ENTERTAINMENT PICKS, OCT. 14-21, 2021
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We’ve long since passed the time when motherhood is romanticized as blissful and without profound challenges; it’s a more open world about acknowledging how hard it can be physically and emotionally. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot to learn—and a lot of wry humor to be found—in one very personal story about approaching the precipice of motherhood, and dealing with all the accompanying struggles. In her new memoir My Body is a Big Fat Temple, novelist Alena Dillon (Mercy House) deals with many different stops on her personal journey towards motherhood, from questioning whether she wants to be a parent at all, through the pain of miscarriages, the many physical changes accompanying pregnancy itself and the tangle of responses involved in being a first-time mom. Dillon touches on the very particular complication of parenting through the COVID pandemic, while wrestling with the more familiar notions of how you’re supposed to feel towards your baby, and the things you’re supposed to do. It’s a cleareyed but engaging perspective on how
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to deal with all the changes in your own body, even as you’re expected to change in the way you interact with the new body that you’re creating. Join Dillon via a virtual author event sponsored by Weller Book Works (607 Trolley Square) taking place Thursday, Sept. 14 at 6 p.m. The livestream is free to the public, and will be available through Weller’s YouTube channel (youtube.com/channel/UCcQqlhbPwo_ YfzIBsh9lleA). Purchase My Body is a Big Fat Temple in person at Weller Book Works, or online at wellerbookworks.com (Scott Renshaw)
Tom Segura Lots of comedians find humor in their relationships, and you might wonder if their partners find it funny. In Tom Segura’s case, however, there’s not really much doubt that his wife, Christina Pazsitsky, is on board with the jokes—she’s a comedian, too, they co-host the Your Mom’s House comedy podcast together, and she can give as good as she gets. And considering the level of outrageous buttonpushing and borderline offensiveness (okay, over-the-borderline) that Segura finds in his stand-up, you’d have to have a thick skin to live in the same house. Just take, for example, the jokes about the state of Louisiana that briefly made Segura a viral news story. In his subsequent Netflix special, 2020’s Ball Hog, he talks about the more than 200,000 messages he received from those who were offended by his Louisiana-bashing jokes: “If you ever offend a large group of people—like, let’s say, an entire state—you end up learning a lot about them. You don’t want to. But they insist. … Now I’m like an unofficial historian for the place I least want to go to.” Tom Segura visits Salt Lake City on
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Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. & 9:30 p.m. at the Eccles Theater (131 S. Main St.). Tickets are $55 - $109; in keeping with all Live at the Eccles-presented events, proof of vaccination or negative COVID test is required for admission, and masks are highly recommended for all attendees. Visit saltlakecountyarts.org/ events to purchase tickets and for additional information. (SR)
