates who have neither the name recognition nor the organizational support provided by the major parties rarely win the majority of votes. “Second, the two major parties frequently incorporate the platforms of third parties into their own platforms; voters who identified with a third-party issue will often vote for a major party candidate who has adopted that issue because major parties are more likely to succeed.” The Deseret News recently ran an article about the massive electoral anomie in the country. “At a time of increasing dissatisfaction with the major parties, voters appear to be shopping for alternatives, both nationally and on the state level,” the paper wrote. In Utah, the United Utah Party kicked up some dust after Evan McMullin ran for president in 2016, becoming a refuge for disaffected Republicans. But it was just dust. The knock on minor parties is that they become spoilers in an election. The Green Party’s Jill Stein was generally thought of that way. Many voters thought she cost Hillary Clinton dearly. Others, including some Fivethirtyeight reporters, felt she might have been a scapegoat. They called her “the Ralph Nader of 2016.” Nader made four U.S. presidential bids—for the Green Party in 1996 and 2000, the Reform Party in 2004, and as an independent in 2008.

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The numbers to spoil an election, though, have never really held up. Anderson says he has never intended the Justice Party to become a spoiler, and in fact, he endorsed Bernie Sanders when it was evident the Justice Party wouldn’t win. “With almost no resources, we pulled off a minor miracle and had to face four lawsuits where we were denied ballot access,” Anderson says. This grassroots effort is now geared to go global, Anderson says. It starts with setting up local teams. Far from spoiling elections, the party’s goal, he says, is to get rid of or vastly reduce the influence of “corrupting money.” “This is not just about electoral politics; we’re about movement, organizing and sustaining movements,” he says. The antislavery movement, women’s suffrage, the labor movement, civil rights—they all overcame the power of money with passion, organization and endurance. “You can’t just leave it to people who are elected,” he says. “You have to make it politically impossible for those in power.” Yes, he’s focusing on the Justice Party, but the stresses of everyday life percolate. In 2018, he was dogged by accusations of workplace discrimination by two female employees at his law practice but received hundreds of supportive comments after The Salt Lake Tribune ran a story that he calls a “hatchet job.” And he has taken on the cause of Rob Miller, a former Democratic Party official who, in 2017, was running for state party chairman. He dropped out of the race after seven women signed a letter claiming to have experienced sexual misconduct by Miller. While the party recently apologized for its handling of the case, it has yet to complete a formal investigation of the allegations. Anderson says he wants to see Miller vindicated. Anderson will tell you he believes women, but accusations in the #MeToo era have taken things too far. And it’s a distraction from the justice movement. “It affects me. I’m outraged by it. I will die outraged,” he says. “But I’ll probably die outraged by a lot of injustices.” CW Send comments to editor@cityweekly.net

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North Carolina-based author David Gessner has spent most of his career writing about nature, in books like Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness and All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West. But when the COVID-19 pandemic struck last year, Gessner turned for comfort to the patron saint of nature writing and the man who shaped his career: Henry David Thoreau. As he writes on his website about a visit to Walden Pond with his infant daughter 16 years ago, “I said to her, ‘That’s where the man lived who ruined your father’s life.’” That self-deprecating comment aside, Thoreau provided life lessons for Gessner as the pandemic raged. Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering With Thoreau in the Age of Crisis chronicles Gessner’s meditations from his home about the way the world changed in some ways for the better during that time in 2020—including reduced pollution—and what lessons we can learn for the postCOVID time. “Thoreau can serve as a

It’s no surprise to find that artists of all kinds have been wrestling with the world-changing events of the past year-plus, attempting to channel their fears and personal experiences into their work (see David Gessner’s Quiet Desperation on this page for just one other current example. Some of these creations will be narrative and linear, while others will take the emotions of 2020 and shape them into more abstract works of visual art or music. Artist Steven Stradley—a Utah State University graduate with a BFA in painting, and current instructor at the Utah Arts Academy—has taken that path with a series of new 2021 paintings that find him inspired by both political tumult and a global health crisis. His new one-man show Current State features works of acrylic and collage on canvas in patterns that evoke the sense of disruption we can all connect with. In many of the pieces, hard, straight lines of color seem to be interrupted or covered over by bursts of contrasting colors, or obscured in a way that suggests neat patterns being obliterated (“Finding

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model of self-reliance, reminding us that pulling back from the world, which at the moment will save lives, has its less dramatic virtues,” Gessner writes. “Having long been a corrective to our compulsive national habits of overbusyness and consumption, he can inspire just such a corrective now, but only if we try to dig below the cliché of him.” Gessner visits Salt Lake City on Thursday, July 15 for a reading and signing at Ken Sanders Rare Books (268 S. 200 East), at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public; visit kensandersbooks.com for additional information. (Scott Renshaw)

