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EVERY LAST DROP While facing a historic drought, Utah officials don’t have a handle on how much water slips through their fingers. By Eric S. Peterson and McKhelyn Jones

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SOAP BOX Sacred Wealth

Republican Party leaders say it wouldn’t be right to bolster the IRS budget so it can better go after tax cheats, who are often wealthy folks. Also, it wouldn’t be right to tax high incomes more than we do today, or increase taxes on inheritance or capital gains. These propagandists suggest the treasure of the 1% class is like the gold of ancient kings—sacred. Never touch, never draw near. Republican leaders are essentially asking us common folk to worship the fortunes of industrialists, bankers and other celebrities, much like serfs and villagers were asked to worship molten idols long ago. To the ancients, idols had “mana”—special supernatural powers that must never be molested. That is how the wealthy talk about runaway capitalism today. We must not tamper with it, or touch it through regulation, because capitalism is so good for everybody.

Just one problem: The wealth gap in America has become preposterously wide, enabled by the even more monstrous greed of the 1% class. Turns out, wealth trickles down only just a little, not a lot like we are asked to believe. America’s wealthy class does not deserve to speak the word “democracy,” let alone claim to be its champions, when all the while, they are tearing flesh off the bones of the middle class and poor. KIMBALL SHINKOSKEY

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“In the wake of Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat … many people who spout QAnon’s false claims have hatched a new plan: Run for school board or local office, spread the gospel of Q, but don’t call it QAnon”—NBC News’ Ben Collins (July 7, 2021). You may ask yourself, why would a

@SLCWEEKLY group of hateful homicidal hillbillies like these crazy QAnon crackpots waste their time on local school boards, when they can better display their delusions by running for Congress instead? Kool-Aid drinking QAnon cult members are dysfunctional dolts—no doubt—but y’all Qaida should be woke enough by now to realize following the foolish, pathetic political paths of Marjorie Traitor Greene and Matt Gaetz is pure folly from which the Republican Party will never recover. JAKE PICKERING

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“Smoke Bombs,” July 15 Opinion Column

Thrilled to see the return of Michael Robinson Sr. and his continued clarification of the important issues of our day. I’ve missed him. SUSAN HORTON

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“Quenching in South Salt Lake” July 22 Beer Nerd column

I remember when I hosted the 2013 A AEC Cartoonist convention. Members’ first concern: Can we even drink in SLC? PAT BAGLEY

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Who’s your favorite author? Scott Renshaw

“Favorite” is so loaded, but probably the one that has ended up meaning the most in terms of influence is Harlan Ellison. His fiction always stuck with me, and his nonfiction essays on popular culture probably, more than anyone, shaped my sense for giving that kind of writing a sense of humor, attitude and urgency.

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Stephen King, I love horror and the rush or getting scared. Sadly, movies rarely do that anymore, but books do.

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Today, it’s Carl Hiaasen because he made me laugh and actually enjoy reading for the first time in a long time. Read Squeeze Me, unless you’re a Trumper and would find offense.

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Stephen Ambrose, author of detailed books on the Lewis & Clark expedition, the building of the transcontinental railroad, and World War II. Even though I taught high school English for 30 years, I prefer to read about real people and real events.

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The authors of my favorite books all wrote *other* things I don’t care for, so I’ll say Truman Capote. In Cold Blood is fantastic and Breakfast at Tiffany’s is pretty good

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Hunter S. Thompson, because he did things his way while creating a new breed of writers.

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THIS WEEK'S WINNER Based on your many derogatory comments on socialism, do you believe that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is undeserving of a national holiday honoring him? Because King once said our country has socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor? And because you are one of the rich? WILLIAM VOGEL Salt Lake City

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GOP Algorithms

n the late 1970s, I was a bartender at two immensely popular clubs. By day, I poured drinks for the fern bar crowd at the classic bar, The Wasatch Front. Until the “Front” came along, there were no outdoor patios in Utah. None. Or windows. The Wasatch Front paved the evolutionary chain that results in today’s great local patio clubs such as Gracie’s, The Green Pig and the patio perfect Hog Wallow. It was Salt Lake’s place to be seen—and for those in the know, to ask for boxed matches. By night, I worked at the Sage Supper Club on State Street in Midvale (now A Bar Named Sue). It was a smoky haven for all kinds of people, and no matter who entered—judge, cop, politician, construction worker or hairdresser—everyone got along. Although there were occasional fights at the Sage, in all cases, the bad guy had it coming. The owners of the Sage were George Boutsis and Reed James (his brother, Arlo James, a staunch Democrat in the Utah Legislature). The club manager was Mike Kampros, who was my next door neighbor in Bingham Canyon growing up. Mike and George thought it was a good idea to open a new club way out south in up-and-coming Sandy. They soon opened

Club 90 on 90th South, which had a tiny dance floor, a huge fireplace, but seated fewer than 100 people. They quickly learned there wasn’t enough money for both of them, so they flipped a coin to see who would buy the other partner out. As the joke went, George won the coin toss and sold his share to Mike. Thus, Mike began decades of expansions that resulted in Club 90 being one of the largest capacity clubs in Utah. Not long after it opened, I began working at Club 90. The waitresses hated me. That’s all I remember. Since my first poured whisky soda, Club 90 has witnessed about as much drinking, smoking and debauchery as any self-respecting anti-liquor, anti-fun, anti-Democrat Utah Republican legislator could ever imagine. Therefore, imagine my surprise when I read a Salt Lake Tribune column by Utah’s only other columnist worth reading, Robert Gehrke, that revealed that Club 90 was recently host to a “cabal of die-hard Donald Trump loyalists”—among them state Rep. Steve Christiansen, R-West Jordan. WTF? Steve Christiansen at Club 90? Have you ever seen his portrait? If he walked into the Club 90 I knew, everyone would be screaming “Narc!”—including those fearing to be seen by their LDS bishop. Christiansen formerly would never enter such a den that pioneered scantily clad

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fashion shows, the Nuts and Bolts party (use your imagination) and where the ribald Kip Attaway always sold out. With few other choices, Club 90 was the go-to weekend hotspot for every big haired blonde and every mullet male living in Utah County. When chronically self-righteous men like Christiansen sat at my bar, I honored the bartender code of silence, but I always thought: Ah, this guy is on a recon mission. Ducks Unlimited used to raffle guns and such at Club 90, but to be the location for a confab focused on the asinine proposition that the 2020 election was a fraud due to algorithms (of unspecified nature) that rigged elections nationwide? Yeah, sure. Times change. The featured speaker, a sidekick of My Pillow Guy Mike Lindell named Douglas Frank, produced all kinds of yahoo data that proved nothing and didn’t explain why Utah Republicans still dominated in Utah. As well, for the algorithms to work, wrote Gehrke, voting machines need to be connected to the internet—but, voting machines are not connected to the internet. It used to be that people sobered up and recognized the nonsense they’d engaged in. But today’s culture of drunk-on-nonsense bullshit knows no cure. There’s not enough caffeine or brains and eggs for such folks. Their algorithms are not connected to reality. CW Send comments to john@cityweekly.net

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HITS&MISSES BY KATHARINE BIELE @kathybiele

MISS: This is the Way

The Utah Way. Well, that was a fun and yet unsatisfying read. The Salt Lake Tribune made a valiant effort to define what “the Utah way” means to all those politicians who like to use it—often and with impunity. The word most often used was “collaboration,” not to be outdone by “inclusiveness.” Yeah, to read this article, one would think Utah is a collaborative haven in which everyone respects everyone else’s views, and we somehow come to that elusive consensus that results in a happy public outcome. The story came close a few times to hearing what people really think. “At its worst, it’s a sound bite used to explain away policy decisions without the real work of reaching consensus,” said Jean Hill of the Catholic Diocese. If you want to hear what it really means, Gov. Spencer Cox gave us a clue when he indicated that the Biden administration should pretty much let Utah do what we want with public lands. In other words, it’s the Utah way or the highway.