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Reality” is pictured). The result is a compelling, often-unsettling group of works that takes viewers on a journey into their own experiences with finding normalcy completely set adrift. Current State runs Aug. 16 – 20 at “A” Gallery (1321 S. 2100 East), with an artist reception scheduled for Friday, Aug. 16, 6-9 p.m. The event is free and open to the public; visit agalleryonline.com for regular gallery hours and additional information. (SR)

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art “Discoland” 90th Birthday Gala In 1931, a flyer for the opening of a new building known as the Art Barn proudly declared, “This Art Center Belongs to You!” The vision of local art enthusiast Alta Rawlins Jenkins included a focus on supporting emerging Utah artists, yet over the years grew to include touring exhibitions. And while the name has changed a couple of times—to Salt Lake Art Center in 1958, and to Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in 2011—along with the location, it has, over the course of nearly a century, consistently been one of the state’s most important institutions for supporting and presenting visual art to the public, even as forms have expanded to

include multimedia, video and more. This week, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art marks its 90th birthday with a fancy gala celebration and fundraiser on Saturday, July 17 at 6:30 p.m., themed to an era about half-way in its history. This “Discoland” party evokes the party-all-night ethos of the mid 1970s New York club scene. While the physical space of UMOCA might be transformed to evoke 1976, don’t think of it as a costume party. Instead of living in the past, it’s worth focusing on how your donation will support the ongoing mission of the organization, and ensure that its programs will still be around another 45 or 90 years from now. Tickets for the event are $500 per person, but you can also participate by joining in the online art auction as another way to support UMOCA. Visit utahmoca.org/gala to purchase tickets or for other information. (SR)

It’s completely understandable, after the disruption and shutdowns of the previous 16 months, for a theater company to emerge from a long hiatus with what seems like a “sure thing.” For Utah County-based An Other Theater Company, that means a revival of its 2019, fully-sold-out production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the smash off-Broadway musicalturned-cult film about a transgender singer emerging from Iron Curtain-era East Berlin. “People want to see it, we know we have an audience built in,” says Kacey Spadafora, the company’s Executive Director and the director of this production of Hedwig. “And frankly, we already have the stuff to do it: the costumes, the wigs. So as far as coming back, it’s something we were able to do on a shorter time frame, because we were rebuilding rather than building.” That doesn’t mean this Hedwig is a complete duplicate of the 2019 incarnation. While that show also double-cast the challenging role of Hedwig for alternate performances, this one will swap the show’s two roles—Hedwig,

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and her loyal accompanist Yitzhak—between cast members Jordan Kramer and Laura Chapman. “Laura is a powerhouse performer, so we gave her the offer to step into the wig,” Spadafora says. “They’re building a different show.” Hedwig and the Angry Inch runs Fridays and Saturdays, July 16 – Aug. 14, in the An Other Theater Company Black Box in Provo Towne Centre (1200 Towne Centre Blvd., Provo). Tickets are $17 online and $20 at the door; visit anothertheater.org for tickets and additional production information. (SR)

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VISUAL ARTS Gabriella Huggins shares her vision for leading Salt Lake City’s Art Access BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

n Monday, July 19, Gabriella Huggins begins her tenure as the Executive Director of Art Access, the 37-year-old organization dedicated to providing arts opportunities to people with disabilities and other marginalized communities. The life-long Salt Lake City resident, whose previous non-profit work has included stops at Youth City and SpyHop, spoke to City Weekly about her background and her vision for the organization’s future. [Edited for space and clarity] City Weekly: When do you first recall knowing you wanted to make art your life’s work? Gabriella Huggins: I’ve always really struggled to define myself as an artist … I have a have a complex relationship with defining myself that way. I love music, I love film, I sew, I’ve been dancing pretty consistently since I was 12. [A teacher at West High], besides creating an intrinsic appreciation for art, taught me about the importance of mentors. While I was working at a Costco, I ran into my old mentor staff from SpyHop, and they pulled me on to work with them. I often reflect that, if not for that, I never would have thought of working in the arts. My focus is people-focused, and art has been the way of pulling together community. It’s an access point to communicate and connect with people.

CW: Do you find there’s a common thread in art that really moves you, when you really know “this is working?” GH: There are two pillars for me. One is authenticity. I’ve never about getting kids to create something super-flashy or most aesthetically profound, but just representative of their voice. And also, I’ve always appreciated the kind of work that hasn’t often been shared. The arts can be a really elitist space, so it’s been great working … with people have been marginalized for any reason: the foster care system, the incarcerated, rural youth. It’s great to work with students who don’t immediately understand that their voice might matter. CW: What is an aspect of being an arts organization administrator that someone from the outside might not be aware of? GH: Regardless of whether you’re an artist yourself, having a passion for the people and their access to make things, believing in the power of mediums. What you need for it to work is a true appreciation of the possibilities that creative spaces allow people to access—for their self-worth, for a platform, for creating cultural value more broadly. You have to have a deep appreciation for wide human experience. CW: Why did you feel like Art Access in particular was the right fit for you? GH: Personally, I really wanted to step more into a role of power-brokering within this arts community. A lot of organizations here can be really well-intentioned, but still inaccessible. I have to think about someone who loves art, but from a social justice and equity standpoint, how do I work for change? We think about art as being experimental, but too often you have to have clout, credentials or financial support that locks a lot of people out, and then when you add disability on top of that? We learned a lot from the COVID pandemic

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about language that is used about who is considered disposable. … I wanted to have the opportunity to work for an organization centering those people’s experience and stories—not just giving them a space at the table, but giving them their own tables. CW: Last year, the decision was made to close Art Access’s own physical gallery space. Are there plans in place for ways to present the work of artists you work with to the public? GH: That’s something I’ve really been meditating on. … Running a gallery is a really difficult thing to do as a small organization. I’d been to the [Art Access] gallery before, but didn’t know it was run by an organization that did disability/accessibility work. I’m hoping to build community connections with other galleries, to take that art into communities where it isn’t always seen or shown—libraries, community centers—so we don’t have to have just one siloed gallery space.

New Art Access executive director Gabriella Huggins

CW: If there were a couple of bullet points that might define your vision for Art Access going forward, what would they be? GH: We want to really get clear on what our programs are and what we do in the community. There are a lot of arts organizations [in Utah], and we’re all doing workshops. What need is that fulfilling? What is the niche we’re entering into, and are we doing that work really well? Secondly, expanding the Partners program, where established artists are partnered with emerging artists with disabilities, and they work together over the course of a year in a mentorship program. And I would love to grow the organization by making sure we have full-time artists on staff. How can we provide employment, the ability to climb the ladder within the arts world itself. [Art] can be a hobby, but how do we give people the tools to make a living in the arts? … I want to put the Art Access name out there. CW

Can You Bring It finds emotion in bringing art to very personal life. BY SCOTT RENSHAW scottr@cityweekly.net @scottrenshaw

the work on a personal level, beyond the technical needs of learning the sequence of steps, leaps and movements. As the students reveal in their comments, they’re too far removed from AIDS as young people in the 2010s; it’s barely a consideration in their lives. But there are other political and social developments in their world that do frighten them, and give them a sense for when the power of community is needed to stave off despair. D-Man in the Waters, they discover, isn’t a dance about AIDS in 1980s New York City. Both physically and thematically, it’s about people supporting one another, refusing to allow one another to be in deep water alone, and it’s enough to put a lump in your throat when these kids look—really look—at one another, and can’t help themselves from bursting into tears. Dance is such an ephemeral art form that it might have been enough to capture the landmark work itself for posterity, as codirector/cinematographer Hurwitz does when he weaves his camera through a stag-

Bill T. Jones (right) leads a rehearsal in Can You Bring It

ing of D-Man by current members of the Jones/Zane company. But as would be true with a production of a theatrical play, that wouldn’t be capturing the work. D-Man in the Waters exists not as a series of movements, just like a Mozart symphony exists not as notes on paper, but only when individual artists are connecting with it and bringing it to life on a stage. Can You Bring It is about the process that allows works like this to live, showing that the real glory of art is its ability to connect us in ways even the creator might never have imagined. CW

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hat is it that makes a work of art transcendent, rather than merely a period piece? Every act of creation—every painting, every novel, every musical composition, every movie, every video game—emerges from a specific time and place, informed by the experience of the creator(s), their technical and financial limitations, and so on. So what takes such a work to a place where, years or decades or centuries later, it can still feel vital to those who experience it? It may seem hyperbolic to suggest that a single documentary is up to answering that question, but Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters winds up startlingly moving by virtue of even trying. In their collaboration exploring the history and modern presentation of a single creative work, co-directors Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz craft one of the most fascinating cinematic studies of why some things might endure, and how much work it takes to ensure that they do.