HIT: Thirst Traps

At least the Utah Rivers Council realizes that Utah is in a drought—and it’s not a fleeting phenomenon. They and 10 other Colorado River Basin organizations are seeking a federal investigation into the Central Utah Water Conservancy District and how they’re spending $800 million to promote water conservation. In a nutshell, it’s about corruption, conflict of interest and the curious case of conservationdenial. If you don’t know what the Central Utah Water Conservancy District is, you may know of the Lake Powell Pipeline, which hopes to send water south from the Colorado River. The district, of course, says everything is on the up-and-up, that lobbyist and former legislator Christine Finlinson isn’t benefitting her business interests despite ties to the district. She, however, is ready to sue the Utah Rivers Council for its accusations, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. Finlinson has said that conservation would be too expensive to implement. But there is a human cost to depleting water supplies.

MISS: Fanning Flames

The Deseret News wins City Weekly’s absurdity award for defending itself against the preposterous. Yup, Hal Boyd, executive editor of Deseret national, penned this piece of, well, satire? “Opinion: No, the Deseret News doesn’t have a ‘leftist agenda’.” Really. Boyd apparently is paying too much attention to someone who’s been paying too much attention to social media. It was a “colleague” (who shall remain nameless). Boyd disputes the claim that “we somehow use The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—the publication’s owner—as a Trojan horse ‘front’ to surreptitiously push this ‘leftist agenda.’” After much googling, we found posts (long posts) on Quora arguing over whether the Deseret News is or isn’t leftist. And now Boyd himself has given voice and publicity to that fake news.

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Meet Westside Candidates

The west side of Salt Lake City is about to change, and it’s not because of gerrymandering. The two city councilmen who represented Districts 1 and 2 left their positions, making it anyone’s game in November. The Westpointe and Jordan Meadows community councils are hosting a Night Out Community Celebration and Family Parade that will include a “political patio.” There you can meet the two candidates for James Rogers’ District 1 seat—Blake Perez and Victoria Petro-Eschler. Stay a while to hear them field questions from the public, facilitated by the League of Women Voters. This will be the first election in which ranked choice voting will be used. Find out what that means and how it has eliminated the need for a primary election. The Night Out will kick off with a parade and will have a COVID vaccine clinic along with food, music and fun. Westpointe Park, 1920 Colonel Road, Tuesday, Aug. 3, free. https://bit.ly/3zEFESn

Downtown Provo Gets Plan

Not all cities south of Salt Lake are filled with strip malls and food courts. In 2015, Provo’s Downtown Master Plan envisioned the city center and surrounding areas as encompassing “five planning districts; each district [having] unique characteristics that separate one from another.” But that was 2015. Do you think it was successful? At the Downtown Plan Open House, you’ll hear what staff has been doing and how they are revising the plan for the future. That future will include a huge population bump which will inevitably change the city. Provo City wants to learn from your personal experiences. “Big things are happening downtown, and we want to hear your thoughts!” Virtual, Thursday, July 29, 6 or 8 p.m. Free/register at https://bit.ly/3eOFaRk

Environmental Justice Explained

“What’s possible when we put economic, racial and social justice at the core of what we advocate for?” Those are questions that will be probed at Intersections: Environmental Justice from the nonprofit Earthjustice.org. “We’re a nonprofit in the business of building a better future. Our law yers are rewriting our planet’s future— one lawsuit at a time.” That should intrigue you as the West deals with an unprecedented drought, fires and pollution. You’ll hear from Senior Vice President of Programs Sam Sankar and others in the movement that includes 160 law yers who represent their clients free of charge. Their motto is “every day we fight,” and as climate change becomes reality, fighting is what matters. Virtual, Thursday, July 29, 12 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/36WS9fI

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With fires, floods and pestilence, it’s probably a good idea to be prepared, as those formerly known as Boy Scouts would say. Safety Protocols: Basic Emergency Practices Lecture Series will help you understand good safety protocols during emergency situations. You may learn about what to do when a family member gets food poisoning or how to secure your home and family in an emergency. Virtual, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 9 p.m., free. https://bit.ly/3iEkDjz

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Conservatives riled up over raceconscious education take their fight to the state school board.

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ike many of the controversies that find their way to the Utah State Board of Education, last week’s hearing on Board Rule R277-328 had little to do with Board Rule R277-328. That policy—already adopted and currently in its requisite 30-day public comment period before taking effect next month—is the school board’s answer to the critical race theory hysteria sweeping the political right. It notably does not ban CRT—if such a ban were even possible—but it mandates teacher training on equity and diversity while prohibiting teachers from suggesting that any race, religion, sex or creed is inherently superior or inferior to another, or that members of any particular demographic group (read: white people) should feel guilt or responsibility for the actions of their ancestors. And while some who spoke during the two-hour hearing attempted to address the specifics of the policy, all of those present recognized the gathering for what it truly was: a symbolic pitched battle between American exceptionalism and a “warts and all” approach to history and civics education. “It is by the design of a very well-funded and coordinated campaign to cause beautiful words like ‘equity’ to be questioned, to be hijacked,” said Heidi Matthews, president of the Utah Education Association. “We must find age-appropriate ways to tell hard truths about our state and country’s past and present.” To clarify terms, critical race theory is an academic framework for evaluating the role that systemic, institutional racism played in the founding of the United States and its development into modern society. It calls attention to practices like redlining, vote suppression and outright violence that were intentionally deployed or, at minimum, condoned by the nation’s white majority to prevent Black and other minority Americans from accumulating generational wealth or securing fair, democratic representation. If that sounds a little high-level for your fifth grader, it is. True CRT education is largely confined to the university and graduate level, but educators of all stripes have found cause to reevaluate the white-male-centric status quo in response to popular movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. And it’s that reconciliation with history where critics of CRT see a widespread invasion of the public education system, with the perceived goal of planting woke, progressive ideals in the minds of children or elevating opportunities for students of color at the expense of their white classmates. “Children should not be used as a means to another’s political ends,” said Jessica Fiveash of the Academic Integrity Movement (AIM), one of six groups that formally requested a hearing before the state school board. Fiveash asked for the creation of a new advisory committee—dozens of advisory committees on virtually every academic topic already exist—composed of non-educators in order to balance the “prevailing mindset” of the public school system. And Monica Wilbur, also of AIM, listed off a series of anecdotes

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White Noise

“It is by the design of a very well-funded and coordinated campaign to cause beautiful words like ‘equity’ to be questioned, to be hijacked,” said Heidi Matthews, president of the Utah Education Association. purportedly showing the evils of CRT in schools, like a child feeling uncomfortable after participating in a “privilege walk”—a relatively common exercise meant to challenge one’s assumptions about themselves and others—or another student being told by a teacher to dig deeper on a research project rather than rely on the viewpoints of “two old, white men.” “No freedom, academic or otherwise, can exist in such a wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing framework,” Wilbur said. The criticisms raised by CRT opponents are not entirely without merit. Parents have every right and sincere motivations for questioning the content of their child’s classroom discussions and materials. And with thousands of educators operating semi-autonomously under a convoluted web of state and local district guidelines, there is an unavoidably blurry line between the presentation of historic facts and the moralistic judgment of historical figures. But there is also an inescapable tone-deafness to the CRT opposition, with mostly white agitators seeing boogeymen in every corner while failing to appreciate the lived realities of people of color. At last

week’s school board meeting, two women with the AIM group greeted each other in front of this reporter by joking that their tardiness was due to being on “Mexican Time.” Educators say the school board’s rule is overly vague, opening the door to parent complaints any time a sensitive topic is broached in the classroom. And Jennifer Graviet, a former member of the Utah Board of Education, said she’s heard from teachers who no longer dare to highlight Black History Month or Pride Month for fear of being sanctioned. “Teachers will play it safe,” she said, “and unintentionally do what this rule says not to do.” Rich Kendall—a veteran Utah educator with experience in nearly every academic role from high school teacher to university president—described the school board’s policy as an “awfully good start.” He said that if he was still a district superintendent, he would be able to take the policy and make it work for his students, in collaboration with parents and teachers. “I don’t fear our history,” he said. “I want to know everything about us from as many points of view as I can find. What I do fear is ignorance—distortion.” CW

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By Eric S. Peterson and McKhelyn Jones The following story was supported with funding from The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder and was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with City Weekly, The Herald Journal, The Spectrum, the Daily Herald and the Standard-Examiner.