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The foundation of the film is a modern dance piece, D-Man in the Waters, originally choreographed in 1989 by New Yorkbased Bill T. Jones and staged by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. And the reason Arnie Zane wasn’t involved in its creation is built into the work itself: It was inspired by the AIDS crisis that had just taken the life of Zane, Jones’ professional and personal partner, and had left one of the company’s dancers, Demian “D-Man” Acquavella, also terminally ill. Throughout the film, surviving members of the company talk about what it was like to be an artist in New York at that terrifying, tragic time, and about the collaborative, often improvisational process through which D-Man was created as a response to these very personal losses. The historical part, however, isn’t actually at the center of Can You Bring It. Instead, the focus is on a production of D-Man in the Waters at California’s Loyola Marymount University, with Jones/Zane company alum Rosalynde LeBlanc serving as director. Over the course of several weeks, we watch LeBlanc work with her young students, including bringing Jones himself to see the work in progress and offer his insights. Those scenes are fascinating both because of the way Jones responds to LeBlanc’s unconventional casting choices, and because of the way it feels almost cruel to such relatively inexperienced performers. It’s like watching a youth orchestra have to deal with Mozart coming in to tell them, “Maybe you should do it this way.” Can You Bring It really hits its emotional center, though, as LeBlanc works with her cast to help them find their way into

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isher - White Star: This pale ale is offered on Fisher’s nitrogen tap, and was originally created by Hollister Brewing Company out of Goleta, Calif. Fisher’s Head Brewer, Colby Frazier, got his start at Hollister, and this beer was a favorite during his time there. The beer pours a nice golden-amber color, with a haze due to the nitro bubbles upon initially pouring. The beer settles quickly, leaving a one-finger head of white nitro foam on the top of the brew. The head has a great level of retention, slowly fading over time to leave a nice bit of foamy lace on the sides of the glass. The aroma of this brew is massive: As soon as you open the can, you get whacked by a very bready smell mixed with tons of floral and herbal hops. Along with these big scents comes some lighter citrus and earthy hops as well. The taste begins with a biscuit and bready flavor mixed with some dank hop tastes of earth and herb. As the taste advances, some of the lighter sweet flavors of caramel and pear which are present and light upfront fade away, all while more hop of a grassy, citrus, and floral nature come to the tongue. With the lessening of the bready-ness and the increase in the hops, one is left with a dank hopped and malty taste to linger on the tongue. Overall: I don’t think people are used to the palate confusion of a nitro pale ale with no carbonation; most would call this beer “too flat.” It may not be everyone’s bag, but Fisher nailed this beer. It’s hoppy as all getout, with that creamy Guinness texture.

The main difference between the feel on this vs. Guinness? Guinness is thin and watery (IMO), while this beer is not thin-bodied by any means. I had two more pulls off the nitro handle, and look forward to more. Uinta Party Mansion: Sour beers are becoming quite popular among beer nerds and anyone who doesn’t quite like the traditional tastes of beers. Traditional methods of souring beer include adding lactic acid, acidulated malts or specialized yeast strains. A few years ago, biologists in Philadelphia discovered a new yeast strain native to that area, and found it to have pleasant souring properties. Uinta Brewing got their hands on some “Philly Sour Yeast” and came up with Party Mansion. It pours purplish or reddish gold, and generally quite clear. A finger of white foamy head fades quickly, and there’s a good amount of visible carbonation. A tart aroma emerges, not lactic by any means, with some under-ripe berries, plus light two-row malts with a moderate peach character and mild, lemony citric acid. Lactic tartness starts out the taste, as well as something that could be blueberries, but more like raspberries and boysenberries and (to a lesser extent) cherries as well. They are not artificial, but taste like they have some stone fruit flavors lurking beneath them, tart and sweet together. Cracker malts appear again, less husk than on the nose but still there. More tart berries and lemony citric acid conclude things near the swallow, and it finishes dry and tart with just a mild pucker on the lips. Overall: One thing I liked about this yeast is the very low levels of sulphur that is produced; though it doesn’t have the funk of some Belgian-esque strains, the sour level will satisfy but not overwhelm. I’d love to see Uinta revive the wild/brett sour program again. Until then, sours like this will do. Of course, these are in limited production, and in this heat, they will disappear before you know it, so hustle on over to their respective breweries to snag a pint or two. As always, cheers! CW