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tered when asked how long he had been in the business. “Oh heck, I’m the president, and I’ve been on the board for … 18 years,” Christensen said. “Quite a while.” Over more than 130 years of keeping the water flowing, the company—like many across the state and nation—went from watering fields and orchards to also providing secondary irrigation to water the lawns of the towns and cities that have, slowly at first but rapidly in recent years, worked at paving over all their farmland.

But they’re all just estimates. With Utah withering under a brutal and perhaps record-setting drought this summer, The Utah Investigative Journalism Project looked at how many water sources in the state’s six most populous counties use meters, gauges or other accurate measuring devices versus the use of simple estimates or calculations. A review of 465 different water source reports from the Utah Division of Water Rights shows 1,924,467 acrefeet (627 billion gallons) tallied by meters in Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Weber, Washington and Cache counties compared to 344,991 acre feet (112 billion gallons) that is unmetered. Overall, that means 85% of those counties’ water is metered versus 15% that is roughly estimated or calculated. Salt Lake County came in second place for its efficiency, reporting 92%

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ret Christensen heads a water company older than the state of Utah. The Richmond Irrigation Co. was founded in 1889. Christensen’s father was president of the company before him, and his grandfather was the first to put gravity pressurized irrigation into Cache Valley decades before that. During a recent interview, Christensen spoke casually while at the same time giving directions to employees at a worksite and hammering on a water pipe. He was only flus-

The problem with these old water systems is they were never metered, especially as many ditches and canals were dug before meters had been invented. Now, many secondary systems simply estimate how much water customers use. The Richmond Irrigation Co., for example, estimated using 36,244 acre-feet (11.8 billion gallons) of water in 2020. By comparison, the South Jordan City Irrigation Co. estimated it used 5,850-acre feet (1.9 billion gallons) in Salt Lake County for the same year. Christensen said Richmond’s estimates are based on the number of sprinklers deployed by each of their users. Other systems may make a quick calculation of the amount flowing through a canal and then just pencil that across from one year to the next.

While facing a historic drought, Utah officials don’t have a handle on how much water slips through their fingers.

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Weber County Total acre-feet 409,216.73 62% Metered

UtahCounty Total acre -feet 486,287.67 89% Metered

Washington County Total acre -feet 179,028.37 85% Metered

Davis County Total acre-feet 200,306.28 99% Metered

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Cache County Total acre-feet 92,622.9 58% Metered

SLC County Total acre -feet 901,976.8 92% Metered

The map above shows the percentage of a county’s water that is accurately metered. Non-metered water is less costly for users, with charges based on rough volume estimates. Non-metered provides users with an “all-you-can-eat buffet,” according to Utah Rivers Council’s Zach Frankel. of sources as metered versus 8% nonmetered. For critics, however, the math gets fuzzy when unmetered reports are taken at face value. Considering factors such as unlined canals and ditches, changes in summer temperatures, bad math and opaque industrial calculation, a big question mark looms over that unmetered 15%. For Zach Frankel, executive director of the Utah Rivers Council, the economics of this water dilemma can be infuriating. He points out that, by volume, Utah’s secondary system of canals and ditches is the largest in the country. The state also puts 85% of its water into agriculture without investing in accurate metering or improvements to canals and ditches. “It’s not like our farmers are these arrogant multimillionaires with toothpicks in their mouths saying ‘I’m going to waste all the water in my power,’” Frankel said. “I’m sure they wish their canals were lined with concrete or piped but they don’t have the capital for that. All the capital is in our cities, and cities are not willing to invest in farm improvement—they want their multibillion-dollar water projects and nothing else.”

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Of the six counties studied, Cache, at only 58%, had the least metered sources. The most efficient on the list was Davis County with 99% of its water from metered sources. Richmond Irrigation accounted for nearly 40% of Cache County’s entire water use for 2020, and Christensen, for one, would love to be able to meter every one of his roughly 800 users—but it’s just too expensive. Depending on size and features, meter prices can range from $500 to $2,000 per single meter. “It would cost a fortune,” Christensen said, adding that “we just barely spent $5.5 million on improvements. We couldn’t really afford to do the meters … without a grant or something.” It’s a point echoed by Brandon Mellor, who oversees the state’s water reporting program and works with roughly 1,200 water systems in the state to make sure they submit their water use reports every year by March 31. “Some of these smaller systems are [operated by] volunteers, and they do not have the funds to put in a measuring device,” Mellor said. In Utah County, four of the highest reporters of non-metered water for 2020 are secondary-source irrigation companies that often rely on estimates. The Pleasant Grove Irrigation Co., for example, estimated using 6,941 acre-feet in 2020 (2.3 billion gallons). Pleasant Grove staff engineer Britton Tveten says the city uses the data available for the estimates and two of their water sources are now being metered and more precise data will be used for the 2021 report. “We do see the need to accurately account for the water entering our system and

are working toward accomplishing this,” Tveten wrote in an email. Mellor noted that while all water sources have to report their water use by some method, they are not necessarily required to be metered in Utah. Instead, the state engineer decides on a case-by-case basis if water sources—public, secondary or industrial—will be required to have meters. Legislation passed in 2019 did, however, create a requirement that new secondary systems built as of April 2020 would have to develop metering. While it is true that putting meters on every secondary source would likely cost hundreds of millions of dollars, that’s still much less money than the roughly $3 billion price tag associated with either the Bear River or Lake Powell pipelines. Both of these proposed projects have influential legislators as advocates, and they have been pushing them forward for years. Frankel, of the nonprofit Rivers Council, worries that underpriced water in secondary systems encourages the kind of waste that only amplifies the calls for new expensive municipal water projects. He noted that his organization studied secondary use and found that flat rate, per-lot-size fees on secondary sources make the water incredibly cheap, costing users 10 to 25 cents per thousand gallons compared to the $2.50 per thousand gallons paid by metered users in larger cities like Salt Lake City. “It’s like an all-you-can-eat buffet,” Frankel said of the commodity’s cheap pricing.

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The Utah Investigative Journalism Project’s review of water sources found that, indeed, some of the larger sources of unmetered water were secondary irrigation companies. But so, too, were industrial users. Rio Tinto Kennecott, for one, estimated that it used 7,150 acre-feet (2.3 billion gallons) in 2020. In an emailed statement, Kennecott spokesman Matthew Klar said, “We are committed to conserving water as a vital resource for the Utah community and continually look for ways to improve the efficiency of our water usage.” Klar also noted that some of the company’s unmetered water is diverted from the Jordan River, which is measured separately by the state. Among the six counties examined by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project, the single highest non-metered user was Ogden-based Compass Minerals. The company reported using 152,016 acre-feet (49.5 billion gallons) of unmetered water from the Great Salt Lake. The company pumps lake water into evaporative ponds and uses the sodium chloride it retrieves for rock salt, table salt and other uses. According to the company’s annual public report, its Ogden facility is the “largest solar salt production site in the Western Hemisphere.” And in 2020, the

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company’s salt sales made up 57% of its $1.3 billion in revenue. A spokesperson for Compass Minerals did not comment for this story, but Mellor, with the state Division of Water Rights, explained that he has worked with the company to explore better reporting mechanisms. “Once they open a dam after they let that water sit there, it just goes right back into the Great Salt Lake [and] it would be very hard to report how much water is being returned,” Mellor said. Frankel believes all water use should be reported accurately, but he said the focus needs to be placed on secondary use since there’s nothing essential about watering lawns. “At least a private company is putting people to work and helping support the economy,” Frankel said.