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tahns, in some ways, get two big holidays in July, and one of them is so unique to us that it’s spawned a third, countercultural response in recent years. Pie and Beer Day has joined Pioneer Day as a means of celebrating on July 24, and we love to have both options. And whether you celebrate the long trek of Mormon settlers across the West to “the right place,” or you reject that checkered past by getting buzzed on local beers and locally-made pies instead, we’ve got musical functions to accentuate your celebrations. This round-up comes a little early, to give you room to decide once and for all—pioneers, or pie and beer? Pie & Beer Day Eve at Uinta Brewery. While it seems cool and hip new breweries pop up by the handful with each passing year, Uinta remains one of the OG best-around. Their beers are reliable favorites, from their party-pleasing 801 and Cutthroat multi-packs to their Lime Pilsner tall boys. If you’re already a tried-and-true fan, make a special trek of your own out to their brew pub on 1722 S. Fremont Drive and try some of their more limited brews on tap and also enjoy some music all at once. Uinta’s nabbed some valley favorites in Vincent Draper & the Culls plus their musical friends, Folk Hogan, for a Pie & Beer Day Eve celebration on Friday, July 23. The event is free, starts at 6:30 p.m. and finishes up by 9:30 p.m., so you can get home early enough to have enough vim and vigor to drink more beers and eat more pie on the real deal Pie and Beer Day, Saturday, June 24. Visit facebook.com/FOLKHOGAN for more details, and look below for the events you should be planning on for your Saturday. Pie and Beer Day Fest presented by Cory Mon. Though it’s unclear whether the wood-fired pies promised at this event will be of the pizza pie or buttery, flaky, crispy pie varieties, this Pie and Beer Day Festival will most certainly serve up a lot of great

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A lot of locals are having late album release shows, owing to things so quickly going back to “normal” when it comes to going out and the safety of doing just that. Such is the case for Angie Petty and her May-released album Timing, which she’ll have a belated but deserved celebration for on July 21 at The Urban Lounge. The album itself is one full of ease, the R&B pop that she’s practiced often over the years in her own projects, covers and collaborations all coming to a wellhoned point of gleaming perfection. Petty’s voice is so smooth and confident that it sounds the way that a skilled runner looks as they sail down the track—unbelievably easy and elegant. In addition to stunners like the charismatic and jazz-filled “Something Special,” where Petty oozes sensuality, and the upbeat single “In The Rain,” her collaboration with fellow Utah R&B star Jay Warren—“Feel It All”—is also on the album. “Feel It All” feels like the farthest-flung song from the others on the album, but that’s not a bad thing; it just shows Petty’s ability to slip comfortably into pop beats. The album release show will feature very fitting support from fellow local songbirds Anais Chantal and Cherry Thomas. This is one local lineup not to miss, and you can get tickets at theurbanloungeslc.com. Tickets are $10, doors are at 7 p.m. and the show is 21+.

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Head north to Bountiful this Thursday, July 15, to catch what will be the Bountiful Davis Arts Center’s inaugural season kick-off for their new Musicfest. Meant to celebrate the “poetry of the air,” the BDAC’s Musicfest will feature local and regional musicians performing in the realms of classical, jazz, folk and other genres from all over the world. The fest is scheduled to take place quarterly, with the next date of this year slated for October. For this first installment of the series, though, a Summer Reverie will be presented by way of “Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, OP. 60” by Frédéric Chopin, played out by the talents of Shenae Anderson on violin, Erin Svoboda-Scott on clarinet and Donna Stoering on piano. This performance starts at 7:30 p.m., and while tickets are free, only 100 tickets are available. There’s also some special entertainment for seniors at the center, by way of Lew’s Senior Sing-Along, which the BDAC is now hosting after years of the program existing at other venues like a local senior center and the public library in Bountiful. Every Thursday in July, seniors (55+ encouraged) are invited to come to the BDAC from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. to enjoy the music of organizer Lew Phelps’s “musical friends,” and to sing along to songs from their youth. Each week features a new program of music and light, fun musical instruction from Phelps. Visit bdac.org for more information and details on future events.

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In a surprisingly introspective follow-up to her bombastic pop debut last year, Arteries, Sophie Blair seems to be imagining a self whose life blood bled out, only for her to be reborn brighter and more alive on the new, June 25-released EP flatline. The release starts off with “Graph,” where narrowly plucked strings map under Blair’s repeated refrain of “lines on a graph / you cut me in half,” serve up Bjork-like emotiveness, her voice straining against something inside her. While Arteries was a success of its own, it appears it was also only a signal to the heights of honesty and authenticity where Blair would eventually find herself. This view may be colored by her posting on social media about how the recording of Arteries was emotionally volatile for her, a struggle of anxiety and uncertainty. On “Close Quarters,” lines like “I wish you’d believe you don’t petrify me, but you do / it’s ok” almost seem directed at herself, despite the song’s immediate romantic cast. The song also is one of many clear shifts in production style. Whereas Arteries felt a little smokey-eyed at times, flatline’s pacing feels more organic; on “Close Quarters,” drums share dramatic center-stage with strings, pairing artfully with autotuned swooning from Blair towards the end. “AFTER THE STORM,” smack dab in the middle of the five tracks, is bright and hopeful, a vibrant companion to the crazy catchy “Are You Thinking About Me??” and the album’s total hit, “Unglued.” Bumping with a totally infectious beat, and deliciously dubby baby-breakdowns, “Unglued” is representative of what’s becoming classic Blair: all dogged devotion, all “are you missing me?” On flatline, Blair’s doe-eyed romanticism feels more mature, and her fears feel like they’re becoming fuel. Listen to it on Spotify, and keep up with Blair on Instagram at @sophiexblair.

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If you go online to find out what Colors Worldwide is, you won’t find much of an explainer, and that’s probably because the touring live event has its description in its title. Colors Worldwide’s R&B Only is, quite simply, an R&B-only dance party, a night filled with only the rhythm and blues and all the moves attendees have to match. Founder Jabari Johnson spent the late aughts using social media to interview and make content about famous pop and rap stars like Nicki Minaj, J. Cole and Macklemore, an early interest that would set the stage for his later endeavors. Since turning his attention to filling the gap in the dance party world with a much-needed emphasis on R&B, he’s created a wildly successful empire of touring party music that celebrates all R&B music, from its roots to its current iterations. It’s also a glam opportunity to get your photo snapped by Colors Worldwide photographers, so take this rare opportunity to dress up in your finest garb. R&B Only stops in at The Depot Saturday, July 17, featuring music spun from the deck of DJ Tiara Monique, hosted by Apex Laurent. Presale GA tickets are $49.99, $69.99 for VIP, and day-of-show tickets are $80 for GA, $120 for VIP. This event is 21+, and more info and tickets can be found at saltlakecity.rnbonly.com.

Pandemic notwithstanding, Psych Lake City seemed to go a bit underground there for a while, after some years of it being a common fixture of the Salt Lake City psych rock scene. It provided space for the city’s jammiest of bands to deliver their crushing, meandering compositions at right volume. However, bands in SLC come and go, and this rebirth of an old tradition features a bunch of bands that have sprung up in more recent years, all whom have their own riff on the psychedelic. It’s also an all-day party, kicking off at 3 p.m. on Saturday, July 17 behind The Urban Lounge, featuring a food truck, patio bar and free entry to the Beach Party dance night which kicks off inside the venue at 9 p.m. This Psych Lake City event features headliner Lord Vox, a trio with an ear for the mystical when it comes to their brand of big psychedelic sounds—a distinctive style that never disappoints live. They’ll be joined by Idi Et Amin, who specialize in a tightly-composed synthesis of shoegaze and psych—a quick comparison being ’90s era MBV tone with more melody, plus all the same crushing blows of sound. Also on the bill are The Fervors, Cool Banana, The Mellons, Musor, FutureMystic and Casio Ghost. The Beach Party after-party includes DJs Flash & Flare and German Wyoming. This show is $10 and 21+. Visit theurbanloungeslc.com for tickets.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Libran author Paula McLain says the word “paradise” is derived from the ancient Persian word pairidaeza, meaning “walled garden.” For her, this association suggests that making promises and being faithful to our intentions are keys to creating happiness with those we care for. Paradise requires walls! To scrupulously cultivate freedom, we need discipline. If we hope to thrive in joyous selfexpression, we must focus on specific goals. I bring these thoughts to your attention because now is a pivotal time to work on building, refining and bolstering your own personal version of paradise.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Thousands of 28-pound bars of 24-carat gold are stored in the Bank of England’s underground vault. To gain entry to the TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “Why else keep a journal, if not to examine your own filth?” treasure trove, bankers use metal keys that are 3 feet long. They wrote poet Anne Sexton. And yes, Sexton did have a lot of filth must also utter a secret password into a microphone. According to explore, including the physical abuse of her daughters. But to my reading of the astrological omens, you Scorpios can now most of us don’t need to focus so obsessively on our unlovely gain access to a more metaphorical but nevertheless substantial aspects. Keeping a journal can also be about identifying our source of riches. How? The key is a particular scene in your ripening potentials and unused riches. This approach would be imagination that has recently begun to coalesce. It is an emblem especially fun and wise for you Tauruses right now. The coming of a future triumph or breakthrough that you will accomplish. weeks will be an auspicious time for deep introspection that As for the password, which you will also need, it’s vigorous rigor. frees capacities and powers you have only partially activated SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) up until now. Somehow, I’ve lived all these years without coming across the rare English word “selcouth.” Today, as I meditated on GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Journalist Sam Anderson marvels at his young daughter’s proj- astrological portents