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State Sen. Jacob Anderegg, R-Lehi, took on the challenge of metering in 2018 with a bill that would have phased in requirements for existing secondary systems to begin this more accurate method of measuring use. While that legislation stalled out, a new version passed in 2019. That watereddown bill didn’t require meters on existing systems, but it did at least “stop the bleeding,” Anderegg said, by mandating metering of newly constructed secondary systems. Frankel and his organization believe behind-the-scenes politics were at play in the dilution of Anderegg’s original legislation. On June 30, the Utah Rivers Council filed a complaint with the Utah Attorney General’s Office seeking an investigation of potential conflicts of interest between water lobbyists with family ties to the executive staff of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District. Frankel said these lobbyists actively fought against meters for secondary systems, among other conservation efforts. In its complaint, the nonprofit said the provisions in the defeated legislation could have saved 1.5 million acre-feet (488.8 billion gallons) of water, roughly equivalent to five years of water use in the Salt Lake Valley. Anderegg’s 2019 bill created a low-interest loan option for cities to purchase and install meters on their secondary water sources. And since then, five cities have entered into contracts or bonds with the state for loans ranging from $807,500 with the Mountain Green Secondary Water Co. to as high as $11.9 million with Riverton City. The 2021 Legislature also appropriated $2 million in annual grants available to cities for metering projects. Shalaine DeBernardi with the Utah Division of Water Resources says the agency has long supported getting more meters on secondary connections. The regular

Anderegg’s 2019 bill created a low-interest loan option for cities to purchase and install meters on their secondary water sources. And since then, five cities have entered into contracts or bonds with the state for loans ranging from $807,500 with the Mountain Green Secondary Water Co. to as high as $11.9 million with Riverton City. The 2021 Legislature also appropriated $2 million in annual grants available to cities for metering projects.

guidelines for the loan program, she says, provide up to 85% of the project costs, with the city or local sponsor responsible for covering the remaining 15%. “We believe that you cannot manage what you don’t measure,” DeBernardi says. Still, Anderegg worries there won’t be much political will in the Legislature to revisit requiring meters on existing systems in the future. It’s discouraging, the lawmaker said, because better education about water use has been shown to help residents voluntarily slow the flow. He noted that a grant obtained by Washington Terrace led the city to voluntarily reduce water use by 35%. Saratoga Springs got a grant to install meters as well and saw a 68% reduction in combined secondary and culinary uses. “It isn’t necessarily true that we have to increase the fees for water users to compel conservation,” Anderegg said. He believes if secondary metering went in across the state, water use would drop by a third. “We wouldn’t be overwatering, we would be wiser stewards of this scarce resource,” Anderegg said. “That’s the low hanging fruit, independent of major water projects like the Lake Powell pipeline or Bear River—that’s something we can do right now.” Understanding how drips and drops add up to millions of gallons of water gives Utahns a grasp on planning for the future. It’s an idea that can also cut across political divisions. It’s not just Republicans like Anderegg who see the benefits of better data. Michael Melendez with the Libertas Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank, says better data will be a boon to taxpayers. “We are supportive of better metering because it would pave the way to actually using market forces to price water and allow people to feel the effects of their use,” Melendez says. “By focusing on user fees rather than subsidization, we hope that Utah can make better decisions about this precious resource.” For the more environmentally conscious Frankel, understanding the “market” means understanding ourselves and the consequences of our behavior—a point being driven home in the midst of this blistering drought. “One of the most insightful observations in this drought is the idea that we’ve caused this problem,” Frankel says. “We are going to determine our fate when we can take responsibility for our actions, instead of blaming Mother Nature on our plight. Mother Nature is not heating up the air temperature—we are. And Mother Nature is not encouraging us to waste water—our state leaders are.” CW To support reporting by Utah Investigative Journalism Project, please consider making a tax deductible donation at utahinvestigative.org/donate

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comfort for those who know first-hand about the questions he says he wanted to explore in the book: “Why is it so hard to feel good enough? How do you let yourself be vulnerable? When you’re being suffocated by the darkness of depression, how do you find the light? And perhaps the most difficult question: What do you do when you can’t outrun depression?” The King’s English Bookshop sponsors this live Crowdcast event on Thursday, July 29 at 6 p.m. While the virtual event is free to the public, registration is required. Visit kingsenglish. com for registration information, and other event details. (Scott Renshaw)

Around the country, local LGBTQ community organizations typically hold Pride parades and festivals in June, recognizing the significance of the 1969 Stonewall uprising during that month. However, that doesn’t mean that Pride celebrations are restricted to June—and for a very positive reason. Regarding the nowtraditional early August date for Ogden Pride, the organization’s board president, Sean ChildersGray says, “Utah, in all of its beauty, happens to have many city or community Pride organizations across the state. We try to not book over each other to spread the love.” That love will be on full display on Sunday, Aug. 1 from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. at Ogden Amphitheater (343 E. 25th St., Ogden, ogdenpride.org) for an event taking on the theme “The Bigger the Storm, the Brighter the Rainbow,” recognizing the ongoing fight against discrimination like anti-trans legislation in state houses around the country. The free, all-ages event features live entertainment including local bands and drag performances, food vendors, and booths representing a wide range of merchants and local non-

are just $5 at roguetoys.com, as part of the effort to make the event as accessible as possible, in a world where nerd culture is pervasive, and it’s easier than ever to dive into fandom. “You can’t name 10 people who read a Guardians of the Galaxy comic book before the movies,” Johnston says. “Now the information is available on Wikipedia. That connection with the pop culture world has allowed the casual fan to be much more knowledgeable.” (SR)

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profit organizations. Such Pride events remain crucial for LGBTQ people around the country, as Utah native Childers-Gray recalls from his own first experience attending a parade in Seattle. “I was still in the process of coming out to people,” he recalls, “and I was staying in Washington with friends for the summer. I was asked to go to the festival on a first date, so that was scary in itself, but exhilarating in that I was finally able to be with others who were like me. … I finally felt like a was in a place that didn’t judge me.” (SR)

Utah history is filled with many strange chapters, as the persecuted Mormon pioneers tried to build a home for themselves—and later, possibly a state—while facing ongoing suspicion throughout the country over their odd religion. It’s a history replete with colorful characters, many of whom are not as wellknown even to those who have been here their entire lives—and just such a character gets a fascinating biographical profile in Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel. New York-based historian Val Holley—who previously delved into Utah’s less-explored corners with his study of 19th-century Ogden in 25th Street Confidential—tells the story of Frank J. Cannon, who played an instrumental role in fighting against anti-Mormon sentiment in Washington and greasing the wheels toward Utah statehood in 1896. It was Cannon who convinced then-president Grover Cleveland to appoint judges who wouldn’t bring the hammer down on convicted polygamists, and worked against the disenfranchisement of Mormons by promising that the practice of polygamy would be abolished. But Cannon found that separating church from state in Utah was easier said than done, and he wound up in conflict with church leadership over issues like the election of Mormon apostle Reed Smoot to the Senate. Cannon’s subsequent denunciations of

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While the annual FanX convention has become an established part of Utah’s pop-culture landscape, Steve Johnston believes there’s room for additional events for this nerdy state. “Think of us as the tailgate for FanX” says Johnston, the cofounder of Las Vegas-based Rogue Toys, which has a West Jordan location and is organizing this week’s Utah Fandom Show. “The idea is to get people engaged, especially coming out of the pandemic. … These kind of events keep the pop-culture community engaged.” The Utah Fandom Show by design operates on a much smaller scale than FanX. While there are a couple of guest stars—including ex-BYU and major league baseball player Corey Snyder—there are no panel presentations, with the focus on a “table show” of approximately 40 vendors representing the world of comics, toys, video games, sports memorabilia and more. “What I think is important is to make sure there’s a nice variety, where everybody in the room has something that connects with them,” Johnston says. The event takes place at the Hilton Garden Inn in Sandy (277 W. Sego Lily Dr.), July 31-Aug. 1, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily. Tickets

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“Don’t believe everything you see,” Corey Reese says in a video message promoting his memoir Stronger Than the Dark: Exploring the Intimate Relationship Between Running and Depression. “All around us, people are struggling with the darkness of depression, but they cover up this quiet battle with a smile. How do I know? Because I’m a social worker … and because I’ve done it myself.” In Stronger Than the Dark, Reese uses his own story to offer insight into the often all-encompassing destructive power of depression. An ultramarathon runner, Reese describes drawing on the lessons he learned from his athletic endeavors, including—and perhaps most importantly—the willingness to embrace suffering as part of life. He describes a moment of clarity reached during a 314-mile race across the state of Tennessee, at a time of emotional crisis, that included the understanding that “we are here to endure.” The author’s own healing path provides