for you, that word appeared—arriving ect: a small plastic dome-like structure that houses a commu- via text message from my Sagittarius friend Lila. She told me, nity of ladybugs. All they need to consume, for weeks at a time, “I have a feeling that life is about to get intensely selcouth for us are “two water-soaked raisins.” I don’t think you’ll need to be Sagittarians.” I looked up the word and found these synonyms: forever as efficient and hardy as those ladybugs, Gemini, but you unusual, marvelous, strange, magnificent, scarce, wondrous, may have to be like that temporarily. My advice? Don’t regard it weird, rare and exotic. Those terms do indeed coincide with my as a hardship. Instead, see it as an opportunity to find out how interpretation of your immediate future. So Happy Selcouth to exquisitely resourceful and resilient you can be. The skills you you, dear Centaur! Celebrate with awed appreciation! learn and refine now will be priceless in the long run. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Lexicographer Jonathon Green provides us with the following CANCER (June 21-July 22) Cancerian poet Linda Hogan says she doesn’t like to be parched. 19th-century slang words for the sex act: horizontal refreshShe wants to be like “a tree drinking the rain.” I think every ment, strumming, playing at romps, cully-shangie, taking a Cancerian has similar dreams: to be steadily immersed in turn at Mount Pleasant, dancing the blanket hornpipe, honengrossing feelings, awash with intimate longings, flowing eyfugle, giving a hot poultice for the Irish toothache, and—my along in rhythm with the soul’s songs. The coming weeks will favorite—fandango de pokum. In accordance with astrological be prime time for you to relish these primal pleasures. It’s potentials, I recommend you try them all out in the next four probably best to avoid an outright flood, but I think it’s wise to weeks. Experiment with shifting your approach to belly-bumping and libido-gratifying. If you don’t have a human partner, do invite a cascade. it alone or with an angel or in your fantasy life. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Actor Lupita Nyong’o had a starring role in Steve McQueen’s AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) film 12 Years a Slave. She praised his directorial skills. She If a lover or spouse is perpetually churning out fantasies of you loved the fact that he told her, “Fail, and then fail better.” in their imagination, they may be less than totally tuned in to Why? “That kind of environment, where failure is an option, the real you. Instead, they may be focused on the images they is magical,” she said. It allowed her to experiment freely, push have of you—maybe so much so that they lose sight of who you herself beyond her previous limits and focus on being true to genuinely are and what you are actually doing. The same posthe character she was playing rather than trying to be a “good sibility exists for other allies, not only lovers and spouses. They actor.” I think these are excellent principles for you to keep in may be so entranced by their stories about you that they are out of touch with the ever-changing marvel that you are always mind during the coming weeks. evolving. That’s the bad news, Aquarius. Here’s the good news: The coming weeks will be a decisive time to correct such distorVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Virgo-born Wayne Shorter is a legendary jazz composer and tions—and revel in the raw truth about you. saxophonist who has been making music for over 60 years, often with other legendary creators like Miles Davis and Herbie PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Hancock. The New York Times described Shorter as “jazz’s great- Here’s how art critic Walter Pater characterized the work of est living small-group composer and a contender for greatest Piscean artist Michelangelo: “sweetness and strength, pleasure living improviser.” Bass prodigy Tal Wilkenfeld, who is 53 years with surprise, an energy of conception which seems to break younger than Shorter, tells of a show she performed with him. through all the conditions of comely form, recovering, touch Just before going on stage, Shorter came up to her, sensing she by touch, a loveliness found usually only in the simplest natural was nervous, and whispered some advice: “Play eternity.” I’m things.” I’ve been waiting for the arrival of astrological aspects offering that same counsel to you as you carry out your tasks in that would mean you’d be an embodiment of that description. the coming days. Be as timeless as you dare to be. Immerse your- And now they are here. Congrats! For the next 13 days, I will self in the most expansive feelings you can imagine. Authorize visualize you as a fount of ever-refreshing grace—as a fluid treasure that emanates refined beauty and wild innocence. your immortal soul to be in charge of everything you do.