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y their very nature, fringe theater festivals are about taking creative risks. In a world where live theater of any kind has been in a state of flux, that experimental spirit has turned into a necessity. In summer 2020—with the COVID-19 pandemic in its second wave—the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival opted for an all-virtual presentation that ultimately featured 40 productions. But while the increase in vaccinations and general decrease in case counts made live productions an option for 2021, GSL Fringe co-directors Shianne Gray and Jay Perry decided that this year’s installment would be a hybrid model, with a lineup that includes 35 live productions and 16 virtual presentations. Looking back on the creation of the 2020 festival, Gray acknowledges with a laugh, “It’s all a blur. I have no memory of last year. I would say my expectations [for the 2020 festival] were fairly low, not in a negative way, but just not knowing what it would be like. We just wanted to have something.” Perry adds, “We took some inspiration from other fringes that were happening around the country, and saw how others were reacting. It’s cool to be part of that larger community of fringe, to come up with solutions. As artists do, they just found a way.” The way that they found included a mix of prerecorded and live shows, some that featured audience interaction and others that didn’t. Without the traditional opportunity to gauge audience response afforded by live shows, the festival depended on feedback mechanisms like chat boxes during the shows, Venmo tips for the performers and after-the-fact feedback from members of the community. “Artists reached out and said audiences were loving it,” Gray recalls. The artists themselves also appreciated the opportunity—not just to have some outlet for their work, or for a presentation format that was safe for audiences and performers, but for a way to participate in a Utah-based theater festival for creators around the country. “Being able to perform virtually is literally the only reason why it’s possible for me to be part of 30 fringe festivals this year,” says Washington, D.C.based Brian Feldman, who participated in the 2020 Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival with #txtshow and returns this year with VFF. “It significantly brings down the cost barriers to participation, primarily travel-related, and challenges artists to be even more creative in solving problems that would never arise with inperson performances.” So as the process for planning the 2020 GSL Fringe proceeded through the uncertainty of early spring 2021 regarding what would be safe and practical, Gray and Perry settled on a format that would be welcoming to artists like Feldman preferring to participate remotely, as well as to anyone who might still be unsure about attending live theater. The virtual presentations take on a variety of different formats—some

live, some on-demand, some free, and others with a ticket cost, depending on the individual artists. Perry notes, “After last year, we got a lot of feedback, and virtual will probably be with us for a while now.” “It’s easy to add on to what we’d usually do,” Gray says. That “what we’d usually do” is live theater, of course, and it’s exciting for everyone involved in live shows to get back to artists and audiences sharing a space together. Perry—who manages the Alliance Theater space in Trolley Square—recalls attending a dance performance in February, and remembering the power of that collective experience. “I remember myself and the whole audience having this collective sigh: We’re together again, experiencing something that’s stirring us,” he says. “What’s easy to take for granted is togetherness. As much as we’ve tried to do that virtually, being in person feels so good.” Both Perry and Gray are careful to note that safety considerations are at the forefront of the live performances. Great Salt Lake Fringe is requiring masks of all patrons for all indoor performances. They have also implemented special policies so that individuals with accessibility needs can make special requests for accommodations, including early seating.

As Gray observes, however, a fringe theater festival is in some ways an ideal format for anyone still in the “dip a toe in” process of returning to public spaces, with the short running times of the productions (usually an hour or less) and smaller audience sizes. “Audiences of 12-15 people are pretty typical; it’s kind of micro-theater,” she says. “You’re not going to sit in a huge stadium or a huge concert hall.” Whether in live or virtual form, it will be intriguing to see how artists have processed the experience of the past year, whether directly or in themes that might feel more relevant. “I’m very interested to know what artists have been doing,” Perry says. “It’s been really stressful and traumatic for all of us, but also a time where certainly I’ve been reflecting and writing. We’re having a different look at the world we’re in.” CW

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he other week, I hopped on my bike on a 100-degree day and trekked to Ogden, to challenge O-Town’s beer makers to keep me hydrated while I toured downtown’s beer hot spots. Roosters - Pink Lemonade Haze: My first stop took me to 25th Street, where Roosters original brewpub awaited. This milkshake IPA pours hazy and straw-yellow in color, with a white, half-finger-width head that displays fair retention. An aroma of tart lemon, lesser peach and a hint of orange and vanilla emerges. Meyer lemon flavor appears upfront while the lactose takes a backseat, and comes across as a light vanilla. You get a flash of peach sweetness near the end, but outside of that, it’s largely hop-driven. The finish is largely a blend of floral bitters and lesser vanilla. There’s a light creaminess to the texture, but with a sharp, dry finish. Overall: The restrained use of milk sugars by brewer Jacquie King Wright gives it a milkshake feel without it being stickysweet. Utah Ogden (UTOG) OG Juice: Stop 2 took me to UTOG, where the board was loaded with 15-plus beers. I opted for the Juicy IPA, which pours a hazy goldenorange, with more than a finger’s worth of creamy white head. The aroma is very lively: pink grapefruit, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, apricot, lemon zest, orange zest and pine. You’re met immediately with topical flavors, grapefruit and other citrus zests. Malts are creamy and complimentary to the hop blend—somewhat sweet with the

other fruity notes and hints of honey. Overall: A very nice representation of the style, the 7.5 ABV is barely noticeable, which creates a satisfying and quenching ale. Ogden River - Strawberries and Cream: When I ordered this beer, there was no indication that it was served on the nitro tap. Fortunately for me, I love nitro beers, so I was already ahead of the game. It has a crystal-clear gold color, with a thick, creamy nitro foam cap. The aroma is sweet, grainy and even a little bit floral, with the light fruitiness of strawberries sitting underneath and appearing to bring the majority of the aromatics here in the nose. The taste is sweet and a little bit tangy from the fruit, with the mix of malts and strawberries making for a refreshing combo. There is just a light tingle of bitterness across the back end, which leads into a crisp and dry finish. The mouthfeel is lightbodied, with some firmness from the nitro, putting the exclamation point on a fairly easygoing and quaffable experience. Overall: To sum it up, this is a red velvet cake in beer form. It hits all of the right notes, without trying to be a copy of a cake or confection. Talisman - 7th Wonder: Seven minutes later, my bike got me to Talisman and a perfect-for-the-heat pale ale, mostly clear, dark gold with just a bit of chill haze and a persistent thick white head with web-like lacing. There’s a really amazing smell with lots going on: citrus, pine, floral, herbal, berries and tropical fruit. Citrus and tropical fruit appear front in the taste, followed by a bready malt middle and then pine and citrus for a light bitterness that finishes a bit sharply. The whole package was fresh and quenching. Overall: Probably one of the more aroma-heavy APAs I’ve had in a while—easily drinkable, very interesting, and I would not mind another. My Ogden bicycle bar crawl was a complete success. What a great way to spend an afternoon. I was a little annoyed that I had to buy food at three of the four stops (not Talisman), but that’s the fault of Utah’s nanny state, not the brewpubs. Next trip, I hope to work in Ogden’s Cerveza Zólupez. As always, cheers! CW

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The Utah Farm Bureau recently announced a subscription box program called Touch of Utah spearheaded by Farmers Feeding Utah, Inc. (box.farmersfeedingutah.com). Farmers Feeding Utah started this program to make buying food from local growers more convenient and visible to consumers. Those interested can sign up for a subscription box via the organization’s website and then get a monthly delivery of seasonal fruit, veggies and protein. This program is also part of the Miracle of Agriculture program, which pledges food donations from each subscription to those in need. It’s like a monthly trip to the farmers market minus the trip, plus supporting a good cause.

Zaperoco Opens

When a new Venezuelan place like Zaperoco (785 E. 200 South, Ste. 9, Lehi) opens, a food writer gets their first piece published—or so the legend says. True or not, a new place for cachapas, arepas and tequeños is always worth celebrating. I’m a recent convert to the wonders of Venezuelan cuisine; arepas have the sandwich market cornered with their overflowing fillings and crisp exteriors, and the first time I had a cachapa, I went weak in the knees. We’ve got a few places in our neck of the woods that scratch this particular itch, but now folks in Lehi and its surrounding area have better access to these wonderful Venezuelan eats.

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t first blush, Bly Wallentine’s music over the last year comes across as quite wild, from 2020’s the purpose of dancing to their newest album, the July 24-released dizzy giant. On both albums, psychedelia reigns, and Wallentine’s amorphous musical style creates a bubbling pop-ish concoction that’s experimental and improvisational at its core. After years of experimenting—with darkly glinting acoustics and brass on 2015’s ~*queen of cups*~ and 2017’s god of death to that same year’s shoulder devil’s indie rock excellence, among others—dizzy giant proves that no sound or style is too out-of-bounds for Wallentine’s enduringly creative and spiritual mind. “That’s how I communicate with myself, is through music,” Wallentine remarks, as part of a conversation about how the pandemic affected their creativity over the last year. “I’ve talked to a lot of people, and I think this pandemic forced a lot of people inside themselves. To spend time with yourself, you have to get along with yourself, so a lot of people—myself included—spent a lot of time recovering, introspecting, figuring shit out, accepting themselves. I think creativity is a big part of that.” For Wallentine, that meant a cold winter spent inside at home making music. “It was stuff I needed to get out before summer, so I could have fun,” they admit with a laugh.

That stuff would turn into dizzy giant, an album where Wallentine self-mythologizes in a spellbinding way, tackling, “mental shit, working through shadow, clearing shit out.” On the opening track “to attack what yields,” Wallentine weaves a tale of rebirth—there is a great fall, a rib taken from a broken body, a dove named Bly. It is this song and those that follow that exemplify the kind of magical person and spiritual artist that Wallentine is, to consider their own life in such abstracted and yet symbolically-weighted ways, both lyrically and through their dynamic instrumental work. Wallentine has been calling dizzy giant their “psych pop” album. When asked about that diverse term, they explain, “I think the album is really psychedelic in its dynamism and its progressiveness. It’s constantly building, constantly transforming. My perception of contemporary psychedelia is ‘simulation theory’ shit. There’s a lot of glitchy shit on this record, and I’m moving in that direction, breaking out of the matrix,” they laugh. “It’s kind of more like a synthesis of this lush, organic, hippie, winds-andstrings, baroque pop kind of thing, and also this hyper digital, glitchy, everything’s chopped-up-in-process thing.” “I think with the purpose of dancing, I started to realize that dancing and movement are really important parts of processing feelings, so I definitely need movement to keep shit moving, and drums are that,” Wallentine says. “And with the purpose of dancing and dizzy giant both, my kind of writing process started with the drums usually and I would build out of that. So it’s beat-oriented I guess, even if [the beats] end up getting covered up.” Notable beats include the “trip hoppy” drum loops from drummer Chris Shemwell on “feminine destruction.” Shemwell joined a cast of collaborators like Logan Hone on sax, Katy Ducos on trombone and Jillian Rogers’s vocals, percussion, banjo, piano and recorder. For all this, dizzy giant is a lush album, full of cross-genre references. “Feminine destruction” builds spookily, employing

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halting glitches as often as it does deep, dusty jazz drums that are the backbone of a spiraling list of words: “trust, jealousy, betrayal ... ostracization, self-pity, despair … hope, recovery, forgiveness.” At the climax of the song, Wallentine wailingly pins all the aforementioned subjects as “all in my head / and outside my head / a terrifying shadow, of which my mind made meaning.” It is one of many instances where Wallentine fixates on inner and outer, their own self and others. On “safe smallness,” Wallentine grows and shrinks, Alice-like, swelling with confidence, but also shrinking with the fear of stepping on toes. It tracks with the themes of forgiveness and love on the purpose of dancing. “Forgiveness and love are processes which are ongoing; there’s not really an end point,” they explain. “You fall back and keep moving forward, fall back a few steps, walk another mile. I’ve thought about that Jesus shit where he talks about forgiving 70 times seven, forgiving someone again and again and forgiving yourself again and again, [because] you inevitably fall back into judgement.” The 2020 single “don’t know what to do (besides love)” makes it onto the album, and it details the strange reality of choosing forgiveness. Wallentine is accompanied by a rousing drum machine beat while proclaiming in a blossoming chorus that, in the face of ill will, they’ll “keep loving you anyways, keep loving me anyways.” In the closer, “screaming out to you,” Wallentine remains fixated on the space between self and other, asking a simple question of the listener: “can anybody hear me?” It’s a question we’ve all felt in our own minds, in this overwhelmingly crowded and lonely world. Among rambling swaths of brass, Wallentine’s voice continues to question how they can possibly reach “anyone,” warping artificially, then dipping into its low organic tones, then rubbing roughly against the air. The question takes on a feeling of the divine—a signature not rare in the music of Bly Wallentine. Listen to it at blywallentine.bandcamp.com. CW

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One of SLC’s most popular boy bands is back with new offerings, and they’ll have them on display for a release show on July 30. Adult Prom will be celebrating the release of their first full-length album, Mild Horses, which follows years of singles, as well as their 2018 self-titled EP. The group specializes in the kind of jangly, dreamy indie pop popularized by the likes of Real Estate, and have gained a strong local following in the years they’ve been playing, making it a bit surprising that this is their first full-length album. With the help of their new Provobased indie label UPHERE! Records, they also have cassettes available for preorder, or at the release show. They’ll find support in UPHERE! label-mates and fellow indie rockers Dad Bod. Because of their names (adjective referring to a grown-up kind of individual + single-syllable noun that makes the “ah” sound), the two bands often get mixed up in my mind, and it doesn’t help that they often play together for a shared fan base. UPHERE! solo gal Nicole Canaan will also open in support. All are well-worth seeing, and more details can be found at kilbycourt.com. Doors are at 7 p.m. and tickets are $10, and the show is all ages.

Snowbasin’s Blues, Brews, and BBQ Cut Short

For a brief period, it seemed like Snowbasin Resort’s Blues, Brews and BBQ event would be back for the summer 2021 season. Though they announced a hearty lineup of artists to span the season of their Sunday music series, they’ve since canceled all the dates but one: the first show on Aug. 1, featuring Andy Frasco. The family-friendly affair, which not surprisingly features brews and BBQ, could not staff enough folks to work those food-and-bev parts of the event, making the resort one of the latest places to be understaffed as public life opens back up. In a Facebook post about the unfortunate cancellations, Blues, Brews and BBQ stated that, “The Snowbasin team has worked tirelessly to provide a great experience for our guests. Despite numerous adjustments, increased recruiting efforts and great perks, we have experienced a severe staff shortage in our Food & Beverage operations.” While it may seem obvious to some that they just don’t have competitive pay for those positions, the fact that the series is also free likely factors into their budget issues—which raises questions about how free or cheap shows and concert series like these are going to move forward. In an increasingly expensive and uncertain world, people are no longer working for less than a living wage, which may mean the end of free concert series like these. C’est la expensiveass vie. Visit snowbasin.com/events for more info on the Aug. 1 event.

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Art Piano Pop-Up Community Concert

Local non-profit Art Pianos for All specializes in bringing colorful pianos to the public, all decorated by local artists, made for local enjoyment and artist engagement. A new installment of the series finds its way to Trailside Park for an inaugural pop-up, featuring performances by two Utah Symphony and Utah Opera artists: pianist Taylor Burkhardt and tenor Addison Marlor. The collaboration between Art Piano and the Symphony and Opera is owed to the Summit County Public Art Board, Park City Sunrise Rotary Club and the Deer Valley Music Festival, who are bringing the free, open-access event to the public as a “thank you” of sorts to the Summit County community for welcoming the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera into a summer residency at Deer Valley Music Festival. Art Piano installments are all over Park City and Summit County, and the beautifully-decorated pianos stand to give opportunity to anyone to stop and play on them. The new Art Piano installment is called Abloom, and is covered in depictions of native flowers by artist Anna Leigh Moore. In addition to allowing for locals and residents to have some fun on the piano, this new installment aims to give access to professional musicians too—like Marlor and Burkhardt—to highlight their abilities as soloists, or as members of smaller ensembles. They will play on and present the new Art Piano to the public on July 31 at 4 p.m. at Trailside Park in Park City. Visit deervalleymusicfestival.org/events for more info on this and future Art Piano pop-ups.