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I didn’t have television for years. Then my clients started talking about this “HGTV” and all these programs about flipping houses and million dollar listings. So, I signed up for cable and of course, like many of you, my brain has turned to mush. I have not, however, gotten addicted to house porn—watching all the home shows, and cruising various websites to view dream houses I could never buy in Manhattan, Hawaii, Mexico, etc. Why? Because I live and breathe looking at homes seven days a week! I do have agent friends all over the country, and I love talking to them about their markets and sales prices and the crazy stories that often go with multi-million dollar properties. New York City is all abuzz this past month after the biggest transaction so far this year closed at 220 Central Park South. The buyer purchased two floors in the building for a mere $157.5 million. It is right in the center of what is known as “Billionaires’ Row,” where insanely high glass residential towers have been erected on and around Central Park. And on the West Coast— where my granddaughter is now apprenticing at a real estate firm in Los Angeles—some multimillion dollar mansions have traded hands. Barron Hilton’s (as in hotels, and now deceased) Bel-Air estate closed escrow for $61.5 million. It was designed by an architect who worked for Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball, and had 13,000 square feet, 13 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms and was known for its famous Moderne-inspired swimming pool with a blue, gold and yellow tiled pool depicting the 12 signs of the Zodiac. The highest sale reported so far this year by the Wasatch Front Regional MLS was in Park City in the Colony Project at White Pine. This subdivision is the most expensive place to live in Utah. The buyer paid $14.1 million for a three-level (9,282 square feet per floor) 14 bedroom, 21 bath home with an 18-car garage on just over five acres. And of course, the luxury home has all the bells and whistles you’d expect in a millionaire’s residence: multiple bars, a movie theater, sauna, spa, gym and a 3,000-bottle wine cellar. The highest listed home on our MLS is the $69.2 million Deer Hollow Ranch in New Harmony, Utah. The mansion sits on 800 acres and touts a dozen reservoirs of water and plenty of water rights. The Tudor style home was built in 1985 with 11 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms. Now that you’ve picked your jaw off your chest, the flip side of this is my poor buyer who wants to purchase their first home and doesn’t bring home a lot of money each month. Right now, the WFRMLS reports only two homes listed under $250,000 in the entire Salt Lake County area, and eight homes listed between $251,000 and $300,000. Given that home prices have gone up a minimum of 20% over the last year, I’m afraid if we don’t find something soon he will be priced out of the market…forever! n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Awesome! In 1961, when she was 10 years old, Gwen Goldman sent a letter to New York Yankees general manager Roy Hamey, offering her services as a bat girl. Hamey responded, “In a game dominated by men, a young lady such as yourself would feel out of place in a dugout.” Goldman kept the letter from Hamey on her bulletin board for the next 60 years, and her daughter recently forwarded it to current general manager, Brian Cashman. On June 28, United Press International reported, Goldman was invited to Yankee Stadium to fulfill her dream. Her visit included a tour of the clubhouse, meet-and-greet with players and coaches, and photos with umpires—plus she got to throw out the first pitch wearing a full pinstripe Yankees uniform. “Sixty years thinking about this and here it is,” Goldman said. The Passing Parade Deer are not native to Australia, which might explain why two nude sunbathers in Royal National Park, south of Sydney, ran into the bush when a deer startled them on a nudist beach on June 27. The two men, 30 and 49 years old, became lost and called for help, summoning a police rescue helicopter to pluck them from the forest, Reuters reported. Unfortunately for them, they were found to be breaching a COVID-19 lockdown instated in response to the delta variant, and both were charged with fines. Least Competent Criminals n An unnamed man in Waterboro, Maine, was arrested on June 27 on an outstanding warrant for a theft from a Walmart, the Associated Press reported. When the bail commissioner arrived, the man tried to use two counterfeit $100 bills to post his bail. He was returned to jail and charged with forgery. Reportedly, he was able to meet bail with legitimate bills later that day and is scheduled to be in court on Aug. 4. n In Gillette, Wyoming, a 62-year-old man called the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office on June 24 to ask why he hadn’t been arrested the day before, when officers raided his home. Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds asked him why he ought to be arrested, and the man admitted that he had used methamphetamine—which might shed light on the fact that his house was never raided and there had been no plans to arrest him. He also told officers that 10 men were following him, the Associated Press reported. Deputies caught up with him as he was driving and arrested him for driving under the influence of a controlled substance. n Vincent Vinny Marks, 27, of Plaquemine, Louisiana, picked the wrong guy to pull over as he impersonated a police officer on June 10. Law & Crime reported that an off-duty sheriff’s deputy was driving that day when the vehicle behind him began “flashing his headlights continuously.” The deputy pulled into a convenience store parking lot, followed by Marks, who approached his car, presented a badge and “represented himself as being a police officer.” Unfortunately, the off-duty officer recognized Marks from a domestic incident that he had responded to earlier in the year. The Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation, and Marks was arrested on June 28 for false personation of a peace officer. Extreme Reaction A couple in Sheffield, United Kingdom, have taken drastic measures over their neighbor’s tree, which sits right on the property line and overhangs their driveway. Bharat Mistry, 56, the tree’s owner, told the BBC that his neighbor had been complaining for some time about the tree, home to nesting pigeons that relieved themselves on the driveway and cars. First, the angry neighbor asked Mistry to remove the tree altogether. Mistry suggested trimming and installing netting to keep the birds out, but the

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