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For Provoites and fans of the seminal local venue, it seems that one string of reopening shows was just not enough. After a very uncertain and scary pandemic experience for the venue—which did not host any shows due to owner Corey Fox’s high risk status—everyone celebrated the return of live music there in mid-July, but the celebrations aren’t over yet. Titled “The Show That’s Two Weeks After the Velour Grand Reopenin’ Show, Show,” and described by headliner Little Moon in an Instagram post as “Velour will finally be still opened in two weeks and everyone should celebrate that,” this is the kind of show whose enthusiastic spirit could only stem from a crazy year like the last one. When else would we celebrate the joy of a favorite venue still being open, like, right after an official grand-opening weekend? I think I speak not only for myself when I say I still feel awe each time I find myself at a show or a bar hanging out with friends and listening to music. Getting used to it again is a process, and an exciting one. They certainly recognize that down at Velour, and Little Moon will find support in a great roster of local talents, including Emmalie Breen, Tate Sexton and Kathleen Frewin. The show takes place on Thursday, July 29, is $10 and allages. Visit velourlive.com for more details.

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ill Baker (Matt Damon) is a red-state American; of that there can be no doubt. The unemployed roughneck from Oklahoma says a blessing before every meal, owns two guns and treats the notion of going to live theater like you’d suggested he go to Mars. When asked if he voted for Trump, he notes that he didn’t vote at all, because of a criminal record, but it’s clear that’s a technicality. The protagonist of Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater feels like a test case for whether you can build a movie around a “good people on both sides” notion—and when leaving certain things unsaid is dramatic efficiency, vs. when it feels like cheating. McCarthy certainly streamlines the narrative by dropping us right into a reality that Bill has been living with for five years already: His daughter Allison (Abigail Breslin) is serving a sentence in a prison in Marseille for murdering her then-girlfriend while studying abroad. Allison insists on her innocence, and during one of Bill’s visits to France, he begins following up on a possible lead involving anecdotal reports that a young man confessed to the killing. Don’t fall under the misapprehension that Stillwater is some sort of taut thriller, despite TV ads that really want you to think so. Bill’s “father on a mission” journey makes up a relatively small part of the story, which focuses instead on the changes in Bill’s life once he decides to stay in France for as long as it takes to find the elusive other suspect. Those changes include his relationship with a French aspiring actress/ single mother named Virginie (Camille

Cottin) and Virginie’s 8-year-old daughter Maya (Lilou Siauvaud), as Bill becomes a kind of surrogate father to Maya in a way that clearly represents the regret he feels over not being present very much as a father to Allison. Bill’s back-story is made up of a lot of sketched-in pieces—references to his fuckup, absentee parent past; the suicide of his wife/Allison’s mother—that are meant to make Stillwater richer as a character study about a simple guy figuring out that some things aren’t simple. But some of those pieces remain obscure enough that it seems like McCarthy and his co-writers just don’t want to deal with them, particularly concerning Bill’s response to his daughter being gay. It’s clear from Allison’s comments that one of her reasons for leaving Oklahoma for overseas study was to “get far away,” yet there’s literally never a moment in Stillwater that so much as hints at Bill’s own feelings. If he was always perfectly supportive, or maybe made peace with it over the intervening five years, it

might have been nice to understand how either of those things informs the remainder of his character arc. That’s because as Stillwater plays out, it really becomes about the realization of moral shades of grey in a man who might previously have seen them in black-andwhite. Virginie often serves as a conscience for Bill at times when he’s fine with exploiting prejudices to help Allison, as when a bigoted Frenchman offers to identify whichever young Arab Bill wants as the other murder suspect. There’s a potentially intriguing dynamic there—the American conservative abroad finding himself not a fish out of water, but among plenty of likeminded people—and it’s to McCarthy’s credit that he’s not interested in turning Bill into a cliché of an “ugly American.” It’s just hard to figure out precisely what McCarthy is turning Bill into. To Matt Damon’s credit—and to McCarthy’s, with his acting experience informing his direction of actors—he does a tremendous job of burying himself in a different

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Scorpio author Andrew Sean Greer writes, “As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but it must be done with tenderness.” I think that’s a vivid metaphor for one of your chief tasks in the coming weeks, Scorpio—how to carefully nurture delicate, beautiful things as you coax them to ripen in ways that will bring out their sturdiness and resilience. I believe you now have an extra capacity for wielding love to help things bloom. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Suggested experiments to try soon: 1. Remember a past moment when you were touched with the sudden realization that you and a person you’d recently met were destined to fall in love. 2. Remember a past moment when you kissed someone for the first time. 3. Remember a past moment when someone told you they loved you for the first time or when you told someone you loved them for the first time. 4. Allow the feelings from the first three experiments to permeate your life for five days. See through the eyes of the person you were during those previous breakthroughs. Treat the whole world as expansively and expectantly as you did during those times.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Capricorn poet Kenneth Rexroth was shirtless as he strolled along a rural road. To his delightful amazement, a fritillary butterfly CANCER (June 21-July 22) A Tumblr blogger named Cece writes, “The fact that you can landed on his shoulder, fluttered away, landed again, fluttered soak bread in sugar, eggs, cinnamon and vanilla, then butter away—performed this dance numerous times. Nothing like this a pan and fry said bread to make a meal is really liberating.” I had ever happened to him. Later he wrote, “I feel my flesh / Has agree. And I share this with you in the hope of encouraging you suddenly become sweet / With a metamorphosis / Kept secret to indulge in other commonplace actions that will make you feel even from myself.” In the coming days, I’m expecting at least one spacious and uninhibited. You’re in a phase of your astrological comparable experience for you. Here’s your homework: What cycle when you’ll thrive on doing day-to-day details that excite sweet metamorphoses may be underway within you—perhaps your lust for life. Enjoying the little things to the utmost will be not yet having reached your conscious awareness? an excellent strategy for success. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “Each time we don’t say what we want to say, we’re dying.” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Leo poet Renée Ashley articulates a perspective I recommend Aquarian artist and singer Yoko Ono said that. I will add a you adopt. She writes, “I’m drawn to what flutters nebulously further nuance: Each time we’re not aware of the feeling or at the edges, at the corner of my eye—just outside my certain experience or situation we want, we’re dying. And these will sight. I want to share in what I am routinely denied, or only sus- be key themes now that you’ve entered the I know what I want, pect exists. I long for a glimpse of what is beginning to occur.” I and I know how to ask for it phase of your cycle. The most healing advise you to ponder her thoughts and be hungry for what you and vivifying thing you can do during the next six weeks is to be don’t know and haven’t perceived. Expand your curiosity so precise about your desires. that it becomes wildly insatiable in its quest to uncover budding questions and raw truths at the peripheries of your awareness. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) In 1829, Piscean author Victor Hugo began work on his novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He had other projects, though, VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) “There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another and by September 1830, he had made scant progress on person,” declared Virgo actor Greta Garbo (1905–1990). “It Hunchback. Growing impatient, his publisher demanded that is not right that you should tell them,” she concluded. “You he finish the manuscript by February 1831. In response, Hugo cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.” barricaded himself in his room to meet the deadline. He even I presume Greta was being melodramatic. My attitude is the locked his clothes in a closet to prevent himself from going out. opposite of hers. If you find allies who listen well and who respect For the next five months, he wore only a gray shawl as he toiled your vulnerability, you should relish telling them the secrets of nonstop. His stratagem worked! I recommend you consider tryyour heart. To do so, enriches you, deepens you and adds soulful ing a somewhat less rigorous trick to enforce your self-discipline new meanings to your primary mysteries. The coming weeks will in the coming weeks (no need to barricade yourself in your fortress). But I hope you will have fun taking stringent measures. be a favorable time to seek this wise pleasure in abundance.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) I suspect that your immediate future will be a patchwork of evocative fragments. You may be both annoyed and entertained by a series of flashing attractions, or an array of pretty baubles, or a hubbub of tasks that all seem at least mildly worth doing. Chances are good that they will ultimately knit together into a crazy-quilt unity; they will weave into a pattern that makes unexpected sense. In the spirit of the spicy variety, I offer three quotes that may not seem useful to you yet, but will soon. 1.“Isn’t it possible that to desire a thing, to truly desire it, is a form of having it?”—Galway Kinnell; 2. “It is not half so important to know as to feel.”—Rachel Carson; 3. “Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.”—Pema Chödrön

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Now’s a fantastic time to seek out effervescent socializing, convivial gatherings and festive celebrations. If you surround yourself with lively people, you’ll absorb the exact influences you need. May I suggest you host a fun event? If you do, you could send out invitations that include the following allures: “At my get-together, the featured flavors will be strawberry chocolate and impossibly delicious. There’ll be magic vibrations and mysterious mood-enhancers. Liberating conversations will be strongly encouraged. Unpredictable revelations will be honored. If possible, please unload your fears and anxieties in a random parking lot before arriving.”

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Planning that annual trip to Lake Powell soon? How about just a quick trip from Salt Lake up to Echo Reservoir? These Utah bodies of water and many like them are in crisis due to the extreme drought conditions, with some at just 25-35% of capacity. Lake Powell recently had to borrow from Flaming Gorge just to keep enough water to spin the turbines that create electricity for places like Las Vegas. The forecast for water here is grim, and it’s not looking good for skiers, either, thanks to global warming. We can all help save water, and it starts with simply being aware of our water use. Here are examples: a shower uses 5 gallons/ minute; a bath uses 36 gallons; washing hands, washing face or brushing teeth (with water running) each use 1 gallon/minute; a dishwasher uses 10 gallons/load; hand washing dishes uses 2 gallons/minute; laundry uses 40 gallons/load for older models, 27 gallons for newer models; flushing toilet uses 3 gallons/flush; watering the lawn uses 10 gallons/minute. Make yourself a list of what you do based on the uses stated above and see how much water you’re using every 24 hours. On top of evaluating your usage, check your faucets. The U.S. Geological Survey has a handy Drip Calculator that shows how much water a leaky faucet wastes over time. Locally, we’re being asked to only water lawns twice a week. In Las Vegas, grass lawns have been outlawed. Planting drought-tolerant plants or putting in high-quality fake grass will drastically cut water use at your home. Until recently, it was illegal to harvest rainwater in Utah. But as of 2010, all Utahns are allowed to collect 2,500 gallons of rainwater on their property in covered, above ground containers or in underground cisterns. Most water in the state is owned by the state of Utah. If you want to collect rain in more than two containers smaller than 100 gallons each or in one container larger than 100 gallons, you must register with the Utah Division of Water Rights (a free and simple online form). You can then use that captured rain to irrigate your lawn or garden, supplement your drip irrigation system, water inside plants, wash your car or bike, wash your windows, wash out recyclable bottles and cans before putting them in your recycling bin, and use it to rinse off your artificial grass after your animals use it for a potty station. Sadly, we don’t have state laws that ban car washes from using drinking water, but many chains do recycle some of the water after each wash. We do have a site to report water abusers: water.utah.gov/fameorshame. You can use the site’s survey platform to snitch on (shame) water wasters, and you don’t have to leave your name. They won’t publicly shame abusers but will seek them out to help mediate the waste. For those trying not to waste water, you can visit the same site to report water savers (fame). n Content is prepared expressly for Community and is not endorsed by City Weekly staff.

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Medical Mystery The Washington Post reported on July 14 that Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, is expected to be under observation at the Armed Forces Hospital in Brasilia for a few days while doctors try to determine the cause behind his chronic hiccups. Bolsonaro has been hiccupping for more than 10 days, even at public events. The leader is no stranger to weird health scares: While he suffered from COVID-19 last year, he was bitten by a large emu-like bird. For his part, he thinks the hiccups may be related to medicines he was taking after dental implant surgery.

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Awesome! David Olson, 33, was demolishing the back steps outside his home in Norton Shores, Michigan, on July 1 when he rolled a strike, so to speak: Olson found at least 160 bowling balls buried in the sand under the home. Upon seeing the first ball, he thought, “Maybe there were just a couple in there just to fill in. The deeper I got into it, the more I realized it was just basically an entire gridwork of them,” he told the Detroit Free Press. Olson said many of the balls are in bad condition, and they all had spiral grooves cut into them. Former employees of a Brunswick plant nearby got in touch with him, explaining that workers used to take scrapped balls to use as an alternative to gravel or sand. Olson donated eight balls for a local church to use in a bowling ball cannon at a pig roast; his stepfather plans to use some as legs for custom furniture. Least Competent Criminals A 48-year-old unnamed woman from Brock Township, Ontario, Canada, managed to get herself arrested on July 9 for the theft of a surveillance camera in May, CP24-TV reported. “A suspect proceeded to take pictures of themselves with the stolen camera, which were remotely sent to the owner, unbeknownst to the suspect,” the report from the Durham Regional Police reads. She was charged with possession of property obtained by crime.

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Inexplicable In Santa Ana, California, on July 13, firefighters responded to a building on North Harbor Boulevard, where a woman was wedged, naked, between the concrete walls of two buildings, Fox News reported. Workers at a nearby body shop had heard the woman screaming but couldn’t figure out where she was. “The cops came in and got on the roof and looked between the two walls and she’s all naked,” one said. “She was screaming in pain. She was upside down, too.” The space was less than a foot wide, and firefighters had to cut a hole in the concrete and pull her out. As for how she got there, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Thanh Nguyen called it “a mystery to all of us here right now.” Bright Idea Hollister Tryon, 18, of Glastonbury, Connecticut, was charged on July 9 with felony computer crimes after he hacked into a database to edit entries in the Glastonbury High School 2021 yearbook, The Smoking Gun reported. In May, school administrators discovered a quote from Adolf Hitler that was attributed to George Floyd under a senior’s photo in the yearbook. Another student’s quote was edited to include drug references and the name of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the convicted Boston Marathon bomber. News You Can Use Philadelphia police recently impounded a car with a technological innovation that might just take off: a license plate equipped with a remote-control flipper, which allows a driver to foil the red-light cameras placed around the city. Capt. John Ryan told WPVI-TV that police are capturing images of many cars with illegitimate temporary tags or otherwise disguised numbers, which puts officers in danger. “It gives us bad information. The car might be involved in a crime.” Send your weird news items to WeirdNewsTips@amuniversal.com.

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Happy Accident Barrington, New Jersey, resident Louis Angelino III, 27, works at a liquor store, but lately he’s been cleaning friends’ houses to make some extra cash. One day in June, Angelino was scheduled to clean the home of his friend Mark, NJ.com reported. He showed up, found the key under the mat, and spent 2 1/2 hours making the townhome sparkle. That’s when Mark called him to see if he’d been able to get the job done, and Angelino said, “I’m literally in your living room right now playing with your cats.” But Mark replied: “Louis, I don’t have any cats.” Turns out Angelino had written down the wrong address and tidied up a neighbor’s home instead. Mark left a note for Tom and Beth Motzel, explaining the mix-up. Tom arrived home before his wife and called her, saying, “You won’t believe it. Someone broke into our house and cleaned the entire thing, Swiffer and all.” Beth has dubbed Angelino the Cleaning Fairy, and his business is taking off.

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What’s in a Name? In the U.K., Heather (not her real name), the mother of a teenager formerly known as Alexa, told the BBC that her daughter had to change her name and move schools to escape bullying and teasing related to the Amazon smart speaker’s default name. Another mother, Charlotte (not her real name), said her 6-yearold daughter is already tormented: “’Alexa, play disco.’ I think it’s affecting her confidence. Adults make fun of her, too.” And Lauren Johnson of Massachusetts, whose daughter is 9, said, “The whole thing is a step beyond ‘normal’ teasing and bullying. It’s identity erasure. The word Alexa has become synonymous with servant or slave.” In response, Amazon reminds users that “we also offer several other wake words customers can choose from, including Echo, Computer and Amazon. ... We’re saddened by the experiences you’ve shared, and want to be very clear: Bullying of any kind is unacceptable, and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”

News That Sounds Like a Joke You are now free to get a haircut and shave in New York on a Sunday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation on July 13 to repeal an “archaic” law banning barbers from working on Sundays. “Though rarely enforced, the law was shear madness,” Cuomo quipped, according to United Press International.

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Crime Report U.S. Customs agents seized 3,000 pairs of false eyelashes at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on July 6, The Times-Picayune reported. The eyelashes were intended for a beauty supply store in New Orleans, but they were unlabeled and hadn’t been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Customs spokesperson Matthew Dyman said. Unregulated falsies can lead to allergic reactions, eye irritation and other maladies. “There’s no telling what’s on those eyelashes,” Dyman said.

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